The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Consultant
Rank 177 201 174
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -27
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Consultant 38 22 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.739% 0.359% 0.427%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.784% 0.380% 0.454%
Number of salaries quoted 35 21 19
Average salary £45,000 £52,500 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +150.00%
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £42,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.92% +6.87%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4848 5795 4847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.23% 94.49% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3844 4947 4021
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,350 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Consultant
South East

IT Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire IT Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

IT Consultant
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IT Consultant across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire IT Consultant Salary Trend

IT Consultant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IT Consultant across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire IT Consultant Salary Histogram

IT Consultant
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Consultant within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +4 14 £40,250 -23.33%
Slough - 12 £52,500 -
Windsor - 3 £36,000 -
Newbury - 1 - -
IT Consultant
South East

IT Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled with IT Consultant in their job title.

1 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.73%) Windows
2 15 (22.73%) MS Excel
3 13 (19.70%) Project Management
3 13 (19.70%) Marketing
4 12 (18.18%) Firewall
4 12 (18.18%) Finance
5 10 (15.15%) Active Directory
5 10 (15.15%) Degree
5 10 (15.15%) Waterfall
6 9 (13.64%) Linux
6 9 (13.64%) SQL
7 8 (12.12%) SharePoint
7 8 (12.12%) Juniper
7 8 (12.12%) CheckPoint
7 8 (12.12%) VMware
7 8 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (12.12%) Product Management
8 7 (10.61%) Network Security
8 7 (10.61%) UNIX
9 6 (9.091%) Business Objects
9 6 (9.091%) Oracle
9 6 (9.091%) Cisco
9 6 (9.091%) Management Information System
9 6 (9.091%) Information Security
9 6 (9.091%) Network Design
9 6 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (9.091%) Windows 7
10 5 (7.576%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (7.576%) PCI DSS

IT Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled with IT Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (6.061%) .NET
2 3 (4.545%) XML
2 3 (4.545%) WebSphere
2 3 (4.545%) Regular Expression
3 2 (3.030%) JSP
4 1 (1.515%) Web Services
4 1 (1.515%) BAPI
4 1 (1.515%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 8 (12.12%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.576%) Documentum
3 3 (4.545%) WebLogic
3 3 (4.545%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 15 (22.73%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.515%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) Firewall
2 7 (10.61%) Network Security
3 5 (7.576%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.061%) VPN
4 4 (6.061%) LAN
4 4 (6.061%) VoIP
4 4 (6.061%) WAN
4 4 (6.061%) RIP
4 4 (6.061%) MPLS
4 4 (6.061%) OSPF
4 4 (6.061%) BGP
5 2 (3.030%) SAN
5 2 (3.030%) Internet
6 1 (1.515%) HTTP
6 1 (1.515%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.515%) Junos
6 1 (1.515%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.576%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.545%) RDBMS
2 3 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (1.515%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.515%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.515%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (7.576%) Eclipse
General
1 13 (19.70%) Marketing
2 12 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (4.545%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.545%) Banking
3 3 (4.545%) Retail
4 1 (1.515%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.515%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.091%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.515%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.515%) FMCG
2 1 (1.515%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Linux
3 7 (10.61%) UNIX
4 6 (9.091%) Windows 7
5 5 (7.576%) Windows XP
5 5 (7.576%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (7.576%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (6.061%) Windows 2000
6 4 (6.061%) Windows NT
7 3 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.70%) Project Management
2 10 (15.15%) Waterfall
3 8 (12.12%) Product Management
4 6 (9.091%) Network Design
4 6 (9.091%) Information Security
5 4 (6.061%) Service Delivery
5 4 (6.061%) B2B
5 4 (6.061%) Business Development
5 4 (6.061%) SIEM
6 3 (4.545%) Business Continuity
6 3 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (3.030%) Validation
7 2 (3.030%) Service Management
7 2 (3.030%) Quality Management
7 2 (3.030%) Information Assurance
7 2 (3.030%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (3.030%) Test Management
8 1 (1.515%) Performance Management
8 1 (1.515%) Data Protection
8 1 (1.515%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) SQL
2 4 (6.061%) Perl
3 3 (4.545%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.030%) Java
5 1 (1.515%) PHP
5 1 (1.515%) ABAP
5 1 (1.515%) Python
5 1 (1.515%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Degree
2 4 (6.061%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.061%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.545%) CCSA
3 3 (4.545%) CCSE
4 1 (1.515%) CISSP
4 1 (1.515%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.576%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.545%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (4.545%) COBIT
3 3 (4.545%) QA
4 2 (3.030%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.515%) ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE)
5 1 (1.515%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.061%) XenApp
3 4 (6.061%) vSphere
4 3 (4.545%) XenServer
4 3 (4.545%) XenDesktop
4 3 (4.545%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.515%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (1.515%) Nessus
1 1 (1.515%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Juniper
2 8 (12.12%) CheckPoint
2 8 (12.12%) VMware
3 6 (9.091%) Oracle
3 6 (9.091%) Business Objects
3 6 (9.091%) Cisco
4 4 (6.061%) F5
4 4 (6.061%) Citrix
5 3 (4.545%) McAfee
5 3 (4.545%) HP
5 3 (4.545%) Dell
5 3 (4.545%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.030%) IBM
7 1 (1.515%) SAP
7 1 (1.515%) NetApp
7 1 (1.515%) Sage
7 1 (1.515%) Symantec
7 1 (1.515%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.515%) Sourcefire
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With the Head Office based in Woodley, the company has a strong coverage of the IT market nationally and an excellent reputation with medium to large Technology vendors...
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