The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical 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 Birmingham 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
Technical Consultant
Rank 40 48 44
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 3 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.685% 0.816% 0.200%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.732% 0.859% 0.218%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £263 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £415 £419 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.89% +4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -52.85%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
410 582 458
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.61% 94.94% 91.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 316 257
Average daily rate £340 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £188 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 39 31
Average hourly rate £16.25 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £9.16 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £115.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Consultant
West Midlands

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Technical Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Technical Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Technical Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) MCITP
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Lync
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) WatchGuard
3 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL
3 1 (16.67%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) XenServer
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) VCP4
3 1 (16.67%) EqualLogic
3 1 (16.67%) S-PLUS
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) Lync
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
1 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) MCSE
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) MCITP
2 1 (16.67%) VCP4
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) WatchGuard
3 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
Solihull, Birmingham, West Midlands
Hands on technical Virtualisation Consultant with strong VMware and Microsoft skills required for 2 month contract in Solihull- The succesful candidate will have strong experience in VMware builds...
GSA Techsource
Rate: GBP295 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013