Consultant IT Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 11 18 19
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 72 67 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 9.972% 8.292% 6.131%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.93% 9.066% 6.689%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 23
Average daily rate £450 £394 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £286 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £478 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £51.39 £50.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.78% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +0.71%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 659 739 912
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 91.27% 91.46% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 381 506
Average daily rate £370 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% +61.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Consultant
North West

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Warrington +3 21 £475 +2.15%
Chester +7 16 £463 +19.35%
Knutsford -6 6 £288 -6.50%
Consultant
North West

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 67 (41.61%) SAP
2 43 (26.71%) Oracle
3 27 (16.77%) Migration
4 26 (16.15%) UNIX
5 23 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (13.66%) Microsoft
7 21 (13.04%) DB2
7 21 (13.04%) Finance
7 21 (13.04%) Test Scripting
8 19 (11.80%) Information Security
8 19 (11.80%) Open Text
8 19 (11.80%) SAP HR
9 18 (11.18%) SAP Basis
10 17 (10.56%) ITIL
11 16 (9.938%) SQL
11 16 (9.938%) CISSP
11 16 (9.938%) Risk Assessment
11 16 (9.938%) Risk Analysis
11 16 (9.938%) Oracle EBS R12
12 15 (9.317%) Windows
13 14 (8.696%) SC Cleared
13 14 (8.696%) Security Cleared
14 12 (7.453%) SAP BW
15 11 (6.832%) Citrix
15 11 (6.832%) Service Management
15 11 (6.832%) AIX
15 11 (6.832%) PL/SQL
15 11 (6.832%) Oracle Applications
16 10 (6.211%) Oracle Payroll
17 9 (5.590%) CRM

