The first table below looks at the demand for the IT 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 IT Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Consultant
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.267% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.277% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £288 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
+10.71% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £33.00 £7.00
% change year-on-year
- +371.42%
All Job Titles
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
361 596 431
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 96.27% 95.51% 92.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 339 234
Average daily rate £360 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £261 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 23 42
Average hourly rate £20.00 £26.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +23.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £11.75 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £30.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
IT Consultant
South East

IT Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex IT Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex IT Consultant Daily Rate Trend

IT Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Consultant within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 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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Vacancies
Crawley - - - -
IT Consultant
South East

IT Consultant
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region that cited IT 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 IT Consultant in their job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Maximo
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (50.00%) PlateSpin
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) Riverbed
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Internet

IT Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) PlateSpin
1 1 (50.00%) Riverbed
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper