ABAP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

SAP ABAP
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring ABAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 79 105
Rank change year-on-year -13 +26 +34
Contract jobs citing ABAP 15 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.94% 0.44% 0.058%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.83% 1.78% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £487 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% - -
75th Percentile £778 £684 -
90th Percentile £800 £690 -
England median daily rate £613 £540 £538
% change year-on-year +13.43% +0.47% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £63.70 -
England median hourly rate £91.25 £79.12 -
% change year-on-year +15.33% - -

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 392 281 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.53% 24.74% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 135 238
10th Percentile £303 £299 £300
25th Percentile £413 £340 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £613 £547 £560
90th Percentile £682 £600 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 107
10th Percentile £41.25 £49.50 £61.55
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.80% +6.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £84.36
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

ABAP job vacancy trend in the East of England

ABAP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

ABAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ABAP in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ABAP in the East of England

ABAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

ABAP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Hertfordshire - 8 £800 - 4
Cambridgeshire - 7 £490 -
ABAP
England

ABAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (53.33%) SAP HCM
2 7 (46.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 7 (46.67%) SAP FI
2 7 (46.67%) SAP MM
2 7 (46.67%) SAP Payroll
2 7 (46.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) SAP HANA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Consultant
2 14 (93.33%) SAP Consultant
3 7 (46.67%) SAP HCM Consultant
4 6 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 5 (33.33%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 4 (26.67%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (13.33%) Senior
7 2 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (13.33%) Senior Functional Consultant
7 2 (13.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 2 (13.33%) Senior SAP HCM Consultant
8 1 (6.67%) SAP Technical Consultant
8 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) SOAP
1 8 (53.33%) Web Services
2 7 (46.67%) XML
3 6 (40.00%) SAP Basis
3 6 (40.00%) SAP Business Workflow
3 6 (40.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Accounts Payable
1 7 (46.67%) Analytics
1 7 (46.67%) Business Continuity
1 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
1 7 (46.67%) Invoice Processing
1 7 (46.67%) ITSM
1 7 (46.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 7 (46.67%) OCR
1 7 (46.67%) Performance Improvement
1 7 (46.67%) Process Improvement
1 7 (46.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 7 (46.67%) Requirements Workshops
1 7 (46.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 7 (46.67%) Time Management
1 7 (46.67%) Workflow
1 7 (46.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 6 (40.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) SAP
2 7 (46.67%) OpenText
2 7 (46.67%) ServiceNow
3 5 (33.33%) Computacenter
4 1 (6.67%) Workday