North East SAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT contracts within the North East region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SAP over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Erskine Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Isle of Man Jersey Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	14
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	29	76
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.079 %
As % of the category below	6.808 %	14.70 %
Daily rates quoted	5	12
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£345
Average daily rate	£390	£395
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£445
UK excluding London average daily rate	£460	£450
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.41	£23.36
% change on same period last year	+0.22 %
Vendors North East
Matching contract IT job ads	426	517
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.562 %	0.541 %
Daily rates quoted	75	83
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£335
Average daily rate	£353	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£357
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.41	£27.57
Average hourly rate	£25.73	£29.56
% change on same period last year	-12.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.05	£31.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.01	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within SAP AG.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAP across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAP across the North East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAP across the North East region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SAP across the North East region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SAP within the North East region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Durham	-1	4	-	-
Tyne and Wear	-24	3	£200	-42.85 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing SAP 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.

1 9 (14.52 %) ABAP 2 8 (12.90 %) Manufacturing 2 8 (12.90 %) SAP Basis 3 7 (11.29 %) SAP MM 4 6 (9.677 %) SQL 4 6 (9.677 %) Windows 5 5 (8.065 %) NetWeaver 5 5 (8.065 %) SAP SD 6 4 (6.452 %) VB 6 4 (6.452 %) .NET 6 4 (6.452 %) Oracle 6 4 (6.452 %) Project Management 6 4 (6.452 %) Finance 6 4 (6.452 %) QA 6 4 (6.452 %) SAP Implementation

6 4 (6.452 %) Test Management 7 3 (4.839 %) BC Cleared 7 3 (4.839 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (4.839 %) SAP XI 7 3 (4.839 %) Billing 7 3 (4.839 %) Pharmaceutical 7 3 (4.839 %) VB.NET 7 3 (4.839 %) C 7 3 (4.839 %) Windows 2000 7 3 (4.839 %) SAPscript 7 3 (4.839 %) Business Intelligence 7 3 (4.839 %) Microsoft 8 2 (3.226 %) ERP 8 2 (3.226 %) MS Visio 8 2 (3.226 %) SAP HR

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing SAP 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (12.90 %) SAP Basis 2 4 (6.452 %) .NET 3 3 (4.839 %) SAP XI 4 2 (3.226 %) XML 5 1 (1.613 %) BAPI 5 1 (1.613 %) SAP .NET Connector 5 1 (1.613 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.065 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (1.613 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.613 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 2 (3.226 %) MS Visio 1 2 (3.226 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 7 (11.29 %) SAP MM 2 5 (8.065 %) SAP SD 3 2 (3.226 %) SAP HR 3 2 (3.226 %) SAP R/3 3 2 (3.226 %) SAP FI 3 2 (3.226 %) SAP CRM 3 2 (3.226 %) SAP CO 3 2 (3.226 %) SAP FI/CO 3 2 (3.226 %) SAP IS-U 4 1 (1.613 %) SAP ERP 4 1 (1.613 %) SAP Oil and Gas 4 1 (1.613 %) SAP xMII 4 1 (1.613 %) MAXIMO 4 1 (1.613 %) SAP PM 4 1 (1.613 %) SAP QM 4 1 (1.613 %) SAP Payroll 4 1 (1.613 %) SAP PP
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.613 %) DHCP 1 1 (1.613 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.613 %) SAP BI 1 1 (1.613 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (3.226 %) LSMW	General 1 8 (12.90 %) Manufacturing 2 4 (6.452 %) Finance 3 3 (4.839 %) Billing 3 3 (4.839 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.613 %) FMCG 4 1 (1.613 %) Retail 4 1 (1.613 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.613 %) Chemicals 4 1 (1.613 %) Government 4 1 (1.613 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 32 (51.61 %) Consultant 2 31 (50.00 %) SAP Consultant 3 11 (17.74 %) Analyst 4 8 (12.90 %) Business Analyst 5 7 (11.29 %) SAP Basis Consultant 6 6 (9.677 %) SAP MM Consultant 6 6 (9.677 %) SAP Business Analyst 7 5 (8.065 %) SAP SD Consultant 7 5 (8.065 %) SAP Manager 8 4 (6.452 %) Test Manager 9 3 (4.839 %) SAP Support 9 3 (4.839 %) SAP Support Consultant 9 3 (4.839 %) SAP Test Manager 9 3 (4.839 %) ABAP Consultant 9 3 (4.839 %) Support Consultant 9 3 (4.839 %) Programmer 9 3 (4.839 %) Project Manager 10 2 (3.226 %) Trainer 10 2 (3.226 %) Senior Consultant 10 2 (3.226 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.226 %) AS400 2 1 (1.613 %) Dutch Language 2 1 (1.613 %) German Language 2 1 (1.613 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 6 (9.677 %) Windows 2 3 (4.839 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (3.226 %) Unix 4 1 (1.613 %) AIX 4 1 (1.613 %) Windows NT 4 1 (1.613 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (1.613 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.452 %) Project Management 1 4 (6.452 %) SAP Implementation 1 4 (6.452 %) Test Management 2 3 (4.839 %) BC Cleared 2 3 (4.839 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (4.839 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (3.226 %) ERP 3 2 (3.226 %) CRM 3 2 (3.226 %) Migration 3 2 (3.226 %) Stakeholder Management 3 2 (3.226 %) Data Analysis 3 2 (3.226 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (1.613 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (1.613 %) Logistics 4 1 (1.613 %) Supply Chain Management 4 1 (1.613 %) PLM 4 1 (1.613 %) Change Management 4 1 (1.613 %) E-business 4 1 (1.613 %) GAP Analysis 4 1 (1.613 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 9 (14.52 %) ABAP 2 6 (9.677 %) SQL 3 4 (6.452 %) VB 4 3 (4.839 %) VB.NET 4 3 (4.839 %) C 4 3 (4.839 %) SAPscript 5 2 (3.226 %) Pascal 5 2 (3.226 %) C# 5 2 (3.226 %) Java 6 1 (1.613 %) VB6 6 1 (1.613 %) VBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (6.452 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (1.613 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (6.452 %) Oracle 2 3 (4.839 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.613 %) CODA 3 1 (1.613 %) Agresso 3 1 (1.613 %) TIBCO 3 1 (1.613 %) Lotus