ABAP Contract Job Trends in the North West

SAP ABAP
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ABAP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 118 137
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 +34
Contract jobs citing ABAP 4 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.042% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 0.20% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £454 - £530
25th Percentile £457 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -16.67% -4.91%
75th Percentile £528 - £663
90th Percentile £556 - -
England median daily rate £525 £580 £527
% change year-on-year -9.40% +10.07% -12.25%

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 578 501 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.59% 21.14% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 334 551
10th Percentile £313 £350 £338
25th Percentile £363 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £500 £547 £593
90th Percentile £587 £625 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 33
10th Percentile £28.56 £37.55 £37.59
25th Percentile £65.75 £44.02 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +6.11% +3.36%
75th Percentile £84.50 £72.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £89.59 £62.50
England median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -14.62% +3.17% +10.80%

ABAP
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

ABAP
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ABAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ABAP

ABAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ABAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ABAP

ABAP
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 10 September 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
Cumbria - 2 £470 - 1
Cheshire - 1 £550 - 13
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 2 (50.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) SAP Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ABAP Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SAP HR Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) IDoc
2 2 (50.00%) BAPI
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) SAP PI
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) EDI
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) JMS
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Smart Forms
3 1 (25.00%) SAPUI5
3 1 (25.00%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) SAP