The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Suffolk 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
Consultant
Rank 23 34 31
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 6 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 3.774% 1.984% 2.139%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.947% 2.041% 2.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
Average daily rate £288 £450 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.11% -2.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £308 £373
10% offered a daily rate of more than £427 £450 £553
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
All Job Titles
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
152 245 177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 95.60% 97.22% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 132 81
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £258 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 12
Average hourly rate £12.25 £21.94 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.15% +17.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £12.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.92 £35.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
East of England

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Suffolk Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Suffolk Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich +7 4 £250 -39.39%
Consultant
East of England

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 3 (27.27%) Oracle
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) MCSE
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) MCITP
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.091%) Netcool/Proviso
3 1 (9.091%) Test Scripting
3 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (9.091%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Azure
3 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
3 1 (9.091%) Ionix
3 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.091%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) EMC
3 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.091%) Firewall
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (9.091%) Kofax

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 1 (9.091%) Web Services
1 1 (9.091%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Azure
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) Firewall
2 1 (9.091%) SNMP
2 1 (9.091%) VPN
2 1 (9.091%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
2 1 (9.091%) Test Scripting
2 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
2 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
2 1 (9.091%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.091%) ERP
2 1 (9.091%) OOD
2 1 (9.091%) UML
2 1 (9.091%) OO
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) Project Management
2 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (18.18%) MCSE
1 2 (18.18%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.091%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Netcool/Proviso
1 1 (9.091%) Ionix
1 1 (9.091%) Tivoli
1 1 (9.091%) Netcool
1 1 (9.091%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) EMC
3 1 (9.091%) Kofax
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco
3 1 (9.091%) IBM
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.091%) SolidWorks
3 1 (9.091%) VMware