The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. 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 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 advertised for the Watford region.

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 Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
64 109 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 95.52% 100.00% 97.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 31
Average daily rate £413 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £278 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 5
Average hourly rate £35.00 £12.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+191.66% -14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Operations Engineer
Hertfordshire

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Operations Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Engineer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region 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 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region 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 Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware