SAP Contracts in England

SAP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAP over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 43 57
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 0
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,002 2,362 2,837
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.51% 4.89% 4.04%
As % of the Vendors category 13.07% 11.67% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 1,373 1,891
10th Percentile £338 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £663
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 53 40
10th Percentile £13.01 £21.95 £14.19
25th Percentile £15.20 £30.00 £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.03 £45.00 £31.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.16% +41.17% +55.88%
75th Percentile £56.88 £50.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £69.24 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £32.19
% change year-on-year -42.22% +39.81% +53.64%

All Vendors
England

SAP is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,315 20,235 27,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.12% 41.91% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,726 13,929 18,958
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,016 576 790
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.99
25th Percentile £14.41 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.08 £37.50 £21.40
Median % change year-on-year -41.13% +75.27% +1.88%
75th Percentile £56.31 £63.36 £47.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.03
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -49.41% +97.67% -3.00%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAP in England

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP in England.

Daily rate trend for SAP in England

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in England

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP in England.

Hourly rate trend for SAP in England

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in England

SAP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +31 835 £590 +4.29% 215
South East -1 307 £575 +4.55% 100
North of England +9 270 £513 -5.09% 177
Midlands 0 156 £525 - 106
East of England +40 155 £525 +20.00% 58
North West +20 151 £525 +5.00% 119
South West +8 122 £605 +0.83% 49
West Midlands +5 108 £485 -11.82% 68
Yorkshire -6 102 £500 -9.09% 43
East Midlands -12 40 £575 +12.20% 38
North East +13 11 £390 +25.10% 20
SAP
UK

