The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Operations Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank - 222 244
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 0 17 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - 0.168% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.181% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
Average daily rate - £300 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +66.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £306 £269
% change year-on-year
-18.36% +13.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7211 9367 9611
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.52% 92.32% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3605 4207 4140
Average daily rate £350 £350 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -0.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 716 825
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Operations Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Operations Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Operations Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Operations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Operations Engineer across the South East region.

South East Operations Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Engineer
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Operations Engineer in their job title 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 with Operations Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Workforce Management Optimization
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (80.00%) Verint
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) ISEB
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Linux

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Operations Engineer in their job title 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 with Operations Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Workforce Management Optimization
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Verint
2 1 (20.00%) VMware