The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 West Sussex 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Consultant
Rank - 55 51
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Consultant 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex - 0.155% 0.227%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.162% 0.246%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £334 £305
% change year-on-year
+4.11% +9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 - -
All Job Titles
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
353 618 406
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 92.65% 95.67% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 365 191
Average daily rate £380 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £490 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 25 45
Average hourly rate £25.38 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.34% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.75 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £32.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Consultant
South East

Infrastructure Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex Infrastructure Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Infrastructure Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Consultant in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) HP SIM

Infrastructure Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) XenApp
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (50.00%) HP SIM
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) ProCurve
4 1 (25.00%) Riverbed
4 1 (25.00%) PlateSpin
4 1 (25.00%) EMC
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco