Lancashire SAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Lancashire 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Filton Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redcar Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	34
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	9	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	6.164 %	6.881 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£500
Average daily rate	£338	£538
% change on same period last year	-37.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£575
UK excluding London average daily rate	£453	£443
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
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	£21.48	£27.88
% change on same period last year	-22.96 %
Vendors Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	146	218
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.195 %	0.217 %
Daily rates quoted	26	48
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£345
Average daily rate	£336	£356
% change on same period last year	-5.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.23	£25.32
Average hourly rate	£20.16	£26.60
% change on same period last year	-24.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.10	£27.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.10	£24.81
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
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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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Lancashire 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 jobs citing SAP within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Blackpool	-	2	-	-
Preston	-	1	£360	-
Lancaster	-	1	£320	-
Chorley	0	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 3 (20.00 %) NPfIT 1 3 (20.00 %) Finance 1 3 (20.00 %) Health 1 3 (20.00 %) Migration 1 3 (20.00 %) NHS 1 3 (20.00 %) Project Management 1 3 (20.00 %) HL7 1 3 (20.00 %) Data Migration 2 2 (13.33 %) Network Planning 2 2 (13.33 %) Local Government 2 2 (13.33 %) SAP APO 2 2 (13.33 %) Hyperion 2 2 (13.33 %) Oracle 2 2 (13.33 %) IXOS 2 2 (13.33 %) Government

3 1 (6.667 %) SAP CO 3 1 (6.667 %) HFM 3 1 (6.667 %) Document Management 3 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI/CO 3 1 (6.667 %) UNIX 3 1 (6.667 %) Windows 3 1 (6.667 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (6.667 %) IBM 3 1 (6.667 %) Citrix 3 1 (6.667 %) C 3 1 (6.667 %) SAP HR 3 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI 3 1 (6.667 %) SAP WM 3 1 (6.667 %) SAP BI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 2 (13.33 %) SAP APO 2 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI 2 1 (6.667 %) SAP WM 2 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI/CO 2 1 (6.667 %) SAP CO 2 1 (6.667 %) HFM 2 1 (6.667 %) Hyperion Enterprise 2 1 (6.667 %) SAP HR	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.667 %) SAP BI
General 1 3 (20.00 %) Finance 1 3 (20.00 %) Health 2 2 (13.33 %) Local Government 2 2 (13.33 %) Government	Job Titles 1 7 (46.67 %) Consultant 1 7 (46.67 %) SAP Consultant 2 3 (20.00 %) Architect 2 3 (20.00 %) Systems Architect 3 2 (13.33 %) SAP APO Consultant 3 2 (13.33 %) Hyperion Administrator 3 2 (13.33 %) Administrator 4 1 (6.667 %) Service Manager 4 1 (6.667 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant 4 1 (6.667 %) SAP WM Consultant 4 1 (6.667 %) Programme Manager 4 1 (6.667 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 4 1 (6.667 %) SAP Programme Manager 4 1 (6.667 %) SAP Manager 4 1 (6.667 %) SAP BI Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (20.00 %) NHS 1 3 (20.00 %) NPfIT 2 1 (6.667 %) VAX 2 1 (6.667 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (6.667 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 1 (6.667 %) UNIX 1 1 (6.667 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (20.00 %) Project Management 1 3 (20.00 %) Migration 1 3 (20.00 %) Data Migration 2 2 (13.33 %) Network Planning 3 1 (6.667 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) Document Management 3 1 (6.667 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (6.667 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 1 (6.667 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (6.667 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (20.00 %) HL7
Vendors 1 2 (13.33 %) Oracle 1 2 (13.33 %) Hyperion 1 2 (13.33 %) IXOS 2 1 (6.667 %) IBM 2 1 (6.667 %) Citrix