The first table below looks at the demand for the ABAP Programmer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ABAP Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP ABAP Programmer
Rank - 568 598
Contract jobs requiring an ABAP Programmer 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.004% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £450 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £450 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

ABAP Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ABAP Programmer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

ABAP Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

ABAP Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ABAP Programmer within the UK.

ABAP Programmer Daily Rate Trend

ABAP Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ABAP Programmer within the UK.

ABAP Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

ABAP Programmer
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited ABAP Programmer in their job title 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 with ABAP Programmer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ABAP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (100.00%) SAP HR
1 1 (100.00%) SAP XI
1 1 (100.00%) SAP PI

ABAP Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited ABAP Programmer in their job title 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 with ABAP Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) SAP XI
1 1 (100.00%) SAP PI
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP HR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SAP BW
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) ABAP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP