The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Operations Manager role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Operations Manager 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Operations Manager
Rank 810 825 827
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Operations Manager 58 60 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.053% 0.050% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.052% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 46 54 46
Average salary £57,500 £50,000 £48,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.00% +3.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £35,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year
- -6.59%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
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 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

IT Operations Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

IT Operations Manager Jobs Demand Trend

IT Operations Manager
Salary Trend

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

IT Operations Manager Salary Trend

IT Operations Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IT Operations Manager over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

IT Operations Manager Salary Histogram

IT Operations Manager
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Operations Manager within the UK 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +24 57 £57,500 +15.00% 8
London +52 39 £62,500 - 7
South East +10 7 £33,000 -42.60%
North West +3 6 £42,500 +21.42%
City of London +3 6 £61,250 -18.33% 2
Cheshire - 4 £42,500 -
Middlesex - 4 £33,000 -
Bromley - 4 £55,500 -
Northwich - 4 £42,500 -
Docklands, London +6 3 £85,000 +6.25%
Wiltshire +12 2 £43,750 -43.54%
South West +3 2 £43,750 -43.54%
East of England 0 2 £48,750 +14.70% 1
Manchester -17 2 £47,500 +35.71%
Cambridgeshire +12 1 £42,500 -
East Midlands +8 1 £52,500 +16.02%
Hampshire +7 1 £45,000 -28.00%
Nottinghamshire -4 1 £52,500 +16.02%
Nottingham -7 1 £52,500 +16.02%
Oxfordshire -19 1 £52,500 +6.06%
Oxford -20 1 £52,500 +6.06%
Peterborough - 1 £42,500 -
Southampton - 1 £45,000 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £55,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £65,000 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £65,000 -
Croydon - 1 £67,500 -
Inverness - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Highlands - 1 - -

IT Operations Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited IT 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 IT Operations Manager in their job title.

1 54 (39.71%) ITIL
2 45 (33.09%) Windows
3 40 (29.41%) Finance
4 33 (24.26%) Service Delivery
5 30 (22.06%) VMware
6 27 (19.85%) Microsoft
7 26 (19.12%) Firewall
8 25 (18.38%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (16.18%) Linux
9 22 (16.18%) VMware Infrastructure
10 20 (14.71%) Penetration Testing
11 19 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (13.97%) Active Directory
11 19 (13.97%) PCI DSS
12 18 (13.24%) SAN
12 18 (13.24%) MS Excel
13 17 (12.50%) Project Management
13 17 (12.50%) Performance Management
14 15 (11.03%) Windows Server 2008
14 15 (11.03%) Telecoms
15 13 (9.559%) SharePoint
15 13 (9.559%) SQL Server
15 13 (9.559%) DNS
16 12 (8.824%) Cisco
16 12 (8.824%) Banking
17 11 (8.088%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 11 (8.088%) Retail
17 11 (8.088%) Information Security
17 11 (8.088%) E-business
17 11 (8.088%) Microsoft Certification

