The first table below looks at the demand for Operations Research skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Research 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Research (or Operational Research)
Rank 722 803 742
Rank change year-on-year
+81 -61
Permanent jobs citing Operations Research 108 60 117
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.107% 0.053% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.140% 0.071% 0.136%
Number of salaries quoted 67 44 96
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -28.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,685 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £50,000 £63,750
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £34,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+39.70% -15.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
77284 84844 85896
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 76.63% 74.69% 73.48%
Number of salaries quoted 64164 72674 72257
Average salary £46,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.15% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Operations Research
UK

Operations Research
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Operations Research across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Operations Research Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Research
Salary Trend

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

England Operations Research Salary Trend

Operations Research
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Research across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Operations Research Salary Histogram

Operations Research
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Research within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +82 78 £37,500 -14.77%
South East +14 17 £47,500 -
North West - 7 £69,000 -
West Midlands -16 3 £30,000 -40.00%
Yorkshire -18 3 £28,500 -40.00%
Operations Research
UK

Operations Research
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Operations Research also 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 that cited Operations Research.

1 127 (84.11%) Mathematics
2 111 (73.51%) Degree
3 109 (72.19%) Statistics
4 96 (63.58%) Analytics
5 80 (52.98%) Finance
6 66 (43.71%) SAS
7 62 (41.06%) SQL
8 56 (37.09%) Economics
9 41 (27.15%) Banking
10 38 (25.17%) Retail
10 38 (25.17%) Marketing
11 34 (22.52%) Customer Insight
11 34 (22.52%) Data Analysis
12 29 (19.21%) Business Analytics
13 28 (18.54%) Computer Science
14 26 (17.22%) Credit Risk
15 25 (16.56%) MS Excel
15 25 (16.56%) Data Modelling
16 24 (15.89%) SPSS
17 20 (13.25%) Data Mining
18 18 (11.92%) Business Intelligence
18 18 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
19 16 (10.60%) Manufacturing
20 15 (9.934%) Agile Software Development
20 15 (9.934%) Data Warehouse
21 13 (8.609%) Financial Analysis
21 13 (8.609%) Statistical Modelling
21 13 (8.609%) Marketing Strategy
21 13 (8.609%) CHAID
21 13 (8.609%) Oracle

