South West Business Consultant Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Business Consultant role in IT contracts within the South West 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 Business Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London East Kilbride East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Renfrew Renfrewshire Ripon Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	116	135
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	29	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	0.676 %	0.668 %
Daily rates quoted	9	21
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£438
Average daily rate	£392	£453
% change on same period last year	-13.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£469
UK excluding London average daily rate	£416	£421
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£50.50
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4289	5836
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.039 %	5.898 %
Daily rates quoted	1223	1491
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£337
Average daily rate	£368	£355
% change on same period last year	+3.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	600	689
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.38	£25.25
Average hourly rate	£27.16	£26.88
% change on same period last year	+1.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.94	£28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Business 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 Business Consultant across the South West 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 Business Consultant across the South West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Consultant across the South West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Business Consultant across the South West region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Consultant within the South West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Gloucestershire	-12	12	-	-
Wiltshire	+1	4	£382	-12.71 %
Bristol	+12	3	£450	-25.00 %
Somerset	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Business 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 Business Consultant in their job title.

1 25 (52.08 %) DV Cleared 1 25 (52.08 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (29.17 %) C 3 10 (20.83 %) Finance 4 9 (18.75 %) Government 4 9 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 5 5 (10.42 %) Oracle 6 4 (8.333 %) Business Objects 6 4 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 6 4 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects 6 4 (8.333 %) Change Management 6 4 (8.333 %) Business Continuity 7 3 (6.250 %) Pensions 7 3 (6.250 %) Disaster Recovery 7 3 (6.250 %) Six Sigma

8 2 (4.167 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (2.083 %) Datawarehouse 9 1 (2.083 %) SOA 9 1 (2.083 %) ETL 9 1 (2.083 %) SAP 9 1 (2.083 %) BPR 9 1 (2.083 %) Actuate 9 1 (2.083 %) Informatica 9 1 (2.083 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 1 (2.083 %) Oracle EBS 9 1 (2.083 %) Risk Management 9 1 (2.083 %) Oracle OWB 9 1 (2.083 %) Law 9 1 (2.083 %) Quality Management 9 1 (2.083 %) Performance Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Business 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 Business Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) Oracle EBS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (4.167 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (2.083 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (2.083 %) ETL 3 1 (2.083 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 1 (2.083 %) Oracle OWB 3 1 (2.083 %) Data Mart
General 1 10 (20.83 %) Finance 2 9 (18.75 %) Government 3 3 (6.250 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.083 %) Law 4 1 (2.083 %) Billing 4 1 (2.083 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.083 %) Local Government	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.083 %) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (52.08 %) DV Cleared 1 25 (52.08 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 3 4 (8.333 %) Business Continuity 3 4 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 3 4 (8.333 %) Change Management 4 3 (6.250 %) Disaster Recovery 4 3 (6.250 %) Six Sigma 5 1 (2.083 %) BPR 5 1 (2.083 %) Quality Management 5 1 (2.083 %) Performance Management 5 1 (2.083 %) Data Mapping 5 1 (2.083 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (2.083 %) Risk Management 5 1 (2.083 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 14 (29.17 %) C
Vendors 1 5 (10.42 %) Oracle 2 4 (8.333 %) Business Objects 3 1 (2.083 %) SAP 3 1 (2.083 %) Actuate 3 1 (2.083 %) Informatica 3 1 (2.083 %) Teradata 3 1 (2.083 %) Lagan