SAP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SAP SE.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 120 195
Rank change year-on-year 0 +75 -66
Permanent jobs citing SAP 2,299 3,093 3,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 2.96% 2.09%
As % of the Vendors category 6.30% 7.05% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,234 1,738 2,258
10th Percentile £29,400 £40,000 £36,587
25th Percentile £41,438 £52,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,749 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.52% +5.00%

All Vendors
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,515 43,852 60,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.25% 41.90% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 25,094 24,954 33,291
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAP.

Salary trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 1,971 £60,000 -4.00% 710
UK excluding London -9 1,359 £51,749 -10.00% 502
Work from Home +63 1,069 £62,500 -3.85% 300
London +41 698 £80,000 +14.29% 215
South East +6 435 £55,000 -15.38% 112
North of England +32 366 £50,000 -13.04% 128
Midlands -3 241 £45,000 -21.74% 102
North West +22 213 £50,000 -13.79% 83
West Midlands +5 170 £54,500 -5.22% 63
Yorkshire +32 122 £49,827 -13.35% 30
East of England -31 115 £60,000 - 72
Scotland -59 72 £59,000 +2.61% 32
East Midlands -12 69 £41,234 -21.46% 38
South West -40 69 £52,000 -0.95% 49
Northern Ireland +37 41 £35,000 -39.13% 11
North East +14 31 £52,500 -8.70% 18
Wales +15 23 £37,500 -42.31% 18

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 309 (13.44%) SAS
2 68 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.48%) Confluence
4 29 (1.26%) WebSphere
5 28 (1.22%) Captiva
5 28 (1.22%) FileNet
6 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.30%) Apache
7 7 (0.30%) NetWeaver
8 6 (0.26%) nginx
9 5 (0.22%) IIS
10 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.087%) SAP Portal
13 1 (0.043%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.043%) Documentum
13 1 (0.043%) IBM Domino
13 1 (0.043%) LiveLink
13 1 (0.043%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 191 (8.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.52%) AutoCAD
5 18 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.30%) Revit
7 5 (0.22%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.17%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.17%) InfoPath
9 2 (0.087%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.087%) SketchUp
9 2 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.087%) SPSS
9 2 (0.087%) Stata
9 2 (0.087%) Trello
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.043%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 442 (19.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 378 (16.44%) SAP ERP
3 109 (4.74%) SAP FI
4 101 (4.39%) SAP CO
5 96 (4.18%) SAP FI/CO
6 62 (2.70%) SAP Business One
7 57 (2.48%) SAP MM
8 53 (2.31%) Salesforce CRM
9 52 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
10 47 (2.04%) SAP SD
11 44 (1.91%) NetSuite
12 43 (1.87%) SAP PP
13 39 (1.70%) SAP HR
14 37 (1.61%) SAP BPC
14 37 (1.61%) SAP SCM
15 32 (1.39%) SAP CX
15 32 (1.39%) SAP WM
16 30 (1.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
17 29 (1.26%) SAP EWM
17 29 (1.26%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (7.31%) Azure
2 129 (5.61%) Power Platform
3 102 (4.44%) SuccessFactors
4 78 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (3.04%) AWS
6 63 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
7 59 (2.57%) SaaS
8 56 (2.44%) GCP
9 41 (1.78%) GitHub
10 25 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (0.91%) PaaS
11 21 (0.91%) PowerApps
11 21 (0.91%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 18 (0.78%) Entra ID
13 16 (0.70%) Power Automate
13 16 (0.70%) WhatsApp
14 15 (0.65%) Boomi
14 15 (0.65%) IaaS
15 13 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 317 (13.79%) Broadband
2 32 (1.39%) DNS
3 19 (0.83%) HTTP
3 19 (0.83%) MQTT
4 18 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.74%) DHCP
6 12 (0.52%) LAN
7 11 (0.48%) VPN
7 11 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.48%) Wireless
8 10 (0.43%) WAN
9 9 (0.39%) LTE
9 9 (0.39%) Modbus
10 8 (0.35%) 3G
10 8 (0.35%) Ethernet
10 8 (0.35%) VLAN
11 7 (0.30%) 4G
11 7 (0.30%) Network Security
12 6 (0.26%) GPRS
12 6 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (4.96%) Power BI
2 79 (3.44%) SAP BW
3 70 (3.04%) SAP HANA
4 66 (2.87%) SQL Server
5 44 (1.91%) BusinessObjects
6 39 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (1.00%) DB2
9 22 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
10 19 (0.83%) GIS
11 18 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (0.78%) Tableau
12 16 (0.70%) Data Lake
13 11 (0.48%) Big Data
13 11 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (0.43%) Metadata
14 10 (0.43%) MS Access
15 9 (0.39%) MongoDB
15 9 (0.39%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.39%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 82 (3.57%) JIRA
2 45 (1.96%) Git
3 30 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
4 24 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 16 (0.70%) Subversion
6 13 (0.57%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.26%) ERwin
9 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.22%) GitLab
9 5 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.17%) LSMW
11 2 (0.087%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.087%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.087%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.087%) LabVIEW
11 2 (0.087%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.087%) Selenium
11 2 (0.087%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.043%) Chocolatey
General
1 1,063 (46.24%) Social Skills
2 1,038 (45.15%) Finance
3 387 (16.83%) Manufacturing
4 333 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
5 240 (10.44%) Public Sector
6 217 (9.44%) Marketing
7 183 (7.96%) Telecoms
8 177 (7.70%) Electronics
9 152 (6.61%) Retail
10 132 (5.74%) Legal
11 111 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 82 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
13 81 (3.52%) Banking
14 66 (2.87%) Law
15 54 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
16 52 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
17 33 (1.44%) Aerospace
18 31 (1.35%) Automotive
18 31 (1.35%) General Ledger
18 31 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 545 (23.71%) Architect
2 457 (19.88%) Solutions Architect
3 322 (14.01%) Consultant
4 260 (11.31%) Analyst
5 244 (10.61%) SAP Consultant
6 213 (9.26%) Senior
7 194 (8.44%) Lead
8 150 (6.52%) SAP Architect
9 108 (4.70%) SAP Manager
10 105 (4.57%) SAP Solutions Architect
11 90 (3.91%) Project Manager
12 86 (3.74%) SAP Analyst
13 80 (3.48%) Developer
14 76 (3.31%) Senior Consultant
15 71 (3.09%) Senior SAP Consultant
16 62 (2.70%) Development Manager
17 60 (2.61%) Business Manager
18 57 (2.48%) IT Manager
19 51 (2.22%) Software Engineer
20 50 (2.17%) Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.04%) .NET
1 47 (2.04%) HTML
2 46 (2.00%) EDI
3 44 (1.91%) CSS
4 32 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
5 24 (1.04%) AngularJS
5 24 (1.04%) React
6 20 (0.87%) Flask
6 20 (0.87%) IDoc
6 20 (0.87%) SAP TM
6 20 (0.87%) XML
7 16 (0.70%) SAP Basis
7 16 (0.70%) SAP PI
8 15 (0.65%) J2EE
9 14 (0.61%) .NET Framework
9 14 (0.61%) BAPI
9 14 (0.61%) Django
10 11 (0.48%) ASP.NET
11 10 (0.43%) Web Services
12 9 (0.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 73 (3.18%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (2.74%) FMCG
4 53 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 50 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.48%) Housing Association
7 33 (1.44%) Private Cloud
8 30 (1.30%) IoT
9 28 (1.22%) DataPower
9 28 (1.22%) Social Media
10 26 (1.13%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.13%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.04%) Driving Licence
12 21 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (0.83%) Life Science
14 18 (0.78%) Public Cloud
15 17 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
15 17 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
15 17 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 109 (4.74%) Linux
2 105 (4.57%) Windows
3 51 (2.22%) Unix
4 39 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.52%) Android
6 9 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.17%) AIX
10 2 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.043%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (32.93%) ERP
2 641 (27.88%) Agile
3 463 (20.14%) Roadmaps
4 407 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
5 406 (17.66%) Data Management
6 402 (17.49%) Change Management
7 344 (14.96%) Business Intelligence
8 338 (14.70%) Performance Management
9 335 (14.57%) Enterprise Architecture
10 322 (14.01%) TOGAF
11 320 (13.92%) Strategic Roadmap
12 303 (13.18%) Project Management
13 210 (9.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 197 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 197 (8.57%) Programme Management
15 181 (7.87%) Digital Marketing
16 179 (7.79%) CRM
17 170 (7.39%) Project Delivery
18 161 (7.00%) Migration
19 158 (6.87%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 272 (11.83%) SQL
2 96 (4.18%) Python
3 88 (3.83%) Java
4 61 (2.65%) JavaScript
5 60 (2.61%) C
5 60 (2.61%) C#
6 46 (2.00%) C++
7 42 (1.83%) ABAP
8 34 (1.48%) PowerShell
9 20 (0.87%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.74%) Embedded C
11 14 (0.61%) Bash
11 14 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.43%) VBA
13 9 (0.39%) Embedded C++
13 9 (0.39%) PHP
14 8 (0.35%) Go
14 8 (0.35%) R
14 8 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 407 (17.70%) Degree
2 87 (3.78%) Security Cleared
3 56 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 38 (1.65%) ACCA
6 36 (1.57%) HNC
7 34 (1.48%) CIMA
8 33 (1.44%) HND
8 33 (1.44%) PMP
9 31 (1.35%) PMI Certification
10 30 (1.30%) SAP Certification
11 29 (1.26%) CISA
12 27 (1.17%) SC Cleared
13 15 (0.65%) CISSP
14 9 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.39%) CISM
14 9 (0.39%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
15 8 (0.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (6.26%) QA
2 92 (4.00%) SLA
3 65 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 57 (2.48%) GDPR
5 48 (2.09%) PMO
6 27 (1.17%) ITGC
7 23 (1.00%) GRC
8 19 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.57%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.48%) IFRS
12 10 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.26%) GxP
14 5 (0.22%) GAAP
15 4 (0.17%) IEC 61131
15 4 (0.17%) JTAG
16 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.087%) ISAE 3402
17 2 (0.087%) MISRA
17 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (1.61%) Active Directory
1 37 (1.61%) Firmware
2 15 (0.65%) Docker
3 13 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.13%) NFS
7 1 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.043%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.043%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (0.61%) Terraform
2 9 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.26%) SCCM
4 5 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.17%) Ansible
5 4 (0.17%) CSIRT
5 4 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.087%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.087%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.043%) SCOM
7 1 (0.043%) systemd
7 1 (0.043%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.043%) WSUS
Vendors
1 533 (23.18%) Oracle
2 331 (14.40%) Microsoft
3 305 (13.27%) Hyperion
4 304 (13.22%) Anaplan
5 126 (5.48%) Salesforce
6 74 (3.22%) Sage
7 59 (2.57%) IBM
8 50 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 32 (1.39%) Pega
10 31 (1.35%) Google
11 29 (1.26%) Ariba
11 29 (1.26%) Infor
12 28 (1.22%) Concur
12 28 (1.22%) Kofax
12 28 (1.22%) VMware
13 24 (1.04%) CA
14 21 (0.91%) Epicor
14 21 (0.91%) Workday
15 16 (0.70%) IFS
16 15 (0.65%) Cognos