The first table below looks at the demand for BAPI skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BAPI over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Development category for the City of London 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)
Rank 212 - 235
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BAPI 3 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.044% - 0.030%
As % of the Application Development category 0.150% - 0.106%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £600 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2001 2043 2833
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 29.04% 26.85% 28.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1580 1564 2227
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £290 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 25 23
Average hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £41.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.69% -21.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.00 £16.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £50.50 £107.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
BAPI
London

BAPI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BAPI across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London BAPI Jobs Demand Trend

BAPI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BAPI across the City of London region.

City of London BAPI Daily Rate Trend

BAPI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BAPI 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 BAPI.

1 5 (71.43%) Internet
2 4 (57.14%) Tivoli
2 4 (57.14%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) DB2
2 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Process Server
2 4 (57.14%) WebSphere
2 4 (57.14%) ESB
2 4 (57.14%) Online Banking
2 4 (57.14%) DataPower
3 3 (42.86%) LogLogic
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) SAP
3 3 (42.86%) C
3 3 (42.86%) HP
3 3 (42.86%) TeamSite
4 2 (28.57%) ABAP
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Publishing
4 2 (28.57%) SAP CRM
4 2 (28.57%) SAP Smart Forms
4 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 2 (28.57%) SAP BSP
4 2 (28.57%) SAP ALE
4 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Marketing

BAPI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BAPI 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 BAPI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) WebSphere
2 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Smart Forms
2 2 (28.57%) SAP BSP
2 2 (28.57%) SAP ALE
3 1 (14.29%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Process Server
1 4 (57.14%) ESB
2 3 (42.86%) TeamSite
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP CRM
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Retail
2 1 (14.29%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) DB2
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Publishing
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (42.86%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (42.86%) Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) ABAP Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) CRM Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) SAP CRM Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) SAP SD Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Online Banking
1 4 (57.14%) DataPower
2 1 (14.29%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) OO
1 2 (28.57%) CRM
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C
2 2 (28.57%) ABAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Tivoli
1 4 (57.14%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) LogLogic
2 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 3 (42.86%) HP
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