Northern Ireland Infrastructure Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Consultant role in IT contracts within the Northern Ireland 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 Infrastructure Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Infrastructure Consultant
Location Belfast Berkshire Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East of England England Glasgow Hertfordshire Ipswich Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northern Ireland Norwich Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey UK Wales Watford West Midlands Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.939 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£351
% change on same period last year	+7.48 %
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	£40.00	£37.50
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Job Titles Northern Ireland
Matching contract IT job ads	213	217
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.284 %	0.220 %
Daily rates quoted	51	56
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£350
Average daily rate	£362	£381
% change on same period last year	-5.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.21	£13.96
Average hourly rate	£17.71	£15.76
% change on same period last year	+12.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.21	£17.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Infrastructure Consultant UK

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.

Infrastructure Consultant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant across the Northern Ireland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Infrastructure Consultant
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Consultant within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim	-	2	-	-

Infrastructure Consultant UK

Infrastructure Consultant
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Consultant in their job title.

1 6 (100.00 %) Windows 1 6 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 6 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 6 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 4 (66.67 %) Finance 2 4 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (33.33 %) FTP 3 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (33.33 %) HP 3 2 (33.33 %) Dell 3 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (33.33 %) WMI

3 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (33.33 %) Symantec 3 2 (33.33 %) SQL 3 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 2 (33.33 %) IIS

Infrastructure Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (33.33 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) IIS 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) FTP 1 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 4 (66.67 %) Finance	Operating Systems 1 6 (100.00 %) Windows 1 6 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 4 (66.67 %) Windows 2000
Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 6 (100.00 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 6 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (33.33 %) HP 2 2 (33.33 %) Dell 2 2 (33.33 %) Symantec