The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Operations Support Analyst 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 advertised for the West Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Support Analyst
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Support Analyst 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £246 £185 £225
% change year-on-year
+33.10% -17.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.25 -
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1206 1529 1042
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.74% 94.50% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 849 482
Average daily rate £313 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 70 75
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.64 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Operations Support Analyst
Yorkshire

Operations Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Operations Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Operations Support Analyst across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Operations Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Operations Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Operations Support 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 Support Analyst in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Games
2 4 (66.67%) IBM HTTP Server
2 4 (66.67%) FTP
2 4 (66.67%) HTTP
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Middleware
2 4 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 4 (66.67%) MQSeries
2 4 (66.67%) AIX
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
2 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (66.67%) IIS
2 4 (66.67%) MS Office
2 4 (66.67%) JDBC
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Banking

Operations Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Operations Support 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 Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (66.67%) Middleware
2 4 (66.67%) JDBC
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) IBM HTTP Server
1 4 (66.67%) Tomcat
1 4 (66.67%) MQSeries
1 4 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (66.67%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) FTP
1 4 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
General
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Games
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) AIX
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft