Knutsford Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the Knutsford 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 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Rank	17	5
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	17	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	12.59 %	16.67 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£392	£400
Average daily rate	£430	£408
% change on same period last year	+5.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£438	£415
% change on same period last year	+5.51 %
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	£32.81	£28.55
% change on same period last year	+14.90 %
Job Titles Knutsford
Matching contract IT job ads	135	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.178 %	0.019 %
Daily rates quoted	53	13
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£361
Average daily rate	£416	£366
% change on same period last year	+13.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£446	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.14	-
Average hourly rate	£36.07	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
Consultant Cheshire

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 Knutsford 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 Knutsford 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 Knutsford region over the 3 months to 8 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 Knutsford region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 10 (45.45 %) Unix 1 10 (45.45 %) Tivoli 2 7 (31.82 %) Middleware 2 7 (31.82 %) Shell Script 2 7 (31.82 %) AIX 3 6 (27.27 %) Solaris 3 6 (27.27 %) Windows 3 6 (27.27 %) Finance 3 6 (27.27 %) WebSphere 4 5 (22.73 %) WBIMB 4 5 (22.73 %) Tandem 4 5 (22.73 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 5 (22.73 %) HPUX 4 5 (22.73 %) Cisco 4 5 (22.73 %) Change Management

4 5 (22.73 %) WebSphere MQ 4 5 (22.73 %) Mainframe 5 4 (18.18 %) SSL 5 4 (18.18 %) Gentran 5 4 (18.18 %) OMEGAMON 6 3 (13.64 %) ServiceCenter 6 3 (13.64 %) Penetration Testing 6 3 (13.64 %) Banking 7 2 (9.091 %) Telecoms 7 2 (9.091 %) Perl 7 2 (9.091 %) Tivoli Monitoring 7 2 (9.091 %) IBM 7 2 (9.091 %) CISSP 7 2 (9.091 %) MQSeries 7 2 (9.091 %) HMG Infosec

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 7 (31.82 %) Middleware 2 6 (27.27 %) WebSphere 3 5 (22.73 %) WBIMB 4 1 (4.545 %) ISPF	Application Platforms 1 5 (22.73 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 5 (22.73 %) WebSphere MQ 2 4 (18.18 %) Gentran 3 2 (9.091 %) MQSeries
Communications & Networking 1 4 (18.18 %) SSL 2 1 (4.545 %) LDAP 2 1 (4.545 %) Firewall	General 1 6 (27.27 %) Finance 2 3 (13.64 %) Banking 3 2 (9.091 %) Telecoms 4 1 (4.545 %) Retail 4 1 (4.545 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (4.545 %) Auditing
Miscellaneous 1 5 (22.73 %) Tandem 1 5 (22.73 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 10 (45.45 %) Unix 2 7 (31.82 %) AIX 3 6 (27.27 %) Solaris 3 6 (27.27 %) Windows 4 5 (22.73 %) HPUX 5 1 (4.545 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (22.73 %) Change Management 2 3 (13.64 %) Penetration Testing 3 2 (9.091 %) Information Security 4 1 (4.545 %) Migration 4 1 (4.545 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 7 (31.82 %) Shell Script 2 2 (9.091 %) Perl 3 1 (4.545 %) REXX 3 1 (4.545 %) JCL
Qualifications 1 2 (9.091 %) CISSP 2 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (4.545 %) CCNP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (9.091 %) HMG Infosec
System Software 1 1 (4.545 %) RACF	Systems Management 1 10 (45.45 %) Tivoli 2 4 (18.18 %) OMEGAMON 3 3 (13.64 %) ServiceCenter 4 2 (9.091 %) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors 1 5 (22.73 %) Cisco 2 2 (9.091 %) IBM 3 1 (4.545 %) Juniper 3 1 (4.545 %) HP