Berkshire ABAP Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for SAP ABAP skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ABAP over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAP ABAP
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Deeside Doncaster Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edgware Edinburgh England Essex Fife Flintshire Glasgow Glenrothes Goole Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Street Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	183	236
Rank change on same period last year	+53
Matching permanent IT job ads	47	42
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	1.362 %	0.817 %
Salaries quoted	44	32
Average minimum salary	£45,841	£48,813
Average salary	£49,125	£50,938
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
Average maximum salary	£52,409	£53,063
UK excluding London average salary	£49,541	£50,606
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Programming Languages Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3451	5143
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.336 %	2.337 %
Salaries quoted	2952	4322
Average minimum salary	£36,721	£36,371
Average salary	£40,200	£40,177
% change on same period last year	+0.05 %
Average maximum salary	£43,679	£43,984
UK excluding London average salary	£35,738	£35,968
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
ABAP South East

ABAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing ABAP across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

ABAP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ABAP across the Berkshire region.

ABAP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ABAP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

ABAP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ABAP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+18	20	£47,842	-5.99 %
Slough	+2	4	£50,000	-
Maidenhead	-	2	£52,500	-

ABAP South East

ABAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing ABAP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited ABAP.

1 156 (100.00 %) SAP 2 65 (41.67 %) Java 3 46 (29.49 %) SAP BW 4 40 (25.64 %) Workflow 5 36 (23.08 %) Business Intelligence 6 35 (22.44 %) NetWeaver 6 35 (22.44 %) SAP HR 7 34 (21.79 %) SAP BI 8 33 (21.15 %) SAP R/3 9 31 (19.87 %) Time Management 10 23 (14.74 %) HTML 11 22 (14.10 %) LSMW 11 22 (14.10 %) Web Dynpro 12 21 (13.46 %) GAP Analysis 13 18 (11.54 %) Oracle

14 16 (10.26 %) Data Modelling 15 15 (9.615 %) C 15 15 (9.615 %) SAP ALE 15 15 (9.615 %) BAPI 16 14 (8.974 %) Manufacturing 16 14 (8.974 %) FMCG 17 13 (8.333 %) SAP FI 17 13 (8.333 %) SAP SD 18 12 (7.692 %) SAPscript 18 12 (7.692 %) Automotive 19 11 (7.051 %) SAP CO 19 11 (7.051 %) SAP FI/CO 19 11 (7.051 %) Finance 20 10 (6.410 %) Datawarehouse 20 10 (6.410 %) SAP Basis

ABAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing ABAP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited ABAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 23 (14.74 %) HTML 2 22 (14.10 %) Web Dynpro 3 15 (9.615 %) BAPI 3 15 (9.615 %) SAP ALE 4 10 (6.410 %) SAP Basis 5 6 (3.846 %) SAP Smart Forms 5 6 (3.846 %) EDI 6 4 (2.564 %) XML 7 3 (1.923 %) .NET 8 2 (1.282 %) J2EE 9 1 (0.641 %) JSP 9 1 (0.641 %) Servlets 9 1 (0.641 %) SAP Business Workflow	Application Platforms 1 35 (22.44 %) NetWeaver 2 8 (5.128 %) Tomcat 3 1 (0.641 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 1 (0.641 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 35 (22.44 %) SAP HR 2 33 (21.15 %) SAP R/3 3 13 (8.333 %) SAP FI 3 13 (8.333 %) SAP SD 4 11 (7.051 %) SAP FI/CO 4 11 (7.051 %) SAP CO 5 8 (5.128 %) SAP WM 5 8 (5.128 %) SAP MM 6 3 (1.923 %) SAP CRM 6 3 (1.923 %) SAP QM 6 3 (1.923 %) SAP Oil and Gas 7 2 (1.282 %) SAP PP
Communications & Networking 1 4 (2.564 %) VPN 2 2 (1.282 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (29.49 %) SAP BW 2 34 (21.79 %) SAP BI 3 10 (6.410 %) Datawarehouse 4 7 (4.487 %) Data Cleansing 5 2 (1.282 %) ETL 5 2 (1.282 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (1.282 %) SQL Server 5 2 (1.282 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (1.282 %) Oracle OWB 5 2 (1.282 %) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications 1 22 (14.10 %) LSMW 2 6 (3.846 %) eCATT	General 1 14 (8.974 %) Manufacturing 1 14 (8.974 %) FMCG 2 12 (7.692 %) Automotive 3 11 (7.051 %) Finance 4 9 (5.769 %) Government 5 6 (3.846 %) Banking 6 5 (3.205 %) Electronics 6 5 (3.205 %) Pensions 7 3 (1.923 %) Insurance 8 2 (1.282 %) Billing 8 2 (1.282 %) Health 9 1 (0.641 %) Pharmaceutical 9 1 (0.641 %) Education
Job Titles 1 56 (35.90 %) Consultant 2 53 (33.97 %) SAP Consultant 3 52 (33.33 %) Analyst 4 48 (30.77 %) SAP Analyst 5 20 (12.82 %) SAP BW Consultant 6 17 (10.90 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 6 17 (10.90 %) SAP BI Consultant 7 13 (8.333 %) SAP HR Consultant 8 12 (7.692 %) Business Analyst 8 12 (7.692 %) SAP Business Analyst 9 10 (6.410 %) SAP Team Leader 9 10 (6.410 %) Team Leader 10 9 (5.769 %) ABAP Developer 10 9 (5.769 %) Developer 11 7 (4.487 %) SAP Developer 12 6 (3.846 %) SAP WM Consultant 13 5 (3.205 %) Java Team Leader 13 5 (3.205 %) SAP ABAP Team Leader 13 5 (3.205 %) SAP Support 14 4 (2.564 %) Business Intelligence Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 9 (5.769 %) Data Conversion 2 1 (0.641 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 7 (4.487 %) UNIX 2 2 (1.282 %) VMS 3 1 (0.641 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (0.641 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (25.64 %) Workflow 2 36 (23.08 %) Business Intelligence 3 31 (19.87 %) Time Management 4 21 (13.46 %) GAP Analysis 5 16 (10.26 %) Data Modelling 6 10 (6.410 %) Migration 7 9 (5.769 %) Data Migration 8 5 (3.205 %) CRM 9 4 (2.564 %) Logistics 10 2 (1.282 %) Business Analysis 10 2 (1.282 %) Asset Management 10 2 (1.282 %) SOA 10 2 (1.282 %) UML 10 2 (1.282 %) Security Cleared 10 2 (1.282 %) BPEL 10 2 (1.282 %) Document Management 11 1 (0.641 %) Data Mapping 11 1 (0.641 %) OO 11 1 (0.641 %) Risk Management 11 1 (0.641 %) Quality Management
Programming Languages 1 65 (41.67 %) Java 2 15 (9.615 %) C 3 12 (7.692 %) SAPscript 4 4 (2.564 %) VB 5 3 (1.923 %) C# 5 3 (1.923 %) C++ 6 2 (1.282 %) FoxPro (VFP) 6 2 (1.282 %) SQL 7 1 (0.641 %) JavaScript 7 1 (0.641 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 9 (5.769 %) SAP Certification 2 6 (3.846 %) Citrix Certification 3 3 (1.923 %) Degree 4 2 (1.282 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (2.564 %) SLA	Vendors 1 156 (100.00 %) SAP 2 18 (11.54 %) Oracle 3 2 (1.282 %) Business Objects