ABAP Contract Job Trends in Leeds

SAP ABAP
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring ABAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ABAP 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.46% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £543 -
% change year-on-year +1.38% - -

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 301 221 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 27.77% 35.82% 36.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 131 197
10th Percentile £368 £363 £353
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £645
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.75 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +146.36%
75th Percentile £19.25 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - +52.51%

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

ABAP job vacancy trend in Leeds

ABAP
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ABAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ABAP

ABAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (20.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (20.00%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Hudson
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) SAP Architect
1 4 (80.00%) SAP Technical Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) ABAP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) SAP Fiori
1 5 (100.00%) SAPUI5
2 4 (80.00%) SAP Basis
3 3 (60.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) SAP PI
3 3 (60.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CRM
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) SAP Security
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SAP