The first table below looks at the demand for the Head of Operations role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Head of Operations in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Head of Operations
Rank 318 315 329
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Operations 3 8 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.026% 0.061% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.066% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 1
Average salary £133,000 £85,000 £90,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+56.47% -5.55%
UK excluding London average salary £63,750 £67,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
-4.85% +16.52%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10837 12171 14447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.90% 93.16% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9335 11069 13022
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Head of Operations
London

Head of Operations
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Head of Operations across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Head of Operations Jobs Demand Trend

Head of Operations
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Head of Operations across the City of London region.

City of London Head of Operations Salary Trend

Head of Operations
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Head of Operations 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 IT job ads sampled with Head of Operations in their job title.

1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 2 (18.18%) Release Management
4 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (9.091%) SIEM
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.091%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) Service Desk Management
4 1 (9.091%) Time Management
4 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
4 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (9.091%) Matrix Management
4 1 (9.091%) COBIT
4 1 (9.091%) Statistics
4 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
4 1 (9.091%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.091%) Supplier Management
4 1 (9.091%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (9.091%) Apple
4 1 (9.091%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (9.091%) TIBCO

Head of Operations
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Head of Operations 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 IT job ads sampled with Head of Operations in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
1 1 (9.091%) Middleware
1 1 (9.091%) .NET
1 1 (9.091%) XML
1 1 (9.091%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) TIBCO EMS
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
1 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
1 1 (9.091%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MSI
1 1 (9.091%) Log4j
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) UNIX
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Solaris
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
2 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
2 2 (18.18%) Release Management
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (9.091%) SIEM
3 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.091%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (9.091%) Time Management
3 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
3 1 (9.091%) Matrix Management
3 1 (9.091%) Supplier Management
3 1 (9.091%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.091%) Change Management
3 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.091%) Balanced Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.091%) MCP
2 1 (9.091%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Apple
2 1 (9.091%) TIBCO
2 1 (9.091%) VMware
2 1 (9.091%) IBM