The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Manager
Rank 340 372 366
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -6
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Manager 96 71 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.436% 0.299% 0.242%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.459% 0.314% 0.256%
Number of salaries quoted 69 63 44
Average salary £53,000 £55,750 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.93% +6.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,750 £47,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20893 22619 21470
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.89% 95.19% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17337 19571 18458
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,250 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Operations Manager
England

Operations Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Operations Manager Salary Trend

Operations Manager
Salary Histogram

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

South East 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 South East 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
Hampshire +24 29 £65,000 +20.93%
Buckinghamshire +10 18 £40,000 -1.23%
Berkshire -7 14 £52,500 -16.66%
Surrey +21 13 £57,500 +15.00%
East Sussex - 10 £47,500 -
Middlesex +7 6 £33,000 -54.48%
Sussex +3 2 - -
West Sussex -17 2 £66,250 +27.40%
Kent -17 2 £51,250 +2.50%
Oxfordshire -19 1 £52,500 +5.52%
Operations Manager
England

Operations Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 52 (30.59%) Finance
2 50 (29.41%) Service Delivery
3 49 (28.82%) ITIL
4 33 (19.41%) Information Security
5 32 (18.82%) Management Information System
6 30 (17.65%) Service Management
6 30 (17.65%) Firewall
7 28 (16.47%) Project Management
7 28 (16.47%) Windows
7 28 (16.47%) Incident Management
7 28 (16.47%) Security Cleared
8 27 (15.88%) SC Cleared
9 26 (15.29%) VMware
10 24 (14.12%) SIEM
11 22 (12.94%) Linux
12 21 (12.35%) JSP
12 21 (12.35%) CESG
13 20 (11.76%) SLA
14 19 (11.18%) Internet
14 19 (11.18%) GIAC
14 19 (11.18%) Change Management
14 19 (11.18%) JSP 440
14 19 (11.18%) GCIA
15 18 (10.59%) Degree
15 18 (10.59%) Windows Server 2008
15 18 (10.59%) Information Assurance
15 18 (10.59%) ITSM
16 17 (10.00%) Operations Management
17 16 (9.412%) Performance Management
17 16 (9.412%) Change Control

