The first table below looks at the demand for SAP Smart Forms skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP Smart Forms over the 3 months to 23 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 Application Development category for the South 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Smart Forms
Rank - - 126
Contract jobs citing SAP Smart Forms 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West - - 0.035%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £440 £388 £425
% change year-on-year
+13.54% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
472 777 681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.48% 23.94% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 465 304
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £248 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £475 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 38
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £33.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -24.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £15.10 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
SAP Smart Forms
England

SAP Smart Forms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West SAP Smart Forms Jobs Demand Trend

SAP Smart Forms
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West SAP Smart Forms Daily Rate Trend

SAP Smart Forms
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing SAP Smart Forms 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 Smart Forms.

1 3 (100.00%) ABAP
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) EDI
1 3 (100.00%) SAPscript
1 3 (100.00%) SAP R/3
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) SAP Implementation
2 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Java

SAP Smart Forms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing SAP Smart Forms 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 Smart Forms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) EDI
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) SAP R/3
General
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) ABAP Developer
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) ABAP
1 3 (100.00%) SAPscript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft