The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IT Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 South East 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Consultant
Rank 211 224 233
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +9
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 6 18 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.074% 0.183% 0.142%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.199% 0.153%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 5
Average daily rate £294 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.61% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £251 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £486 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
+10.71% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £33.00 £7.00
% change year-on-year
- +371.42%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7554 9043 9785
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.84% 92.03% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3818 4070 4253
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £494
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 593 676 850
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
IT Consultant
England

IT Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East IT Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East IT Consultant Daily Rate Trend

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IT Consultant across the South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

South East IT Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

IT Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East IT Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

IT Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Consultant within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +12 2 £500 - 1
Hampshire -13 2 £288 -18.43% 3
Oxfordshire -1 1 - -
Surrey - 1 £300 - 2
West Sussex - 1 £288 -
M4 Corridor - - - -
Thames Valley - - - -
IT Consultant
England

IT Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited IT 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 IT Consultant in their job title.

1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) Citrix
3 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
4 2 (18.18%) MS Office
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (18.18%) SAN
4 2 (18.18%) CommVault
4 2 (18.18%) NetApp
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (18.18%) SCOM
4 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 2 (18.18%) Forefront TMG
4 2 (18.18%) UAG
4 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (9.091%) Lync
5 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
5 1 (9.091%) Windows Azure
5 1 (9.091%) XenApp
5 1 (9.091%) Riverbed
5 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (9.091%) PCI DSS

IT Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited IT 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 IT Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
1 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (9.091%) Lync
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Azure
2 1 (9.091%) IIS
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 2 (18.18%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
2 1 (9.091%) VLAN
2 1 (9.091%) Internet
2 1 (9.091%) MPLS
2 1 (9.091%) LAN
2 1 (9.091%) WAN
2 1 (9.091%) DHCP
2 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.091%) VPN
2 1 (9.091%) DNS
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL
1 2 (18.18%) Project Management
1 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
2 1 (9.091%) Service Management
2 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
2 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.091%) Information Security Management
2 1 (9.091%) Security Management
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Information Security
2 1 (9.091%) Network Design
2 1 (9.091%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
2 1 (9.091%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) C
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) CISA
2 1 (9.091%) CISM
2 1 (9.091%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (9.091%) Server+ Certification
2 1 (9.091%) A+ Certification
2 1 (9.091%) CISSP
2 1 (9.091%) MCT
2 1 (9.091%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.091%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 2 (18.18%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (18.18%) UAG
3 1 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (9.091%) XenApp
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Server
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCOM
2 1 (9.091%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) CommVault
4 2 (18.18%) NetApp
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
5 1 (9.091%) Riverbed
5 1 (9.091%) PlateSpin
5 1 (9.091%) Juniper
5 1 (9.091%) Dell
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco
Epsom, South East
IT Consultant- Mimecast, Azure, VMWare, Virtualisation, AD...Our client, a storage solutions and software licensing specialist based in Surrey, is seeking a consultant to assist them with a...
E-Resourcing
Rate: £250 - £350 per day + Very open to negotiation
Posted: 14 June 2013
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