The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading 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 20 June 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Consultant
Rank 125 117 105
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -12
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Consultant 9 17 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.399% 0.739% 0.831%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.420% 0.786% 0.878%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 15
Average salary £39,000 £55,000 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.09% +161.90%
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £42,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year
-1.17% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2145 2164 1823
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 95.00% 94.09% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1745 1827 1499
Average salary £40,000 £43,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.97% +4.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
IT Consultant
Berkshire

IT Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading IT Consultant Salary Trend

IT Consultant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IT Consultant across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Reading IT Consultant Salary Histogram

IT Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Product Management
3 3 (16.67%) Business Objects
3 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (16.67%) Documentum
3 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
4 2 (11.11%) Firewall
4 2 (11.11%) Validation
4 2 (11.11%) Juniper
4 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 2 (11.11%) McAfee
4 2 (11.11%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) Business Development
5 1 (5.556%) COBIT
5 1 (5.556%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.556%) Information Management
5 1 (5.556%) Telemarketing
5 1 (5.556%) Marketing
5 1 (5.556%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (5.556%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (5.556%) Unified Communications
5 1 (5.556%) Analytics
5 1 (5.556%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.556%) Project Management
5 1 (5.556%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (5.556%) B2B
5 1 (5.556%) ITIL Certification

IT Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 3 (16.67%) Documentum
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (5.556%) Unified Communications
2 1 (5.556%) IP Telephony
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Product Management
2 2 (11.11%) Validation
2 2 (11.11%) Business Development
3 1 (5.556%) Information Management
3 1 (5.556%) Telemarketing
3 1 (5.556%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.556%) Analytics
3 1 (5.556%) Project Management
3 1 (5.556%) B2B
3 1 (5.556%) Service Management
3 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.556%) ITIL
3 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.556%) Information Security
3 1 (5.556%) ITSM
3 1 (5.556%) Information Security Management
3 1 (5.556%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.556%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) COBIT
1 1 (5.556%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.556%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Business Objects
2 2 (11.11%) Juniper
2 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 2 (11.11%) McAfee
3 1 (5.556%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
Reading, Berkshire
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