Scotland Technical Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Consultant role in IT contracts within the Scotland region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Technical Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Consultant
Location Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Faversham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Liverpool London Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	98	125
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	5	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.203 %	0.209 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£220
Average daily rate	-	£260
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£405
% change on same period last year	-11.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	-
Average hourly rate	£24.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.05	£39.38
% change on same period last year	-23.70 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2460	3356
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.244 %	3.560 %
Daily rates quoted	520	638
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£307
Average daily rate	£328	£322
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	159	214
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.75	£18.40
Average hourly rate	£20.37	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£20.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Technical Consultant within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 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
Edinburgh	+12	3	-	-
Glasgow	+8	1	-	-
North Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 10 (38.46 %) Multimedia 1 10 (38.46 %) OpenGL 1 10 (38.46 %) DirectX 1 10 (38.46 %) Quicktime 1 10 (38.46 %) C 1 10 (38.46 %) C++ 1 10 (38.46 %) Symbian 2 9 (34.62 %) Embedded C++ 2 9 (34.62 %) Symbian OS 3 6 (23.08 %) Temenos T24 4 5 (19.23 %) Temenos Globus 4 5 (19.23 %) Windows 5 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 5 3 (11.54 %) SMS 6 2 (7.692 %) jBASE

6 2 (7.692 %) Multithreading 6 2 (7.692 %) Banking 6 2 (7.692 %) SAP APO 6 2 (7.692 %) Temenos 6 2 (7.692 %) Active Directory 6 2 (7.692 %) Finance 6 2 (7.692 %) Migration 6 2 (7.692 %) SAP 6 2 (7.692 %) Unix 6 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (3.846 %) MS Excel 7 1 (3.846 %) Windows XP 7 1 (3.846 %) Broadband 7 1 (3.846 %) GSM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 10 (38.46 %) OpenGL 1 10 (38.46 %) DirectX	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 10 (38.46 %) Quicktime 2 1 (3.846 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 6 (23.08 %) Temenos T24 2 5 (19.23 %) Temenos Globus 3 2 (7.692 %) SAP APO
Communications & Networking 1 3 (11.54 %) SMS 2 1 (3.846 %) VoIP 2 1 (3.846 %) SAN 2 1 (3.846 %) MPLS 2 1 (3.846 %) Broadband 2 1 (3.846 %) GSM 2 1 (3.846 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Reports 1 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) MSI	General 1 10 (38.46 %) Multimedia 2 2 (7.692 %) Finance 2 2 (7.692 %) Banking
Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.692 %) Multithreading 2 1 (3.846 %) Handset	Operating Systems 1 9 (34.62 %) Symbian OS 2 5 (19.23 %) Windows 3 2 (7.692 %) Unix 4 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (3.846 %) Windows XP 4 1 (3.846 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.692 %) Migration 2 1 (3.846 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 10 (38.46 %) C 1 10 (38.46 %) C++ 2 9 (34.62 %) Embedded C++ 3 1 (3.846 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) MCSE 1 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (3.846 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	System Software 1 2 (7.692 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.846 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 1 (3.846 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (3.846 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 10 (38.46 %) Symbian 2 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 3 2 (7.692 %) SAP 3 2 (7.692 %) Temenos 3 2 (7.692 %) jBASE 4 1 (3.846 %) Nortel 4 1 (3.846 %) Infovista 4 1 (3.846 %) VMware 4 1 (3.846 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft