The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Consultant
Rank - - 76
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - - 0.103%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.112%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £415 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.35% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -52.85%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
659 743 891
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 91.27% 91.39% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 381 493
Average daily rate £372 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.35% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £249 £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 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Consultant
North West

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Technical Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Consultant across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Technical Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (50.00%) AppSense
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (25.00%) E-business
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) E-business
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) AppSense
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle