Edinburgh SAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds 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 Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Filton Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redcar 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 Sunderland 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 Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	18
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	15	74
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.075 %
As % of the category below	5.338 %	16.70 %
Daily rates quoted	7	13
Average minimum daily rate	£421	£424
Average daily rate	£450	£432
% change on same period last year	+4.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£479	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£462	£447
% change on same period last year	+3.25 %
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	£23.43	£25.61
% change on same period last year	-8.53 %
Vendors Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	281	443
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.375 %	0.448 %
Daily rates quoted	59	96
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£292
Average daily rate	£340	£306
% change on same period last year	+11.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.80	£22.79
Average hourly rate	£18.88	£23.51
% change on same period last year	-19.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.95	£24.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 25 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 Edinburgh region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 19 (46.34 %) SAP SD 2 18 (43.90 %) FMCG 3 14 (34.15 %) Billing 3 14 (34.15 %) SAP R/3 4 8 (19.51 %) Degree 5 7 (17.07 %) Project Management 6 6 (14.63 %) SAP APO 7 5 (12.20 %) ABAP 7 5 (12.20 %) SAP WM 8 4 (9.756 %) SAP PP 8 4 (9.756 %) VPN 8 4 (9.756 %) Logistics 8 4 (9.756 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 3 (7.317 %) SC Cleared 9 3 (7.317 %) BC Cleared

9 3 (7.317 %) Security Cleared 9 3 (7.317 %) Oracle 10 2 (4.878 %) Finance 10 2 (4.878 %) Business Objects 10 2 (4.878 %) Business Intelligence 10 2 (4.878 %) Datawarehouse 10 2 (4.878 %) BusinessObjects 10 2 (4.878 %) LoadRunner 11 1 (2.439 %) Retail 11 1 (2.439 %) Asset Management 11 1 (2.439 %) Document Management 11 1 (2.439 %) Performance Testing 11 1 (2.439 %) SAP LE 11 1 (2.439 %) SAP Implementation 11 1 (2.439 %) SAP BW

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Business Applications 1 19 (46.34 %) SAP SD 2 14 (34.15 %) SAP R/3 3 6 (14.63 %) SAP APO 4 5 (12.20 %) SAP WM 5 4 (9.756 %) SAP PP 6 1 (2.439 %) SAP LE 6 1 (2.439 %) SAP MM	Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.756 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.878 %) Datawarehouse 1 2 (4.878 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (2.439 %) SAP BW	Development Applications 1 2 (4.878 %) LoadRunner
General 1 18 (43.90 %) FMCG 2 14 (34.15 %) Billing 3 2 (4.878 %) Finance 4 1 (2.439 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 25 (60.98 %) Consultant 2 23 (56.10 %) SAP Consultant 3 11 (26.83 %) SAP SD Consultant 4 7 (17.07 %) Functional Consultant 5 6 (14.63 %) SAP APO Consultant 6 4 (9.756 %) SAP Security Consultant 6 4 (9.756 %) Security Consultant 6 4 (9.756 %) SAP PP Consultant 7 3 (7.317 %) ABAP Developer 7 3 (7.317 %) Developer 7 3 (7.317 %) SAP Developer 8 2 (4.878 %) Technical Specialist 8 2 (4.878 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 8 2 (4.878 %) Technical Consultant 8 2 (4.878 %) Business Consultant 8 2 (4.878 %) SAP MM Consultant 9 1 (2.439 %) ABAP Consultant 9 1 (2.439 %) SAP WM Consultant 9 1 (2.439 %) SAP BW Consultant 9 1 (2.439 %) Programmer
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (17.07 %) Project Management 2 4 (9.756 %) Logistics 2 4 (9.756 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (7.317 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (7.317 %) BC Cleared 3 3 (7.317 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (4.878 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (2.439 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (2.439 %) SAP Implementation 5 1 (2.439 %) CRM 5 1 (2.439 %) ERP 5 1 (2.439 %) Service Management 5 1 (2.439 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.439 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (2.439 %) Asset Management 5 1 (2.439 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (12.20 %) ABAP 2 1 (2.439 %) SAPscript
Qualifications 1 8 (19.51 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (7.317 %) Oracle 2 2 (4.878 %) Business Objects 3 1 (2.439 %) HP