The first table below looks at the demand for SAP ALE skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP ALE 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 South East 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 Application Link Enabling (ALE)
Rank 219 245 228
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -17
Contract jobs citing SAP ALE 1 2 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.012% 0.020% 0.170%
As % of the Application Development category 0.051% 0.091% 0.652%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate - £438 £413
% change year-on-year
- +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1966 2202 2760
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.55% 22.03% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1034 1092 1307
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £235 £225
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 105 105 184
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £19.00 £26.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
SAP ALE
England

SAP ALE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East SAP ALE Daily Rate Trend

SAP ALE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 14 (100.00%) SAP
2 8 (57.14%) BAPI
2 8 (57.14%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) ABAP
3 6 (42.86%) ERP
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) Data Migration
4 5 (35.71%) SAP Smart Forms
4 5 (35.71%) SAP EP
4 5 (35.71%) Logistics
4 5 (35.71%) Retail
4 5 (35.71%) Degree
4 5 (35.71%) E-Procurement
4 5 (35.71%) Workflow
4 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) SAP PI
5 4 (28.57%) Web Dynpro
5 4 (28.57%) Korean Language
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) SAP HR
6 3 (21.43%) Middleware
6 3 (21.43%) NetWeaver
6 3 (21.43%) JMS
6 3 (21.43%) HTTP
6 3 (21.43%) CRM
6 3 (21.43%) JDBC
6 3 (21.43%) SOAP
7 2 (14.29%) Web Services
7 2 (14.29%) XML
7 2 (14.29%) XSLT

SAP ALE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 8 (57.14%) BAPI
2 5 (35.71%) SAP Smart Forms
3 4 (28.57%) SAP PI
3 4 (28.57%) Web Dynpro
4 3 (21.43%) Middleware
4 3 (21.43%) JMS
4 3 (21.43%) JDBC
4 3 (21.43%) SOAP
5 2 (14.29%) Web Services
5 2 (14.29%) XML
5 2 (14.29%) XSLT
5 2 (14.29%) SAP XI
6 1 (7.143%) SAP Basis
6 1 (7.143%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) SAP EP
2 3 (21.43%) NetWeaver
3 2 (14.29%) ESB
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SAP HR
2 2 (14.29%) SAP CRM
3 1 (7.143%) SAP ERP
3 1 (7.143%) SAP PM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) HTTP
2 1 (7.143%) LDAP
2 1 (7.143%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (7.143%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) NWDI
General
1 5 (35.71%) Retail
2 4 (28.57%) Korean Language
3 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Consultant
1 10 (71.43%) SAP Consultant
2 4 (28.57%) ABAP Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Junior SAP Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Junior Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) SAP EP Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Junior
4 2 (14.29%) SAP Portals Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) SAP Support
5 1 (7.143%) SAP Basis Support
5 1 (7.143%) NetWeaver Architect
5 1 (7.143%) SAP Architect
5 1 (7.143%) SAP Developer
5 1 (7.143%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) SAP PI Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) SAP PI Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) ERP
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
1 6 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 5 (35.71%) Logistics
2 5 (35.71%) E-Procurement
2 5 (35.71%) Workflow
2 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) CRM
4 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.143%) SAP Implementation
4 1 (7.143%) Time Management
4 1 (7.143%) High Availability
4 1 (7.143%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
1 8 (57.14%) ABAP
2 1 (7.143%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (7.143%) Sybase
2 1 (7.143%) Business Objects
2 1 (7.143%) Adobe
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