Manchester Technical Consultant Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Consultant role in IT jobs within the Manchester 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	102	145
Rank change on same period last year	+43
Matching permanent IT job ads	87	74
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	1.714 %	1.130 %
Salaries quoted	77	58
Average minimum salary	£35,558	£32,052
Average salary	£44,896	£37,353
% change on same period last year	+20.19 %
Average maximum salary	£54,234	£42,655
UK excluding London average salary	£43,266	£44,584
% change on same period last year	-2.95 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	5077	6551
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.680 %	2.683 %
Salaries quoted	4253	5618
Average minimum salary	£33,152	£35,795
Average salary	£38,079	£40,436
% change on same period last year	-5.82 %
Average maximum salary	£43,006	£45,076
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Technical Consultant North West

Technical Consultant
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

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

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Consultant within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oldham	-1	8	£18,000	-38.28 %
Rochdale	-3	3	£21,000	+7.69 %
Cheadle	-	1	£30,000	-

Technical Consultant North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 70 (39.55 %) .NET 2 56 (31.64 %) J2EE 3 43 (24.29 %) Degree 4 41 (23.16 %) Business Development 5 37 (20.90 %) Java 5 37 (20.90 %) Education 6 33 (18.64 %) C# 7 32 (18.08 %) WebSphere 8 31 (17.51 %) VB 9 30 (16.95 %) Finance 10 29 (16.38 %) SAP XI 10 29 (16.38 %) Project Management 10 29 (16.38 %) SAP 10 29 (16.38 %) SOA 10 29 (16.38 %) SAP Oil and Gas

10 29 (16.38 %) Retail 11 28 (15.82 %) Microsoft 12 25 (14.12 %) UNIX 12 25 (14.12 %) SQL Server 13 24 (13.56 %) FTP 13 24 (13.56 %) Systems Analysis 14 21 (11.86 %) Oracle 15 19 (10.73 %) Solaris 16 17 (9.605 %) Windows 17 15 (8.475 %) Sybase 17 15 (8.475 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 15 (8.475 %) SNMP 17 15 (8.475 %) TELNET 17 15 (8.475 %) Netcool 17 15 (8.475 %) Microsoft Certification