Operations Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 (12.35%) JSP
2 5 (2.941%) SAP Basis
3 2 (1.176%) EJB
3 2 (1.176%) JDBC
3 2 (1.176%) Web Services
3 2 (1.176%) XML
3 2 (1.176%) JMS
3 2 (1.176%) WSDL
4 1 (0.588%) Middleware
4 1 (0.588%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 10 (5.882%) MS Exchange
2 5 (2.941%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.765%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.176%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.588%) Windows Azure
5 1 (0.588%) IIS
5 1 (0.588%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.529%) MS Office
3 4 (2.353%) MS Project
3 4 (2.353%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.353%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.588%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.176%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.588%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.65%) Firewall
2 19 (11.18%) Internet
3 9 (5.294%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.706%) WAN
5 6 (3.529%) LAN
5 6 (3.529%) MPLS
6 5 (2.941%) SAN
6 5 (2.941%) NAS
7 4 (2.353%) Broadband
8 3 (1.765%) LDAP
8 3 (1.765%) VoIP
8 3 (1.765%) Network Security
9 2 (1.176%) Wireless
9 2 (1.176%) VPLS
9 2 (1.176%) BGP
10 1 (0.588%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.588%) SMTP
10 1 (0.588%) FTP
10 1 (0.588%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.882%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.765%) MySQL
2 3 (1.765%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.588%) Data Warehouse
General
1 52 (30.59%) Finance
2 16 (9.412%) Telecoms
3 7 (4.118%) Marketing
4 6 (3.529%) Banking
5 4 (2.353%) Billing
6 3 (1.765%) Retail
6 3 (1.765%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.588%) Advertising
7 1 (0.588%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.588%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.82%) Management Information System
2 21 (12.35%) CESG
3 15 (8.824%) Client/Server
4 7 (4.118%) Replication
4 7 (4.118%) EqualLogic
5 5 (2.941%) Firmware
6 4 (2.353%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.765%) Statistics
8 2 (1.176%) Computer Science
8 2 (1.176%) Clustering
8 2 (1.176%) PKI
9 1 (0.588%) iPad
9 1 (0.588%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.588%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.588%) FMCG
9 1 (0.588%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.47%) Windows
2 22 (12.94%) Linux
3 18 (10.59%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (6.471%) CentOS
4 11 (6.471%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.706%) Solaris
6 7 (4.118%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (2.941%) UNIX
8 2 (1.176%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.41%) Service Delivery
2 49 (28.82%) ITIL
3 33 (19.41%) Information Security
4 30 (17.65%) Service Management
5 28 (16.47%) Project Management
5 28 (16.47%) Incident Management
6 24 (14.12%) SIEM
7 19 (11.18%) Change Management
8 18 (10.59%) ITSM
8 18 (10.59%) Information Assurance
9 17 (10.00%) Operations Management
10 16 (9.412%) Performance Management
10 16 (9.412%) Change Control
11 15 (8.824%) Capacity Planning
11 15 (8.824%) Security Testing
12 13 (7.647%) Matrix Management
13 11 (6.471%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (5.294%) Business Continuity
15 9 (5.294%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.529%) SQL
2 5 (2.941%) VBA
3 2 (1.176%) Java
3 2 (1.176%) PHP
4 1 (0.588%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.18%) GIAC
3 19 (11.18%) GCIA
4 18 (10.59%) Degree
5 13 (7.647%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (5.294%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (3.529%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.941%) MCSE
10 4 (2.353%) MCITP
11 2 (1.176%) CISSP
11 2 (1.176%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (1.176%) PCI QSA
12 1 (0.588%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.76%) SLA
2 19 (11.18%) JSP 440
3 10 (5.882%) ISO 9001
4 9 (5.294%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (5.294%) QA
5 8 (4.706%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.588%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 11 (6.471%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (4.118%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.118%) FortiGate
2 3 (1.765%) Puppet
3 1 (0.588%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.588%) Control-M
3 1 (0.588%) SCCM
3 1 (0.588%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 26 (15.29%) VMware
2 16 (9.412%) Red Hat
3 13 (7.647%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.118%) Veeam
4 7 (4.118%) FalconStor
5 6 (3.529%) NetApp
6 5 (2.941%) EMC
6 5 (2.941%) SAP
6 5 (2.941%) IBM
7 3 (1.765%) Cisco
7 3 (1.765%) Intel
7 3 (1.765%) Juniper
8 2 (1.176%) Oracle
9 1 (0.588%) Adobe
9 1 (0.588%) HP
9 1 (0.588%) Dell
9 1 (0.588%) Citrix
9 1 (0.588%) Siemens
9 1 (0.588%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (0.588%) Remedy
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
The role will involve technically vetting new Managed Services personnel (technical) and providing technical operational direction for all support services, these will include but not limited to: * Implementing...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits and Bonus Scheme
Posted: 17 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
JOB DESCRIPTION. Job Title:Senior Managed Services Ops Manager Reports To:Managed Services Director OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY The primary responsibility will be the management of a 24 x 7...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + 100k OTE
Posted: 17 May 2013
Brighton, South East
It is assumed that you are a competent user of Microsoft Excel and some of the other typical reporting systems that are commonly used on the market today.*...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £36000 - £40000 per annum + Car or Allowance, Bonus, Health
Posted: 18 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
It is assumed that you are a competent user of Microsoft Excel and some of the other typical reporting systems that are commonly used on the market today. *...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £36000 - £40000 per annum + Car or Allowance, Bonus, Health
Posted: 17 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
My client is a leading Digital agency who specialise in the Digital marketing research. They are looking for an Operations manager to head up a team of 4...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Pension, Bonus, Gym Membership
Posted: 13 May 2013
Hampshire
An understanding of the following systems/skill sets: o System hardening concepts and techniques o IDS/IPS technologies o Network and access controls o LDAP, Unix, Active Directory,...
Colston Consulting
Salary: £60k per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
South East England
This role will be responsible for the HR services in the UK & Ireland and will have a team of 15 in total. The shared service that this role...
Annapurna HR
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013