Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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 19 March 2010 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
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank577557636
Rank change year-on-year
Down-20Up+79
Matching permanent IT job ads99113364
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.115 %0.133 %0.178 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.124 %0.142 %0.189 %
Salaries quoted7898291
Average salary£32,500£32,500£30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.550 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,350£20,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£50,000£50,500
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£26,500£27,000
% change year-on-year
+13.20 %-1.850 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
8006179487192657
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.18 %93.72 %94.40 %
Salaries quoted6618965376157185
Average salary£41,500£38,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.790 %-3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-

Operations Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 19 March 2010 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 19 March 2010. 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
EnglandDown-1994£32,500-
LondonDown-6054£32,500-11.56 %
City of LondonDown-6225£32,500-7.80 %
South EastUp+1313£29,250-2.50 %
NottinghamNew entry-8--
NottinghamshireNew entry-8--
East MidlandsNew entry-8--
West MidlandsUp+335£21,250+25.00 %
SurreyUp+165£23,000-29.23 %
WiltshireUp+14£33,000+69.23 %
South WestUp+14£33,000+73.68 %
East of EnglandDown-64£32,250+24.03 %
South WalesNew entry-4£30,000-
WalesNew entry-4£30,000-
North WestUp+133£35,000+45.83 %
YorkshireUp+33£26,500+16.48 %
ManchesterNew entry-3£35,000-
West SussexNew entry-3£45,000-
PeterboroughUp+162£33,500+31.37 %
West YorkshireUp+72£27,000+31.70 %
HertfordshireUp+62£29,500+11.32 %
CambridgeshireDown-52£33,500+27.61 %
WarwickNew entry-2£20,500-
UxbridgeNew entry-2--
WarwickshireNew entry-2£20,500-
KentNew entry-2£23,000-
CardiffNew entry-2£32,000-
BrentfordNew entry-2--
BirminghamNew entry-2£25,500-
GatwickNew entry-2£45,000-

Operations Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

180 (40.00 %)Finance
264 (32.00 %)Windows
348 (24.00 %)UNIX
438 (19.00 %)Microsoft
535 (17.50 %)Linux
631 (15.50 %)SQL
723 (11.50 %)ITIL
822 (11.00 %)Windows Server 2003
822 (11.00 %)Banking
920 (10.00 %)Workflow
920 (10.00 %)MS Excel
1016 (8.000 %)SQL Server
1016 (8.000 %)Degree
1115 (7.500 %)Active Directory
1214 (7.000 %)Citrix
1214 (7.000 %)Oracle
1313 (6.500 %)AS400
1412 (6.000 %)TCP/IP
1511 (5.500 %)SLA
1511 (5.500 %)MS Exchange
1511 (5.500 %)SAN
1511 (5.500 %)Problem Management
1610 (5.000 %)Health
1610 (5.000 %)VMware
1610 (5.000 %)Marketing
1610 (5.000 %)Billing
1610 (5.000 %)Veritas
1610 (5.000 %)HP
1610 (5.000 %)Windows XP
179 (4.500 %)Mainframe

Operations Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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
18 (4.000 %)ASP
24 (2.000 %)Velocity
32 (1.000 %)WebSphere
41 (0.500 %).NET
41 (0.500 %)ASP.NET
41 (0.500 %)XML
41 (0.500 %)Middleware
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (5.500 %)MS Exchange
29 (4.500 %)Exchange Server 2007
37 (3.500 %)Exchange Server 2003
37 (3.500 %)Apache
46 (3.000 %)SharePoint
54 (2.000 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
63 (1.500 %)Lotus Notes
71 (0.500 %)WebLogic
71 (0.500 %)CMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
120 (10.00 %)MS Excel
27 (3.500 %)MS Office
36 (3.000 %)Spreadsheet
44 (2.000 %)MS Visio
52 (1.000 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (2.000 %)WebTrends
23 (1.500 %)assyst
32 (1.000 %)Oracle EBS
32 (1.000 %)Maximo
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
112 (6.000 %)TCP/IP
211 (5.500 %)SAN
37 (3.500 %)FTP
46 (3.000 %)DHCP
55 (2.500 %)DNS
55 (2.500 %)Internet
55 (2.500 %)Firewall
55 (2.500 %)NAS
64 (2.000 %)LAN
73 (1.500 %)VoIP
73 (1.500 %)WLAN
73 (1.500 %)WAN
73 (1.500 %)IP Telephony
73 (1.500 %)DMZ
82 (1.000 %)Nortel Meridian
82 (1.000 %)iSCSI
82 (1.000 %)Ethernet
82 (1.000 %)ATM
82 (1.000 %)ISDN
82 (1.000 %)DWDM
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
116 (8.000 %)SQL Server
26 (3.000 %)SQL Server 2005
35 (2.500 %)MS Access
43 (1.500 %)SQL Server 2000
52 (1.000 %)Data Mining
52 (1.000 %)DB2
52 (1.000 %)Oracle Reports
52 (1.000 %)Oracle 8/8i
61 (0.500 %)Crystal Reports
61 (0.500 %)RDBMS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (2.000 %)Team Foundation Server
21 (0.500 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
180 (40.00 %)Finance
222 (11.00 %)Banking
310 (5.000 %)Billing
310 (5.000 %)Health
310 (5.000 %)Marketing
48 (4.000 %)Auditing
57 (3.500 %)Insurance
57 (3.500 %)Back Office
66 (3.000 %)Investment Banking
66 (3.000 %)Pensions
75 (2.500 %)Retail
75 (2.500 %)Law
84 (2.000 %)Legal
84 (2.000 %)Financial Institution
93 (1.500 %)Games
93 (1.500 %)Online Games
102 (1.000 %)Publishing
102 (1.000 %)Chemicals
111 (0.500 %)Construction
111 (0.500 %)Government
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
113 (6.500 %)AS400
29 (4.500 %)Mainframe
35 (2.500 %)Thin Client
35 (2.500 %)Fat Client
44 (2.000 %)STB
44 (2.000 %)Management Information System
53 (1.500 %)Blackberry
53 (1.500 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
53 (1.500 %)Tandem
53 (1.500 %)Computer Science
62 (1.000 %)French Language
62 (1.000 %)Fixed Income
62 (1.000 %)Clustering
71 (0.500 %)Replication
71 (0.500 %)Credit Risk
71 (0.500 %)SaaS
71 (0.500 %)Statistics
71 (0.500 %)Mathematics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
164 (32.00 %)Windows
248 (24.00 %)UNIX
335 (17.50 %)Linux
422 (11.00 %)Windows Server 2003
510 (5.000 %)Windows XP
67 (3.500 %)AIX
67 (3.500 %)Windows 2000 Server
76 (3.000 %)Windows 2000
85 (2.500 %)Windows Server 2008
94 (2.000 %)Windows Vista
94 (2.000 %)VMS
94 (2.000 %)zOS
94 (2.000 %)Solaris
103 (1.500 %)Windows NT
111 (0.500 %)HPUX
111 (0.500 %)Red Hat Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
123 (11.50 %)ITIL
220 (10.00 %)Workflow
311 (5.500 %)Problem Management
49 (4.500 %)Incident Management
58 (4.000 %)Business Analysis
65 (2.500 %)Release Management
65 (2.500 %)Service Management
65 (2.500 %)Migration
65 (2.500 %)User Acceptance Testing
65 (2.500 %)Capacity Planning
74 (2.000 %)Agile Software Development
74 (2.000 %)Disaster Recovery
74 (2.000 %)Resource Management
83 (1.500 %)Information Security
83 (1.500 %)Performance Management
83 (1.500 %)CRM
83 (1.500 %)E-Commerce
83 (1.500 %)Asset Management
83 (1.500 %)Service Delivery
83 (1.500 %)Load Balancing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
131 (15.50 %)SQL
29 (4.500 %)Shell Script
36 (3.000 %)C
44 (2.000 %)JCL
53 (1.500 %)REXX
53 (1.500 %)JavaScript
53 (1.500 %)VB
62 (1.000 %)C++
71 (0.500 %)Perl
71 (0.500 %)VBA
71 (0.500 %)VBScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
116 (8.000 %)Degree
27 (3.500 %)ITIL Certification
34 (2.000 %)MCSE
34 (2.000 %)Cisco Certification
34 (2.000 %)Microsoft Certification
43 (1.500 %)MCP
43 (1.500 %)CCNP
43 (1.500 %)CCNA
52 (1.000 %)CISSP
61 (0.500 %)ISEB
61 (0.500 %)IBM Certification
61 (0.500 %)CISM
61 (0.500 %)CIMA
61 (0.500 %)MCITP
61 (0.500 %)SC Cleared
61 (0.500 %)Security Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
111 (5.500 %)SLA
21 (0.500 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
21 (0.500 %)ISO27001
21 (0.500 %)QA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
115 (7.500 %)Active Directory
26 (3.000 %)VMware Infrastructure
32 (1.000 %)NFS
32 (1.000 %)VMware ESX
41 (0.500 %)Citrix Presentation Server
41 (0.500 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
19 (4.500 %)CONTROL-M
27 (3.500 %)NetBackup
35 (2.500 %)Backup Exec
35 (2.500 %)MOM
44 (2.000 %)Tivoli
53 (1.500 %)SCOM
62 (1.000 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
62 (1.000 %)CiscoWorks
71 (0.500 %)OpenView
71 (0.500 %)Nagios
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
138 (19.00 %)Microsoft
214 (7.000 %)Oracle
214 (7.000 %)Citrix
310 (5.000 %)HP
310 (5.000 %)Veritas
310 (5.000 %)VMware
48 (4.000 %)Cisco
55 (2.500 %)Avaya
55 (2.500 %)Salesforce.com
64 (2.000 %)NetApp
73 (1.500 %)EMC
73 (1.500 %)IBM
73 (1.500 %)SAP
73 (1.500 %)Unisys
73 (1.500 %)Lotus
73 (1.500 %)BMC
73 (1.500 %)Remedy
73 (1.500 %)Axway
82 (1.000 %)Riverbed
82 (1.000 %)CheckPoint