The first table below looks at the demand for SAP Portal skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP Portal over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Platforms 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP NetWeaver Portal
Rank 511 540 557
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +17
Contract jobs citing SAP Portal 30 30 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.062% 0.052% 0.071%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.354% 0.317% 0.440%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 13
Average daily rate £588 £450 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.55% +5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £370 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £660 £450 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £625 £450 £433
% change year-on-year
+38.88% +4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8463 9460 9995
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 17.59% 16.30% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4776 5322 5437
Average daily rate £358 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 441 559
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%

SAP Portal
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAP Portal within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SAP Portal Jobs Demand Trend

SAP Portal
Daily Rate Trend

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

SAP Portal Daily Rate Trend

SAP Portal
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAP Portal within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

SAP Portal Daily Rate Histogram

SAP Portal
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SAP Portal Hourly Rate Trend

SAP Portal
Top 24 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Portal within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +13 26 £588 +30.55% 5
London +36 19 £550 +22.22% 1
Uxbridge - 5 £630 -
South East +26 4 £625 +115.51%
Middlesex - 4 £625 -
City of London +2 1 £434 -
North West - - - -
Edinburgh - - - -
Halifax - - - -
Leamington Spa - - - -
Warwickshire - - - -
West Sussex - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - - 1
Worthing - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - - 1
Cheshire - - - -
Luton - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Runcorn - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
Scotland - - - -
Daresbury - - - -
East of England - - - - 3

SAP Portal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SAP Portal 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 Portal.

1 57 (100.00%) SAP
2 22 (38.60%) NetWeaver
3 17 (29.82%) Java
3 17 (29.82%) ABAP
4 14 (24.56%) ITIL
5 12 (21.05%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 12 (21.05%) SAP BW
6 9 (15.79%) ERP
6 9 (15.79%) Supplier Management
6 9 (15.79%) Web Dynpro
7 8 (14.04%) Technical Architecture
7 8 (14.04%) Oracle
7 8 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
8 7 (12.28%) Finance
9 6 (10.53%) SAP EP
9 6 (10.53%) SAP Basis
9 6 (10.53%) UNIX
9 6 (10.53%) Windows
9 6 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (10.53%) SAP Implementation
9 6 (10.53%) HTML5
10 5 (8.772%) SAP HCM
10 5 (8.772%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.772%) J2EE
10 5 (8.772%) CRM
10 5 (8.772%) C
10 5 (8.772%) Degree
11 4 (7.018%) Workflow
11 4 (7.018%) SQL

SAP Portal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SAP Portal 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 Portal. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (15.79%) Web Dynpro
2 6 (10.53%) SAP Basis
2 6 (10.53%) HTML5
3 5 (8.772%) J2EE
4 4 (7.018%) Web Services
5 3 (5.263%) SAP Business Workflow
6 2 (3.509%) Ajax
6 2 (3.509%) JSON
6 2 (3.509%) SAP XI
6 2 (3.509%) XML
6 2 (3.509%) CSS
6 2 (3.509%) HTML
6 2 (3.509%) Sass
6 2 (3.509%) jQuery
6 2 (3.509%) CSS3
6 2 (3.509%) SAP PI
7 1 (1.754%) EJB 3.0
7 1 (1.754%) Java EE 5
7 1 (1.754%) JPA
7 1 (1.754%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 22 (38.60%) NetWeaver
2 6 (10.53%) SAP EP
3 1 (1.754%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.754%) Apache
3 1 (1.754%) CMS
3 1 (1.754%) IBM HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 12 (21.05%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 5 (8.772%) SAP HCM
3 4 (7.018%) SAP HR
4 3 (5.263%) SAP GRC
5 2 (3.509%) Summit
5 2 (3.509%) SAP ERP
6 1 (1.754%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.754%) SAP FI
6 1 (1.754%) SAP CO
6 1 (1.754%) SAP PM
6 1 (1.754%) SAP MDM
6 1 (1.754%) SAP CRM
6 1 (1.754%) SAP FI/CO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.754%) Intranet
1 1 (1.754%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) SAP BW
2 4 (7.018%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.263%) SAP BI
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (1.754%) OLAP
4 1 (1.754%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (7.018%) NWDI
2 3 (5.263%) NWDS
General
1 7 (12.28%) Finance
2 3 (5.263%) Back Office
3 2 (3.509%) Banking
3 2 (3.509%) Front Office
4 1 (1.754%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.754%) Law
4 1 (1.754%) Dutch Language
4 1 (1.754%) French Language
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Consultant
2 20 (35.09%) SAP Consultant
3 17 (29.82%) SAP Manager
4 14 (24.56%) Applications Manager
4 14 (24.56%) SAP Portals Consultant
5 7 (12.28%) Architect
5 7 (12.28%) Developer
5 7 (12.28%) SAP Architect
6 4 (7.018%) SAP Developer
6 4 (7.018%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 3 (5.263%) SAP Technical Consultant
7 3 (5.263%) Web Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (3.509%) Enterprise Consultant
8 2 (3.509%) Applications Architect
8 2 (3.509%) SAP Project Manager
8 2 (3.509%) Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.509%) SAP Analyst
9 1 (1.754%) Business Intelligence Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.263%) SWIFT
1 3 (5.263%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.509%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (3.509%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.509%) Freedom of Information Act
2 2 (3.509%) FMCG
3 1 (1.754%) Copywriting
3 1 (1.754%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) UNIX
1 6 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (1.754%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) ITIL
2 9 (15.79%) ERP
2 9 (15.79%) Supplier Management
3 8 (14.04%) Technical Architecture
3 8 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (10.53%) SAP Implementation
5 5 (8.772%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (8.772%) CRM
6 4 (7.018%) Workflow
6 4 (7.018%) Project Management
6 4 (7.018%) SAP Security
7 3 (5.263%) Service Delivery
7 3 (5.263%) UML
7 3 (5.263%) OOA/OOD
8 2 (3.509%) Project Planning
8 2 (3.509%) Migration
8 2 (3.509%) Data Management
8 2 (3.509%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (3.509%) Data Protection
8 2 (3.509%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) Java
1 17 (29.82%) ABAP
2 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.772%) C
4 4 (7.018%) SQL
5 3 (5.263%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.263%) Bourne shell
5 3 (5.263%) Korn
6 1 (1.754%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (8.772%) Degree
3 1 (1.754%) PMP
3 1 (1.754%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.018%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.754%) Control-M
Vendors
1 57 (100.00%) SAP
2 8 (14.04%) Oracle
3 4 (7.018%) IXOS
4 3 (5.263%) webMethods
5 2 (3.509%) Sybase
5 2 (3.509%) Adobe
6 1 (1.754%) Microsoft
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Rate: £400 to £650 per day
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