Operations Analyst Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Operations Analyst in their job title 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Analyst
Rank 463 516 488
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -28
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 67 62 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.144% 0.106% 0.163%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.157% 0.115% 0.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 53
Average daily rate £325 £290 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.06% -10.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £136 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £393 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £200 £278 £225
% change year-on-year
-27.92% +23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 3
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £20.00 £59.75
% change year-on-year
+65.00% -66.52%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
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 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Operations Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Operations Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Operations Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Operations Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Operations Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Operations Analyst Hourly Rate Histogram

Operations Analyst
Top 25 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +45 56 £325 +16.07%
London +39 43 £330 +10.00%
City of London +17 9 £325 -7.14%
East of England +14 3 £113 -70.00%
South East +16 2 - -
North West +16 2 - -
West Midlands +7 2 £230 -
South Yorkshire 0 2 £301 -26.07%
Yorkshire -4 2 £301 +100.83%
Scotland -14 2 - -
Suffolk - 2 £113 -
Manchester - 2 - -
Hampshire - 2 - -
Ipswich - 2 £113 -
Edinburgh - 2 - -
Doncaster +1 1 £263 -35.58%
East Midlands -3 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Sheffield - 1 £340 -
Redditch - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Gosport - 1 - -
Aldershot - 1 - -

Operations Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited 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 Operations Analyst in their job title.

1 47 (37.01%) Windows
2 29 (22.83%) Microsoft
3 25 (19.69%) Banking
4 23 (18.11%) SQL
5 21 (16.54%) SQL Server
6 20 (15.75%) UNIX
6 20 (15.75%) ITIL
6 20 (15.75%) Linux
6 20 (15.75%) MS Excel
6 20 (15.75%) VMware
7 19 (14.96%) Active Directory
8 17 (13.39%) Windows Server 2003
8 17 (13.39%) Finance
9 14 (11.02%) Solaris
9 14 (11.02%) Oracle
9 14 (11.02%) Business Analysis
10 13 (10.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 13 (10.24%) MS Office
10 13 (10.24%) Firewall
11 12 (9.449%) SIEM
12 11 (8.661%) Migration
12 11 (8.661%) DB2
12 11 (8.661%) IBM
13 10 (7.874%) Citrix
13 10 (7.874%) MS Exchange
13 10 (7.874%) Internet
13 10 (7.874%) Tivoli
13 10 (7.874%) JCL
13 10 (7.874%) Exchange Server 2010
13 10 (7.874%) User Acceptance Testing

