The first table below looks at the demand for the Head of Operations role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Head of Operations in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Head of Operations
Rank 825 836 829
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Operations 35 51 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.042% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.044% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 29 41 39
Average salary £74,000 £80,000 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £52,120
10% offered a salary of more than £112,300 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £63,750 £67,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
-4.85% +16.52%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Head of Operations
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Head of Operations Jobs Demand Trend

Head of Operations
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Head of Operations within the UK.

Head of Operations Salary Trend

Head of Operations
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Head of Operations over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Head of Operations Salary Histogram

Head of Operations
Top 22 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Operations within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England -7 34 £74,000 -7.50%
Yorkshire +6 12 £50,000 -37.50%
London +15 11 £110,000 +22.22%
West Yorkshire -3 5 £50,000 -37.50%
Leeds -8 5 £50,000 -37.50%
South East -10 4 £74,000 +34.54%
East Midlands +2 3 £55,000 -21.42%
City of London +2 3 £133,000 +56.47%
West Sussex - 3 £74,000 -
Nottinghamshire - 3 £55,000 -
North Yorkshire - 3 - -
Nottingham - 3 £55,000 -
South West 0 2 £63,750 -17.74%
North West -9 2 £82,500 +40.42%
Bristol - 2 £63,750 -
Canary Wharf - 1 £110,000 -
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Basingstoke - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Derbyshire - 1 £55,000 -
Derby - 1 £55,000 -
Crawley - 1 - -

Head of Operations
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Head of Operations 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 Head of Operations in their job title.

1 25 (29.41%) Finance
2 22 (25.88%) ITIL
2 22 (25.88%) Service Delivery
3 15 (17.65%) Business Continuity
4 13 (15.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (14.12%) Telecoms
6 10 (11.76%) Service Management
6 10 (11.76%) Degree
6 10 (11.76%) SLA
7 9 (10.59%) Banking
8 8 (9.412%) E-Commerce
9 7 (8.235%) PRINCE2
9 7 (8.235%) Legal
9 7 (8.235%) Problem Management
9 7 (8.235%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (7.059%) Incident Management
10 6 (7.059%) Marketing
10 6 (7.059%) Firewall
10 6 (7.059%) Java
10 6 (7.059%) Windows
10 6 (7.059%) Microsoft
10 6 (7.059%) Internet
10 6 (7.059%) Project Management
11 5 (5.882%) Configuration Management
11 5 (5.882%) Middleware
11 5 (5.882%) Change Management
11 5 (5.882%) WebSphere MQ
11 5 (5.882%) Shell Script
11 5 (5.882%) TIBCO
11 5 (5.882%) ITIL Certification

Head of Operations
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Head of Operations 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 Head of Operations in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (5.882%) Middleware
1 5 (5.882%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.706%) LAMP
2 4 (4.706%) XML
3 1 (1.176%) .NET
3 1 (1.176%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.882%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (4.706%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (4.706%) MS Exchange
3 2 (2.353%) Apache
3 2 (2.353%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.176%) IIS
4 1 (1.176%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 2 (2.353%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.706%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.059%) Firewall
1 6 (7.059%) Internet
2 4 (4.706%) DNS
2 4 (4.706%) VoIP
3 3 (3.529%) WAN
4 2 (2.353%) LAN
5 1 (1.176%) MPLS
5 1 (1.176%) HTTP
5 1 (1.176%) VPN
5 1 (1.176%) ATM
5 1 (1.176%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.706%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.176%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.176%) MSI
1 1 (1.176%) Log4j
General
1 25 (29.41%) Finance
2 12 (14.12%) Telecoms
3 9 (10.59%) Banking
4 7 (8.235%) Legal
5 6 (7.059%) Marketing
6 5 (5.882%) Retail
7 3 (3.529%) Games
8 2 (2.353%) French Language
8 2 (2.353%) Italian Language
8 2 (2.353%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (2.353%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.353%) Military
9 1 (1.176%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.176%) Front Office
9 1 (1.176%) Back Office
9 1 (1.176%) Law
9 1 (1.176%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.706%) Statistics
1 4 (4.706%) Clustering
2 3 (3.529%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.353%) FMCG
3 2 (2.353%) Online Games
3 2 (2.353%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.353%) Open Source
4 1 (1.176%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.176%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.176%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.176%) EPoS
4 1 (1.176%) NHS
4 1 (1.176%) CESG
4 1 (1.176%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.059%) Windows
2 5 (5.882%) Linux
3 3 (3.529%) UNIX
4 1 (1.176%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.88%) ITIL
1 22 (25.88%) Service Delivery
2 15 (17.65%) Business Continuity
3 13 (15.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (11.76%) Service Management
5 8 (9.412%) E-Commerce
6 7 (8.235%) PRINCE2
6 7 (8.235%) Problem Management
6 7 (8.235%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (7.059%) Incident Management
7 6 (7.059%) Project Management
8 5 (5.882%) Configuration Management
8 5 (5.882%) Change Management
8 5 (5.882%) Supplier Management
9 4 (4.706%) Load Balancing
9 4 (4.706%) Information Management
9 4 (4.706%) Risk Management
9 4 (4.706%) Service Desk Management
10 3 (3.529%) Capacity Management
10 3 (3.529%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.059%) Java
2 5 (5.882%) Shell Script
3 3 (3.529%) C
4 1 (1.176%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) Degree
2 5 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (4.706%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.176%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.176%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.176%) CCIE
4 1 (1.176%) CCNP
4 1 (1.176%) MCP
4 1 (1.176%) HND
4 1 (1.176%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (2.353%) COBIT
3 1 (1.176%) GAAP
3 1 (1.176%) QA
3 1 (1.176%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.882%) Active Directory
1 5 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.529%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 6 (7.059%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.882%) TIBCO
2 5 (5.882%) VMware
3 4 (4.706%) Cisco
3 4 (4.706%) IBM
3 4 (4.706%) Citrix
4 2 (2.353%) SAP
4 2 (2.353%) Oracle
4 2 (2.353%) HP
4 2 (2.353%) EMC
5 1 (1.176%) Juniper
5 1 (1.176%) Apple
5 1 (1.176%) Sun
5 1 (1.176%) Blue Coat
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will have overall responsibility for network operational services, service delivery and future network developments. The IP Network, Transport, Operations and Security Management teams will all report into...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: Awesome Prospects
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
In addition, the team is also responsible for major Incident management, Problem management and the management of customer escalations... Be Ideally ITIL qualified (Incident Management, Problem Management, Service...
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + ben
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bath, Avon
Head of IT Operations - Digital/Media/Publishing - Bristol/Bath. Keywords: Digital, Media, Publishing, IT Operations, Head, Manager, LAN/WAN, Internet, Networks, Wen hosting Commutable from: Bristol, Bath, Chippenham,...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + Good Benefits Package
Posted: 15 May 2013
UK
My client is looking to appoint a Global Head of Change to the Senior Management Team to oversee the strategy, direction and consolidation of their change portfolios. The...
Oliver James Associates
Salary: £100000 - £200000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicestershire County Council... Leicestershire County Council is at the heart of delivering technological innovation and cost effective ICT solutions.We are now looking to appoint a Head of...
Leicester County Council
Salary: £62,907 per annum
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 + Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013