ABAP Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

SAP ABAP
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring ABAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 102 146
Rank change year-on-year -16 +44 +19
Contract jobs citing ABAP 2 26 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.11% 1.22% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 4.86% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 5
10th Percentile - £570 £410
25th Percentile £721 £580 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £741 £582 £530
Median % change year-on-year +27.26% +9.86% -9.56%
75th Percentile £762 £598 £534
90th Percentile - £599 -
South East median daily rate £525 £580 £513
% change year-on-year -9.48% +12.99% -12.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £79.12 -
South East median hourly rate - £50.62 -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 442 535 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 23.75% 25.16% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 348 431
10th Percentile £336 £381 £325
25th Percentile £406 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - -
75th Percentile £565 £638 £620
90th Percentile £613 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £490 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.39% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 11
10th Percentile £24.38 £34.80 £32.32
25th Percentile £32.81 £55.87 £40.36
Median hourly rate £47.25 £57.62 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -17.99% +19.04% -21.30%
75th Percentile £61.31 £66.89 £55.31
90th Percentile £69.53 £76.13 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -13.67%

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

ABAP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

ABAP
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ABAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ABAP

ABAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ABAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ABAP

ABAP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ABAP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
Berkshire -12 2 £741 +27.26% 12
ABAP
South East

ABAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP GRC
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP MDM Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) BAPI
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Smart Forms
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP