ABAP Job Trends in the Midlands

SAP ABAP
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring ABAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 201 324
Rank change year-on-year -48 +123 -70
Permanent jobs citing ABAP 11 29 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.083% 0.52% 0.061%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.58% 2.17% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3 27 6
10th Percentile £56,000 - £50,125
25th Percentile £68,750 - £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -3.08% -5.42%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £60,188
90th Percentile - £74,250 £62,625
England median annual salary £82,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -8.33% -

All Programming Languages
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,886 1,339 3,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.25% 23.89% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,296 1,015 2,513
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ABAP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

ABAP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

ABAP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ABAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ABAP

ABAP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing ABAP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for ABAP in the Midlands

ABAP
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ABAP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
West Midlands -35 8 £90,000 +63.64% 3
East Midlands -26 3 - -
ABAP
England

ABAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 11 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (18.18%) SAP HCM
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SAP HANA
General
1 11 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (72.73%) Law
2 8 (72.73%) Legal
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
1 9 (81.82%) SAP Developer
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Manager
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Support
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Support Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Node.js
1 9 (81.82%) SAP Fiori
1 9 (81.82%) SAPUI5
2 8 (72.73%) JDBC
2 8 (72.73%) OAuth
2 8 (72.73%) REST
2 8 (72.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (81.82%) Analytics
2 9 (81.82%) Migration
3 8 (72.73%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (72.73%) Event-Driven
3 8 (72.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (72.73%) Integration Patterns
3 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (72.73%) Runbook
3 8 (72.73%) Unit Testing
3 8 (72.73%) User Experience
3 8 (72.73%) Workflow
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Data Privacy
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) People Management
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) SAP
2 8 (72.73%) iManage