The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 24 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 Swindon 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 18 20 10
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 24 23 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 8.000% 6.336% 9.148%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.602% 6.866% 9.699%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 20
Average daily rate £475 £425 £421
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% +0.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £401 £400 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £470 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £32.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -6.42%
All Job Titles
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
279 335 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 93.00% 92.29% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 237 174
Average daily rate £413 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £15.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.90% -34.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.49 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £23.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Consultant
Wiltshire

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 26 (39.39%) Oracle
1 26 (39.39%) Finance
2 15 (22.73%) VB
3 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.21%) Security Cleared
3 14 (21.21%) Oracle EBS R12
4 13 (19.70%) Migration
5 12 (18.18%) Workflow
5 12 (18.18%) Information Management
6 11 (16.67%) Data Management
6 11 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 11 (16.67%) Siebel
7 10 (15.15%) Oracle 9i
7 10 (15.15%) Data Modelling
7 10 (15.15%) .NET
7 10 (15.15%) Web Services
7 10 (15.15%) C#
7 10 (15.15%) Service Management
7 10 (15.15%) Oracle 11g
8 9 (13.64%) Data Architecture
8 9 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (12.12%) SQL
9 8 (12.12%) CRM
9 8 (12.12%) Data Governance
9 8 (12.12%) Data Quality
10 7 (10.61%) Oracle CRM
11 6 (9.091%) VBScript
11 6 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (9.091%) MOM
11 6 (9.091%) SCOM

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 10 (15.15%) .NET
1 10 (15.15%) Web Services
2 5 (7.576%) Middleware
3 4 (6.061%) WebCenter
3 4 (6.061%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.515%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.515%) XML
4 1 (1.515%) J2EE
4 1 (1.515%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.030%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle 10gAS
2 1 (1.515%) Lync
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.515%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.515%) IIS
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.515%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (1.515%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Oracle EBS R12
2 9 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (10.61%) Oracle CRM
4 2 (3.030%) Oracle HRMS
4 2 (3.030%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (3.030%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (1.515%) Endur
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.030%) SAN
1 2 (3.030%) NAS
2 1 (1.515%) Network Security
2 1 (1.515%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.515%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.515%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.515%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.515%) LAN
2 1 (1.515%) WAN
2 1 (1.515%) VPN
2 1 (1.515%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Oracle 9i
1 10 (15.15%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (7.576%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (3.030%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.030%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.515%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.515%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 4 (6.061%) Oracle Forms
General
1 26 (39.39%) Finance
2 11 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.545%) Banking
4 1 (1.515%) Retail
4 1 (1.515%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.515%) Legal
4 1 (1.515%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.061%) RMADS
2 3 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.515%) Data Conversion
3 1 (1.515%) CESG
3 1 (1.515%) CESG CLAS
3 1 (1.515%) Statistics
3 1 (1.515%) Replication
3 1 (1.515%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.545%) Windows
2 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.515%) AIX
2 1 (1.515%) Linux
2 1 (1.515%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.70%) Migration
2 12 (18.18%) Workflow
2 12 (18.18%) Information Management
3 11 (16.67%) Data Management
4 10 (15.15%) Data Modelling
4 10 (15.15%) Service Management
5 9 (13.64%) Data Architecture
6 8 (12.12%) CRM
6 8 (12.12%) Data Governance
7 6 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (7.576%) Information Assurance
8 5 (7.576%) ITIL
8 5 (7.576%) PRINCE2
9 4 (6.061%) Content Management
9 4 (6.061%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (4.545%) Requirements Analysis
10 3 (4.545%) Risk Management
10 3 (4.545%) E-business
11 2 (3.030%) Service Delivery
11 2 (3.030%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.73%) VB
2 10 (15.15%) C#
3 8 (12.12%) SQL
4 6 (9.091%) VBScript
5 5 (7.576%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.515%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.515%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 14 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.030%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.515%) Degree
3 1 (1.515%) CISSP
3 1 (1.515%) CISA
3 1 (1.515%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.030%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.515%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.515%) QA
3 1 (1.515%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.515%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (6.061%) Hyper-V
1 4 (6.061%) XenDesktop
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.515%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.515%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (9.091%) MOM
1 6 (9.091%) SCOM
2 5 (7.576%) WMI
3 1 (1.515%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 26 (39.39%) Oracle
2 11 (16.67%) Siebel
3 4 (6.061%) Citrix
4 2 (3.030%) VMware
5 1 (1.515%) Trayport
5 1 (1.515%) F5
5 1 (1.515%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.515%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.515%) Informatica
5 1 (1.515%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.515%) Symantec
5 1 (1.515%) McAfee
5 1 (1.515%) Juniper
5 1 (1.515%) Cisco
5 1 (1.515%) IBM
5 1 (1.515%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.515%) HP
5 1 (1.515%) EMC
5 1 (1.515%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.515%) SAP
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