The first table below looks at the demand for SAP APO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP APO over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Business Applications category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Advanced Planner & Optimizer (APO)
Rank 43 53 37
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -16
Contract jobs citing SAP APO 4 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.830% 0.155% 1.550%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.128% 1.471% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £375 £425 £258
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +65.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
78 68 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 16.18% 10.56% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 36
Average daily rate £419 £384 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.12% +9.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £183 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £408
% change year-on-year
- +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £175.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+44.00% -13.79%
SAP APO
West Midlands

SAP APO
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAP APO across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Birmingham SAP APO Jobs Demand Trend

SAP APO
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAP APO across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SAP APO Daily Rate Trend

SAP APO
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SAP APO across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SAP APO Hourly Rate Trend

SAP APO
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SAP APO 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 APO.

1 7 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (42.86%) Supply Chain Management
2 3 (42.86%) SAP SCM
3 2 (28.57%) ABAP
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) SAP BW
3 2 (28.57%) SAP PP
3 2 (28.57%) SAP BI
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Logistics

SAP APO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SAP APO 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 APO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) SAP SCM
2 2 (28.57%) SAP PP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SAP BW
1 2 (28.57%) SAP BI
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Consultant
1 6 (85.71%) SAP Consultant
2 4 (57.14%) SAP APO Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) SAP BI Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) SAP BW Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Supply Chain Management
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) ABAP
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) SAP
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