West Midlands Operations Manager Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Operations Manager role in IT jobs within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chesham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Coventry Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Exeter Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Iver Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Letchworth Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire Portsmouth Redhill Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stroud Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	204	202
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	31	24
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.373 %	0.291 %
Salaries quoted	28	21
Average minimum salary	£43,964	£38,238
Average salary	£47,411	£40,690
% change on same period last year	+16.51 %
Average maximum salary	£50,857	£43,143
UK excluding London average salary	£50,736	£52,777
% change on same period last year	-3.86 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	8306	8236
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.385 %	3.373 %
Salaries quoted	7053	7067
Average minimum salary	£32,958	£33,465
Average salary	£35,879	£36,265
% change on same period last year	-1.06 %
Average maximum salary	£38,800	£39,065
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Operations Manager across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Operations Manager across the West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Manager across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Manager within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+11	20	£46,250	+38.05 %
Staffordshire	-2	4	£56,250	+77.63 %
Shropshire	-12	3	£32,500	-23.52 %
Herefordshire	-15	2	£55,000	-15.38 %
Coventry	-	2	£47,500	-
Solihull	-5	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Operations Manager in their job title.

1 21 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 12 (21.43 %) Health 2 12 (21.43 %) ITIL 2 12 (21.43 %) ERP 2 12 (21.43 %) Microsoft 3 11 (19.64 %) Service Delivery 3 11 (19.64 %) Pensions 4 10 (17.86 %) Manufacturing 5 8 (14.29 %) Linux 5 8 (14.29 %) MS Excel 5 8 (14.29 %) CRM 6 7 (12.50 %) Windows 6 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 6 7 (12.50 %) SLA 6 7 (12.50 %) IBM

6 7 (12.50 %) Operations Management 6 7 (12.50 %) Performance Management 7 6 (10.71 %) Business Intelligence 7 6 (10.71 %) Datawarehouse 7 6 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (8.929 %) LAN 8 5 (8.929 %) Finance 9 4 (7.143 %) Logistics 9 4 (7.143 %) WAN 9 4 (7.143 %) UNIX 9 4 (7.143 %) Oracle 9 4 (7.143 %) MS Access 9 4 (7.143 %) Mainframe 10 3 (5.357 %) CAD 10 3 (5.357 %) AS400

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Operations Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.786 %) Spring 1 1 (1.786 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.571 %) CICS
Applications 1 8 (14.29 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.786 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (1.786 %) Misys Equation
Communications & Networking 1 5 (8.929 %) LAN 2 4 (7.143 %) WAN 3 1 (1.786 %) SAN 3 1 (1.786 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.786 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 6 (10.71 %) Datawarehouse 3 4 (7.143 %) MS Access 4 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (3.571 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 1 (1.786 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 12 (21.43 %) Health 2 11 (19.64 %) Pensions 3 10 (17.86 %) Manufacturing 4 5 (8.929 %) Finance 5 2 (3.571 %) Banking 5 2 (3.571 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.786 %) FMCG 6 1 (1.786 %) Retail 6 1 (1.786 %) Billing 6 1 (1.786 %) Construction 6 1 (1.786 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.786 %) Back Office
Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.143 %) Mainframe 2 3 (5.357 %) AS400 3 2 (3.571 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (1.786 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 1 (1.786 %) Mathematics	Operating Systems 1 8 (14.29 %) Linux 2 7 (12.50 %) Windows 3 4 (7.143 %) UNIX 4 3 (5.357 %) HPUX 5 2 (3.571 %) OS/400 6 1 (1.786 %) Solaris 6 1 (1.786 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 12 (21.43 %) ITIL 2 12 (21.43 %) ERP 3 11 (19.64 %) Service Delivery 4 8 (14.29 %) CRM 5 7 (12.50 %) Operations Management 5 7 (12.50 %) Performance Management 6 6 (10.71 %) Business Intelligence 6 6 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (7.143 %) Logistics 8 3 (5.357 %) Supply Chain Management 8 3 (5.357 %) Business Analysis 8 3 (5.357 %) Resource Management 8 3 (5.357 %) CAD 9 2 (3.571 %) Time Management 10 1 (1.786 %) Problem Management 10 1 (1.786 %) Supplier Management 10 1 (1.786 %) Project Planning 10 1 (1.786 %) Systems Analysis 10 1 (1.786 %) SSADM	Programming Languages 1 3 (5.357 %) SQL 2 2 (3.571 %) C 3 1 (1.786 %) COBOL 3 1 (1.786 %) Java
Qualifications 1 3 (5.357 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (12.50 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (1.786 %) Active Directory 1 1 (1.786 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 1 (1.786 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 12 (21.43 %) Microsoft 2 7 (12.50 %) IBM 3 4 (7.143 %) Oracle 4 2 (3.571 %) Misys 4 2 (3.571 %) Intel 4 2 (3.571 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.786 %) BMC 5 1 (1.786 %) Epicor 5 1 (1.786 %) VERITAS 5 1 (1.786 %) Symantec 5 1 (1.786 %) VMware 5 1 (1.786 %) HP 5 1 (1.786 %) SAP