Oxfordshire SAP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAP over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Ballymena Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Billingham Birmingham Bletchley Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bridport Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Evesham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Isle of Wight Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Larne Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Runcorn Scotland Scunthorpe Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	38	37
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	11	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	5.446 %	5.530 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£340
Average daily rate	£450	£351
% change on same period last year	+28.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£477	£464
% change on same period last year	+2.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.19	£19.92
% change on same period last year	+31.45 %
Vendors Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	202	217
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.407 %	0.266 %
Daily rates quoted	41	41
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£339
Average daily rate	£334	£356
% change on same period last year	-6.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.82	£22.69
Average hourly rate	£26.74	£24.88
% change on same period last year	+7.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.67	£27.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£23.22
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
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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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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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 Oxfordshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+2	5	£450	+28.06 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 12 (38.71 %) Finance 2 8 (25.81 %) ITIL 2 8 (25.81 %) CRM 3 7 (22.58 %) MS Exchange 3 7 (22.58 %) LAN 3 7 (22.58 %) WAN 3 7 (22.58 %) Cisco 3 7 (22.58 %) Service Management 3 7 (22.58 %) IP Telephony 4 5 (16.13 %) SAP Business One 4 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server 5 4 (12.90 %) SQL 5 4 (12.90 %) Microsoft 5 4 (12.90 %) Government 5 4 (12.90 %) Project Management

5 4 (12.90 %) Local Government 6 3 (9.677 %) Migration 6 3 (9.677 %) SAP SD 6 3 (9.677 %) Six Sigma 6 3 (9.677 %) ERP 6 3 (9.677 %) C# 6 3 (9.677 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (6.452 %) Business Objects 7 2 (6.452 %) MS Project 7 2 (6.452 %) PeopleSoft 7 2 (6.452 %) COM 7 2 (6.452 %) .NET 7 2 (6.452 %) Oracle 7 2 (6.452 %) OLAP 7 2 (6.452 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (6.452 %) .NET 1 2 (6.452 %) COM 2 1 (3.226 %) XML 2 1 (3.226 %) EDI 2 1 (3.226 %) Middleware 2 1 (3.226 %) EDIFACT	Application Platforms 1 7 (22.58 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.226 %) SAS 2 1 (3.226 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (3.226 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (6.452 %) MS Project 1 2 (6.452 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (16.13 %) SAP Business One 2 3 (9.677 %) SAP SD 3 2 (6.452 %) SAP FI 3 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft CRM 3 2 (6.452 %) Dynamics CRM 4 1 (3.226 %) SAP FI-AR 4 1 (3.226 %) SAP MM 4 1 (3.226 %) SAP WM 4 1 (3.226 %) SAP FI/CO 4 1 (3.226 %) SAP CO 4 1 (3.226 %) Pivotal CRM 4 1 (3.226 %) SAP R/3 4 1 (3.226 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (3.226 %) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking 1 7 (22.58 %) LAN 1 7 (22.58 %) WAN 1 7 (22.58 %) IP Telephony 2 1 (3.226 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server 2 3 (9.677 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (6.452 %) MS Access 3 2 (6.452 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (6.452 %) ETL 3 2 (6.452 %) Star Schema 3 2 (6.452 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (6.452 %) SAP BW 3 2 (6.452 %) Oracle OLAP 3 2 (6.452 %) OLAP 4 1 (3.226 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
General 1 12 (38.71 %) Finance 2 4 (12.90 %) Government 2 4 (12.90 %) Local Government 3 2 (6.452 %) Marketing 3 2 (6.452 %) Education 4 1 (3.226 %) Auditing 4 1 (3.226 %) Banking 4 1 (3.226 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 8 (25.81 %) Project Manager 2 7 (22.58 %) Consultant 3 5 (16.13 %) Engineering Manager 3 5 (16.13 %) Systems Manager 3 5 (16.13 %) SAP Consultant 4 4 (12.90 %) Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) Server Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) SAP Manager 5 3 (9.677 %) SAP Business Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) SAP Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) SQL Server Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) SAP Project Manager 5 3 (9.677 %) Report Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (6.452 %) Programme Manager 6 2 (6.452 %) SAP MM Consultant 6 2 (6.452 %) SAP FI Consultant 6 2 (6.452 %) ICT Project Manager 6 2 (6.452 %) CRM Project Manager 6 2 (6.452 %) CRM Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.452 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.226 %) UNIX 1 1 (3.226 %) Windows 1 1 (3.226 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (25.81 %) CRM 1 8 (25.81 %) ITIL 2 7 (22.58 %) Service Management 3 4 (12.90 %) Project Management 4 3 (9.677 %) Migration 4 3 (9.677 %) Six Sigma 4 3 (9.677 %) ERP 5 2 (6.452 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (6.452 %) BPR 5 2 (6.452 %) Dimensional Modelling 5 2 (6.452 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (3.226 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (3.226 %) Business Development 6 1 (3.226 %) SAP Implementation 6 1 (3.226 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (3.226 %) B2B 6 1 (3.226 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (3.226 %) Programme Management 6 1 (3.226 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (3.226 %) Data Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (12.90 %) SQL 2 3 (9.677 %) C# 3 1 (3.226 %) C++ 3 1 (3.226 %) Java 3 1 (3.226 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 1 (3.226 %) SAP Certification 1 1 (3.226 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (3.226 %) Degree	Vendors 1 7 (22.58 %) Cisco 2 4 (12.90 %) Microsoft 3 2 (6.452 %) Oracle 3 2 (6.452 %) Business Objects 3 2 (6.452 %) PeopleSoft 3 2 (6.452 %) Cognos 3 2 (6.452 %) salesforce.com 3 2 (6.452 %) NetSuite 4 1 (3.226 %) MicroStrategy 4 1 (3.226 %) Agresso