ABAP Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

SAP ABAP
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring ABAP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 48 57
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 +27
Contract jobs citing ABAP 6 22 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.76% 2.81% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.83% 10.53% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 10
10th Percentile £606 - £513
25th Percentile £666 - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -12.28% -3.14%
75th Percentile £704 £553 £588
90th Percentile £711 £591 £629
England median daily rate £537 £575 £527
% change year-on-year -6.61% +9.21% -12.25%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

ABAP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 212 209 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.01% 26.66% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 147 172
10th Percentile £270 £310 £313
25th Percentile £358 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £445 £474
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -6.07% -0.26%
75th Percentile £475 £508 £541
90th Percentile £545 £588 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -57.55% +57.04%
75th Percentile £19.50 £23.75 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year -14.62% +0.78% +12.80%

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing ABAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for ABAP in the East Midlands

ABAP
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ABAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ABAP

ABAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ABAP in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ABAP in the East Midlands

ABAP
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ABAP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire -11 4 £700 +40.00% 2
Derbyshire - 1 £580 -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
ABAP
England

ABAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (16.67%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (16.67%) SAP CRM
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HCM
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HR
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Payroll
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SAP BW
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Architect
1 4 (66.67%) SAP Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) HR Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Payroll Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP HR Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP HR/Payroll Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Payroll Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) SAP PI
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) BAPI
2 3 (50.00%) IDoc
2 3 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (33.33%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) OOP
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) SAP