The first table below looks at the demand for Operations Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Management over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Management
Rank 87 76 91
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +15
Permanent jobs citing Operations Management 3 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.257% 0.141% 0.290%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.359% 0.194% 0.399%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 3
Average salary £37,500 £50,000 £50,600
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% -1.18%
UK excluding London average salary £45,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-9.00% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
835 516 752
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 71.55% 72.68% 72.73%
Number of salaries quoted 703 457 680
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,600 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Operations Management
South East

Operations Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Operations Management Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Management
Salary Trend

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

Kent Operations Management Salary Trend

Operations Management
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Management within the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 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
West Malling - 2 £37,500 -
Operations Management
South East

Operations Management
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Operations Management 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 Management.

1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) HP
1 7 (87.50%) IBM
1 7 (87.50%) Migration
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (62.50%) MS Project Server
2 5 (62.50%) Network Management
2 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) MCSE
3 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
4 2 (25.00%) SLA
4 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (12.50%) Logistics
5 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Management
5 1 (12.50%) Capita
5 1 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (12.50%) Active Directory

Operations Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Operations Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Server Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Build Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
1 7 (87.50%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) Logistics
3 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Management
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) MCSE
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) IBM
1 7 (87.50%) HP
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Capita