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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 65 42
Rank change year-on-year -18 -23 +13
Contract jobs citing ABAP 3 6 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.22% 0.73% 2.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 2.75% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile £530 £606 -
25th Percentile £538 £666 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +40.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £704 £553
90th Percentile - £711 £591
England median daily rate £550 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.61% +9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £86.00 - -
England median hourly rate £83.25 £96.50 £43.70
% change year-on-year -13.73% +120.82% -

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 199 218 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.77% 26.62% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 178 145
10th Percentile £302 £270 £310
25th Percentile £394 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £544 £475 £500
90th Percentile £591 £554 £550
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.31 -
25th Percentile £19.84 £15.01 £21.25
Median hourly rate £36.60 £16.42 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +122.88% -27.02% -57.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £18.09 £23.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £18.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -

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
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

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 26 September 2026. 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
Derbyshire -5 1 £550 -5.17% 1
Lincolnshire -16 1 - - 1
Leicestershire - 1 £575 -
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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (33.33%) SAP HCM
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Payroll
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Migration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Reconciliation
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Quality Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft