Wiltshire ABAP Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for ABAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ABAP over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Wiltshire region.

SAP ABAP
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Chesterfield City of London Derbyshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West Prestwick Reading Scotland South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West Staines Surrey Swansea UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales Wiltshire Woking Worthing	3 months to 22 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	-	47	68
Matching contract IT job ads	0	12	1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire	-	1.685 %	0.088 %
As % of the Programming Languages category	-	6.742 %	0.369 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1	1
Average daily rate	-	£450	£488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£450	£475	£425
% change year-on-year	-5.260 % +11.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-	£57.50
All Programming Languages Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Programming Languages category	172	178	271
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire	28.76 %	25.00 %	23.75 %
Daily rates quoted	82	49	57
Average daily rate	£325	£325	£370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- -12.16 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£225	£225	£247
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£425	£453
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	24	53
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£30.75	£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+5.690 % -12.14 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£18.38	£16.00	£28.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£38.50	£45.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.00	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-5.000 % -14.28 %
ABAP South West

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.

ABAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ABAP across the Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

ABAP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ABAP across the Wiltshire region.