ABAP Contract Job Trends in the South West

SAP ABAP
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring ABAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ABAP 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.095% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - -
75th Percentile £838 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £607 £535 £538
% change year-on-year +13.38% -0.42% -11.01%

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 761 476 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 23.99% 27.74% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 325 419
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.48%
75th Percentile £581 £620 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 46 79
10th Percentile £57.34 £61.25 £40.00
25th Percentile £64.74 £65.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -3.49%

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ABAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

ABAP job vacancy trend in the South West

ABAP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

ABAP
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Devon - 2 £825 -
Wiltshire - 1 - - 1
ABAP
England

ABAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Manager
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) ABAP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) BAPI
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Smart Forms
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Production Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) PMI Certification
1 2 (66.67%) PMP
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Certification
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) JD Edwards