The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Operations Analyst role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IT Operations Analyst 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 currently tracked.

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
IT Operations Analyst
Rank 526 570 564
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -6
Contract jobs requiring an IT Operations Analyst 3 14 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.024% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.026% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 14
Average daily rate £238 £288 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.39% -11.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £288 £200
% change year-on-year
-8.69% +43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

IT Operations Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IT Operations Analyst within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

IT Operations Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

IT Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IT Operations Analyst within the UK.

IT Operations Analyst Daily Rate Trend

IT Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IT Operations Analyst within the UK.

IT Operations Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

IT Operations Analyst
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Operations Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +35 3 £238 -17.39%
London +31 2 £238 -
Yorkshire +1 1 £263 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £263 -
Doncaster - 1 £263 -

IT Operations Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited IT Operations Analyst 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 IT Operations Analyst in their job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VBA
4 1 (12.50%) MCP
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris
4 1 (12.50%) JBoss
4 1 (12.50%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) MCSA
4 1 (12.50%) Apache
4 1 (12.50%) LDAP
4 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP

IT Operations Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited IT Operations Analyst 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 IT Operations Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (37.50%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) MCSA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCDST
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) BMC PATROL
1 1 (12.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Sun
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) BMC
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Remedy