The first table below looks at the demand for SAP Portal 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 Portal over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Application Platforms 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP NetWeaver Portal
Rank - - 48
Contract jobs citing SAP Portal 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.195%
As % of the Application Platforms category - - 0.870%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £625 £450 £450
% change year-on-year
+38.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
60 117 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 13.67% 18.84% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 67
Average daily rate £310 £307 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.14% -5.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £183 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
Average hourly rate £13.25 £30.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.83% +150.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £8.25 £11.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.45 £33.00 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
SAP Portal
West Midlands

SAP Portal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham SAP Portal Jobs Demand Trend

SAP Portal
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham SAP Portal Daily Rate Trend

SAP Portal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SAP Portal 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 Portal.

1 4 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) UML
2 3 (75.00%) OOA/OOD
2 3 (75.00%) J2EE
2 3 (75.00%) SAP EP
2 3 (75.00%) NWDI
2 3 (75.00%) NWDS
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) NetWeaver
4 1 (25.00%) JMX
4 1 (25.00%) Sybase
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) LDAP
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (25.00%) ABAP
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) EJB
4 1 (25.00%) Servlets
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) JSF
4 1 (25.00%) JTA
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) Java EE
4 1 (25.00%) JSTL
4 1 (25.00%) Java EE 5

SAP Portal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SAP Portal 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 Portal. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) JMX
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) EJB
2 1 (25.00%) Servlets
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) JSF
2 1 (25.00%) JTA
2 1 (25.00%) Java EE
2 1 (25.00%) JSTL
2 1 (25.00%) Java EE 5
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (25.00%) Web Dynpro
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) SAP EP
2 2 (50.00%) NetWeaver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) NWDI
1 3 (75.00%) NWDS
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Portals Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Java Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) UML
1 3 (75.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ABAP
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft