Buckinghamshire Support Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Consultant role in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Consultant
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Eastleigh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Sandwich Scotland Slough South East South West Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	83	89
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	2	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.149 %	0.508 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£113
Average daily rate	-	£129
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£145
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£326
% change on same period last year	+9.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.77	£16.74
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1343	1574
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.790 %	1.592 %
Daily rates quoted	384	342
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£307
Average daily rate	£349	£323
% change on same period last year	+7.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	208	185
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.77	£26.38
Average hourly rate	£19.78	£27.36
% change on same period last year	-27.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.78	£28.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Support Consultant South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Consultant across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Consultant within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	-9	1	-	-

Support Consultant South East

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Support 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 Support Consultant in their job title.

1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 1 3 (37.50 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (25.00 %) OVPI 2 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL 2 2 (25.00 %) OpenView 2 2 (25.00 %) OVOW 3 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 3 1 (12.50 %) Government 3 1 (12.50 %) SAP Basis 3 1 (12.50 %) HP 3 1 (12.50 %) VERITAS 3 1 (12.50 %) NetWeaver

3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (12.50 %) SAP R/3 3 1 (12.50 %) COBOL 3 1 (12.50 %) SAP 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Support 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 Support Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) SAP Basis	Application Platforms 1 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (12.50 %) NetWeaver
Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) SAP R/3	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Government
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows XP 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (12.50 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) COBOL	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (25.00 %) OpenView 1 2 (25.00 %) OVOW 1 2 (25.00 %) OVPI	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) SAP 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) HP 2 1 (12.50 %) VERITAS