SAP Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

SAP
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing SAP 21 21 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.69% 6.71% 3.47%
As % of the Vendors category 15.33% 14.38% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £477 - £120
25th Percentile £480 £313 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.79% -13.16% -14.49%
75th Percentile £495 £460 £495
90th Percentile £505 £486 £500
East of England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £20.50 - £14.60
25th Percentile £20.51 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 - £17.00
75th Percentile £38.93 - £18.50
90th Percentile £43.75 - £19.40
East of England median hourly rate £17.69 £48.25 £47.75
% change year-on-year -63.34% +1.05% -58.41%

All Vendors
Cambridgeshire

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 137 146 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 37.13% 46.65% 26.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 49 35
10th Percentile £200 £313 £158
25th Percentile £356 £413 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £468
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -3.74% +3.89%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £538
90th Percentile £658 £650 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 47 38
10th Percentile £16.00 - £13.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £16.23 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +46.80% +14.62% -8.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £16.85 £15.98
90th Percentile £46.75 £21.46 £22.95
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £34.22
% change year-on-year -0.45% -41.55% +31.62%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

SAP job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SAP

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SAP

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in Cambridgeshire

SAP
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -18 6 - -
Huntingdon - 5 £489 -
Peterborough - 4 - - 2
SAP
East of England

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (42.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (38.10%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 7 (33.33%) SAP FI
3 7 (33.33%) SAP MM
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) Lucidchart
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Metadata
2 2 (9.52%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
3 7 (33.33%) Electronics
3 7 (33.33%) Marketing
3 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Consultant
1 8 (38.10%) SAP Consultant
2 6 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) IT Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Migration Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Junior
4 3 (14.29%) Junior Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Junior Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Migration Technician
4 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Software Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Support Specialist
4 3 (14.29%) Support Technician
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Architect
5 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) SAP Basis
1 6 (28.57%) SAP Business Workflow
1 6 (28.57%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (14.29%) JSON
2 3 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
1 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Workflow
2 8 (38.10%) Accounts Payable
2 8 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (38.10%) Migration
3 7 (33.33%) Analytics
3 7 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 7 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 7 (33.33%) Invoice Processing
3 7 (33.33%) ITSM
3 7 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (33.33%) OCR
3 7 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
3 7 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (28.57%) Validation
5 5 (23.81%) Logistics
6 4 (19.05%) Workflow Management
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) ABAP
2 3 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) OpenText
2 7 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (23.81%) Oracle
4 3 (14.29%) Workday
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft