The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland 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 - 29 29
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 0 2 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland - 1.015% 4.507%
As % of the Job Titles category - 1.176% 4.790%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £415 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.35% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -52.85%
All Job Titles
Northern Ireland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
191 170 334
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 75.20% 86.29% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 49 116
Average daily rate £325 £300 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -10.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 16
Average hourly rate £12.42 £12.50 £22.23
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.64% -43.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Consultant
UK

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland Technical Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Xen
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) CommVault
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) ABAP
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (25.00%) JMS
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XSLT
1 1 (25.00%) JMS
1 1 (25.00%) SAP PI
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) ABAP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Xen
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) CommVault
1 2 (50.00%) NetApp
1 2 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP