Manchester ERP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ERP over the last 3 months to 22 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Newry Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peacehaven Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stirling Stourbridge Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	56
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	19	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	2.960 %	3.171 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£430	£453
Average daily rate	£455	£466
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£479
UK excluding London average daily rate	£425	£454
% change on same period last year	-6.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.00
Average hourly rate	-	£15.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£23.77
% change on same period last year	-0.03 %
Processes & Methodologies Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	642	410
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.832 %	0.461 %
Daily rates quoted	171	107
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£337
Average daily rate	£332	£354
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£373
% change on same period last year	+3.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.96	£24.95
Average hourly rate	£23.73	£26.56
% change on same period last year	-10.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.49	£28.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.87	£29.61
% change on same period last year	-2.51 %
ERP North West

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.

ERP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing ERP across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

ERP
Daily Rate Trend

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

ERP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing ERP across the Manchester region.

ERP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

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
Rochdale	-	2	-	-
Oldham	-	1	-	-

ERP North West

ERP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing ERP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ERP.

1 13 (48.15 %) SAP 2 8 (29.63 %) Finance 2 8 (29.63 %) Oracle 3 6 (22.22 %) SQL Server 3 6 (22.22 %) EDI 4 5 (18.52 %) ABAP 4 5 (18.52 %) .NET 4 5 (18.52 %) C# 4 5 (18.52 %) SAP ERP 5 4 (14.81 %) C++ 5 4 (14.81 %) VB 5 4 (14.81 %) PeopleSoft 6 3 (11.11 %) NetWeaver 6 3 (11.11 %) Microsoft 6 3 (11.11 %) Navision

6 3 (11.11 %) SAP FI/CO 6 3 (11.11 %) SAP Basis 6 3 (11.11 %) SAP FI 6 3 (11.11 %) SAP CO 7 2 (7.407 %) Data Management 7 2 (7.407 %) SEEBURGER 7 2 (7.407 %) Dynamics AX 7 2 (7.407 %) Change Management 7 2 (7.407 %) Migration 7 2 (7.407 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (7.407 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 2 (7.407 %) RDBMS 7 2 (7.407 %) JD Edwards 7 2 (7.407 %) PeopleCode 7 2 (7.407 %) SQR

ERP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing ERP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ERP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (22.22 %) EDI 2 5 (18.52 %) .NET 3 3 (11.11 %) SAP Basis 4 1 (3.704 %) ASP 4 1 (3.704 %) Web Dynpro 4 1 (3.704 %) WebSphere 4 1 (3.704 %) Adobe Flex 4 1 (3.704 %) Adobe AIR	Application Platforms 1 3 (11.11 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (3.704 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.704 %) SAP Web AS
Business Applications 1 5 (18.52 %) SAP ERP 2 3 (11.11 %) Navision 2 3 (11.11 %) SAP FI/CO 2 3 (11.11 %) SAP FI 2 3 (11.11 %) SAP CO 3 2 (7.407 %) Dynamics AX 3 2 (7.407 %) PeopleSoft Financials 4 1 (3.704 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (3.704 %) SAP R/3 4 1 (3.704 %) SAP SD 4 1 (3.704 %) Axapta 4 1 (3.704 %) Oracle ERP 4 1 (3.704 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (3.704 %) Oracle Payroll 4 1 (3.704 %) Oracle EBS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2 2 (7.407 %) Oracle Discoverer 2 2 (7.407 %) RDBMS 2 2 (7.407 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (3.704 %) SAP BI
General 1 8 (29.63 %) Finance 2 1 (3.704 %) Back Office 2 1 (3.704 %) Pensions 2 1 (3.704 %) General Ledger 2 1 (3.704 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 9 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 8 (29.63 %) Analyst 2 8 (29.63 %) SAP Consultant 3 5 (18.52 %) Developer 4 3 (11.11 %) SAP Basis Consultant 4 3 (11.11 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant 4 3 (11.11 %) Functional Analyst 5 2 (7.407 %) PeopleSoft Developer 5 2 (7.407 %) NetWeaver Consultant 5 2 (7.407 %) PeopleSoft Support 5 2 (7.407 %) SAP CO Consultant 5 2 (7.407 %) SAP FI Consultant 5 2 (7.407 %) SAP Developer 5 2 (7.407 %) Project Manager 5 2 (7.407 %) Systems Engineer 5 2 (7.407 %) Analyst Programmer 5 2 (7.407 %) Programmer 6 1 (3.704 %) Functional Consultant 6 1 (3.704 %) SAP SD Consultant 6 1 (3.704 %) Implementation Consultant
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.407 %) Data Management 1 2 (7.407 %) Change Management 1 2 (7.407 %) Migration 1 2 (7.407 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (3.704 %) EAI 2 1 (3.704 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (3.704 %) BPM 2 1 (3.704 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (3.704 %) Problem Management 2 1 (3.704 %) Release Management 2 1 (3.704 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (3.704 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (3.704 %) Data Migration 2 1 (3.704 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 5 (18.52 %) ABAP 1 5 (18.52 %) C# 2 4 (14.81 %) C++ 2 4 (14.81 %) VB 3 2 (7.407 %) PeopleCode 3 2 (7.407 %) SQR 3 2 (7.407 %) SQL 4 1 (3.704 %) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.704 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Vendors 1 13 (48.15 %) SAP 2 8 (29.63 %) Oracle 3 4 (14.81 %) PeopleSoft 4 3 (11.11 %) Microsoft 5 2 (7.407 %) SEEBURGER 5 2 (7.407 %) JD Edwards 5 2 (7.407 %) Sybase 6 1 (3.704 %) Cognos 6 1 (3.704 %) Siebel 6 1 (3.704 %) webMethods 6 1 (3.704 %) IBM 6 1 (3.704 %) i2 6 1 (3.704 %) Retek 6 1 (3.704 %) Adobe