The first table below looks at the demand for SAP ALE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP ALE over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Development category for the Milton Keynes 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Application Link Enabling (ALE)
Rank 54 - 54
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SAP ALE 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.191% - 0.168%
As % of the Application Development category 0.840% - 0.909%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £575 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £575 £388 £335
% change year-on-year
+48.38% +15.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
119 127 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 22.71% 17.69% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 57 51
Average daily rate £375 £300 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SAP ALE
Buckinghamshire

SAP ALE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAP ALE across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Milton Keynes SAP ALE Jobs Demand Trend

SAP ALE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAP ALE across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes SAP ALE Daily Rate Trend

SAP ALE
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing SAP ALE 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 ALE.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) ABAP
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) NetWeaver
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) SAP CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) BAPI
1 2 (100.00%) SAP XI
1 2 (100.00%) ESB
1 2 (100.00%) SAP PI
2 1 (50.00%) Finance

SAP ALE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing SAP ALE 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 ALE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) BAPI
1 2 (100.00%) SAP XI
1 2 (100.00%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) NetWeaver
1 2 (100.00%) ESB
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) SAP PI Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) NetWeaver Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) ABAP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP