Scotland Technical Consultant Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Consultant role in IT jobs within the Scotland 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Consultant
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chippenham Cirencester 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 Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle 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 St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Winsford Woking Wokingham Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	112
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching permanent IT job ads	67	69
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	1.881 %	1.255 %
Salaries quoted	62	45
Average minimum salary	£34,452	£40,022
Average salary	£37,105	£43,622
% change on same period last year	-14.94 %
Average maximum salary	£39,758	£47,222
UK excluding London average salary	£43,102	£44,115
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching permanent IT job ads	3562	5499
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.918 %	2.292 %
Salaries quoted	2477	3456
Average minimum salary	£33,776	£33,164
Average salary	£37,322	£35,852
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Average maximum salary	£40,868	£38,539
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
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Technical Consultant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Consultant across the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Consultant across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Edinburgh	+16	42	£35,975	-13.21 %
Glasgow	+9	22	£40,079	-11.26 %
Lanarkshire	-	1	£30,000	-
Aberdeen	-	1	£30,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 43 (35.83 %) C++ 1 43 (35.83 %) Symbian 2 39 (32.50 %) Symbian OS 3 37 (30.83 %) Wireless 4 36 (30.00 %) WLAN 4 36 (30.00 %) Bluetooth 4 36 (30.00 %) LAN 5 23 (19.17 %) Embedded C++ 6 16 (13.33 %) Microsoft Certification 6 16 (13.33 %) VMware 7 15 (12.50 %) Telecoms 8 14 (11.67 %) Project Management 8 14 (11.67 %) MCSE 9 13 (10.83 %) Business Intelligence 10 12 (10.00 %) Cisco

10 12 (10.00 %) Finance 11 11 (9.167 %) SAP BW 11 11 (9.167 %) Citrix 11 11 (9.167 %) SAP 11 11 (9.167 %) FMCG 12 10 (8.333 %) Microsoft 13 8 (6.667 %) Java 13 8 (6.667 %) Windows 14 7 (5.833 %) SQL Server 15 6 (5.000 %) Service Delivery 15 6 (5.000 %) .NET 15 6 (5.000 %) J2EE 15 6 (5.000 %) Oracle 15 6 (5.000 %) C 15 6 (5.000 %) Active Directory

Technical Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (5.000 %) .NET 1 6 (5.000 %) J2EE 2 5 (4.167 %) OpenGL 2 5 (4.167 %) DirectX 3 3 (2.500 %) Hibernate 3 3 (2.500 %) Spring 4 2 (1.667 %) JSF 4 2 (1.667 %) Tapestry 4 2 (1.667 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (1.667 %) WebServices 5 1 (0.833 %) XML 5 1 (0.833 %) Swing 5 1 (0.833 %) JMS 5 1 (0.833 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (0.833 %) EJB 5 1 (0.833 %) JSP 5 1 (0.833 %) Servlets 5 1 (0.833 %) Struts 5 1 (0.833 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.333 %) SharePoint 2 2 (1.667 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (0.833 %) Oracle Workflow 3 1 (0.833 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (0.833 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (0.833 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (4.167 %) MS Excel 1 5 (4.167 %) Quicktime	Business Applications 1 1 (0.833 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 37 (30.83 %) Wireless 2 36 (30.00 %) Bluetooth 2 36 (30.00 %) LAN 2 36 (30.00 %) WLAN 3 4 (3.333 %) Firewall 4 3 (2.500 %) VoIP 5 2 (1.667 %) Internet 6 1 (0.833 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (0.833 %) Cisco PIX 6 1 (0.833 %) VPN 6 1 (0.833 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (9.167 %) SAP BW 2 7 (5.833 %) SQL Server 3 4 (3.333 %) RDBMS 4 2 (1.667 %) SQL Server 2008 4 2 (1.667 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (0.833 %) ETL 5 1 (0.833 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (0.833 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.833 %) SQLPlus 5 1 (0.833 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (0.833 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.833 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (0.833 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (0.833 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 2 (1.667 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.833 %) Eclipse 2 1 (0.833 %) JDeveloper	General 1 15 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 12 (10.00 %) Finance 3 11 (9.167 %) FMCG 4 5 (4.167 %) Multimedia 5 4 (3.333 %) Health 5 4 (3.333 %) Pensions 6 3 (2.500 %) Insurance 7 2 (1.667 %) Education 8 1 (0.833 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.667 %) PKI 1 2 (1.667 %) Spanish Language 2 1 (0.833 %) HACMP 2 1 (0.833 %) Smartcard 2 1 (0.833 %) CESG 2 1 (0.833 %) CESG CLAS	Operating Systems 1 39 (32.50 %) Symbian OS 2 8 (6.667 %) Windows 3 5 (4.167 %) Linux 4 3 (2.500 %) UNIX 4 3 (2.500 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (1.667 %) AIX 5 2 (1.667 %) Solaris 6 1 (0.833 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (11.67 %) Project Management 2 13 (10.83 %) Business Intelligence 3 6 (5.000 %) Service Delivery 4 5 (4.167 %) Problem Management 5 3 (2.500 %) Change Management 6 2 (1.667 %) Workflow 6 2 (1.667 %) Migration 6 2 (1.667 %) Technical Architecture 7 1 (0.833 %) Security Testing 7 1 (0.833 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (0.833 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (0.833 %) Information Security 7 1 (0.833 %) Penetration Testing 7 1 (0.833 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 43 (35.83 %) C++ 2 23 (19.17 %) Embedded C++ 3 8 (6.667 %) Java 4 6 (5.000 %) C 5 5 (4.167 %) C# 6 1 (0.833 %) JavaScript 6 1 (0.833 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (0.833 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 16 (13.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 14 (11.67 %) MCSE 3 5 (4.167 %) MCSA 3 5 (4.167 %) CCNA 3 5 (4.167 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (3.333 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 4 (3.333 %) Degree 5 1 (0.833 %) IBM AIX Certification 5 1 (0.833 %) CCA 5 1 (0.833 %) Citrix Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.833 %) SLA
System Software 1 6 (5.000 %) Active Directory 2 5 (4.167 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.833 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 1 (0.833 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (0.833 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 43 (35.83 %) Symbian 2 16 (13.33 %) VMware 3 12 (10.00 %) Cisco 4 11 (9.167 %) SAP 4 11 (9.167 %) Citrix 5 10 (8.333 %) Microsoft 6 6 (5.000 %) Oracle 7 4 (3.333 %) CheckPoint 8 3 (2.500 %) Symantec 9 2 (1.667 %) IBM 10 1 (0.833 %) Sun 10 1 (0.833 %) HP 10 1 (0.833 %) Business Objects 10 1 (0.833 %) Cognos 10 1 (0.833 %) Novell 10 1 (0.833 %) Lotus