The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Support 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 Support Analyst 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
Operations Support Analyst
Rank 838 858 859
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Support Analyst 30 27 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.022% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.024% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 24 13 16
Average salary £40,000 £28,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.35% -10.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £23,100 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £38,800 £43,250
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £28,500 £30,750
% change year-on-year
+14.03% -7.31%
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%

Operations Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Operations Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Support Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Operations Support Analyst Salary Trend

Operations Support Analyst
Salary Histogram

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

Operations Support Analyst Salary Histogram

Operations Support Analyst
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Support Analyst 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 +27 29 £40,000 +40.35% 4
London +61 26 £40,375 -2.12% 4
City of London +15 16 £38,750 -3.12% 2
East of England -5 2 £32,500 +14.03%
Twickenham - 2 £40,000 -
South East +14 1 £44,000 +60.00%
West Sussex -5 1 £44,000 +60.00%
Cambridgeshire - 1 £35,000 -
Essex - 1 £30,000 -
Peterborough - 1 £35,000 -
Basildon - 1 £30,000 -
Crawley - 1 £44,000 -

Operations Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 43 (69.35%) Windows
2 34 (54.84%) UNIX
3 32 (51.61%) Finance
4 24 (38.71%) Solaris
5 23 (37.10%) SQL
6 21 (33.87%) Linux
6 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
7 19 (30.65%) Oracle
8 18 (29.03%) Tomcat
9 17 (27.42%) Java
9 17 (27.42%) Perl
10 15 (24.19%) MS Office
11 14 (22.58%) AIX
12 13 (20.97%) Windows Server 2003
13 12 (19.35%) Active Directory
13 12 (19.35%) IBM
13 12 (19.35%) Middleware
14 11 (17.74%) Retail
15 10 (16.13%) WebSphere
15 10 (16.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 10 (16.13%) Bash shell
15 10 (16.13%) Games
15 10 (16.13%) IBM HTTP Server
15 10 (16.13%) FTP
15 10 (16.13%) HTTP
15 10 (16.13%) MQSeries
15 10 (16.13%) DB2
15 10 (16.13%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (16.13%) IIS
15 10 (16.13%) JDBC

Operations Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (19.35%) Middleware
2 10 (16.13%) WebSphere
2 10 (16.13%) JDBC
2 10 (16.13%) J2EE
3 7 (11.29%) HTML5
4 3 (4.839%) .NET
5 2 (3.226%) COM
6 1 (1.613%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 18 (29.03%) Tomcat
2 10 (16.13%) IBM HTTP Server
2 10 (16.13%) MQSeries
2 10 (16.13%) WebSphere Application Server
2 10 (16.13%) IIS
3 7 (11.29%) Apache
4 4 (6.452%) MS Exchange
5 3 (4.839%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (4.839%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (4.839%) SharePoint
5 3 (4.839%) IBM Notes
6 2 (3.226%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (1.613%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (1.613%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.613%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.613%) Windows Azure
7 1 (1.613%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 15 (24.19%) MS Office
2 5 (8.065%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.613%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.13%) FTP
1 10 (16.13%) HTTP
2 7 (11.29%) PBX
3 5 (8.065%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.065%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (6.452%) Firewall
4 4 (6.452%) DNS
5 3 (4.839%) WAN
5 3 (4.839%) DHCP
5 3 (4.839%) LAN
6 2 (3.226%) Broadband
6 2 (3.226%) VPN
7 1 (1.613%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) DB2
2 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.839%) QlikView
4 2 (3.226%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.613%) Spotfire
5 1 (1.613%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.226%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (51.61%) Finance
2 11 (17.74%) Retail
3 10 (16.13%) Games
4 7 (11.29%) Telecoms
4 7 (11.29%) Back Office
5 5 (8.065%) Banking
6 3 (4.839%) Advertising
7 2 (3.226%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.226%) Front Office
7 2 (3.226%) Billing
8 1 (1.613%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Digital Media
2 5 (8.065%) Computer Science
2 5 (8.065%) Blackberry
3 4 (6.452%) SWIFT
4 3 (4.839%) Fat Client
4 3 (4.839%) Thin Client
4 3 (4.839%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.226%) AS400
5 2 (3.226%) iSeries
6 1 (1.613%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.613%) Open Source
6 1 (1.613%) Clustering
6 1 (1.613%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (69.35%) Windows
2 34 (54.84%) UNIX
3 24 (38.71%) Solaris
4 21 (33.87%) Linux
5 14 (22.58%) AIX
6 13 (20.97%) Windows Server 2003
7 10 (16.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (11.29%) Windows 7
8 7 (11.29%) Apple iOS
8 7 (11.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (6.452%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (16.13%) ITIL
2 7 (11.29%) Scrum
2 7 (11.29%) Waterfall
2 7 (11.29%) Change Control
2 7 (11.29%) Content Management
3 5 (8.065%) Service Delivery
4 4 (6.452%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (6.452%) Investment Management
5 3 (4.839%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.226%) BCP
6 2 (3.226%) E-Commerce
6 2 (3.226%) CRM
6 2 (3.226%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (3.226%) ETL
6 2 (3.226%) Analytics
6 2 (3.226%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (3.226%) Problem Management
6 2 (3.226%) Kanban
6 2 (3.226%) Asset Management
6 2 (3.226%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) SQL
2 17 (27.42%) Java
2 17 (27.42%) Perl
3 10 (16.13%) Bash shell
4 3 (4.839%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.613%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.613%) VBScript
5 1 (1.613%) VBA
5 1 (1.613%) AWK
Qualifications
1 6 (9.677%) Degree
2 4 (6.452%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.226%) MCSE
3 2 (3.226%) CCNP
3 2 (3.226%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 12 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 7 (11.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (3.226%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.226%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.226%) vSphere
4 1 (1.613%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) SCCM
2 5 (8.065%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (3.226%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.613%) HP SIM
4 1 (1.613%) CiscoWorks
4 1 (1.613%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (1.613%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
2 19 (30.65%) Oracle
3 12 (19.35%) IBM
4 7 (11.29%) VMware
4 7 (11.29%) HP
4 7 (11.29%) Avaya
4 7 (11.29%) Veritas
4 7 (11.29%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.065%) CommVault
6 4 (6.452%) Sybase
6 4 (6.452%) Citrix
7 3 (4.839%) Lotus
8 2 (3.226%) Misys
8 2 (3.226%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (3.226%) Cerillion
9 1 (1.613%) GoldenSource
9 1 (1.613%) Rackspace
9 1 (1.613%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.613%) Cisco
9 1 (1.613%) Business Objects