Birmingham Technical Consultant Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Consultant role in IT jobs within the Birmingham region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Consultant
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheshire Chessington Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hungerford Ipswich Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Redhill Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tring UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winsford Woking Wokingham Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	109	72
Rank change on same period last year	-37
Matching permanent IT job ads	28	59
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	0.975 %	2.201 %
Salaries quoted	26	51
Average minimum salary	£45,538	£43,804
Average salary	£49,750	£46,333
% change on same period last year	+7.37 %
Average maximum salary	£53,962	£48,863
UK excluding London average salary	£43,266	£44,584
% change on same period last year	-2.95 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads	2873	2681
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.517 %	1.098 %
Salaries quoted	2512	2271
Average minimum salary	£35,752	£36,003
Average salary	£39,324	£39,373
% change on same period last year	-0.12 %
Average maximum salary	£42,895	£42,743
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Technical Consultant West Midlands

Technical Consultant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Consultant across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Technical Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Technical Consultant
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Consultant across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title.

1 55 (47.41 %) Workflow 2 41 (35.34 %) CRM 3 36 (31.03 %) SQL 4 34 (29.31 %) SAP 5 33 (28.45 %) ABAP 6 32 (27.59 %) SAP Smart Forms 6 32 (27.59 %) SAP XI 6 32 (27.59 %) SAPscript 7 30 (25.86 %) XML 8 24 (20.69 %) Oracle 8 24 (20.69 %) Finance 9 23 (19.83 %) Oracle Workflow 9 23 (19.83 %) PL/SQL 9 23 (19.83 %) Oracle Forms 9 23 (19.83 %) Oracle Reports

9 23 (19.83 %) Oracle Financials 10 19 (16.38 %) Microsoft 11 18 (15.52 %) Microsoft Certification 11 18 (15.52 %) Migration 12 16 (13.79 %) MS Excel 12 16 (13.79 %) Data Migration 13 14 (12.07 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 14 (12.07 %) Oracle 9i 13 14 (12.07 %) Oracle 11i 13 14 (12.07 %) Oracle EBS 13 14 (12.07 %) Manufacturing 14 13 (11.21 %) SQLPlus 14 13 (11.21 %) MS Exchange 14 13 (11.21 %) Data Conversion 14 13 (11.21 %) Supply Chain Management

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 32 (27.59 %) SAP Smart Forms 1 32 (27.59 %) SAP XI 2 30 (25.86 %) XML 3 8 (6.897 %) HTML 3 8 (6.897 %) .NET 4 7 (6.034 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (0.862 %) Middleware 5 1 (0.862 %) Web Dynpro 5 1 (0.862 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 23 (19.83 %) Oracle Workflow 2 13 (11.21 %) MS Exchange 3 12 (10.34 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 11 (9.483 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 9 (7.759 %) SharePoint 6 7 (6.034 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 4 (3.448 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (0.862 %) ESB 8 1 (0.862 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 16 (13.79 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 23 (19.83 %) Oracle Financials 2 14 (12.07 %) Oracle 11i 2 14 (12.07 %) Oracle EBS 3 7 (6.034 %) Microsoft CRM 3 7 (6.034 %) Dynamics CRM 4 1 (0.862 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (0.862 %) SAP CRM 4 1 (0.862 %) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking 1 8 (6.897 %) Firewall 2 6 (5.172 %) WAN 2 6 (5.172 %) VPN 3 5 (4.310 %) SAN 4 4 (3.448 %) Internet 4 4 (3.448 %) MPLS 5 2 (1.724 %) LAN 5 2 (1.724 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (0.862 %) Wireless 6 1 (0.862 %) SDH 6 1 (0.862 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (19.83 %) Oracle Reports 2 14 (12.07 %) Oracle 9i 2 14 (12.07 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 13 (11.21 %) SQLPlus 4 12 (10.34 %) SQL Server 4 12 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2000 5 7 (6.034 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 7 (6.034 %) SQL Server 7 5 7 (6.034 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 4 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 23 (19.83 %) Oracle Forms 2 9 (7.759 %) JDeveloper	General 1 24 (20.69 %) Finance 2 14 (12.07 %) Manufacturing 3 9 (7.759 %) Education 3 9 (7.759 %) Pensions 4 6 (5.172 %) Health 5 4 (3.448 %) Retail 6 3 (2.586 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.862 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 13 (11.21 %) Data Conversion 2 4 (3.448 %) Clustering 2 4 (3.448 %) EPoS 3 1 (0.862 %) Chip and PIN	Operating Systems 1 11 (9.483 %) Windows 2 6 (5.172 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (4.310 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.862 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 55 (47.41 %) Workflow 2 41 (35.34 %) CRM 3 18 (15.52 %) Migration 4 16 (13.79 %) Data Migration 5 13 (11.21 %) Supply Chain Management 6 12 (10.34 %) Business Development 7 10 (8.621 %) BPEL 8 9 (7.759 %) SOA 9 7 (6.034 %) ITIL 9 7 (6.034 %) PRINCE2 9 7 (6.034 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 4 (3.448 %) Network Load Balancing 10 4 (3.448 %) Project Management 11 3 (2.586 %) Disaster Recovery 11 3 (2.586 %) Business Continuity 11 3 (2.586 %) Technical Architecture 12 2 (1.724 %) Business Intelligence 13 1 (0.862 %) ERP 13 1 (0.862 %) OOP 13 1 (0.862 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 36 (31.03 %) SQL 2 33 (28.45 %) ABAP 3 32 (27.59 %) SAPscript 4 23 (19.83 %) PL/SQL 5 10 (8.621 %) Java 6 8 (6.897 %) JavaScript 6 8 (6.897 %) C# 7 1 (0.862 %) C 7 1 (0.862 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 18 (15.52 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (9.483 %) MCSE 2 11 (9.483 %) Degree 3 7 (6.034 %) MCP 4 6 (5.172 %) Cisco Certification 4 6 (5.172 %) CCNA 5 5 (4.310 %) MCSA 5 5 (4.310 %) SCSA 6 4 (3.448 %) MCDST 7 3 (2.586 %) CCDE 7 3 (2.586 %) ITIL Certification 7 3 (2.586 %) Citrix Certification 7 3 (2.586 %) CCIE 7 3 (2.586 %) CCNP 8 2 (1.724 %) CCDA 8 2 (1.724 %) CCDP 9 1 (0.862 %) CCA 9 1 (0.862 %) CCEA 9 1 (0.862 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.862 %) SLA 1 1 (0.862 %) QA
System Software 1 6 (5.172 %) Active Directory 2 5 (4.310 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 5 (4.310 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (0.862 %) NetBackup 3 1 (0.862 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (0.862 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (0.862 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 2 (1.724 %) MOM 1 2 (1.724 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (1.724 %) SCCM 1 2 (1.724 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 34 (29.31 %) SAP 2 24 (20.69 %) Oracle 3 19 (16.38 %) Microsoft 4 5 (4.310 %) Cisco 4 5 (4.310 %) VMware 5 4 (3.448 %) Citrix 6 1 (0.862 %) VERITAS 6 1 (0.862 %) Pegasus 6 1 (0.862 %) Sophos 6 1 (0.862 %) IBM 6 1 (0.862 %) HP 6 1 (0.862 %) EMC