England SAP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services in IT jobs within the England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAP over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Billingham Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Coventry Crawley Crewe Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Wallington Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	34
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	9525	10118
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.660 %	4.345 %
As % of the category below	11.49 %	11.09 %
Salaries quoted	7570	7589
Average minimum salary	£49,460	£48,263
Average salary	£55,135	£54,332
% change on same period last year	+1.47 %
Average maximum salary	£60,810	£60,401
UK excluding London average salary	£55,303	£55,646
% change on same period last year	-0.61 %
Vendors England
Matching permanent IT job ads	82895	91267
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	40.55 %	39.19 %
Salaries quoted	67863	71073
Average minimum salary	£40,232	£41,876
Average salary	£43,871	£45,582
% change on same period last year	-3.75 %
Average maximum salary	£47,509	£49,289
UK excluding London average salary	£40,163	£41,409
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
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These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within SAP AG.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing SAP across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing SAP across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAP across the England region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	0	3297	£60,126	+6.23 %
2	South East	-5	2501	£54,421	-2.28 %
3	North West	+1	971	£51,714	+0.57 %
4	West Midlands	+10	837	£52,927	+10.19 %
5	East of England	+6	322	£47,866	+1.39 %
6	South West	-17	299	£41,509	-0.05 %
7	East Midlands	+7	281	£46,929	+8.73 %
8	Midlands	-1	275	£56,924	-0.38 %
9	Yorkshire	-18	176	£39,783	-4.34 %
10	North East	-4	91	£42,074	-13.73 %
11	South Coast	+2	12	£48,929	+8.73 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing SAP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SAP.

1 4000 (20.80 %) Finance 2 2441 (12.69 %) SAP FI 3 2426 (12.62 %) CRM 4 2400 (12.48 %) Business Intelligence 5 2319 (12.06 %) ERP 6 2295 (11.93 %) SAP CO 7 2284 (11.88 %) SAP FI/CO 8 2252 (11.71 %) Oracle 9 2160 (11.23 %) ABAP 10 2038 (10.60 %) SAP BW 11 1818 (9.453 %) Retail 12 1733 (9.011 %) SAP HR 13 1680 (8.736 %) Manufacturing 14 1647 (8.564 %) NetWeaver 15 1644 (8.549 %) Project Management

16 1195 (6.214 %) SAP Implementation 17 1164 (6.053 %) Degree 18 1114 (5.793 %) SAP BI 19 1098 (5.710 %) SAP SD 20 1036 (5.387 %) Microsoft 21 989 (5.143 %) Java 22 916 (4.763 %) Logistics 23 902 (4.690 %) SAP XI 24 886 (4.607 %) SQL Server 25 874 (4.545 %) SQL 26 862 (4.482 %) SAP CRM 27 830 (4.316 %) SAP R/3 28 800 (4.160 %) SAP Basis 29 791 (4.113 %) SAP MM 30 760 (3.952 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing SAP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 902 (4.690 %) SAP XI 2 800 (4.160 %) SAP Basis 3 664 (3.453 %) .NET 4 507 (2.636 %) J2EE 5 391 (2.033 %) XML 6 315 (1.638 %) WebSphere 7 286 (1.487 %) Web