The first table below looks at the demand for Sage 200 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sage 200 over the 3 months to 21 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.

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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sage 200
Rank - 566 576
Contract jobs citing Sage 200 0 15 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.026% 0.007%
As % of the Business Applications category - 0.286% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 1
Average daily rate - £250 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £244 £225
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £68.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £68.75 -
All Business Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
4057 5243 5648
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 8.594% 8.969% 9.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 2011 2552 2778
Average daily rate £450 £450 £450
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 62 100
Average hourly rate £37.80 £24.17 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.39% -3.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.25 £56.45 £44.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%

Sage 200
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Sage 200 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Sage 200 Jobs Demand Trend

Sage 200
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Sage 200 within the UK.

Sage 200 Daily Rate Trend

Sage 200
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Sage 200 within the UK.

Sage 200 Hourly Rate Trend

Sage 200
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Sage 200 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 Sage 200.

1 8 (100.00%) Sage
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) ASP
3 4 (50.00%) CSS
3 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 4 (50.00%) HTML
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) jQuery
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (25.00%) Advertising
4 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (25.00%) Sage 1000
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) OLAP

Sage 200
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Sage 200 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 Sage 200. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) ASP
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) jQuery
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (25.00%) Sage 1000
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) OLAP
General
1 2 (25.00%) Advertising
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) ASP Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Classic ASP Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Sage Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ETL
1 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Sage
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
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