The first table below looks at the demand for SAP Data Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP Data Services over the 3 months to 17 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Cardiff 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Data Services (SAP BODS, SAP DS)
Rank 15 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing SAP Data Services 10 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 6.098% 0.455% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.57% 2.222% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £500 £500
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.00
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
35 45 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 21.34% 20.45% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 32
Average daily rate £388 £325 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.23% -0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £275 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £494 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £14.12 £11.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.80% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
SAP Data Services
South Wales

SAP Data Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAP Data Services across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cardiff SAP Data Services Jobs Demand Trend

SAP Data Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cardiff SAP Data Services Daily Rate Trend

SAP Data Services
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing SAP Data Services 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 Data Services.

1 14 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 14 (100.00%) SAP
1 14 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
2 13 (92.86%) SAP BW
3 10 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (64.29%) Finance
4 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
4 9 (64.29%) ABAP
5 7 (50.00%) Data Extraction
6 5 (35.71%) BusinessObjects XI
6 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
7 1 (7.143%) Billing
7 1 (7.143%) Data Migration
7 1 (7.143%) Data Cleansing
7 1 (7.143%) Data Mapping
7 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (7.143%) Welsh Language
7 1 (7.143%) SAP ERP
7 1 (7.143%) DWR
7 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
7 1 (7.143%) MS Office
7 1 (7.143%) ETL
7 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
7 1 (7.143%) ERP
7 1 (7.143%) Migration
7 1 (7.143%) COBOL

SAP Data Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing SAP Data Services 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 Data Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.143%) DWR
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) SAP ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
2 13 (92.86%) SAP BW
3 5 (35.71%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Billing
2 1 (7.143%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (85.71%) SAP Developer
2 12 (85.71%) SAP BW Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) SAP BW Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (7.143%) ETL Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
4 1 (7.143%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.143%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (7.143%) Data Mapping
4 1 (7.143%) ETL
4 1 (7.143%) Migration
4 1 (7.143%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) ABAP
2 1 (7.143%) COBOL
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 14 (100.00%) SAP