Leicestershire SAP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Leicestershire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridport Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chorley City of London Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Filton Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Renfrew Renfrewshire Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Templecombe Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	10
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	22	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	19.30 %	22.98 %
Daily rates quoted	16	10
Average minimum daily rate	£389	£380
Average daily rate	£393	£434
% change on same period last year	-9.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£488
UK excluding London average daily rate	£443	£448
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	-
Average hourly rate	£9.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.54	£28.40
% change on same period last year	-31.21 %
Vendors Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	114	161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.161 %	0.163 %
Daily rates quoted	43	27
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£346
Average daily rate	£319	£377
% change on same period last year	-15.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.05	£13.79
Average hourly rate	£20.61	£15.18
% change on same period last year	+35.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.17	£16.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£24.37
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Leicestershire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Leicester	-3	11	£368	+8.88 %
Hinckley	0	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 12 (31.58 %) Information Security 2 10 (26.32 %) Information Security Management 2 10 (26.32 %) Security Management 3 8 (21.05 %) COBIT 3 8 (21.05 %) BS7799 3 8 (21.05 %) CISSP 4 7 (18.42 %) Business Intelligence 5 6 (15.79 %) CISA 5 6 (15.79 %) CISM 5 6 (15.79 %) Risk Assessment 6 5 (13.16 %) Finance 7 3 (7.895 %) Data Modelling 7 3 (7.895 %) SAP BW 7 3 (7.895 %) SAP HR 8 2 (5.263 %) SLA

8 2 (5.263 %) ITIL 8 2 (5.263 %) ERP 8 2 (5.263 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 8 2 (5.263 %) SAP SRM 8 2 (5.263 %) Problem Management 8 2 (5.263 %) SAP ERP 9 1 (2.632 %) QA 9 1 (2.632 %) Data Management 9 1 (2.632 %) Supply Chain Management 9 1 (2.632 %) ABAP 9 1 (2.632 %) MS Office 9 1 (2.632 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (2.632 %) SAP R/3 9 1 (2.632 %) Electric 9 1 (2.632 %) Handset

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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.

Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (7.895 %) SAP HR 2 2 (5.263 %) SAP SRM 2 2 (5.263 %) SAP ERP 3 1 (2.632 %) SAP R/3
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.895 %) SAP BW	General 1 5 (13.16 %) Finance 2 1 (2.632 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 16 (42.11 %) Analyst 2 11 (28.95 %) Consultant 2 11 (28.95 %) SAP Consultant 3 10 (26.32 %) Information Analyst 3 10 (26.32 %) Information Security Analyst 3 10 (26.32 %) Security Analyst 4 4 (10.53 %) SAP Analyst 5 3 (7.895 %) SAP Team Leader 5 3 (7.895 %) Support Team Leader 5 3 (7.895 %) Team Leader 6 2 (5.263 %) SAP BW Consultant 6 2 (5.263 %) SAP HR Consultant 6 2 (5.263 %) Recruitment Consultant 7 1 (2.632 %) Analyst Programmer 7 1 (2.632 %) Programmer 7 1 (2.632 %) Applications Support 7 1 (2.632 %) Functional Consultant 7 1 (2.632 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Junior 7 1 (2.632 %) SAP SCM Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.632 %) Handset
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (31.58 %) Information Security 2 10 (26.32 %) Information Security Management 2 10 (26.32 %) Security Management 3 7 (18.42 %) Business Intelligence 4 6 (15.79 %) Risk Assessment 5 3 (7.895 %) Data Modelling 6 2 (5.263 %) ITIL 6 2 (5.263 %) ERP 6 2 (5.263 %) Problem Management 7 1 (2.632 %) Data Management 7 1 (2.632 %) Supply Chain Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.632 %) ABAP
Qualifications 1 8 (21.05 %) CISSP 2 6 (15.79 %) CISA 2 6 (15.79 %) CISM 3 1 (2.632 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (21.05 %) BS7799 1 8 (21.05 %) COBIT 2 2 (5.263 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 2 (5.263 %) SLA 3 1 (2.632 %) QA