The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the East of England 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 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Consultant
Rank 253 260 244
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -16
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Consultant 9 10 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.108% 0.114% 0.277%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.114% 0.118% 0.293%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 10
Average salary £39,500 £28,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.07% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £22,000 £26,750
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £56,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +6.25%
All Job Titles
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7915 8479 8883
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 95.40% 96.70% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6895 7100 7595
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Consultant
England

IT Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England IT Consultant Salary Trend

IT Consultant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IT Consultant across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cambridgeshire +12 4 £39,500 +16.17%
Bedfordshire - 4 £51,250 -
Suffolk -11 1 - -
IT Consultant
England

IT Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 9 (33.33%) Firewall
2 9 (33.33%) ITIL
3 8 (29.63%) Information Security
4 6 (22.22%) Information Security Management
4 6 (22.22%) Security Management
4 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
4 6 (22.22%) Windows
4 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
4 6 (22.22%) CISSP
5 5 (18.52%) CISM
5 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (14.81%) COBIT
6 4 (14.81%) PCI DSS
6 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (14.81%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Business Analysis
6 4 (14.81%) VMware
6 4 (14.81%) SSCP
6 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
7 3 (11.11%) CheckPoint
7 3 (11.11%) Java
7 3 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
7 3 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 3 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (11.11%) Security Testing
7 3 (11.11%) Network Security
7 3 (11.11%) Change Control
8 2 (7.407%) Business Transformation

IT Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 2 (7.407%) .NET
1 2 (7.407%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (7.407%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 2 (7.407%) MS Office
2 2 (7.407%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) Network Security
3 2 (7.407%) BIG-IP
3 2 (7.407%) LAN
3 2 (7.407%) WAN
3 2 (7.407%) FTP
3 2 (7.407%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.407%) MPLS
4 1 (3.704%) Internet
4 1 (3.704%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) Oracle BI EE
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.407%) Advertising
4 1 (3.704%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.704%) Banking
4 1 (3.704%) Retail
4 1 (3.704%) Electronics
4 1 (3.704%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.704%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.407%) Cryptography
2 2 (7.407%) PKI
3 1 (3.704%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (7.407%) Windows Vista
3 2 (7.407%) Windows 7
3 2 (7.407%) Linux
3 2 (7.407%) UNIX
3 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) ITIL
2 8 (29.63%) Information Security
3 6 (22.22%) Information Security Management
3 6 (22.22%) Security Management
4 4 (14.81%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (14.81%) Business Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 3 (11.11%) Security Testing
5 3 (11.11%) Change Control
6 2 (7.407%) Business Transformation
6 2 (7.407%) Security Architecture
6 2 (7.407%) E-Discovery
6 2 (7.407%) SIEM
6 2 (7.407%) ISMS
6 2 (7.407%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (7.407%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.407%) Scrum
6 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (7.407%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) CISSP
2 5 (18.52%) CISM
3 4 (14.81%) SSCP
4 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (7.407%) Degree
4 2 (7.407%) MCSE
4 2 (7.407%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.704%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.81%) COBIT
2 4 (14.81%) PCI DSS
3 2 (7.407%) SLA
4 1 (3.704%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (7.407%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (7.407%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (7.407%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) SCCM
1 2 (7.407%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) VMware
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 2 (7.407%) F5
3 2 (7.407%) Citrix
4 1 (3.704%) Cisco
4 1 (3.704%) Cognos
4 1 (3.704%) Siebel
4 1 (3.704%) SAP