Dorset SAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SAP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Erskine Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	36
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	3	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	2.500 %	5.528 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£400
Average daily rate	£350	£410
% change on same period last year	-14.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£458	£451
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
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	£23.39	£23.57
% change on same period last year	-0.76 %
Vendors Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	120	199
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.158 %	0.211 %
Daily rates quoted	51	91
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£360
Average daily rate	£381	£378
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.23	£22.95
Average hourly rate	£17.19	£23.81
% change on same period last year	-27.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.15	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within SAP AG.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAP across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAP across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SAP across the Dorset region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SAP within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Poole	-4	3	£350	-14.63 %

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing SAP 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.

1 5 (33.33 %) Government 2 4 (26.67 %) IXOS 2 4 (26.67 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 3 (20.00 %) Finance 4 2 (13.33 %) CIMA 4 2 (13.33 %) ACCA 4 2 (13.33 %) Project Management 4 2 (13.33 %) SAP Basis 4 2 (13.33 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (6.667 %) Migration 5 1 (6.667 %) BAPI 5 1 (6.667 %) Retail 5 1 (6.667 %) LSMW 5 1 (6.667 %) Degree 5 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI-AR

5 1 (6.667 %) Data Migration 5 1 (6.667 %) CAD 5 1 (6.667 %) CAE 5 1 (6.667 %) ABAP 5 1 (6.667 %) MS Office 5 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI 5 1 (6.667 %) Process Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing SAP 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (13.33 %) SAP Basis 2 1 (6.667 %) BAPI	Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI 1 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI-AR	Development Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) LSMW
General 1 5 (33.33 %) Government 2 3 (20.00 %) Finance 3 1 (6.667 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 5 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 5 (33.33 %) Administrator 2 4 (26.67 %) SAP Support 2 4 (26.67 %) SAP Administrator 3 3 (20.00 %) Business Analyst 4 2 (13.33 %) Systems Analyst 5 1 (6.667 %) Consultant 5 1 (6.667 %) 1st Line Support 5 1 (6.667 %) 2nd Line Support 5 1 (6.667 %) SAP Consultant 5 1 (6.667 %) Network Administrator 5 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI Consultant 5 1 (6.667 %) Financial Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (13.33 %) Project Management 1 2 (13.33 %) Data Analysis 2 1 (6.667 %) Data Migration 2 1 (6.667 %) Process Management 2 1 (6.667 %) Migration 2 1 (6.667 %) CAD 2 1 (6.667 %) CAE	Programming Languages 1 1 (6.667 %) ABAP
Qualifications 1 2 (13.33 %) ACCA 1 2 (13.33 %) CIMA 2 1 (6.667 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (26.67 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 4 (26.67 %) IXOS