City of London Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the City of London 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Amersham Andover Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bletchley Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clackmannanshire Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Faversham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Pembrokeshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	40
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	372	271
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.477 %	0.304 %
As % of the category below	4.533 %	4.261 %
Daily rates quoted	156	85
Average minimum daily rate	£413	£466
Average daily rate	£443	£497
% change on same period last year	-10.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£472	£528
UK excluding London average daily rate	£430	£425
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.13	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£47.69	£41.38
% change on same period last year	+15.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.25	£42.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.21	£31.76
% change on same period last year	+14.00 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	8207	6360
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.53 %	7.146 %
Daily rates quoted	4140	2657
Average minimum daily rate	£427	£466
Average daily rate	£464	£497
% change on same period last year	-6.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£502	£527
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	313	191
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.79	£24.18
Average hourly rate	£25.63	£25.76
% change on same period last year	-0.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.47	£27.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.48	£25.12
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
Consultant London

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Consultant across the City of London 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Consultant across the City of London 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 City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Consultant across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing Consultant also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Consultant.

1 164 (27.42 %) Finance 2 99 (16.56 %) Banking 3 94 (15.72 %) SAP 4 63 (10.54 %) SQL 5 54 (9.030 %) Oracle 6 52 (8.696 %) Windows 7 48 (8.027 %) Investment Banking 8 47 (7.860 %) Unix 9 42 (7.023 %) Microsoft 10 41 (6.856 %) Migration 11 31 (5.184 %) Business Intelligence 12 29 (4.849 %) Government 12 29 (4.849 %) Active Directory 13 27 (4.515 %) Project Management 13 27 (4.515 %) SharePoint

13 27 (4.515 %) Java 14 26 (4.348 %) SQL Server 15 25 (4.181 %) SAP BW 16 24 (4.013 %) SAN 17 23 (3.846 %) SAP HR 17 23 (3.846 %) Sybase 17 23 (3.846 %) .NET 17 23 (3.846 %) Derivative 18 22 (3.679 %) Insurance 19 21 (3.512 %) Perl 19 21 (3.512 %) Murex 20 20 (3.344 %) XML 20 20 (3.344 %) IBM 20 20 (3.344 %) VMware 21 19 (3.177 %) SharePoint Server 2007

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing Consultant also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Consultant. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 23 (3.846 %) .NET 2 20 (3.344 %) XML 3 15 (2.508 %) WebServices 4 10 (1.672 %) J2EE 5 9 (1.505 %) WebSphere 6 8 (1.338 %) ASP.NET 6 8 (1.338 %) HTML 7 7 (1.171 %) Middleware 7 7 (1.171 %) Hibernate 8 5 (0.836 %) Struts 8 5 (0.836 %) SAP Basis 9 4 (0.669 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 4 (0.669 %) Swing 10 3 (0.502 %) XSLT 10 3 (0.502 %) WDK 10 3 (0.502 %) WinForms 10 3 (0.502 %) JRules 10 3 (0.502 %) Spring 10 3 (0.502 %) JFC 10 3 (0.502 %) ISPF	Application Platforms 1 27 (4.515 %) SharePoint 2 19 (3.177 