Bedfordshire SAP SD Contracts

This section looks at the demand for SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAP SD over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAP Sales and Distribution (SD)
Location Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Cheshire City of London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Midlands North East North West Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK Uttoxeter Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£480	£473
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.13	-
% change on same period last year	-
Business Applications Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	14	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£321
Average daily rate	£322	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£450	£435
% change on same period last year	+3.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.61	£25.77
% change on same period last year	+14.91 %
SAP SD East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SAP SD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAP SD across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

SAP SD
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAP SD across the Bedfordshire region.

SAP SD
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SAP SD also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SAP SD.

1 3 (100.00 %) SAP 2 2 (66.67 %) ERP 3 1 (33.33 %) ABAP 3 1 (33.33 %) Logistics

SAP SD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SAP SD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SAP SD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP SD Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP Consultant	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) ERP 2 1 (33.33 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) ABAP	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) SAP