Operations Analyst Jobs in the West Midlands

Operations Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Operations Analyst salary in the West Midlands is £48,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 272 260
Rank change year-on-year +108 -12 -44
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 80 2 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.11% 0.030% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.033% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55 2 15
10th Percentile £36,250 - £31,120
25th Percentile £46,750 - £31,185
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £65,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +73.33% -18.48%
75th Percentile £50,250 - £44,375
90th Percentile £61,250 - £54,250
England median annual salary £48,500 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.04% +6.67% -2.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,747 6,095 6,853
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 89.96% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,135 3,356 4,780
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Analyst in the West Midlands

Operations Analyst
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Operations Analyst in the West Midlands

Operations Analyst
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Analyst in the West Midlands

Operations Analyst
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Worcestershire - 35 £48,500 -
Staffordshire - 23 £48,500 -
Shropshire - 12 - -
Birmingham - 3 £40,500 -
Walsall - 3 - - 1
Operations Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Operations Analyst 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 permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 42 (52.50%) SD-WAN
1 42 (52.50%) LAN
1 42 (52.50%) WLAN
2 32 (40.00%) WAN
2 32 (40.00%) CCIE
2 32 (40.00%) CCNP
2 32 (40.00%) CCDP
2 32 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (40.00%) MPLS
2 32 (40.00%) OSPF
2 32 (40.00%) BGP
3 26 (32.50%) CCNA
4 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
5 16 (20.00%) Change Management
5 16 (20.00%) VoIP
6 14 (17.50%) Retail
7 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
8 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
8 10 (12.50%) ITIL
8 10 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 10 (12.50%) Thin Client
8 10 (12.50%) Agile
8 10 (12.50%) Project Planning
8 10 (12.50%) Fat Client
8 10 (12.50%) SCCM
8 10 (12.50%) Azure
8 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.25%) Power BI
9 9 (11.25%) Security Operations
9 9 (11.25%) Actionable Insight

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) Azure
2 9 (11.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 9 (11.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (52.50%) LAN
1 42 (52.50%) SD-WAN
1 42 (52.50%) WLAN
2 32 (40.00%) BGP
2 32 (40.00%) MPLS
2 32 (40.00%) OSPF
2 32 (40.00%) WAN
3 16 (20.00%) VoIP
4 9 (11.25%) Firewall
5 8 (10.00%) VPN
6 6 (7.50%) EIGRP
6 6 (7.50%) HSRP
6 6 (7.50%) Spanning Tree
6 6 (7.50%) VLAN
6 6 (7.50%) VRRP
6 6 (7.50%) Wireless
6 6 (7.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) Power BI
1 9 (11.25%) Tableau
General
1 14 (17.50%) Retail
2 9 (11.25%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.25%) Billing
4 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Fat Client
1 10 (12.50%) Thin Client
2 8 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (7.50%) FMCG
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.00%) Change Management
2 10 (12.50%) Agile
2 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (12.50%) ITIL
2 10 (12.50%) Project Planning
2 10 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 9 (11.25%) Actionable Insight
3 9 (11.25%) Analytics
3 9 (11.25%) CRM
3 9 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (11.25%) Data Munging
3 9 (11.25%) Data Science
3 9 (11.25%) Machine Learning
3 9 (11.25%) Risk Management
3 9 (11.25%) Security Operations
3 9 (11.25%) Statistical Modelling
4 8 (10.00%) Information Security
4 8 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 7 (8.75%) Asset Management
5 7 (8.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.25%) Python
1 9 (11.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (40.00%) CCDP
1 32 (40.00%) CCIE
1 32 (40.00%) CCNP
1 32 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (32.50%) CCNA
3 9 (11.25%) Degree
4 6 (7.50%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) GDPR
1 8 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.25%) Alteryx
2 9 (11.25%) Databricks
3 6 (7.50%) Cisco
3 6 (7.50%) Ekahau
4 1 (1.25%) Qualys