The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Manager
Rank 518 568 617
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Manager 354 310 252
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.343% 0.278% 0.207%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.363% 0.293% 0.219%
Number of salaries quoted 266 254 196
Average salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.54% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £39,800 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £70,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
97387 105805 114973
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.37% 95.02% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 81911 91479 98204
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,100
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Operations Manager
UK

Operations Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Operations Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Manager
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Operations Manager across the England region.

England Operations Manager Salary Trend

Operations Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Manager across the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

England Operations Manager Salary Histogram

Operations Manager
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Manager within the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +19 138 £62,500 +4.16% 18
South East +28 101 £55,000 -4.34% 5
East of England +20 31 £47,501 - 3
Yorkshire +24 28 £60,000 +50.00% 2
North West +5 22 £42,500 +21.42% 1
South West +5 20 £58,500 -31.17% 2
West Midlands -21 10 £50,000 -4.76% 2
East Midlands -2 4 £43,250 +23.57%
Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 £67,500 -
Operations Manager
UK

Operations Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region 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 IT job ads sampled with Operations Manager in their job title.

1 211 (32.81%) ITIL
2 167 (25.97%) Finance
3 129 (20.06%) Service Delivery
4 111 (17.26%) Windows
5 96 (14.93%) Project Management
6 92 (14.31%) Service Management
7 88 (13.69%) Firewall
8 86 (13.37%) Incident Management
9 75 (11.66%) VMware
10 70 (10.89%) ITIL Certification
11 69 (10.73%) Cisco
11 69 (10.73%) Microsoft
12 68 (10.58%) SLA
13 67 (10.42%) Change Management
14 61 (9.487%) Linux
15 58 (9.020%) Problem Management
16 54 (8.398%) Telecoms
16 54 (8.398%) Management Information System
17 53 (8.243%) Performance Management
18 50 (7.776%) Degree
19 49 (7.621%) Information Security
19 49 (7.621%) MS Excel
20 45 (6.998%) Stakeholder Management
21 43 (6.687%) Internet
22 41 (6.376%) E-Commerce
23 38 (5.910%) QA
24 37 (5.754%) Operations Management
25 36 (5.599%) Capacity Planning
25 36 (5.599%) WAN
26 34 (5.288%) Banking

Operations Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region 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 IT job ads sampled with Operations Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (3.266%) JSP
2 18 (2.799%) Middleware
3 13 (2.022%) Web Services
4 7 (1.089%) Memcached
5 6 (0.933%) Rendezvous
5 6 (0.933%) .NET
6 5 (0.778%) JMS
7 4 (0.622%) WSDL
7 4 (0.622%) EJB
7 4 (0.622%) XML
7 4 (0.622%) JDBC
7 4 (0.622%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.467%) HTML
8 3 (0.467%) SAP Basis
9 2 (0.311%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (0.311%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.156%) SAP ALE
10 1 (0.156%) COM
10 1 (0.156%) CSS
10 1 (0.156%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 20 (3.110%) Apache
2 16 (2.488%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.177%) MS Exchange
4 11 (1.711%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.089%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.089%) nginx
5 7 (1.089%) IIS
6 6 (0.933%) Windows Azure
7 5 (0.778%) Amazon AWS
7 5 (0.778%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (0.778%) CMS
8 4 (0.622%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.311%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.311%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.311%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.311%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.156%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.156%) Lync
10 1 (0.156%) GlassFish
10 1 (0.156%) Jetty
Applications
1 49 (7.621%) MS Excel
2 23 (3.577%) MS Office
3 11 (1.711%) MS PowerPoint
3 11 (1.711%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.089%) MS Project
5 1 (0.156%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.156%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (1.089%) RMDS
2 5 (0.778%) Google Analytics
3 4 (0.622%) BASE24
4 3 (0.467%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.311%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.311%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.156%) TIBCO iProcess
6 1 (0.156%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.156%) Line 50
6 1 (0.156%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.156%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.156%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.156%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.156%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 88 (13.69%) Firewall
2 43 (6.687%) Internet
3 36 (5.599%) WAN
4 31 (4.821%) TCP/IP
5 28 (4.355%) LAN
6 27 (4.199%) VoIP
6 27 (4.199%) DHCP
7 26 (4.044%) DNS
8 25 (3.888%) MPLS
9 23 (3.577%) SAN
10 13 (2.022%) Broadband
10 13 (2.022%) VPN
11 11 (1.711%) Network Security
11 11 (1.711%) Wireless
12 10 (1.555%) SDH
12 10 (1.555%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (1.244%) ADSL
13 8 (1.244%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (1.089%) iSCSI
14 7 (1.089%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.044%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.488%) MySQL
3 7 (1.089%) Riak
3 7 (1.089%) MongoDB
3 7 (1.089%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.089%) Sybase ASE
3 7 (1.089%) NonStop SQL
4 6 (0.933%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.622%) Oracle 10g
5 4 (0.622%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (0.467%) DB2
7 2 (0.311%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.311%) KDB
7 2 (0.311%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.156%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.156%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.156%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (0.156%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (0.156%) Subversion
General
1 167 (25.97%) Finance
2 54 (8.398%) Telecoms
3 34 (5.288%) Banking
4 28 (4.355%) Marketing
5 27 (4.199%) Retail
6 13 (2.022%) Investment Banking
6 13 (2.022%) Legal
7 11 (1.711%) Back Office
7 11 (1.711%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (1.711%) Law
8 5 (0.778%) Games
8 5 (0.778%) Advertising
9 4 (0.622%) Billing
10 3 (0.467%) Electronics
10 3 (0.467%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.467%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.311%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.311%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.156%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.398%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.955%) CESG
3 16 (2.488%) AS400
4 13 (2.022%) Client/Server
5 12 (1.866%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (1.711%) Open Source
7 9 (1.400%) iSeries
8 8 (1.244%) Mainframe
8 8 (1.244%) Computer Science
9 7 (1.089%) EqualLogic
9 7 (1.089%) Replication
9 7 (1.089%) Clustering
10 6 (0.933%) SaaS
11 5 (0.778%) Statistics
11 5 (0.778%) Equities
12 4 (0.622%) Handset
12 4 (0.622%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.622%) PKI
12 4 (0.622%) Smartphone
12 4 (0.622%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 111 (17.26%) Windows
2 61 (9.487%) Linux
3 32 (4.977%) UNIX
4 28 (4.355%) Windows Server 2008
5 18 (2.799%) CentOS
6 12 (1.866%) Solaris
6 12 (1.866%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.244%) zOS
7 8 (1.244%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.089%) FreeBSD
9 6 (0.933%) VMS
10 5 (0.778%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.622%) Windows XP
11 4 (0.622%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.467%) AIX
13 2 (0.311%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (32.81%) ITIL
2 129 (20.06%) Service Delivery
3 96 (14.93%) Project Management
4 92 (14.31%) Service Management
5 86 (13.37%) Incident Management
6 67 (10.42%) Change Management
7 58 (9.020%) Problem Management
8 53 (8.243%) Performance Management
9 49 (7.621%) Information Security
10 45 (6.998%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (6.376%) E-Commerce
12 37 (5.754%) Operations Management
13 36 (5.599%) Capacity Planning
14 30 (4.666%) Risk Management
15 27 (4.199%) ITSM
16 25 (3.888%) SIEM
