Surrey Operations Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Operations Management skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Management over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Operations Management
Location Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Croydon East Midlands England Guildford Hampshire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Northampton Northamptonshire Portsmouth Salisbury South East South West Surbiton Surrey UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	98
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	2	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.165 %	0.908 %
Daily rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£412
Average daily rate	£360	£448
% change on same period last year	-19.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£483
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£417
% change on same period last year	-26.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.00	£15.18
% change on same period last year	+130.51 %
Processes & Methodologies Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1214	1211
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.602 %	1.206 %
Daily rates quoted	377	369
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£355
Average daily rate	£353	£376
% change on same period last year	-6.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	99	119
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.10	£27.04
Average hourly rate	£32.04	£28.53
% change on same period last year	+12.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.97	£30.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Operations Management South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Operations Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Operations Management across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Operations Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Operations Management
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Operations Management across the Surrey region.

Operations Management
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Management within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Guildford	-	1	£360	-

Operations Management South East

Operations Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (50.00 %) IBM 1 4 (50.00 %) EMC 2 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 3 2 (25.00 %) Management Information System 3 2 (25.00 %) Government 4 1 (12.50 %) Service Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Process Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 4 1 (12.50 %) ITSM 4 1 (12.50 %) Security Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Health 4 1 (12.50 %) Migration 4 1 (12.50 %) Supplier Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Desktop Deployment

4 1 (12.50 %) QA 4 1 (12.50 %) Release Management 4 1 (12.50 %) SCCM 4 1 (12.50 %) SCOM 4 1 (12.50 %) Performance Management 4 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (12.50 %) CRM 4 1 (12.50 %) SMS 4 1 (12.50 %) SLA 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) Sun 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects

Operations Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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.

Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft CRM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Health
Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Senior Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Integration Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Services Delivery Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Senior Technical Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Delivery Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Integration Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Process Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 2 1 (12.50 %) ITSM 2 1 (12.50 %) Security Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Migration 2 1 (12.50 %) Supplier Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Desktop Deployment 2 1 (12.50 %) Release Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Performance Management 2 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (12.50 %) CRM 2 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Management	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) SCCM 1 1 (12.50 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) IBM 1 4 (50.00 %) EMC 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Sun 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 2 1 (12.50 %) Novell