The first part of the table below looks at the demand for ABAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Maidenhead region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ABAP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Maidenhead region.
| SAP ABAP |
| 3 months to 19 Mar 2010 | Same period 2009 | Same period 2008 |
| Rank | - | - | - |
| Matching contract IT job ads | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidenhead | - | - | - |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | - | - | - |
| Daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Average daily rate | - | - | - |
| UK excluding London average daily rate | £450 | £475 | £433 |
| % change year-on-year | |
| Hourly rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Average hourly rate | - | - | - |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate | - | - | £57.50 |
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|
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Programming Languages category | 10 | 28 | 48 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidenhead | 19.61 % | 24.56 % | 20.08 % |
| Daily rates quoted | 7 | 19 | 22 |
| Average daily rate | £200 | £375 | £400 |
| Average daily rate % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than | £190 | £315 | £275 |
| 10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than | £430 | £425 | £450 |
| UK excluding London average daily rate | £300 | £300 | £325 |
| % change year-on-year | |
| Hourly rates quoted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Average hourly rate | £11.00 | - | - |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate | £28.50 | £30.25 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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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.
ABAP
Demand Trend
The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ABAP across the Maidenhead region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.