Milton Keynes Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the Milton Keynes 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	9	27
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	93	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.054 %
As % of the category below	10.47 %	6.310 %
Daily rates quoted	39	13
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£366
Average daily rate	£343	£378
% change on same period last year	-9.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£435	£414
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.17	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£38.50	£10.00
% change on same period last year	+284.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.83	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.39	£29.55
% change on same period last year	+6.23 %
Job Titles Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	888	840
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.184 %	0.850 %
Daily rates quoted	270	170
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£297
Average daily rate	£338	£316
% change on same period last year	+6.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	116	103
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.75	£19.47
Average hourly rate	£20.41	£20.38
% change on same period last year	+0.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.06	£21.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Consultant Buckinghamshire

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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

1 138 (64.79 %) Security Cleared 2 82 (38.50 %) SC Cleared 3 76 (35.68 %) Windows 4 64 (30.05 %) Migration 5 54 (25.35 %) Government 6 36 (16.90 %) Finance 6 36 (16.90 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 36 (16.90 %) Cisco 7 34 (15.96 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 32 (15.02 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 30 (14.08 %) LAN 9 30 (14.08 %) WAN 10 26 (12.21 %) DV Cleared 10 26 (12.21 %) Cisco Certification 11 25 (11.74 %) CCNP

11 25 (11.74 %) Active Directory 12 24 (11.27 %) MS Exchange 12 24 (11.27 %) HP 13 23 (10.80 %) Internet 13 23 (10.80 %) Oracle 14 22 (10.33 %) Intranet 15 20 (9.390 %) Windows Server 2003 15 20 (9.390 %) Telecoms 16 19 (8.920 %) MCSE 16 19 (8.920 %) Microsoft Certification 17 18 (8.451 %) OpenView 17 18 (8.451 %) Legal 17 18 (8.451 %) Windows Vista 18 17 (7.981 %) Microsoft 19 12 (5.634 %) SAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (0.939 %) .NET 2 1 (0.469 %) J2EE 2 1 (0.469 %) ASP 2 1 (0.469 %) WebServices 2 1 (0.469 %) XML 2 1 (0.469 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 34 (15.96 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 32 (15.02 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 24 (11.27 %) MS Exchange 4 10 (4.695 %) ArcGIS 4 10 (4.695 %) ArcSDE 4 10 (4.695 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 7 (3.286 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 4 (1.878 %) BizTalk Server 7 1 (0.469 %) WebLogic 7 1 (0.469 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (0.469 %) Apache 7 1 (0.469 %) MQSeries 7 1 (0.469 %) SharePoint 7 1 (0.469 %) ESB 7 1 (0.469 %) Oracle BPEL
Applications 1 1 (0.469 %) MS Visio 1 1 (0.469 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (0.469 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (0.469 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (0.469 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (0.469 %) SAP CRM 1 1 (0.469 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 30 (14.08 %) LAN 1 30 (14.08 %) WAN 2 23 (10.80 %) Internet 3 22 (10.33 %) Intranet 4 12 (5.634 %) SAN 5 10 (4.695 %) DHCP 5 10 (4.695 %) Firewall 6 9 (4.225 %) DNS 7 7 (3.286 %) VLAN 8 6 (2.817 %) SSH 8 6 (2.817 %) SNMP 9 3 (1.408 %) 3G 10 2 (0.939 %) VoIP 10 2 (0.939 %) Wireless 10 2 (0.939 %) IP Telephony 11 1 (0.469 %) IPCC 11 1 (0.469 %) Intrusion Detection 11 1 (0.469 %) Network Security 11 1 (0.469 %) OSPF	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (4.695 %) Oracle 10g 1 10 (4.695 %) GIS 2 2 (0.939 %) DB2 3 1 (0.469 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (0.469 %) Data Cleansing 3 1 (0.469 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 3 (1.408 %) TestDirector 2 2 (0.939 %) Eclipse	General 1 54 (25.35 %) Government 2 36 (16.90 %) Finance 3 20 (9.390 %) Telecoms 4 18 (8.451 %) Legal 5 5 (2.347 %) Banking 5 5 (2.347 %) Retail 6 2 (0.939 %) Billing 6 2 (0.939 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.469 %) Automotive 7 1 (0.469 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.469 %) Military 7 1 (0.469 %) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous 1 2 (0.939 %) Mainframe 1 2 (0.939 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (0.469 %) Data Conversion 2 1 (0.469 %) Replication 2 1 (0.469 %) Clustering 2 1 (0.469 %) CESG 2 1 (0.469 %) CESG CLAS	Operating Systems 1 76 (35.68 %) Windows 2 20 (9.390 %) Windows Server 2003 3 18 (8.451 %) Windows Vista 4 11 (5.164 %) Windows NT 5 5 (2.347 %) Solaris 6 4 (1.878 %) Linux 6 4 (1.878 %) HPUX 7 3 (1.408 %) UNIX 7 3 (1.408 %) Windows XP 8 1 (0.469 %) NetWare 8 1 (0.469 %) Windows 2000 8 1 (0.469 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 138 (64.79 %) Security Cleared 2 82 (38.50 %) SC Cleared 3 64 (30.05 %) Migration 4 26 (12.21 %) DV Cleared 5 12 (5.634 %) Network Design 6 8 (3.756 %) ITIL 7 7 (3.286 %) Operations Management 8 5 (2.347 %) System Testing 9 4 (1.878 %) Performance Management 9 4 (1.878 %) Data Migration 9 4 (1.878 %) Test Scripting 10 3 (1.408 %) Data Protection 10 3 (1.408 %) Release Management 10 3 (1.408 %) Change Management 10 3 (1.408 %) ITSM 11 2 (0.939 %) CRM 11 2 (0.939 %) Problem Management 11 2 (0.939 %) Data Analysis 12 1 (0.469 %) Logistics 12 1 (0.469 %) Systems Analysis	Programming Languages 1 9 (4.225 %) SQL 2 3 (1.408 %) COBOL 2 3 (1.408 %) Java 3 2 (0.939 %) C# 3 2 (0.939 %) JCL 4 1 (0.469 %) VBScript 4 1 (0.469 %) VB.NET 4 1 (0.469 %) C 4 1 (0.469 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 26 (12.21 %) Cisco Certification 2 25 (11.74 %) CCNP 3 19 (8.920 %) MCSE 3 19 (8.920 %) Microsoft Certification 4 6 (2.817 %) CNE 4 6 (2.817 %) Novell Certification 5 5 (2.347 %) ISEB 6 4 (1.878 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 7 2 (0.939 %) CISSP 7 2 (0.939 %) CCA 7 2 (0.939 %) Citrix Certification 8 1 (0.469 %) CCEA 8 1 (0.469 %) CCIE 8 1 (0.469 %) CCNA 8 1 (0.469 %) HND 8 1 (0.469 %) CIPD 8 1 (0.469 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (3.286 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 4 (1.878 %) GAAP 3 3 (1.408 %) QA 4 1 (0.469 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 25 (11.74 %) Active Directory 2 4 (1.878 %) NetBackup 3 3 (1.408 %) Oracle RAC 3 3 (1.408 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (0.939 %) MailMarshal 5 1 (0.469 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 5 1 (0.469 %) AquaLogic 5 1 (0.469 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 36 (16.90 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 18 (8.451 %) OpenView 3 12 (5.634 %) OVOW 4 7 (3.286 %) HP Data Protector 5 5 (2.347 %) OVPI 6 3 (1.408 %) OVPA 6 3 (1.408 %) CiscoWorks 7 1 (0.469 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 1 (0.469 %) OVOU
Vendors 1 36 (16.90 %) Cisco 2 24 (11.27 %) HP 3 23 (10.80 %) Oracle 4 17 (7.981 %) Microsoft 5 10 (4.695 %) ESRI 6 6 (2.817 %) SAP 7 5 (2.347 %) CA 7 5 (2.347 %) AppSense 8 4 (1.878 %) VMware 8 4 (1.878 %) VERITAS 8 4 (1.878 %) IBM 9 3 (1.408 %) Compaq 9 3 (1.408 %) Citrix 9 3 (1.408 %) Symantec 10 1 (0.469 %) McAfee Security 10 1 (0.469 %) Lotus 10 1 (0.469 %) Apple 10 1 (0.469 %) Endeca 10 1 (0.469 %) PlateSpin 10 1 (0.469 %) Novell