North West Operations Manager Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Operations Manager role in IT jobs within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Operations Manager
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Chesham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hull Inverness Iver Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Newbury North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Woodstock York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	216	255
Rank change on same period last year	+39
Matching permanent IT job ads	35	25
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.369 %	0.201 %
Salaries quoted	34	23
Average minimum salary	£38,900	£38,639
Average salary	£41,539	£40,391
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Average maximum salary	£44,177	£42,143
UK excluding London average salary	£51,555	£48,257
% change on same period last year	+6.83 %
Job Titles North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	9475	12422
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.458 %	5.420 %
Salaries quoted	8238	10388
Average minimum salary	£32,525	£34,555
Average salary	£36,368	£38,335
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
Average maximum salary	£40,210	£42,115
UK excluding London average salary	£38,200	£39,254
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Operations Manager England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Operations Manager across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Manager across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008.

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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 North West region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+38	20	£33,763	-21.15 %
Cheshire	-6	11	£57,510	+71.67 %
Merseyside	-	2	£35,500	-
Lancashire	-	1	£40,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 24 (27.27 %) Internet 2 18 (20.45 %) ITIL 3 13 (14.77 %) Pay per click 3 13 (14.77 %) DNS 3 13 (14.77 %) SEO 4 12 (13.64 %) UNIX 5 11 (12.50 %) CSS 5 11 (12.50 %) XML 5 11 (12.50 %) JavaScript 5 11 (12.50 %) Oracle 5 11 (12.50 %) ColdFusion 6 10 (11.36 %) Cisco 6 10 (11.36 %) HTML 6 10 (11.36 %) Finance 6 10 (11.36 %) Change Management

6 10 (11.36 %) FMCG 7 9 (10.23 %) Linux 8 8 (9.091 %) RSS 8 8 (9.091 %) IBM 8 8 (9.091 %) Microsoft 8 8 (9.091 %) VB 8 8 (9.091 %) Marketing 8 8 (9.091 %) Technical Architecture 9 7 (7.955 %) Windows 9 7 (7.955 %) MS Office 9 7 (7.955 %) SAP 9 7 (7.955 %) Service Management 10 6 (6.818 %) X.509 10 6 (6.818 %) Smartcard 10 6 (6.818 %) Health

Operations Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 11 (12.50 %) CSS 1 11 (12.50 %) XML 2 10 (11.36 %) HTML 3 8 (9.091 %) RSS 4 6 (6.818 %) SAP Basis 5 5 (5.682 %) XHTML 5 5 (5.682 %) ASP 6 3 (3.409 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 11 (12.50 %) ColdFusion 2 5 (5.682 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 5 (5.682 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (5.682 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 7 (7.955 %) MS Office 2 2 (2.273 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.136 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 5 (5.682 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 24 (27.27 %) Internet 2 13 (14.77 %) DNS 3 6 (6.818 %) X.509 4 5 (5.682 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (5.682 %) X.25 5 4 (4.545 %) Firewall 6 3 (3.409 %) SAN 7 1 (1.136 %) BGP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (5.682 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.136 %) GIS
General 1 10 (11.36 %) Finance 1 10 (11.36 %) FMCG 2 8 (9.091 %) Marketing 3 6 (6.818 %) Health 3 6 (6.818 %) Banking 4 3 (3.409 %) Financial Institution 4 3 (3.409 %) Telecoms 4 3 (3.409 %) Legal 5 2 (2.273 %) Auditing 6 1 (1.136 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.136 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.818 %) Smartcard 1 6 (6.818 %) Cryptography 2 1 (1.136 %) DTV
Operating Systems 1 12 (13.64 %) UNIX 2 9 (10.23 %) Linux 3 7 (7.955 %) Windows 4 5 (5.682 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (20.45 %) ITIL 2 13 (14.77 %) SEO 2 13 (14.77 %) Pay per click 3 10 (11.36 %) Change Management 4 8 (9.091 %) Technical Architecture 5 7 (7.955 %) Service Management 6 6 (6.818 %) ERP 7 5 (5.682 %) B2B 7 5 (5.682 %) Service Delivery 7 5 (5.682 %) E-business 7 5 (5.682 %) Web Analytics 8 4 (4.545 %) Load Balancing 8 4 (4.545 %) Problem Management 8 4 (4.545 %) Incident Management 9 3 (3.409 %) Information Security 9 3 (3.409 %) PRINCE2 10 2 (2.273 %) BCP 10 2 (2.273 %) Document Management 10 2 (2.273 %) Internet Marketing 10 2 (2.273 %) Fault Management
Programming Languages 1 11 (12.50 %) JavaScript 2 8 (9.091 %) VB 3 2 (2.273 %) JCL 4 1 (1.136 %) SQL 4 1 (1.136 %) C	Qualifications 1 6 (6.818 %) CISSP 2 1 (1.136 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.136 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (5.682 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (3.409 %) Tivoli 2 2 (2.273 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 11 (12.50 %) Oracle 2 10 (11.36 %) Cisco 3 8 (9.091 %) IBM 3 8 (9.091 %) Microsoft 4 7 (7.955 %) SAP 5 3 (3.409 %) Citrix 5 3 (3.409 %) Novell