The first table below looks at the demand for ERP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ERP over the 3 months to 20 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Staffordshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Rank 18 11 36
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +25
Contract jobs citing ERP 2 23 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.353% 10.60% 1.810%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.226% 16.08% 2.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £270 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +28.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
62 143 134
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 72.94% 65.90% 60.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 61 48
Average daily rate £320 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £370 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
Average hourly rate £21.29 £20.26 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% +68.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
ERP
West Midlands

ERP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ERP across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Staffordshire ERP Jobs Demand Trend

ERP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire ERP Daily Rate Trend

ERP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ERP across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Staffordshire ERP Daily Rate Histogram

ERP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Burton-upon-Trent - 1 £425 -
ERP
West Midlands

ERP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing 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 ERP.

1 2 (50.00%) NHS
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Nortel
2 1 (25.00%) Avaya
2 1 (25.00%) Sage
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint

ERP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) Extranet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Nortel
2 1 (25.00%) Avaya
2 1 (25.00%) Sage
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) SAP