The first table below looks at the demand for SAP Certification in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP Certification over the 3 months to 23 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 Qualifications for the London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Certification
Rank 368 406 420
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +14
Contract jobs citing SAP Certification 9 4 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.042% 0.015% 0.047%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.283% 0.105% 0.359%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
Average daily rate £519 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £650 £499
% change year-on-year
-28.84% +30.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £12.50
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3180 3793 4183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.70% 14.08% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1888 2274 2413
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 119 144
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -3.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.40 £13.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £87.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
SAP Certification
England

SAP Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAP Certification across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

London SAP Certification Jobs Demand Trend

SAP Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAP Certification across the London region.

London SAP Certification Daily Rate Trend

SAP Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SAP Certification across the London region.

London SAP Certification Hourly Rate Trend

SAP Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Certification within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Uxbridge - 2 £530 -
City of London - 1 £458 -
Brentford - 1 £500 -
SAP Certification
England

SAP Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SAP Certification 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 Certification.

1 21 (100.00%) SAP
2 9 (42.86%) Lean Six Sigma
2 9 (42.86%) Six Sigma
2 9 (42.86%) SAP BW
3 8 (38.10%) Pharmaceutical
3 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
4 6 (28.57%) SAP FI-AP
5 5 (23.81%) SAP Travel Management
5 5 (23.81%) ITIL
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
7 3 (14.29%) High Availability
7 3 (14.29%) UNIX
7 3 (14.29%) Windows
7 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) SAN
7 3 (14.29%) Degree
7 3 (14.29%) SAP SRM
7 3 (14.29%) Clustering
8 2 (9.524%) Logistics
8 2 (9.524%) SAP BPC
8 2 (9.524%) SAP BI
8 2 (9.524%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (9.524%) Finance
8 2 (9.524%) CRM
8 2 (9.524%) NetWeaver
8 2 (9.524%) Data Modelling
8 2 (9.524%) Business Objects
8 2 (9.524%) ETL
9 1 (4.762%) Data Mining

SAP Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SAP Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) SAP FI-AP
2 5 (23.81%) SAP Travel Management
3 3 (14.29%) SAP SRM
4 2 (9.524%) SAP BPC
5 1 (4.762%) SAP SD
5 1 (4.762%) SAP SM
5 1 (4.762%) SAP MM
5 1 (4.762%) SAP QM
5 1 (4.762%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (4.762%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) SAP BW
2 2 (9.524%) SAP BI
2 2 (9.524%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.762%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.762%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (4.762%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (4.762%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) NWDI
General
1 8 (38.10%) Pharmaceutical
1 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.524%) Finance
3 1 (4.762%) Retail
3 1 (4.762%) Billing
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Consultant
1 12 (57.14%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) SAP Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Functional Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) SAP Functional Consultant
3 2 (9.524%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (9.524%) Operations Manager
3 2 (9.524%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Architect
4 1 (4.762%) SAP BPC Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) SAP BI Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) SAP IS-Retail Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) SAP Architect
4 1 (4.762%) SAP WM Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) SAP QM Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) SAP Retail Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) SAP Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.762%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) UNIX
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Lean Six Sigma
1 9 (42.86%) Six Sigma
2 5 (23.81%) ITIL
3 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.524%) Logistics
5 2 (9.524%) CRM
5 2 (9.524%) Data Modelling
5 2 (9.524%) ETL
6 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.762%) Practice Management
6 1 (4.762%) Project Management
6 1 (4.762%) Financial Analysis
6 1 (4.762%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (4.762%) Data Management
6 1 (4.762%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.762%) C
1 1 (4.762%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (4.762%) ACCA
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (9.524%) Business Objects
3 1 (4.762%) Sybase
3 1 (4.762%) Open Text