The first table below looks at the demand for NWDS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NWDS 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 Development Applications category for the West Midlands 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
SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio (NWDS)
Rank - 103 -
Contract jobs citing NWDS 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - 0.089% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.995% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £400 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
133 201 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 8.155% 8.937% 6.332%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 105 69
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £362
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 7
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +20.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
NWDS
England

NWDS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NWDS across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

West Midlands NWDS Jobs Demand Trend

NWDS
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands NWDS Daily Rate Trend

NWDS
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing NWDS 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 NWDS.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
1 3 (100.00%) SAP EP
1 3 (100.00%) UML
1 3 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (100.00%) SAP Portal
1 3 (100.00%) NWDI
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) JSF
3 1 (33.33%) JTA
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) JSTL
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE 5
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) EJB 3.0
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) NetWeaver
3 1 (33.33%) JMX

NWDS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing NWDS 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 NWDS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) EJB
2 1 (33.33%) Servlets
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) JSF
2 1 (33.33%) JTA
2 1 (33.33%) Java EE
2 1 (33.33%) JSTL
2 1 (33.33%) Java EE 5
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (33.33%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SAP EP
1 3 (100.00%) SAP Portal
2 1 (33.33%) NetWeaver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) NWDI
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Portals Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Java Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) UML
1 3 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) C
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SAP