The first table below looks at the demand for ABAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ABAP 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Manchester 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 ABAP
Rank 71 76 58
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -18
Contract jobs citing ABAP 2 9 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.214% 0.696% 1.038%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.595% 1.899% 3.459%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
Average daily rate £463 £315 £456
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.82% -30.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £247 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £523 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £427
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -
All Programming Languages
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
336 474 318
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 35.94% 36.63% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 277 182
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £230 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £400 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 31 15
Average hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.57 £14.84 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £131.70 £37.90 £35.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
ABAP
North West

ABAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ABAP across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Manchester ABAP Jobs Demand Trend

ABAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester ABAP Daily Rate Trend

ABAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester ABAP Hourly Rate Trend

ABAP
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing ABAP 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 ABAP.

1 5 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (20.00%) SAP XI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (20.00%) SAP R/3
3 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
3 1 (20.00%) SAP WM
3 1 (20.00%) SAP CO
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) OLAP
3 1 (20.00%) Business Objects

ABAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) SAP XI
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP R/3
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP WM
1 1 (20.00%) SAP CO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (20.00%) OLAP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP BW Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) ABAP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP WM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Business Objects Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP CO Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Business Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Development Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) ERP
1 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Implementation
1 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
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Posted: 20 May 2013