Hertfordshire SAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 8 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 Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley 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 Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	39
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	82	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.108 %	0.065 %
As % of the category below	10.96 %	7.589 %
Daily rates quoted	26	22
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£324
Average daily rate	£390	£346
% change on same period last year	+12.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£460	£450
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.75	£26.00
Average hourly rate	£18.25	£27.00
% change on same period last year	-32.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.75	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.41	£23.36
% change on same period last year	+0.22 %
Vendors Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	748	817
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.986 %	0.854 %
Daily rates quoted	259	326
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£333
Average daily rate	£384	£355
% change on same period last year	+8.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£357
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	82	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.29	£20.44
Average hourly rate	£22.06	£22.39
% change on same period last year	-1.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.83	£24.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.01	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
SAP 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.

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 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 across the Hertfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAP across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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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 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	+15	21	£407	-2.63 %
Stevenage	-7	3	-	-
St Albans	-	2	£450	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 36 (21.95 %) CRM 2 31 (18.90 %) SAP CRM 3 30 (18.29 %) Retail 4 26 (15.85 %) PRINCE2 5 23 (14.02 %) Finance 6 21 (12.80 %) SAP Retail 6 21 (12.80 %) Test Scripting 7 20 (12.20 %) SAP HR 7 20 (12.20 %) Telecoms 8 15 (9.146 %) ABAP 9 14 (8.537 %) LoadRunner 10 13 (7.927 %) TestDirector 11 12 (7.317 %) ERP 12 11 (6.707 %) SAP CO 12 11 (6.707 %) SAP FI/CO

12 11 (6.707 %) SAP FI 12 11 (6.707 %) Migration 13 10 (6.098 %) Oracle 13 10 (6.098 %) eCATT 14 9 (5.488 %) Project Planning 14 9 (5.488 %) MS Office 14 9 (5.488 %) PeopleSoft 14 9 (5.488 %) Stakeholder Management 15 8 (4.878 %) Unix 15 8 (4.878 %) Windows 15 8 (4.878 %) Microsoft 15 8 (4.878 %) SAP HCM 16 7 (4.268 %) SAP XI 16 7 (4.268 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 7 (4.268 %) Integration Testing