Operations Research
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Operations Research also 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 that cited Operations Research. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (3.974%) .NET
2 5 (3.311%) JDBC
3 4 (2.649%) STL
3 4 (2.649%) Web Services
3 4 (2.649%) XML
3 4 (2.649%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.649%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (1.987%) J2EE
5 2 (1.325%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.325%) OpenGL
5 2 (1.325%) OpenSceneGraph
5 2 (1.325%) HTML5
5 2 (1.325%) soapUI
5 2 (1.325%) jQuery
5 2 (1.325%) Qt
6 1 (0.662%) HTML
6 1 (0.662%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.662%) Spring
6 1 (0.662%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 66 (43.71%) SAS
2 4 (2.649%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.325%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.325%) Apache
4 1 (0.662%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (16.56%) MS Excel
2 24 (15.89%) SPSS
3 13 (8.609%) MS Office
4 11 (7.285%) MS Visio
5 10 (6.623%) MS Project
6 2 (1.325%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.285%) Internet
2 8 (5.298%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.25%) Data Mining
2 15 (9.934%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.298%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.636%) DB2
5 6 (3.974%) Base SAS
6 5 (3.311%) Big Data
6 5 (3.311%) GIS
6 5 (3.311%) Data Mart
7 4 (2.649%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.649%) MS Access
8 2 (1.325%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.325%) KDB
9 1 (0.662%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.662%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (1.325%) ClearCase
1 2 (1.325%) Subversion
1 2 (1.325%) Selenium
1 2 (1.325%) Git (software)
1 2 (1.325%) Mercurial
2 1 (0.662%) Maven
2 1 (0.662%) Ant
2 1 (0.662%) JUnit
General
1 80 (52.98%) Finance
2 41 (27.15%) Banking
3 38 (25.17%) Retail
3 38 (25.17%) Marketing
4 16 (10.60%) Manufacturing
5 13 (8.609%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.960%) Retail Banking
7 4 (2.649%) Games
8 3 (1.987%) Advertising
8 3 (1.987%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.325%) Military
9 2 (1.325%) Legal
9 2 (1.325%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.662%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 96 (63.58%) Analyst
2 24 (15.89%) Senior Analyst
3 18 (11.92%) Consultant
3 18 (11.92%) Business Analyst
4 16 (10.60%) Architect
5 15 (9.934%) SAS Analyst
6 14 (9.272%) Insight Analyst
7 13 (8.609%) Risk Analyst
8 12 (7.947%) Business Consultant
9 11 (7.285%) Business Architect
10 10 (6.623%) Credit Analyst
11 9 (5.960%) Data Analyst
11 9 (5.960%) Credit Risk Analyst
12 8 (5.298%) Strategy Analyst
12 8 (5.298%) Senior Insight Analyst
13 6 (3.974%) Senior Manager
14 5 (3.311%) Data Architect
14 5 (3.311%) Senior Risk Analyst
14 5 (3.311%) Senior SAS Analyst
14 5 (3.311%) Marketing Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 127 (84.11%) Mathematics
2 109 (72.19%) Statistics
3 56 (37.09%) Economics
4 28 (18.54%) Computer Science
5 26 (17.22%) Credit Risk
6 12 (7.947%) Physics
7 5 (3.311%) Equities
8 4 (2.649%) Social Network
8 4 (2.649%) FMCG
9 3 (1.987%) Data Extraction
10 2 (1.325%) Visualisation
10 2 (1.325%) GPGPU
10 2 (1.325%) Open Source
10 2 (1.325%) Digital Media
10 2 (1.325%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.325%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.325%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (1.325%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.662%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.662%) Neural Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.974%) UNIX
1 6 (3.974%) Linux
2 4 (2.649%) Windows
2 4 (2.649%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (63.58%) Analytics
2 34 (22.52%) Customer Insight
2 34 (22.52%) Data Analysis
3 29 (19.21%) Business Analytics
4 25 (16.56%) Data Modelling
5 18 (11.92%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (9.934%) Agile Software Development
7 13 (8.609%) CHAID
7 13 (8.609%) Marketing Strategy
7 13 (8.609%) Statistical Modelling
7 13 (8.609%) Financial Analysis
8 12 (7.947%) Financial Modelling
8 12 (7.947%) Data Management
9 11 (7.285%) Business Analysis
9 11 (7.285%) Direct Marketing
9 11 (7.285%) Customer Intelligence
10 10 (6.623%) UML
10 10 (6.623%) Revenue Management
10 10 (6.623%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (41.06%) SQL
2 12 (7.947%) Java
2 12 (7.947%) VBA
3 9 (5.960%) C++
4 7 (4.636%) Python
5 6 (3.974%) C#
6 4 (2.649%) VB
6 4 (2.649%) Perl
7 3 (1.987%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.325%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.325%) Scala
8 2 (1.325%) Clojure
8 2 (1.325%) R
9 1 (0.662%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 111 (73.51%) Degree
2 7 (4.636%) Postgraduate
3 4 (2.649%) PhD
4 1 (0.662%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.987%) QA
2 1 (0.662%) Solvency II
2 1 (0.662%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (1.325%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (8.609%) Oracle
2 12 (7.947%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.974%) Mapinfo
4 5 (3.311%) JBoss
5 4 (2.649%) Sybase
6 3 (1.987%) KXEN
7 2 (1.325%) DataSynapse
7 2 (1.325%) Facebook
7 2 (1.325%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.325%) Perforce
7 2 (1.325%) Norkom
7 2 (1.325%) Business Objects
8 1 (0.662%) SAP
8 1 (0.662%) Cognos
8 1 (0.662%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.662%) Tableau
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