The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Consultant
Rank 350 363 397
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 27 52 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.125% 0.193% 0.145%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.135% 0.209% 0.157%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 35
Average daily rate £450 £400 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -15.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £335 £380
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £425 £370
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +14.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £41.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £13.05 £127.50
% change year-on-year
- -89.76%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Data Consultant
England

Data Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Data Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Consultant across the London region.

London Data Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Consultant across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Data Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Data Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Data Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Data Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Consultant within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +13 10 £450 -
Brentford - 2 £510 -
Data Consultant
England

Data Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Data 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 Data Consultant in their job title.

1 30 (50.00%) Migration
1 30 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 21 (35.00%) SAP
3 14 (23.33%) Oracle
3 14 (23.33%) SQL
4 13 (21.67%) Business Objects
4 13 (21.67%) SAP Data Services
5 11 (18.33%) BusinessObjects
6 10 (16.67%) ETL
6 10 (16.67%) Finance
7 9 (15.00%) Data Modelling
8 8 (13.33%) LSMW
9 7 (11.67%) Data Analysis
9 7 (11.67%) CRM
10 6 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (10.00%) Banking
11 5 (8.333%) Data Management
11 5 (8.333%) Validation
11 5 (8.333%) Siebel
11 5 (8.333%) Data Cleansing
11 5 (8.333%) Data Mapping
12 4 (6.667%) ERP
12 4 (6.667%) MS Excel
12 4 (6.667%) Microsoft
12 4 (6.667%) SQL Server
12 4 (6.667%) DB2
12 4 (6.667%) ERwin
12 4 (6.667%) Business Analysis
12 4 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services

Data Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Data 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 Data Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.667%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.667%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (6.667%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.667%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.667%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.333%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (3.333%) SAP PP
1 2 (3.333%) SAP Retail
2 1 (1.667%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.667%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.667%) Maximo
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.667%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.667%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.667%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.667%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.667%) Sage 50
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) SAP Data Services
2 11 (18.33%) BusinessObjects
3 6 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.667%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.667%) DB2
4 4 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.333%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.333%) Big Data
6 1 (1.667%) Spotfire
6 1 (1.667%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.667%) Oracle OWB
6 1 (1.667%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.667%) DataStage
6 1 (1.667%) SAP BI
6 1 (1.667%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.667%) MySQL
6 1 (1.667%) MS Access
6 1 (1.667%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) LSMW
2 4 (6.667%) ERwin
3 1 (1.667%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.667%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 10 (16.67%) Finance
2 6 (10.00%) Banking
3 3 (5.000%) Retail
3 3 (5.000%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.333%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (3.333%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.667%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.667%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.667%) Publishing
5 1 (1.667%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.000%) Visualisation
2 2 (3.333%) FMCG
2 2 (3.333%) NHS
2 2 (3.333%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.667%) Statistics
3 1 (1.667%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.667%) Clustering
3 1 (1.667%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.667%) Data Conversion
3 1 (1.667%) Data Integration
3 1 (1.667%) iSeries
3 1 (1.667%) SaaS
3 1 (1.667%) PaaS
3 1 (1.667%) IaaS
3 1 (1.667%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.667%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.333%) UNIX
1 2 (3.333%) Windows
1 2 (3.333%) Linux
2 1 (1.667%) zOS
2 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.00%) Migration
1 30 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 10 (16.67%) ETL
3 9 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (11.67%) Data Analysis
4 7 (11.67%) CRM
5 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (8.333%) Data Management
6 5 (8.333%) Validation
6 5 (8.333%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (8.333%) Data Mapping
7 4 (6.667%) ERP
7 4 (6.667%) Business Analysis
8 3 (5.000%) GAP Analysis
8 3 (5.000%) SOA
8 3 (5.000%) Data Governance
9 2 (3.333%) Data Visualisation
9 2 (3.333%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (3.333%) Data Transformation
9 2 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) SQL
2 3 (5.000%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.667%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.667%) Python
3 1 (1.667%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.667%) ABAP
3 1 (1.667%) C
3 1 (1.667%) C++
3 1 (1.667%) Perl
3 1 (1.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (3.333%) Degree
2 1 (1.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.333%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.667%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (1.667%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.667%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.667%) XenApp
1 1 (1.667%) XenServer
1 1 (1.667%) XenDesktop
1 1 (1.667%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (1.667%) SCCM
1 1 (1.667%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) SAP
2 14 (23.33%) Oracle
3 13 (21.67%) Business Objects
4 5 (8.333%) Siebel
5 4 (6.667%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.000%) IBM
6 3 (5.000%) Informatica
7 2 (3.333%) RainStor
7 2 (3.333%) Cognos
7 2 (3.333%) Teradata
8 1 (1.667%) Netezza
8 1 (1.667%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.667%) VMware
8 1 (1.667%) McKesson
8 1 (1.667%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.667%) Sage
8 1 (1.667%) Citrix
8 1 (1.667%) Cerner
8 1 (1.667%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.667%) Sybase