The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Operations Analyst role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Operations Analyst
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank723747655
Rank change year-on-year
Up+24Down-92
Matching permanent IT job ads15211897
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.126 %0.096 %0.102 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.133 %0.102 %0.109 %
Number of salaries quoted1249474
Average salary£32,500£32,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56 %-1.53 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£25,400£26,750
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£50,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£30,500£31,000
% change year-on-year
+6.55 %-1.61 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11420611553789084
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK94.71 %94.23 %93.30 %
Number of salaries quoted979339761273729
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %+2.73 %

Operations Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Operations Analyst Demand Trend

Operations Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Operations Analyst Salary Trend

Operations Analyst
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Analyst over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Operations Analyst Salary Histogram

Operations Analyst
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+14139£33,413+2.80 %
LondonUp+659£35,000-17.64 %
YorkshireDown-123£28,500-12.30 %
City of LondonUp+2022£40,000-11.11 %
West MidlandsDown-2019£32,500+8.33 %
South EastDown-3916£35,000+9.37 %
West SussexNew entry-13£35,000-
South YorkshireNo change012£28,500-10.93 %
West YorkshireDown-311£33,000+1.53 %
East of EnglandUp+1010£28,500-25.49 %
HertfordshireUp+239£32,000+20.75 %
ScotlandUp+109£27,000-10.00 %
WatfordUp+108£40,000-
LeedsDown-107£24,000-26.15 %
SheffieldUp+16£28,500-24.00 %
South WestDown-26£35,000+7.69 %
North WestDown-106£27,500-15.38 %
BirminghamDown-116£32,500+3.17 %
WarwickshireDown-266£35,000+16.66 %
DoncasterNew entry-5--
CoventryNew entry-4£29,500-
Canary WharfNew entry-4£29,000-
EdinburghUp+83£34,500+15.00 %
Leamington SpaDown-143£35,000+21.73 %
AberdeenNew entry-3£23,000-
CardiffNew entry-3£25,500-
BristolNew entry-3£47,500-
HalifaxNew entry-3£33,000-
GlasgowNew entry-3£27,500-
LiverpoolNew entry-3£28,250-

Operations Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK that cited Operations Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title.

1143 (47.67 %)Windows
2104 (34.67 %)UNIX
3102 (34.00 %)Linux
488 (29.33 %)ITIL
488 (29.33 %)SQL
569 (23.00 %)Microsoft
665 (21.67 %)Finance
744 (14.67 %)Degree
840 (13.33 %)Oracle
939 (13.00 %)SLA
939 (13.00 %)Problem Management
1037 (12.33 %)Service Delivery
1135 (11.67 %)MS Excel
1233 (11.00 %)HP
1233 (11.00 %)HTTP
1233 (11.00 %)Windows Server 2003
1233 (11.00 %)Incident Management
1332 (10.67 %)Windows Server 2008
1332 (10.67 %)Citrix
1332 (10.67 %)MS Office
1430 (10.00 %)TCP/IP
1430 (10.00 %)Retail
1528 (9.333 %)Disaster Recovery
1528 (9.333 %)Firewall
1528 (9.333 %)DNS
1626 (8.667 %)FTP
1626 (8.667 %)IIS
1725 (8.333 %)VMware
1725 (8.333 %)Continuous Improvement
1824 (8.000 %)VBScript

