The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 advertised for the Uxbridge region.

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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 14 22 12
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 6 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 5.769% 0.769% 8.257%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.742% 0.847% 8.824%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
Average daily rate £431 - £434
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +0.71%
All Job Titles
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
89 118 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 85.58% 90.77% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 94 58
Average daily rate £410 £420 £374
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.38% +12.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £220 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £603 £565 £483
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
Average hourly rate £16.25 £14.86 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.35% +29.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £26.00 £26.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Consultant
London

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Consultant across the Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Consultant across the Uxbridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Uxbridge Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Consultant across the Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge region that cited 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 8 (47.06%) SAP
2 5 (29.41%) IIS
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
3 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
3 4 (23.53%) CISSP
4 3 (17.65%) CISM
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (17.65%) Information Security
4 3 (17.65%) SCADA
4 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 2 (11.76%) SAP Implementation
5 2 (11.76%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (11.76%) SAP Security
5 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) SAP SCM
5 2 (11.76%) Logistics
5 2 (11.76%) LSMW
5 2 (11.76%) DB2
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) J2EE
5 2 (11.76%) Business Objects
5 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
5 2 (11.76%) Windows
5 2 (11.76%) JBoss
5 2 (11.76%) Apache

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge region that cited 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) J2EE
2 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) IIS
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP WM
1 2 (11.76%) SAP SCM
2 1 (5.882%) SAP GRC
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (5.882%) SAP FI
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (5.882%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (5.882%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.882%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.882%) Firewall
2 1 (5.882%) SMTP
2 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) DB2
1 2 (11.76%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (11.76%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (5.882%) MySQL
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) LSMW
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Retail
2 1 (5.882%) General Ledger
2 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
1 3 (17.65%) SCADA
2 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.882%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.882%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.882%) AIX
2 1 (5.882%) Solaris
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
1 4 (23.53%) Migration
2 3 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (17.65%) Information Security
2 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
3 2 (11.76%) SAP Implementation
3 2 (11.76%) SAP Security
3 2 (11.76%) CRM
3 2 (11.76%) Project Management
3 2 (11.76%) Logistics
4 1 (5.882%) Requirements Management
4 1 (5.882%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) Operations Management
4 1 (5.882%) Service Management
4 1 (5.882%) ITSM
4 1 (5.882%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
2 1 (5.882%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CISSP
2 3 (17.65%) CISM
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.882%) Degree
4 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (5.882%) XenApp
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Business Objects
3 2 (11.76%) JBoss
4 1 (5.882%) Citrix