Technical Consultant Contracts in Lancashire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Consultant
Rank 23 43 25
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 7 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 3.571% 0.231% 2.679%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.743% 0.248% 2.899%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
Average daily rate £388 £383 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.30% +16.79%
UK excluding London average daily rate £415 £419 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.89% +4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -52.85%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 187 403 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 95.41% 93.29% 92.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 223 88
Average daily rate £288 £365 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.23% +21.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £256 £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 18 33
Average hourly rate £19.04 £14.90 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.78% -60.78%
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 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Consultant
North West

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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
Lytham St Annes +9 6 £450 +17.64%
Technical Consultant
North West

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 6 (46.15%) HP
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
1 6 (46.15%) MS Exchange
1 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Apple iOS
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (38.46%) F5
2 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) IronPort
2 5 (38.46%) AIX
2 5 (38.46%) HPUX
2 5 (38.46%) Solaris
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) CA
2 5 (38.46%) Unicenter
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (38.46%) Tivoli
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (15.38%) C
5 1 (7.692%) Perl
5 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.692%) SQL
5 1 (7.692%) VB
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle Discoverer

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (7.692%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) MS Exchange
2 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (7.692%) Lync
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) SAN
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
1 1 (7.692%) Wireless
1 1 (7.692%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (7.692%) MSI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
1 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Apple iOS
2 5 (38.46%) AIX
2 5 (38.46%) HPUX
2 5 (38.46%) Solaris
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 1 (7.692%) Change Control
2 1 (7.692%) Project Management
2 1 (7.692%) E-business
2 1 (7.692%) Identity Management
2 1 (7.692%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) C
3 1 (7.692%) Perl
3 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.692%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) VB
3 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Unicenter
1 5 (38.46%) Tivoli
2 1 (7.692%) SCCM
2 1 (7.692%) SCOM
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) HP
2 5 (38.46%) CA
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) IronPort
2 5 (38.46%) F5
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) Dell
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix
4 1 (7.692%) VMware
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