Demand for management consultants is set to rise, according to an industry report. ‘Quarterly Trends in Consultancy’, produced by Sourceforconsulting.com, found that financial services companies expect to raise their spending on management consultants between now and April 2010, some by as much as 50%.

Rupert Dobson, interim practice manager, at Hoggett Bowers, told Recruiter that this is in line with the results of an Interim Management Association Ipsos/MORI survey which showed that between Q1 and Q2 this year there was an 11% increase in demand for members’ services.

Dobson adds that project and programme-based tasks, traditionally the territory of the big management consultancies make up a third of interim managers’ activities.