ABAP Contracts in the South West

SAP ABAP
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 141 151
Rank change year-on-year +32 +10 -
Contract jobs citing ABAP 1 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.052% 0.20% 0.030%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.24% 0.88% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £690 £678
Median % change year-on-year - +1.77% -
England median daily rate £525 £580 £538
% change year-on-year -9.40% +7.71% -3.93%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 421 682 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 22.08% 23.14% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 440 634
10th Percentile £317 £375 £363
25th Percentile £399 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £620
90th Percentile £649 £700 £702
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 102 86
10th Percentile £62.30 £61.25 £48.03
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.03
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for ABAP in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for ABAP in the South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (100.00%) SAP HANA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SAP BI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP