Manchester Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the Manchester 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 Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Addlestone Aldershot Andover Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Clackmannanshire Corby Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melrose Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spalding St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	7
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	112	125
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.149 %	0.126 %
As % of the category below	9.076 %	12.00 %
Daily rates quoted	29	39
Average minimum daily rate	£389	£364
Average daily rate	£415	£390
% change on same period last year	+6.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£435	£414
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£16.50	£26.25
% change on same period last year	-37.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.39	£29.55
% change on same period last year	+6.23 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1234	1042
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.645 %	1.054 %
Daily rates quoted	230	212
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£313
Average daily rate	£333	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	182	116
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.04	£17.86
Average hourly rate	£20.90	£19.30
% change on same period last year	+8.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.77	£20.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Sale	-	1	£450	-
Rochdale	+2	1	-	-
Salford	-3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 98 (43.56 %) SAP 2 49 (21.78 %) Finance 3 29 (12.89 %) SAP CO 4 24 (10.67 %) SAP FI 5 23 (10.22 %) SAP FI/CO 6 21 (9.333 %) Windows 7 20 (8.889 %) AIX 7 20 (8.889 %) Tivoli 7 20 (8.889 %) Middleware 8 19 (8.444 %) SQL 9 18 (8.000 %) Solaris 10 17 (7.556 %) ABAP 10 17 (7.556 %) SAP SD 11 16 (7.111 %) Oracle 11 16 (7.111 %) HPUX

12 14 (6.222 %) Change Management 13 13 (5.778 %) Shell Script 13 13 (5.778 %) Mainframe 14 12 (5.333 %) Tandem 14 12 (5.333 %) Migration 14 12 (5.333 %) ITIL 14 12 (5.333 %) UNIX 14 12 (5.333 %) OMEGAMON 15 11 (4.889 %) Retail 16 10 (4.444 %) Information Security 16 10 (4.444 %) Project Management 16 10 (4.444 %) SAN 16 10 (4.444 %) SAP BW 17 9 (4.000 %) CISSP 18 8 (3.556 %) Cisco

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 20 (8.889 %) Middleware 2 4 (1.778 %) SAP Basis 3 3 (1.333 %) WebSphere 4 2 (0.889 %) BAPI 4 2 (0.889 %) SAP CO-PA 4 2 (0.889 %) SAP Business Workflow 5 1 (0.444 %) SAP XI 5 1 (0.444 %) SAP BC 5 1 (0.444 %) HTML 5 1 (0.444 %) .NET 5 1 (0.444 %) WebServices 5 1 (0.444 %) XML 5 1 (0.444 %) EDI 5 1 (0.444 %) JavaBeans	Application Platforms 1 5 (2.222 %) NetWeaver 2 3 (1.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (1.333 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (0.889 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (0.889 %) Oracle Workflow 3 2 (0.889 %) Tuxedo 4 1 (0.444 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.444 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (0.444 %) IIS 4 1 (0.444 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (0.444 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (0.444 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (0.444 %) GroupWise 4 1 (0.444 %) Gentran 4 1 (0.444 %) Oracle Application Server 4 1 (0.444 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (0.444 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 1 (0.444 %) MS Office 1 1 (0.444 %) MS Excel 1 1 (0.444 %) DOC1 1 1 (0.444 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 29 (12.89 %) SAP CO 2 24 (10.67 %) SAP FI 3 23 (10.22 %) SAP FI/CO 4 17 (7.556 %) SAP SD 5 7 (3.111 %) SAP R/3 6 5 (2.222 %) SAP APO 7 4 (1.778 %) SAP IS-U 7 4 (1.778 %) Hyperion Planning 8 3 (1.333 %) SAP SRM 8 3 (1.333 %) Oracle iRecruitment 8 3 (1.333 %) Oracle HRMS 8 3 (1.333 %) SAP MM 8 3 (1.333 %) Oracle Financials 8 3 (1.333 %) SAP HR 9 2 (0.889 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 9 2 (0.889 %) SAP PP 9 2 (0.889 %) Oracle Applications 9 2 (0.889 %) SAP CRM 9 2 (0.889 %) SAP SEM 9 2 (0.889 %) SAP Retail
