ABAP Contracts in the North West

SAP ABAP
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 88 130 146
Rank change year-on-year +42 +16 -
Contract jobs citing ABAP 32 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.63% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.96% 1.02% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 2
10th Percentile £453 - £537
25th Percentile £466 £506 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £595
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -13.87% -
75th Percentile £526 £519 £624
90th Percentile £540 - £634
England median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £86.00 - -
England median hourly rate £86.00 £70.00 £97.50
% change year-on-year +22.86% -28.21% +102.25%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 537 689 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.29% 25.01% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 516 700
10th Percentile £359 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £544 £594
90th Percentile £625 £613 £651
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 14
10th Percentile £55.75 £41.25 £20.46
25th Percentile £65.25 £44.72 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%
75th Percentile £86.00 £69.53 £51.93
90th Percentile £87.10 £80.15 £62.95
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for ABAP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for ABAP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for ABAP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for ABAP in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ABAP within the North West 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
Cheshire - 7 £550 -
Lancashire - 6 £535 -
Manchester +15 3 £540 +5.37%
Cumbria +1 1 - - 1
ABAP
England

ABAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (15.63%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 11 (34.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (18.75%) SAP CO
2 6 (18.75%) SAP FI
2 6 (18.75%) SAP FI/CO
2 6 (18.75%) SAP HR
2 6 (18.75%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Law
2 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (96.88%) Developer
2 25 (78.13%) SAP Developer
3 22 (68.75%) ABAP Developer
4 7 (21.88%) SAP HR Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Integration Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) BAPI
1 10 (31.25%) SAP Fiori
1 10 (31.25%) Web Services
2 9 (28.13%) SAPUI5
3 5 (15.63%) IDoc
3 5 (15.63%) Middleware
3 5 (15.63%) REST
3 5 (15.63%) SAP PI
3 5 (15.63%) SOAP
4 4 (12.50%) EDI
4 4 (12.50%) JDBC
4 4 (12.50%) JMS
4 4 (12.50%) XML
4 4 (12.50%) XSLT
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Smart Forms
5 1 (3.13%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) OO
2 9 (28.13%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (28.13%) Process Improvement
2 9 (28.13%) Time Management
3 6 (18.75%) Test Scripting
4 5 (15.63%) Agile
4 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.63%) Scrum
4 5 (15.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 4 (12.50%) SDLC
5 4 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (3.13%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (3.13%) Data Migration
6 1 (3.13%) Migration
6 1 (3.13%) OOP
6 1 (3.13%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (71.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (65.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) SAP
2 6 (18.75%) Google
2 6 (18.75%) Workday
3 1 (3.13%) Ariba