The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Nottingham 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 25 14 18
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 12 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 4.196% 7.080% 4.783%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.412% 7.583% 5.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 7
Average daily rate £444 £400 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.93% -27.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £320 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £469 £530 £642
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
All Job Titles
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
272 211 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 95.10% 93.36% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 105 70
Average daily rate £350 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 13 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £17.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.85% -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
Nottinghamshire

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottingham Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the Nottingham region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Nottingham Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottingham Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Java
2 6 (18.75%) RPG
2 6 (18.75%) SAP
2 6 (18.75%) ERP
2 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) JD Edwards
3 5 (15.63%) JDE World
4 4 (12.50%) VMware
4 4 (12.50%) Windows
4 4 (12.50%) .NET
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) Resource Management
5 3 (9.375%) QA
5 3 (9.375%) Migration
5 3 (9.375%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.375%) Oracle
5 3 (9.375%) Web Services
5 3 (9.375%) HTML
5 3 (9.375%) UNIX
5 3 (9.375%) Linux
5 3 (9.375%) HP
5 3 (9.375%) Citrix
5 3 (9.375%) Project Management
6 2 (6.250%) TIBCO
6 2 (6.250%) webMethods
6 2 (6.250%) Tivoli
6 2 (6.250%) SAN
6 2 (6.250%) NetApp

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 4 (12.50%) .NET
2 3 (9.375%) Web Services
2 3 (9.375%) HTML
3 2 (6.250%) XML
4 1 (3.125%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.125%) JSF
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle ADF
4 1 (3.125%) XSD
4 1 (3.125%) XSLT
4 1 (3.125%) JSP
4 1 (3.125%) SOAP
4 1 (3.125%) WSDL
4 1 (3.125%) XML Schema
4 1 (3.125%) J2EE
4 1 (3.125%) XForms
Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.250%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.125%) ESB
3 1 (3.125%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.125%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) PowerPivot
1 1 (3.125%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (3.125%) Photoshop
1 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) JDE World
2 1 (3.125%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (3.125%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.125%) SAP Retail
2 1 (3.125%) JDE OneWorld
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.125%) SAP MM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) SAN
2 1 (3.125%) NAS
2 1 (3.125%) Network Security
2 1 (3.125%) VLAN
2 1 (3.125%) Firewall
2 1 (3.125%) WAN
2 1 (3.125%) HTTP
2 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.125%) LDAP
2 1 (3.125%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.125%) DB2
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.125%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.125%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.125%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Hudson
1 1 (3.125%) Maven
General
1 16 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (6.250%) Retail
3 1 (3.125%) Marketing
3 1 (3.125%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.125%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) Data Integration
1 2 (6.250%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.125%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.125%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.125%) DataPower
2 1 (3.125%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.125%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (9.375%) UNIX
2 3 (9.375%) Linux
3 2 (6.250%) HPUX
3 2 (6.250%) Windows XP
3 2 (6.250%) Windows 7
3 2 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Vista
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.125%) AIX
4 1 (3.125%) zOS
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.75%) ERP
2 4 (12.50%) Resource Management
3 3 (9.375%) Migration
3 3 (9.375%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (9.375%) Project Management
4 2 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (6.250%) Data Modelling
4 2 (6.250%) SOA
4 2 (6.250%) Process Management
4 2 (6.250%) Business Analysis
5 1 (3.125%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (3.125%) Data Migration
5 1 (3.125%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.125%) Process Architecture
5 1 (3.125%) BPEL
5 1 (3.125%) Logistics
5 1 (3.125%) Change Management
5 1 (3.125%) Risk Management
5 1 (3.125%) ITIL
5 1 (3.125%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Java
1 6 (18.75%) RPG
2 4 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (6.250%) ABAP
4 1 (3.125%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.125%) XenApp
2 1 (3.125%) XenDesktop
2 1 (3.125%) vSphere
2 1 (3.125%) IAG
2 1 (3.125%) UAG
2 1 (3.125%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) Tivoli
2 1 (3.125%) SCCM
2 1 (3.125%) SCOM
2 1 (3.125%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.125%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (3.125%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (3.125%) MOM
2 1 (3.125%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (3.125%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) SAP
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 6 (18.75%) JD Edwards
2 4 (12.50%) VMware
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle
3 3 (9.375%) HP
3 3 (9.375%) Citrix
4 2 (6.250%) TIBCO
4 2 (6.250%) webMethods
4 2 (6.250%) NetApp
4 2 (6.250%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.250%) IBM
4 2 (6.250%) EMC
5 1 (3.125%) Cordys
5 1 (3.125%) PlateSpin
5 1 (3.125%) Cisco
5 1 (3.125%) Dell
5 1 (3.125%) Symantec