South Yorkshire Technical Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Consultant role in IT contracts within the South Yorkshire 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.

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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	31	30
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	12	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	3.200 %	1.956 %
Daily rates quoted	10	1
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£300
Average daily rate	£327	£350
% change on same period last year	-6.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£405
% change on same period last year	-11.51 %
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	£30.05	£39.38
% change on same period last year	-23.70 %
Job Titles South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	375	409
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.494 %	0.434 %
Daily rates quoted	92	50
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£267
Average daily rate	£312	£281
% change on same period last year	+11.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.59	£21.40
Average hourly rate	£25.97	£22.13
% change on same period last year	+17.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.36	£22.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Technical Consultant Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Consultant across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 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 Technical Consultant across the South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield	+4	12	£327	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 11 (84.62 %) Active Directory 2 10 (76.92 %) Citrix 2 10 (76.92 %) CheckPoint 2 10 (76.92 %) Firewall 2 10 (76.92 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 7 (53.85 %) Citrix Certification 3 7 (53.85 %) CCEA 4 6 (46.15 %) Backup Exec 4 6 (46.15 %) Symantec 4 6 (46.15 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (23.08 %) MCP 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows 5 3 (23.08 %) MCSE 5 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft

6 2 (15.38 %) MCSA 6 2 (15.38 %) Check Point Certification 6 2 (15.38 %) ITIL 6 2 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (15.38 %) SCCM 6 2 (15.38 %) SCOM 7 1 (7.692 %) Web Development 7 1 (7.692 %) Local Government 7 1 (7.692 %) Government 7 1 (7.692 %) Stellent 7 1 (7.692 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (7.692 %) MOM 7 1 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 1 (7.692 %) SharePoint 7 1 (7.692 %) HTML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 1 (7.692 %) HTML 1 1 (7.692 %) .NET 1 1 (7.692 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 10 (76.92 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (7.692 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 10 (76.92 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.692 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (7.692 %) Government 1 1 (7.692 %) Local Government	Operating Systems 1 3 (23.08 %) Windows 2 1 (7.692 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (15.38 %) ITIL 2 1 (7.692 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 1 (7.692 %) Java 1 1 (7.692 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 7 (53.85 %) Citrix Certification 1 7 (53.85 %) CCEA 2 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (23.08 %) MCP 2 3 (23.08 %) MCSE 3 2 (15.38 %) MCSA 3 2 (15.38 %) Check Point Certification	System Software 1 11 (84.62 %) Active Directory 2 6 (46.15 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 6 (46.15 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (15.38 %) SCCM 2 2 (15.38 %) SCOM 3 1 (7.692 %) MOM 3 1 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 10 (76.92 %) Citrix 1 10 (76.92 %) CheckPoint 2 6 (46.15 %) Symantec 3 3 (23.08 %) Microsoft 4 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 4 1 (7.692 %) Stellent