ABAP Developer Contracts

SAP ABAP Developer
UK

The median SAP ABAP Developer daily rate in the UK is £414 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 642 820
Rank change year-on-year +103 +178 -164
Contract jobs requiring an ABAP Developer 43 70 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.12% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.12% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 10
10th Percentile £315 - £396
25th Percentile £406 £414 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £434 £466
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -7.02% +3.61%
75th Percentile £469 £574 £495
90th Percentile £519 £668 £504
UK excluding London median daily rate £412 £414 £405
% change year-on-year -0.48% +2.22% -10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

ABAP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured ABAP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ABAP Developer in the UK

ABAP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ABAP Developer.

Daily rate trend for ABAP Developer in the UK

ABAP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ABAP Developer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ABAP Developer in the UK

ABAP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ABAP Developer.

Hourly rate trend for ABAP Developer in the UK

ABAP Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ABAP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
England +106 28 £414 -4.17% 1
Work from Home +98 28 £412 -4.30% 2
UK excluding London +47 20 £412 -0.48%
South East +12 13 £412 -0.48%
North of England +38 7 £513 -6.82%
London +96 5 £450 -14.29% 1
North West +14 4 £513 -6.82%
North East - 3 £306 -

ABAP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, ABAP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring ABAP Developer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) ABAP
2 37 (86.05%) SAP
3 16 (37.21%) Adobe
4 14 (32.56%) Migration
4 14 (32.56%) Web Dynpro
4 14 (32.56%) Agile
4 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
5 13 (30.23%) Data Migration
6 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (23.26%) Process Improvement
7 10 (23.26%) Test Strategy
8 9 (20.93%) OO
9 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
10 7 (16.28%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (11.63%) REST
11 5 (11.63%) Teamcenter
11 5 (11.63%) Siemens
11 5 (11.63%) PLM
12 4 (9.30%) PDM
12 4 (9.30%) Data Management
12 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
12 4 (9.30%) SAP Fiori
12 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
13 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (6.98%) Confluence
13 3 (6.98%) Waterfall
13 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
13 3 (6.98%) Data Extraction
13 3 (6.98%) Italian Language
13 3 (6.98%) JIRA

ABAP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (6.98%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (16.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (11.63%) Teamcenter
3 1 (2.33%) SAP CAR
3 1 (2.33%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (2.33%) SAP CRM
3 1 (2.33%) SAP FI
3 1 (2.33%) SAP SD
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.98%) Italian Language
4 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Law
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) Web Dynpro
2 5 (11.63%) REST
3 4 (9.30%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (4.65%) BAPI
4 2 (4.65%) IDoc
4 2 (4.65%) RESTful
4 2 (4.65%) SAP Smart Forms
5 1 (2.33%) Middleware
5 1 (2.33%) SAP BSP
5 1 (2.33%) SAPUI5
5 1 (2.33%) SOAP
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Agile
1 14 (32.56%) Migration
2 13 (30.23%) Data Migration
3 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (23.26%) Process Improvement
4 10 (23.26%) Test Strategy
5 9 (20.93%) OO
6 5 (11.63%) PLM
7 4 (9.30%) Data Management
7 4 (9.30%) PDM
8 3 (6.98%) Data Extraction
8 3 (6.98%) Data Modelling
8 3 (6.98%) Waterfall
9 2 (4.65%) CRM
9 2 (4.65%) ETL
9 2 (4.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 1 (2.33%) CRUD
10 1 (2.33%) Performance Tuning
10 1 (2.33%) SAP Security
10 1 (2.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 37 (86.05%) SAP
2 16 (37.21%) Adobe
3 5 (11.63%) Siemens
4 2 (4.65%) Ariba
4 2 (4.65%) Talend
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow