City of London ERP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ERP over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Newry Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peacehaven Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stirling Stourbridge Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	184	189
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	35	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.754 %	0.153 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£399	£550
Average daily rate	£443	£550
% change on same period last year	-19.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£486	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£427	£453
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.63	£22.80
% change on same period last year	+3.65 %
Processes & Methodologies City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	4641	3277
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.955 %	3.682 %
Daily rates quoted	2508	1497
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£467
Average daily rate	£463	£498
% change on same period last year	-6.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£501	£529
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	133	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.16	£28.57
Average hourly rate	£29.34	£32.48
% change on same period last year	-9.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.52	£36.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
ERP London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ERP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing ERP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

ERP
Daily Rate Trend

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

ERP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ERP across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

ERP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing ERP across the City of London region.

ERP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing ERP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ERP.

1 27 (50.94 %) SAP 2 14 (26.42 %) Oracle 3 13 (24.53 %) Government 4 10 (18.87 %) Finance 5 8 (15.09 %) CRM 6 7 (13.21 %) PRINCE2 6 7 (13.21 %) SAP ERP 7 6 (11.32 %) Degree 7 6 (11.32 %) SAP XI 7 6 (11.32 %) SQL 7 6 (11.32 %) BPR 8 5 (9.434 %) Business Intelligence 8 5 (9.434 %) Oracle ERP 8 5 (9.434 %) Workflow 9 4 (7.547 %) Management Information System

9 4 (7.547 %) Stakeholder Management 10 3 (5.660 %) Health 10 3 (5.660 %) Publishing 10 3 (5.660 %) Migration 10 3 (5.660 %) Pharmaceutical 10 3 (5.660 %) Logistics 10 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server 2005 10 3 (5.660 %) Statistics 10 3 (5.660 %) JD Edwards 10 3 (5.660 %) .NET 10 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server 2000 10 3 (5.660 %) ASP 10 3 (5.660 %) ASP.NET 10 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server 10 3 (5.660 %) OLAP

ERP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing ERP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ERP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (11.32 %) SAP XI 2 3 (5.660 %) MDX 2 3 (5.660 %) .NET 2 3 (5.660 %) ASP 2 3 (5.660 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (3.774 %) EDI 3 2 (3.774 %) EDIFACT 4 1 (1.887 %) Web Dynpro 4 1 (1.887 %) WSDL 4 1 (1.887 %) Middleware 4 1 (1.887 %) JDBC 4 1 (1.887 %) SOAP 4 1 (1.887 %) XML 4 1 (1.887 %) SAP ALE	Applications 1 1 (1.887 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.887 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 7 (13.21 %) SAP ERP 2 5 (9.434 %) Oracle ERP 3 2 (3.774 %) Oracle 11i 3 2 (3.774 %) Oracle EBS 4 1 (1.887 %) Oracle HRMS 4 1 (1.887 %) JDE OneWorld 4 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (1.887 %) SAP CRM 4 1 (1.887 %) Oracle iRecruitment 4 1 (1.887 %) SAP IS-U	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.887 %) SMTP 1 1 (1.887 %) FTP 1 1 (1.887 %) HTTP 1 1 (1.887 %) HTTPS 1 1 (1.887 %) X.400 1 1 (1.887 %) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server 1 3 (5.660 %) OLAP 1 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server 2000 1 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (3.774 %) SAP BW 3 1 (1.887 %) SAP BI 3 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (1.887 %) MS Access 3 1 (1.887 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (1.887 %) TOAD 3 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Discoverer	Development Applications 1 3 (5.660 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 13 (24.53 %) Government 2 10 (18.87 %) Finance 3 3 (5.660 %) Pharmaceutical 3 3 (5.660 %) Publishing 3 3 (5.660 %) Health 4 2 (3.774 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.887 %) Retail 5 1 (1.887 %) Billing 5 1 (1.887 %) General Ledger 5 1 (1.887 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.887 %) Local Government 5 1 (1.887 %) Back Office 5 1 (1.887 %) Education	Job Titles 1 18 (33.96 %) Project Manager 2 13 (24.53 %) Architect 3 10 (18.87 %) SAP Architect 4 9 (16.98 %) SAP Manager 5 7 (13.21 %) SAP Project Manager 6 6 (11.32 %) Developer 7 5 (9.434 %) Analyst 7 5 (9.434 %) Consultant 8 4 (7.547 %) Solutions Architect 9 3 (5.660 %) Senior Developer 9 3 (5.660 %) Analyst Developer 9 3 (5.660 %) Senior Analyst 9 3 (5.660 %) Release Manager 9 3 (5.660 %) Senior Analyst Developer 9 3 (5.660 %) Build Manager 9 3 (5.660 %) Oracle Project Manager 10 2 (3.774 %) SAP Consultant 10 2 (3.774 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 10 2 (3.774 %) IT Project Manager 10 2 (3.774 %) IT Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.547 %) Management Information System 2 3 (5.660 %) Statistics 2 3 (5.660 %) Mathematics 3 2 (3.774 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.887 %) Asset Management 4 1 (1.887 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 3 (5.660 %) Unix 2 1 (1.887 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (15.09 %) CRM 2 7 (13.21 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (11.32 %) BPR 4 5 (9.434 %) Business Intelligence 4 5 (9.434 %) Workflow 5 4 (7.547 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (5.660 %) Logistics 6 3 (5.660 %) Migration 7 2 (3.774 %) Integration Testing 7 2 (3.774 %) Supplier Management 7 2 (3.774 %) Project Planning 7 2 (3.774 %) Project Management 7 2 (3.774 %) Change Management 7 2 (3.774 %) EAM 8 1 (1.887 %) ITIL 8 1 (1.887 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (1.887 %) EAI 8 1 (1.887 %) Data Modelling 8 1 (1.887 %) Disaster Recovery 8 1 (1.887 %) E-business	Programming Languages 1 6 (11.32 %) SQL 2 2 (3.774 %) C 3 1 (1.887 %) COBOL 3 1 (1.887 %) Java 3 1 (1.887 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (1.887 %) VB 3 1 (1.887 %) Pascal
Qualifications 1 6 (11.32 %) Degree 2 2 (3.774 %) ISEB 2 2 (3.774 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.887 %) ACCA 3 1 (1.887 %) CIMA 3 1 (1.887 %) OCP 3 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Certification 3 1 (1.887 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.887 %) RosettaNet 1 1 (1.887 %) QA
Vendors 1 27 (50.94 %) SAP 2 14 (26.42 %) Oracle 3 3 (5.660 %) JD Edwards 4 2 (3.774 %) Microsoft 5 1 (1.887 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.887 %) PeopleSoft 5 1 (1.887 %) Agresso