The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton 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 19 June 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 Brighton 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 25 29 24
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 7 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 3.763% 3.103% 1.887%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.889% 3.203% 1.948%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Average daily rate £343 £396 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +62.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
All Job Titles
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
180 281 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 96.77% 96.90% 96.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 133 95
Average daily rate £363 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 14
Average hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.81% +57.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Consultant
East Sussex

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Brighton Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Brighton Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 3 (37.50%) SQL
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Documentum
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Adobe
2 2 (25.00%) EMC
2 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) EDRMS
2 2 (25.00%) FileNet
2 2 (25.00%) Kofax
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Open Text
2 2 (25.00%) Content Management
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (25.00%) MDX
2 2 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Alfresco
2 2 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) Social Media
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 2 (25.00%) MDX
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Basis
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Documentum
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (25.00%) FileNet
1 2 (25.00%) Alfresco
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) EDRMS
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (12.50%) Data Mart
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) DB2
3 1 (12.50%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (12.50%) MSTest
General
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (12.50%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) CRM
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Content Management
1 2 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (12.50%) Test Management
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Six Sigma
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Adobe
1 2 (25.00%) EMC
1 2 (25.00%) Kofax
1 2 (25.00%) Open Text
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle