The first table below looks at the demand for the Business Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Consultant
Rank 217 227 190
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Consultant 31 24 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.435% 0.340% 0.743%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.455% 0.355% 0.778%
Number of salaries quoted 28 22 51
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,250 £45,250 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £61,250 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year
-4.54% +4.76%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6808 6765 6558
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.48% 95.94% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5756 5975 5797
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Business Consultant
England

Business Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Business Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Business Consultant
Salary Trend

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

North West Business Consultant Salary Trend

Business Consultant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Business Consultant across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West Business Consultant Salary Histogram

Business Consultant
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Consultant within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester -17 24 £47,500 -
Cheshire - 5 £45,000 -
Business Consultant
England

Business Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Business 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 Business Consultant in their job title.

1 40 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (40.00%) Analytics
3 29 (36.25%) Oracle
4 27 (33.75%) Business Objects
4 27 (33.75%) ETL
5 26 (32.50%) Microsoft
6 25 (31.25%) SQL Server
6 25 (31.25%) SAP
6 25 (31.25%) Project Management
7 24 (30.00%) BusinessObjects
7 24 (30.00%) SAS
8 22 (27.50%) MS Excel
9 20 (25.00%) Business Development
10 19 (23.75%) Data Conversion
10 19 (23.75%) Data Management
10 19 (23.75%) OLAP
10 19 (23.75%) Data Mining
10 19 (23.75%) Finance
11 17 (21.25%) Oracle EBS
11 17 (21.25%) Oracle BI EE
12 16 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
13 15 (18.75%) Big Data
14 14 (17.50%) Master Data Management
15 13 (16.25%) Data Migration
15 13 (16.25%) Manufacturing
15 13 (16.25%) Migration
15 13 (16.25%) MS Access
15 13 (16.25%) Cognos
15 13 (16.25%) SAP Data Services
16 12 (15.00%) SQL

Business Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Business 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 Business Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (12.50%) BAPI
1 10 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
1 10 (12.50%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 24 (30.00%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (27.50%) MS Excel
2 9 (11.25%) SPSS
3 2 (2.500%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 17 (21.25%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (13.75%) Oracle Applications
3 10 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (7.500%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (3.750%) HFM
6 2 (2.500%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (2.500%) SAP Business One
6 2 (2.500%) Hyperion Planning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 24 (30.00%) BusinessObjects
3 19 (23.75%) OLAP
3 19 (23.75%) Data Mining
4 17 (21.25%) Oracle BI EE
5 16 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
6 15 (18.75%) Big Data
7 13 (16.25%) SAP Data Services
7 13 (16.25%) MS Access
8 11 (13.75%) DataStage
8 11 (13.75%) QlikView
8 11 (13.75%) Hadoop
9 10 (12.50%) IBM InfoSphere
10 9 (11.25%) Pentaho
10 9 (11.25%) Spotfire
11 7 (8.750%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (7.500%) Essbase
12 6 (7.500%) Oracle Exadata
13 3 (3.750%) Oracle 11g
14 2 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) LSMW
2 1 (1.250%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 19 (23.75%) Finance
2 13 (16.25%) Manufacturing
3 10 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (10.00%) Billing
5 6 (7.500%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.500%) Marketing
6 2 (2.500%) Electronics
6 2 (2.500%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.250%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Data Conversion
2 9 (11.25%) Data Integration
3 6 (7.500%) Oracle Exalogic
3 6 (7.500%) Oracle Exalytics
4 4 (5.000%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.250%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (40.00%) Analytics
3 27 (33.75%) ETL
4 25 (31.25%) Project Management
5 20 (25.00%) Business Development
6 19 (23.75%) Data Management
7 14 (17.50%) Master Data Management
8 13 (16.25%) Data Migration
8 13 (16.25%) Migration
9 12 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (13.75%) ERP
10 11 (13.75%) Business Analysis
11 10 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
11 10 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
11 10 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 10 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 10 (12.50%) Scrum
11 10 (12.50%) TDD
11 10 (12.50%) Service Delivery
11 10 (12.50%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.00%) SQL
2 10 (12.50%) ABAP
2 10 (12.50%) Ruby
2 10 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (2.500%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (7.500%) ACCA
1 6 (7.500%) CIMA
2 2 (2.500%) Degree
2 2 (2.500%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.250%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.250%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.500%) QA
2 1 (1.250%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 29 (36.25%) Oracle
2 27 (33.75%) Business Objects
3 26 (32.50%) Microsoft
4 25 (31.25%) SAP
5 13 (16.25%) Cognos
6 12 (15.00%) Informatica
7 11 (13.75%) MicroStrategy
7 11 (13.75%) Ab Initio
7 11 (13.75%) Teradata
7 11 (13.75%) Netezza
8 10 (12.50%) DataFlux
8 10 (12.50%) Tableau
8 10 (12.50%) IBM
9 6 (7.500%) CA
9 6 (7.500%) Hyperion
10 2 (2.500%) Endeca
11 1 (1.250%) Talend
11 1 (1.250%) Sybase
11 1 (1.250%) Trillium
Altrincham, Cheshire
The team is adding value through a broad set of expertise consisting of vertical knowledge, consulting and project management skills, relationship management, entrepreneurship, project delivery and international collaboration.
EXCELerate
Salary: From £75,000 to £110,000 per annum Car, Health, Pension, Life
Posted: 14 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Senior stakeholder management. Designing and Implementing BI / Analytics solutions... Project management and business development... This is a unique opportunity for any consultant within the Business Intelligence / Analytics space...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £30,000 to £65,000 per annum plus attractive benefits and extensi
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West Midlands and North Manchester
Main Responsibilities - To identify, research and qualify new prospects from various sources - Identify opportunities for Jumar to tender for new business - To liaise with external customers and prospective...
Jumar Solutions
Salary: £20,000 - £25,000 per year, OTE of £50k in the first year
Posted: 14 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Favoured Technical Skills: OLAP and Reporting : SAP BusinessObjects, Cognos, Microstrategy, OBIEE, SAS, Microsoft, Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire, Pentaho... ETL and Data Cleansing : Informatica, IBM InfoSphere DataStage , AbInitio, Oracle, DataFlux,...
ANSON MCCADE
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