The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax 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 20 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 Halifax 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 21 29 18
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 3 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 1.829% 0.448% 5.310%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.948% 0.469% 5.714%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £250 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -47.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £7.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -2.34%
All Job Titles
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
154 213 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 93.90% 95.52% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 189 75
Average daily rate £380 £380 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £7.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
West Yorkshire

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Halifax Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Credit Risk
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Fraud Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) HTTP
5 1 (11.11%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) Citrix
5 1 (11.11%) Informatica
5 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 1 (11.11%) SAP HR
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (11.11%) Internet
5 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
5 1 (11.11%) Benchmarking
5 1 (11.11%) BPR
5 1 (11.11%) MSI
5 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
5 1 (11.11%) SQL

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MSI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Credit Risk
1 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) E-Learning
2 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
2 1 (11.11%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Fraud Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Data Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Benchmarking
4 1 (11.11%) BPR
4 1 (11.11%) SEO
4 1 (11.11%) Business Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Insight
4 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
1 1 (11.11%) VB
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
1 1 (11.11%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) HP
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix
1 1 (11.11%) Informatica
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Business Objects
1 1 (11.11%) SAP
1 1 (11.11%) LANDesk
1 1 (11.11%) DataFlux
Halifax, Yorkshire
BPI, BPR, SHA, SHR, SLM, TV).Experience with creating RTSM views (Instance/Pattern) and building TQL.In depth knowledge of SiteScope/System Health.Working knowledge of Windows 2003/...
Rate: £480 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013