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 38 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.35%) Confluence
3 16 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 16 (0.80%) NetWeaver
4 8 (0.40%) Anypoint
4 8 (0.40%) SAS
5 6 (0.30%) Apache
5 6 (0.30%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.15%) IIS
7 2 (0.100%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.100%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.100%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.100%) JBoss
7 2 (0.100%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.100%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.050%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.050%) Umbraco
Applications
1 83 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.050%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.050%) InVision
8 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.050%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 546 (27.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 75 (3.75%) SAP FI
3 73 (3.65%) SAP EWM
4 59 (2.95%) SAP CO
5 55 (2.75%) SAP FI/CO
6 50 (2.50%) SAP SD
7 47 (2.35%) SAP ERP
8 46 (2.30%) SAP MDG
9 39 (1.95%) SAP QM
10 33 (1.65%) SAP MM
11 29 (1.45%) Shopify
12 28 (1.40%) SAP PP
13 27 (1.35%) SAP HR
14 26 (1.30%) Teamcenter
15 24 (1.20%) SAP Hybris
16 21 (1.05%) SAP HCM
17 20 (1.00%) SAP IBP
18 17 (0.85%) OpenText VIM for SAP
18 17 (0.85%) SAP Retail
19 16 (0.80%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 145 (7.24%) Azure
2 110 (5.49%) SuccessFactors
3 75 (3.75%) Power Platform
4 72 (3.60%) AWS
5 36 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (1.45%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 28 (1.40%) SaaS
8 26 (1.30%) BigCommerce
9 24 (1.20%) WhatsApp
10 20 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (0.95%) PaaS
12 16 (0.80%) GCP
12 16 (0.80%) Serverless
13 14 (0.70%) Boomi
14 13 (0.65%) Power Automate
14 13 (0.65%) Snowflake
15 12 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (0.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.70%) Firewall
2 11 (0.55%) LAN
2 11 (0.55%) WAN
3 10 (0.50%) HTTP
4 9 (0.45%) VPN
5 8 (0.40%) FTP
5 8 (0.40%) Internet
6 7 (0.35%) 3G
6 7 (0.35%) 4G
7 6 (0.30%) SSL
7 6 (0.30%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.25%) Broadband
8 5 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.25%) DNS
9 4 (0.20%) Network Security
9 4 (0.20%) SSH
9 4 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.20%) Wireless
10 3 (0.15%) Intranet
10 3 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.64%) SAP HANA
2 66 (3.30%) Power BI
3 53 (2.65%) SAP BW
4 48 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.20%) Metadata
6 33 (1.65%) NoSQL
7 30 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
9 21 (1.05%) Data Vault
10 19 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
11 18 (0.90%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
12 16 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
14 13 (0.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
15 12 (0.60%) GIS
15 12 (0.60%) MySQL
15 12 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (3.05%) JIRA
2 23 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 18 (0.90%) Git
4 12 (0.60%) ERwin
5 11 (0.55%) LSMW
6 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.35%) Maven
9 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.20%) Postman
11 3 (0.15%) GitLab
11 3 (0.15%) JMeter
11 3 (0.15%) NUnit
11 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.100%) NWDI
12 2 (0.100%) NWDS
12 2 (0.100%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.100%) Selenium
General
1 685 (34.22%) Finance
2 568 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 419 (20.93%) Manufacturing
4 346 (17.28%) Public Sector
5 303 (15.13%) Marketing
6 285 (14.24%) Telecoms
7 280 (13.99%) Electronics
8 191 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
9 131 (6.54%) Retail
10 104 (5.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 59 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (2.00%) Banking
14 40 (2.00%) Billing
15 35 (1.75%) Legal
16 28 (1.40%) Automotive
17 22 (1.10%) Back Office
17 22 (1.10%) German Language
18 21 (1.05%) French Language
Job Titles
1 541 (27.02%) Consultant
2 448 (22.38%) SAP Consultant
3 218 (10.89%) Analyst
4 215 (10.74%) Lead
5 188 (9.39%) Architect
6 151 (7.54%) Project Manager
7 141 (7.04%) Senior
8 132 (6.59%) SAP Manager
9 104 (5.19%) Developer
10 91 (4.55%) Business Analyst
11 79 (3.95%) Functional Consultant
12 72 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
13 68 (3.40%) SAP Analyst
14 66 (3.30%) SAP Functional Consultant
14 66 (3.30%) SAP Project Manager
15 64 (3.20%) SAP Architect
16 48 (2.40%) Data Architect
17 46 (2.30%) Administrator
17 46 (2.30%) SAP Developer
18 41 (2.05%) SAP EWM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.55%) SAP Fiori
2 40 (2.00%) SAP Basis
3 35 (1.75%) REST
4 33 (1.65%) XML
5 32 (1.60%) IDoc
6 27 (1.35%) .NET
7 26 (1.30%) Web Services
8 23 (1.15%) EDI
9 21 (1.05%) VML
10 18 (0.90%) Middleware
11 17 (0.85%) HTML
11 17 (0.85%) Kafka
11 17 (0.85%) SAP PI
12 15 (0.75%) BAPI
12 15 (0.75%) LDAP
12 15 (0.75%) SOAP
13 14 (0.70%) SAP TM
13 14 (0.70%) Spring
14 13 (0.65%) JSON
15 12 (0.60%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 64 (3.20%) Management Information System
2 41 (2.05%) Onboarding
3 40 (2.00%) NHS
4 36 (1.80%) Life Science
5 33 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.60%) FMCG
6 32 (1.60%) Replication
7 31 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 28 (1.40%) Reference Data
9 27 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 22 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 17 (0.85%) IoT
14 14 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (0.65%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
17 11 (0.55%) LIMS
17 11 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.80%) Windows
2 57 (2.85%) Linux
3 30 (1.50%) Unix
4 27 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.35%) VMS
7 6 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.25%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.20%) Android
10 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.15%) zOS
11 1 (0.050%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.050%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.050%) SUSE
11 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (18.48%) Business Intelligence
2 312 (15.58%) Programme Management
3 286 (14.29%) ERP
4 273 (13.64%) Digital Marketing
5 250 (12.49%) Agile
6 238 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 234 (11.69%) Project Management
8 231 (11.54%) Migration
9 221 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
10 122 (6.09%) Change Management
11 115 (5.74%) Data Migration
12 112 (5.59%) User Acceptance Testing
13 109 (5.44%) Logistics
14 106 (5.29%) Analytics
15 103 (5.14%) Data Modelling
16 96 (4.80%) Project Delivery
17 94 (4.70%) Data Management
18 90 (4.50%) Roadmaps
19 86 (4.30%) Requirements Gathering
20 85 (4.25%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 129 (6.44%) SQL
2 126 (6.29%) ABAP
3 69 (3.45%) Python
4 48 (2.40%) Java
5 28 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.30%) C#
7 22 (1.10%) PowerShell
8 19 (0.95%) T-SQL
9 14 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.55%) Perl
11 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.40%) Go
13 7 (0.35%) C
13 7 (0.35%) Groovy
13 7 (0.35%) XPath
13 7 (0.35%) XQuery
14 6 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.30%) R
15 3 (0.15%) Bash
Qualifications
1 278 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 197 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 160 (7.99%) Degree
4 78 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 55 (2.75%) SAP Certification
6 25 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 17 (0.85%) PMP
11 13 (0.65%) CIMA
12 10 (0.50%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.40%) ACCA
13 8 (0.40%) CISSP
13 8 (0.40%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.30%) CBAP
15 5 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
15 5 (0.25%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.20%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.65%) QA
2 71 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.30%) PMO
4 40 (2.00%) GDPR
5 34 (1.70%) SLA
6 11 (0.55%) GRC
7 10 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.50%) GxP
8 9 (0.45%) IFRS
8 9 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.40%) HL7
9 8 (0.40%) NIST
10 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.25%) GAAP
11 5 (0.25%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.25%) RMADS
12 4 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 41 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.55%) Docker
3 8 (0.40%) NFS
4 5 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.20%) HDFS
5 4 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.100%) Firmware
7 2 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.100%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (1.10%) Terraform
2 11 (0.55%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.45%) Ansible
4 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.30%) Puppet
5 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (0.25%) Opsgenie
6 5 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.100%) CA Service Virtualization
7 2 (0.100%) Grafana
7 2 (0.100%) Nessus
7 2 (0.100%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.100%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.050%) Control-M
8 1 (0.050%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.050%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.050%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.050%) SCOM
8 1 (0.050%) VxRail
Vendors
1 206 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.79%) Oracle
3 93 (4.65%) Ariba
4 92 (4.60%) Salesforce
5 62 (3.10%) Adobe
6 36 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 31 (1.55%) Dell
8 27 (1.35%) MuleSoft
9 26 (1.30%) Sitecore
10 25 (1.25%) IBM
11 22 (1.10%) Workday
12 21 (1.05%) Sparx
13 20 (1.00%) Google
14 18 (0.90%) Concur
15 14 (0.70%) IFS
16 13 (0.65%) Alteryx
16 13 (0.65%) OpenText
17 12 (0.60%) Intel
18 10 (0.50%) Sybase
19 9 (0.45%) Cisco