East of England ERP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) skills within the East of England 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	112	134
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	45	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	2.045 %	0.736 %
Daily rates quoted	18	3
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£395
Average daily rate	£444	£460
% change on same period last year	-3.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£478	£525
UK excluding London average daily rate	£427	£453
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.00	£13.33
Average hourly rate	£20.75	£18.33
% change on same period last year	+13.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	£23.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.63	£22.80
% change on same period last year	+3.65 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2201	2039
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.824 %	2.291 %
Daily rates quoted	890	740
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£367
Average daily rate	£388	£393
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	184	170
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.43	£25.65
Average hourly rate	£31.14	£27.18
% change on same period last year	+14.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.85	£28.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
ERP England

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 East of England 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 East of England region.

ERP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ERP across the East of England 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 East of England region.

ERP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Hertfordshire	+15	26	£470	+1.43 %
2	Bedfordshire	+11	8	£317	-29.62 %
2	Cambridgeshire	-9	8	£550	-
3	East Anglia	-	1	-	-
3	Norfolk	-	1	£300	-
3	Essex	-	1	-	-

ERP England

ERP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England 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 37 (37.76 %) Oracle 2 26 (26.53 %) Retail 3 24 (24.49 %) SAP 4 16 (16.33 %) BizTalk Server 4 16 (16.33 %) Finance 5 13 (13.27 %) Oracle Applications 6 10 (10.20 %) Migration 7 9 (9.184 %) Change Management 7 9 (9.184 %) Oracle 10g 8 8 (8.163 %) Project Management 8 8 (8.163 %) CRM 8 8 (8.163 %) Data Management 8 8 (8.163 %) Retalix 9 7 (7.143 %) Manufacturing 9 7 (7.143 %) Linux

9 7 (7.143 %) Windows 9 7 (7.143 %) Business Intelligence 10 6 (6.122 %) SQL Server 11 5 (5.102 %) SAP ERP 11 5 (5.102 %) SAP Implementation 11 5 (5.102 %) Publishing 11 5 (5.102 %) SQL 11 5 (5.102 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 5 (5.102 %) E-Commerce 11 5 (5.102 %) Microsoft 11 5 (5.102 %) Retek 12 4 (4.082 %) Mainframe 12 4 (4.082 %) IBM 12 4 (4.082 %) Oracle Financials 12 4 (4.082 %) MS Exchange