Operations Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited 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 Operations Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (5.512%) WebSphere
2 6 (4.724%) Middleware
3 5 (3.937%) J2EE
3 5 (3.937%) JDBC
4 2 (1.575%) Web Services
4 2 (1.575%) ISPF
4 2 (1.575%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.787%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.787%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 10 (7.874%) MS Exchange
1 10 (7.874%) Exchange Server 2010
2 9 (7.087%) IIS
2 9 (7.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 5 (3.937%) IBM HTTP Server
3 5 (3.937%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (3.937%) Tomcat
3 5 (3.937%) MQSeries
3 5 (3.937%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (3.937%) Lync
4 4 (3.150%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.150%) Lotus Notes
4 4 (3.150%) Apache
4 4 (3.150%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (1.575%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (1.575%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (0.787%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.787%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.787%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.787%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (15.75%) MS Excel
2 13 (10.24%) MS Office
3 10 (7.874%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (2.362%) MS Project
4 3 (2.362%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.787%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.24%) Firewall
2 10 (7.874%) Internet
3 9 (7.087%) DNS
4 8 (6.299%) HTTP
5 6 (4.724%) SAN
6 5 (3.937%) FTP
6 5 (3.937%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.362%) Network Security
8 2 (1.575%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.787%) VPN
9 1 (0.787%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.787%) LDAP
9 1 (0.787%) LAN
9 1 (0.787%) WLAN
9 1 (0.787%) WAN
9 1 (0.787%) DHCP
9 1 (0.787%) VLAN
9 1 (0.787%) Wireless
9 1 (0.787%) BGP
9 1 (0.787%) MRTG
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.54%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.661%) DB2
3 4 (3.150%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (3.150%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.787%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.787%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (0.787%) MySQL
4 1 (0.787%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 25 (19.69%) Banking
2 17 (13.39%) Finance
3 9 (7.087%) Retail
4 7 (5.512%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.724%) Back Office
6 5 (3.937%) Legal
7 4 (3.150%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.150%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (3.150%) Games
8 2 (1.575%) Marketing
8 2 (1.575%) Publishing
9 1 (0.787%) Front Office
9 1 (0.787%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.787%) Law
9 1 (0.787%) French Language
9 1 (0.787%) German Language
9 1 (0.787%) Italian Language
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.087%) Blackberry
2 7 (5.512%) Mainframe
2 7 (5.512%) Client/Server
3 5 (3.937%) SWIFT
3 5 (3.937%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.150%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (2.362%) Derivative
5 3 (2.362%) Computer Science
5 3 (2.362%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.575%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.787%) IaaS
7 1 (0.787%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.787%) FMCG
7 1 (0.787%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 47 (37.01%) Windows
2 20 (15.75%) UNIX
2 20 (15.75%) Linux
3 17 (13.39%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (11.02%) Solaris
5 13 (10.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (4.724%) AIX
7 5 (3.937%) Windows XP
7 5 (3.937%) zOS
8 3 (2.362%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.575%) CentOS
9 2 (1.575%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.787%) MVS
10 1 (0.787%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (15.75%) ITIL
2 14 (11.02%) Business Analysis
3 12 (9.449%) SIEM
4 11 (8.661%) Migration
5 10 (7.874%) Incident Management
5 10 (7.874%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (6.299%) Change Control
6 8 (6.299%) Analytics
7 7 (5.512%) Project Management
8 6 (4.724%) Service Management
8 6 (4.724%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (3.150%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (3.150%) Capacity Management
9 4 (3.150%) GAP Analysis
9 4 (3.150%) ITSM
9 4 (3.150%) Security Testing
9 4 (3.150%) Data Management
10 3 (2.362%) Data Analysis
10 3 (2.362%) Logistics
10 3 (2.362%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.11%) SQL
2 10 (7.874%) JCL
3 8 (6.299%) Java
4 7 (5.512%) Perl
4 7 (5.512%) Bash shell
5 3 (2.362%) VBA
6 2 (1.575%) REXX
6 2 (1.575%) PHP
7 1 (0.787%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.787%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.787%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 8 (6.299%) Degree
2 7 (5.512%) CISSP
3 6 (4.724%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.937%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.150%) CCNA
5 4 (3.150%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.150%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.362%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.362%) CISM
7 2 (1.575%) GIAC
7 2 (1.575%) CCSA
7 2 (1.575%) GCIA
7 2 (1.575%) CCSE
7 2 (1.575%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.787%) MCDST
8 1 (0.787%) MCITP
8 1 (0.787%) CIMA
8 1 (0.787%) ACCA
8 1 (0.787%) CISA
8 1 (0.787%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.150%) QA
1 4 (3.150%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.362%) SLA
3 1 (0.787%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (14.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.299%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.362%) vSphere
4 2 (1.575%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (7.874%) Tivoli
2 5 (3.937%) SCCM
2 5 (3.937%) HP Data Protector
3 4 (3.150%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (3.150%) ServiceCenter
4 3 (2.362%) Cacti
4 3 (2.362%) WSUS
5 2 (1.575%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (1.575%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (1.575%) SCOM
6 1 (0.787%) Nessus
6 1 (0.787%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.787%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.787%) Control-M
6 1 (0.787%) Nagios
Vendors
1 29 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.75%) VMware
3 14 (11.02%) Oracle
4 11 (8.661%) IBM
5 10 (7.874%) Citrix
6 7 (5.512%) EMC
7 6 (4.724%) HP
7 6 (4.724%) Qualys
7 6 (4.724%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.937%) Thunderhead
8 5 (3.937%) Misys
8 5 (3.937%) Sybase
9 4 (3.150%) Cisco
9 4 (3.150%) McAfee
9 4 (3.150%) Lotus
9 4 (3.150%) GoldenSource
10 3 (2.362%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.362%) Bloomberg
10 3 (2.362%) Sun
11 2 (1.575%) SAP
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