SAP Developer Contracts

SAP Developer
UK

The median SAP Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 548 721
Rank change year-on-year +41 +173 -149
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Developer 69 136 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.25% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 54 54
10th Percentile £338 £406 £425
25th Percentile £412 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £505
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -7.52% +1.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £611
90th Percentile £588 £621 £637
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £414 £475
% change year-on-year +20.89% -12.84% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £41.36
25th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £42.33
Median hourly rate £84.45 £75.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% +70.65% -12.10%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £50.81
90th Percentile - - £53.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £84.45 - £43.95

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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

SAP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP Developer in the UK

SAP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SAP Developer in the UK

SAP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Developer in the UK

SAP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP Developer in the UK

SAP Developer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +69 46 £501 +15.86% 12
Work from Home +58 36 £450 +8.70% 6
UK excluding London +32 31 £501 +20.89% 9
North of England +29 12 £501 - 1
London +91 11 £450 +3.51% 2
Midlands +26 9 £575 +12.41% 5
South East -5 9 £412 -0.48% 2
East Midlands +14 6 £575 +5.50% 4
Yorkshire - 5 £501 -
North West +14 4 £513 - 1
West Midlands +26 3 £563 +9.97% 1
North East - 3 £306 -
East of England +6 1 £409 +2.25% 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, SAP 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 SAP Developer in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) SAP
2 47 (68.12%) ABAP
3 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 15 (21.74%) Agile
5 14 (20.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (15.94%) SAPUI5
6 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
6 11 (15.94%) Data Modelling
7 10 (14.49%) Migration
7 10 (14.49%) Analytics
8 9 (13.04%) Java
9 8 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (11.59%) SAP BW
9 8 (11.59%) JIRA
9 8 (11.59%) SAP HANA
9 8 (11.59%) SAP Fiori
10 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (10.14%) Data Migration
10 7 (10.14%) OO
11 6 (8.70%) ERP
11 6 (8.70%) ETL
11 6 (8.70%) Workflow
11 6 (8.70%) Finance
11 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
11 6 (8.70%) Node.js
11 6 (8.70%) SDLC
11 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
12 5 (7.25%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 5 (7.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud

SAP 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 2 (2.90%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 14 (20.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (7.25%) SAP ERP
2 5 (7.25%) SAP FI
2 5 (7.25%) Teamcenter
3 4 (5.80%) SAP CO
3 4 (5.80%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (2.90%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (2.90%) SAP FI-AP
5 1 (1.45%) SAP CAR
5 1 (1.45%) SAP CRM
5 1 (1.45%) SAP HCM
5 1 (1.45%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (1.45%) SAP IBP
5 1 (1.45%) SAP MDG
5 1 (1.45%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.45%) SAP SCM
5 1 (1.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 4 (5.80%) SaaS
3 2 (2.90%) Azure
4 1 (1.45%) AWS
4 1 (1.45%) GCP
4 1 (1.45%) IaaS
4 1 (1.45%) Miro
4 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) SAP BW
1 8 (11.59%) SAP HANA
2 5 (7.25%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 4 (5.80%) Lumira
4 3 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (4.35%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 3 (4.35%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.45%) Power BI
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) JIRA
2 2 (2.90%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.45%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) LSMW
General
1 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Finance
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.90%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Danish Language
6 1 (1.45%) French Language
6 1 (1.45%) Law
6 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.45%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) SAPUI5
2 8 (11.59%) SAP Fiori
3 6 (8.70%) Node.js
4 4 (5.80%) CSS
4 4 (5.80%) HTML
4 4 (5.80%) HTML5
4 4 (5.80%) IDoc
4 4 (5.80%) React
5 3 (4.35%) BAPI
5 3 (4.35%) REST
5 3 (4.35%) SAP PI
5 3 (4.35%) Web Dynpro
6 2 (2.90%) EDI
6 2 (2.90%) RESTful
6 2 (2.90%) SAP ALE
6 2 (2.90%) SAP Smart Forms
6 2 (2.90%) Web Services
7 1 (1.45%) J2EE
7 1 (1.45%) SOAP
7 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.45%) Linux
1 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.74%) Agile
2 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.94%) Data Modelling
4 10 (14.49%) Analytics
4 10 (14.49%) Migration
5 8 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (10.14%) Data Migration
6 7 (10.14%) OO
7 6 (8.70%) ERP
7 6 (8.70%) ETL
7 6 (8.70%) SDLC
7 6 (8.70%) Workflow
8 5 (7.25%) PLM
9 4 (5.80%) Asset Management
9 4 (5.80%) Computer Science
9 4 (5.80%) Data Extraction
9 4 (5.80%) Data Management
9 4 (5.80%) PDM
9 4 (5.80%) Translating Business Requirements
10 3 (4.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 47 (68.12%) ABAP
2 9 (13.04%) Java
3 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.80%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.35%) SQL
6 2 (2.90%) Python
7 1 (1.45%) Bash
7 1 (1.45%) Go
7 1 (1.45%) Groovy
7 1 (1.45%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (1.45%) CAPM
4 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (100.00%) SAP
2 5 (7.25%) Adobe
2 5 (7.25%) Ariba
2 5 (7.25%) Siemens
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.90%) OpenText
4 2 (2.90%) Talend
5 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Workday