The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Consultant
Rank - 53 59
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 0 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - 0.517% 0.565%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.543% 0.594%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £285 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.97%
UK excluding London average daily rate £415 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.35% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -52.85%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
894 736 673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.50% 95.21% 95.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 344 387
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £214 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £446 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 37 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.77% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Consultant
Scotland

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Technical Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (58.33%) Java
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 6 (50.00%) J2EE
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) InfoPath
3 2 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) UML
3 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
4 1 (8.333%) HP
4 1 (8.333%) Dell
4 1 (8.333%) Citrix
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco
4 1 (8.333%) Windows
4 1 (8.333%) Migration
4 1 (8.333%) VMware
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 6 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Project Management
1 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (16.67%) UML
1 2 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (8.333%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) C#
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.333%) HP
3 1 (8.333%) Dell
3 1 (8.333%) Citrix
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco
3 1 (8.333%) VMware