Consultant IT Contracts in Belfast
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 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 advertised for the Belfast region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 18 6 2
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 14 22 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 6.667% 14.10% 19.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.333% 14.77% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 23
Average daily rate £275 £250 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -25.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +0.71%
All Job Titles
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 150 149 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 71.43% 95.51% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 43 104
Average daily rate £300 £300 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £201 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 16
Average hourly rate £11.46 £12.50 £22.23
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.32% -43.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £12.50 £9.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.23 £24.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Consultant
County Antrim

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Consultant across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Belfast Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Consultant across the Belfast region.

Belfast Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Consultant across the Belfast region.

Belfast Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region that cited Consultant 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Consultant in their job title.

1 10 (34.48%) SAP
2 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) HTML
4 4 (13.79%) .NET
4 4 (13.79%) CSS
4 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
4 4 (13.79%) HP
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) SAP Basis
4 4 (13.79%) jQuery
4 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (10.34%) SAP PI
5 3 (10.34%) soapUI
5 3 (10.34%) REST
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (10.34%) Build Forge
5 3 (10.34%) WebSphere
5 3 (10.34%) ESB
5 3 (10.34%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (10.34%) WebSphere Process Server
5 3 (10.34%) Data Management
5 3 (10.34%) Open Text
5 3 (10.34%) Service Management
5 3 (10.34%) JUnit

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region that cited Consultant 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (13.79%) CSS
1 4 (13.79%) HTML
1 4 (13.79%) .NET
1 4 (13.79%) SAP Basis
1 4 (13.79%) jQuery
2 3 (10.34%) SAP PI
2 3 (10.34%) soapUI
2 3 (10.34%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) WebSphere
2 3 (10.34%) J2EE
3 2 (6.897%) SOAP
3 2 (6.897%) XSLT
3 2 (6.897%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
1 4 (13.79%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (10.34%) WebSphere Process Server
2 3 (10.34%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (6.897%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.448%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.448%) JDE World
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle SCM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.897%) SNMP
1 2 (6.897%) SAN
2 1 (3.448%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.448%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.448%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JUnit
1 3 (10.34%) Build Forge
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 1 (3.448%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.448%) General Ledger
2 1 (3.448%) Marketing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.34%) ITIL
1 3 (10.34%) Service Management
1 3 (10.34%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (10.34%) Data Management
1 3 (10.34%) SOA
1 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (6.897%) B2B
3 1 (3.448%) Business Transformation
3 1 (3.448%) Analytics
3 1 (3.448%) Logistics
3 1 (3.448%) Business Analysis
3 1 (3.448%) Service Delivery
3 1 (3.448%) ITSM
3 1 (3.448%) Workflow
3 1 (3.448%) Programme Management
3 1 (3.448%) CRM
3 1 (3.448%) EAI
3 1 (3.448%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.79%) C#
4 2 (6.897%) ABAP
5 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.897%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.448%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.897%) Xen
1 2 (6.897%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (6.897%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.897%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (6.897%) SolarWinds Orion
1 2 (6.897%) Splunk
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (3.448%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) SAP
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.79%) HP
4 3 (10.34%) BMC
4 3 (10.34%) IBM
4 3 (10.34%) Informatica
4 3 (10.34%) Open Text
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle
5 2 (6.897%) VMware
5 2 (6.897%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.897%) Symantec
5 2 (6.897%) NetApp
5 2 (6.897%) Compuware
5 2 (6.897%) CommVault
5 2 (6.897%) Dell
5 2 (6.897%) Citrix
6 1 (3.448%) JD Edwards
6 1 (3.448%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (3.448%) Remedy
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