Abap-developer vs developer/consultant

The differences between abap-developers and developer/consultants can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 6-8 years to become an abap-developer, becoming a developer/consultant takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, an abap-developer has an average salary of $106,187, which is higher than the $98,508 average annual salary of a developer/consultant.

The top three skills for an abap-developer include BDC, MM and ALV. The most important skills for a developer/consultant are java, project management, and javascript.

Abap-developer vs developer/consultant overview

	Abap-Developer	Developer/Consultant
Yearly salary	$106,187	$98,508
Hourly rate	$51.05	$47.36
Growth rate	-7%	21%
Number of jobs	69,666	257,985
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 70%	Bachelor's Degree, 67%
Average age	47	39
Years of experience	8	4

Abap-developer vs developer/consultant salary

Abap-developers and developer/consultants have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Abap-Developer	Developer/Consultant
Average salary	$106,187	$98,508
Salary range	Between $80,000 And $140,000	Between $71,000 And $135,000
Highest paying City	San Francisco, CA	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Nevada	Massachusetts
Best paying company	Bloomberg	Microsoft
Best paying industry	Hospitality	Technology

Differences between abap-developer and developer/consultant education

There are a few differences between an abap-developer and a developer/consultant in terms of educational background:

	Abap-Developer	Developer/Consultant
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 70%	Bachelor's Degree, 67%
Most common major	Computer Science	Business
Most common college	-	Stanford University

Abap-developer vs developer/consultant demographics

Here are the differences between abap-developers' and developer/consultants' demographics:

	Abap-Developer	Developer/Consultant
Average age	47	39
Gender ratio	Male, 70.0% Female, 30.0%	Male, 58.5% Female, 41.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.1% Unknown, 4.4% Hispanic or Latino, 7.3% Asian, 25.6% White, 58.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 4.6% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.4% Asian, 29.8% White, 52.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	11%	8%

Differences between abap-developer and developer/consultant duties and responsibilities

Abap-developer example responsibilities.

Analyze and manage the project throughout SDLC, written/review specification documents.
Develop RFC enable function module to send material alternative UOM UPC codes information to CRM system.
Develop program to submit a BDC session to create and modify asset master data (transactions AS01/AS02).
Used debugging techniques to solve complex issues.
Perform step wise refinement when debugging programs.
Work on code optimize by using run time analysis and SQL trace.

Developer/consultant example responsibilities.

Manage SDLC development including analysis, writing technical documentation, design, coding, testing.
Lead the project, development and architecture of an innovative SharePoint contract warehouse, including designing several process improvements.
Interpret, develop, and enhance graphic, visual & interaction designs in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Work with other web technologies such as AJAX, jQuery, and PHP throughout this redesign.
Work with AJAX data consisting of JSON responses parsing the same and presenting on the UI layer.
Coordinate new test environment builds with CICS & DB2 support teams, streamline existing test environments by identifying and eliminating redundancies.

Abap-developer vs developer/consultant skills

Common abap-developer skills

BDC, 5%
MM, 4%
ALV, 4%
Function Modules, 3%
OData, 3%
Dialog, 3%

Common developer/consultant skills

Java, 8%
Project Management, 6%
JavaScript, 6%
HR, 6%
Microservices, 4%
JQuery, 4%