The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool 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 22 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 Liverpool 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 15 12 14
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 8 19 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 5.333% 10.11% 5.625%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.442% 10.56% 5.960%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 2
Average daily rate £400 £315 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.98% -8.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £299 £309
10% offered a daily rate of more than £499 £355 £379
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
All Job Titles
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
147 180 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 98.00% 95.74% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 98 86
Average daily rate £325 £300 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £215 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £475 £472
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 13
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £16.61
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% -0.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.87 £9.64 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £100.00 £29.50 £22.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
Merseyside

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 5 (25.00%) SAP
1 5 (25.00%) Validation
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Business Objects
3 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.00%) Unica
4 2 (10.00%) Unica Affinium
4 2 (10.00%) Direct Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.00%) SAS
4 2 (10.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
4 2 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) UNIX
4 2 (10.00%) SAP R/3
5 1 (5.000%) SAP BI
5 1 (5.000%) Configuration Management

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.000%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) SAS
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.000%) CMS
2 1 (5.000%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Unica Affinium
1 2 (10.00%) SAP R/3
2 1 (5.000%) SAP HR
2 1 (5.000%) SAP APO
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.000%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) Intranet
1 1 (5.000%) Firewall
1 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) SAP BI
1 1 (5.000%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (5.000%) SAP BW
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.000%) Informix
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.000%) TOAD
1 1 (5.000%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Clustering
1 1 (5.000%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000
2 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (10.00%) UNIX
4 1 (5.000%) Tru64
4 1 (5.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Validation
2 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (10.00%) Direct Marketing
3 1 (5.000%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.000%) ERP
3 1 (5.000%) ETL
3 1 (5.000%) Business Analysis
3 1 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.000%) Document Management
3 1 (5.000%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.000%) Change Management
3 1 (5.000%) Migration
3 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.000%) Data Migration
3 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (5.000%) Database Tuning
3 1 (5.000%) Data Stewardship
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.000%) VBA
3 1 (5.000%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.000%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.000%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (5.000%) ISA Server
2 1 (5.000%) XenApp
2 1 (5.000%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) Tivoli
1 1 (5.000%) SCCM
1 1 (5.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) SAP
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Business Objects
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) Unica
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.000%) Citrix