Technical Consultant Contracts in the North West
 
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 Technical Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 North West 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Consultant
Rank 109 128 120
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 10 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.424% 0.222% 0.332%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.454% 0.242% 0.358%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 9
Average daily rate £418 £363 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.17% +10.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £318 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £380 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £415 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.35% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -52.85%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2202 2887 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.27% 91.53% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1041 1432 1395
Average daily rate £333 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.30% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 174 190
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.30 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Consultant
England

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Technical Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Technical Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Consultant across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West Technical Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Technical Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Consultant within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Lancashire +17 7 £388 +1.30%
Manchester +12 1 £450 +24.13%
Merseyside - 1 - -
Technical Consultant
England

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title.

1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) HP
2 7 (26.92%) Migration
2 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (23.08%) Citrix
3 6 (23.08%) Red Hat
3 6 (23.08%) MS Exchange
3 6 (23.08%) AIX
3 6 (23.08%) HPUX
3 6 (23.08%) Solaris
4 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (19.23%) CA
4 5 (19.23%) Tivoli
4 5 (19.23%) Unicenter
4 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
4 5 (19.23%) IronPort
4 5 (19.23%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (19.23%) F5
4 5 (19.23%) Apple iOS
5 4 (15.38%) SCCM
5 4 (15.38%) Workflow
5 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
5 4 (15.38%) .NET
6 3 (11.54%) Oracle
6 3 (11.54%) CRM

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (3.846%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) MS Exchange
2 5 (19.23%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.846%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (3.846%) CMS
4 1 (3.846%) Umbraco
4 1 (3.846%) Lync
4 1 (3.846%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) SSL
2 2 (7.692%) Wireless
3 1 (3.846%) DHCP
3 1 (3.846%) DNS
3 1 (3.846%) Intranet
3 1 (3.846%) Internet
3 1 (3.846%) SAN
3 1 (3.846%) Firewall
3 1 (3.846%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (3.846%) MSI
General
1 3 (11.54%) Advertising
2 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.846%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Thin Client
1 3 (11.54%) Fat Client
2 2 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.846%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.846%) Clustering
3 1 (3.846%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (23.08%) AIX
3 6 (23.08%) HPUX
3 6 (23.08%) Solaris
4 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (19.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (7.692%) Windows 7
5 2 (7.692%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Migration
2 4 (15.38%) Workflow
3 3 (11.54%) CRM
4 1 (3.846%) Project Management
4 1 (3.846%) E-business
4 1 (3.846%) Identity Management
4 1 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.846%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (3.846%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.692%) C
3 1 (3.846%) Perl
3 1 (3.846%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.846%) SQL
3 1 (3.846%) VB
3 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) XenApp
1 3 (11.54%) XenDesktop
2 2 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.692%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (7.692%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.846%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.846%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Tivoli
1 5 (19.23%) Unicenter
2 4 (15.38%) SCCM
3 2 (7.692%) SCOM
4 1 (3.846%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (3.846%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) HP
2 6 (23.08%) Citrix
2 6 (23.08%) Red Hat
3 5 (19.23%) CA
3 5 (19.23%) IronPort
3 5 (19.23%) F5
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle
5 3 (11.54%) Wyse
6 2 (7.692%) VMware
6 2 (7.692%) AppSense
6 2 (7.692%) Dell
7 1 (3.846%) Cisco
7 1 (3.846%) NetApp
SharePoint Technical Consultant - 3 Month Cont (Remote/Onsite)
Manchester, North West
SharePoint Technical Consultant - 3 Month Contract - Manchester - £ Excellent RateSharePoint Technical Consultant required by our client who are an exciting small to medium sized marketing business that are looking...
Pioneer Consulting
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 20 May 2013
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