Glasgow Support Consultant Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Consultant role in IT contracts within the Glasgow 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 Support Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Consultant
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Derbyshire Docklands, London East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Lancashire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	68
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.311 %	0.282 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£317
% change on same period last year	+3.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.25	-
Average hourly rate	£16.63	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.57	£18.51
% change on same period last year	-10.49 %
Job Titles Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	644	1064
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.907 %	1.075 %
Daily rates quoted	178	322
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£307
Average daily rate	£304	£327
% change on same period last year	-7.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.99	£18.37
Average hourly rate	£21.75	£19.35
% change on same period last year	+12.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.51	£20.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Support Consultant Scotland

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Consultant across the Glasgow 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 IT contract jobs citing Support Consultant across the Glasgow region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Consultant across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Support 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 Support Consultant in their job title.

1 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory 1 4 (66.67 %) Finance 2 3 (50.00 %) Oracle 3 2 (33.33 %) MCP 3 2 (33.33 %) Service Management 3 2 (33.33 %) Altiris 3 2 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (33.33 %) CNA 3 2 (33.33 %) Novell Certification 3 2 (33.33 %) Novell 3 2 (33.33 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 2 (33.33 %) Remedy 3 2 (33.33 %) Blackberry 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows

3 2 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 2 (33.33 %) Client/Server 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 2 (33.33 %) NetWare 3 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 4 1 (16.67 %) Banking 4 1 (16.67 %) Quality Management 4 1 (16.67 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Support 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 Support Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 4 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (16.67 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) Client/Server 1 2 (33.33 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows XP 1 2 (33.33 %) NetWare 2 1 (16.67 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) Service Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Quality Management
Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) MCP 1 2 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (33.33 %) CNA 1 2 (33.33 %) Novell Certification	System Software 1 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (33.33 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 3 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 2 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 2 (33.33 %) Novell 2 2 (33.33 %) Remedy 2 2 (33.33 %) Altiris