16 25 (3.888%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (3.888%) Logistics
17 24 (3.733%) Penetration Testing
18 22 (3.421%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 30 (4.666%) SQL
2 24 (3.733%) Java
3 8 (1.244%) Perl
3 8 (1.244%) PHP
4 7 (1.089%) Bash shell
5 6 (0.933%) VBA
6 5 (0.778%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.622%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.467%) C
9 2 (0.311%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.156%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.156%) VB
10 1 (0.156%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 70 (10.89%) ITIL Certification
2 50 (7.776%) Degree
3 28 (4.355%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (4.355%) Security Cleared
4 26 (4.044%) SC Cleared
5 25 (3.888%) MCSE
6 18 (2.799%) MCSA
7 17 (2.644%) GCIA
7 17 (2.644%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 17 (2.644%) GIAC
8 16 (2.488%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (2.333%) MCITP
10 13 (2.022%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.400%) MCTS
12 8 (1.244%) CCNP
12 8 (1.244%) PCI QSA
13 5 (0.778%) CCNA
14 4 (0.622%) PMP
15 3 (0.467%) CCIE
15 3 (0.467%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.58%) SLA
2 38 (5.910%) QA
3 32 (4.977%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (4.666%) PCI DSS
5 17 (2.644%) JSP 440
6 14 (2.177%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.467%) GAAP
8 2 (0.311%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.156%) HMG Infosec
9 1 (0.156%) BS7799
System Software
1 31 (4.821%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (4.666%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.711%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.089%) Varnish
4 7 (1.089%) VirtualBox
4 7 (1.089%) NFS
5 3 (0.467%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.311%) NLBS
6 2 (0.311%) XenApp
7 1 (0.156%) vSphere
7 1 (0.156%) SpamAssassin
7 1 (0.156%) XenServer
7 1 (0.156%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.156%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 20 (3.110%) SCCM
2 17 (2.644%) SCOM
3 14 (2.177%) Puppet
4 12 (1.866%) Nagios
5 9 (1.400%) SCVMM
5 9 (1.400%) MOM
6 8 (1.244%) Backup Exec
7 7 (1.089%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.089%) YUM
7 7 (1.089%) Cobbler
7 7 (1.089%) Cacti
8 5 (0.778%) CiscoWorks
9 4 (0.622%) ServiceCenter
9 4 (0.622%) Cisco UCCE
10 1 (0.156%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.156%) Control-M
Vendors
1 75 (11.66%) VMware
2 69 (10.73%) Cisco
2 69 (10.73%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.110%) Juniper
3 20 (3.110%) Red Hat
4 18 (2.799%) Citrix
4 18 (2.799%) HP
5 14 (2.177%) CheckPoint
5 14 (2.177%) SAP
6 12 (1.866%) Salesforce.com
6 12 (1.866%) Oracle
7 9 (1.400%) IBM
7 9 (1.400%) Avaya
8 8 (1.244%) Sybase
9 7 (1.089%) FalconStor
9 7 (1.089%) Veeam
9 7 (1.089%) Intel
9 7 (1.089%) TIBCO
10 6 (0.933%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.933%) NetApp
City, London
A well-established asset management company based in central London is looking for an IT Operations Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. As IT Operations...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £85000 - £95000 per annum + 15% bonus + 15% non-conts pension
Posted: 18 June 2013
Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley
Be an expert in incident and service management organisations, and must have a strong understanding and demonstration of Service Management and ITIL knowledge. The successful candidate will also...
Posted: 19 June 2013
Redhill, South East
Operational Performance Team Manager - Permanent - SurreyMy client is a specialist niche Insurance company based in the heart of the city seeking an experienced Operations Manager to head a...
High Finance Group
Salary: GBP45000 to GBP60000 per annum + Benefits: Benefits etc
Posted: 30 May 2013
City, London
A well-established asset management company based in central London is looking for an IT Service and Operations Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. As...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £85000 - £95000 per annum + 15% bonus + 15% non-conts pension
Posted: 13 June 2013
Edenbridge, Kent (TN8), South East
Partnering with Microsoft, HP, Dell and AVG (to name just a few) this established tech business services clients ranging from 5 to 250 users creating highly tailored, bespoke,...
Guru Careers
Salary: £50k + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Real Staffing
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
Chase Zander
Salary: Contributory pension, health and life insurance
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £55000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Posted: 17 June 2013
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
networx
Salary: £39,763 per annum (increasing to £41,855 per annum after 12 months)
Posted: 17 June 2013
Berkshire
Roc Search
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £43000.00 per annum
Posted: 10 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Connectus
Salary: £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 June 2013
London
Lawrence Harvey Enterprise
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Experis IT
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + excellent benefits and bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013
St. Albans, South East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Interquest - ITQ Financial - London
Salary: £0 - £70,000 per year
Posted: 20 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Pertemps IT
Salary: From £40,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Pertemps IT
Salary: From £40,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Somerset
Pertemps IT
Salary: From £40,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Hudson
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Advanced Resource Managers
Salary: £40000.0000 - £45000.0000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Yorkshire
Maclean Moore Consulting
Salary: From £80,000 to £90,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013