The first table below looks at the demand for ERP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ERP over the 3 months to 23 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 Wales 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Rank 31 53 23
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -30
Contract jobs citing ERP 12 3 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 2.810% 0.524% 6.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.054% 0.809% 9.615%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 13
Average daily rate £325 £875 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-62.85% +96.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £404 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +18.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 371 416
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 69.32% 64.86% 62.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 181 186
Average daily rate £370 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £505 £509
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 18
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.16 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.17% -61.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.13 £12.50 £14.91
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.75 £30.50 £82.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
ERP
UK

ERP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales ERP Daily Rate Trend

ERP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wales ERP Hourly Rate Trend

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 23 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
South Wales +8 9 £325 -62.85%
West Wales - 2 £263 -
ERP
UK

ERP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 20 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 20 (66.67%) Finance
2 19 (63.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 19 (63.33%) Windows
3 18 (60.00%) .NET
3 18 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 18 (60.00%) Performance Management
3 18 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 17 (56.67%) VB6
4 17 (56.67%) .NET Framework
4 17 (56.67%) VB
4 17 (56.67%) Visual Studio
4 17 (56.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 11 (36.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (26.67%) SAP
7 6 (20.00%) Migration
8 4 (13.33%) SAP ERP
9 3 (10.00%) Project Management
10 2 (6.667%) ITIL
10 2 (6.667%) SLA
10 2 (6.667%) MS Office
10 2 (6.667%) SQL
10 2 (6.667%) Programme Management
10 2 (6.667%) Release Management
11 1 (3.333%) DWR
11 1 (3.333%) SAP Implementation
11 1 (3.333%) iSeries
11 1 (3.333%) Data Migration
11 1 (3.333%) Data Cleansing
11 1 (3.333%) Data Extraction

ERP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 Development
1 18 (60.00%) .NET
2 17 (56.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.333%) DWR
3 1 (3.333%) SAP BSP
3 1 (3.333%) SAP ALE
3 1 (3.333%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (3.333%) BAPI
3 1 (3.333%) SAP XI
3 1 (3.333%) HTML
3 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.333%) CSS
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Office
2 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) SAP ERP
2 1 (3.333%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 19 (63.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 18 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.333%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.333%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Visual Studio
1 17 (56.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 11 (36.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (3.333%) Welsh Language
2 1 (3.333%) Billing
Job Titles
1 20 (66.67%) Developer
2 17 (56.67%) Software Programmer
2 17 (56.67%) Programmer
2 17 (56.67%) Software Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Programme Manager
4 3 (10.00%) IT Programme Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Payroll Manager
6 1 (3.333%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) ABAP Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) SAP Business Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) ETL Developer
6 1 (3.333%) SAP Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.333%) Consultant
6 1 (3.333%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.333%) iSeries
1 1 (3.333%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Performance Management
2 6 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (6.667%) ITIL
4 2 (6.667%) Programme Management
4 2 (6.667%) Release Management
5 1 (3.333%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (3.333%) Data Migration
5 1 (3.333%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (3.333%) Data Mapping
5 1 (3.333%) Matrix Management
5 1 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.333%) CRM
5 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
5 1 (3.333%) ETL
5 1 (3.333%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) VB.NET
2 17 (56.67%) VB6
2 17 (56.67%) VB
3 2 (6.667%) SQL
4 1 (3.333%) ABAP
4 1 (3.333%) COBOL
4 1 (3.333%) Java
4 1 (3.333%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.333%) CIMA
1 1 (3.333%) SAP Certification
1 1 (3.333%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) SAP
2 1 (3.333%) Business Objects
2 1 (3.333%) Cisco
2 1 (3.333%) Microsoft