Communications & Networking 1 10 (4.444 %) SAN 2 7 (3.111 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (1.778 %) Internet 4 3 (1.333 %) VoIP 5 2 (0.889 %) SNA 5 2 (0.889 %) Firewall 6 1 (0.444 %) BIG-IP 6 1 (0.444 %) VLAN 6 1 (0.444 %) Network Security 6 1 (0.444 %) MPLS 6 1 (0.444 %) SSL 6 1 (0.444 %) VPN 6 1 (0.444 %) HTTP 6 1 (0.444 %) GSM 6 1 (0.444 %) SDH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (4.444 %) SAP BW 2 6 (2.667 %) Datawarehouse 3 5 (2.222 %) SQL Server 3 5 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (1.778 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 4 (1.778 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 3 (1.333 %) OLAP 5 3 (1.333 %) BusinessObjects 6 2 (0.889 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (0.889 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 2 (0.889 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (0.889 %) SAP BI 6 2 (0.889 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (0.444 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (0.444 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.444 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.444 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (0.444 %) PowerCenter 7 1 (0.444 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 2 (0.889 %) PeopleTools 1 2 (0.889 %) LSMW 2 1 (0.444 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 49 (21.78 %) Finance 2 11 (4.889 %) Retail 3 7 (3.111 %) Legal 4 6 (2.667 %) Billing 5 5 (2.222 %) Manufacturing 5 5 (2.222 %) Government 6 4 (1.778 %) Telecoms 6 4 (1.778 %) Pensions 7 3 (1.333 %) Local Government 7 3 (1.333 %) Health 7 3 (1.333 %) Banking 8 2 (0.889 %) General Ledger 9 1 (0.444 %) Auditing 9 1 (0.444 %) FMCG 9 1 (0.444 %) Automotive 9 1 (0.444 %) Education 9 1 (0.444 %) Pharmaceutical 9 1 (0.444 %) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous 1 13 (5.778 %) Mainframe 2 12 (5.333 %) Tandem 3 7 (3.111 %) HACMP 4 5 (2.222 %) Data Integration 5 3 (1.333 %) Polish Language 6 2 (0.889 %) CMDB 6 2 (0.889 %) E-Learning 7 1 (0.444 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.444 %) Handset 7 1 (0.444 %) Blog 7 1 (0.444 %) Video Conferencing 7 1 (0.444 %) PKI 7 1 (0.444 %) Italian Language	Operating Systems 1 21 (9.333 %) Windows 2 20 (8.889 %) AIX 3 18 (8.000 %) Solaris 4 16 (7.111 %) HPUX 5 12 (5.333 %) UNIX 6 5 (2.222 %) Windows 2000 6 5 (2.222 %) Windows NT 7 2 (0.889 %) MVS 8 1 (0.444 %) Windows Mobile 8 1 (0.444 %) zOS 8 1 (0.444 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (6.222 %) Change Management 2 12 (5.333 %) Migration 2 12 (5.333 %) ITIL 3 10 (4.444 %) Project Management 3 10 (4.444 %) Information Security 4 8 (3.556 %) Risk Analysis 4 8 (3.556 %) ERP 4 8 (3.556 %) Business Intelligence 5 7 (3.111 %) Test Scripting 5 7 (3.111 %) Workflow 6 5 (2.222 %) CRM 6 5 (2.222 %) GAP Analysis 7 4 (1.778 %) Risk Management 7 4 (1.778 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 4 (1.778 %) Security Cleared 8 3 (1.333 %) Time Management 8 3 (1.333 %) Requirements Analysis 9 2 (0.889 %) Unit Testing 9 2 (0.889 %) Software Engineering 9 2 (0.889 %) Knowledge Management	Programming Languages 1 19 (8.444 %) SQL 2 17 (7.556 %) ABAP 3 13 (5.778 %) Shell Script 4 7 (3.111 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (1.333 %) Transact-SQL 5 3 (1.333 %) Java 6 2 (0.889 %) Perl 6 2 (0.889 %) VB 6 2 (0.889 %) SAPscript 6 2 (0.889 %) Korn 7 1 (0.444 %) PeopleCode 7 1 (0.444 %) C 7 1 (0.444 %) C++
Qualifications 1 9 (4.000 %) CISSP 2 6 (2.667 %) Citrix Certification 3 3 (1.333 %) SAP Certification 4 2 (0.889 %) Degree 4 2 (0.889 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (0.444 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (0.444 %) MCSE 5 1 (0.444 %) CCNP 5 1 (0.444 %) CCNA 5 1 (0.444 %) CCA 5 1 (0.444 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (0.444 %) IBM Certification 5 1 (0.444 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (3.556 %) BS7799 1 8 (3.556 %) ISO27001 2 5 (2.222 %) QA 3 1 (0.444 %) PCI DSS 3 1 (0.444 %) ISO9000
System Software 1 6 (2.667 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 4 (1.778 %) Active Directory 3 3 (1.333 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (0.889 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.444 %) Terminal Server 5 1 (0.444 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 20 (8.889 %) Tivoli 2 12 (5.333 %) OMEGAMON 3 7 (3.111 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 98 (43.56 %) SAP 2 16 (7.111 %) Oracle 3 8 (3.556 %) Cisco 4 7 (3.111 %) HP 5 5 (2.222 %) Microsoft 6 4 (1.778 %) EMC 6 4 (1.778 %) Citrix 6 4 (1.778 %) IBM 6 4 (1.778 %) Hyperion 7 3 (1.333 %) VERITAS 7 3 (1.333 %) Business Objects 7 3 (1.333 %) PeopleSoft 8 2 (0.889 %) Remedy 8 2 (0.889 %) Kerridge 8 2 (0.889 %) VMware 9 1 (0.444 %) Teradata 9 1 (0.444 %) Capita 9 1 (0.444 %) Polycom 9 1 (0.444 %) Cramer 9 1 (0.444 %) Sun