Operations Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK that cited Operations Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
120 (6.667 %)Middleware
213 (4.333 %)WebSphere
310 (3.333 %).NET
48 (2.667 %).NET Framework
56 (2.000 %)XML
64 (1.333 %)J2EE
64 (1.333 %)JDBC
72 (0.667 %)FIX Protocol
72 (0.667 %)AppFabric
81 (0.333 %)HTML
81 (0.333 %)COM
81 (0.333 %)Ruby on Rails
81 (0.333 %)ISPF
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
126 (8.667 %)IIS
221 (7.000 %)WebLogic
221 (7.000 %)MS Exchange
318 (6.000 %)Tomcat
413 (4.333 %)Exchange Server 2007
512 (4.000 %)MQSeries
512 (4.000 %)WebSphere Application Server
512 (4.000 %)IBM HTTP Server
512 (4.000 %)Exchange Server 2003
610 (3.333 %)CICS
610 (3.333 %)Apache
79 (3.000 %)Lotus Notes
88 (2.667 %)Exchange Server 2010
94 (1.333 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
103 (1.000 %)BizTalk Server
103 (1.000 %)Oracle Coherence
103 (1.000 %)Exchange Server 2000
112 (0.667 %)SAS
112 (0.667 %)Lync
112 (0.667 %)nginx
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
135 (11.67 %)MS Excel
232 (10.67 %)MS Office
38 (2.667 %)MS PowerPoint
41 (0.333 %)Spreadsheet
41 (0.333 %)MS Visio
41 (0.333 %)SPSS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
113 (4.333 %)SAP MM
113 (4.333 %)SAP Retail
211 (3.667 %)SAP LE
211 (3.667 %)SAP WM
38 (2.667 %)Maximo
38 (2.667 %)assyst
44 (1.333 %)Oracle iProcurement
44 (1.333 %)Movex
52 (0.667 %)Summit
61 (0.333 %)Kondor+
61 (0.333 %)Oracle Financials
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
133 (11.00 %)HTTP
230 (10.00 %)TCP/IP
328 (9.333 %)DNS
328 (9.333 %)Firewall
426 (8.667 %)FTP
522 (7.333 %)SAN
615 (5.000 %)LAN
714 (4.667 %)Internet
812 (4.000 %)WAN
99 (3.000 %)Intrusion Detection
107 (2.333 %)DHCP
116 (2.000 %)DEFINITY
116 (2.000 %)NAS
124 (1.333 %)SWIFTNet
124 (1.333 %)Network Security
133 (1.000 %)BIG-IP
133 (1.000 %)SNMP
133 (1.000 %)X.25
142 (0.667 %)VoIP
142 (0.667 %)VLAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
120 (6.667 %)SQL Server
214 (4.667 %)MySQL
313 (4.333 %)DB2
48 (2.667 %)Adabas
57 (2.333 %)InterSystems Cache
66 (2.000 %)SQL Server 2008
75 (1.667 %)SQL Server 2005
84 (1.333 %)Ingres
84 (1.333 %)Oracle 8/8i
92 (0.667 %)Data Warehouse
92 (0.667 %)OLAP
92 (0.667 %)SQL Server Integration Services
92 (0.667 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
92 (0.667 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
92 (0.667 %)ETL
92 (0.667 %)OLTP
101 (0.333 %)SQL Server 2000
101 (0.333 %)Data Mining
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
17 (2.333 %)Subversion
22 (0.667 %)Introscope
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
165 (21.67 %)Finance
230 (10.00 %)Retail
312 (4.000 %)Manufacturing
411 (3.667 %)Banking
57 (2.333 %)Back Office
66 (2.000 %)Law
66 (2.000 %)Games
66 (2.000 %)Marketing
75 (1.667 %)Telecoms
84 (1.333 %)Legal
84 (1.333 %)Multimedia
93 (1.000 %)Local Government
102 (0.667 %)Investment Banking
102 (0.667 %)Front Office
111 (0.333 %)Military
111 (0.333 %)French Language
111 (0.333 %)German Language
111 (0.333 %)Spanish Language
111 (0.333 %)Advertising
111 (0.333 %)Aerospace
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
118 (6.000 %)Management Information System
215 (5.000 %)Mainframe
37 (2.333 %)Blackberry
46 (2.000 %)SWIFT
54 (1.333 %)Client/Server
54 (1.333 %)Replication
63 (1.000 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
63 (1.000 %)Mathematics
63 (1.000 %)SaaS
72 (0.667 %)Hedge funds
72 (0.667 %)Enterprise Storage
72 (0.667 %)Online Games
72 (0.667 %)IBM Mainframe
72 (0.667 %)Computer Science
72 (0.667 %)Economics
