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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

LinkSenior Consultant
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank312322385
Rank change year-on-year
Up+10Up+63
Matching contract IT job ads192119226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.397 %0.302 %0.275 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.434 %0.329 %0.296 %
Daily rates quoted734239
Average daily rate£500£500£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-+11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£375£400£370
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£673£595
UK excluding London average daily rate£500£473£450
% change year-on-year
+5.700 %+5.110 %
Hourly rates quoted204
Average hourly rate£47.00-£43.75
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£46.20-£41.45
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.80-£48.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£47.00-£43.75
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
441973611776460
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.49 %91.56 %93.02 %
Daily rates quoted201431156723643
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£213£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted252830286720
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£10.67£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %

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.

Senior Consultant
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Consultant within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Senior Consultant Demand Trend

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Senior Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Senior Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Senior 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 Senior Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+26169£500-
LondonDown-3192£500-2.43 %
South EastUp+1127£400-
City of LondonDown-6913£450-
West MidlandsUp+1911£456-13.09 %
HampshireUp+58£400-
South WestDown-67£500+5.70 %
BerkshireUp+56£400-40.74 %
HertfordshireUp+195£550+10.00 %
East of EnglandUp+155£550+15.78 %
Milton KeynesUp+15--
BuckinghamshireDown-35--
BirminghamUp+64£550-
YorkshireUp+73£550-
ManchesterDown-33--
North WestDown-43--
West YorkshireDown-73£550-
LeedsNew entry-3£550-
East MidlandsNew entry-3£375-
Home CountiesNew entry-3--
LeicestershireNew entry-2£375-
WiltshireNew entry-2£550-
HammersmithNew entry-2£525-
South WalesUp+71--
WalesUp+61--
MidlandsUp+51£500-
ReadingDown-21--
MiddlesexDown-71£413-8.33 %
GlasgowDown-91--
ScotlandDown-181--

Senior Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Consultant in their job title.

1106 (33.13 %)SAP
269 (21.56 %)Finance
348 (15.00 %)Oracle
443 (13.44 %)Datawarehouse
533 (10.31 %)CRM
631 (9.688 %)ETL
729 (9.063 %)Business Intelligence
828 (8.750 %)Migration
924 (7.500 %)IBM
924 (7.500 %)Banking
1022 (6.875 %)DB2
1121 (6.563 %)Data Mart
1220 (6.250 %)DB2 UDB
1319 (5.938 %)SQL
1319 (5.938 %)Perl
1418 (5.625 %)Project Management
1517 (5.313 %)SAP CRM
1517 (5.313 %)Informatica
1517 (5.313 %)Marketing
1616 (5.000 %)SAP BW
1616 (5.000 %)Remedy
1715 (4.688 %)ITSM
1715 (4.688 %)SAS
1715 (4.688 %)Linux
1715 (4.688 %)Remedy ITSM
1814 (4.375 %)Java
1814 (4.375 %)Siebel
1814 (4.375 %)SAP FI
1913 (4.063 %)SAP FI/CO
1913 (4.063 %)SAP CO

