The first table below looks at the demand for ABAP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ABAP over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Essex region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP ABAP
Rank 78 103 104
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +1
Permanent jobs citing ABAP 6 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.606% 0.363% 0.078%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.054% 0.541% 0.140%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 0
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
All Programming Languages
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
569 925 712
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 57.47% 67.18% 55.67%
Number of salaries quoted 491 758 608
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
ABAP
East of England

ABAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ABAP across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Essex ABAP Jobs Demand Trend

ABAP
Salary Trend

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

Essex ABAP Salary Trend

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Colchester - 1 £50,000 -
ABAP
East of England

ABAP
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 6 (100.00%) CRM
1 6 (100.00%) SAP
1 6 (100.00%) SAP Security
2 5 (83.33%) Business Objects
2 5 (83.33%) SAP CRM
2 5 (83.33%) SAP Basis
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management

ABAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 5 (83.33%) SAP Basis
Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) SAP CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) BusinessObjects
General
1 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) SAP Basis Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Security Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) SAP Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) SAP Security Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CRM
1 6 (100.00%) SAP Security
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) SAP
2 5 (83.33%) Business Objects