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 18 (11.18%) SAP Basis
2 8 (4.969%) SAP XI
3 6 (3.727%) Application Packaging
3 6 (3.727%) Middleware
4 4 (2.484%) SAP PI
5 3 (1.863%) HTML
5 3 (1.863%) J2EE
6 2 (1.242%) .NET
6 2 (1.242%) EDI
7 1 (0.621%) SOAP
7 1 (0.621%) Web Services
7 1 (0.621%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (4.969%) NetWeaver
2 5 (3.106%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.484%) LiveLink
4 3 (1.863%) MS Exchange
4 3 (1.863%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (1.242%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 2 (1.242%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.242%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (1.242%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (1.242%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.621%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.621%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.621%) IIS
6 1 (0.621%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (0.621%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.621%) Exchange Server 5.5
6 1 (0.621%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (3.727%) MS Excel
2 5 (3.106%) MS Project
3 3 (1.863%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.863%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.621%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 19 (11.80%) SAP HR
2 16 (9.938%) Oracle EBS R12
3 11 (6.832%) Oracle Applications
4 10 (6.211%) Oracle Payroll
5 8 (4.969%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (4.348%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (4.348%) SAP BPC
7 5 (3.106%) SAP Travel Management
8 4 (2.484%) SAP Payroll
8 4 (2.484%) SAP GRC
9 3 (1.863%) SAP FI-AP
10 2 (1.242%) SAP WM
10 2 (1.242%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (1.242%) SAP CO
10 2 (1.242%) Oracle 11i
10 2 (1.242%) SAP FI
11 1 (0.621%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.621%) SAP PS
11 1 (0.621%) Oracle HRMS
11 1 (0.621%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.727%) TCP/IP
1 6 (3.727%) DSL
2 4 (2.484%) SAN
3 3 (1.863%) Internet
4 2 (1.242%) SSL
4 2 (1.242%) Firewall
4 2 (1.242%) NFC
4 2 (1.242%) SMTP
5 1 (0.621%) FTP
5 1 (0.621%) HTTP
5 1 (0.621%) LDAP
5 1 (0.621%) LAN
5 1 (0.621%) WAN
5 1 (0.621%) Intranet
5 1 (0.621%) VPN
5 1 (0.621%) DNS
5 1 (0.621%) NAS
5 1 (0.621%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.04%) DB2
2 12 (7.453%) SAP BW
3 7 (4.348%) BusinessObjects
4 6 (3.727%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.106%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (2.484%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.484%) SAP BI
6 4 (2.484%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.484%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.242%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (1.242%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.242%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.621%) MS Access
8 1 (0.621%) TOAD
8 1 (0.621%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.621%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.621%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.621%) GIS
8 1 (0.621%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.621%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (0.621%) Oracle Forms
General
1 21 (13.04%) Finance
2 8 (4.969%) Legal
3 5 (3.106%) Banking
4 4 (2.484%) Local Government
5 1 (0.621%) Marketing
5 1 (0.621%) Retail
5 1 (0.621%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.621%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.621%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.727%) Blackberry
2 5 (3.106%) NHS
3 4 (2.484%) Clustering
4 3 (1.863%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.863%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.242%) Replication
5 2 (1.242%) Cryptography
5 2 (1.242%) PKI
6 1 (0.621%) Life Science
6 1 (0.621%) FMCG
6 1 (0.621%) iPhone
6 1 (0.621%) SaaS
6 1 (0.621%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.621%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.621%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.621%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.15%) UNIX
2 15 (9.317%) Windows
3 11 (6.832%) AIX
4 5 (3.106%) Linux
4 5 (3.106%) Android
4 5 (3.106%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.484%) Windows 2000
6 3 (1.863%) Windows 8
6 3 (1.863%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.242%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.242%) zOS
7 2 (1.242%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.242%) Solaris
8 1 (0.621%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.621%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (16.77%) Migration
2 23 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (13.04%) Test Scripting
4 19 (11.80%) Information Security
5 17 (10.56%) ITIL
6 16 (9.938%) Risk Assessment
6 16 (9.938%) Risk Analysis
7 11 (6.832%) Service Management
8 9 (5.590%) CRM
9 7 (4.348%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 6 (3.727%) PRINCE2
10 6 (3.727%) Security Architecture
11 4 (2.484%) Data Migration
11 4 (2.484%) Project Management
11 4 (2.484%) Stakeholder Management
12 3 (1.863%) Project Planning
12 3 (1.863%) ERP
12 3 (1.863%) TOGAF
12 3 (1.863%) Unit Testing
13 2 (1.242%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.938%) SQL
2 11 (6.832%) PL/SQL
3 3 (1.863%) Java
4 2 (1.242%) ABAP
4 2 (1.242%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.242%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.621%) VBScript
5 1 (0.621%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.621%) Perl
5 1 (0.621%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (9.938%) CISSP
2 14 (8.696%) SC Cleared
2 14 (8.696%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.484%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (1.863%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.863%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.242%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.621%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.621%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.621%) MCSE
6 1 (0.621%) MCSA
6 1 (0.621%) CCIE
6 1 (0.621%) CCNA
6 1 (0.621%) CISM
6 1 (0.621%) CEH
6 1 (0.621%) MCTS
6 1 (0.621%) MCITP
6 1 (0.621%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.484%) BS7799
2 2 (1.242%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.621%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (3.106%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.484%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.484%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 3 (1.863%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.242%) Squid
4 2 (1.242%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (0.621%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.621%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.621%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.621%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (0.621%) Postfix
5 1 (0.621%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (5.590%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (3.106%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.863%) SCCM
4 2 (1.242%) SCVMM
5 1 (0.621%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.621%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (0.621%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 67 (41.61%) SAP
2 43 (26.71%) Oracle
3 22 (13.66%) Microsoft
4 19 (11.80%) Open Text
5 11 (6.832%) Citrix
6 7 (4.348%) Business Objects
7 6 (3.727%) Cisco
7 6 (3.727%) Dell
8 5 (3.106%) VMware
8 5 (3.106%) Primavera
9 4 (2.484%) IBM
10 3 (1.863%) Hyperion
10 3 (1.863%) AppSense
10 3 (1.863%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.242%) Mercator
11 2 (1.242%) Blue Coat
11 2 (1.242%) Websense
11 2 (1.242%) Finjan
11 2 (1.242%) M86 Security
11 2 (1.242%) ArcSight
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