The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 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 Cardiff 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
Consultant
Rank 19 27 24
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 6 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 3.659% 2.273% 4.803%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.922% 2.427% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
Average daily rate £388 £600 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +93.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £520 £304
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £680 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +0.71%
All Job Titles
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
153 206 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 93.29% 93.64% 96.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 121 133
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £495 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 10
Average hourly rate £17.00 £14.25 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.29% +18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.88 £14.00 £9.17
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £15.50 £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Consultant
South Wales

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 18 (60.00%) SAP
2 8 (26.67%) ABAP
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Migration
4 4 (13.33%) Open Text
4 4 (13.33%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (13.33%) Business Objects
4 4 (13.33%) SAP BW
4 4 (13.33%) Web Services
5 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.00%) SOA
5 3 (10.00%) LiveLink
5 3 (10.00%) SQL
5 3 (10.00%) Workflow
5 3 (10.00%) Opalis
5 3 (10.00%) SCCM
5 3 (10.00%) SCOM
5 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.667%) Cash Management
6 2 (6.667%) Security Cleared
6 2 (6.667%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (6.667%) Data Migration
6 2 (6.667%) Oracle ASCP
6 2 (6.667%) Management Information System
6 2 (6.667%) Oracle EBS

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 (13.33%) Web Services
2 1 (3.333%) JMS
2 1 (3.333%) Middleware
2 1 (3.333%) SAP Basis
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.333%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) LiveLink
2 1 (3.333%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (3.333%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.333%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (3.333%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.333%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.667%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (6.667%) Oracle ASCP
1 2 (6.667%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.333%) SAP BPC
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.333%) SAP HCM
2 1 (3.333%) SAP HR
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.333%) SAP CRM
2 1 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (13.33%) SAP BW
2 3 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (3.333%) Informix
3 1 (3.333%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (3.333%) Xcelsius
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.333%) UNIX
1 1 (3.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (13.33%) Migration
3 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (10.00%) SOA
3 3 (10.00%) Workflow
4 2 (6.667%) ETL
4 2 (6.667%) CRM
4 2 (6.667%) Data Management
4 2 (6.667%) Data Migration
4 2 (6.667%) Cash Management
4 2 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (3.333%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.333%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.333%) Test Automation
5 1 (3.333%) Test Management
5 1 (3.333%) Test Scripting
5 1 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.333%) RAD
5 1 (3.333%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) ABAP
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (6.667%) Java
3 2 (6.667%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.667%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.333%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Opalis
1 3 (10.00%) SCCM
1 3 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) SAP
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 4 (13.33%) Business Objects
3 4 (13.33%) Open Text
4 2 (6.667%) Adobe
5 1 (3.333%) Citrix