72 (0.667 %)VAX
72 (0.667 %)N-Tier
72 (0.667 %)Clustering
81 (0.333 %)Equities
81 (0.333 %)AS400
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1143 (47.67 %)Windows
2104 (34.67 %)UNIX
3102 (34.00 %)Linux
433 (11.00 %)Windows Server 2003
532 (10.67 %)Windows Server 2008
622 (7.333 %)Solaris
718 (6.000 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
813 (4.333 %)AIX
99 (3.000 %)zOS
108 (2.667 %)HPUX
117 (2.333 %)Windows XP
125 (1.667 %)Oracle Linux
132 (0.667 %)CentOS
132 (0.667 %)Windows 7
132 (0.667 %)VMS
141 (0.333 %)Windows 2000 Server
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
188 (29.33 %)ITIL
239 (13.00 %)Problem Management
337 (12.33 %)Service Delivery
433 (11.00 %)Incident Management
528 (9.333 %)Disaster Recovery
625 (8.333 %)Continuous Improvement
720 (6.667 %)SIEM
818 (6.000 %)E-Commerce
917 (5.667 %)Project Management
917 (5.667 %)Logistics
1016 (5.333 %)Change Control
1115 (5.000 %)Service Management
1115 (5.000 %)Security Management
1214 (4.667 %)Information Security
1313 (4.333 %)Change Management
1313 (4.333 %)Root Cause Analysis
1410 (3.333 %)Business Analysis
1410 (3.333 %)Configuration Management
159 (3.000 %)CRM
167 (2.333 %)Business Continuity
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
188 (29.33 %)SQL
224 (8.000 %)VBScript
224 (8.000 %)Shell Script
322 (7.333 %)Perl
417 (5.667 %)Java
512 (4.000 %)Bash shell
512 (4.000 %)Python
69 (3.000 %)JCL
78 (2.667 %)PL/SQL
87 (2.333 %)PowerShell
96 (2.000 %)T-SQL
104 (1.333 %)C
113 (1.000 %)C#
113 (1.000 %)C++
122 (0.667 %)PHP
122 (0.667 %)Ruby
131 (0.333 %)Assembly Language
131 (0.333 %)REXX
131 (0.333 %)VB
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
144 (14.67 %)Degree
222 (7.333 %)Microsoft Certification
321 (7.000 %)Security Cleared
415 (5.000 %)MCSE
514 (4.667 %)SC Cleared
612 (4.000 %)SAP Certification
710 (3.333 %)MCP
88 (2.667 %)CCNA
88 (2.667 %)Cisco Certification
94 (1.333 %)CISSP
94 (1.333 %)GCIA
94 (1.333 %)GCIH
94 (1.333 %)CEH
103 (1.000 %)MCSA
103 (1.000 %)ITIL Certification
112 (0.667 %)ACSA
112 (0.667 %)MCITP
121 (0.333 %)CFA
121 (0.333 %)MCTS
121 (0.333 %)Network+ Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
139 (13.00 %)SLA
214 (4.667 %)ISO/IEC 27001
312 (4.000 %)QA
43 (1.000 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
119 (6.333 %)Active Directory
217 (5.667 %)Citrix Presentation Server
314 (4.667 %)VMware Infrastructure
47 (2.333 %)XenApp
56 (2.000 %)XenDesktop
64 (1.333 %)vSphere
64 (1.333 %)VMware ESX
64 (1.333 %)Snort
72 (0.667 %)VMware ESXi
81 (0.333 %)Varnish
81 (0.333 %)DFS Replication
81 (0.333 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
81 (0.333 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
81 (0.333 %)Hyper-V
81 (0.333 %)Postfix
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
121 (7.000 %)Nagios
219 (6.333 %)HP SIM
315 (5.000 %)SCOM
412 (4.000 %)Control-M
510 (3.333 %)Tivoli
68 (2.667 %)Tivoli NetView
68 (2.667 %)BMC PATROL
77 (2.333 %)HP Data Protector
85 (1.667 %)NetBackup
94 (1.333 %)Legato
103 (1.000 %)OpenView
103 (1.000 %)Backup Exec
112 (0.667 %)CA Wily
121 (0.333 %)Puppet
121 (0.333 %)ZABBIX
121 (0.333 %)Zenoss
121 (0.333 %)WSUS
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
169 (23.00 %)Microsoft
240 (13.33 %)Oracle
333 (11.00 %)HP
432 (10.67 %)Citrix
525 (8.333 %)VMware
624 (8.000 %)Red Hat
721 (7.000 %)SolarWinds
820 (6.667 %)SAP
918 (6.000 %)IBM
1017 (5.667 %)ArcSight
1112 (4.000 %)Cisco
1112 (4.000 %)Intel
129 (3.000 %)Lotus
129 (3.000 %)Sophos
138 (2.667 %)BMC
147 (2.333 %)Veritas
147 (2.333 %)Tripwire
156 (2.000 %)Avaya
164 (1.333 %)NetApp
164 (1.333 %)McAfee