Dynpro 8 263 (1.368 %) SAP Smart Forms 9 217 (1.128 %) BAPI 10 216 (1.123 %) SAP ALE 11 189 (0.983 %) Middleware 12 168 (0.874 %) SAP Business Workflow 13 151 (0.785 %) HTML 14 149 (0.775 %) ASP 15 136 (0.707 %) WebServices 16 123 (0.640 %) SOAP 17 114 (0.593 %) EDI 18 109 (0.567 %) JSP 19 87 (0.452 %) ASP.NET 20 73 (0.380 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 1647 (8.564 %) NetWeaver 2 252 (1.310 %) SAS 3 205 (1.066 %) WebLogic 4 170 (0.884 %) MS Exchange 5 144 (0.749 %) IIS 6 142 (0.738 %) SharePoint 7 98 (0.510 %) BizTalk Server 8 93 (0.484 %) Lotus Notes 9 80 (0.416 %) SAP EP 10 73 (0.380 %) Documentum 11 58 (0.302 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 46 (0.239 %) CMS 13 38 (0.198 %) JBoss 14 35 (0.182 %) Oracle Workflow 15 34 (0.177 %) SAP Web AS 16 32 (0.166 %) Exchange Server 2003 17 30 (0.156 %) WebLogic Portal 18 28 (0.146 %) Tuxedo 19 27 (0.140 %) Exchange Server 2000 20 15 (0.078 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 610 (3.172 %) MS Excel 2 332 (1.726 %) MS Visio 3 312 (1.622 %) MS Office 4 142 (0.738 %) MS Project 5 62 (0.322 %) MS PowerPoint 6 18 (0.094 %) SPSS 7 15 (0.078 %) CA Clarity 8 7 (0.036 %) Photoshop 9 6 (0.031 %) QuarkXPress 10 5 (0.026 %) S-PLUS 11 2 (0.010 %) InDesign 11 2 (0.010 %) Pro/ENGINEER 12 1 (0.005 %) Fireworks 12 1 (0.005 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 2441 (12.69 %) SAP FI 2 2295 (11.93 %) SAP CO 3 2284 (11.88 %) SAP FI/CO 4 1733 (9.011 %) SAP HR 5 1098 (5.710 %) SAP SD 6 862 (4.482 %) SAP CRM 7 830 (4.316 %) SAP R/3 8 791 (4.113 %) SAP MM 9 720 (3.744 %) SAP Payroll 10 707 (3.676 %) SAP Oil and Gas 11 450 (2.340 %) SAP PP 12 344 (1.789 %) SAP ERP 13 309 (1.607 %) SAP Retail 14 298 (1.550 %) SAP SRM 15 275 (1.430 %) Dynamics AX 15 275 (1.430 %) Navision 16 270 (1.404 %) Axapta 17 234 (1.217 %) SAP APO 18 221 (1.149 %) SAP HCM 18 221 (1.149 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 269 (1.399 %) Internet 2 96 (0.499 %) LAN 3 90 (0.468 %) WAN 4 80 (0.416 %) SAN 5 74 (0.385 %) Intranet 6 69 (0.359 %) Firewall 7 60 (0.312 %) TCP/IP 8 45 (0.234 %) WINS 9 38 (0.198 %) VPN 10 35 (0.182 %) LDAP 11 20 (0.104 %) Wireless 12 18 (0.094 %) SMTP 12 18 (0.094 %) CTI 13 16 (0.083 %) HTTP 14 15 (0.078 %) RFID 15 12 (0.062 %) HTTPS 15 12 (0.062 %) VoIP 15 12 (0.062 %) Network Security 16 11 (0.057 %) BSS 17 10 (0.052 %) Intrusion Detection	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2038 (10.60 %) SAP BW 2 1114 (5.793 %) SAP BI 3 886 (4.607 %) SQL Server 4 465 (2.418 %) Datawarehouse 5 352 (1.830 %) BusinessObjects 6 183 (0.952 %) ETL 7 137 (0.712 %) SQL Server 2000 8 127 (0.660 %) SQL Server 2005 9 126 (0.655 %) DB2 10 124 (0.645 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 110 (0.572 %) Oracle 10g 12 98 (0.510 %) RDBMS 13 83 (0.432 %) Oracle OWB 14 79 (0.411 %) SQL Server 7 15 70 (0.364 %) Oracle Reports 16 67 (0.348 %) Oracle 9i 16 67 (0.348 %) Data Cleansing 17 57 (0.296 %) Crystal Reports 18 53 (0.276 %) OLAP 19 50 (0.260 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 129 (0.671 %) LSMW 2 77 (0.400 %) LoadRunner 3 76 (0.395 %) TestDirector 4 48 (0.250 %) QuickTest Pro 5 37 (0.192 %) Visual Studio 6 36 (0.187 %) eCATT 7 29 (0.151 %) Ant 8 20 (0.104 %) WinRunner 9 17 (0.088 %) Eclipse 10 15 (0.078 %) Oracle Forms 11 10 (0.052 %) ClearCase 11 10 (0.052 %) Log4j 12 9 (0.047 %) WebLogic Workshop 12 9 (0.047 %) ClearQuest 13 8 (0.042 %) JIRA 14 5 (0.026 %) PowerBuilder 14 5 (0.026 %) PeopleTools 15 4 (0.021 %) WebObjects 16 3 (0.016 %) Flash 17 2 (0.010 %) Rational Rose	General 1 4000 (20.80 %) Finance 2 1818 (9.453 %) Retail 3 1680 (8.736 %) Manufacturing 4 666 (3.463 %) Banking 5 641 (3.333 %) Pensions 6 620 (3.224 %) Pharmaceutical 7 423 (2.200 %) Health 8 366 (1.903 %) Marketing 9 354 (1.841 %) Government 10 327 (1.700 %) Insurance 11 303 (1.576 %) Telecoms 12 289 (1.503 %) Billing 13 163 (0.848 %) Education 14 101 (0.525 %) General Ledger 14 101 (0.525 %) Local Government 15 98 (0.510 %) Construction 15 98 (0.510 %) Legal 16 91 (0.473 %) Back Office 17 81 (0.421 %) Automotive 18 78 (0.406 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 9751 (50.70 %) Consultant 2 8400 (43.68 %) SAP Consultant 3 2657 (13.82 %) Analyst 4 1634 (8.497 %) Senior Consultant 5 1448 (7.530 %) Senior SAP Consultant 6 1391 (7.233 %) Architect 7 1379 (7.171 %) SAP Manager 8 1243 (6.464 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant 9 1177 (6.120 %) Project Manager 10 918 (4.774 %) SAP HR Consultant 11 903 (4.696 %) Business Analyst 12 902 (4.690 %) Developer 13 878 (4.566 %) SAP BW Consultant 14 848 (4.410 %) SAP Support 15 749 (3.895 %) SAP FI Consultant 16 720 (3.744 %) SAP CO Consultant 17 704 (3.661 %) SAP Architect 18 677 (3.520 %) SAP SD Consultant 19 626 (3.255 %) SAP MM Consultant 20 624 (3.245 %) Solutions Architect	Miscellaneous 1 196 (1.019 %) German Language 2 192 (0.998 %) French Language 3 168 (0.874 %) Asset Management 4 125 (0.650 %) Management Information System 5 91 (0.473 %) Mainframe 6 89 (0.463 %) Data Conversion 7 79 (0.411 %) AS400 8 74 (0.385 %) Client/Server 8 74 (0.385 %) Dutch Language 9 69 (0.359 %) E-Learning 10 67 (0.348 %) N-Tier 11 64 (0.333 %) Data Extraction 12 62 (0.322 %) Data Integration 13 58 (0.302 %) Life Science 14 57 (0.296 %) Portuguese Language 15 56 (0.291 %) Italian Language 16 54 (0.281 %) PMI 17 51 (0.265 %) Spanish Language 18 44 (0.229 %) Mathematics 19 37 (0.192 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 760 (3.952 %) Windows 2 580 (3.016 %) Unix 3 158 (0.822 %) AIX 4 139 (0.723 %) Solaris 5 125 (0.650 %) Windows 2000 6 116 (0.603 %) Linux 7 83 (0.432 %) Windows NT 8 81 (0.421 %) Windows XP 9 75 (0.390 %) HPUX 9 75 (0.390 %) Windows Server 2003 10 34 (0.177 %) VMS 11 28 (0.146 %) MVS 12 7 (0.036 %) Tru64 13 4 (0.021 %) Windows Mobile 14 3 (0.016 %) SUSE 14 3 (0.016 %) NetWare 15 2 (0.010 %) OpenVMS 16 1 (0.005 %) Mac OS X 16 1 (0.005 %) OS/390 16 1 (0.005 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 2426 (12.62 %) CRM 2 2400 (12.48 %) Business Intelligence 3 2319 (12.06 %) ERP 4 1644 (8.549 %) Project Management 5 1195 (6.214 %) SAP Implementation 6 916 (4.763 %) Logistics 7 680 (3.536 %) Workflow 8 576 (2.995 %) Business Analysis 9 554 (2.881 %) Business Development 10 510 (2.652 %) Migration 11 496 (2.579 %) PRINCE2 12 462 (2.402 %) Change Management 13 410 (2.132 %) SOA 14 386 (2.007 %) Data Management 15 384 (1.997 %) ITIL 16 320 (1.664 %) Service Delivery 17 273 (1.420 %) Data Migration 18 255 (1.326 %) Time Management 19 253 (1.316 %) Programme Management 20 244 (1.269 %) EAI
