The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Design 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 Technical Design Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Design Consultant
Rank 550 577 594
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Design Consultant 3 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.002% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.002% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
Average daily rate - £475 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +20.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £395
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
44896 53769 56680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.53% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 25886 29628 30997
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 2148 2597 2927
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 £11.20 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Technical Design Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Technical Design Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Design Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Design Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Technical Design Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Design Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Design Consultant
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Design Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
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Job
Vacancies
England +40 3 - -
South East - 2 - -
South Wales - - - -
Wales - - - -
Scotland - - - -
Aberdeen - - - -
Caerphilly - - - -
Reading - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -

Technical Design Consultant
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Design 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 Technical Design Consultant in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SAP BW
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (33.33%) MOM
2 1 (33.33%) TIBCO
2 1 (33.33%) SeeBeyond
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere

Technical Design Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Design 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 Technical Design Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SAP BW
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) MOM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) TIBCO
2 1 (33.33%) SeeBeyond