Thames Valley ABAP Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the ABAP Developer role in IT contracts within the Thames Valley region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ABAP Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAP ABAP Developer
Location Aberdeen Andover Chichester City of London Coventry Dorset East Anglia East of England England Fareham Farnborough Hampshire Home Counties London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West Scotland South East South West Southampton Southwark Surrey Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	55
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.475 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£424	£454
% change on same period last year	-6.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	350	631
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.474 %	0.625 %
Daily rates quoted	45	73
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£321
Average daily rate	£363	£333
% change on same period last year	+8.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£356
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.91	£31.45
Average hourly rate	£32.95	£34.84
% change on same period last year	-5.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£38.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.28 %
ABAP Developer South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ABAP Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ABAP Developer across the Thames Valley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

ABAP Developer
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region that cited ABAP Developer in their job title 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 with ABAP Developer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00 %) Middleware 1 2 (100.00 %) ABAP 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP 2 1 (50.00 %) SAPscript 2 1 (50.00 %) SAP Smart Forms 2 1 (50.00 %) BAPI 2 1 (50.00 %) SAP ALE

ABAP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region that cited ABAP Developer in their job title 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 with ABAP Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (100.00 %) Middleware 2 1 (50.00 %) SAP Smart Forms 2 1 (50.00 %) BAPI 2 1 (50.00 %) SAP ALE	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) ABAP 2 1 (50.00 %) SAPscript
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP