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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 122 131
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +54
Contract jobs citing ABAP 15 16 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.77% 0.59% 1.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.95% 2.56% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 19
10th Percentile £453 £500 £463
25th Percentile £456 £513 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +6.48% -
75th Percentile £621 £600 £556
90th Percentile £785 £650 £581
England median daily rate £538 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.43% +0.88% +14.00%
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 509 625 885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.02% 23.01% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 453 653
10th Percentile £276 £260 £313
25th Percentile £368 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £659
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 14
10th Percentile £16.31 £22.42 £19.74
25th Percentile £17.30 £27.38 £24.16
Median hourly rate £21.62 £51.78 £29.93
Median % change year-on-year -58.25% +72.99% -14.48%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £88.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +23.10%

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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 13 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 13 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 +27 14 £520 -20.00% 18
East Midlands 0 1 - - 10
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England

ABAP
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 (6.67%) NetWeaver
1 1 (6.67%) SAP EP
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP CRM
1 2 (13.33%) SAP ERP
1 2 (13.33%) SAP HR
1 2 (13.33%) SAP PSCD
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Postman
General
1 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) SAP Developer
3 5 (33.33%) ABAP Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Architect
3 5 (33.33%) SAP Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (60.00%) SAPUI5
3 5 (33.33%) CSS
3 5 (33.33%) CSS3
3 5 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (33.33%) HTML5
3 5 (33.33%) IDoc
3 5 (33.33%) jQuery
3 5 (33.33%) REST
3 5 (33.33%) SOAP
4 3 (20.00%) EDI
4 3 (20.00%) J2EE
4 3 (20.00%) JDBC
4 3 (20.00%) XSLT
5 2 (13.33%) BAPI
5 2 (13.33%) RESTful
5 2 (13.33%) SAP Smart Forms
5 2 (13.33%) Web Dynpro
5 2 (13.33%) Web Services
6 1 (6.67%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 7 (46.67%) Workflow
3 5 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (33.33%) MVC
3 5 (33.33%) User Experience
3 5 (33.33%) Validation
4 4 (26.67%) CRM
4 4 (26.67%) Project Management
5 3 (20.00%) API Management
5 3 (20.00%) B2B
5 3 (20.00%) BPMN
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) ERP
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Revenue Management
6 2 (13.33%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) COBOL
1 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) SAP Certification
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) SAP
2 4 (26.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba