The first table below looks at the demand for BAPI skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BAPI over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Reading 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)
Rank - - 76
Contract jobs citing BAPI 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - - 0.198%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.939%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
194 174 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.05% 15.12% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 66 104
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +15.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
BAPI
Berkshire

BAPI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading BAPI Jobs Demand Trend

BAPI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BAPI across the Reading region.

Reading BAPI Daily Rate Trend

BAPI
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing BAPI 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 BAPI.

1 6 (100.00%) SAP
1 6 (100.00%) ABAP
2 5 (83.33%) Workflow
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) SAP Smart Forms
2 5 (83.33%) SAP ALE
2 5 (83.33%) Data Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Web Dynpro
4 3 (50.00%) SAP HR
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (16.67%) ERP
5 1 (16.67%) Adobe
5 1 (16.67%) Ariba
5 1 (16.67%) SAP XI
5 1 (16.67%) SAP PM
5 1 (16.67%) Time Management
5 1 (16.67%) FMCG
5 1 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (16.67%) SAP Data Services

BAPI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing BAPI 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 BAPI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) SAP Smart Forms
1 5 (83.33%) SAP ALE
2 4 (66.67%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (16.67%) SAP XI
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) SAP HR
2 1 (16.67%) SAP PM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Data Services
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) SAP Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) ABAP Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) FMCG
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Workflow
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
1 5 (83.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) ABAP
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Ariba