The first table below looks at the demand for the Strategy 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 Strategy 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Strategy Consultant
Rank 521 574 570
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Strategy Consultant 8 10 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.017% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.019% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 9
Average daily rate £550 £500 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £431 £386
10% offered a daily rate of more than £670 £550 £960
UK excluding London average daily rate - £433 -
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
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
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 2112 2572 2930
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 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Strategy Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Strategy Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Strategy Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Strategy Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Strategy Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Strategy Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Strategy Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Strategy Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Strategy Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Strategy Consultant
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategy Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 8 £550 +4.76%
London +39 8 £550 -
City of London +14 2 £620 +24.00%

Strategy Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Strategy 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 Strategy Consultant in their job title.

1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Data Architecture
2 5 (23.81%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (19.05%) Twitter
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (19.05%) HTTP
3 4 (19.05%) HTTPS
4 3 (14.29%) Project Management
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) MBA
5 2 (9.524%) Degree
5 2 (9.524%) Oracle
5 2 (9.524%) Risk Management
5 2 (9.524%) SAP
6 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.762%) Windows
6 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
6 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
6 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
6 1 (4.762%) Data Modelling
6 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.762%) EMC
6 1 (4.762%) Citrix
6 1 (4.762%) Hitachi
6 1 (4.762%) NetApp
6 1 (4.762%) Pegasus
6 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.762%) Contact Management

Strategy Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Strategy 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 Strategy Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.762%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) HTTP
1 4 (19.05%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.762%) Retail
3 1 (4.762%) Military
3 1 (4.762%) Retail Banking
3 1 (4.762%) Marketing
3 1 (4.762%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.762%) Windows
1 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
1 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (4.762%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Data Architecture
2 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (9.524%) Risk Management
5 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.762%) Data Modelling
5 1 (4.762%) Contact Management
5 1 (4.762%) Validation
5 1 (4.762%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (4.762%) Wealth Management
5 1 (4.762%) Performance Management
5 1 (4.762%) TOGAF
5 1 (4.762%) Business Process Improvement
5 1 (4.762%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (4.762%) Information Management
5 1 (4.762%) Data Analysis
5 1 (4.762%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.762%) C
1 1 (4.762%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) MBA
2 2 (9.524%) Degree
3 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (4.762%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.762%) XenApp
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Twitter
2 2 (9.524%) Oracle
2 2 (9.524%) SAP
3 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.762%) EMC
3 1 (4.762%) Citrix
3 1 (4.762%) Hitachi
3 1 (4.762%) NetApp
3 1 (4.762%) Pegasus
3 1 (4.762%) VMware
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Posted: 22 May 2013