The first table below looks at the demand for Operations Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Operations Management over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Management
Rank - 80 79
Contract jobs citing Operations Management 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - 0.094% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.149% 0.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £450 £357
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +26.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year
- -70.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
560 672 706
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 67.47% 63.16% 66.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 261 313
Average daily rate £388 £369 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.01% +5.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 17
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £24.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Operations Management
Berkshire

Operations Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Operations Management across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Reading Operations Management Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Operations Management across the Reading region.

Reading Operations Management Daily Rate Trend

Operations Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Operations Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Operations Management.

1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Supply Chain Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Xen
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Egenera
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Postfix
2 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (33.33%) VirtualBox
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenBSD
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
2 1 (33.33%) SCSA
2 1 (33.33%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle

Operations Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Operations Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Operations Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Services Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) HPUX
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) FreeBSD
1 1 (33.33%) OpenBSD
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Supply Chain Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
1 1 (33.33%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SCSA
1 1 (33.33%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Xen
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Postfix
1 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
1 1 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (33.33%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OpenView
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Sun
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Intel
1 1 (33.33%) Veritas
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Egenera