The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions 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 Solutions Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Consultant
Rank 505 544 575
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Consultant 36 26 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.075% 0.045% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.048% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 14
Average daily rate £424 £484 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.40% -0.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £434 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £625 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £434 £443 £500
% change year-on-year
-1.97% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.26 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.26 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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 2099 2560 2964
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 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Solutions Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solutions Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Solutions Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solutions Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Solutions Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Solutions Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Solutions Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Solutions 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 Solutions Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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 +15 27 £475 -1.80% 19
London +31 18 £423 -23.18% 7
Scotland - 6 £345 - 1
South East +24 5 £488 +10.16% 10
City of London - 5 £600 - 2
Berkshire +17 2 £550 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £543 -
Hampshire -3 1 £338 -20.58% 1
Middlesex - 1 - -
West Sussex - 1 £425 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Cheshire - 1 £475 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £475 - 1
Southwark - 1 - -
East of England - - - -
Docklands, London - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Wiltshire - - - -
South Wales - - - -
South West - - - -
Wales - - - -
Norfolk - - - -
Northamptonshire - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Surrey - - - - 2
Warwickshire - - - -
West Lothian - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - - 3

Solutions Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Consultant in their job title.

1 17 (25.00%) Oracle
2 14 (20.59%) SAP
3 13 (19.12%) UNIX
4 12 (17.65%) Finance
5 11 (16.18%) VMware
5 11 (16.18%) Windows
5 11 (16.18%) Java
5 11 (16.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (10.29%) DB2
6 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
7 6 (8.824%) E-Commerce
7 6 (8.824%) Windows XP
7 6 (8.824%) ETL
7 6 (8.824%) SQL Server
7 6 (8.824%) SQL
7 6 (8.824%) Tivoli
7 6 (8.824%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 6 (8.824%) TOGAF
7 6 (8.824%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (7.353%) Degree
8 5 (7.353%) Business Analysis
8 5 (7.353%) Banking
8 5 (7.353%) Business Objects
8 5 (7.353%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (5.882%) Data Modelling
9 4 (5.882%) .NET
9 4 (5.882%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (5.882%) Apache
9 4 (5.882%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (5.882%) Telecoms

Solutions Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (5.882%) .NET
1 4 (5.882%) Middleware
2 3 (4.412%) J2EE
3 2 (2.941%) HTML
3 2 (2.941%) SOAP
3 2 (2.941%) XML
3 2 (2.941%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.941%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.941%) WebCenter
4 1 (1.471%) CSS3
4 1 (1.471%) HTML5
4 1 (1.471%) SAP XI
4 1 (1.471%) CSS
4 1 (1.471%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.882%) Apache
2 3 (4.412%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (4.412%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (4.412%) IIS
2 3 (4.412%) MS Exchange
2 3 (4.412%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.471%) Lync
3 1 (1.471%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (1.471%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.471%) PegaRULES
3 1 (1.471%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.471%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.471%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.471%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.412%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.471%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.882%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.412%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (4.412%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.471%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.471%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.471%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (1.471%) SAP EHS
3 1 (1.471%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.471%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.471%) SAP SCM
3 1 (1.471%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.471%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.471%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.471%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.471%) SAP FI/CO
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.882%) MPLS
1 4 (5.882%) Internet
2 3 (4.412%) SAN
2 3 (4.412%) Firewall
2 3 (4.412%) LAN
2 3 (4.412%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.412%) VPN
3 2 (2.941%) DNS
3 2 (2.941%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.941%) VoIP
3 2 (2.941%) WAN
3 2 (2.941%) Wireless
3 2 (2.941%) NAS
4 1 (1.471%) HSRP
4 1 (1.471%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.471%) VPLS
4 1 (1.471%) VLAN
4 1 (1.471%) BGP
4 1 (1.471%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.471%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) DB2
2 6 (8.824%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.882%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (5.882%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 3 (4.412%) SAP BW
5 2 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (2.941%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (1.471%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.471%) MySQL
6 1 (1.471%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (1.471%) JDeveloper
General
1 12 (17.65%) Finance
2 5 (7.353%) Banking
3 4 (5.882%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.412%) Retail
5 2 (2.941%) Military
5 2 (2.941%) Marketing
5 2 (2.941%) German Language
5 2 (2.941%) Dutch Language
6 1 (1.471%) Finnish Language
6 1 (1.471%) Local Government
6 1 (1.471%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.471%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.882%) Clustering
1 4 (5.882%) SaaS
1 4 (5.882%) IaaS
2 3 (4.412%) PaaS
3 2 (2.941%) NHS
3 2 (2.941%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.941%) Data Integration
3 2 (2.941%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.471%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (1.471%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.471%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.471%) iPhone
4 1 (1.471%) CMDB
4 1 (1.471%) Physics
4 1 (1.471%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.471%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.471%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (1.471%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.12%) UNIX
2 11 (16.18%) Windows
3 6 (8.824%) Windows XP
4 4 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (4.412%) Windows 7
5 3 (4.412%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (2.941%) Linux
6 2 (2.941%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.941%) CentOS
6 2 (2.941%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.471%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.471%) Android
7 1 (1.471%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (8.824%) E-Commerce
1 6 (8.824%) ETL
1 6 (8.824%) TOGAF
1 6 (8.824%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (7.353%) Business Analysis
2 5 (7.353%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (5.882%) Data Modelling
3 4 (5.882%) Migration
3 4 (5.882%) Load Balancing
3 4 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (5.882%) Data Migration
4 3 (4.412%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (4.412%) Zachman Framework
4 3 (4.412%) Service Delivery
4 3 (4.412%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (4.412%) SOA
5 2 (2.941%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (2.941%) Risk Analysis
6 1 (1.471%) Mobile Application Development
6 1 (1.471%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.18%) Java
2 6 (8.824%) SQL
3 3 (4.412%) C
4 2 (2.941%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.471%) Perl
5 1 (1.471%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.471%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (7.353%) Degree
2 4 (5.882%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.412%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.471%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.471%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.471%) MCSA
4 1 (1.471%) CCA
4 1 (1.471%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.471%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.471%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.882%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.412%) XenApp
3 3 (4.412%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.941%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (2.941%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.471%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.471%) vCloud
5 1 (1.471%) XenServer
5 1 (1.471%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.471%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (8.824%) Tivoli
1 6 (8.824%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (1.471%) Plesk
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) Oracle
2 14 (20.59%) SAP
3 11 (16.18%) VMware
4 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.353%) Business Objects
6 4 (5.882%) NetApp
7 3 (4.412%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.412%) IBM
7 3 (4.412%) EMC
7 3 (4.412%) Citrix
8 2 (2.941%) HP
8 2 (2.941%) Cisco
8 2 (2.941%) Hitachi
8 2 (2.941%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.941%) 3PAR
9 1 (1.471%) Pega
9 1 (1.471%) Polycom
9 1 (1.471%) Remedy
9 1 (1.471%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (1.471%) Informatica
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