The first table below looks at the demand for the SAP Business Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP Business Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the North West 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Business Consultant
Rank - - 124
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Business Consultant 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - - 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £443 £388 £425
% change year-on-year
+14.19% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2173 2851 2817
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.22% 91.64% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1036 1402 1393
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 171 189
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
SAP Business Consultant
England

SAP Business Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAP Business Consultant across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West SAP Business Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

SAP Business Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAP Business Consultant across the North West region.

North West SAP Business Consultant Daily Rate Trend

SAP Business Consultant
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited SAP Business Consultant in their job title 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 with SAP Business Consultant in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 4 (100.00%) SAP
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (100.00%) SAP BW
2 3 (75.00%) SAP BI
2 3 (75.00%) Primavera
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) SAP Implementation
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Marketing
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) SAP R/3
4 1 (25.00%) SAP PS
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) ABAP
4 1 (25.00%) OLAP
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) SAP XI

SAP Business Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited SAP Business Consultant in their job title 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 with SAP Business Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) SAP XI
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP R/3
1 1 (25.00%) SAP PS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (100.00%) SAP BW
2 3 (75.00%) SAP BI
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) OLAP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) ABAP
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 4 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (75.00%) Primavera