South East ABAP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for SAP ABAP skills within the South East 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAP ABAP
Location Aberdeen Ascot Ashby-de-la-Zouch Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheadle Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Colchester Coventry Crewe Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Reading Ripon Runcorn Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	234	248
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching permanent IT job ads	282	340
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.149 %	0.139 %
As % of the category below	1.744 %	1.614 %
Salaries quoted	218	251
Average minimum salary	£46,055	£44,924
Average salary	£50,147	£48,366
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Average maximum salary	£54,239	£51,809
UK excluding London average salary	£49,134	£48,646
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Programming Languages South East
Matching permanent IT job ads	16168	21067
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	8.535 %	8.627 %
Salaries quoted	13716	17779
Average minimum salary	£34,424	£35,156
Average salary	£37,938	£38,231
% change on same period last year	-0.76 %
Average maximum salary	£41,451	£41,307
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
ABAP England

ABAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing ABAP across the South East 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 South East region.

ABAP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ABAP across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

ABAP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ABAP within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Berkshire	+33	97	£49,712	+0.69 %
Surrey	+59	66	£50,426	-13.32 %
Hampshire	+7	49	£49,417	-2.42 %
Middlesex	+26	34	£54,250	+44.66 %
Thames Valley	+21	9	£49,167	-1.99 %
Buckinghamshire	-49	6	£44,333	+11.16 %
East Sussex	-	1	-	-
Kent	-	1	£75,000	-

ABAP England

ABAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 532 (99.25 %) SAP 2 173 (32.28 %) Java 3 124 (23.13 %) SAP HR 4 120 (22.39 %) NetWeaver 5 93 (17.35 %) Business Intelligence 6 78 (14.55 %) SAP BW 7 74 (13.81 %) SAPscript 8 70 (13.06 %) SAP XI 9 65 (12.13 %) SAP ALE 9 65 (12.13 %) SAP Payroll 10 64 (11.94 %) Oracle 11 63 (11.75 %) SAP R/3 11 63 (11.75 %) Workflow 11 63 (11.75 %) SAP BI 11 63 (11.75 %) BAPI

12 60 (11.19 %) Pensions 13 47 (8.769 %) Finance 14 40 (7.463 %) ERP 15 39 (7.276 %) SQL Server 16 38 (7.090 %) SAP Basis 17 36 (6.716 %) Logistics 18 35 (6.530 %) SAP Smart Forms 18 35 (6.530 %) Manufacturing 19 34 (6.343 %) LSMW 20 31 (5.784 %) Web Dynpro 21 29 (5.410 %) SAP FI 22 27 (5.037 %) SAP SD 22 27 (5.037 %) Data Modelling 23 26 (4.851 %) Retail 24 25 (4.664 %) GAP Analysis

ABAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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 70 (13.06 %) SAP XI 2 65 (12.13 %) SAP ALE 3 63 (11.75 %) BAPI 4 38 (7.090 %) SAP Basis 5 35 (6.530 %) SAP Smart Forms 6 31 (5.784 %) Web Dynpro 7 24 (4.478 %) HTML 8 19 (3.545 %) JAAS 8 19 (3.545 %) EDI 9 5 (0.933 %) SAP Business Workflow 10 3 (0.560 %) .NET Framework 10 3 (0.560 %) .NET 11 2 (0.373 %) J2EE 11 2 (0.373 %) XML 11 2 (0.373 %) Middleware 12 1 (0.187 %) SAP BSP	Application Platforms 1 120 (22.39 %) NetWeaver 2 20 (3.731 %) SAP Web AS 3 5 (0.933 %) SAS 4 1 (0.187 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (0.560 %) MS Visio 2 2 (0.373 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 124 (23.13 %) SAP HR 2 65 (12.13 %) SAP Payroll 3 63 (11.75 %) SAP R/3 4 29 (5.410 %) SAP FI 5 27 (5.037 %) SAP SD 6 24 (4.478 %) SAP FI/CO 6 24 (4.478 %) SAP CO 7 21 (3.918 %) SAP MM 8 16 (2.985 %) SAP ERP 9 13 (2.425 %) SAP CRM 10 11 (2.052 %) SAP WM 11 10 (1.866 %) SAP Retail 12 5 (0.933 %) SAP PP 13 3 (0.560 %) SAP MDM 14 2 (0.373 %) SAP EBP 15 1 (0.187 %) SAP PM 15 1 (0.187 %) SAP SCM 15 1 (0.187 %) SAP FI-AP 15 1 (0.187 %) SAP SM
Communications & Networking 1 21 (3.918 %) Internet 2 19 (3.545 %) LDAP 3 2 (0.373 %) HTTP 4 1 (0.187 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 78 (14.55 %) SAP BW 2 63 (11.75 %) SAP BI 3 39 (7.276 %) SQL Server 4 11 (2.052 %) Datawarehouse 5 9 (1.679 %) BusinessObjects 6 7 (1.306 %) Data Cleansing 7 5 (0.933 %) RDBMS 7 5 (0.933 %) Star Schema 8 3 (0.560 %) Data Mining 9 1 (0.187 %) DB2 9 1 (0.187 %) Informix 9 1 (0.187 %) MS Access 9 1 (0.187 %) SQL Server 2005 9 1 (0.187 %) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications 1 34 (6.343 %) LSMW 2 9 (1.679 %) eCATT	General 1 60 (11.19 %) Pensions 2 47 (8.769 %) Finance 3 35 (6.530 %) Manufacturing 4 26 (4.851 %) Retail 5 24 (4.478 %) FMCG 6 14 (2.612 %) Government 7 11 (2.052 %) Health 8 7 (1.306 %) Electronics 9 6 (1.119 %) Insurance 10 4 (0.746 %) Pharmaceutical 11 3 (0.560 %) Banking 11 3 (0.560 %) Billing 12 2 (0.373 %) Telecoms 13 1 (0.187 %) Back Office 13 1 (0.187 %) Education 13 1 (0.187 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 249 (46.46 %) Consultant 2 239 (44.59 %) SAP Consultant 3 109 (20.34 %) Analyst 4 88 (16.42 %) SAP Analyst 5 68 (12.69 %) Developer 6 67 (12.50 %) ABAP Consultant 7 66 (12.31 %) SAP Support 8 58 (10.82 %) SAP HR Consultant 9 54 (10.07 %) SAP Developer 10 53 (9.888 %) ABAP Developer 11 49 (9.142 %) Architect 12 39 (7.276 %) Support Consultant 12 39 (7.276 %) SAP Support Consultant 13 38 (7.090 %) SAP Payroll Consultant 13 38 (7.090 %) Payroll Consultant 14 36 (6.716 %) SAP Architect 15 35 (6.530 %) SAP BW Consultant 16 34 (6.343 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 17 33 (6.157 %) SAP BI Consultant 18 24 (4.478 %) Solutions Architect	Miscellaneous 1 18 (3.358 %) N-Tier 2 15 (2.799 %) German Language 3 13 (2.425 %) Spanish Language 4 11 (2.052 %) French Language 5 10 (1.866 %) Data Conversion 6 9 (1.679 %) Italian Language 7 5 (0.933 %) Data Extraction 8 4 (0.746 %) Client/Server 8 4 (0.746 %) Blackberry 9 3 (0.560 %) Management Information System 10 2 (0.373 %) Computer Science 11 1 (0.187 %) Korean Language 11 1 (0.187 %) Portuguese Language
Operating Systems 1 23 (4.291 %) Windows 2 21 (3.918 %) UNIX 3 9 (1.679 %) AIX 3 9 (1.679 %) Solaris 4 8 (1.493 %) Linux 5 4 (0.746 %) Windows Mobile 6 3 (0.560 %) VMS 7 1 (0.187 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.187 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 93 (17.35 %) Business Intelligence 2 63 (11.75 %) Workflow 3 40 (7.463 %) ERP 4 36 (6.716 %) Logistics 5 27 (5.037 %) Data Modelling 6 25 (4.664 %) GAP Analysis 7 24 (4.478 %) Change Management 8 23 (4.291 %) Time Management 9 19 (3.545 %) SAP Implementation 9 19 (3.545 %) CRM 9 19 (3.545 %) SAP ESA 10 15 (2.799 %) Migration 11 14 (2.612 %) Security Cleared 12 10 (1.866 %) Systems Analysis 12 10 (1.866 %) EAI 12 10 (1.866 %) Service Management 13 8 (1.493 %) Quality Management 13 8 (1.493 %) Project Management 14 7 (1.306 %) Service Delivery 14 7 (1.306 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 173 (32.28 %) Java 2 74 (13.81 %) SAPscript 3 20 (3.731 %) C 4 7 (1.306 %) SQL 5 3 (0.560 %) C# 5 3 (0.560 %) VB 5 3 (0.560 %) VBA 6 1 (0.187 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 12 (2.239 %) SAP Certification 2 8 (1.493 %) Degree 3 1 (0.187 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (0.187 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.187 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (1.119 %) SLA 2 2 (0.373 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 19 (3.545 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 532 (99.25 %) SAP 2 64 (11.94 %) Oracle 3 9 (1.679 %) Business Objects 4 8 (1.493 %) Red Hat 5 5 (0.933 %) CA 5 5 (0.933 %) IBM 5 5 (0.933 %) Microsoft 5 5 (0.933 %) Sun 5 5 (0.933 %) HP 6 2 (0.373 %) Adobe 6 2 (0.373 %) Kalido 6 2 (0.373 %) webMethods 7 1 (0.187 %) VMware 7 1 (0.187 %) Citrix 7 1 (0.187 %) Cisco