The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire 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 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 Lancashire 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 10 11 12
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 23 40 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 11.44% 9.281% 9.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.98% 9.950% 9.756%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 12
Average daily rate £375 £325 £391
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -16.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £640 £497
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £401
% change year-on-year
- +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £23.50 - £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.71%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
192 402 205
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 95.52% 93.27% 92.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 223 88
Average daily rate £285 £365 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.91% +21.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £261 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 22 33
Average hourly rate £19.04 £18.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.77% -52.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.50 £19.56
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £41.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
North West

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Lancashire Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Lytham St Annes +8 6 £450 +29.03%
Preston +18 4 £375 -14.86%
Blackburn - 1 - -
Consultant
North West

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 26 (47.27%) Oracle
2 12 (21.82%) Migration
2 12 (21.82%) Windows
3 11 (20.00%) Internet
3 11 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
4 10 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
4 10 (18.18%) SQL
5 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
6 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
7 7 (12.73%) HP
7 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (12.73%) Oracle Identity Management
8 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
8 6 (10.91%) MS Exchange
8 6 (10.91%) Linux
8 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (9.091%) Tivoli
9 5 (9.091%) Unicenter
9 5 (9.091%) Red Hat
9 5 (9.091%) Workflow
9 5 (9.091%) Finance
9 5 (9.091%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (9.091%) AIX
9 5 (9.091%) HPUX
9 5 (9.091%) Solaris
9 5 (9.091%) XML
9 5 (9.091%) SAP
9 5 (9.091%) CA
9 5 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (9.091%) Data Migration

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 5 (9.091%) XML
2 4 (7.273%) Web Services
3 3 (5.455%) SOAP
4 2 (3.636%) SAML
4 2 (3.636%) BAPI
4 2 (3.636%) soapUI
4 2 (3.636%) REST
5 1 (1.818%) Application Packaging
5 1 (1.818%) jQuery
5 1 (1.818%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.818%) HTML
5 1 (1.818%) .NET
5 1 (1.818%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.91%) MS Exchange
2 5 (9.091%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (3.636%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.636%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.818%) Lync
4 1 (1.818%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (1.818%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (5.455%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (3.636%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (3.636%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.818%) SAP Business One
4 1 (1.818%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (1.818%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.00%) Internet
2 3 (5.455%) HTTP
3 2 (3.636%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.636%) Wireless
4 1 (1.818%) NAS
4 1 (1.818%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.818%) SAN
4 1 (1.818%) Intranet
4 1 (1.818%) Firewall
4 1 (1.818%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.818%) LAN
4 1 (1.818%) WLAN
4 1 (1.818%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
2 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.455%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (5.455%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (5.455%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (3.636%) SAP BI
4 2 (3.636%) MS Access
4 2 (3.636%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.636%) TOAD
4 2 (3.636%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (3.636%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (3.636%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.818%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.818%) OLTP
5 1 (1.818%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.818%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (3.636%) LSMW
1 2 (3.636%) WATIR
1 2 (3.636%) Selenium
1 2 (3.636%) FitNesse
2 1 (1.818%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.818%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.818%) MSI
General
1 5 (9.091%) Finance
2 3 (5.455%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.636%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.818%) Banking
4 1 (1.818%) Retail
4 1 (1.818%) Local Government
4 1 (1.818%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.636%) Management Information System
1 2 (3.636%) Data Integration
1 2 (3.636%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.818%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.82%) Windows
2 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (10.91%) Linux
3 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (9.091%) AIX
4 5 (9.091%) HPUX
4 5 (9.091%) Solaris
4 5 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.091%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.636%) UNIX
6 1 (1.818%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.818%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.82%) Migration
2 5 (9.091%) Information Management
2 5 (9.091%) Data Migration
2 5 (9.091%) Workflow
3 4 (7.273%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (7.273%) ETL
3 4 (7.273%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (5.455%) SOA
4 3 (5.455%) Waterfall
5 2 (3.636%) Change Control
5 2 (3.636%) Unit Testing
5 2 (3.636%) System Testing
5 2 (3.636%) RAD
5 2 (3.636%) ERP
5 2 (3.636%) Configuration Management
5 2 (3.636%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (3.636%) Identity Management
6 1 (1.818%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (1.818%) BPEL
6 1 (1.818%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) SQL
2 5 (9.091%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.273%) PL/SQL
3 4 (7.273%) C
4 3 (5.455%) C#
4 3 (5.455%) Java
4 3 (5.455%) ABAP
5 2 (3.636%) Python
5 2 (3.636%) Ruby
5 2 (3.636%) C++
5 2 (3.636%) PHP
6 1 (1.818%) VB
6 1 (1.818%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.818%) Perl
6 1 (1.818%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.636%) BC Cleared
3 2 (3.636%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.636%) MCSE
4 1 (1.818%) MCSA
4 1 (1.818%) CCA
4 1 (1.818%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.818%) CCEA
4 1 (1.818%) MCITP
4 1 (1.818%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.636%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.636%) QA
1 2 (3.636%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.818%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (3.636%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.636%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.818%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.818%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Oracle Identity Management
2 5 (9.091%) Unicenter
2 5 (9.091%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.818%) SCCM
3 1 (1.818%) SCOM
3 1 (1.818%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (47.27%) Oracle
2 7 (12.73%) HP
3 5 (9.091%) SAP
3 5 (9.091%) CA
3 5 (9.091%) Red Hat
3 5 (9.091%) IronPort
3 5 (9.091%) F5
4 3 (5.455%) VMware
5 2 (3.636%) Informatica
5 2 (3.636%) Citrix
5 2 (3.636%) Trillium
5 2 (3.636%) Cisco
5 2 (3.636%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.636%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.818%) Dell
6 1 (1.818%) AirMagnet