ABAP Job Trends in the North West

SAP ABAP
England > North West

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 201 188
Rank change year-on-year +21 -13 +118
Permanent jobs citing ABAP 2 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.032% 0.078% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 0.27% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +55.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £50,000
90th Percentile - - £52,250
England median annual salary £71,250 £57,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year +23.91% -8.37% +2.45%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 855 1,456 1,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.70% 28.55% 36.94%
Number of salaries quoted 715 825 1,230
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,750 £36,108
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

ABAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

ABAP job vacancy trend in the North West

ABAP
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ABAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ABAP

ABAP
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ABAP within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Cumbria - 1 - -
ABAP
England

ABAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Practitioner
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) EDI
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Basis
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) SUSE
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP