The first table below looks at the demand for Operations Management skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Operations Management 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category.

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 Management
Rank 489 529 549
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +20
Contract jobs citing Operations Management 45 57 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.095% 0.096% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.135% 0.142% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 35 23
Average daily rate £413 £450 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £343 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £750 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £450 £357
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +26.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -70.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year
- -70.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
33412 40209 40724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.90% 67.83% 67.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19968 23081 23144
Average daily rate £413 £401 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.99% -8.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 1304 1455
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.78 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Operations Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Operations Management within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Operations Management Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Operations Management Daily Rate Trend

Operations Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Operations Management Daily Rate Histogram

Operations Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Operations Management Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Management
Top 28 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Management 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 +38 39 £438 -2.77%
London +17 15 £469 +4.16%
South East +22 11 £550 +15.18%
Hampshire +6 8 £550 +27.90%
West Midlands +11 6 £350 -33.33%
Basingstoke - 5 £600 -
City of London +4 4 - -
Warwickshire -3 3 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands -7 3 £500 +11.11%
Scotland - 3 £288 -
Southampton - 3 £330 -
Birmingham +11 2 £350 -36.36%
North West +7 2 £425 -3.51%
Oxfordshire - 2 - -
Oxford - 2 - -
South West +26 1 £330 -6.04%
Northamptonshire +12 1 - -
Milton Keynes +6 1 £275 -
Buckinghamshire +3 1 £275 -
Cheshire +1 1 - -
Nottinghamshire -2 1 - -
Nottingham -7 1 - -
Canary Wharf - 1 £550 -
Devon - 1 £330 -
Plymouth - 1 £330 -
Nuneaton - 1 £350 -
Glasgow - 1 £275 -
Edinburgh - 1 £325 -

Operations Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 27 (27.84%) ITIL
2 25 (25.77%) Service Management
3 22 (22.68%) Finance
3 22 (22.68%) SLA
4 20 (20.62%) VMware
5 18 (18.56%) Windows
6 16 (16.49%) Service Delivery
6 16 (16.49%) Project Management
7 14 (14.43%) Citrix
8 13 (13.40%) Back Office
9 12 (12.37%) Change Management
9 12 (12.37%) HP
9 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.34%) SAN
11 10 (10.31%) Active Directory
11 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
11 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
11 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (9.278%) VMware Infrastructure
12 9 (9.278%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 9 (9.278%) Supplier Management
12 9 (9.278%) NetApp
12 9 (9.278%) Oracle
13 8 (8.247%) VPN
13 8 (8.247%) ITSM
13 8 (8.247%) Hyper-V
13 8 (8.247%) XenDesktop
13 8 (8.247%) VCP4
13 8 (8.247%) HP SIM
13 8 (8.247%) Degree

Operations Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Application Development
1 2 (2.062%) .NET
1 2 (2.062%) J2EE
1 2 (2.062%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.031%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.062%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.062%) MS Exchange
1 2 (2.062%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (2.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.031%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (1.031%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (1.031%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (1.031%) SAS
2 1 (1.031%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (1.031%) Apache
2 1 (1.031%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (6.186%) MS Office
2 3 (3.093%) MS Project
3 2 (2.062%) MS Excel
4 1 (1.031%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.031%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.124%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (2.062%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.062%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.062%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (2.062%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.031%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.031%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (1.031%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (1.031%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.031%) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.34%) SAN
2 8 (8.247%) VPN
3 5 (5.155%) DNS
4 4 (4.124%) DHCP
4 4 (4.124%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.124%) Network Security
5 3 (3.093%) NAS
6 2 (2.062%) WAN
6 2 (2.062%) LAN
7 1 (1.031%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.031%) Internet
7 1 (1.031%) OSPF
7 1 (1.031%) VoIP
7 1 (1.031%) BGP
7 1 (1.031%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.062%) SQL Server
1 2 (2.062%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.031%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.031%) Rational Rose
General
1 22 (22.68%) Finance
2 13 (13.40%) Back Office
3 7 (7.216%) Marketing
3 7 (7.216%) Retail
3 7 (7.216%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.155%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.093%) Banking
6 2 (2.062%) Publishing
6 2 (2.062%) Law
6 2 (2.062%) Legal
6 2 (2.062%) French Language
7 1 (1.031%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.031%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.031%) Front Office
7 1 (1.031%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (31.96%) Analyst
2 13 (13.40%) Business Analyst
2 13 (13.40%) Service Manager
3 11 (11.34%) Operations Manager
4 8 (8.247%) Architect
4 8 (8.247%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.186%) Support Analyst
5 6 (6.186%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (6.186%) Technical Manager
5 6 (6.186%) Payments Business Analyst
6 5 (5.155%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (5.155%) Consultant
6 5 (5.155%) Technical Support
7 4 (4.124%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.124%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (4.124%) Business Manager
7 4 (4.124%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.124%) Systems Manager
7 4 (4.124%) Project Analyst
7 4 (4.124%) Service Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.186%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.124%) Equities
2 4 (4.124%) Data Integration
3 3 (3.093%) Data Extraction
3 3 (3.093%) Clustering
4 2 (2.062%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.062%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.031%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.031%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.031%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.031%) Life Science
5 1 (1.031%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.031%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.031%) iSeries
5 1 (1.031%) NHS
5 1 (1.031%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.031%) DTV
5 1 (1.031%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.56%) Windows
2 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (5.155%) Windows 7
4 4 (4.124%) UNIX
5 3 (3.093%) AIX
6 2 (2.062%) HPUX
6 2 (2.062%) Solaris
6 2 (2.062%) Linux
6 2 (2.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.031%) zOS
7 1 (1.031%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.031%) FreeBSD
7 1 (1.031%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.84%) ITIL
2 25 (25.77%) Service Management
3 16 (16.49%) Service Delivery
3 16 (16.49%) Project Management
4 12 (12.37%) Change Management
4 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (9.278%) Supplier Management
6 8 (8.247%) ITSM
7 6 (6.186%) Migration
7 6 (6.186%) TOGAF
8 5 (5.155%) ITIL V3
8 5 (5.155%) Risk Management
8 5 (5.155%) Incident Management
8 5 (5.155%) CRM
8 5 (5.155%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (4.124%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (4.124%) Business Continuity
9 4 (4.124%) BCP
9 4 (4.124%) Six Sigma
9 4 (4.124%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.062%) C
1 2 (2.062%) Perl
2 1 (1.031%) PHP
2 1 (1.031%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
1 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.278%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 8 (8.247%) VCP4
3 8 (8.247%) Degree
3 8 (8.247%) VCP5
4 5 (5.155%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.031%) SCSA
5 1 (1.031%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.031%) MCITP
5 1 (1.031%) HPUX Certification
5 1 (1.031%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.031%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) SLA
2 5 (5.155%) QA
3 1 (1.031%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.031%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.031%) COBIT
System Software
1 10 (10.31%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.278%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.247%) Hyper-V
3 8 (8.247%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.031%) Xen
4 1 (1.031%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.031%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.031%) Postfix
4 1 (1.031%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.031%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (8.247%) HP SIM
2 7 (7.216%) SCCM
3 3 (3.093%) SCOM
4 2 (2.062%) MOM
5 1 (1.031%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.031%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 1 (1.031%) OpenView
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) VMware
2 14 (14.43%) Citrix
3 12 (12.37%) HP
4 9 (9.278%) NetApp
4 9 (9.278%) Oracle
5 6 (6.186%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.155%) Salesforce.com
6 5 (5.155%) Informatica
7 4 (4.124%) Fidessa
8 2 (2.062%) ATG
8 2 (2.062%) SAP
8 2 (2.062%) Siebel
8 2 (2.062%) Sun
8 2 (2.062%) EMC
8 2 (2.062%) Cisco
8 2 (2.062%) Veritas
8 2 (2.062%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.062%) Endeca
9 1 (1.031%) Verint
9 1 (1.031%) Egenera