Canary Wharf Consultant Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the Canary Wharf 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 Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London Cobham Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Market Drayton Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrew Renfrewshire Ripon Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	30
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	7	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	2.349 %	5.128 %
Daily rates quoted	2	13
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£542
Average daily rate	£380	£585
% change on same period last year	-34.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£627
UK excluding London average daily rate	£423	£426
% change on same period last year	-0.57 %
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	£32.96	£31.58
% change on same period last year	+4.36 %
Job Titles Canary Wharf
Matching contract IT job ads	298	585
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.429 %	0.596 %
Daily rates quoted	134	290
Average minimum daily rate	£397	£470
Average daily rate	£416	£495
% change on same period last year	-15.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£435	£520
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.60	£16.42
Average hourly rate	£16.60	£18.16
% change on same period last year	-8.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.60	£19.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.66	£25.05
% change on same period last year	-5.55 %
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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 Consultant across the Canary Wharf 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 Consultant across the Canary Wharf region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 7 (29.17 %) Finance 2 6 (25.00 %) UNIX 2 6 (25.00 %) Windows 2 6 (25.00 %) Banking 3 5 (20.83 %) Migration 4 4 (16.67 %) Middleware 4 4 (16.67 %) Oracle 4 4 (16.67 %) Investment Banking 4 4 (16.67 %) WebSphere 4 4 (16.67 %) Degree 5 3 (12.50 %) GL TRADE 5 3 (12.50 %) SQL 5 3 (12.50 %) Sybase 5 3 (12.50 %) Solaris 5 3 (12.50 %) MS Visio

5 3 (12.50 %) CISSP 5 3 (12.50 %) Internet 5 3 (12.50 %) Change Management 5 3 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 5 3 (12.50 %) Back Office 5 3 (12.50 %) Information Security 6 2 (8.333 %) VMware 6 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 6 2 (8.333 %) SSL 6 2 (8.333 %) Mainframe 6 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere MQ 6 2 (8.333 %) Tivoli 6 2 (8.333 %) Shell Script 6 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 6 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (16.67 %) Middleware 1 4 (16.67 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.167 %) SAP Business Workflow 2 1 (4.167 %) SAP Basis 2 1 (4.167 %) WBIMB	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (4.167 %) Gentran 2 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (4.167 %) MQSeries 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.167 %) SAS
Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Visio 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) SAP MM 1 1 (4.167 %) SAP SRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (12.50 %) Internet 2 2 (8.333 %) SSL 3 1 (4.167 %) SAN 3 1 (4.167 %) DHCP 3 1 (4.167 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.167 %) OLAP 1 1 (4.167 %) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) WinRunner 1 1 (4.167 %) TestDirector 1 1 (4.167 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 7 (29.17 %) Finance 2 6 (25.00 %) Banking 3 4 (16.67 %) Investment Banking 4 3 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 4 3 (12.50 %) Back Office 5 1 (4.167 %) Legal 5 1 (4.167 %) International Banking
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Mainframe 1 2 (8.333 %) Tandem 2 1 (4.167 %) EMC Centera	Operating Systems 1 6 (25.00 %) UNIX 1 6 (25.00 %) Windows 2 3 (12.50 %) Solaris 3 2 (8.333 %) Linux 3 2 (8.333 %) AIX 3 2 (8.333 %) HPUX 4 1 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) Migration 2 3 (12.50 %) Information Security 2 3 (12.50 %) Change Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (4.167 %) Risk Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Workflow 3 1 (4.167 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (4.167 %) BCP 3 1 (4.167 %) BPR 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) SQL 2 2 (8.333 %) Shell Script 3 1 (4.167 %) Perl 3 1 (4.167 %) VBScript 3 1 (4.167 %) VB
Qualifications 1 4 (16.67 %) Degree 2 3 (12.50 %) CISSP	System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory 1 2 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (4.167 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 2 (8.333 %) Tivoli 1 2 (8.333 %) OMEGAMON	Vendors 1 4 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 3 (12.50 %) Sybase 2 3 (12.50 %) GL TRADE 3 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 3 2 (8.333 %) VMware 3 2 (8.333 %) SAP 3 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 4 1 (4.167 %) HP 4 1 (4.167 %) Compaq 4 1 (4.167 %) Dell 4 1 (4.167 %) EMC 4 1 (4.167 %) Cisco