Northern Ireland Senior Consultant Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Consultant
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Gloucestershire Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	16
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	6.579 %
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	£431	£447
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
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	-	£55.00
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Northern Ireland
Matching contract IT job ads	190	152
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.269 %	0.154 %
Daily rates quoted	48	39
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£381
Average daily rate	£316	£435
% change on same period last year	-27.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£490
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.43	£16.84
Average hourly rate	£28.03	£18.14
% change on same period last year	+54.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.62	£19.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Senior 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.

Senior Consultant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Consultant across the Northern Ireland 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 Senior Consultant across the Northern Ireland region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Senior Consultant across the Northern Ireland region.

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland region that cited Senior 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 Senior Consultant in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) Change Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (33.33 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) Serena 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Design 2 1 (33.33 %) Incident Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Resource Management 2 1 (33.33 %) CTC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) CCIE 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector 2 1 (33.33 %) MPLS

2 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management

Senior Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland region that cited Senior 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 Senior Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) MPLS
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Change Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Design 2 1 (33.33 %) Incident Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Resource Management 2 1 (33.33 %) CTC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CCIE 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Serena