BAPI Contracts

SAP Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 561 686
Rank change year-on-year +67 +125 +146
Contract jobs citing BAPI 26 21 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.048% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.23% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 17
10th Percentile £452 £408 £524
25th Percentile £459 £436 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile - £634 £638
90th Percentile £563 £637 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £623 £540
% change year-on-year -19.68% +15.28% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.75 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

BAPI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BAPI in the UK

BAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BAPI in the UK

BAPI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BAPI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BAPI in the UK

BAPI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BAPI in the UK

BAPI
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +61 20 £500 +5.26% 10
Work from Home +50 19 £500 +8.11% 4
UK excluding London +70 13 £500 -19.68% 9
North of England +26 10 £500 -19.68% 1
North West +24 10 £500 -19.68% 1
London +37 7 £388 -11.43% 2
Midlands +24 3 £500 +5.26%
West Midlands +15 2 £500 +5.26%
East Midlands - 1 - -

BAPI
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:

Business Applications
1 11 (42.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.69%) SAP ERP
3 1 (3.85%) SAP CO
3 1 (3.85%) SAP FI
3 1 (3.85%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (3.85%) SAP GTS
3 1 (3.85%) SAP MDG
3 1 (3.85%) SAP MM
3 1 (3.85%) SAP PM
3 1 (3.85%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Hub
2 1 (3.85%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.85%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) LSMW
1 2 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Aviation
3 1 (3.85%) Billing
3 1 (3.85%) Law
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) ABAP Developer
1 19 (73.08%) Developer
2 18 (69.23%) SAP Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Integration Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Architect
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) SAP MM Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) SAP SD Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) SAP WM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (57.69%) Web Services
2 5 (19.23%) REST
3 4 (15.38%) IDoc
4 3 (11.54%) SAP Smart Forms
4 3 (11.54%) SOAP
5 2 (7.69%) RESTful
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (3.85%) EDI
6 1 (3.85%) JSON
6 1 (3.85%) OAuth
6 1 (3.85%) OpenID
6 1 (3.85%) SAML
6 1 (3.85%) SAP ALE
6 1 (3.85%) Web Dynpro
6 1 (3.85%) XML
6 1 (3.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) OO
2 11 (42.31%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (42.31%) Process Improvement
3 4 (15.38%) ERP
4 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 2 (7.69%) Data Mapping
5 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (7.69%) Integration Testing
5 2 (7.69%) Migration
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Implementation
5 2 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (7.69%) Validation
6 1 (3.85%) Agile
6 1 (3.85%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.85%) Data Management
6 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.85%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) ABAP
2 2 (7.69%) COBOL
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (11.54%) SAP Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 25 (96.15%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Adobe
2 2 (7.69%) Ariba
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow