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

The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Manager 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 Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Manager
Rank 475 488 532
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +44
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 65 93 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.138% 0.159% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.149% 0.172% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 47 23
Average daily rate £400 £388 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -13.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £278 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £612 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+3.62% -9.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 £43.13 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.62% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
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 2174 2589 2882
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 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Operations Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Operations Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Operations Manager Daily Rate Trend

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Operations Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Operations Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Operations Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Operations Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Manager
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +22 64 £400 +3.22%
London +5 28 £500 +25.00%
South East +17 13 £350 -
City of London +10 9 £500 +25.00%
North West +11 7 £375 -
West Midlands +17 6 £349 -22.50%
Yorkshire +8 4 £400 +86.04%
Reading +10 3 £460 -3.15%
Berkshire +10 3 £460 -3.15%
East Midlands +3 3 £338 +12.50%
Northamptonshire - 3 £338 -
Kent - 3 £303 -
Manchester - 3 £374 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
Surrey +17 2 £378 +0.66%
East of England +5 2 £350 +10.23%
Warwickshire -3 2 £350 -
Cheshire -7 2 £388 +3.33%
Leeds - 2 £400 -
Uxbridge - 2 £525 -
South West +25 1 £413 +91.86%
Hertfordshire +11 1 £350 -
Oxfordshire 0 1 £350 -
Essex -3 1 £350 -
Buckinghamshire -6 1 - -
Hampshire -14 1 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Somerset - 1 £413 -
Cumbria - 1 £400 -
Wakefield - 1 - -

Operations Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Operations Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 49 (35.51%) ITIL
2 35 (25.36%) Finance
3 29 (21.01%) Service Delivery
4 26 (18.84%) Service Management
5 24 (17.39%) SLA
6 21 (15.22%) Project Management
7 14 (10.14%) Banking
7 14 (10.14%) UNIX
8 12 (8.696%) PRINCE2
8 12 (8.696%) Telecoms
8 12 (8.696%) Security Cleared
9 11 (7.971%) Operations Management
9 11 (7.971%) Degree
9 11 (7.971%) SAP
9 11 (7.971%) Windows
10 10 (7.246%) Change Management
10 10 (7.246%) Problem Management
10 10 (7.246%) Incident Management
11 9 (6.522%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (5.797%) Retail
12 8 (5.797%) Supplier Management
13 7 (5.072%) Change Control
13 7 (5.072%) SC Cleared
13 7 (5.072%) Performance Management
13 7 (5.072%) Management Information System
13 7 (5.072%) NHS
14 6 (4.348%) Tivoli
14 6 (4.348%) Microsoft
14 6 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
14 6 (4.348%) ITIL Certification

Operations Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Operations Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (1.449%) Middleware
1 2 (1.449%) COM
2 1 (0.725%) JSP
2 1 (0.725%) .NET
2 1 (0.725%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.449%) MS Exchange
1 2 (1.449%) SAS
1 2 (1.449%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.449%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.725%) Confluence
2 1 (0.725%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.725%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (0.725%) MS Excel
1 1 (0.725%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.449%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (1.449%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.623%) Radio Access Network
1 5 (3.623%) Internet
1 5 (3.623%) SAN
2 4 (2.899%) Firewall
2 4 (2.899%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.174%) DHCP
3 3 (2.174%) SNMP
3 3 (2.174%) Intranet
4 2 (1.449%) VoIP
5 1 (0.725%) 4G
5 1 (0.725%) xDSL
5 1 (0.725%) LTE
5 1 (0.725%) 2G
5 1 (0.725%) Wireless
5 1 (0.725%) TETRA
5 1 (0.725%) Broadband
5 1 (0.725%) GPRS
5 1 (0.725%) LAN
5 1 (0.725%) UMTS
5 1 (0.725%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.449%) SQL Server
1 2 (1.449%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (0.725%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (0.725%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (2.174%) Introscope
2 1 (0.725%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.725%) JIRA
2 1 (0.725%) ClearCase
General
1 35 (25.36%) Finance
2 14 (10.14%) Banking
3 12 (8.696%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.797%) Retail
5 6 (4.348%) Back Office
6 4 (2.899%) Front Office
7 3 (2.174%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.174%) Local Government
7 3 (2.174%) Marketing
8 2 (1.449%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.449%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.725%) Automotive
9 1 (0.725%) Legal
9 1 (0.725%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.072%) Management Information System
1 7 (5.072%) NHS
2 4 (2.899%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.174%) Clustering
4 2 (1.449%) Online Banking
4 2 (1.449%) CMDB
4 2 (1.449%) Wiki
4 2 (1.449%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.449%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.725%) SaaS
5 1 (0.725%) Visualisation
5 1 (0.725%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.725%) Economics
5 1 (0.725%) Derivative
5 1 (0.725%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (0.725%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.725%) CESG
5 1 (0.725%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.725%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.725%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.14%) UNIX
2 11 (7.971%) Windows
3 6 (4.348%) Linux
4 4 (2.899%) Solaris
4 4 (2.899%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.725%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.725%) CentOS
5 1 (0.725%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.725%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.51%) ITIL
2 29 (21.01%) Service Delivery
3 26 (18.84%) Service Management
4 21 (15.22%) Project Management
5 12 (8.696%) PRINCE2
6 11 (7.971%) Operations Management
7 10 (7.246%) Change Management
7 10 (7.246%) Problem Management
7 10 (7.246%) Incident Management
8 9 (6.522%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (5.797%) Supplier Management
10 7 (5.072%) Change Control
10 7 (5.072%) Performance Management
11 6 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (4.348%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (3.623%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (3.623%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (3.623%) Information Security
12 5 (3.623%) Risk Management
12 5 (3.623%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.348%) Perl
2 4 (2.899%) Java
3 1 (0.725%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.725%) Python
3 1 (0.725%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (8.696%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.971%) Degree
3 7 (5.072%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.348%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (4.348%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.174%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.449%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.725%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.725%) ACCA
7 1 (0.725%) GCIA
7 1 (0.725%) GIAC
7 1 (0.725%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.39%) SLA
2 5 (3.623%) QA
3 4 (2.899%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.725%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.725%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (2.174%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.449%) vCloud
2 2 (1.449%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.725%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.348%) Tivoli
2 4 (2.899%) Splunk
3 3 (2.174%) CA Wily
3 3 (2.174%) HP SiteScope
3 3 (2.174%) HP NNM
3 3 (2.174%) OVPI
3 3 (2.174%) OVPM
3 3 (2.174%) OpenView
4 2 (1.449%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.725%) Puppet
5 1 (0.725%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (0.725%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.725%) SCOM
5 1 (0.725%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (7.971%) SAP
2 6 (4.348%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.623%) Oracle
4 4 (2.899%) Juniper
4 4 (2.899%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.899%) HP
4 4 (2.899%) Cisco
5 3 (2.174%) F5
5 3 (2.174%) Foundry
5 3 (2.174%) Tealeaf
5 3 (2.174%) VMware
5 3 (2.174%) CA
5 3 (2.174%) NetApp
6 2 (1.449%) Siebel
6 2 (1.449%) ATG
6 2 (1.449%) BT
6 2 (1.449%) Qualys
6 2 (1.449%) Capita
6 2 (1.449%) Endeca
7 1 (0.725%) Tableau
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