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This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the East Anglia 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkConsultant
Location
3 months to
29 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank126
Rank change on same period last yearDown-6
Matching contract IT job ads918
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.012 %0.018 %
As % of the category below6.522 %13.85 %
Daily rates quoted40
Average minimum daily rate£275-
Average daily rate£304-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£333-
UK excluding London average daily rate£433£417
% change on same period last year+3.85 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.60£30.60
% change on same period last year-6.53 %
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
East Anglia
Matching contract IT job ads138130
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.184 %0.130 %
Daily rates quoted2522
Average minimum daily rate£325£394
Average daily rate£352£406
% change on same period last year-13.34 %
Average maximum daily rate£380£419
UK excluding London average daily rate£356£355
% change on same period last year+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted1113
Average minimum hourly rate£24.52£29.26
Average hourly rate£25.39£32.19
% change on same period last year-21.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.26£35.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.79£25.66
% change on same period last year-7.31 %
Consultant East of EnglandConsultant
East of England

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.

Consultant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Consultant across the East Anglia region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

East Anglia Consultant Demand Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Consultant across the East Anglia region.

East Anglia Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the East Anglia region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

East Anglia Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Anglia Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Anglia 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.

14 (26.67 %)Chemicals
23 (20.00 %)Manufacturing
23 (20.00 %)Migration
32 (13.33 %)Finance
32 (13.33 %)Windows XP
32 (13.33 %)IBM
32 (13.33 %)Microsoft
32 (13.33 %)Windows Server 2003
32 (13.33 %)BPR
32 (13.33 %)C#
32 (13.33 %)Oracle
32 (13.33 %)DB2
32 (13.33 %)SAP
32 (13.33 %)ASP
32 (13.33 %)Windows
32 (13.33 %)AIX
32 (13.33 %)HP
32 (13.33 %)Release Management
41 (6.667 %)WebSphere Message Broker
41 (6.667 %)Security Testing
41 (6.667 %)SC Cleared
41 (6.667 %)Security Cleared
41 (6.667 %)Windows 2000 Server
41 (6.667 %)SAP QM
41 (6.667 %)WPS
41 (6.667 %)VB6
41 (6.667 %)Ruby
41 (6.667 %)Orchard
41 (6.667 %)arcHouse
41 (6.667 %)Exchange Server 2003

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Anglia 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.

East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (13.33 %)ASP
21 (6.667 %)ASP.NET
21 (6.667 %)XML
21 (6.667 %)WebSphere
21 (6.667 %)HTML
21 (6.667 %).NET
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (6.667 %)WebSphere Application Server
11 (6.667 %)Lotus Notes
11 (6.667 %)Lotus Domino
11 (6.667 %)SharePoint
11 (6.667 %)MS Exchange
11 (6.667 %)WebSphere MQ
11 (6.667 %)QuickPlace
11 (6.667 %)WPS
11 (6.667 %)Exchange Server 2003
11 (6.667 %)SharePoint Server 2007
11 (6.667 %)WebSphere Message Broker
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (6.667 %)MS Excel
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
11 (6.667 %)SAP QM
11 (6.667 %)arcHouse
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (6.667 %)LAN
11 (6.667 %)SAN
11 (6.667 %)Cisco IOS
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (13.33 %)DB2
21 (6.667 %)MS Access
21 (6.667 %)BusinessObjects
21 (6.667 %)PostgreSQL
21 (6.667 %)MySQL
21 (6.667 %)SQL Server
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
14 (26.67 %)Chemicals
23 (20.00 %)Manufacturing
32 (13.33 %)Finance
41 (6.667 %)Telecoms
41 (6.667 %)Construction
41 (6.667 %)Education
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (6.667 %)Clustering
11 (6.667 %)German Language
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12 (13.33 %)Windows
12 (13.33 %)AIX
12 (13.33 %)Windows XP
12 (13.33 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (6.667 %)Windows 2000 Server
21 (6.667 %)zOS
21 (6.667 %)HPUX
21 (6.667 %)Solaris
21 (6.667 %)Linux
21 (6.667 %)UNIX
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
13 (20.00 %)Migration
22 (13.33 %)Release Management
22 (13.33 %)BPR
31 (6.667 %)Quality Management
31 (6.667 %)Workflow
31 (6.667 %)ERP
31 (6.667 %)Security Testing
31 (6.667 %)SC Cleared
31 (6.667 %)Security Cleared
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (13.33 %)C#
21 (6.667 %)C++
21 (6.667 %)DHTML
21 (6.667 %)Java
21 (6.667 %)JavaScript
21 (6.667 %)Perl
21 (6.667 %)PHP
21 (6.667 %)SQL
21 (6.667 %)VB
21 (6.667 %)Python
21 (6.667 %)Assembly Language
21 (6.667 %)Tcl
21 (6.667 %)LotusScript
21 (6.667 %)Formula Language
21 (6.667 %)VB6
21 (6.667 %)Ruby
21 (6.667 %)C
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (6.667 %)SLA
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (6.667 %)Active Directory
11 (6.667 %)VMware ESX
11 (6.667 %)Citrix Presentation Server
East Anglia IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
12 (13.33 %)IBM
12 (13.33 %)Microsoft
12 (13.33 %)HP
12 (13.33 %)Oracle
12 (13.33 %)SAP
21 (6.667 %)Cisco
21 (6.667 %)Sybase
21 (6.667 %)Business Objects
21 (6.667 %)Intel
21 (6.667 %)Citrix
21 (6.667 %)Alcatel
21 (6.667 %)Siemens
21 (6.667 %)VERITAS
21 (6.667 %)Lotus
21 (6.667 %)Agresso
21 (6.667 %)VMware
21 (6.667 %)Orchard
21 (6.667 %)IronPort