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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 37 49
Rank change year-on-year -32 +12 +41
Contract jobs citing ABAP 5 22 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.58% 2.99% 1.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.48% 10.95% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 13
10th Percentile £606 - £513
25th Percentile £666 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -13.04% -6.50%
75th Percentile £704 £553 £625
90th Percentile £711 £591 £702
England median daily rate £580 £540 £532
% change year-on-year +7.41% +1.50% -11.33%

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 202 201 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 23.33% 27.35% 25.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 138 156
10th Percentile £275 £309 £313
25th Percentile £361 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £464
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -8.40% +1.97%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £558
90th Percentile £596 £535 £650
England median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £20.41
25th Percentile - £21.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £13.84 £22.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.49% -57.55% +169.51%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £55.50
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.26%

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ABAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

ABAP job vacancy trend 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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -8 4 £700 +40.00%
Derbyshire - 1 £580 -
ABAP
England

ABAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (20.00%) SAP HCM
2 1 (20.00%) SAP HR
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Payroll
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SAP BW
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Integration Architect
1 4 (80.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) HR Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Payroll Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP HR Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP HR/Payroll Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Payroll Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) SAP PI
1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) BAPI
2 3 (60.00%) IDoc
3 2 (40.00%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (40.00%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (80.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) OOP
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SAP