The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank 503 543 570
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +27
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 31 43 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.066% 0.073% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.078% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 7
Average daily rate £253 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.83% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £224 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £365 £375
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2155 2623 2895
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 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Operations Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Operations Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Operations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Operations Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +40 27 £255 -15.00%
London +25 13 £375 +36.36%
Yorkshire - 11 £250 -
West Yorkshire - 11 £250 -
Leeds - 11 £250 -
City of London +11 3 £350 -22.22%
Hammersmith - 3 £255 -
Scotland - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Chester - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Stirling - 1 - -

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 24 (48.00%) Linux
2 17 (34.00%) DNS
3 15 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 15 (30.00%) Puppet
4 14 (28.00%) DHCP
4 14 (28.00%) Telecoms
4 14 (28.00%) Ruby
5 13 (26.00%) Configuration Management
5 13 (26.00%) Java
5 13 (26.00%) Oracle
6 12 (24.00%) Perl
6 12 (24.00%) Client/Server
6 12 (24.00%) Incident Management
6 12 (24.00%) Amazon AWS
6 12 (24.00%) Bash shell
7 11 (22.00%) Kanban
7 11 (22.00%) Load Balancing
7 11 (22.00%) VMware
7 11 (22.00%) Change Management
7 11 (22.00%) SSL
7 11 (22.00%) PHP
7 11 (22.00%) MySQL
7 11 (22.00%) Web Services
7 11 (22.00%) Python
7 11 (22.00%) Apache
8 10 (20.00%) Firewall
8 10 (20.00%) nginx
8 10 (20.00%) Redis
9 9 (18.00%) Capacity Management
9 9 (18.00%) Node.js

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 11 (22.00%) Web Services
2 9 (18.00%) Node.js
3 4 (8.000%) JSON
3 4 (8.000%) SOAP
4 3 (6.000%) REST
5 2 (4.000%) LAMP
5 2 (4.000%) HTML
6 1 (2.000%) COM
6 1 (2.000%) CSS
6 1 (2.000%) JSP
6 1 (2.000%) XML
6 1 (2.000%) Zend Framework
6 1 (2.000%) Django
6 1 (2.000%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (2.000%) WebSphere
6 1 (2.000%) Spring
6 1 (2.000%) Resque
6 1 (2.000%) Gearman
6 1 (2.000%) Mason
6 1 (2.000%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 12 (24.00%) Amazon AWS
2 11 (22.00%) Apache
3 10 (20.00%) nginx
4 9 (18.00%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (18.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (18.00%) Route 53
5 7 (14.00%) MS Exchange
6 5 (10.00%) Tomcat
7 1 (2.000%) Zope
7 1 (2.000%) Apache Solr
7 1 (2.000%) Confluence
7 1 (2.000%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (4.000%) MS Office
2 1 (2.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) DNS
2 15 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 14 (28.00%) DHCP
4 11 (22.00%) SSL
5 10 (20.00%) Firewall
6 7 (14.00%) Internet
7 4 (8.000%) Network Security
7 4 (8.000%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (8.000%) OSPF
7 4 (8.000%) BGP
7 4 (8.000%) 3G
7 4 (8.000%) SNMP
8 3 (6.000%) LAN
8 3 (6.000%) WAN
8 3 (6.000%) SAN
8 3 (6.000%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (6.000%) MPLS
8 3 (6.000%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (6.000%) Cisco PIX
8 3 (6.000%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) MySQL
2 10 (20.00%) Redis
3 9 (18.00%) MongoDB
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.000%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (4.000%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.000%) DB2
6 1 (2.000%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.000%) Subversion
3 3 (6.000%) Git (software)
3 3 (6.000%) JIRA
3 3 (6.000%) Hudson
4 2 (4.000%) Capistrano
4 2 (4.000%) Maven
4 2 (4.000%) Ant
5 1 (2.000%) ClearCase
5 1 (2.000%) Selenium
5 1 (2.000%) Phing
5 1 (2.000%) RSpec
5 1 (2.000%) JBehave
5 1 (2.000%) PHPUnit
5 1 (2.000%) Cucumber
General
1 14 (28.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.000%) German Language
2 1 (2.000%) Banking
2 1 (2.000%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Client/Server
2 4 (8.000%) NHS
3 2 (4.000%) Open Source
4 1 (2.000%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.000%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.000%) Clustering
4 1 (2.000%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.000%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (48.00%) Linux
2 9 (18.00%) Windows
3 8 (16.00%) UNIX
4 4 (8.000%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (8.000%) Windows 2000
5 3 (6.000%) Solaris
5 3 (6.000%) Windows XP
5 3 (6.000%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (6.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.000%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.000%) AIX
7 1 (2.000%) Windows NT
7 1 (2.000%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.000%) SUSE
7 1 (2.000%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Configuration Management
2 12 (24.00%) Incident Management
3 11 (22.00%) Kanban
3 11 (22.00%) Load Balancing
3 11 (22.00%) Change Management
4 9 (18.00%) Capacity Management
4 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (14.00%) Problem Management
5 7 (14.00%) Scrum
6 6 (12.00%) Performance Testing
7 5 (10.00%) ITIL
7 5 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (8.000%) Workforce Management Optimization
9 3 (6.000%) Software Deployment
9 3 (6.000%) Analytics
9 3 (6.000%) Information Assurance
9 3 (6.000%) Security Testing
9 3 (6.000%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (6.000%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Ruby
2 13 (26.00%) Java
3 12 (24.00%) Perl
3 12 (24.00%) Bash shell
4 11 (22.00%) PHP
4 11 (22.00%) Python
5 9 (18.00%) C++
6 6 (12.00%) SQL
7 3 (6.000%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.000%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.000%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.000%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (10.00%) CCNA
3 4 (8.000%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.000%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.000%) Degree
5 2 (4.000%) CCNP
6 1 (2.000%) ISEB
6 1 (2.000%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.000%) QA
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) XenApp
2 1 (2.000%) ProxySG
2 1 (2.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.000%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.000%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Puppet
2 6 (12.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.000%) OpenView
3 1 (2.000%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (2.000%) Nagios
3 1 (2.000%) ZABBIX
3 1 (2.000%) SCCM
3 1 (2.000%) SCOM
3 1 (2.000%) YUM
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Oracle
2 11 (22.00%) VMware
3 8 (16.00%) Cisco
3 8 (16.00%) Citrix
4 7 (14.00%) Symantec
5 4 (8.000%) Verint
6 3 (6.000%) Juniper
6 3 (6.000%) Sun
6 3 (6.000%) HP
6 3 (6.000%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.000%) Percona
7 2 (4.000%) Zend
7 2 (4.000%) NetApp
7 2 (4.000%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.000%) JBoss
7 2 (4.000%) Business Objects
8 1 (2.000%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.000%) Intel
8 1 (2.000%) Blue Coat
8 1 (2.000%) Redback
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