The first table below looks at the demand for BAPI skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BAPI over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Lancashire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing BAPI 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £434 £450 £380
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
66 138 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 31.28% 33.50% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 72 17
Average daily rate £313 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £293 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £528 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
BAPI
North West

BAPI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BAPI across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Lancashire BAPI Jobs Demand Trend

BAPI
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) ABAP
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) MS Access
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (100.00%) SAP BI
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) LSMW
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Data Services

BAPI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) MS Access
1 2 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (100.00%) SAP BI
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) LSMW
General
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Data Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Data Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Business Objects Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) ABAP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (100.00%) SAP