The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk 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 Norfolk 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 28 9 15
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 4 28 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 2.186% 10.65% 8.302%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.312% 11.34% 8.871%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 8
Average daily rate £350 £400 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £389 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £475 £491
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%
All Job Titles
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
173 247 248
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 94.54% 93.92% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 116 74
Average daily rate £275 £315 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.69% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £232 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £455 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 16 30
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £25.75 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
East of England

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk 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
Norwich -7 3 £400 +3.22%
Consultant
East of England

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) WebSphere
2 3 (18.75%) HP
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (18.75%) Capita
2 3 (18.75%) Guidewire
3 2 (12.50%) Brocade
3 2 (12.50%) 3PAR
3 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Billing
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) SAN
3 2 (12.50%) NetApp
3 2 (12.50%) Tivoli
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (12.50%) Java EE
3 2 (12.50%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) XSLT
3 2 (12.50%) UNIX
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (6.250%) WebLogic
4 1 (6.250%) MS Project
4 1 (6.250%) MS Office
4 1 (6.250%) EJB
4 1 (6.250%) CSS

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 3 (18.75%) WebSphere
2 2 (12.50%) Java EE
2 2 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) XSLT
3 1 (6.250%) EJB
3 1 (6.250%) CSS
3 1 (6.250%) JDBC
3 1 (6.250%) JSP
3 1 (6.250%) Servlets
3 1 (6.250%) Struts
3 1 (6.250%) Web Services
3 1 (6.250%) .NET
3 1 (6.250%) J2EE
3 1 (6.250%) XHTML
3 1 (6.250%) JMS
3 1 (6.250%) XML Schema
3 1 (6.250%) XSL
3 1 (6.250%) JPA
3 1 (6.250%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (6.250%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.250%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Project
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.250%) XMetaL
1 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.250%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.250%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (6.250%) JUnit
1 1 (6.250%) JDeveloper
1 1 (6.250%) Log4j
1 1 (6.250%) Git (software)
1 1 (6.250%) JBehave
1 1 (6.250%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (12.50%) Billing
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Ontologies
1 1 (6.250%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (6.250%) UML
2 1 (6.250%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (6.250%) Programme Management
2 1 (6.250%) Project Management
2 1 (6.250%) RDF
2 1 (6.250%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 2 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) VBA
2 1 (6.250%) C
2 1 (6.250%) C#
2 1 (6.250%) C++
2 1 (6.250%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.250%) SCCM
2 1 (6.250%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) HP
2 3 (18.75%) Capita
2 3 (18.75%) Guidewire
3 2 (12.50%) Brocade
3 2 (12.50%) 3PAR
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (6.250%) JBoss
4 1 (6.250%) Coverity