The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 22 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 East of England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Consultant
Rank 111 116 122
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 5 15 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.230% 0.503% 0.306%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.246% 0.535% 0.323%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 1
Average daily rate £401 £430 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.68% -25.21%
UK excluding London average daily rate £408 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-4.11% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -52.85%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2035 2803 2476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.48% 94.03% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1049 1310 1093
Average daily rate £345 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 292 315
Average hourly rate £23.68 £24.34 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.69% +28.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £11.50 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.05 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Consultant
England

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Technical Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Consultant across the East of England region.

East of England Technical Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Consultant within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hertfordshire +10 4 £401 -2.72%
Cambridgeshire +10 1 - -
Technical Consultant
England

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 6 (37.50%) SQL
1 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) HP
3 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
4 3 (18.75%) CommVault
5 2 (12.50%) NetApp
5 2 (12.50%) Veritas
5 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (12.50%) Clustering
5 2 (12.50%) Backup Exec
5 2 (12.50%) PACS
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (12.50%) WSUS
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (12.50%) VBScript
5 2 (12.50%) VB
5 2 (12.50%) Windows
5 2 (12.50%) MCSE
5 2 (12.50%) Compaq

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 Development
1 1 (6.250%) RSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (12.50%) Lync
4 1 (6.250%) OpenStack
4 1 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (6.250%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.250%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.250%) Billing
3 1 (6.250%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
1 2 (12.50%) PACS
2 1 (6.250%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
3 1 (6.250%) UML
3 1 (6.250%) ITIL
3 1 (6.250%) Business Analysis
3 1 (6.250%) E-Procurement
3 1 (6.250%) ITSM
3 1 (6.250%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) VBScript
2 2 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (6.250%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) MCSE
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.250%) IBM Certification
2 1 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) ISA Server
2 2 (12.50%) vCloud
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (12.50%) vSphere
2 2 (12.50%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Backup Exec
1 2 (12.50%) WSUS
1 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.250%) SCCM
2 1 (6.250%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) HP
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) CommVault
4 2 (12.50%) NetApp
4 2 (12.50%) Veritas
4 2 (12.50%) Compaq
4 2 (12.50%) Dell
4 2 (12.50%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) ADIC
4 2 (12.50%) Symantec
5 1 (6.250%) Remedy
5 1 (6.250%) BMC
5 1 (6.250%) IBM
5 1 (6.250%) Wyse
5 1 (6.250%) JD Edwards