IT Consultant Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Consultant role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IT Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 currently tracked.

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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Consultant
Rank 493 534 542
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +8
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 47 47 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.100% 0.080% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.108% 0.087% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 17
Average daily rate £420 £403 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -15.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £175 £287
10% offered a daily rate of more than £582 £600 £975
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £304 £325
% change year-on-year
+15.22% -6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £33.00 £7.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +371.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £33.00 £7.00
% change year-on-year
- +371.42%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2174 2589 2882
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

IT Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

IT Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

IT Consultant Daily Rate Trend

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IT Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

IT Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

IT Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

IT Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

IT Consultant
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England +45 41 £450 +12.50%
London +22 26 £500 -16.66%
North West +21 8 £350 +13.82%
Manchester - 6 £375 -
City of London - 5 £500 -
South East +15 3 £288 +4.54%
Yorkshire - 3 £370 -
Hampshire -16 2 £288 +36.90%
Scotland -17 2 £238 -44.11%
West Yorkshire - 2 £325 -
Wales - 2 £400 -
Berkshire +8 1 £550 +69.23%
Cheshire +1 1 - -
Chester -4 1 - -
Glasgow -19 1 £238 +39.70%
South Wales - 1 - -
Wembley - 1 £375 -
Taunton - 1 £350 -
Southampton - 1 £288 -
Reading - 1 £550 -
Portsmouth - 1 £288 -
Milford Haven - 1 £400 -
West Sussex - 1 £288 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £415 -
Somerset - 1 £350 -
Pembrokeshire - 1 £400 -
Lancashire - 1 £300 -
Leeds - 1 - -
Halifax - 1 £325 -
Basingstoke - 1 £350 -

IT Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited IT 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 IT Consultant in their job title.

1 28 (28.00%) Finance
2 22 (22.00%) Windows
3 15 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (15.00%) Information Security
4 13 (13.00%) MS Exchange
5 12 (12.00%) Project Management
5 12 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (11.00%) MS Excel
7 10 (10.00%) CISSP
7 10 (10.00%) Banking
8 9 (9.000%) Risk Assessment
9 8 (8.000%) Change Management
9 8 (8.000%) Firewall
9 8 (8.000%) Active Directory
9 8 (8.000%) LAN
9 8 (8.000%) Security Cleared
10 7 (7.000%) MS PowerPoint
10 7 (7.000%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (7.000%) Citrix
10 7 (7.000%) WAN
10 7 (7.000%) VMware
10 7 (7.000%) CISM
10 7 (7.000%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (7.000%) Internet
11 6 (6.000%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (6.000%) Risk Management
11 6 (6.000%) Back Office
11 6 (6.000%) HTTP
11 6 (6.000%) Cisco
11 6 (6.000%) Penetration Testing

IT Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited IT 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 IT Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.000%) Flash
1 2 (2.000%) HTML
1 2 (2.000%) Apache Flex
1 2 (2.000%) HTML5
2 1 (1.000%) Ajax
2 1 (1.000%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (1.000%) ASP
2 1 (1.000%) OLE
Application Platforms
1 13 (13.00%) MS Exchange
2 12 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (5.000%) Lync
3 5 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (3.000%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.000%) IIS
5 2 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (2.000%) WorkSite
5 2 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.000%) Documentum
6 1 (1.000%) FileNet
6 1 (1.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 11 (11.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (7.000%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (5.000%) MS Office
4 1 (1.000%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.000%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (1.000%) RoboHelp
4 1 (1.000%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.000%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.000%) Maximo
2 1 (1.000%) Adaptiv
2 1 (1.000%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.000%) Firewall
1 8 (8.000%) LAN
2 7 (7.000%) WAN
2 7 (7.000%) Internet
3 6 (6.000%) HTTP
4 5 (5.000%) WLAN
5 4 (4.000%) HTTPS
6 3 (3.000%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.000%) DNS
6 3 (3.000%) SAN
7 2 (2.000%) 3G
7 2 (2.000%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.000%) VPN
7 2 (2.000%) SMTP
7 2 (2.000%) DHCP
7 2 (2.000%) VLAN
7 2 (2.000%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.000%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.000%) Network Security
8 1 (1.000%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.000%) Informix
1 1 (1.000%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (2.000%) GitHub
1 2 (2.000%) Eclipse
1 2 (2.000%) Subversion
General
1 28 (28.00%) Finance
2 10 (10.00%) Banking
3 6 (6.000%) Back Office
4 5 (5.000%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.000%) Legal
5 4 (4.000%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.000%) Law
5 4 (4.000%) Marketing
6 2 (2.000%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.000%) International Banking
7 1 (1.000%) Retail
7 1 (1.000%) German Language
7 1 (1.000%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.000%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.000%) PKI
3 3 (3.000%) Open Source
3 3 (3.000%) Mathematics
4 2 (2.000%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.000%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.000%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.000%) Firmware
4 2 (2.000%) RIA
4 2 (2.000%) SaaS
4 2 (2.000%) Cryptography
5 1 (1.000%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.000%) iSeries
5 1 (1.000%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.000%) EqualLogic
5 1 (1.000%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.000%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.000%) SCADA
5 1 (1.000%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.000%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.00%) Windows
2 7 (7.000%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (7.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (5.000%) UNIX
4 4 (4.000%) Linux
4 4 (4.000%) Windows 7
5 3 (3.000%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.000%) Windows Vista
6 1 (1.000%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.000%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (15.00%) Information Security
2 12 (12.00%) Project Management
3 9 (9.000%) Risk Assessment
4 8 (8.000%) Change Management
5 6 (6.000%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (6.000%) Risk Management
5 6 (6.000%) Penetration Testing
5 6 (6.000%) Logistics
6 4 (4.000%) Portfolio Management
6 4 (4.000%) Service Management
6 4 (4.000%) Migration
6 4 (4.000%) Security Management
6 4 (4.000%) ITIL
6 4 (4.000%) CRM
6 4 (4.000%) Data Architecture
6 4 (4.000%) Business Analysis
7 3 (3.000%) ISMS
7 3 (3.000%) Data Protection
7 3 (3.000%) Security Testing
7 3 (3.000%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.000%) SQL
2 3 (3.000%) Java
3 2 (2.000%) Objective-C
3 2 (2.000%) ActionScript
3 2 (2.000%) Python
4 1 (1.000%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.000%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.000%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) CISSP
2 8 (8.000%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.000%) CISM
4 6 (6.000%) Degree
5 5 (5.000%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.000%) CISA
6 4 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.000%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.000%) MCITP
7 3 (3.000%) MCSE
7 3 (3.000%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.000%) MBA
8 2 (2.000%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.000%) CEH
9 1 (1.000%) CHFI
9 1 (1.000%) CCSE
9 1 (1.000%) CCSP
9 1 (1.000%) CCNP
9 1 (1.000%) Check Point Certification
9 1 (1.000%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.000%) SLA
3 2 (2.000%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.000%) BS7799
4 1 (1.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.000%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.000%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.000%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.000%) Forefront TMG
3 3 (3.000%) UAG
4 1 (1.000%) XenApp
4 1 (1.000%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (1.000%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.000%) McAfee ePO
1 3 (3.000%) SCOM
2 1 (1.000%) SCCM
2 1 (1.000%) SCVMM
2 1 (1.000%) WSUS
2 1 (1.000%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.000%) Citrix
2 7 (7.000%) VMware
3 6 (6.000%) Cisco
4 5 (5.000%) Juniper
5 4 (4.000%) Twitter
5 4 (4.000%) IBM
6 3 (3.000%) CommVault
6 3 (3.000%) SAP
6 3 (3.000%) McAfee
6 3 (3.000%) Q1 Labs
7 2 (2.000%) Sonus
7 2 (2.000%) Symantec
7 2 (2.000%) Oracle
7 2 (2.000%) Dell
7 2 (2.000%) Nortel
7 2 (2.000%) NetApp
7 2 (2.000%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 2 (2.000%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.000%) Fortinet
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