The first table below looks at the demand for SAP Basis skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAP Basis 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 Application Development category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP Basis
Rank 236 234 224
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -10
Permanent jobs citing SAP Basis 12 17 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.168% 0.241% 0.248%
As % of the Application Development category 0.341% 0.490% 0.549%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 16
Average salary £57,500 £59,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.54% +57.33%
UK excluding London average salary £50,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.18% +22.22%
All Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3519 3468 3094
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 49.35% 49.18% 45.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3130 3136 2840
Average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SAP Basis
England

SAP Basis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SAP Basis across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West SAP Basis Jobs Demand Trend

SAP Basis
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SAP Basis across the North West region.

North West SAP Basis Salary Trend

SAP Basis
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Basis within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -15 9 £57,500 +64.28%
Lancashire - 3 £57,500 -
SAP Basis
England

SAP Basis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing SAP Basis 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SAP Basis.

1 20 (100.00%) SAP
2 15 (75.00%) DB2
3 14 (70.00%) AIX
4 13 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (65.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (65.00%) SAP XI
5 12 (60.00%) SAP BPC
6 5 (25.00%) NetWeaver
7 4 (20.00%) SAP IS-U
8 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
9 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
9 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
9 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
9 2 (10.00%) Database Tuning
9 2 (10.00%) Change Control
9 2 (10.00%) SAP HANA
9 2 (10.00%) SAP BW
9 2 (10.00%) Migration
9 2 (10.00%) Windows
9 2 (10.00%) Java
9 2 (10.00%) ABAP
9 2 (10.00%) Oracle
10 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
10 1 (5.000%) Sybase
10 1 (5.000%) J2EE
10 1 (5.000%) Business Objects
10 1 (5.000%) IIS
10 1 (5.000%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (5.000%) SAP Certification
10 1 (5.000%) Red Hat

SAP Basis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing SAP Basis also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SAP Basis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (65.00%) SAP XI
2 1 (5.000%) J2EE
2 1 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (5.000%) IIS
2 1 (5.000%) Apache
Business Applications
1 12 (60.00%) SAP BPC
2 4 (20.00%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (5.000%) SAP xMII
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) SAP BW
2 2 (10.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (5.000%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (5.000%) Finance
1 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
1 1 (5.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Consultant
2 15 (75.00%) SAP Consultant
3 14 (70.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 10 (50.00%) DB2 Consultant
5 4 (20.00%) Senior SAP Basis Consultant
5 4 (20.00%) Senior SAP Consultant
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Support Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Support
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Support Consultant
7 1 (5.000%) SAP Basis Support
7 1 (5.000%) SAP Technical Consultant
7 1 (5.000%) NetWeaver Consultant
7 1 (5.000%) Technical Support Consultant
7 1 (5.000%) Technical Support
7 1 (5.000%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.000%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) AIX
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.000%) Solaris
3 1 (5.000%) Linux
3 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.000%) SUSE
3 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (10.00%) Database Tuning
3 2 (10.00%) Change Control
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.000%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.000%) Logistics
4 1 (5.000%) Supply Chain Management
4 1 (5.000%) Project Management
4 1 (5.000%) CRM
4 1 (5.000%) ERP
4 1 (5.000%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.000%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
1 2 (10.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) SAP Certification
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.000%) Sybase
3 1 (5.000%) Business Objects
3 1 (5.000%) Red Hat