Middlesex ERP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) skills within the Middlesex 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 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford 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 Devon 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 Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London 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 Sunbury-on-Thames 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 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	39
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	13	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	4.050 %	2.913 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£184	£300
Average daily rate	£184	£350
% change on same period last year	-47.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£184	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£427	£453
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£30.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.63	£22.80
% change on same period last year	+3.65 %
Processes & Methodologies Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	321	309
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.412 %	0.347 %
Daily rates quoted	92	59
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£327
Average daily rate	£395	£349
% change on same period last year	+13.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.88	£25.58
Average hourly rate	£32.71	£26.88
% change on same period last year	+21.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.53	£28.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
ERP South East

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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

ERP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 16 (51.61 %) Finance 2 10 (32.26 %) Migration 2 10 (32.26 %) SAP 3 9 (29.03 %) Data Migration 4 6 (19.35 %) Business Analysis 5 5 (16.13 %) Pharmaceutical 6 4 (12.90 %) Oracle 6 4 (12.90 %) MS Excel 6 4 (12.90 %) Manufacturing 7 3 (9.677 %) Construction 7 3 (9.677 %) SAP XI 7 3 (9.677 %) AS400 7 3 (9.677 %) ITIL 7 3 (9.677 %) Project Management 7 3 (9.677 %) IBM

8 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft 8 2 (6.452 %) Datawarehouse 8 2 (6.452 %) Pegasus 8 2 (6.452 %) JD Edwards 8 2 (6.452 %) SAP BW 8 2 (6.452 %) GAAP 8 2 (6.452 %) ITIL Certification 8 2 (6.452 %) Remedy 8 2 (6.452 %) ACCA 8 2 (6.452 %) DB2 8 2 (6.452 %) Oracle 11i 8 2 (6.452 %) Back Office 8 2 (6.452 %) Workflow 8 2 (6.452 %) Oracle EBS 8 2 (6.452 %) Service Management

ERP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (9.677 %) SAP XI 2 2 (6.452 %) SAP Basis 2 2 (6.452 %) SAP Business Workflow 3 1 (3.226 %) AJAX 3 1 (3.226 %) HTML 3 1 (3.226 %) CSS 3 1 (3.226 %) WebServices 3 1 (3.226 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.226 %) Apache 1 1 (3.226 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 4 (12.90 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (6.452 %) Oracle 11i 1 2 (6.452 %) Oracle EBS 1 2 (6.452 %) Oracle Applications 1 2 (6.452 %) SAP ERP 2 1 (3.226 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (3.226 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 1 (3.226 %) Oracle HRMS 2 1 (3.226 %) SAP HR 2 1 (3.226 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.226 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.452 %) DB2 1 2 (6.452 %) Datawarehouse 1 2 (6.452 %) SAP BW 2 1 (3.226 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (3.226 %) SQL Server
General 1 16 (51.61 %) Finance 2 5 (16.13 %) Pharmaceutical 3 4 (12.90 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (9.677 %) Construction 5 2 (6.452 %) Back Office 5 2 (6.452 %) Legal 6 1 (3.226 %) Education 6 1 (3.226 %) Health 6 1 (3.226 %) Retail 6 1 (3.226 %) Insurance 6 1 (3.226 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 10 (32.26 %) Analyst 1 10 (32.26 %) Consultant 2 5 (16.13 %) Technical Specialist 3 4 (12.90 %) Business Analyst 3 4 (12.90 %) SAP Consultant 4 3 (9.677 %) Financial Business Analyst 4 3 (9.677 %) Technical Business Analyst 4 3 (9.677 %) ERP Consultant 4 3 (9.677 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (9.677 %) Administrator 4 3 (9.677 %) Functional Consultant 4 3 (9.677 %) Service Manager 5 2 (6.452 %) Procurement Specialist 5 2 (6.452 %) Financial Analyst 5 2 (6.452 %) AS400 Administrator 5 2 (6.452 %) Implementation Manager 5 2 (6.452 %) Account Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Oracle Functional Consultant 6 1 (3.226 %) Technical Administrator 6 1 (3.226 %) Business Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.677 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.226 %) Unix 1 1 (3.226 %) HPUX 1 1 (3.226 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (32.26 %) Migration 2 9 (29.03 %) Data Migration 3 6 (19.35 %) Business Analysis 4 3 (9.677 %) ITIL 4 3 (9.677 %) Project Management 5 2 (6.452 %) Service Management 5 2 (6.452 %) Workflow 5 2 (6.452 %) Performance Management 6 1 (3.226 %) Problem Management 6 1 (3.226 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (3.226 %) GAP Analysis 6 1 (3.226 %) Risk Management 6 1 (3.226 %) CRM 6 1 (3.226 %) Logistics	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.226 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 2 (6.452 %) ITIL Certification 1 2 (6.452 %) ACCA 1 2 (6.452 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.452 %) GAAP
Vendors 1 10 (32.26 %) SAP 2 4 (12.90 %) Oracle 3 3 (9.677 %) IBM 4 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft 4 2 (6.452 %) Pegasus 4 2 (6.452 %) JD Edwards 4 2 (6.452 %) Remedy 5 1 (3.226 %) MKS 5 1 (3.226 %) HP 5 1 (3.226 %) VERITAS