BAPI Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAP Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BAPI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BAPI over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 349 409
Rank change year-on-year -8 +60 +105
Contract jobs citing BAPI 10 26 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.14% 0.064%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.36% 0.84% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 11
10th Percentile £466 £530 £350
25th Percentile £550 £573 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £582 £513
Median % change year-on-year +15.98% +13.41% -4.97%
75th Percentile £700 £596 £557
90th Percentile £708 £621 £638
UK median daily rate £583 £580 £557
% change year-on-year +0.43% +4.17% +3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

BAPI falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,785 3,094 3,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.16% 16.90% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 1,992 2,811
10th Percentile £313 £325 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 209 103
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.85 £37.59
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.91 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +0.54% -2.35%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.09 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £54.44 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -1.02% -8.33% +2.32%

BAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BAPI in the UK excluding London

BAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BAPI in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BAPI in the UK excluding London

BAPI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BAPI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BAPI in the UK excluding London

BAPI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BAPI in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BAPI in the UK excluding London

BAPI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BAPI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Midlands -9 4 £700 +47.37% 2
East Midlands - 4 £700 -
South East +3 3 - - 2
North of England - 2 £600 -
Scotland - 1 £413 -
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 £550 -
BAPI
UK

BAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (90.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (40.00%) SAP MM
3 1 (10.00%) SAP MRS
3 1 (10.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
1 3 (30.00%) Integration Architect
1 3 (30.00%) SAP Architect
1 3 (30.00%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) ABAP Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) SAP MM Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) SAP WM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) ABAP Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP HR Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP PM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (40.00%) SAP ALE
2 4 (40.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) SAP PI
4 2 (20.00%) IDoc
5 1 (10.00%) JSON
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) SAP Smart Forms
5 1 (10.00%) SAP XI
5 1 (10.00%) Web Dynpro
5 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
5 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (20.00%) OO
3 2 (20.00%) OOP
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) API Development
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (10.00%) EAM
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) SOA
4 1 (10.00%) SOLID
4 1 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) ABAP
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) SAP