ERP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England 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 2 (2.041 %) XML 1 2 (2.041 %) .NET 2 1 (1.020 %) ASP 2 1 (1.020 %) Middleware 2 1 (1.020 %) NHibernate 2 1 (1.020 %) MDX	Application Platforms 1 16 (16.33 %) BizTalk Server 2 4 (4.082 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (3.061 %) Documentum 3 3 (3.061 %) SharePoint 3 3 (3.061 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.020 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (2.041 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 13 (13.27 %) Oracle Applications 2 5 (5.102 %) SAP ERP 3 4 (4.082 %) Oracle Financials 4 3 (3.061 %) Navision 4 3 (3.061 %) Oracle EBS 4 3 (3.061 %) SAP Retail 4 3 (3.061 %) Dynamics AX 5 2 (2.041 %) MAXIMO 5 2 (2.041 %) Oracle ERP 5 2 (2.041 %) SAP SD 6 1 (1.020 %) Oracle 11i 6 1 (1.020 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 6 1 (1.020 %) Axapta 6 1 (1.020 %) Pivotal CRM 6 1 (1.020 %) Applix TM1 6 1 (1.020 %) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.041 %) LAN 1 2 (2.041 %) WAN 1 2 (2.041 %) SSL 2 1 (1.020 %) SAN 2 1 (1.020 %) DMZ 2 1 (1.020 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (9.184 %) Oracle 10g 2 6 (6.122 %) SQL Server 3 5 (5.102 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 4 (4.082 %) Crystal Reports 5 3 (3.061 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (3.061 %) DB2 5 3 (3.061 %) Oracle 9i 5 3 (3.061 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (2.041 %) BusinessObjects 6 2 (2.041 %) MySQL 6 2 (2.041 %) GIS 7 1 (1.020 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (1.020 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (1.020 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 1 (1.020 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (1.020 %) DTS 7 1 (1.020 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 1 (1.020 %) NUnit	General 1 26 (26.53 %) Retail 2 16 (16.33 %) Finance 3 7 (7.143 %) Manufacturing 4 5 (5.102 %) Publishing 5 3 (3.061 %) Back Office 6 2 (2.041 %) Telecoms 6 2 (2.041 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (1.020 %) Billing 7 1 (1.020 %) Military
Job Titles 1 27 (27.55 %) Project Manager 2 14 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 13 (13.27 %) DBA 3 13 (13.27 %) Oracle DBA 4 12 (12.24 %) Consultant 5 8 (8.163 %) Business Analyst 6 7 (7.143 %) Architect 6 7 (7.143 %) SAP Manager 7 6 (6.122 %) BizTalk Consultant 7 6 (6.122 %) Developer 8 5 (5.102 %) Administrator 9 3 (3.061 %) C# Developer 9 3 (3.061 %) Programme Manager 9 3 (3.061 %) Systems Administrator 9 3 (3.061 %) Systems Analyst 10 2 (2.041 %) Technical Architect 10 2 (2.041 %) Support Analyst 10 2 (2.041 %) 2nd Line Support 10 2 (2.041 %) IT Manager 10 2 (2.041 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.082 %) Mainframe 2 3 (3.061 %) EPoS 3 2 (2.041 %) CCTV 4 1 (1.020 %) SCADA 4 1 (1.020 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (1.020 %) AS400 4 1 (1.020 %) Device Driver
Operating Systems 1 7 (7.143 %) Windows 1 7 (7.143 %) Linux 2 4 (4.082 %) Unix 3 2 (2.041 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (1.020 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (10.20 %) Migration 2 9 (9.184 %) Change Management 3 8 (8.163 %) Data Management 3 8 (8.163 %) CRM 3 8 (8.163 %) Project Management 4 7 (7.143 %) Business Intelligence 5 5 (5.102 %) E-Commerce 5 5 (5.102 %) SAP Implementation 6 3 (3.061 %) Business Analysis 6 3 (3.061 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (3.061 %) Security Management 7 2 (2.041 %) Risk Management 7 2 (2.041 %) BPM 7 2 (2.041 %) SOA 7 2 (2.041 %) Risk Assessment 7 2 (2.041 %) Process Management 7 2 (2.041 %) Technical Architecture 8 1 (1.020 %) Dimensional Modelling 8 1 (1.020 %) Requirements Analysis 8 1 (1.020 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 5 (5.102 %) SQL 2 3 (3.061 %) C# 3 1 (1.020 %) JavaScript 3 1 (1.020 %) RPG	Qualifications 1 1 (1.020 %) CCNA 1 1 (1.020 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (1.020 %) Oracle Certification 1 1 (1.020 %) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.020 %) 21 CFR Part 11	System Software 1 3 (3.061 %) NetBackup 2 1 (1.020 %) Oracle RMAN 2 1 (1.020 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 37 (37.76 %) Oracle 2 24 (24.49 %) SAP 3 8 (8.163 %) Retalix 4 5 (5.102 %) Microsoft 4 5 (5.102 %) Retek 5 4 (4.082 %) IBM 6 3 (3.061 %) EMC 6 3 (3.061 %) ADIC 7 2 (2.041 %) Applix 7 2 (2.041 %) Business Objects 8 1 (1.020 %) PeopleSoft 8 1 (1.020 %) Baan 8 1 (1.020 %) JD Edwards 8 1 (1.020 %) Primavera 8 1 (1.020 %) VMware 8 1 (1.020 %) ProClarity