Consultant IT Contracts in Merseyside
 
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 Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 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 Merseyside 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
Consultant
Rank 23 16 22
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 8 19 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 3.960% 7.280% 3.629%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.103% 7.692% 3.913%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 2
Average daily rate £350 £330 £456
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -27.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £401
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £350 £511
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 £32.75 £32.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -6.42%
Search 3 Consultant jobs in Merseyside
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 195 247 230
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.53% 94.64% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 113 111
Average daily rate £330 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £188 £134
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £430 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 44 35
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.76 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.22% +18.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £11.71 £11.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £83.70 £25.00 £22.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
North West

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool -4 6 £350 +11.11%
Consultant
North West

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 (23.81%) SAP
2 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Validation
3 3 (14.29%) Business Objects
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (9.524%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (9.524%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (9.524%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.524%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (9.524%) Marketing
4 2 (9.524%) WebSphere
4 2 (9.524%) Unica
4 2 (9.524%) Unica Affinium
4 2 (9.524%) Direct Marketing
4 2 (9.524%) SCCM
4 2 (9.524%) SCOM
4 2 (9.524%) Active Directory
4 2 (9.524%) SAP BW
4 2 (9.524%) Citrix
4 2 (9.524%) UNIX
4 2 (9.524%) SAS
4 2 (9.524%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (9.524%) Oracle

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 (9.524%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.762%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) SAS
1 2 (9.524%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.762%) CMS
2 1 (4.762%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Unica Affinium
1 2 (9.524%) SAP APO
1 2 (9.524%) SAP R/3
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.762%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (4.762%) SAP HR
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) Intranet
1 1 (4.762%) Firewall
1 1 (4.762%) DHCP
1 1 (4.762%) HTTP
1 1 (4.762%) DNS
1 1 (4.762%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) SAP BW
2 1 (4.762%) Informix
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.762%) TOAD
2 1 (4.762%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.762%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.524%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Clustering
1 1 (4.762%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (9.524%) Windows 2000 Server
2 2 (9.524%) UNIX
2 2 (9.524%) Windows 2000
3 1 (4.762%) Tru64
3 1 (4.762%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) Validation
2 2 (9.524%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (9.524%) Direct Marketing
2 2 (9.524%) Migration
3 1 (4.762%) Configuration Management
3 1 (4.762%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.762%) Change Management
3 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (4.762%) Document Management
3 1 (4.762%) ERP
3 1 (4.762%) ETL
3 1 (4.762%) Data Migration
3 1 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (4.762%) Business Analysis
3 1 (4.762%) Database Tuning
3 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (4.762%) Data Stewardship
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 2 (9.524%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.762%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.762%) VBA
3 1 (4.762%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.524%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.762%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (4.762%) ISA Server
3 1 (4.762%) XenApp
3 1 (4.762%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) SCCM
1 2 (9.524%) SCOM
2 1 (4.762%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.762%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 3 (14.29%) Business Objects
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.524%) Unica
3 2 (9.524%) Citrix
3 2 (9.524%) Oracle
3 2 (9.524%) VMware
4 1 (4.762%) NetApp
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