The first table below looks at the demand for ABAP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ABAP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP ABAP
Rank 25 24 30
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +6
Permanent jobs citing ABAP 4 21 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 1.667% 7.023% 3.243%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.333% 23.60% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 6
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
All Programming Languages
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
48 89 85
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 20.00% 29.77% 22.97%
Number of salaries quoted 32 62 54
Average salary £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -1.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £34,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £70,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
ABAP
England

ABAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands ABAP Salary Trend

ABAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) SAP
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (40.00%) SAP HCM
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) SAP HR
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
4 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (20.00%) EDI
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) SLA
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) CCA
4 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) SAP ALE
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (20.00%) SAP CO

ABAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) EDI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP ALE
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP HR
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Payroll
1 2 (40.00%) SAP HCM
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (20.00%) SAP CO
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) LSMW
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Consultant
1 5 (100.00%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Support
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Support Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Support Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) SAP HR Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) SAP BW Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) ABAP Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) SAP PS Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Time Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
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