The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Consultant
Rank 188 192 193
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 41 54 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.518% 0.522% 0.477%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.559% 0.566% 0.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 19
Average daily rate £408 £430 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.23% +18.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £316 £311
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £570 £421
UK excluding London average daily rate £408 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-4.11% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -52.85%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7340 9547 9507
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.65% 92.30% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3646 4278 4096
Average daily rate £350 £350 £357
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 732 811
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Consultant
England

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Technical Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Technical Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

South East Technical Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Technical Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Consultant within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hampshire +1 15 £420 +1.81%
Berkshire +15 14 £500 +15.94%
Surrey +12 5 £235 -53.00%
Buckinghamshire +4 2 £425 -
M4 Corridor - 2 - -
West Sussex - 1 £288 -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Technical Consultant
England

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 21 (36.21%) Oracle
2 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
3 15 (25.86%) Windows
3 15 (25.86%) VMware
4 14 (24.14%) Java
5 13 (22.41%) Migration
5 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
5 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
5 13 (22.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (20.69%) SQL
7 10 (17.24%) Linux
7 10 (17.24%) MS Excel
8 9 (15.52%) Apache
8 9 (15.52%) SAP
8 9 (15.52%) vSphere
9 8 (13.79%) Analytics
9 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
9 8 (13.79%) Tomcat
9 8 (13.79%) HP
9 8 (13.79%) Finance
10 7 (12.07%) DB2
11 6 (10.34%) Juniper
11 6 (10.34%) Cisco
11 6 (10.34%) Telecoms
11 6 (10.34%) Configuration Management
11 6 (10.34%) NetApp
11 6 (10.34%) HP SIM
11 6 (10.34%) R
11 6 (10.34%) Retail
12 5 (8.621%) WebSphere

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 5 (8.621%) WebSphere
2 4 (6.897%) SAML
3 3 (5.172%) JSP
4 2 (3.448%) Struts
4 2 (3.448%) XML
4 2 (3.448%) J2EE
4 2 (3.448%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.448%) Spring
5 1 (1.724%) Application Packaging
5 1 (1.724%) Web Dynpro
5 1 (1.724%) EDI
5 1 (1.724%) WAP
5 1 (1.724%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.724%) COM
5 1 (1.724%) .NET
5 1 (1.724%) HTML
5 1 (1.724%) XSL
5 1 (1.724%) RSS
5 1 (1.724%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 9 (15.52%) Apache
2 8 (13.79%) Tomcat
3 5 (8.621%) SAS
3 5 (8.621%) WebLogic
4 4 (6.897%) SharePoint
5 3 (5.172%) GlassFish
5 3 (5.172%) Lync
5 3 (5.172%) MS Exchange
6 1 (1.724%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.724%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.724%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (17.24%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.724%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 4 (6.897%) Oracle Retail
2 3 (5.172%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.724%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.724%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (1.724%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.724%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.724%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.621%) LAN
1 5 (8.621%) WAN
2 4 (6.897%) LDAP
2 4 (6.897%) SAN
3 3 (5.172%) IPsec
3 3 (5.172%) Firewall
4 2 (3.448%) SSL
4 2 (3.448%) VPN
5 1 (1.724%) RNC
5 1 (1.724%) NGN
5 1 (1.724%) Network Security
5 1 (1.724%) NAS
5 1 (1.724%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.724%) 4G
5 1 (1.724%) NetScreen
5 1 (1.724%) 802.11
5 1 (1.724%) Internet
5 1 (1.724%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.724%) Wireless
5 1 (1.724%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.07%) DB2
3 4 (6.897%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.724%) MS Access
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (8.621%) Mercurial
1 5 (8.621%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.724%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (1.724%) MSI
2 1 (1.724%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (13.79%) Finance
2 6 (10.34%) Telecoms
2 6 (10.34%) Retail
3 3 (5.172%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.448%) Banking
5 1 (1.724%) Marketing
5 1 (1.724%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.724%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.621%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.897%) Open Source
3 3 (5.172%) Mathematics
3 3 (5.172%) Computer Science
3 3 (5.172%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.448%) SaaS
5 1 (1.724%) FMCG
5 1 (1.724%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.86%) Windows
2 10 (17.24%) Linux
3 5 (8.621%) UNIX
4 4 (6.897%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (5.172%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.724%) Nucleus RTOS
6 1 (1.724%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.724%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.41%) Migration
2 8 (13.79%) Analytics
3 6 (10.34%) Configuration Management
4 5 (8.621%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (8.621%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (8.621%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (6.897%) ERP
5 4 (6.897%) Time Management
6 3 (5.172%) Operations Research
6 3 (5.172%) Identity Management
6 3 (5.172%) Workflow
6 3 (5.172%) PRINCE2
7 2 (3.448%) ITIL
7 2 (3.448%) CRM
7 2 (3.448%) Information Security
7 2 (3.448%) Risk Management
7 2 (3.448%) Project Management
7 2 (3.448%) Change Control
7 2 (3.448%) Data Migration
8 1 (1.724%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) Java
2 12 (20.69%) SQL
3 6 (10.34%) R
4 5 (8.621%) PL/SQL
5 4 (6.897%) Perl
5 4 (6.897%) PHP
6 2 (3.448%) ABAP
6 2 (3.448%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.724%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.724%) C
7 1 (1.724%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
1 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.897%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.172%) Degree
4 1 (1.724%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.724%) VCP5
4 1 (1.724%) CCNP
4 1 (1.724%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.724%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.724%) IBM Certification
4 1 (1.724%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.897%) QA
2 2 (3.448%) SLA
3 1 (1.724%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (15.52%) vSphere
3 5 (8.621%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.172%) Shibboleth
5 1 (1.724%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) HP SIM
2 2 (3.448%) NetBackup
2 2 (3.448%) Control-M
2 2 (3.448%) SCCM
3 1 (1.724%) SCOM
3 1 (1.724%) Splunk
3 1 (1.724%) Netcool
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) Oracle
2 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
3 15 (25.86%) VMware
4 9 (15.52%) SAP
5 8 (13.79%) HP
6 6 (10.34%) Juniper
6 6 (10.34%) Cisco
6 6 (10.34%) NetApp
7 5 (8.621%) Perforce
7 5 (8.621%) JBoss
8 3 (5.172%) Dell
9 2 (3.448%) Siebel
9 2 (3.448%) Citrix
9 2 (3.448%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 2 (3.448%) Symantec
9 2 (3.448%) 3PAR
10 1 (1.724%) Google
10 1 (1.724%) Sourcefire
10 1 (1.724%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.724%) Tufin
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Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
South East
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Rate: From £400 to £450 per day all inclusive
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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