The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Swindon 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within SAP AG.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP
Rank 29 23 15
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -8
Contract jobs citing SAP 9 19 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 3.273% 5.249% 6.962%
As % of the Vendors category 6.081% 9.794% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 16
Average daily rate £400 £430 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.97% -14.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £333 £406
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £520 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year
- -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £18.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+42.66% -1.31%
All Vendors
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
148 194 127
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 53.82% 53.59% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 143 72
Average daily rate £425 £424 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.29% +2.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £307 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £466 £525 £487
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
Average hourly rate £13.75 £16.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.06% -23.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £32.50 £29.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
SAP
Wiltshire

SAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAP across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Swindon SAP Jobs Demand Trend

SAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon SAP Daily Rate Trend

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAP across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Swindon SAP Daily Rate Histogram

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SAP across the Swindon region.

Swindon SAP Hourly Rate Trend

SAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing SAP 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.

1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (35.29%) Information Management
3 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (23.53%) Business Objects
4 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (23.53%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
5 3 (17.65%) Change Control
5 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
5 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Supplier Management
5 3 (17.65%) Resource Management
5 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) ETL
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) ITIL
5 3 (17.65%) SLA
5 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) Zachman Framework
6 2 (11.76%) Banking
6 2 (11.76%) Retail
6 2 (11.76%) LSMW
6 2 (11.76%) Publishing
6 2 (11.76%) Service Management
6 2 (11.76%) ITSM
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2

SAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing SAP 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) .NET
1 1 (5.882%) MDX
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.882%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) SAP HR
1 1 (5.882%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (5.882%) SAP SRM
1 1 (5.882%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (23.53%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (23.53%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (11.76%) SAP BW
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (5.882%) SAP BI
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.882%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) LSMW
2 1 (5.882%) WinRunner
2 1 (5.882%) LoadRunner
General
1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Publishing
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Marketing
3 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Project Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Data Modeller
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.882%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Support Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.882%) SAP Support
4 1 (5.882%) SAP Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) UNIX
2 1 (5.882%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (35.29%) Information Management
2 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Data Management
3 3 (17.65%) Zachman Framework
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 3 (17.65%) ETL
3 3 (17.65%) Project Management
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Supplier Management
3 3 (17.65%) Resource Management
3 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
3 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
3 3 (17.65%) Change Control
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.76%) ITSM
5 1 (5.882%) Contact Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) ISEB
1 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Business Objects
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.882%) HP