Northamptonshire Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the Northamptonshire 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	21	15
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	18	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	4.813 %	6.909 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£200
Average daily rate	£356	£350
% change on same period last year	+1.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£435	£414
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.39	£29.55
% change on same period last year	+6.23 %
Job Titles Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	374	275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.499 %	0.278 %
Daily rates quoted	156	76
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£320
Average daily rate	£391	£345
% change on same period last year	+13.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.86	£18.68
Average hourly rate	£15.92	£20.20
% change on same period last year	-21.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.97	£21.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Consultant East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton	-14	9	£450	+28.57 %
Corby	-	1	-	-

Consultant East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 16 (35.56 %) Finance 2 13 (28.89 %) SAS 3 12 (26.67 %) BizTalk Server 4 7 (15.56 %) SAP 5 6 (13.33 %) ERP 6 4 (8.889 %) Datawarehouse 7 3 (6.667 %) Data Modelling 7 3 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 7 3 (6.667 %) CRM 7 3 (6.667 %) OLAP 7 3 (6.667 %) Banking 7 3 (6.667 %) NHS 7 3 (6.667 %) Migration 7 3 (6.667 %) Credit Risk 7 3 (6.667 %) Base SAS

7 3 (6.667 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 7 3 (6.667 %) ETL 8 2 (4.444 %) Business Analysis 8 2 (4.444 %) SAP BW 8 2 (4.444 %) SAP SD 8 2 (4.444 %) Retail 8 2 (4.444 %) Government 8 2 (4.444 %) Unified Process 8 2 (4.444 %) ABAP 8 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 8 2 (4.444 %) SQL 8 2 (4.444 %) UNIX 8 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft 8 2 (4.444 %) RUP 8 2 (4.444 %) Chordiant

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 1 (2.222 %) WebServices 1 1 (2.222 %) XML 1 1 (2.222 %) JMS 1 1 (2.222 %) XML Schema 1 1 (2.222 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 13 (28.89 %) SAS 2 12 (26.67 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (2.222 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Workflow 3 1 (2.222 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (2.222 %) SharePoint
Business Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) SAP SD 2 1 (2.222 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft CRM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.222 %) HTTP 1 1 (2.222 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (8.889 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (6.667 %) OLAP 2 3 (6.667 %) ETL 2 3 (6.667 %) Base SAS 2 3 (6.667 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 3 2 (4.444 %) SAP BW 4 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 4 1 (2.222 %) Ingres	General 1 16 (35.56 %) Finance 2 3 (6.667 %) Banking 3 2 (4.444 %) Retail 3 2 (4.444 %) Government 4 1 (2.222 %) Local Government
Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.667 %) NHS 1 3 (6.667 %) Credit Risk	Operating Systems 1 2 (4.444 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.222 %) AIX 2 1 (2.222 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (13.33 %) ERP 2 3 (6.667 %) Data Modelling 2 3 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (6.667 %) Migration 2 3 (6.667 %) CRM 3 2 (4.444 %) Unified Process 3 2 (4.444 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (4.444 %) RUP 4 1 (2.222 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.222 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (2.222 %) BPR 4 1 (2.222 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.222 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 2 (4.444 %) SQL 1 2 (4.444 %) ABAP 2 1 (2.222 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (2.222 %) Java 2 1 (2.222 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (2.222 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.222 %) SLA
Systems Management 1 1 (2.222 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 7 (15.56 %) SAP 2 2 (4.444 %) Chordiant 2 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.222 %) Ab Initio 3 1 (2.222 %) VMware 3 1 (2.222 %) PlateSpin 3 1 (2.222 %) IBM 3 1 (2.222 %) Siebel