IT Operations Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited IT 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 IT Operations Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (5.882%) Middleware
2 5 (3.676%) .NET
3 3 (2.206%) SAP Basis
4 2 (1.471%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.471%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.735%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.735%) COM
5 1 (0.735%) JSP
5 1 (0.735%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 13 (9.559%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.147%) IIS
2 7 (5.147%) MS Exchange
3 5 (3.676%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (3.676%) Windows Azure
3 5 (3.676%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (0.735%) Lync
4 1 (0.735%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (13.24%) MS Excel
2 9 (6.618%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.676%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (3.676%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.735%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.735%) SAP Retail
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.12%) Firewall
2 18 (13.24%) SAN
3 13 (9.559%) DNS
4 10 (7.353%) VoIP
4 10 (7.353%) DHCP
5 9 (6.618%) TCP/IP
6 6 (4.412%) VPN
7 4 (2.941%) WAN
8 2 (1.471%) MPLS
8 2 (1.471%) LAN
8 2 (1.471%) IP Telephony
8 2 (1.471%) NAS
9 1 (0.735%) IPsec
9 1 (0.735%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.735%) SSL
9 1 (0.735%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.559%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.471%) DB2
2 2 (1.471%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.735%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.735%) Subversion
General
1 40 (29.41%) Finance
2 15 (11.03%) Telecoms
3 12 (8.824%) Banking
4 11 (8.088%) Retail
5 9 (6.618%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.412%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.206%) Back Office
8 2 (1.471%) Advertising
9 1 (0.735%) Games
9 1 (0.735%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.353%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.618%) iSeries
2 9 (6.618%) AS400
3 4 (2.941%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.206%) Equities
5 2 (1.471%) Firmware
5 2 (1.471%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.735%) FMCG
6 1 (0.735%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.735%) iPad
6 1 (0.735%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.735%) Blog
6 1 (0.735%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.735%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.735%) Online Games
6 1 (0.735%) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems
1 45 (33.09%) Windows
2 22 (16.18%) Linux
3 15 (11.03%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (4.412%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (2.941%) UNIX
5 4 (2.941%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.471%) Solaris
6 2 (1.471%) Windows XP
6 2 (1.471%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.735%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.735%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.71%) ITIL
2 33 (24.26%) Service Delivery
3 20 (14.71%) Penetration Testing
4 19 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (12.50%) Project Management
5 17 (12.50%) Performance Management
6 11 (8.088%) Information Security
6 11 (8.088%) E-business
7 10 (7.353%) Matrix Management
8 9 (6.618%) Migration
9 7 (5.147%) Incident Management
9 7 (5.147%) Capacity Planning
9 7 (5.147%) Change Control
9 7 (5.147%) E-Commerce
10 6 (4.412%) PRINCE2
10 6 (4.412%) Change Management
10 6 (4.412%) Identity Management
11 5 (3.676%) Operations Management
11 5 (3.676%) Service Management
11 5 (3.676%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.941%) SQL
1 4 (2.941%) VBA
2 3 (2.206%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.735%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (18.38%) ITIL Certification
2 11 (8.088%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (7.353%) MCSE
3 10 (7.353%) MCITP
4 9 (6.618%) MCSA
5 8 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (5.882%) Degree
5 8 (5.882%) PCI QSA
6 2 (1.471%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.735%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.735%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.735%) GIAC
7 1 (0.735%) GCIA
7 1 (0.735%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.735%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.735%) CCNA
7 1 (0.735%) PMP
7 1 (0.735%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.97%) PCI DSS
2 11 (8.088%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.941%) SLA
4 1 (0.735%) QA
4 1 (0.735%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.735%) BS7799
4 1 (0.735%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.735%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 22 (16.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (13.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.206%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.735%) SpamAssassin
Systems Management
1 10 (7.353%) Backup Exec
2 9 (6.618%) SCCM
3 5 (3.676%) SCOM
3 5 (3.676%) Nagios
3 5 (3.676%) MOM
4 2 (1.471%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 30 (22.06%) VMware
2 27 (19.85%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.824%) Cisco
4 10 (7.353%) Citrix
5 7 (5.147%) IBM
6 6 (4.412%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.676%) Avaya
7 5 (3.676%) HP
7 5 (3.676%) SAP
8 4 (2.941%) SonicWALL
8 4 (2.941%) NETGEAR
8 4 (2.941%) Rackspace
9 3 (2.206%) NetApp
10 2 (1.471%) Symantec
10 2 (1.471%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.471%) Dell
10 2 (1.471%) EMC
City, London
A well-established asset management company based in central London is looking for an IT Operations Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. As IT Operations...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £85000 - £95000 per annum + 15% bonus + 15% non-conts pension
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
A well-established asset management company based in central London is looking for an IT Service and Operations Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. As...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £85000 - £95000 per annum + 15% bonus + 15% non-conts pension
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
This company have a Windows focussed IT set up including Citrix Thin Client, Windows Server 2003 / 2008, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics... You will have broad experience ranging from...
Real Staffing
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
IT Operations Manager (Online) - B2C High Volume Web / Mobile / VOD / Vendor Mgt Outstanding opportunity to join this famous media organisation and household name, in a permanent capacity. This...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £55000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Investment Management / Asset Management / Fund Management experience would be preferable, but we will consider exceptional candidates from the wider financial services or the investment banking sector... Key words;...
Chase Zander
Salary: Contributory pension, health and life insurance
Posted: 14 June 2013
St. Albans, South East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Lawrence Harvey Enterprise
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013