{"id":33,"date":"2007-03-01T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T10:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=33"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:24:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:24:25","slug":"contract-rates-for-sap-abap-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Contract rates for SAP skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjobswatch.co.uk\/contracts\/uk\/abap.do\">interesting analysis of the UK ABAP contract market<\/a>. Surprisingly enough, it&#8217;s all available for free!<\/p>\n<p>As usual with stats, they have to be taken with a pinch of salt. However the graphs and figures make an interesting read nonetheless. The &#8220;Demand Trend&#8221; is slightly flawed, in my opinion, as the total demand is measured &#8220;<em>as a proportion of the total demand within the <strong>Programming Languages<\/strong> category<\/em>&#8220;. Which could mean that one could interpret this either way: a decreasing percentage could mean less demand as well as a growing overall market.<\/p>\n<p>For further reference, similar figures can also be found for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjobswatch.co.uk\/contracts\/uk\/sap.do\">UK SAP jobs<\/a> in general, or particular areas such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjobswatch.co.uk\/contracts\/uk\/sap%20sd.do\">SD<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjobswatch.co.uk\/contracts\/uk\/sap%20xi.do\">XI<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjobswatch.co.uk\/contracts\/uk\/sap%20fi.do\">FI<\/a>, etc &#8211; there are too many to mention &#8211; simply click on the links for each module\/area to get into the category in question.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone found similar stats &amp; graphs on SAP job markets for other countries or regions, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this very interesting analysis of the UK ABAP contract market. Surprisingly enough, it&#8217;s all available for free! As usual with stats, they have to be taken with a pinch of salt. However the graphs and figures make an interesting read nonetheless. The &#8220;Demand Trend&#8221; is slightly flawed, in my opinion, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}