The first table below looks at the demand for the Messaging 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 Messaging Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Messaging Consultant
Rank 507 581 573
Rank change year-on-year
+74 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Messaging Consultant 47 8 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.097% 0.014% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.105% 0.015% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 1 4
Average daily rate £333 £400 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.87% -3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £297 £400 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £400 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 - £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44867 53712 57592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.50% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25887 29609 31515
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2132 2587 2980
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 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Messaging Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Messaging Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Messaging Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Messaging Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Messaging Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Messaging Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Messaging Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Messaging Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Messaging Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Messaging Consultant
Top 27 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Messaging Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +52 46 £333 -16.87% 7
London +41 24 £325 -18.75% 3
Oxfordshire - 18 £340 - 2
South East - 18 £340 - 2
Oxford - 17 £340 - 2
City of London - 13 £325 - 3
North West +14 3 - - 2
East of England - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
Reading - - - -
Wolverhampton - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Luton - - - -
Manchester - - - - 1
Milton Keynes - - - -
Nottingham - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Coventry - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Hitchin - - - -

Messaging Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Messaging 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 Messaging Consultant in their job title.

1 61 (95.31%) MS Exchange
2 47 (73.44%) Migration
3 46 (71.88%) Exchange Server 2010
4 45 (70.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 40 (62.50%) VMware
5 40 (62.50%) Microsoft
6 38 (59.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (59.38%) MCSE
6 38 (59.38%) Exchange Server 2003
7 32 (50.00%) SCOM
8 27 (42.19%) vSphere
9 25 (39.06%) Active Directory
10 23 (35.94%) MobileIron
11 22 (34.38%) Blackberry
12 20 (31.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 20 (31.25%) Data Protection
13 18 (28.13%) Postini
13 18 (28.13%) SMTP
14 17 (26.56%) Windows
14 17 (26.56%) Disaster Recovery
15 16 (25.00%) Symantec
15 16 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
15 16 (25.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
16 15 (23.44%) PowerShell
17 13 (20.31%) Office Communications Server
18 12 (18.75%) IBM Notes
18 12 (18.75%) Lotus
19 11 (17.19%) MAILsweeper
20 10 (15.63%) ITIL
20 10 (15.63%) LDAP

Messaging Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Messaging 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 Messaging Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.125%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 61 (95.31%) MS Exchange
2 46 (71.88%) Exchange Server 2010
3 45 (70.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 38 (59.38%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (20.31%) Office Communications Server
6 12 (18.75%) IBM Notes
7 9 (14.06%) Lync
8 8 (12.50%) Lotus Domino
9 4 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (3.125%) IIS
11 1 (1.563%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1 (1.563%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.563%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (28.13%) SMTP
2 10 (15.63%) LDAP
3 9 (14.06%) TCP/IP
4 8 (12.50%) POP3
4 8 (12.50%) SSL
5 6 (9.375%) DNS
6 5 (7.813%) DHCP
7 1 (1.563%) SAN
7 1 (1.563%) X.400
7 1 (1.563%) NAS
7 1 (1.563%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.563%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (15.63%) Banking
2 7 (10.94%) Publishing
3 1 (1.563%) Back Office
3 1 (1.563%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Blackberry
2 5 (7.813%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.125%) Clustering
4 1 (1.563%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Windows
2 16 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (73.44%) Migration
2 20 (31.25%) Data Protection
3 17 (26.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (15.63%) ITIL
5 6 (9.375%) Change Management
6 4 (6.250%) Change Control
7 3 (4.688%) Capacity Management
7 3 (4.688%) Service Management
7 3 (4.688%) Incident Management
8 1 (1.563%) Load Balancing
8 1 (1.563%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.375%) C
3 4 (6.250%) VB
4 1 (1.563%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.563%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (59.38%) Microsoft Certification
1 38 (59.38%) MCSE
2 20 (31.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (3.125%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.563%) MCSA
4 1 (1.563%) MCTS
4 1 (1.563%) MCITP
4 1 (1.563%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.563%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.375%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.563%) QA
System Software
1 27 (42.19%) vSphere
2 25 (39.06%) Active Directory
3 10 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.688%) ISA Server
4 3 (4.688%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.563%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (50.00%) SCOM
2 16 (25.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 11 (17.19%) MAILsweeper
4 7 (10.94%) Norton AntiVirus
5 6 (9.375%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.563%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.563%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 40 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 40 (62.50%) VMware
2 23 (35.94%) MobileIron
3 18 (28.13%) Postini
4 16 (25.00%) Symantec
5 12 (18.75%) Lotus
6 6 (9.375%) Mercator
6 6 (9.375%) McAfee
7 5 (7.813%) Clearswift
7 5 (7.813%) RightFax
7 5 (7.813%) Open Text
8 3 (4.688%) IronPort
8 3 (4.688%) Websense
9 2 (3.125%) Kofax
9 2 (3.125%) Cisco
10 1 (1.563%) SAP
10 1 (1.563%) HP
10 1 (1.563%) Compaq
10 1 (1.563%) Dell
10 1 (1.563%) Novell
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