Home Counties BAPI Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for SAP Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs) skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BAPI over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAP Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)
Location Aberdeen Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cheshire Chester City of London East of England England Home Counties London Manchester Middlesex North West Reading Scotland South East South West Staines Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
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Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£420	£400
% change on same period last year	+5.00 %
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Application Development Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	20	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	7	9
Average minimum daily rate	£493	£384
Average daily rate	£496	£393
% change on same period last year	+26.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.97	£31.52
% change on same period last year	-8.10 %
BAPI South East

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.

BAPI
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BAPI across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

BAPI
Daily Rate Trend

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

BAPI
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing BAPI 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 BAPI.

1 2 (100.00 %) SAP 1 2 (100.00 %) CRM 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP CRM 2 1 (50.00 %) Billing 2 1 (50.00 %) Workflow Management 2 1 (50.00 %) SAP BW 2 1 (50.00 %) Workflow

BAPI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing BAPI 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 BAPI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP CRM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (50.00 %) SAP BW
General 1 1 (50.00 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Consultant 1 1 (50.00 %) Lead Designer 1 1 (50.00 %) SAP CRM Consultant 1 1 (50.00 %) SAP Consultant 1 1 (50.00 %) CRM Consultant
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) CRM 2 1 (50.00 %) Workflow 2 1 (50.00 %) Workflow Management	Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP