Lancashire Functional Consultant Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Functional Consultant role in IT contracts within the Lancashire 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 Functional Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Functional Consultant
Location Andover Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire City of London East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Midlands North West Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Portsmouth Ramsgate Reading Scotland Solihull South East South West Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	32	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.391 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£516
% change on same period last year	-29.26 %
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	£52.70	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	256	409
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.513 %	0.512 %
Daily rates quoted	57	85
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£298
Average daily rate	£316	£316
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	82
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.19	£19.68
Average hourly rate	£22.05	£21.85
% change on same period last year	+0.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.90	£24.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Functional Consultant North West

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.

Functional Consultant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Functional Consultant across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Functional Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Functional Consultant across the Lancashire region.

Functional Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Consultant within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. 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	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
Blackpool	-	1	-	-

Functional Consultant North West

Functional Consultant
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Functional 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 Functional Consultant in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 3 (100.00 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) CRM 3 1 (33.33 %) General Ledger 3 1 (33.33 %) Resource Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Applications 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 11i

Functional Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Functional 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 Functional Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Applications	General 1 3 (100.00 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) General Ledger
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) CRM 2 1 (33.33 %) Resource Management	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle