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 1 March 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 Ariba.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 338 422
Rank change year-on-year -116 +84 +108
Contract jobs citing Ariba 107 148 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.58% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 1.24% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 123 99
10th Percentile £400 £384 £418
25th Percentile £498 £464 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £613
90th Percentile £735 £748 £705
UK median daily rate £600 £590 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% +12.38% -11.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £58.92 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.92 - £19.50
% change year-on-year - - +106.35%

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 15,859 11,931 16,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.79% 46.73% 43.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,353 7,428 10,470
10th Percentile £305 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.35% -3.63%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £635
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 828 372 911
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.62 £12.76
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £14.94
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.62% +20.86% -21.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.62 £54.78
90th Percentile £74.26 £84.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -19.08% +17.65% -27.14%

Ariba
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Ariba job vacancy trend 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 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ariba in England

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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

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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 1 March 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
London -51 58 £550 -8.33% 13
Midlands -34 24 £650 +10.64%
West Midlands -32 21 £675 +3.85%
South East -32 11 £450 -26.98% 3
East of England -36 9 £525 -20.75% 1
North of England -70 6 £500 -2.44% 1
Yorkshire -63 4 £500 +25.00% 1
East Midlands - 3 £480 -
North West -47 1 £600 +20.00%
Ariba
UK

Ariba
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.80%) NetWeaver
1 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.87%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) SAP EP
Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 46 (42.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (8.41%) SAP MM
3 8 (7.48%) SAP FI
4 6 (5.61%) SAP CO
4 6 (5.61%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (2.80%) SAP CRM
5 3 (2.80%) SAP PM
5 3 (2.80%) SAP PS
6 2 (1.87%) Endur
6 2 (1.87%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (1.87%) SAP HCM
6 2 (1.87%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.93%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.93%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.41%) SuccessFactors
2 8 (7.48%) AWS
3 6 (5.61%) Azure
4 5 (4.67%) SaaS
5 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.80%) GCP
6 3 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.87%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.93%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.93%) PaaS
8 1 (0.93%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) DHCP
1 1 (0.93%) DNS
1 1 (0.93%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.74%) Power BI
2 3 (2.80%) SAP BW
3 2 (1.87%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (1.87%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.61%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Toad
3 1 (0.93%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (43.93%) Finance
2 37 (34.58%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.41%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (7.48%) Banking
6 6 (5.61%) Legal
6 6 (5.61%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.74%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.80%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.80%) Local Government
10 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Aviation
11 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Electronics
11 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (22.43%) Architect
2 20 (18.69%) Consultant
3 15 (14.02%) SAP Consultant
4 14 (13.08%) Lead
4 14 (13.08%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (11.21%) SAP Architect
6 11 (10.28%) Analyst
7 10 (9.35%) Senior
8 9 (8.41%) Developer
8 9 (8.41%) SAP Developer
9 6 (5.61%) IT Manager
9 6 (5.61%) SAP MM Consultant
9 6 (5.61%) SAP Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.67%) Buyer
10 5 (4.67%) Procurement Manager
10 5 (4.67%) SAP Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) SAP Manager
11 4 (3.74%) Information Security Manager
11 4 (3.74%) Security Manager
11 4 (3.74%) Senior Buyer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.08%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (8.41%) SAPUI5
3 7 (6.54%) REST
4 4 (3.74%) SAP PI
5 3 (2.80%) SOAP
6 2 (1.87%) .NET
6 2 (1.87%) IDoc
6 2 (1.87%) Middleware
6 2 (1.87%) XML
7 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.93%) OAuth
7 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.93%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.93%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
1 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
1 4 (3.74%) Public Cloud
1 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.87%) FMCG
3 2 (1.87%) Learning Management System
3 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 2 (1.87%) PMI
3 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Life Science
4 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (14.02%) Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (13.08%) Data Modelling
3 14 (13.08%) ERP
4 12 (11.21%) Migration
4 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (10.28%) Analytics
6 10 (9.35%) AI
6 10 (9.35%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (9.35%) Roadmaps
7 9 (8.41%) Contract Management
7 9 (8.41%) Decision-Making
8 8 (7.48%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (7.48%) Process Improvement
9 7 (6.54%) Agile
9 7 (6.54%) Change Management
9 7 (6.54%) Risk Management
9 7 (6.54%) Supplier Management
9 7 (6.54%) Supply Chain Management
10 6 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.61%) SQL
2 5 (4.67%) ABAP
2 5 (4.67%) Java
3 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.93%) Bash
4 1 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (6.54%) Degree
1 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.80%) CFA
4 3 (2.80%) SAP Certification
4 3 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.87%) CBAP
5 2 (1.87%) PMP
6 1 (0.93%) ACCA
6 1 (0.93%) CIMA
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) SLA
2 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.80%) GDPR
2 3 (2.80%) PMO
3 2 (1.87%) GRC
3 2 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.93%) Ansible
1 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.93%) Packer
1 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 96 (89.72%) SAP
2 8 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.67%) Oracle
4 3 (2.80%) Concur
4 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.87%) OpenText
6 1 (0.93%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (0.93%) BT
6 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.93%) Workday