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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 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 7 (4.268 %) SAP XI 2 4 (2.439 %) J2EE 3 3 (1.829 %) SAP Smart Forms 3 3 (1.829 %) SAP ALE 3 3 (1.829 %) EJB 3 3 (1.829 %) JSP 3 3 (1.829 %) Servlets 4 2 (1.220 %) SOAP 4 2 (1.220 %) WebServices 4 2 (1.220 %) XML 4 2 (1.220 %) SAP Basis 4 2 (1.220 %) SAP BSP 5 1 (0.610 %) BAPI 5 1 (0.610 %) SAP Business Workflow 5 1 (0.610 %) .NET 5 1 (0.610 %) Struts 5 1 (0.610 %) Web Dynpro 5 1 (0.610 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.610 %) SAS 1 1 (0.610 %) Tuxedo 1 1 (0.610 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 9 (5.488 %) MS Office 2 6 (3.659 %) MS Project 3 5 (3.049 %) MS PowerPoint 4 4 (2.439 %) MS Excel 5 2 (1.220 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 31 (18.90 %) SAP CRM 2 21 (12.80 %) SAP Retail 3 20 (12.20 %) SAP HR 4 11 (6.707 %) SAP CO 4 11 (6.707 %) SAP FI/CO 4 11 (6.707 %) SAP FI 5 8 (4.878 %) SAP HCM 6 5 (3.049 %) SAP ERP 7 2 (1.220 %) SAP MM 7 2 (1.220 %) SAP Payroll 7 2 (1.220 %) SAP QM 8 1 (0.610 %) Applix TM1 8 1 (0.610 %) SAP Oil and Gas 8 1 (0.610 %) SAP HR-PA 8 1 (0.610 %) SAP Business One 8 1 (0.610 %) Oracle Financials 8 1 (0.610 %) SAP PS 8 1 (0.610 %) SAP SD
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.610 %) LAN 1 1 (0.610 %) WAN 1 1 (0.610 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (0.610 %) SAN 1 1 (0.610 %) LDAP 1 1 (0.610 %) CTI 1 1 (0.610 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (4.268 %) DB2 2 5 (3.049 %) ETL 3 3 (1.829 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 3 (1.829 %) SQL Server 3 3 (1.829 %) SAP BW 4 2 (1.220 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (1.220 %) Data Cleansing 5 1 (0.610 %) RDBMS 5 1 (0.610 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 14 (8.537 %) LoadRunner 2 13 (7.927 %) TestDirector 3 10 (6.098 %) eCATT 4 5 (3.049 %) LSMW 5 2 (1.220 %) QuickTest Pro 6 1 (0.610 %) Ant 6 1 (0.610 %) Log4j	General 1 30 (18.29 %) Retail 2 23 (14.02 %) Finance 3 20 (12.20 %) Telecoms 4 5 (3.049 %) Pharmaceutical 5 4 (2.439 %) Games 5 4 (2.439 %) Education 6 3 (1.829 %) Manufacturing 7 2 (1.220 %) Chemicals 7 2 (1.220 %) Health 7 2 (1.220 %) Marketing 8 1 (0.610 %) General Ledger 8 1 (0.610 %) FMCG 8 1 (0.610 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 49 (29.88 %) Analyst 2 37 (22.56 %) Consultant 3 34 (20.73 %) SAP Consultant 4 21 (12.80 %) Business Analyst 5 18 (10.98 %) Test Analyst 6 14 (8.537 %) Developer 7 12 (7.317 %) SAP Test Analyst 8 10 (6.098 %) SAP Business Analyst 9 9 (5.488 %) Project Manager 10 8 (4.878 %) Administrator 10 8 (4.878 %) SAP Manager 10 8 (4.878 %) CRM Business Analyst 11 7 (4.268 %) ABAP Developer 12 6 (3.659 %) Architect 12 6 (3.659 %) Tester 12 6 (3.659 %) Test Manager 12 6 (3.659 %) Senior Analyst 12 6 (3.659 %) SAP Retail Consultant 12 6 (3.659 %) SAP HR Consultant 12 6 (3.659 %) SAP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (3.659 %) Mainframe 2 2 (1.220 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 2 (1.220 %) PMI 2 2 (1.220 %) N-Tier 2 2 (1.220 %) E-Learning 2 2 (1.220 %) IVR 3 1 (0.610 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (0.610 %) Polish Language 3 1 (0.610 %) Biostatistics 3 1 (0.610 %) iDTV
Operating Systems 1 8 (4.878 %) Unix 1 8 (4.878 %) Windows 2 1 (0.610 %) AIX 2 1 (0.610 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (21.95 %) CRM 2 26 (15.85 %) PRINCE2 3 21 (12.80 %) Test Scripting 4 12 (7.317 %) ERP 5 11 (6.707 %) Migration 6 9 (5.488 %) Project Planning 6 9 (5.488 %) Stakeholder Management 7 7 (4.268 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 7 (4.268 %) Integration Testing 7 7 (4.268 %) SAP Implementation 7 7 (4.268 %) Data Migration 7 7 (4.268 %) Project Management 8 5 (3.049 %) ITIL 8 5 (3.049 %) OO 8 5 (3.049 %) Validation 9 4 (2.439 %) Business Intelligence 9 4 (2.439 %) Test Management 9 4 (2.439 %) Time Management 10 3 (1.829 %) Investment Management 10 3 (1.829 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 15 (9.146 %) ABAP 2 6 (3.659 %) Java 3 3 (1.829 %) SQL 3 3 (1.829 %) SAPscript 4 2 (1.220 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (1.220 %) ACCA 2 1 (0.610 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (0.610 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (0.610 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.220 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 2 (1.220 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (3.049 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 10 (6.098 %) Oracle 2 9 (5.488 %) PeopleSoft 3 8 (4.878 %) Microsoft 4 6 (3.659 %) IBM 5 5 (3.049 %) EMC 6 4 (2.439 %) ADIC 7 3 (1.829 %) Manugistics 7 3 (1.829 %) Primavera 8 2 (1.220 %) Ab Initio 8 2 (1.220 %) Business Objects 8 2 (1.220 %) Siebel 8 2 (1.220 %) Genesys 8 2 (1.220 %) Trillium 8 2 (1.220 %) Applix 9 1 (0.610 %) Amdocs 9 1 (0.610 %) Cisco 9 1 (0.610 %) BEA 9 1 (0.610 %) Citrix 9 1 (0.610 %) CODA 9 1 (0.610 %) Compaq