The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank 146 159 154
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -5
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.183% 0.029% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.193% 0.031% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £29,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +9.37%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3114 3217 3353
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 95.20% 94.23% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1951 2316 2528
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Operations Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Operations Engineer Salary Trend

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Engineer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Scotland Operations Engineer Salary Histogram

Operations Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 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
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Job
Vacancies
Edinburgh +6 6 £29,500 -
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Operations Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (66.67%) Ruby
1 6 (66.67%) Amazon AWS
2 5 (55.56%) MySQL
3 4 (44.44%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) Nagios
3 4 (44.44%) Django
3 4 (44.44%) Network Security
3 4 (44.44%) Munin
3 4 (44.44%) Replication
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Hadoop
3 4 (44.44%) Puppet
3 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
3 4 (44.44%) Redis
4 3 (33.33%) Games
4 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (33.33%) PHP
4 3 (33.33%) Internet
4 3 (33.33%) Web Services
5 2 (22.22%) UNIX
5 2 (22.22%) Windows
5 2 (22.22%) Dell
5 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
5 2 (22.22%) Subversion
5 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Operations Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) Django
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (55.56%) MySQL
3 4 (44.44%) Hadoop
3 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
3 4 (44.44%) Redis
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
1 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
1 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Replication
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Ruby
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Nagios
1 4 (44.44%) Munin
1 4 (44.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Dell
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