Hertfordshire SAP Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the SAP Consultant role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SAP Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Daresbury Derbyshire Devon Dorking Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Port Talbot Powys Reading Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	88
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	11	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.743 %	0.301 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£433	£525
Average daily rate	£442	£593
% change on same period last year	-25.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£660
UK excluding London average daily rate	£496	£467
% change on same period last year	+6.18 %
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	£71.88	£10.00
% change on same period last year	+618.75 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1481	1661
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.952 %	1.737 %
Daily rates quoted	576	660
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£328
Average daily rate	£390	£348
% change on same period last year	+12.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	174	147
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.34	£21.93
Average hourly rate	£24.32	£23.06
% change on same period last year	+5.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.30	£24.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
SAP Consultant East of 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAP Consultant across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Consultant across the Hertfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAP Consultant across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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 Consultant across the Hertfordshire 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 Consultant within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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
Watford	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited SAP Consultant in their job title 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 with SAP Consultant in their job title.

1 34 (100.00 %) SAP 2 9 (26.47 %) SAP HR 3 8 (23.53 %) SAP FI/CO 3 8 (23.53 %) SAP FI 3 8 (23.53 %) SAP CO 3 8 (23.53 %) Retail 4 7 (20.59 %) SAP Retail 5 4 (11.76 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 4 (11.76 %) SAP XI 5 4 (11.76 %) Finance 5 4 (11.76 %) Migration 6 3 (8.824 %) ABAP 6 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 6 3 (8.824 %) SAP BW 6 3 (8.824 %) ETL

6 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 3 (8.824 %) LSMW 6 3 (8.824 %) SAP HCM 6 3 (8.824 %) Data Migration 7 2 (5.882 %) Unit Testing 7 2 (5.882 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (5.882 %) C 7 2 (5.882 %) SAP MM 7 2 (5.882 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (2.941 %) BAPI 8 1 (2.941 %) SAP Basis 8 1 (2.941 %) SAP Payroll 8 1 (2.941 %) SAP SD 8 1 (2.941 %) Disaster Recovery 8 1 (2.941 %) Sarbanes-Oxley

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited SAP Consultant in their job title 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 with SAP Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (11.76 %) SAP XI 2 1 (2.941 %) BAPI 2 1 (2.941 %) SAP Basis	Business Applications 1 9 (26.47 %) SAP HR 2 8 (23.53 %) SAP FI/CO 2 8 (23.53 %) SAP FI 2 8 (23.53 %) SAP CO 3 7 (20.59 %) SAP Retail 4 3 (8.824 %) SAP HCM 5 2 (5.882 %) SAP MM 6 1 (2.941 %) SAP Payroll 6 1 (2.941 %) SAP SD 6 1 (2.941 %) SAP Business One 6 1 (2.941 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 1 3 (8.824 %) SAP BW 1 3 (8.824 %) ETL 1 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 3 (8.824 %) LSMW
General 1 8 (23.53 %) Retail 2 4 (11.76 %) Finance 3 2 (5.882 %) Manufacturing	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.941 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.941 %) Unix 1 1 (2.941 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (11.76 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 4 (11.76 %) Migration 2 3 (8.824 %) Data Migration 3 2 (5.882 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (5.882 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (2.941 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (2.941 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.941 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (2.941 %) Time Management 4 1 (2.941 %) SAP Implementation 4 1 (2.941 %) Incident Management 4 1 (2.941 %) Automated Testing 4 1 (2.941 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 3 (8.824 %) ABAP 2 2 (5.882 %) C	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (2.941 %) SLA
Vendors 1 34 (100.00 %) SAP 2 1 (2.941 %) PeopleSoft 2 1 (2.941 %) Siebel