The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 19 June 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 Glasgow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 41 21 22
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 34 43 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 3.782% 5.283% 5.844%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.052% 5.570% 6.215%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 29
Average daily rate £393 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.97% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £260 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £485 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £7.53 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
839 772 724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 93.33% 94.84% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 351 433
Average daily rate £338 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £236 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £446
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 18
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £30.41 £172.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Consultant
Scotland

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 15 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 14 (21.21%) SQL
3 10 (15.15%) SharePoint
3 10 (15.15%) Finance
4 8 (12.12%) Migration
5 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
5 7 (10.61%) .NET
5 7 (10.61%) Oracle
6 6 (9.091%) Java
7 5 (7.576%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (7.576%) SAP
7 5 (7.576%) Windows
7 5 (7.576%) MS Excel
8 4 (6.061%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (6.061%) Information Security
8 4 (6.061%) Project Management
8 4 (6.061%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (6.061%) ETL
8 4 (6.061%) C#
8 4 (6.061%) VB
8 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (6.061%) Data Analysis
8 4 (6.061%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (4.545%) SQL Server 2012
9 3 (4.545%) Lync
9 3 (4.545%) MS PowerPoint
9 3 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (4.545%) Banking
9 3 (4.545%) Time Management

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (10.61%) .NET
2 3 (4.545%) HTML
3 2 (3.030%) XML
3 2 (3.030%) Spring
4 1 (1.515%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.515%) Apache Sling
4 1 (1.515%) jQuery
4 1 (1.515%) Lucene
4 1 (1.515%) OSGi
4 1 (1.515%) RESTful
4 1 (1.515%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
4 1 (1.515%) HTML5
4 1 (1.515%) XSL
4 1 (1.515%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.515%) COM
4 1 (1.515%) CSS
4 1 (1.515%) JDBC
4 1 (1.515%) Struts
4 1 (1.515%) Web Services
4 1 (1.515%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 10 (15.15%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.061%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (4.545%) Lync
4 2 (3.030%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.515%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (1.515%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (1.515%) Mule
5 1 (1.515%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.515%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.515%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.515%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (7.576%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.545%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (3.030%) MS Office
4 1 (1.515%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.515%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 2 (3.030%) Sentinel
1 2 (3.030%) SAP CRM
1 2 (3.030%) LatentZero
2 1 (1.515%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (1.515%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.515%) Capstone
2 1 (1.515%) Tridion
2 1 (1.515%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.515%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.515%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.030%) 3G
1 2 (3.030%) GPRS
1 2 (3.030%) GSM
1 2 (3.030%) PSTN
1 2 (3.030%) VSAT
2 1 (1.515%) Network Security
2 1 (1.515%) NAS
2 1 (1.515%) SMS
2 1 (1.515%) HTTP
2 1 (1.515%) PPP
2 1 (1.515%) SAN
2 1 (1.515%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.576%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (6.061%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (4.545%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.515%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.515%) OLAP
5 1 (1.515%) MySQL
5 1 (1.515%) OLTP
5 1 (1.515%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.515%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (1.515%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (1.515%) TestComplete
1 1 (1.515%) TeamCity
1 1 (1.515%) Ant
1 1 (1.515%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.515%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (1.515%) CruiseControl
1 1 (1.515%) Subversion
General
1 10 (15.15%) Finance
2 3 (4.545%) Banking
3 2 (3.030%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.030%) Marketing
4 1 (1.515%) Legal
4 1 (1.515%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.030%) Management Information System
1 2 (3.030%) SCADA
1 2 (3.030%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.515%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.515%) Mathematics
2 1 (1.515%) Computer Science
2 1 (1.515%) CMDB
2 1 (1.515%) Celerra
2 1 (1.515%) CCTV
2 1 (1.515%) Derivative
2 1 (1.515%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (1.515%) PKI
2 1 (1.515%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (1.515%) SaaS
2 1 (1.515%) Symmetrix
2 1 (1.515%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.576%) Windows
2 3 (4.545%) UNIX
3 2 (3.030%) Linux
4 1 (1.515%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (12.12%) Migration
2 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (6.061%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (6.061%) Information Security
3 4 (6.061%) Project Management
3 4 (6.061%) ETL
3 4 (6.061%) Data Analysis
4 3 (4.545%) Time Management
4 3 (4.545%) CRM
4 3 (4.545%) Regression Testing
4 3 (4.545%) Risk Management
4 3 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (3.030%) Business Continuity
5 2 (3.030%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (3.030%) Scrum
5 2 (3.030%) Identity Management
5 2 (3.030%) Configuration Management
5 2 (3.030%) BCP
5 2 (3.030%) E-Commerce
5 2 (3.030%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.21%) SQL
2 6 (9.091%) Java
3 4 (6.061%) C#
3 4 (6.061%) VB
4 3 (4.545%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.030%) Perl
5 2 (3.030%) C++
6 1 (1.515%) XPath
6 1 (1.515%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.515%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.515%) VBA
6 1 (1.515%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 2 (3.030%) CISSP
1 2 (3.030%) Security Cleared
1 2 (3.030%) Degree
2 1 (1.515%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.515%) CRISC
2 1 (1.515%) CGEIT
2 1 (1.515%) CISA
2 1 (1.515%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.030%) SLA
2 1 (1.515%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.515%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.545%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.515%) SCCM
1 1 (1.515%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 1 (1.515%) Tivoli
1 1 (1.515%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (1.515%) Netcool
1 1 (1.515%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 1 (1.515%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
1 7 (10.61%) Oracle
2 5 (7.576%) SAP
3 3 (4.545%) Sybase
4 2 (3.030%) Fidessa
4 2 (3.030%) HP
4 2 (3.030%) Cisco
4 2 (3.030%) Informatica
5 1 (1.515%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.515%) F5
5 1 (1.515%) Google
5 1 (1.515%) JBoss
5 1 (1.515%) Veritas
5 1 (1.515%) IBM
5 1 (1.515%) Adobe
5 1 (1.515%) EMC
5 1 (1.515%) Citrix
5 1 (1.515%) VMware
5 1 (1.515%) Alterian
Glasgow, Scotland
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Posted: 22 May 2013