The first table below looks at the demand for the Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Consultant
Rank 51 27 48
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Consultant 27 39 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 3.902% 7.078% 4.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.000% 7.156% 4.259%
Number of salaries quoted 23 32 23
Average salary £41,500 £55,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.54% +74.60%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £33,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £55,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
All Job Titles
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
675 545 634
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 97.54% 98.91% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 621 481 556
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Consultant
East of England

Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Suffolk Consultant Salary Trend

Consultant
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Consultant across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Suffolk Consultant Salary Histogram

Consultant
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Consultant within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bury St Edmunds -1 12 £45,000 -10.00%
Haverhill - 8 £37,000 -
Ipswich -11 5 £32,500 -39.81%
Consultant
East of England

Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk region that cited 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 32 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 31 (64.58%) .NET
3 28 (58.33%) SharePoint
4 26 (54.17%) Agile Software Development
5 23 (47.92%) SharePoint 2010
6 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
7 10 (20.83%) MS Excel
8 9 (18.75%) UNIX
8 9 (18.75%) Marketing
9 8 (16.67%) Retail
9 8 (16.67%) Validation
10 7 (14.58%) Java
11 6 (12.50%) PRINCE2
11 6 (12.50%) Scrum
12 5 (10.42%) Finance
13 4 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (8.333%) SQL
14 3 (6.250%) C#
14 3 (6.250%) J2EE
14 3 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (6.250%) Advertising
14 3 (6.250%) Degree
15 2 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 2 (4.167%) Risk Management
15 2 (4.167%) Telecoms
15 2 (4.167%) Service Management
15 2 (4.167%) Windows
15 2 (4.167%) XML
15 2 (4.167%) OO
15 2 (4.167%) SOA

Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk region that cited 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (64.58%) .NET
2 3 (6.250%) J2EE
3 2 (4.167%) XML
3 2 (4.167%) WSH
4 1 (2.083%) Web Services
4 1 (2.083%) XSLT
4 1 (2.083%) Middleware
4 1 (2.083%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.083%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 28 (58.33%) SharePoint
2 23 (47.92%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.083%) Apache
3 1 (2.083%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.083%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.083%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 10 (20.83%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.083%) Firewall
1 1 (2.083%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.083%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.083%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (2.083%) MySQL
2 1 (2.083%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.083%) Oracle 11g
General
1 9 (18.75%) Marketing
2 8 (16.67%) Retail
3 5 (10.42%) Finance
4 3 (6.250%) Advertising
5 2 (4.167%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.083%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) UNIX
2 2 (4.167%) Windows
3 1 (2.083%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (16.67%) Validation
3 6 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 6 (12.50%) Scrum
4 2 (4.167%) Risk Management
4 2 (4.167%) Service Management
4 2 (4.167%) OO
4 2 (4.167%) SOA
5 1 (2.083%) CRM
5 1 (2.083%) ITIL
5 1 (2.083%) UML
5 1 (2.083%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.083%) Project Management
5 1 (2.083%) TOGAF
5 1 (2.083%) Network Architecture
5 1 (2.083%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) Java
2 4 (8.333%) SQL
3 3 (6.250%) C#
4 1 (2.083%) Python
4 1 (2.083%) Perl
4 1 (2.083%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.083%) Ruby
4 1 (2.083%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.083%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.250%) Degree
3 2 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.083%) CCNP
4 1 (2.083%) CCNA
4 1 (2.083%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.083%) MCP
4 1 (2.083%) OCP
4 1 (2.083%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.083%) RHCE
4 1 (2.083%) CCSA
4 1 (2.083%) MCTS
4 1 (2.083%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (2.083%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.083%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.083%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (2.083%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.083%) Cisco
2 1 (2.083%) Citrix
2 1 (2.083%) Oracle
2 1 (2.083%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.083%) CheckPoint
2 1 (2.083%) VMware