The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire 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 17 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 Hampshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Consultant
Rank 89 84 96
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 15 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.969% 0.936% 0.595%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.040% 0.995% 0.635%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 3
Average daily rate £420 £381 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.16% +19.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £315 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £430 £436
UK excluding London average daily rate £415 £419 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.89% +4.68%
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
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1443 1508 1731
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 93.22% 94.07% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 700 725
Average daily rate £350 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £240 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 221 241
Average hourly rate £17.50 £21.75 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.54% -22.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.49 £11.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Consultant
South East

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Technical Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Consultant across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hampshire Technical Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Technical Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Consultant within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Basingstoke -14 3 £420 +24.44%
Portsmouth +5 1 £288 -1.70%
Southampton - 1 £288 -
Fareham - 1 £288 -
Andover - 1 - -
Technical Consultant
South East

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 12 (63.16%) VMware
2 11 (57.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
4 8 (42.11%) Migration
5 7 (36.84%) HP
5 7 (36.84%) MS Excel
5 7 (36.84%) vSphere
6 6 (31.58%) HP SIM
6 6 (31.58%) Windows
6 6 (31.58%) NetApp
7 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
7 5 (26.32%) Oracle
7 5 (26.32%) LAN
7 5 (26.32%) WAN
7 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
8 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
8 4 (21.05%) Open Source
8 4 (21.05%) Time Management
8 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
8 4 (21.05%) Java
8 4 (21.05%) Perl
8 4 (21.05%) PHP
8 4 (21.05%) Linux
8 4 (21.05%) Apache
8 4 (21.05%) Juniper
8 4 (21.05%) LDAP
8 4 (21.05%) SAML
9 3 (15.79%) Identity Management
9 3 (15.79%) SAN

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 4 (21.05%) SAML
2 1 (5.263%) Web Dynpro
2 1 (5.263%) COM
2 1 (5.263%) RSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Apache
2 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
2 3 (15.79%) GlassFish
3 1 (5.263%) Lync
3 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) SAP HR
1 1 (5.263%) Maximo
1 1 (5.263%) SAP FI-GL
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) LAN
1 5 (26.32%) WAN
2 4 (21.05%) LDAP
3 3 (15.79%) SAN
3 3 (15.79%) IPsec
4 2 (10.53%) SSL
5 1 (5.263%) VPN
5 1 (5.263%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SAP BW
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.263%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.263%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.263%) Retail
3 1 (5.263%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 4 (21.05%) Open Source
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 3 (15.79%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (21.05%) Time Management
4 3 (15.79%) Identity Management
4 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
4 3 (15.79%) ERP
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.263%) Project Management
6 1 (5.263%) Data Modelling
6 1 (5.263%) Risk Management
6 1 (5.263%) Validation
6 1 (5.263%) Information Security
6 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.263%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (5.263%) Data Validation
6 1 (5.263%) Performance Improvement
6 1 (5.263%) Change Control
6 1 (5.263%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Java
1 4 (21.05%) Perl
1 4 (21.05%) PHP
2 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.263%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) VCP5
2 1 (5.263%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) IBM Certification
2 1 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (36.84%) vSphere
3 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
4 3 (15.79%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) VMware
2 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (36.84%) HP
4 6 (31.58%) NetApp
5 5 (26.32%) Oracle
6 4 (21.05%) Juniper
7 3 (15.79%) SAP
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco
8 1 (5.263%) IBM
8 1 (5.263%) Siebel
8 1 (5.263%) Wyse
8 1 (5.263%) 3Com
8 1 (5.263%) Dell