Programming Languages 1 2160 (11.23 %) ABAP 2 989 (5.143 %) Java 3 874 (4.545 %) SQL 4 295 (1.534 %) SAPscript 5 223 (1.160 %) C# 6 167 (0.868 %) VB 7 164 (0.853 %) C 8 136 (0.707 %) JavaScript 9 96 (0.499 %) PL/SQL 10 83 (0.432 %) C++ 11 78 (0.406 %) Transact-SQL 12 62 (0.322 %) Perl 13 56 (0.291 %) Shell Script 14 40 (0.208 %) VBA 15 37 (0.192 %) Korn 16 34 (0.177 %) RPG 17 33 (0.172 %) VB.NET 18 23 (0.120 %) Delphi 19 20 (0.104 %) PHP 20 15 (0.078 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 1164 (6.053 %) Degree 2 240 (1.248 %) SAP Certification 3 202 (1.050 %) ACCA 4 186 (0.967 %) CIMA 5 154 (0.801 %) Microsoft Certification 6 139 (0.723 %) Citrix Certification 7 128 (0.666 %) ISEB 8 93 (0.484 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 87 (0.452 %) PMI Certification 10 86 (0.447 %) PMP 11 72 (0.374 %) MCSD 12 71 (0.369 %) CISA 13 47 (0.244 %) ITIL Certification 14 43 (0.224 %) MCSE 15 36 (0.187 %) QiCA 16 35 (0.182 %) CIPD 17 32 (0.166 %) MCP 18 30 (0.156 %) CISSP 19 29 (0.151 %) Cisco Certification 20 25 (0.130 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 228 (1.186 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 223 (1.160 %) SLA 3 219 (1.139 %) QA 4 37 (0.192 %) Basel II 5 33 (0.172 %) GxP 5 33 (0.172 %) COBIT 6 28 (0.146 %) MiFID 7 23 (0.120 %) ISO9001 8 10 (0.052 %) WAI 9 9 (0.047 %) GAAP 10 8 (0.042 %) ISO27001 10 8 (0.042 %) BS7799 11 3 (0.016 %) BS15000 12 2 (0.010 %) RosettaNet 12 2 (0.010 %) ISO17799 12 2 (0.010 %) PCI DSS 13 1 (0.005 %) GMP	System Software 1 215 (1.118 %) Active Directory 2 78 (0.406 %) AquaLogic 3 39 (0.203 %) NetBackup 4 27 (0.140 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 5 22 (0.114 %) Backup Exec 6 6 (0.031 %) Oracle RMAN 7 2 (0.010 %) ISA Server 7 2 (0.010 %) Cronacle 8 1 (0.005 %) Oracle RAC 8 1 (0.005 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 1 (0.005 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 55 (0.286 %) Tivoli 2 27 (0.140 %) BMC PATROL 2 27 (0.140 %) CONTROL-M 3 21 (0.109 %) Foglight 3 21 (0.109 %) OMEGAMON 4 14 (0.073 %) MOM 5 9 (0.047 %) EMC NetWorker 6 8 (0.042 %) Legato 7 7 (0.036 %) CA SiteMinder 8 5 (0.026 %) OpenView Configuration Management 9 4 (0.021 %) ARCserve 9 4 (0.021 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 3 (0.016 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 3 (0.016 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 3 (0.016 %) CiscoWorks 10 3 (0.016 %) ZENworks 11 2 (0.010 %) Norton AntiVirus 11 2 (0.010 %) DameWare 11 2 (0.010 %) OpenView 11 2 (0.010 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 2252 (11.71 %) Oracle 2 1036 (5.387 %) Microsoft 3 648 (3.370 %) Siebel 4 502 (2.610 %) PeopleSoft 5 462 (2.402 %) JD Edwards 6 352 (1.830 %) Business Objects 7 336 (1.747 %) Cognos 8 322 (1.674 %) Sage 9 256 (1.331 %) Baan 10 250 (1.300 %) IBM 11 163 (0.848 %) Teradata 12 140 (0.728 %) Informatica 13 135 (0.702 %) webMethods 14 126 (0.655 %) HP 15 125 (0.650 %) Sun 16 123 (0.640 %) Hyperion 17 121 (0.629 %) Manugistics 18 98 (0.510 %) Lotus 19 93 (0.484 %) Ascential 19 93 (0.484 %) Citrix