ABAP Job Trends in the East Midlands

SAP ABAP
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring ABAP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 165 118
Rank change year-on-year +23 -47 +67
Permanent jobs citing ABAP 2 8 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.086% 0.20% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.39% 0.85% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £50,125 £53,875
25th Percentile £69,000 £52,500 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -24.14% +107.14%
75th Percentile £71,000 £59,375 £76,250
90th Percentile - £60,000 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

ABAP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 515 937 631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.21% 23.69% 36.02%
Number of salaries quoted 379 555 518
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,625
England median annual salary £62,733 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.37% -3.85% +1.72%

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing ABAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for ABAP in the East Midlands

ABAP
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ABAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ABAP

ABAP
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ABAP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +20 1 £70,000 - 3
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
ABAP
England

ABAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior ABAP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior SAP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Basis
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Development
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) IFS