Ariba Contract Job Trends in England

Ariba
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Ariba products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ariba over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, 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 Ariba.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 411 485
Rank change year-on-year -22 +74 +183
Contract jobs citing Ariba 86 115 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 0.79% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 79 71
10th Percentile £450 £400 £363
25th Percentile £528 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +7.87%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £678
90th Percentile £700 £740 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £570 £538
% change year-on-year +5.26% +6.05% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £21.32 - -
25th Percentile £21.35 £16.25 £92.50
Median hourly rate £21.39 £21.50 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -77.37% +104.85%
75th Percentile £26.85 £30.00 £97.50
90th Percentile £30.13 £51.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £21.50 £95.00
% change year-on-year +41.86% -77.37% +104.85%

All Vendors
England

Ariba 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,182 14,592 18,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.40% 44.29% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,370 8,896 12,285
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £402 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 595 587
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.62 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% -23.62% +83.44%
75th Percentile £47.09 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%

Ariba
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ariba in England

Ariba
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ariba.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ariba

Ariba
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ariba in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ariba in England

Ariba
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ariba.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ariba

Ariba
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 Ariba within the England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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 0 42 £582 -0.98% 25
Midlands -9 12 £614 +29.26% 3
South East +17 10 £575 +56.46% 10
West Midlands -2 10 £614 +29.26% 2
East of England -4 10 £613 +22.50% 1
North of England -38 10 £600 +26.32% 12
North West -15 6 £525 +10.53% 9
Yorkshire -19 2 £550 +37.50% 1
East Midlands -6 1 - - 1
Ariba
UK

Ariba
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 2 (2.33%) NetWeaver
1 2 (2.33%) SAP EP
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (52.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (10.47%) SAP MM
3 7 (8.14%) SAP PS
4 5 (5.81%) SAP HCM
5 4 (4.65%) SAP FI
6 3 (3.49%) SAP CO
6 3 (3.49%) SAP ERP
6 3 (3.49%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (3.49%) SAP MDG
7 2 (2.33%) SAP CRM
7 2 (2.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (1.16%) BPCS
8 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (1.16%) Endur
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (1.16%) SAP FI-AP
8 1 (1.16%) SAP GRC
8 1 (1.16%) SAP HR
8 1 (1.16%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (1.16%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.14%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.33%) Azure
3 2 (2.33%) GCP
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
3 2 (2.33%) SaaS
4 1 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (1.16%) AWS
4 1 (1.16%) Azure AI
4 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.16%) GitHub
4 1 (1.16%) Google Gemini
4 1 (1.16%) IaaS
4 1 (1.16%) PaaS
4 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) Power BI
2 2 (2.33%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.16%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.16%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Git
1 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.16%) JIRA
1 1 (1.16%) JMeter
1 1 (1.16%) LoadRunner
1 1 (1.16%) NeoLoad
General
1 42 (48.84%) Finance
2 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.47%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.98%) Banking
5 6 (6.98%) Legal
5 6 (6.98%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Retail
8 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.33%) Back Office
8 2 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.16%) French Language
9 1 (1.16%) Front Office
9 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Consultant
1 23 (26.74%) SAP Consultant
2 11 (12.79%) Architect
3 10 (11.63%) SAP Manager
4 9 (10.47%) Lead
4 9 (10.47%) SAP Architect
5 7 (8.14%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.98%) SAP MM Consultant
7 5 (5.81%) Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) SAP P2P Consultant
8 4 (4.65%) Developer
8 4 (4.65%) SAP Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) SAP HCM Consultant
8 4 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) SAP Developer
9 3 (3.49%) SAP Programme Manager
9 3 (3.49%) SAP Project Manager
9 3 (3.49%) SAP PS Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) SAP Support
9 3 (3.49%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.49%) SAP Fiori
1 3 (3.49%) SAP PI
1 3 (3.49%) SAPUI5
2 2 (2.33%) REST
2 2 (2.33%) SOAP
3 1 (1.16%) .NET
3 1 (1.16%) EDI
3 1 (1.16%) OLE
3 1 (1.16%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.16%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.16%) Streamlit
3 1 (1.16%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.16%) Web Services
3 1 (1.16%) XML
3 1 (1.16%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Life Science
2 4 (4.65%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.16%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.16%) FMCG
5 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
1 1 (1.16%) Unix
1 1 (1.16%) VMS
1 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (12.79%) ERP
4 10 (11.63%) Migration
4 10 (11.63%) Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (10.47%) Data Migration
5 9 (10.47%) Project Management
6 8 (9.30%) Analytics
6 8 (9.30%) Process Improvement
6 8 (9.30%) Requirements Gathering
6 8 (9.30%) Workshop Facilitation
7 7 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (6.98%) Accounts Payable
8 6 (6.98%) Agile
8 6 (6.98%) Change Management
8 6 (6.98%) Data Analysis
9 5 (5.81%) Source to Pay
10 4 (4.65%) Change Control
10 4 (4.65%) Indirect Procurement
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.81%) ABAP
2 3 (3.49%) JavaScript
2 3 (3.49%) SQL
3 2 (2.33%) Java
4 1 (1.16%) Groovy
4 1 (1.16%) Python
4 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Degree
4 2 (2.33%) BC Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.33%) PMP
5 1 (1.16%) MBA
5 1 (1.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) GxP
1 3 (3.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.33%) PMO
3 1 (1.16%) GAAP
3 1 (1.16%) IFRS
3 1 (1.16%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.16%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 85 (98.84%) SAP
2 6 (6.98%) Concur
3 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle
4 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.16%) Adobe
5 1 (1.16%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.16%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.16%) Kronos
5 1 (1.16%) OpenText
5 1 (1.16%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.16%) Workday