Senior Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
111 (3.438 %)Middleware
210 (3.125 %).NET
37 (2.188 %)XML
37 (2.188 %)CGI
37 (2.188 %)SAP Basis
45 (1.563 %)ASP.NET
45 (1.563 %)AJAX
45 (1.563 %)WebSphere
54 (1.250 %)Adobe Flex
54 (1.250 %)WF
54 (1.250 %)XSLT
54 (1.250 %)J2ME
54 (1.250 %)Web Services
54 (1.250 %)J2EE
63 (0.938 %)Spring
63 (0.938 %)LINQ
72 (0.625 %)WBIMB
72 (0.625 %)WDK
72 (0.625 %)XSD
72 (0.625 %)HTML
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
115 (4.688 %)SAS
26 (1.875 %)Oracle Application Server
34 (1.250 %)ESB
34 (1.250 %)CMS
34 (1.250 %)Documentum
43 (0.938 %)WebSphere Portal
43 (0.938 %)EPiServer
43 (0.938 %)SharePoint
43 (0.938 %)SharePoint Server 2007
52 (0.625 %)WebSphere Message Broker
52 (0.625 %)WebSphere Process Server
52 (0.625 %)SAP EP
52 (0.625 %)LiveLink
52 (0.625 %)WebSphere MQ
52 (0.625 %)MS Exchange
52 (0.625 %)WebSphere Application Server
61 (0.313 %)Confluence
61 (0.313 %)MQSeries
61 (0.313 %)Tomcat
61 (0.313 %)Lotus Notes
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15 (1.563 %)MS Excel
22 (0.625 %)CA Clarity
22 (0.625 %)MS Visio
22 (0.625 %)MS Office
31 (0.313 %)GIMP
31 (0.313 %)Inkscape
31 (0.313 %)MS Project
31 (0.313 %)Photoshop
31 (0.313 %)SPSS
31 (0.313 %)Fireworks
31 (0.313 %)Adobe Illustrator
31 (0.313 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
117 (5.313 %)SAP CRM
215 (4.688 %)Remedy ITSM
314 (4.375 %)SAP FI
413 (4.063 %)SAP FI/CO
413 (4.063 %)SAP CO
512 (3.750 %)SAP HR
611 (3.438 %)SAP SD
79 (2.813 %)Oracle EBS R12
88 (2.500 %)SAP R/3
94 (1.250 %)Oracle EBS
94 (1.250 %)SAP MM
94 (1.250 %)Oracle Financials
94 (1.250 %)SAP BPC
103 (0.938 %)SAP PP
103 (0.938 %)SAP Payroll
103 (0.938 %)SAP IS-U
112 (0.625 %)Dynamics AX
112 (0.625 %)SAP Oil and Gas
112 (0.625 %)SAP HR-PA
112 (0.625 %)SAP FI-GL
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
111 (3.438 %)Firewall
28 (2.500 %)SAN
37 (2.188 %)SSL
45 (1.563 %)LAN
53 (0.938 %)VLAN
62 (0.625 %)Cisco PIX
62 (0.625 %)Wireless
62 (0.625 %)Internet
62 (0.625 %)VoIP
62 (0.625 %)WAN
62 (0.625 %)SMTP
71 (0.313 %)WAAS
71 (0.313 %)Wireless Security
71 (0.313 %)Cisco ASA
71 (0.313 %)Broadband
71 (0.313 %)HTTP
71 (0.313 %)SNMP
71 (0.313 %)TCP/IP
71 (0.313 %)DNS
71 (0.313 %)BGP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
143 (13.44 %)Datawarehouse
231 (9.688 %)ETL
322 (6.875 %)DB2
421 (6.563 %)Data Mart
520 (6.250 %)DB2 UDB
616 (5.000 %)SAP BW
79 (2.813 %)SAP BI
88 (2.500 %)BusinessObjects
97 (2.188 %)Oracle BI EE
97 (2.188 %)SQL Server
106 (1.875 %)Data Mining
106 (1.875 %)RDBMS
115 (1.563 %)Oracle Reports
115 (1.563 %)Oracle 10g
115 (1.563 %)SQL Server 2005
124 (1.250 %)BusinessObjects XI
133 (0.938 %)Oracle OWB
133 (0.938 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
133 (0.938 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
142 (0.625 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (1.250 %)JIRA
23 (0.938 %)Oracle Forms
23 (0.938 %)ClearCase
23 (0.938 %)Subversion
32 (0.625 %)Bugzilla
32 (0.625 %)LoadRunner
32 (0.625 %)Team Foundation Server
41 (0.313 %)MSTest
41 (0.313 %)JUnit
41 (0.313 %)ERwin
41 (0.313 %)NUnit
41 (0.313 %)Maven
41 (0.313 %)eCATT
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
169 (21.56 %)Finance
224 (7.500 %)Banking
317 (5.313 %)Marketing
49 (2.813 %)Government
58 (2.500 %)Retail
58 (2.500 %)Telecoms
58 (2.500 %)Financial Institution
67 (2.188 %)Health
67 (2.188 %)Investment Banking
67 (2.188 %)Insurance
67 (2.188 %)Billing
75 (1.563 %)Manufacturing
84 (1.250 %)Back Office
93 (0.938 %)Pharmaceutical
