The first table below looks at the demand for SAP ERP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP ERP 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 of the Business Applications category for the South Wales 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 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Rank - 42 46
Contract jobs citing SAP ERP 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales - 0.248% 0.240%
As % of the Business Applications category - 2.857% 4.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £1,250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £375 £488
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 - -
All Business Applications
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
15 35 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 4.573% 8.663% 5.288%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 8
Average daily rate £425 £500 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £348 £348
10% offered a daily rate of more than £620 £1,250 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £430 £420
% change year-on-year
-1.16% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
SAP ERP
Wales

SAP ERP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAP ERP across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

South Wales SAP ERP Jobs Demand Trend

SAP ERP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAP ERP across the South Wales region.

South Wales SAP ERP Daily Rate Trend

SAP ERP
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing SAP ERP 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 ERP.

1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Billing
2 1 (50.00%) Welsh Language
2 1 (50.00%) DWR
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office

SAP ERP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing SAP ERP 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 ERP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) DWR
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Objects