M4 Corridor SAP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT contracts within the M4 Corridor 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 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Ballymena Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bletchley Bolton Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bridport Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Larne Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrew Renfrewshire Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East 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 Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	6
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	6	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	10.17 %	30.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum daily rate	£650	£425
Average daily rate	£650	£473
% change on same period last year	+37.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£650	£520
UK excluding London average daily rate	£468	£459
% change on same period last year	+2.02 %
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	£24.65	£23.08
% change on same period last year	+6.83 %
Vendors M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	59	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.075 %
Daily rates quoted	7	17
Average minimum daily rate	£415	£375
Average daily rate	£512	£403
% change on same period last year	+26.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£608	£432
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£7.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.86	£24.15
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
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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 M4 Corridor 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 M4 Corridor region.

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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 M4 Corridor region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 7 (24.14 %) Retail 2 5 (17.24 %) SAP APO 2 5 (17.24 %) Finance 2 5 (17.24 %) SAP Implementation 3 4 (13.79 %) Business Analysis 3 4 (13.79 %) FMCG 3 4 (13.79 %) Banking 3 4 (13.79 %) Data Analysis 3 4 (13.79 %) Logistics 3 4 (13.79 %) SAP MM 3 4 (13.79 %) Cognos 4 3 (10.34 %) SAP R/3 4 3 (10.34 %) SAP Certification 4 3 (10.34 %) SAP HR 4 3 (10.34 %) QA

5 2 (6.897 %) Performance Testing 5 2 (6.897 %) Telecoms 5 2 (6.897 %) SAP Retail 5 2 (6.897 %) Cramer 5 2 (6.897 %) SAP SD 5 2 (6.897 %) Java 5 2 (6.897 %) ABAP 5 2 (6.897 %) J2EE 5 2 (6.897 %) Oracle 5 2 (6.897 %) OpenLink 5 2 (6.897 %) Endur 5 2 (6.897 %) Project Management 6 1 (3.448 %) Niku 6 1 (3.448 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (3.448 %) UML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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.

Application Development 1 2 (6.897 %) J2EE 2 1 (3.448 %) EDI 2 1 (3.448 %) SAP XI 2 1 (3.448 %) SAP PI	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.448 %) SAP EP
Business Applications 1 5 (17.24 %) SAP APO 2 4 (13.79 %) SAP MM 3 3 (10.34 %) SAP R/3 3 3 (10.34 %) SAP HR 4 2 (6.897 %) SAP SD 4 2 (6.897 %) Endur 4 2 (6.897 %) SAP Retail 5 1 (3.448 %) SAP SRM 5 1 (3.448 %) SAP Payroll 5 1 (3.448 %) SAP FI/CO 5 1 (3.448 %) SAP CO 5 1 (3.448 %) SAP FI	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.448 %) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.448 %) SAP BI	General 1 7 (24.14 %) Retail 2 5 (17.24 %) Finance 3 4 (13.79 %) Banking 3 4 (13.79 %) FMCG 4 2 (6.897 %) Telecoms 5 1 (3.448 %) Government 5 1 (3.448 %) Local Government 5 1 (3.448 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 10 (34.48 %) Consultant 1 10 (34.48 %) SAP Consultant 2 9 (31.03 %) Analyst 3 6 (20.69 %) Business Analyst 4 5 (17.24 %) SAP Business Analyst 5 4 (13.79 %) Project Coordinator 5 4 (13.79 %) Coordinator 5 4 (13.79 %) Senior Business Analyst 5 4 (13.79 %) Senior Analyst 5 4 (13.79 %) Senior Project Coordinator 5 4 (13.79 %) Senior SAP Business Analyst 5 4 (13.79 %) SAP Analyst 6 3 (10.34 %) SAP Manager 6 3 (10.34 %) SAP MM Consultant 7 2 (6.897 %) Product Analyst 7 2 (6.897 %) SAP Trainer 7 2 (6.897 %) SAP HR Consultant 7 2 (6.897 %) Process Analyst 7 2 (6.897 %) Project Manager 7 2 (6.897 %) Trainer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.448 %) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (17.24 %) SAP Implementation 2 4 (13.79 %) Data Analysis 2 4 (13.79 %) Logistics 2 4 (13.79 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (6.897 %) Project Management 3 2 (6.897 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (3.448 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (3.448 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (3.448 %) UML 4 1 (3.448 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (3.448 %) Quality Management 4 1 (3.448 %) E-business 4 1 (3.448 %) Migration 4 1 (3.448 %) Use Case	Programming Languages 1 2 (6.897 %) Java 1 2 (6.897 %) ABAP 2 1 (3.448 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (3.448 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (10.34 %) SAP Certification 2 1 (3.448 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (10.34 %) QA
Vendors 1 4 (13.79 %) Cognos 2 2 (6.897 %) OpenLink 2 2 (6.897 %) Cramer 2 2 (6.897 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.448 %) SEEBURGER 3 1 (3.448 %) Niku