ABAP Contracts in the Midlands

SAP ABAP
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring ABAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ABAP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 123 133
Rank change year-on-year +25 +10 +63
Contract jobs citing ABAP 13 10 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.36% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.73% 1.62% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 17
10th Percentile £453 £500 -
25th Percentile £456 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £645 £650 -
90th Percentile £813 £675 £579
England median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £93.25
25th Percentile - - £94.38
Median hourly rate - - £97.50
75th Percentile - - £99.38
90th Percentile - - £99.75
England median hourly rate £86.00 £70.00 £97.50
% change year-on-year +22.86% -28.21% +102.25%

All Programming Languages
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for ABAP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ABAP in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for ABAP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ABAP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ABAP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ABAP in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for ABAP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +22 13 £540 -16.92% 7
ABAP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) NetWeaver
1 1 (7.69%) SAP EP
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP ERP
2 1 (7.69%) SAP CRM
2 1 (7.69%) SAP HR
2 1 (7.69%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Postman
General
1 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) SAP Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Architect
3 5 (38.46%) SAP Architect
4 4 (30.77%) ABAP Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Developer
6 1 (7.69%) SAP Technical Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) SAP Fiori
1 8 (61.54%) SAPUI5
2 5 (38.46%) CSS
2 5 (38.46%) CSS3
2 5 (38.46%) HTML
2 5 (38.46%) HTML5
2 5 (38.46%) IDoc
2 5 (38.46%) jQuery
2 5 (38.46%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) SOAP
3 3 (23.08%) EDI
3 3 (23.08%) J2EE
3 3 (23.08%) JDBC
3 3 (23.08%) XSLT
4 2 (15.38%) BAPI
4 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) SAP Smart Forms
4 2 (15.38%) Web Services
5 1 (7.69%) SAP PI
5 1 (7.69%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 6 (46.15%) Workflow
3 5 (38.46%) Code Quality
3 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
3 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (38.46%) MVC
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
3 5 (38.46%) Validation
4 3 (23.08%) API Management
4 3 (23.08%) B2B
4 3 (23.08%) BPMN
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) ERP
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (23.08%) Requirements Workshops
5 2 (15.38%) CRM
5 2 (15.38%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) SAP Implementation
6 1 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) COBOL
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) SAP Certification
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (23.08%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Ariba