The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 32 34 57
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 14 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 4.698% 0.602% 1.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.000% 0.613% 1.075%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
Average salary £27,500 £57,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-52.17% +130.00%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
All Job Titles
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
280 163 279
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 93.96% 98.19% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 156 152 266
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £46,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Consultant
Cheshire

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Chester Consultant Salary Trend

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled with Consultant in their job title.

1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Risk Management
2 8 (36.36%) JCL
2 8 (36.36%) Financial Institution
2 8 (36.36%) DB2
2 8 (36.36%) Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Retail
2 8 (36.36%) Asset Management
2 8 (36.36%) Investment Banking
2 8 (36.36%) ISPF
2 8 (36.36%) Retail Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Private Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Online Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Wealth Management
2 8 (36.36%) Investment Management
3 5 (22.73%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (22.73%) Oracle
3 5 (22.73%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (18.18%) ChangeMan
4 4 (18.18%) Maximo
4 4 (18.18%) Teradata
4 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) UNIX
4 4 (18.18%) Windows
4 4 (18.18%) AIX
4 4 (18.18%) MQSeries
4 4 (18.18%) MS Excel

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled with Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (36.36%) ISPF
2 1 (4.545%) .NET
2 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) MQSeries
1 4 (18.18%) CICS
2 2 (9.091%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
1 4 (18.18%) MS Office
1 4 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 3 (13.64%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle EBS R12
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (18.18%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) DB2
2 2 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) ChangeMan
General
1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Financial Institution
2 8 (36.36%) Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Retail
2 8 (36.36%) Investment Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Retail Banking
2 8 (36.36%) Private Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Online Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
2 4 (18.18%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) UNIX
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
1 4 (18.18%) AIX
1 4 (18.18%) zOS
1 4 (18.18%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Risk Management
1 8 (36.36%) Asset Management
1 8 (36.36%) Wealth Management
1 8 (36.36%) Investment Management
2 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (18.18%) ITIL
2 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
2 4 (18.18%) Unit Testing
2 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 3 (13.64%) Project Management
4 2 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.091%) E-Discovery
4 2 (9.091%) Inmon Methodology
4 2 (9.091%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) JCL
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (4.545%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Tivoli
1 4 (18.18%) CA Endevor
1 4 (18.18%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Teradata
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.091%) Open Text