Operations Analyst Contracts in the North West

Operations Analyst
England > North West

The median Operations Analyst daily rate in the North West is £381 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 132 178
Rank change year-on-year 0 +46 -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 5 31 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.98% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 1.03% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 1
10th Percentile £376 £420 -
25th Percentile £377 £445 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.68% - -
75th Percentile £389 £586 £575
90th Percentile £392 £609 -
England median daily rate £525 £533 £475
% change year-on-year -1.41% +12.11% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.15 -
England median hourly rate £21.32 £22.78 £28.25
% change year-on-year -6.39% -19.38% +0.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,556 3,008 3,897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 94.86% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 2,155 2,851
10th Percentile £280 £300 £213
25th Percentile £389 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £568
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 129 166
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.63 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +72.29% +13.49%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.25 £42.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £66.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Operations Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Analyst in the North West

Operations Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Operations Analyst in the North West

Operations Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Analyst in the North West

Operations Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +19 4 £381 -19.74% 2
Cheshire -10 1 - - 2
Operations Analyst
England

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Operations Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Availability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Process Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Equities
4 1 (20.00%) CCNA
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) Equities
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Availability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Process Management
4 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Service Continuity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds