The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Consultant
Rank 56 54 45
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Consultant 3 7 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.622% 1.268% 1.813%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.662% 1.338% 1.867%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 5
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
453 523 375
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 93.98% 94.75% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 405 476 320
Average salary £32,500 £31,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £43,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Consultant
North West

Technical Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Technical Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Lancashire Technical Consultant Salary Trend

Technical Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) CLARiiON
2 2 (66.67%) EMC Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Celerra
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) NFS
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Compuware
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) HPUX
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) SNMP
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CLARiiON
1 2 (66.67%) Celerra
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Symmetrix
2 1 (33.33%) EMC Centera
2 1 (33.33%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 2000
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
2 1 (33.33%) HPUX
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) E-business
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) AWK
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) EMC Certification
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) VCP4
2 1 (33.33%) VCP5
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
1 1 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Compuware
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp