Gloucestershire Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the Gloucestershire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Addlestone Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Clackmannanshire Corby Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Faversham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Melrose Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Powys Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spalding St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Ditton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	4
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	74	97
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.103 %
As % of the category below	16.16 %	18.83 %
Daily rates quoted	37	34
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£387
Average daily rate	£341	£395
% change on same period last year	-13.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£438	£415
% change on same period last year	+5.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.63	£28.04
% change on same period last year	+16.37 %
Job Titles Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	458	515
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.603 %	0.546 %
Daily rates quoted	155	133
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£331
Average daily rate	£342	£345
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	103
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.86	£22.58
Average hourly rate	£25.86	£23.78
% change on same period last year	+8.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.85	£24.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.40	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Consultant South West

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 Consultant across the Gloucestershire 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 Consultant across the Gloucestershire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Consultant within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheltenham	0	45	£343	-11.32 %
Gloucester	+6	3	£270	-46.00 %

Consultant South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 71 (73.20 %) Security Cleared 2 47 (48.45 %) DV Cleared 3 26 (26.80 %) Government 4 22 (22.68 %) Windows 5 14 (14.43 %) Active Directory 5 14 (14.43 %) SC Cleared 6 13 (13.40 %) Information Security 7 11 (11.34 %) CESG 8 10 (10.31 %) CESG CLAS 8 10 (10.31 %) Cisco 8 10 (10.31 %) C 9 9 (9.278 %) Ethical Hacking 9 9 (9.278 %) Penetration Testing 10 8 (8.247 %) Telecoms 10 8 (8.247 %) Finance

10 8 (8.247 %) Legal 10 8 (8.247 %) Solaris 10 8 (8.247 %) Sophos 11 7 (7.216 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 6 (6.186 %) Unix 12 6 (6.186 %) .NET 13 5 (5.155 %) Perl 13 5 (5.155 %) VMware 14 4 (4.124 %) VMware ESX 14 4 (4.124 %) Programme Management 14 4 (4.124 %) Korn 14 4 (4.124 %) C# 14 4 (4.124 %) HPUX 14 4 (4.124 %) SAP 14 4 (4.124 %) XML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 6 (6.186 %) .NET 2 4 (4.124 %) XML 3 1 (1.031 %) AJAX 3 1 (1.031 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (1.031 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 1 (1.031 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (1.031 %) CSS 3 1 (1.031 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (7.216 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 3 (3.093 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.031 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (1.031 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (1.031 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (2.062 %) SAP HR 1 2 (2.062 %) SAP CRM 2 1 (1.031 %) SAP Payroll 2 1 (1.031 %) Dynamics AX 2 1 (1.031 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (1.031 %) Axapta
Communications & Networking 1 4 (4.124 %) DMZ 2 2 (2.062 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (2.062 %) DNS 2 2 (2.062 %) SAN 2 2 (2.062 %) Network Security 3 1 (1.031 %) VPN 3 1 (1.031 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.031 %) ATM 3 1 (1.031 %) WAN 3 1 (1.031 %) DHCP 3 1 (1.031 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.031 %) Extranet 3 1 (1.031 %) MPLS 3 1 (1.031 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (1.031 %) VLAN 3 1 (1.031 %) Cisco IPT 3 1 (1.031 %) NGN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.093 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.031 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (1.031 %) LoadRunner	General 1 26 (26.80 %) Government 2 8 (8.247 %) Legal 2 8 (8.247 %) Telecoms 2 8 (8.247 %) Finance 3 2 (2.062 %) Military 3 2 (2.062 %) Retail 4 1 (1.031 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.031 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 11 (11.34 %) CESG 2 10 (10.31 %) CESG CLAS 3 2 (2.062 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.031 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.031 %) RMADS	Operating Systems 1 22 (22.68 %) Windows 2 8 (8.247 %) Solaris 3 6 (6.186 %) Unix 4 4 (4.124 %) Linux 4 4 (4.124 %) HPUX 5 3 (3.093 %) Windows Vista 6 2 (2.062 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (1.031 %) Tru64 7 1 (1.031 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (1.031 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 71 (73.20 %) Security Cleared 2 47 (48.45 %) DV Cleared 3 14 (14.43 %) SC Cleared 4 13 (13.40 %) Information Security 5 9 (9.278 %) Ethical Hacking 5 9 (9.278 %) Penetration Testing 6 4 (4.124 %) Programme Management 7 3 (3.093 %) Network Design 7 3 (3.093 %) ITIL 7 3 (3.093 %) CRM 7 3 (3.093 %) Migration 8 2 (2.062 %) Service Management 8 2 (2.062 %) CMMI 8 2 (2.062 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (2.062 %) ERP 8 2 (2.062 %) RAD 8 2 (2.062 %) Systems Analysis 8 2 (2.062 %) Risk Management 9 1 (1.031 %) Business Development 9 1 (1.031 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 10 (10.31 %) C 2 5 (5.155 %) Perl 3 4 (4.124 %) Korn 3 4 (4.124 %) C# 4 3 (3.093 %) Shell Script 4 3 (3.093 %) SQL 5 1 (1.031 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (1.031 %) DHTML 5 1 (1.031 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 3 (3.093 %) CISSP 2 2 (2.062 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (2.062 %) CCNP 3 1 (1.031 %) CCDP 3 1 (1.031 %) MCP 3 1 (1.031 %) MCAD 3 1 (1.031 %) MCSD 3 1 (1.031 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.031 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (1.031 %) CCVP 3 1 (1.031 %) MCTS 3 1 (1.031 %) MCPD 3 1 (1.031 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.093 %) ISO27001 2 1 (1.031 %) JSP 440 2 1 (1.031 %) BS7799
System Software 1 14 (14.43 %) Active Directory 2 4 (4.124 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (3.093 %) ISA Server 4 2 (2.062 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 2 (2.062 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 1 (1.031 %) NFS 5 1 (1.031 %) MailMarshal	Vendors 1 10 (10.31 %) Cisco 2 8 (8.247 %) Sophos 3 5 (5.155 %) VMware 4 4 (4.124 %) SAP 4 4 (4.124 %) Microsoft 5 3 (3.093 %) HP 5 3 (3.093 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.031 %) Clearswift 6 1 (1.031 %) NEC