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 70 (39.55 %) .NET 2 56 (31.64 %) J2EE 3 32 (18.08 %) WebSphere 4 29 (16.38 %) SAP XI 5 13 (7.345 %) HTML 6 8 (4.520 %) WebServices 6 8 (4.520 %) .NET Framework 7 4 (2.260 %) XML 8 3 (1.695 %) JSP 8 3 (1.695 %) ASP 9 2 (1.130 %) ASP.NET 9 2 (1.130 %) AJAX 10 1 (0.565 %) JavaBeans	Application Platforms 1 15 (8.475 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 8 (4.520 %) IIS 2 8 (4.520 %) SharePoint 2 8 (4.520 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 5 (2.825 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (1.130 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (1.130 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (0.565 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.565 %) WebSphere MQ 5 1 (0.565 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (0.565 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (0.565 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 12 (6.780 %) MS Excel 2 8 (4.520 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 29 (16.38 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 5 (2.825 %) MAXIMO 3 3 (1.695 %) Oracle 11i 3 3 (1.695 %) SalesLogix 3 3 (1.695 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 24 (13.56 %) FTP 2 15 (8.475 %) SNMP 2 15 (8.475 %) TELNET 2 15 (8.475 %) SSH 3 12 (6.780 %) TCP/IP 4 11 (6.215 %) SAN 4 11 (6.215 %) Internet 5 9 (5.085 %) ADSL 6 8 (4.520 %) Broadband 6 8 (4.520 %) ISDN 7 3 (1.695 %) VPN 7 3 (1.695 %) Firewall 7 3 (1.695 %) WAN 8 2 (1.130 %) MPLS 9 1 (0.565 %) SSL 9 1 (0.565 %) LAN 9 1 (0.565 %) VoIP 9 1 (0.565 %) WLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (14.12 %) SQL Server 2 10 (5.650 %) SQL Server 2000 2 10 (5.650 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 3 (1.695 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 37 (20.90 %) Education 2 30 (16.95 %) Finance 3 29 (16.38 %) Retail 4 5 (2.825 %) Telecoms 5 2 (1.130 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.565 %) Auditing 6 1 (0.565 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.565 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 14 (7.910 %) Client/Server 2 4 (2.260 %) Mathematics 2 4 (2.260 %) Computer Science 3 3 (1.695 %) Fat Client 3 3 (1.695 %) Thin Client 4 2 (1.130 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.565 %) HACMP 5 1 (0.565 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 25 (14.12 %) UNIX 2 19 (10.73 %) Solaris 3 17 (9.605 %) Windows 4 6 (3.390 %) AIX 5 5 (2.825 %) Linux 6 3 (1.695 %) Windows NT 7 2 (1.130 %) Windows XP 7 2 (1.130 %) Windows 2000 8 1 (0.565 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 41 (23.16 %) Business Development 2 29 (16.38 %) SOA 2 29 (16.38 %) Project Management 3 24 (13.56 %) Systems Analysis 4 15 (8.475 %) Disaster Recovery 5 14 (7.910 %) Business Continuity 6 11 (6.215 %) E-Commerce 7 10 (5.650 %) CRM 8 8 (4.520 %) Web Development 9 6 (3.390 %) PRINCE2 10 5 (2.825 %) ERP 11 4 (2.260 %) EAM 11 4 (2.260 %) Migration 12 3 (1.695 %) Document Management 12 3 (1.695 %) E-business 12 3 (1.695 %) Workflow 12 3 (1.695 %) Contact Management 13 2 (1.130 %) ITIL 13 2 (1.130 %) Business Analysis 13 2 (1.130 %) WFM	Programming Languages 1 37 (20.90 %) Java 2 33 (18.64 %) C# 3 31 (17.51 %) VB 4 14 (7.910 %) ABAP 5 11 (6.215 %) SQL 6 5 (2.825 %) VB.NET 7 3 (1.695 %) PL/SQL 7 3 (1.695 %) COBOL 8 1 (0.565 %) C 8 1 (0.565 %) C++
Qualifications 1 43 (24.29 %) Degree 2 15 (8.475 %) Microsoft Certification 3 14 (7.910 %) MCSE 4 7 (3.955 %) HND 5 6 (3.390 %) Citrix Certification 5 6 (3.390 %) CCEA 6 5 (2.825 %) CCA 6 5 (2.825 %) Cisco Certification 7 4 (2.260 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 7 4 (2.260 %) MCP 7 4 (2.260 %) CCNA 8 3 (1.695 %) MCSA 8 3 (1.695 %) OCP 8 3 (1.695 %) Oracle Certification 9 2 (1.130 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 2 (1.130 %) CCNP 9 2 (1.130 %) CCDP 10 1 (0.565 %) CCIE 10 1 (0.565 %) CCSP 10 1 (0.565 %) CISSP	System Software 1 7 (3.955 %) Active Directory 1 7 (3.955 %) Xen 2 5 (2.825 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 4 (2.260 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (0.565 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 15 (8.475 %) Netcool 2 2 (1.130 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 1 (0.565 %) MOM 3 1 (0.565 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.565 %) SCCM 3 1 (0.565 %) SCOM 3 1 (0.565 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 29 (16.38 %) SAP 2 28 (15.82 %) Microsoft 3 21 (11.86 %) Oracle 4 15 (8.475 %) Sybase 5 13 (7.345 %) Citrix 5 13 (7.345 %) VMware 6 11 (6.215 %) Cisco 7 4 (2.260 %) IBM 7 4 (2.260 %) Novell 8 3 (1.695 %) Pegasus 8 3 (1.695 %) Sage 9 2 (1.130 %) Actuate 9 2 (1.130 %) Hitachi 10 1 (0.565 %) Lotus 10 1 (0.565 %) Sun 10 1 (0.565 %) HP 10 1 (0.565 %) EMC