The first table below looks at the demand for SAP ERP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAP ERP over the 3 months to 17 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 for the West Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Rank - 85 72
Contract jobs citing SAP ERP 0 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.556% 0.178%
As % of the Business Applications category - 6.250% 2.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 1
Average daily rate - £351 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +75.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £485
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -17.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
113 144 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 8.905% 8.900% 7.761%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 37
Average daily rate £340 £425 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +4.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £175 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Average hourly rate £35.50 £56.00 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.60% +386.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+64.92% +14.60%
SAP ERP
Yorkshire

SAP ERP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAP ERP across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

West Yorkshire SAP ERP Jobs Demand Trend

SAP ERP
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire SAP ERP Daily Rate Trend

SAP ERP
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SAP 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 SAP ERP.

1 4 (100.00%) ERP
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (75.00%) VBA
2 3 (75.00%) Business Objects
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (75.00%) SAP BW
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) CRM

SAP ERP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SAP 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 SAP ERP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (75.00%) SAP BW
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Excel Developer
1 1 (25.00%) MI Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Change Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ERP
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (75.00%) Business Objects