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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 33 31 24
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 26 35 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 5.295% 6.228% 7.487%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.640% 6.591% 7.713%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 18
Average salary £36,500 £46,250 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.08% +11.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,350 £30,000 £29,050
10% offered a salary of more than £59,750 £65,250 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
461 531 363
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 93.89% 94.48% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 412 484 305
Average salary £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.17% -
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Consultant
North West

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Consultant Salary Trend

Consultant
Salary Histogram

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

Lancashire Consultant Salary Histogram

Consultant
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Lancashire 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
Preston -6 4 £17,000 -66.82%
Chorley -4 2 £41,500 -2.35%
Blackburn 0 1 £65,000 +44.44%
Consultant
North West

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 13 (35.14%) Java
1 13 (35.14%) SQL
1 13 (35.14%) Web Services
2 11 (29.73%) SOAP
2 11 (29.73%) PHP
2 11 (29.73%) C
2 11 (29.73%) C#
2 11 (29.73%) C++
2 11 (29.73%) Ruby
3 10 (27.03%) XML
3 10 (27.03%) RAD
3 10 (27.03%) Python
3 10 (27.03%) HTTP
3 10 (27.03%) QA
3 10 (27.03%) WATIR
3 10 (27.03%) Selenium
3 10 (27.03%) FitNesse
3 10 (27.03%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (27.03%) Unit Testing
3 10 (27.03%) System Testing
3 10 (27.03%) Waterfall
3 10 (27.03%) soapUI
3 10 (27.03%) REST
3 10 (27.03%) Mobile App
4 8 (21.62%) SAP
4 8 (21.62%) Finance
5 5 (13.51%) ABAP
5 5 (13.51%) MS Excel
5 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
5 5 (13.51%) SAP BW

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 13 (35.14%) Web Services
2 11 (29.73%) SOAP
3 10 (27.03%) XML
3 10 (27.03%) soapUI
3 10 (27.03%) REST
4 3 (8.108%) SAP Basis
4 3 (8.108%) J2EE
5 2 (5.405%) COM
5 2 (5.405%) JSP
5 2 (5.405%) Servlets
5 2 (5.405%) BAPI
5 2 (5.405%) WebSphere
6 1 (2.703%) jQuery
6 1 (2.703%) CSS3
6 1 (2.703%) HTML5
6 1 (2.703%) Ajax
6 1 (2.703%) SAP ALE
6 1 (2.703%) SAP Smart Forms
6 1 (2.703%) Middleware
6 1 (2.703%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.405%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.405%) WebLogic
1 2 (5.405%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.703%) Magento
2 1 (2.703%) CMS
2 1 (2.703%) IIS
2 1 (2.703%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.703%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.108%) SAP SD
2 2 (5.405%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (2.703%) Google Analytics
3 1 (2.703%) SAP xMII
3 1 (2.703%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) HTTP
2 3 (8.108%) Internet
2 3 (8.108%) SAN
3 2 (5.405%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.703%) NAS
4 1 (2.703%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.703%) Wireless
4 1 (2.703%) Firewall
4 1 (2.703%) LAN
4 1 (2.703%) WLAN
4 1 (2.703%) WAN
4 1 (2.703%) DHCP
4 1 (2.703%) SNMP
4 1 (2.703%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.703%) VPN
4 1 (2.703%) DNS
4 1 (2.703%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) SAP BW
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.703%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.703%) DB2
3 1 (2.703%) MySQL
3 1 (2.703%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) WATIR
1 10 (27.03%) Selenium
1 10 (27.03%) FitNesse
General
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Marketing
3 3 (8.108%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.108%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.81%) Social Media
3 2 (5.405%) CLARiiON
3 2 (5.405%) Celerra
4 1 (2.703%) Copywriting
4 1 (2.703%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (2.703%) Symmetrix
4 1 (2.703%) EMC Centera
4 1 (2.703%) Replication
4 1 (2.703%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 3 (8.108%) Linux
3 2 (5.405%) AIX
3 2 (5.405%) UNIX
3 2 (5.405%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (5.405%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.703%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.703%) SUSE
4 1 (2.703%) HPUX
4 1 (2.703%) Solaris
4 1 (2.703%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) RAD
1 10 (27.03%) User Acceptance Testing
1 10 (27.03%) Unit Testing
1 10 (27.03%) System Testing
1 10 (27.03%) Waterfall
2 4 (10.81%) SEO
2 4 (10.81%) Pay per click
2 4 (10.81%) Analytics
2 4 (10.81%) Email Marketing
2 4 (10.81%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (8.108%) Internet Marketing
3 3 (8.108%) Social Media Marketing
3 3 (8.108%) Online Marketing
3 3 (8.108%) HOOD
3 3 (8.108%) E-Commerce
4 2 (5.405%) SOA
4 2 (5.405%) UML
4 2 (5.405%) Business Continuity
4 2 (5.405%) Incident Management
4 2 (5.405%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Java
1 13 (35.14%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) PHP
2 11 (29.73%) C
2 11 (29.73%) C#
2 11 (29.73%) C++
2 11 (29.73%) Ruby
3 10 (27.03%) Python
4 5 (13.51%) ABAP
5 1 (2.703%) AWK
5 1 (2.703%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.703%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.703%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.703%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.405%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (5.405%) EMC Certification
2 1 (2.703%) Degree
2 1 (2.703%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.703%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.703%) VCP5
2 1 (2.703%) VCP4
2 1 (2.703%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (2.703%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.703%) SAP Certification
2 1 (2.703%) CCIE
2 1 (2.703%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) QA
2 1 (2.703%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.703%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (2.703%) vSphere
2 1 (2.703%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.703%) VMware ESX
2 1 (2.703%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.703%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.703%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (2.703%) Oracle Identity Management
1 1 (2.703%) NetBackup
1 1 (2.703%) Backup Exec
1 1 (2.703%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) SAP
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) VMware
4 3 (8.108%) HP
4 3 (8.108%) Cisco
5 2 (5.405%) EMC
5 2 (5.405%) Citrix
5 2 (5.405%) Oracle
6 1 (2.703%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.703%) Google
6 1 (2.703%) Symantec
6 1 (2.703%) McAfee
6 1 (2.703%) NetApp
6 1 (2.703%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.703%) Avaya
6 1 (2.703%) Compuware
6 1 (2.703%) IBM