Suffolk Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts within the Suffolk 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 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 Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Addlestone Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent 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 Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Faversham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Melrose Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot 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 Port Talbot Powys Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Sale 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 Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Ditton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	4
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	6	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	3.529 %	16.44 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£383
Average daily rate	£303	£410
% change on same period last year	-26.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£438	£415
% change on same period last year	+5.64 %
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	£32.63	£27.47
% change on same period last year	+18.77 %
Job Titles Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	170	225
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.224 %	0.239 %
Daily rates quoted	55	50
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£312
Average daily rate	£358	£327
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.05	£19.89
Average hourly rate	£22.03	£20.75
% change on same period last year	+6.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£21.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Consultant East of 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 Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

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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 Suffolk 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 Consultant within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich	-8	5	£303	-26.57 %

Consultant East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 21 (45.65 %) SAP 2 18 (39.13 %) SAP QM 3 14 (30.43 %) Security Cleared 4 12 (26.09 %) Quality Management 5 10 (21.74 %) German Language 5 10 (21.74 %) SC Cleared 6 9 (19.57 %) BC Cleared 7 7 (15.22 %) Windows 8 6 (13.04 %) Oracle 9 5 (10.87 %) SQL 9 5 (10.87 %) VoIP 9 5 (10.87 %) Cisco 9 5 (10.87 %) Microsoft 10 4 (8.696 %) Business Intelligence 10 4 (8.696 %) SAP MM

10 4 (8.696 %) Windows NT 10 4 (8.696 %) XML 10 4 (8.696 %) Unix 11 3 (6.522 %) Insurance 11 3 (6.522 %) SQL Server 11 3 (6.522 %) Perl 11 3 (6.522 %) PHP 11 3 (6.522 %) PSTN 11 3 (6.522 %) Solaris 11 3 (6.522 %) Python 11 3 (6.522 %) Mainframe 11 3 (6.522 %) Telecoms 11 3 (6.522 %) Migration 12 2 (4.348 %) PostgreSQL 12 2 (4.348 %) Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 4 (8.696 %) XML 2 2 (4.348 %) HTML 3 1 (2.174 %) .NET 3 1 (2.174 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (2.174 %) WCF 3 1 (2.174 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.348 %) IIS 2 1 (2.174 %) Apache 2 1 (2.174 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (2.174 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (2.174 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (2.174 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 1 (2.174 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 18 (39.13 %) SAP QM 2 4 (8.696 %) SAP MM 3 2 (4.348 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (2.174 %) SAP PP
Communications & Networking 1 5 (10.87 %) VoIP 2 3 (6.522 %) PSTN 3 2 (4.348 %) Broadband 3 2 (4.348 %) Ethernet 3 2 (4.348 %) MPLS 3 2 (4.348 %) Cisco IOS 4 1 (2.174 %) NGN 4 1 (2.174 %) DNS 4 1 (2.174 %) SAN 4 1 (2.174 %) ADSL 4 1 (2.174 %) SDH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (6.522 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.348 %) DB2 2 2 (4.348 %) MS Access 2 2 (4.348 %) PostgreSQL 2 2 (4.348 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.174 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (2.174 %) Oracle 9i
General 1 3 (6.522 %) Telecoms 1 3 (6.522 %) Insurance 2 2 (4.348 %) Finance 2 2 (4.348 %) Government 3 1 (2.174 %) Advertising 3 1 (2.174 %) Automotive	Miscellaneous 1 10 (21.74 %) German Language 2 3 (6.522 %) Mainframe 3 1 (2.174 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 7 (15.22 %) Windows 2 4 (8.696 %) Unix 2 4 (8.696 %) Windows NT 3 3 (6.522 %) Solaris 4 2 (4.348 %) Linux 4 2 (4.348 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (30.43 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (26.09 %) Quality Management 3 10 (21.74 %) SC Cleared 4 9 (19.57 %) BC Cleared 5 4 (8.696 %) Business Intelligence 6 3 (6.522 %) Migration 7 2 (4.348 %) Network Design 8 1 (2.174 %) Data Protection 8 1 (2.174 %) Project Management 8 1 (2.174 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 5 (10.87 %) SQL 2 3 (6.522 %) Python 2 3 (6.522 %) Perl 2 3 (6.522 %) PHP 3 2 (4.348 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (4.348 %) DHTML 3 2 (4.348 %) JavaScript 4 1 (2.174 %) C 4 1 (2.174 %) C# 4 1 (2.174 %) C++ 4 1 (2.174 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 1 (2.174 %) CCNA 1 1 (2.174 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (2.174 %) CCVP
System Software 1 1 (2.174 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 2 (4.348 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.174 %) MOM
Vendors 1 21 (45.65 %) SAP 2 6 (13.04 %) Oracle 3 5 (10.87 %) Cisco 3 5 (10.87 %) Microsoft 4 2 (4.348 %) HP 4 2 (4.348 %) Sybase 4 2 (4.348 %) Intel 4 2 (4.348 %) Alcatel 4 2 (4.348 %) Siemens 5 1 (2.174 %) DoubleClick 5 1 (2.174 %) Brocade 5 1 (2.174 %) NetApp 5 1 (2.174 %) EMC