The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 23 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 Buckinghamshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 30 25 28
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 39 58 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 4.809% 5.876% 4.692%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.186% 6.277% 4.937%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 31
Average daily rate £425 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £401
% change year-on-year
- +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 £47.50 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-73.68% +206.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
752 924 1033
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.73% 93.62% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 400 393
Average daily rate £320 £315 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.58% -7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £163 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 69 111
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.65 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
South East

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes -3 28 £455 +37.35%
Marlow -2 2 £801 -
Aylesbury -7 2 £425 -22.72%
Consultant
South East

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 20 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.98%) Windows
2 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
3 15 (16.85%) Finance
4 14 (15.73%) SharePoint
4 14 (15.73%) SAP
4 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
5 13 (14.61%) SQL Server
5 13 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (12.36%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (10.11%) SQL
7 9 (10.11%) IBM
8 8 (8.989%) Active Directory
8 8 (8.989%) Citrix
8 8 (8.989%) NetWeaver
8 8 (8.989%) MS Exchange
8 8 (8.989%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (8.989%) VMware
8 8 (8.989%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (7.865%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (7.865%) DV Cleared
9 7 (7.865%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (7.865%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (7.865%) Information Security
9 7 (7.865%) ERP
9 7 (7.865%) CRM
10 6 (6.742%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (6.742%) SAP BW
10 6 (6.742%) Linux
10 6 (6.742%) Business Objects

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (3.371%) SAP PI
1 3 (3.371%) WebSphere
1 3 (3.371%) SAP XI
2 2 (2.247%) J2EE
2 2 (2.247%) Ajax
3 1 (1.124%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.124%) HTML5
3 1 (1.124%) SAP ALE
3 1 (1.124%) jQuery
3 1 (1.124%) CSS
3 1 (1.124%) JDBC
3 1 (1.124%) SOAP
3 1 (1.124%) Web Services
3 1 (1.124%) XML
3 1 (1.124%) XSLT
3 1 (1.124%) HTML
3 1 (1.124%) .NET
3 1 (1.124%) RSS
3 1 (1.124%) JMS
3 1 (1.124%) BAPI
Application Platforms
1 14 (15.73%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.989%) NetWeaver
2 8 (8.989%) MS Exchange
3 6 (6.742%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (5.618%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (4.494%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (3.371%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (2.247%) Commerce Server
7 2 (2.247%) ESB
7 2 (2.247%) Lync
8 1 (1.124%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (1.124%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.124%) Documentum
8 1 (1.124%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (1.124%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.124%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (3.371%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.247%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.247%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.124%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (5.618%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.247%) SAP CRM
2 2 (2.247%) SAP SD
2 2 (2.247%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.247%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.124%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (1.124%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.124%) BASE24
3 1 (1.124%) SAP WM
3 1 (1.124%) FileNet Content Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.618%) LAN
1 5 (5.618%) WAN
1 5 (5.618%) Firewall
2 4 (4.494%) Wireless
2 4 (4.494%) WLAN
3 3 (3.371%) VoIP
3 3 (3.371%) HTTP
4 2 (2.247%) SAN
4 2 (2.247%) Network Security
5 1 (1.124%) ATM
5 1 (1.124%) VPN
5 1 (1.124%) DHCP
5 1 (1.124%) SS7
5 1 (1.124%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.36%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (7.865%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (7.865%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (7.865%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (6.742%) BusinessObjects
4 6 (6.742%) SAP BW
5 5 (5.618%) SAP Data Services
5 5 (5.618%) SAP BI
6 4 (4.494%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (4.494%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (2.247%) DB2
7 2 (2.247%) SAP HANA
7 2 (2.247%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (1.124%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (1.124%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 15 (16.85%) Finance
2 4 (4.494%) Banking
3 2 (2.247%) Marketing
3 2 (2.247%) Retail
4 1 (1.124%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.124%) Spanish Language
4 1 (1.124%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.494%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (3.371%) EMC Centera
3 2 (2.247%) Blackberry
3 2 (2.247%) E-Learning
3 2 (2.247%) Replication
3 2 (2.247%) Animation
4 1 (1.124%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.98%) Windows
2 8 (8.989%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (8.989%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (6.742%) Linux
4 4 (4.494%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.124%) Android
5 1 (1.124%) UNIX
5 1 (1.124%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (7.865%) Information Security
2 7 (7.865%) ERP
2 7 (7.865%) CRM
3 6 (6.742%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (5.618%) Performance Testing
4 5 (5.618%) ITIL
4 5 (5.618%) ETL
4 5 (5.618%) Change Management
5 4 (4.494%) Compatibility Testing
6 3 (3.371%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (3.371%) Content Management
6 3 (3.371%) Logistics
6 3 (3.371%) E-Commerce
6 3 (3.371%) Migration
6 3 (3.371%) Scrum
7 2 (2.247%) SEO
7 2 (2.247%) Security Management
7 2 (2.247%) UML
7 2 (2.247%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.11%) SQL
2 4 (4.494%) ABAP
2 4 (4.494%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.247%) C
3 2 (2.247%) Java
4 1 (1.124%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.124%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.865%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.371%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.124%) VCP5
5 1 (1.124%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.124%) Degree
5 1 (1.124%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.124%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.124%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.371%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.247%) QA
3 1 (1.124%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.124%) COSO
3 1 (1.124%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.124%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.124%) COBIT
3 1 (1.124%) SLA
3 1 (1.124%) GxP
3 1 (1.124%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.124%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.989%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.742%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.494%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.371%) XenApp
4 3 (3.371%) XenDesktop
4 3 (3.371%) vSphere
4 3 (3.371%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 5 (5.618%) SCCM
1 5 (5.618%) SCOM
2 4 (4.494%) Opalis
3 1 (1.124%) AppManager
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.73%) SAP
3 9 (10.11%) IBM
4 8 (8.989%) Citrix
4 8 (8.989%) VMware
5 6 (6.742%) Business Objects
6 4 (4.494%) EMC
6 4 (4.494%) Oracle
7 3 (3.371%) Verint
7 3 (3.371%) Kofax
8 2 (2.247%) HP
8 2 (2.247%) Sybase
9 1 (1.124%) comScore
9 1 (1.124%) hybris
9 1 (1.124%) Brocade
9 1 (1.124%) i2
9 1 (1.124%) JDA
9 1 (1.124%) Dell
9 1 (1.124%) Juniper
9 1 (1.124%) Cisco
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