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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 562 671
Rank change year-on-year +69 +109 +144
Contract jobs citing BAPI 25 20 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.047% 0.055%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 18
10th Percentile £452 £408 £489
25th Percentile £459 £436 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £583
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -18.49% +7.92%
75th Percentile - £634 £636
90th Percentile £563 £637 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £623 £540
% change year-on-year -19.68% +15.28% +8.00%
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 6,673 8,920 13,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.65% 20.74% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,582 6,180 9,816
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 244 155
10th Percentile £29.55 £21.25 £30.30
25th Percentile £50.27 £43.00 £50.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.85 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +25.24%

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 11 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 11 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 +84 19 £500 +5.26% 84
Work from Home +55 18 £500 +8.11% 81
UK excluding London +61 13 £500 -19.68% 84
North of England +24 10 £500 -19.68% 17
North West +21 10 £500 -19.68% 8
London +33 6 £388 -11.43% 11
Midlands +23 3 £500 +5.26% 17
West Midlands +21 2 £500 +5.26% 10
East Midlands - 1 - - 6

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 10 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.00%) SAP ERP
3 1 (4.00%) SAP CO
3 1 (4.00%) SAP FI
3 1 (4.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (4.00%) SAP GTS
3 1 (4.00%) SAP MDG
3 1 (4.00%) SAP MM
3 1 (4.00%) SAP PM
3 1 (4.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
1 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (60.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (4.00%) SAP BW
2 1 (4.00%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) LSMW
1 2 (8.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Aviation
3 1 (4.00%) Billing
3 1 (4.00%) Law
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) ABAP Developer
1 19 (76.00%) Developer
2 18 (72.00%) SAP Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Lead
4 1 (4.00%) P2P Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) SAP CO Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Data Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) SAP FI Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) SAP FI Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) SAP FI/CO Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) SAP HR Developer
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Migration Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) SAP P2P Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (60.00%) Web Services
2 5 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) IDoc
4 3 (12.00%) SAP Smart Forms
4 3 (12.00%) SOAP
5 2 (8.00%) RESTful
5 2 (8.00%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (4.00%) EDI
6 1 (4.00%) JSON
6 1 (4.00%) OAuth
6 1 (4.00%) OpenID
6 1 (4.00%) SAML
6 1 (4.00%) SAP ALE
6 1 (4.00%) Web Dynpro
6 1 (4.00%) XML
6 1 (4.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) OO
2 11 (44.00%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (44.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (12.00%) ERP
3 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (8.00%) Data Mapping
4 2 (8.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (8.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (8.00%) Migration
4 2 (8.00%) SAP Implementation
4 2 (8.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.00%) Validation
5 1 (4.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (4.00%) Data Conversion
5 1 (4.00%) Data Extraction
5 1 (4.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (4.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) ABAP
2 2 (8.00%) COBOL
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.00%) SAP Certification
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Adobe
2 2 (8.00%) Ariba
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow