South East Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the South East 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 Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Addlestone Aldershot Andover Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Clackmannanshire Corby Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melrose Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spalding St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	12
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	1085	1542
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.446 %	1.560 %
As % of the category below	9.073 %	9.356 %
Daily rates quoted	256	370
Average minimum daily rate	£404	£390
Average daily rate	£433	£412
% change on same period last year	+5.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£462	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£435	£414
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.89	£23.94
Average hourly rate	£28.65	£26.47
% change on same period last year	+8.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.41	£29.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.39	£29.55
% change on same period last year	+6.23 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	11958	16482
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.94 %	16.68 %
Daily rates quoted	2991	4002
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£334
Average daily rate	£356	£352
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1480	1956
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.78	£26.68
Average hourly rate	£23.27	£28.01
% change on same period last year	-16.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.77	£29.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Consultant England

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 Consultant across the South East 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 Consultant across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 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
Berkshire	-1	281	£425	+2.36 %
Surrey	-10	114	£500	+23.74 %
Buckinghamshire	+12	113	£368	-0.09 %
Hampshire	0	108	£434	-0.55 %
Thames Valley	+14	59	£463	+4.33 %
West Sussex	+9	52	£478	+12.27 %
Middlesex	+1	51	£402	+36.94 %
Oxfordshire	-6	32	£444	+11.69 %
M4 Corridor	-1	23	-	-
Kent	-12	23	£547	+49.88 %
East Sussex	+17	14	£450	-6.00 %
Home Counties	+2	13	£438	-12.50 %
Sussex	+13	10	£567	+62.04 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 701 (27.86 %) SAP 2 296 (11.76 %) Finance 3 281 (11.17 %) Security Cleared 4 278 (11.05 %) Oracle 5 225 (8.943 %) Migration 6 222 (8.824 %) Windows 7 202 (8.029 %) Telecoms 8 177 (7.035 %) Microsoft 9 172 (6.836 %) CRM 10 166 (6.598 %) SC Cleared 11 154 (6.121 %) SQL 12 130 (5.167 %) Government 13 124 (4.928 %) .NET 14 115 (4.571 %) Cisco 15 110 (4.372 %) SAP FI

16 103 (4.094 %) SharePoint 17 101 (4.014 %) Business Intelligence 18 92 (3.657 %) SQL Server 18 92 (3.657 %) Project Management 19 88 (3.498 %) CA 20 85 (3.378 %) UNIX 21 83 (3.299 %) C# 22 82 (3.259 %) Active Directory 23 80 (3.180 %) Java 23 80 (3.180 %) SharePoint Server 2007 24 75 (2.981 %) Retail 25 74 (2.941 %) ABAP 26 70 (2.782 %) WAN 26 70 (2.782 %) Workflow 27 69 (2.742 %) LAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1 124 (4.928 %) .NET 2 61 (2.424 %) J2EE 3 60 (2.385 %) XML 4 41 (1.630 %) HTML 5 40 (1.590 %) ASP.NET 6 37 (1.471 %) SAP XI 7 30 (1.192 %) SAP Basis 8 28 (1.113 %) WebServices 9 26 (1.033 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 25 (0.994 %) JSP 11 21 (0.835 %) EDI 12 16 (0.636 %) WebSphere 13 14 (0.556 %) CSS 14 12 (0.477 %) Middleware 15 11 (0.437 %) XHTML 15 11 (0.437 %) XSLT 15 11 (0.437 %) .NET Framework 16 10 (0.397 %) CAML 16 10 (0.397 %) XSD 16 10 (0.397 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 103 (4.094 %) SharePoint 2 80 (3.180 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 62 (2.464 %) MS Exchange 4 49 (1.948 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 37 (1.471 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 37 (1.471 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 36 (1.431 %) NetWeaver 7 32 (1.272 %) BizTalk Server 8 22 (0.874 %) IIS 8 22 (0.874 %) ArcGIS 9 19 (0.755 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 19 (0.755 %) Oracle Workflow 10 17 (0.676 %) ArcSDE 11 12 (0.477 %) Lotus Notes 12 11 (0.437 %) Apache 12 11 (0.437 %) SAS 13 10 (0.397 %) ATG Dynamo 14 7 (0.278 %) Tomcat 14 7 (0.278 %) Office Communications Server 15 6 (0.238 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 47 (1.868 %) MS Excel 2 46 (1.828 %) MS Office 3 25 (0.994 %) MS PowerPoint 4 20 (0.795 %) MS Project 5 9 (0.358 %) Spreadsheet 6 7 (0.278 %) MS Visio 7 6 (0.238 %) InfoPath 8 5 (0.199 %) CA Clarity 9 1 (0.040 %) Acrobat 9 1 (0.040 %) QuarkXPress 9 1 (0.040 %) MATLAB	Business Applications 1 110 (4.372 %) SAP FI 2 66 (2.623 %) SAP HR 3 63 (2.504 %) SAP SD 4 62 (2.464 %) SAP FI/CO 4 62 (2.464 %) SAP CO 5 49 (1.948 %) SAP IS-U 6 45 (1.789 %) SAP CRM 7 36 (1.431 %) Microsoft CRM 8 34 (1.351 %) SAP APO 9 28 (1.113 %) SAP FI-CA 10 24 (0.954 %) Oracle EBS 11 23 (0.914 %) SAP MM 12 19 (0.755 %) Oracle Financials 13 18 (0.715 %) SAP R/3 14 16 (0.636 %) SAP SRM 15 15 (0.596 %) Oracle Applications 16 14 (0.556 %) Dynamics CRM 16 14 (0.556 %) Oracle 11i 17 13 (0.517 %) SAP Payroll 18 11 (0.437 %) SAP MDM
Communications & Networking 1 70 (2.782 %) WAN 2 69 (2.742 %) LAN 3 61 (2.424 %) Internet 4 59 (2.345 %) SAN 5 54 (2.146 %) Firewall 6 46 (1.828 %) 3GPP 7 32 (1.272 %) 3G 7 32 (1.272 %) MPLS 8 30 (1.192 %) TCP/IP 8 30 (1.192 %) VPN 9 28 (1.113 %) Intranet 10 23 (0.914 %) DNS 11 22 (0.874 %) GPRS 11 22 (0.874 %) VLAN 11 22 (0.874 %) SGSN 12 21 (0.835 %) GGSN 13 20 (0.795 %) Broadband 14 17 (0.676 %) 2.5G 14 17 (0.676 %) Network Security 15 16 (0.636 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 92 (3.657 %) SQL Server 2 61 (2.424 %) Oracle 10g 3 60 (2.385 %) Datawarehouse 4 40 (1.590 %) SAP BW 5 37 (1.471 %) SQL Server 2005 6 31 (1.232 %) BusinessObjects 7 30 (1.192 %) Oracle Reports 8 27 (1.073 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 24 (0.954 %) SQL Server 2000 10 22 (0.874 %) SAP BI 10 22 (0.874 %) ETL 11 20 (0.795 %) SQL Server 7 11 20 (0.795 %) GIS 12 17 (0.676 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 16 (0.636 %) BusinessObjects XI 14 14 (0.556 %) MySQL 15 13 (0.517 %) Oracle 9i 16 12 (0.477 %) OLAP 17 11 (0.437 %) DB2 18 10 (0.397 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 22 (0.874 %) TestDirector 2 20 (0.795 %) LSMW 3 17 (0.676 %) Rational Rose 4 14 (0.556 %) Oracle Forms 5 9 (0.358 %) Visual Studio 6 7 (0.278 %) ClearCase 6 7 (0.278 %) JDeveloper 6 7 (0.278 %) MSI 7 5 (0.199 %) Eclipse 8 4 (0.159 %) LoadRunner 9 3 (0.119 %) QuickTest Pro 9 3 (0.119 %) PVCS 9 3 (0.119 %) Ant 9 3 (0.119 %) JUnit 9 3 (0.119 %) FrontPage 10 2 (0.079 %) StarTeam 10 2 (0.079 %) TestPartner 10 2 (0.079 %) InstallShield 10 2 (0.079 %) Flash 10 2 (0.079 %) ClearQuest	General 1 296 (11.76 %) Finance 2 202 (8.029 %) Telecoms 3 130 (5.167 %) Government 4 75 (2.981 %) Retail 5 63 (2.504 %) Billing 6 47 (1.868 %) Marketing 7 41 (1.630 %) FMCG 8 36 (1.431 %) Manufacturing 8 36 (1.431 %) Pharmaceutical 9 28 (1.113 %) Legal 9 28 (1.113 %) Insurance 10 26 (1.033 %) Banking 11 17 (0.676 %) Automotive 12 16 (0.636 %) Health 12 16 (0.636 %) Auditing 13 14 (0.556 %) Local Government 14 9 (0.358 %) Pensions 15 8 (0.318 %) Advertising 15 8 (0.318 %) Chemicals 15 8 (0.318 %) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous 1 15 (0.596 %) Replication 2 14 (0.556 %) PKI 3 12 (0.477 %) Data Conversion 4 11 (0.437 %) Clustering 5 10 (0.397 %) Symmetrix 5 10 (0.397 %) NHS 5 10 (0.397 %) French Language 6 9 (0.358 %) N-Tier 7 6 (0.238 %) Mainframe 7 6 (0.238 %) AS400 7 6 (0.238 %) Spanish Language 8 5 (0.199 %) Taxonomies 9 4 (0.159 %) CMDB 9 4 (0.159 %) Computer Science 9 4 (0.159 %) Celerra 9 4 (0.159 %) Data Extraction 9 4 (0.159 %) IBM Mainframe 9 4 (0.159 %) HACMP 9 4 (0.159 %) Biometrics 9 4 (0.159 %) Smartcard	Operating Systems 1 222 (8.824 %) Windows 2 85 (3.378 %) UNIX 3 65 (2.583 %) Linux 4 40 (1.590 %) Windows Server 2003 5 33 (1.312 %) Solaris 6 30 (1.192 %) Windows 2000 7 26 (1.033 %) AIX 8 25 (0.994 %) Windows XP 9 23 (0.914 %) Windows NT 10 22 (0.874 %) HPUX 10 22 (0.874 %) Windows Vista 11 12 (0.477 %) VMS 12 5 (0.199 %) SUSE 13 3 (0.119 %) Ubuntu 13 3 (0.119 %) Tru64 14 2 (0.079 %) Windows Mobile 14 2 (0.079 %) MVS 14 2 (0.079 %) FreeBSD 15 1 (0.040 %) OS/400 15 1 (0.040 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 281 (11.17 %) Security Cleared 2 225 (8.943 %) Migration 3 172 (6.836 %) CRM 4 166 (6.598 %) SC Cleared 5 101 (4.014 %) Business Intelligence 6 92 (3.657 %) Project Management 7 70 (2.782 %) Workflow 8 68 (2.703 %) Data Migration 9 56 (2.226 %) ERP 10 55 (2.186 %) DV Cleared 11 51 (2.027 %) ITIL 12 47 (1.868 %) Logistics 13 43 (1.709 %) Network Design 14 42 (1.669 %) Performance Management 15 39 (1.550 %) Business Analysis 15 39 (1.550 %) Data Modelling 15 39 (1.550 %) Change Management 16 35 (1.391 %) Network Planning 17 29 (1.153 %) SAP Implementation 18 27 (1.073 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 154 (6.121 %) SQL 2 83 (3.299 %) C# 3 80 (3.180 %) Java 4 74 (2.941 %) ABAP 5 46 (1.828 %) PL/SQL 6 22 (0.874 %) Perl 7 20 (0.795 %) Transact-SQL 8 19 (0.755 %) C 9 17 (0.676 %) VB 9 17 (0.676 %) JavaScript 10 13 (0.517 %) COBOL 10 13 (0.517 %) VB.NET 11 12 (0.477 %) VBScript 11 12 (0.477 %) VBA 12 10 (0.397 %) AWK 13 9 (0.358 %) Shell Script 14 7 (0.278 %) C++ 15 6 (0.238 %) JCL 16 5 (0.199 %) PHP 17 4 (0.159 %) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications 1 58 (2.305 %) Cisco Certification 2 54 (2.146 %) Microsoft Certification 3 41 (1.630 %) MCSE 4 38 (1.510 %) Degree 5 36 (1.431 %) CCNP 6 17 (0.676 %) CCNA 7 15 (0.596 %) Citrix Certification 7 15 (0.596 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 13 (0.517 %) CCIE 9 11 (0.437 %) ISEB 9 11 (0.437 %) CISSP 10 10 (0.397 %) CIPD 11 6 (0.238 %) CNE 11 6 (0.238 %) Novell Certification 12 5 (0.199 %) CCVP 12 5 (0.199 %) CCA 12 5 (0.199 %) MCP 13 4 (0.159 %) CCSE 13 4 (0.159 %) CCSA 14 3 (0.119 %) MOS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 36 (1.431 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 12 (0.477 %) SLA 3 11 (0.437 %) QA 4 10 (0.397 %) ISO27001 5 6 (0.238 %) BS7799 6 5 (0.199 %) PCI DSS 7 4 (0.159 %) GAAP 8 2 (0.079 %) ISO9000 8 2 (0.079 %) GxP 8 2 (0.079 %) COBIT 9 1 (0.040 %) HL7 9 1 (0.040 %) JSP 440 9 1 (0.040 %) ISO9001 9 1 (0.040 %) ISO17799 9 1 (0.040 %) GMP 9 1 (0.040 %) BS15000 9 1 (0.040 %) TickIT
System Software 1 82 (3.259 %) Active Directory 2 22 (0.874 %) NetBackup 3 21 (0.835 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 13 (0.517 %) Oracle RAC 5 9 (0.358 %) ISA Server 6 8 (0.318 %) VMware ESX 7 5 (0.199 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 5 (0.199 %) Backup Exec 8 4 (0.159 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 4 (0.159 %) NFS 9 2 (0.079 %) MetaFrame 9 2 (0.079 %) Terminal Server 9 2 (0.079 %) AquaLogic 9 2 (0.079 %) MailMarshal 10 1 (0.040 %) PowerConvert 10 1 (0.040 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 10 1 (0.040 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 45 (1.789 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 25 (0.994 %) OpenView 3 23 (0.914 %) Tivoli 4 15 (0.596 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 14 (0.556 %) SCCM 6 12 (0.477 %) OVOW 7 11 (0.437 %) MOM 8 9 (0.358 %) HP Data Protector 9 7 (0.278 %) EMC TimeFinder 10 6 (0.238 %) SCOM 10 6 (0.238 %) WSUS 11 5 (0.199 %) OVPI 11 5 (0.199 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 12 4 (0.159 %) Netcool 12 4 (0.159 %) Tivoli Monitoring 12 4 (0.159 %) Tivoli NetView 12 4 (0.159 %) Legato 13 3 (0.119 %) EMC NetWorker 13 3 (0.119 %) OVPA 13 3 (0.119 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 701 (27.86 %) SAP 2 278 (11.05 %) Oracle 3 177 (7.035 %) Microsoft 4 115 (4.571 %) Cisco 5 88 (3.498 %) CA 6 65 (2.583 %) HP 7 46 (1.828 %) IBM 8 35 (1.391 %) VMware 9 31 (1.232 %) Business Objects 10 30 (1.192 %) ATG 11 28 (1.113 %) Siebel 12 27 (1.073 %) VERITAS 13 26 (1.033 %) Cognos 13 26 (1.033 %) EMC 14 24 (0.954 %) Citrix 14 24 (0.954 %) Ericsson 15 20 (0.795 %) ESRI 16 19 (0.755 %) Cramer 17 18 (0.715 %) Sun 18 16 (0.636 %) Juniper