The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire 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 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 Nottinghamshire 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
Consultant
Rank 29 21 17
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 13 17 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 3.881% 5.965% 5.424%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.101% 6.391% 5.776%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 9
Average daily rate £444 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.41% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £323 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £469 £528 £606
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £32.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -6.42%
All Job Titles
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
317 266 277
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 94.63% 93.33% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 137 89
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 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 14 27
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £10.36
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
East Midlands

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottingham -13 11 £444 +10.93%
Consultant
East Midlands

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (47.06%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 6 (17.65%) JD Edwards
3 6 (17.65%) Java
3 6 (17.65%) RPG
3 6 (17.65%) SAP
3 6 (17.65%) VMware
4 5 (14.71%) JDE World
4 5 (14.71%) ERP
4 5 (14.71%) Windows
5 4 (11.76%) Citrix
5 4 (11.76%) .NET
5 4 (11.76%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) Resource Management
6 3 (8.824%) Migration
6 3 (8.824%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (8.824%) Oracle
6 3 (8.824%) Web Services
6 3 (8.824%) HTML
6 3 (8.824%) UNIX
6 3 (8.824%) Linux
6 3 (8.824%) Project Management
6 3 (8.824%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (5.882%) Windows 7
7 2 (5.882%) TIBCO
7 2 (5.882%) webMethods
7 2 (5.882%) Tivoli
7 2 (5.882%) SAN
7 2 (5.882%) NetApp

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (11.76%) .NET
2 3 (8.824%) Web Services
2 3 (8.824%) HTML
3 2 (5.882%) XML
4 1 (2.941%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.941%) JSF
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle ADF
4 1 (2.941%) XSD
4 1 (2.941%) XSLT
4 1 (2.941%) JSP
4 1 (2.941%) SOAP
4 1 (2.941%) WSDL
4 1 (2.941%) XML Schema
4 1 (2.941%) J2EE
4 1 (2.941%) XForms
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.882%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.941%) ESB
3 1 (2.941%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.941%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.941%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.941%) PowerPivot
1 1 (2.941%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JDE World
2 1 (2.941%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.941%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.941%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (2.941%) SAP Retail
2 1 (2.941%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.941%) JDE OneWorld
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.941%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.882%) SAN
2 1 (2.941%) NAS
2 1 (2.941%) Network Security
2 1 (2.941%) VLAN
2 1 (2.941%) Firewall
2 1 (2.941%) LAN
2 1 (2.941%) WAN
2 1 (2.941%) HTTP
2 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.941%) LDAP
2 1 (2.941%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.882%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.941%) DB2
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.941%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.941%) SAP BW
2 1 (2.941%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Maven
1 1 (2.941%) Hudson
General
1 16 (47.06%) Finance
2 2 (5.882%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.882%) Retail
3 1 (2.941%) Marketing
3 1 (2.941%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.882%) Credit Risk
1 2 (5.882%) Data Integration
2 1 (2.941%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.941%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.941%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.941%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.941%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 3 (8.824%) UNIX
2 3 (8.824%) Linux
3 2 (5.882%) Windows 7
3 2 (5.882%) HPUX
3 2 (5.882%) Windows XP
3 2 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.941%) Windows Vista
4 1 (2.941%) VMS
4 1 (2.941%) AIX
4 1 (2.941%) zOS
4 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.71%) ERP
2 4 (11.76%) Resource Management
3 3 (8.824%) Migration
3 3 (8.824%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (8.824%) Project Management
4 2 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.882%) Data Modelling
4 2 (5.882%) SOA
4 2 (5.882%) Process Management
4 2 (5.882%) Business Analysis
5 1 (2.941%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.941%) Software Testing
5 1 (2.941%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (2.941%) BPEL
5 1 (2.941%) Change Management
5 1 (2.941%) Risk Management
5 1 (2.941%) ITIL
5 1 (2.941%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.941%) ETL
5 1 (2.941%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) Java
1 6 (17.65%) RPG
2 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 2 (5.882%) ABAP
4 1 (2.941%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.824%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.941%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.941%) XenApp
2 1 (2.941%) XenServer
2 1 (2.941%) XenDesktop
2 1 (2.941%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.941%) Terminal Server
2 1 (2.941%) vSphere
2 1 (2.941%) IAG
2 1 (2.941%) UAG
Systems Management
1 2 (5.882%) Tivoli
1 2 (5.882%) SCCM
2 1 (2.941%) SCOM
2 1 (2.941%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (2.941%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (2.941%) MOM
2 1 (2.941%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.941%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) JD Edwards
2 6 (17.65%) SAP
2 6 (17.65%) VMware
3 4 (11.76%) Citrix
4 3 (8.824%) Oracle
5 2 (5.882%) TIBCO
5 2 (5.882%) webMethods
5 2 (5.882%) NetApp
5 2 (5.882%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.882%) HP
5 2 (5.882%) IBM
5 2 (5.882%) EMC
6 1 (2.941%) Cordys
6 1 (2.941%) PlateSpin
6 1 (2.941%) Cisco
6 1 (2.941%) Dell
6 1 (2.941%) Symantec