London SAP Consultant Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the SAP Consultant role in IT contracts within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAP Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Haywards Heath Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Powys Reading Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	117	105
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	491	743
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.648 %	0.740 %
As % of the category below	1.620 %	1.708 %
Daily rates quoted	106	124
Average minimum daily rate	£453	£454
Average daily rate	£482	£486
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£511	£517
UK excluding London average daily rate	£493	£473
% change on same period last year	+4.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£44.57	£51.00
Average hourly rate	£51.93	£57.00
% change on same period last year	-8.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£59.29	£63.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£39.20
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles London
Matching contract IT job ads	30304	43510
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	39.99 %	43.33 %
Daily rates quoted	12933	16283
Average minimum daily rate	£407	£422
Average daily rate	£437	£451
% change on same period last year	-3.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£479
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1648	2229
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.96	£24.09
Average hourly rate	£24.58	£25.81
% change on same period last year	-4.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.20	£27.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
SAP Consultant England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAP Consultant across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Consultant across the London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAP Consultant across the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 Consultant across the London region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAP Consultant across the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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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 Consultant within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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
City of London	+6	40	£446	-4.54 %
Brentford	-	2	£550	-
Uxbridge	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited SAP Consultant in their job title 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 with SAP Consultant in their job title.

1 1023 (100.00 %) SAP 2 192 (18.77 %) SAP HR 3 173 (16.91 %) ABAP 4 150 (14.66 %) SAP FI 5 144 (14.08 %) SAP BW 6 142 (13.88 %) Business Intelligence 7 134 (13.10 %) SAP CO 8 128 (12.51 %) SAP FI/CO 9 119 (11.63 %) Finance 10 111 (10.85 %) SAP BI 11 110 (10.75 %) CRM 12 88 (8.602 %) SAP SD 13 84 (8.211 %) SAP CRM 14 60 (5.865 %) SAP Payroll 14 60 (5.865 %) ERP

15 57 (5.572 %) Banking 16 50 (4.888 %) Retail 16 50 (4.888 %) SAP MM 17 43 (4.203 %) SAP Oil and Gas 18 42 (4.106 %) NetWeaver 19 41 (4.008 %) SAP Implementation 20 40 (3.910 %) SAP XI 21 37 (3.617 %) Migration 22 33 (3.226 %) Workflow 23 32 (3.128 %) SAP Basis 24 28 (2.737 %) GAP Analysis 25 27 (2.639 %) Logistics 26 25 (2.444 %) Manufacturing 26 25 (2.444 %) Java 26 25 (2.444 %) Data Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited SAP Consultant in their job title 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 with SAP Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 40 (3.910 %) SAP XI 2 32 (3.128 %) SAP Basis 3 17 (1.662 %) BAPI 4 15 (1.466 %) EDI 5 14 (1.369 %) SAP BSP 6 9 (0.880 %) SAP Business Workflow 7 8 (0.782 %) SAP ALE 8 5 (0.489 %) SAP PI 9 4 (0.391 %) Middleware 9 4 (0.391 %) XML 9 4 (0.391 %) Web Dynpro 9 4 (0.391 %) WebSphere 10 3 (0.293 %) SAP Smart Forms 10 3 (0.293 %) EDIFACT 11 2 (0.196 %) SAP CO-PA 11 2 (0.196 %) HTML 11 2 (0.196 %) J2EE 12 1 (0.098 %) WebServices 12 1 (0.098 %) SAP BC	Application Platforms 1 42 (4.106 %) NetWeaver 2 3 (0.293 %) SAP EP 3 1 (0.098 %) eRoom 3 1 (0.098 %) SAP Web AS 3 1 (0.098 %) Apache 3 1 (0.098 %) SharePoint 3 1 (0.098 %) Documentum
Applications 1 6 (0.587 %) MS Visio 2 1 (0.098 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 192 (18.77 %) SAP HR 2 150 (14.66 %) SAP FI 3 134 (13.10 %) SAP CO 4 128 (12.51 %) SAP FI/CO 5 88 (8.602 %) SAP SD 6 84 (8.211 %) SAP CRM 7 60 (5.865 %) SAP Payroll 8 50 (4.888 %) SAP MM 9 43 (4.203 %) SAP Oil and Gas 10 21 (2.053 %) SAP Retail 10 21 (2.053 %) SAP WM 11 16 (1.564 %) SAP SRM 12 15 (1.466 %) SAP APO 13 13 (1.271 %) SAP PS 14 12 (1.173 %) SAP R/3 14 12 (1.173 %) SAP AFS 15 11 (1.075 %) SAP Business One 16 10 (0.978 %) SAP QM 16 10 (0.978 %) SAP HR-PA 17 9 (0.880 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 5 (0.489 %) Internet 2 4 (0.391 %) CTI 3 1 (0.098 %) SAN 3 1 (0.098 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 144 (14.08 %) SAP BW 2 111 (10.85 %) SAP BI 3 15 (1.466 %) ETL 4 7 (0.684 %) RDBMS 4 7 (0.684 %) BusinessObjects 5 5 (0.489 %) Datawarehouse 6 4 (0.391 %) Oracle 10g 6 4 (0.391 %) SQL Server 7 2 (0.196 %) Data Cleansing 8 1 (0.098 %) SQL Server 2005 8 1 (0.098 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 13 (1.271 %) LSMW 2 1 (0.098 %) TestDirector 2 1 (0.098 %) LoadRunner	General 1 119 (11.63 %) Finance 2 57 (5.572 %) Banking 3 50 (4.888 %) Retail 4 25 (2.444 %) Manufacturing 5 22 (2.151 %) Billing 6 16 (1.564 %) Pharmaceutical 7 15 (1.466 %) Government 8 13 (1.271 %) FMCG 9 10 (0.978 %) Legal 10 6 (0.587 %) Back Office 11 5 (0.489 %) Investment Banking 12 3 (0.293 %) General Ledger 13 2 (0.196 %) Financial Institution 13 2 (0.196 %) Health 13 2 (0.196 %) Police 13 2 (0.196 %) Insurance 13 2 (0.196 %) Marketing 14 1 (0.098 %) Auditing 14 1 (0.098 %) Pensions 14 1 (0.098 %) Law
Miscellaneous 1 10 (0.978 %) Management Information System 2 4 (0.391 %) Russian Language 2 4 (0.391 %) Data Conversion 3 3 (0.293 %) Derivative 3 3 (0.293 %) Portuguese Language 3 3 (0.293 %) French Language 3 3 (0.293 %) Spanish Language 4 2 (0.196 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 1 (0.098 %) Statistics 5 1 (0.098 %) Web 2.0 5 1 (0.098 %) BBC 5 1 (0.098 %) AS400 5 1 (0.098 %) Data Extraction 5 1 (0.098 %) German Language 5 1 (0.098 %) Italian Language 5 1 (0.098 %) Polish Language 5 1 (0.098 %) Mathematics 5 1 (0.098 %) Life Science 5 1 (0.098 %) Dutch Language	Operating Systems 1 6 (0.587 %) Windows 2 5 (0.489 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (0.391 %) Solaris 4 3 (0.293 %) UNIX 5 2 (0.196 %) Linux 5 2 (0.196 %) VMS 6 1 (0.098 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 142 (13.88 %) Business Intelligence 2 110 (10.75 %) CRM 3 60 (5.865 %) ERP 4 41 (4.008 %) SAP Implementation 5 37 (3.617 %) Migration 6 33 (3.226 %) Workflow 7 28 (2.737 %) GAP Analysis 8 27 (2.639 %) Logistics 9 25 (2.444 %) Data Migration 10 21 (2.053 %) Data Modelling 11 19 (1.857 %) Time Management 12 16 (1.564 %) Change Management 13 15 (1.466 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 14 (1.369 %) Security Cleared 15 13 (1.271 %) Test Scripting 16 11 (1.075 %) Supply Chain Management 16 11 (1.075 %) Business Analysis 17 10 (0.978 %) OO 18 9 (0.880 %) Integration Testing 19 7 (0.684 %) Information Management	Programming Languages 1 173 (16.91 %) ABAP 2 25 (2.444 %) Java 3 10 (0.978 %) SQL 4 5 (0.489 %) SAPscript 5 4 (0.391 %) C 6 1 (0.098 %) Pascal 6 1 (0.098 %) DHTML 6 1 (0.098 %) JavaScript 6 1 (0.098 %) RPG
Qualifications 1 10 (0.978 %) SAP Certification 2 9 (0.880 %) Citrix Certification 3 7 (0.684 %) ACCA 3 7 (0.684 %) CIMA 4 5 (0.489 %) Degree 5 1 (0.098 %) CCAB 5 1 (0.098 %) CISSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (0.489 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 4 (0.391 %) QA 3 3 (0.293 %) RosettaNet 3 3 (0.293 %) Basel II 4 2 (0.196 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (0.098 %) SAP ITS 1 1 (0.098 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 1023 (100.00 %) SAP 2 19 (1.857 %) Oracle 3 13 (1.271 %) CA 4 7 (0.684 %) Business Objects 5 6 (0.587 %) Siebel 6 5 (0.489 %) OutlookSoft 7 4 (0.391 %) HP 8 2 (0.196 %) Adobe 8 2 (0.196 %) IBM 8 2 (0.196 %) IXOS 8 2 (0.196 %) Open Text 9 1 (0.098 %) DataFlux 9 1 (0.098 %) Red Hat 9 1 (0.098 %) Agresso 9 1 (0.098 %) SeeBeyond 9 1 (0.098 %) Microsoft 9 1 (0.098 %) Sun 9 1 (0.098 %) Cognos