What Does a Senior SAP Integration Consultant Earn? Skills, Certifications & Market Demand
While enterprise business landscapes continue transforming due to the rising pace of business and company mergers, the integration layer is also required to adapt. Organizations are migrating from on-premises integration technologies such as SAP Process Integration (PI) and SAP Process Orchestration (PO), to cloud integration technologies. Within the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), SAP Integration Suite is one of the prevailing integration technologies.
Migrating to cloud technologies presents an opportunity for career advancement for SAP ABAP developers and consultants. Senior Integration Consultants for SAP Integration Suite command some of the highest rates in the market.
We have researched and developed a pricing framework, and identified the skills and certifications needed to accelerate your career in this area.
The need for cloud integration experts has outpaced the availability of skilled experts, hence, creative compensation by organizations. Organizations are also willing to pay top dollars to engage experts who can integrate various applications in a hybrid environment.
Global SAP CPI / Integration Consultant Compensation Bands
| Experience Level | Experience Years | US/North America (USD) | Europe (EUR) | UK (GBP) | India/Offshore (INR) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior/Associate | 0-3 | $85,000 - $110,000 | €50,000 - €65,000 | £45,000 - £60,000 | 6 - 10 LPA |
| Mid-Level Consultant | 4-7 | $115,000 - $145,000 | €70,000 - €90,000 | £65,000 - £85,000 | 12 - 20 LPA |
| Senior Consultant/Architect | 8+ | 150,000 - 190,000+ | €95,000 - €130,000+ | £90,000 - £120,000+ | 25 - 42 LPA+ |
Freelance / Independent Contractor Rates
Rates for contract SAP CPI consultants:
- US/North America: $90 - $165+ hourly
- W. Europe/UK: €85 - €140 / £80 - £130 hourly (£550 - £850 / day)
- Offshore/Cross-Border: $40 - $75 hourly
Reasons for Outperforming the Market
- Advanced Scripting and Custom Logic: Extensive experience using Groovy Scripting and XSLT in iFlows to perform complicated payload transformations.
- Customization of SAP Ariba CIG and Integration Suite Managed Gateways, and SAP Cloud Connector: Extensive experience configuring the above mentioned SAP products.
- End-to-End Greenfield Experience: Candidates who have architected and implemented enterprise-wide PI to CPI migrations.
It is expected that Senior Consultants would demonstrate advanced skills. Basic mapping would no longer suffice, and additional compensations would be related to architecture and adaptation.
1. Technical
iFlow design builds upon integration and orchestration to shape the architecture of more complex business process flows. Scripting languages such as Groovy or XSLT provide greater flexibility in routing and manipulating messages. Adapting to various protocols and standards help access and integrate a wide range of systems, including SAP and Cloud applications.
2. Architecture
Integrating a wide range of SAP applications and complementary services (Ariba, SuccessFactors, Fieldglass, CX, e.g.) requires understanding of core SAP services. Advanced skills in enterprise architecture include bridging SAP services to non-SAP ecosystems via OData/REST interfaces.
3. Operations
understanding various security protocols and services help enforce controls and secure message exchange.
- Automation of alert notifications via workflows.
- Control over log trace processing.
- Definition of message processing states.
- Configuration of error handling interaction framework templates.
There are certifications that propel careers and increase earnings. Clients and system integrators prefer consulting professionals with these certifications to meet requisite SAP Partner provisions.
The most prestigious certifications include:
1. SAP Certified - Integration Suite (C_CPI_15/C_CPI_14)
This certification is the most difficult of the SAP Integration Suite certifications and is regarded as the best in the industry. It is an assessment of the candidate's ability to design integrations using SAP integration suite, as well as manage and secure integrations in the SAP BTP.
2. SAP Certified – SAP BTP Foundation
This certification is a foundational certification and assesses the candidate's ability to manage an account and subaccount in the SAP BTP as well as configure runtime environments and bind services.
It is a good investment to obtain these certifications, and individuals holding them typically command an increased base salary (10-20% ) and are given priority for global architect roles.
Additionally, there is high industry demand for SAP CPI Integration Suite professionals, especially with the migration of thousands of global enterprises from on-premise SAP integration platforms to SAP Integration Suite. Further, as organizations utilize multiple platforms and cloud applications, there is increasing demand for integrating SAP platforms with other cloud applications.
Advanced SAP Consultants are combining AI with data mapping and SAP Event Mesh to integrate business processes. As a result, consultants are required to have a combination of skills with respect to synchronous and asynchronous integration.
Advanced skills with respect to SAP's integration suite and hands-on experience on large, complex integrations are increasingly becoming a differentiator when moving up the career ladder to senior integration roles. ERPVITS understands this requirement, and offers an extensive training program, aimed at accelerating the careers of aspiring integration consultants.
ERPVITS has various features that help differentiate it from its competitors.
The ability to access a SAP integration Flow Processing (CPI) tenant to build and test integration Flows, and debug them in a real time environment is probably the biggest differentiator.
Business integration use cases such as connecting the S/4HANA Finance module to Ariba, integration of SuccessFactors with S/4HANA, and/or integrating Salesforce with SAP via a custom REST API are some of the advanced use cases offered by ERPVITS.
Lastly, the trainers at ERPVITS are considered to be the best in the industry, as they have more than 15 years of experience in SAP implementations.
Does all of this sound too good to be true? Further, if you are interested in a senior integration role, enroll in SAP CPI Training and will learn various tactics to help you prepare for senior integration role interviews, and how to improve your resume and job prospects.