93 (0.938 %)Auditing
102 (0.625 %)General Ledger
102 (0.625 %)Aerospace
102 (0.625 %)Legal
111 (0.313 %)Front Office
111 (0.313 %)Law
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
17 (2.188 %)FMCG
25 (1.563 %)Clustering
34 (1.250 %)Computer Science
34 (1.250 %)NHS
43 (0.938 %)Fixed Income
52 (0.625 %)Derivative
52 (0.625 %)Equities
52 (0.625 %)Management Information System
52 (0.625 %)EPoS
52 (0.625 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
52 (0.625 %)SaaS
61 (0.313 %)Visualisation
61 (0.313 %)Open Source
61 (0.313 %)Thin Client
61 (0.313 %)Blackberry
61 (0.313 %)Replication
61 (0.313 %)Cryptography
61 (0.313 %)CESG
61 (0.313 %)CESG CLAS
61 (0.313 %)Market Risk
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
115 (4.688 %)Linux
213 (4.063 %)Red Hat Linux
312 (3.750 %)UNIX
312 (3.750 %)Windows
410 (3.125 %)Solaris
56 (1.875 %)AIX
64 (1.250 %)HPUX
73 (0.938 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
73 (0.938 %)zOS
82 (0.625 %)VMS
91 (0.313 %)Windows NT
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
133 (10.31 %)CRM
229 (9.063 %)Business Intelligence
328 (8.750 %)Migration
418 (5.625 %)Project Management
515 (4.688 %)ITSM
69 (2.813 %)SAP Implementation
78 (2.500 %)Workflow
87 (2.188 %)E-business
96 (1.875 %)Business Analysis
96 (1.875 %)Change Management
96 (1.875 %)OO
96 (1.875 %)E-Commerce
105 (1.563 %)ERP
105 (1.563 %)SOA
105 (1.563 %)Service Management
114 (1.250 %)Unit Testing
114 (1.250 %)Programme Management
114 (1.250 %)Risk Management
114 (1.250 %)Data Modelling
114 (1.250 %)ITIL
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
119 (5.938 %)SQL
119 (5.938 %)Perl
214 (4.375 %)Java
311 (3.438 %)C#
49 (2.813 %)ABAP
49 (2.813 %)C
56 (1.875 %)PL/SQL
63 (0.938 %)JavaScript
72 (0.625 %)Shell Script
81 (0.313 %)VBA
81 (0.313 %)VB
81 (0.313 %)Python
81 (0.313 %)XPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
110 (3.125 %)Security Cleared
27 (2.188 %)SC Cleared
35 (1.563 %)Cisco Certification
35 (1.563 %)Degree
44 (1.250 %)Microsoft Certification
44 (1.250 %)MCSE
53 (0.938 %)CCNP
62 (0.625 %)CCNA
62 (0.625 %)CCIE
71 (0.313 %)BC Cleared
71 (0.313 %)CTC Cleared
71 (0.313 %)DV Cleared
71 (0.313 %)HP ASE
71 (0.313 %)HP MASE
71 (0.313 %)Citrix Certification
71 (0.313 %)CISSP
71 (0.313 %)ISEB
71 (0.313 %)SAP Certification
71 (0.313 %)PRINCE2 Certification
71 (0.313 %)ITIL Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (1.875 %)QA
25 (1.563 %)ISO27001
32 (0.625 %)ISO17799
32 (0.625 %)PCI DSS
41 (0.313 %)BS7799
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (1.563 %)Oracle RAC
22 (0.625 %)VMware Infrastructure
31 (0.313 %)XenApp
31 (0.313 %)XenServer
31 (0.313 %)XenDesktop
31 (0.313 %)Veritas Cluster Server
31 (0.313 %)MSMQ
31 (0.313 %)Active Directory
31 (0.313 %)Oracle RMAN
31 (0.313 %)VMware ESX
31 (0.313 %)ClearTrust
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (1.250 %)Tivoli
22 (0.625 %)SCOM
22 (0.625 %)Tivoli Monitoring
22 (0.625 %)OpenView
31 (0.313 %)HP Data Protector
31 (0.313 %)NetBackup
31 (0.313 %)HP NNM
31 (0.313 %)OVOW
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1106 (33.13 %)SAP
248 (15.00 %)Oracle
324 (7.500 %)IBM
417 (5.313 %)Informatica
516 (5.000 %)Remedy
614 (4.375 %)Siebel
711 (3.438 %)Red Hat
810 (3.125 %)Microsoft
99 (2.813 %)Cisco
108 (2.500 %)HP
108 (2.500 %)Sybase
108 (2.500 %)Business Objects
117 (2.188 %)VMware
126 (1.875 %)Salesforce.com
134 (1.250 %)Citrix
134 (1.250 %)Hyperion
134 (1.250 %)Cognos
143 (0.938 %)Symantec
143 (0.938 %)Perforce
143 (0.938 %)FileNet