The first table below looks at the demand for SAP R/3 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP R/3 over the 3 months to 21 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 Business Applications category for the Cheshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP R/3
Rank 58 61 70
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +9
Contract jobs citing SAP R/3 5 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.680% 0.621% 0.617%
As % of the Business Applications category 6.250% 7.813% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £275 £573 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-51.96% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £397 £398 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.25% +13.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £7.00
All Business Applications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
80 64 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 10.88% 7.950% 5.653%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 23 18
Average daily rate £448 £425 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.29% +8.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £300 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £575 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
Average hourly rate £50.70 £50.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.39% +11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%
SAP R/3
North West

SAP R/3
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire SAP R/3 Jobs Demand Trend

SAP R/3
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire SAP R/3 Daily Rate Trend

SAP R/3
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire SAP R/3 Hourly Rate Trend

SAP R/3
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP R/3 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 2 £275 -
Warrington - 2 - -
SAP R/3
North West

SAP R/3
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SAP R/3 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 R/3.

1 6 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Logistics
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (33.33%) SLA
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) AIX
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) MS Access
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) Tru64
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) MS Office
4 1 (16.67%) CMDB
4 1 (16.67%) Problem Management

SAP R/3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SAP R/3 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 R/3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MS Access
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Coordinator
2 2 (33.33%) Tivoli Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Logistics
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
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