Guildford Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the Guildford 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 Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Addlestone Aldershot Andover Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Corby Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Melrose Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes 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 Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Powys Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	21
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.935 %	5.128 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£400
Average daily rate	£325	£400
% change on same period last year	-18.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£434	£416
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
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	£30.48	£30.20
% change on same period last year	+0.93 %
Job Titles Guildford
Matching contract IT job ads	107	195
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.141 %	0.194 %
Daily rates quoted	36	51
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£364
Average daily rate	£330	£373
% change on same period last year	-11.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.58	£19.76
Average hourly rate	£17.91	£20.86
% change on same period last year	-14.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.25	£21.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Consultant Surrey

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 Guildford 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 Guildford 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 Consultant across the Guildford region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 3 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 1 3 (37.50 %) OLAP 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g 1 3 (37.50 %) Datawarehouse 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle Discoverer 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle OWB 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle OLAP 2 2 (25.00 %) Web Development 2 2 (25.00 %) HTML 2 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 2 2 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (25.00 %) VB

2 2 (25.00 %) .NET 3 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) SAN 3 1 (12.50 %) Hyperion 3 1 (12.50 %) NetApp 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (12.50 %) Smartcard 3 1 (12.50 %) Symantec 3 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (12.50 %) ETL 3 1 (12.50 %) Star Schema 3 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 2 (25.00 %) HTML 1 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (25.00 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) SAN 1 1 (12.50 %) NFC	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) OLAP 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g 1 3 (37.50 %) Datawarehouse 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle Discoverer 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle OWB 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle OLAP 2 1 (12.50 %) ETL 2 1 (12.50 %) Star Schema 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Mart
Development Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance 1 1 (12.50 %) Legal 1 1 (12.50 %) Games
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Smartcard 1 1 (12.50 %) Blackberry 1 1 (12.50 %) Handset 1 1 (12.50 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Web Development 2 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Migration 2 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 2 1 (12.50 %) Dimensional Modelling	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL 2 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 2 2 (25.00 %) VB
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) Hyperion 2 1 (12.50 %) NetApp 2 1 (12.50 %) Symantec 2 1 (12.50 %) IronPort