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 11 (1.839 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 11 (1.839 %) IIS 4 10 (1.672 %) BizTalk Server 5 9 (1.505 %) MS Exchange 5 9 (1.505 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 7 (1.171 %) Documentum 6 7 (1.171 %) SAS 6 7 (1.171 %) MQSeries 7 6 (1.003 %) TIBCO EMS 8 5 (0.836 %) JBoss 9 4 (0.669 %) Lotus Notes 10 3 (0.502 %) CICS 10 3 (0.502 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 3 (0.502 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 2 (0.334 %) ESB 11 2 (0.334 %) TeamSite 11 2 (0.334 %) Oracle Application Server 11 2 (0.334 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 16 (2.676 %) MS Excel 2 12 (2.007 %) MS Office 3 8 (1.338 %) MS Visio 4 6 (1.003 %) MS PowerPoint 5 3 (0.502 %) InfoPath 6 2 (0.334 %) MS Project 7 1 (0.167 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 23 (3.846 %) SAP HR 2 19 (3.177 %) SAP FI 3 18 (3.010 %) SAP FI/CO 3 18 (3.010 %) SAP CO 4 13 (2.174 %) SAP SD 5 9 (1.505 %) Murex MxG2000 5 9 (1.505 %) SAP PS 6 6 (1.003 %) Oracle Financials 6 6 (1.003 %) SAP CRM 7 5 (0.836 %) SAP Payroll 7 5 (0.836 %) Fidessa 7 5 (0.836 %) BusinessWorks 8 4 (0.669 %) Axapta 8 4 (0.669 %) Dynamics AX 8 4 (0.669 %) SAP Oil and Gas 9 3 (0.502 %) Kondor+ 9 3 (0.502 %) SAP QM 9 3 (0.502 %) MAXIMO 9 3 (0.502 %) Summit 9 3 (0.502 %) HiPortfolio
Communications & Networking 1 24 (4.013 %) SAN 2 11 (1.839 %) Internet 3 9 (1.505 %) DNS 4 6 (1.003 %) TCP/IP 4 6 (1.003 %) Firewall 5 5 (0.836 %) DHCP 6 4 (0.669 %) Ethernet 6 4 (0.669 %) LDAP 6 4 (0.669 %) Intrusion Detection 6 4 (0.669 %) Intranet 6 4 (0.669 %) iSCSI 7 3 (0.502 %) VLAN 7 3 (0.502 %) WINS 7 3 (0.502 %) WAN 8 2 (0.334 %) VoIP 8 2 (0.334 %) LAN 8 2 (0.334 %) FTP 8 2 (0.334 %) IPCC 8 2 (0.334 %) OSPF 8 2 (0.334 %) BGP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (4.348 %) SQL Server 2 25 (4.181 %) SAP BW 3 13 (2.174 %) SQL Server 2005 4 10 (1.672 %) SAP BI 5 9 (1.505 %) BusinessObjects 6 8 (1.338 %) Datawarehouse 7 6 (1.003 %) ETL 7 6 (1.003 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 5 (0.836 %) OLAP 8 5 (0.836 %) Oracle Reports 9 4 (0.669 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 4 (0.669 %) SQL Server 2000 9 4 (0.669 %) GIS 10 3 (0.502 %) DataStage 10 3 (0.502 %) RDBMS 10 3 (0.502 %) Data Mining 10 3 (0.502 %) DB2 10 3 (0.502 %) SQL Server 7 11 2 (0.334 %) Oracle 9i 11 2 (0.334 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (0.502 %) Ant 1 3 (0.502 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (0.502 %) RequisitePro 1 3 (0.502 %) XDE 1 3 (0.502 %) TestDirector 2 2 (0.334 %) QuickTest Pro 2 2 (0.334 %) ClearQuest 2 2 (0.334 %) MSI 2 2 (0.334 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (0.334 %) ClearCase 3 1 (0.167 %) ERwin 3 1 (0.167 %) ProC 3 1 (0.167 %) NUnit 3 1 (0.167 %) Oracle APEX 3 1 (0.167 %) LoadRunner	General 1 164 (27.42 %) Finance 2 99 (16.56 %) Banking 3 48 (8.027 %) Investment Banking 4 29 (4.849 %) Government 5 22 (3.679 %) Insurance 6 16 (2.676 %) Retail 7 14 (2.341 %) Financial Institution 8 11 (1.839 %) Front Office 9 8 (1.338 %) Health 10 7 (1.171 %) Telecoms 11 6 (1.003 %) Back Office 11 6 (1.003 %) Marketing 12 5 (0.836 %) Auditing 12 5 (0.836 %) Billing 12 5 (0.836 %) Electric 13 4 (0.669 %) Manufacturing 13 4 (0.669 %) Construction 14 3 (0.502 %) Police 14 3 (0.502 %) Pensions 15 2 (0.334 %) Local Government
Miscellaneous 1 23 (3.846 %) Derivative 2 17 (2.843 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 15 (2.508 %) Asset Management 4 10 (1.672 %) Interest Rate Derivative 5 8 (1.338 %) Management Information System 6 7 (1.171 %) Fixed Income 6 7 (1.171 %) Equities 7 6 (1.003 %) Clustering 7 6 (1.003 %) Equity Derivative 7 6 (1.003 %) German Language 8 5 (0.836 %) Mainframe 9 4 (0.669 %) CCTV 9 4 (0.669 %) Client/Server 10 3 (0.502 %) Thin Client 10 3 (0.502 %) Blackberry 10 3 (0.502 %) PKI 10 3 (0.502 %) French Language 10 3 (0.502 %) Credit Risk 10 3 (0.502 %) Market Risk 10 3 (0.502 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 52 (8.696 %) Windows 2 47 (7.860 %) Unix 3 19 (3.177 %) Solaris 4 13 (2.174 %) Linux 4 13 (2.174 %) AIX 5 9 (1.505 %) Windows 2000 6 6 (1.003 %) Windows NT 7 5 (0.836 %) Windows Server 2003 8 4 (0.669 %) MVS 8 4 (0.669 %) HPUX 9 3 (0.502 %) zOS 10 2 (0.334 %) NetWare 10 2 (0.334 %) Windows Vista 10 2 (0.334 %) FreeBSD 11 1 (0.167 %) Windows XP 11 1 (0.167 %) VMS 11 1 (0.167 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 41 (6.856 %) Migration 2 31 (5.184 %) Business Intelligence 3 27 (4.515 %) Project Management 4 17 (2.843 %) Business Analysis 5 12 (2.007 %) Information Security 5 12 (2.007 %) CRM 6 11 (1.839 %) ITIL 6 11 (1.839 %) Change Management 7 9 (1.505 %) Service Management 7 9 (1.505 %) E-Commerce 7 9 (1.505 %) Stakeholder Management 7 9 (1.505 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 8 (1.338 %) Investment Management 8 8 (1.338 %) Business Continuity 8 8 (1.338 %) Data Modelling 9 7 (1.171 %) Risk Management 9 7 (1.171 %) Workflow 9 7 (1.171 %) Data Analysis 9 7 (1.171 %) Logistics 9 7 (1.171 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 63 (10.54 %) SQL 2 27 (4.515 %) Java 3 21 (3.512 %) Perl 4 19 (3.177 %) C# 5 13 (2.174 %) ABAP 6 12 (2.007 %) Shell Script 7 11 (1.839 %) PL/SQL 8 10 (1.672 %) VB 9 8 (1.338 %) C++ 9 8 (1.338 %) C 10 6 (1.003 %) JavaScript 11 5 (0.836 %) RPG 11 5 (0.836 %) VB.NET 11 5 (0.836 %) Transact-SQL 12 4 (0.669 %) VBScript 12 4 (0.669 %) VBA 13 3 (0.502 %) JCL 14 2 (0.334 %) VB6 14 2 (0.334 %) PHP 15 1 (0.167 %) PeopleCode
Qualifications 1 14 (2.341 %) CISSP 2 13 (2.174 %) Degree 3 12 (2.007 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 8 (1.338 %) Microsoft Certification 4 8 (1.338 %) Citrix Certification 5 6 (1.003 %) MCSE 6 5 (0.836 %) Cisco Certification 7 4 (0.669 %) CCA 7 4 (0.669 %) ITIL Certification 8 3 (0.502 %) CCVP 8 3 (0.502 %) ISEB 8 3 (0.502 %) CCEA 8 3 (0.502 %) HNC 8 3 (0.502 %) HND 8 3 (0.502 %) CCIE 9 2 (0.334 %) CCNP 9 2 (0.334 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 2 (0.334 %) CCAB 9 2 (0.334 %) CISA 10 1 (0.167 %) CISM	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (0.836 %) QA 2 4 (0.669 %) ISO27001 3 2 (0.334 %) COBIT 3 2 (0.334 %) Basel II 3 2 (0.334 %) BS7799 4 1 (0.167 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 1 (0.167 %) ISO17799 4 1 (0.167 %) ISO9001 4 1 (0.167 %) SLA 4 1 (0.167 %) ISO8583 4 1 (0.167 %) CESG Infosec 4 1 (0.167 %) JSP 440
System Software 1 29 (4.849 %) Active Directory 2 8 (1.338 %) VMware ESX 3 6 (1.003 %) NFS 4 4 (0.669 %) NetBackup 5 3 (0.502 %) RACF 6 2 (0.334 %) ISA Server 6 2 (0.334 %) ClearTrust 6 2 (0.334 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 1 (0.167 %) AquaLogic 7 1 (0.167 %) Xen 7 1 (0.167 %) Oracle RAC 7 1 (0.167 %) VMware GSX	Systems Management 1 8 (1.338 %) Tivoli 2 5 (0.836 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 4 (0.669 %) Unicenter 4 3 (0.502 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (0.334 %) AutoSys 5 2 (0.334 %) OpenView 6 1 (0.167 %) MOM 6 1 (0.167 %) BMC PATROL 6 1 (0.167 %) CONTROL-M 6 1 (0.167 %) TIBCO Hawk 6 1 (0.167 %) ZENworks 6 1 (0.167 %) EMC TimeFinder 6 1 (0.167 %) WSUS 6 1 (0.167 %) AssetCenter 6 1 (0.167 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 94 (15.72 %) SAP 2 54 (9.030 %) Oracle 3 42 (7.023 %) Microsoft 4 23 (3.846 %) Sybase 5 21 (3.512 %) Murex 6 20 (3.344 %) IBM 6 20 (3.344 %) VMware 7 18 (3.010 %) Cisco 8 17 (2.843 %) EMC 9 15 (2.508 %) HP 10 13 (2.174 %) Citrix 11 11 (1.839 %) Remedy 12 9 (1.505 %) CA 12 9 (1.505 %) Business Objects 12 9 (1.505 %) PeopleSoft 13 8 (1.338 %) NetApp 13 8 (1.338 %) TIBCO 14 7 (1.171 %) Sun 14 7 (1.171 %) Calypso 15 6 (1.003 %) Altiris