ERP Contract Job Trends in England

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring ERP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 85 99
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,635 798 773
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.59% 2.88% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.18% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 484 459
10th Percentile £375 £327 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £534 £530
% change year-on-year +3.04% +0.71% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 45 35
10th Percentile £15.36 £6.00 £18.20
25th Percentile £18.82 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -61.11% -30.90%
75th Percentile £58.75 £73.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.61 £47.50
% change year-on-year +36.69% -46.09% -26.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

ERP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

ERP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ERP job vacancy trend in England

ERP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ERP

ERP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ERP in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ERP in England

ERP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ERP

ERP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ERP in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ERP in England

ERP
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 ERP within the England region over the 6 months to 12 August 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 +14 680 £600 +9.09% 682
South East +1 273 £525 +1.94% 287
North of England +64 259 £500 - 287
Midlands +38 209 £525 -4.55% 236
North West +36 147 £525 +5.00% 154
West Midlands +16 119 £540 +2.86% 129
South West +1 99 £525 -16.13% 105
Yorkshire +29 91 £500 +24.22% 99
East of England +3 85 £575 - 85
East Midlands +34 81 £525 -12.50% 107
North East -26 21 £500 -6.98% 38
ERP
UK

ERP
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 31 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
3 16 (0.98%) Confluence
4 5 (0.31%) SAS
5 4 (0.24%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.18%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.12%) Apache
7 2 (0.12%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.061%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.061%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.061%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.061%) Mendix
Applications
1 82 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Windchill
9 1 (0.061%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 209 (12.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 145 (8.87%) Oracle ERP
3 58 (3.55%) NetSuite
4 54 (3.30%) SAP ERP
5 51 (3.12%) Oracle Payables
6 39 (2.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 37 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
8 29 (1.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 22 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
9 22 (1.35%) Oracle Financials
9 22 (1.35%) Oracle General Ledger
10 15 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
11 13 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
12 12 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
12 12 (0.73%) Workday HCM
13 11 (0.67%) SAP MDG
14 10 (0.61%) Oracle 11i
15 8 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
15 8 (0.49%) Sage X3
15 8 (0.49%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 172 (10.52%) Power Platform
2 168 (10.28%) Azure
3 158 (9.66%) Dynamics 365
4 116 (7.09%) OCI
5 103 (6.30%) SaaS
6 59 (3.61%) AWS
7 44 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.02%) PaaS
9 29 (1.77%) Power Automate
10 26 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
11 25 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (1.53%) PowerApps
12 24 (1.47%) GCP
13 22 (1.35%) Boomi
13 22 (1.35%) GitHub
14 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 14 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) Network Security
2 4 (0.24%) Firewall
2 4 (0.24%) FTP
2 4 (0.24%) SSL
3 2 (0.12%) 5G
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
3 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) LAN
3 2 (0.12%) WAN
4 1 (0.061%) DHCP
4 1 (0.061%) DMZ
4 1 (0.061%) DNS
4 1 (0.061%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.061%) Modbus
4 1 (0.061%) MQTT
4 1 (0.061%) RFID
4 1 (0.061%) SMS
4 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.061%) VPN
4 1 (0.061%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (7.95%) Power BI
2 66 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.75%) Oracle Reports
4 27 (1.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
6 25 (1.53%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.41%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.35%) Tableau
9 17 (1.04%) Metadata
10 13 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
10 13 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.43%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.37%) Power Query
12 6 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
12 6 (0.37%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (4.10%) JIRA
2 22 (1.35%) Git
3 16 (0.98%) Hudson
4 12 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.24%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.24%) Postman
7 3 (0.18%) LSMW
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
7 3 (0.18%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.18%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.12%) GitLab
8 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.061%) ERwin
9 1 (0.061%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.061%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.061%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 853 (52.17%) Finance
2 411 (25.14%) Social Skills
3 220 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (10.46%) Manufacturing
5 148 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 105 (6.42%) Retail
7 59 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
8 55 (3.36%) General Ledger
9 53 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.87%) Law
11 43 (2.63%) Local Government
12 42 (2.57%) Banking
13 41 (2.51%) Billing
14 39 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 35 (2.14%) Legal
17 30 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (1.22%) Aerospace
20 19 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 324 (19.82%) Lead
2 260 (15.90%) Architect
3 216 (13.21%) Analyst
4 174 (10.64%) Consultant
5 136 (8.32%) Project Manager
5 136 (8.32%) Senior
6 126 (7.71%) Solutions Architect
7 92 (5.63%) Business Analyst
8 91 (5.57%) Developer
9 62 (3.79%) ERP Manager
10 52 (3.18%) Oracle Consultant
11 49 (3.00%) Accountant
12 46 (2.81%) Financial Analyst
13 43 (2.63%) Data Analyst
14 41 (2.51%) Lead Architect
15 38 (2.32%) ERP Project Manager
16 37 (2.26%) Finance Manager
16 37 (2.26%) Senior Manager
17 34 (2.08%) Programme Manager
17 34 (2.08%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (11.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 87 (5.32%) REST
3 71 (4.34%) Middleware
4 50 (3.06%) SOAP
5 31 (1.90%) JSON
6 26 (1.59%) XML
7 23 (1.41%) .NET
8 21 (1.28%) Web Services
9 16 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (0.92%) EDI
10 15 (0.92%) OAuth
11 12 (0.73%) HTML
12 11 (0.67%) CSS
13 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
13 10 (0.61%) PySpark
13 10 (0.61%) RESTful
13 10 (0.61%) XSLT
14 9 (0.55%) Ajax
14 9 (0.55%) Node.js
15 8 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (4.28%) Data Structures
3 50 (3.06%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.57%) Product Ownership
5 39 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 32 (1.96%) FMCG
7 31 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 29 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.47%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (0.80%) Life Science
12 13 (0.80%) Operational Technology
13 12 (0.73%) AI Agents
13 12 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.73%) IoT
13 12 (0.73%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.16%) Windows
2 6 (0.37%) Linux
3 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.12%) Android
4 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.061%) AIX
5 1 (0.061%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.061%) Unix
5 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (27.71%) Migration
2 422 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 333 (20.37%) Data Migration
4 280 (17.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 248 (15.17%) User Acceptance Testing
6 226 (13.82%) Agile
7 224 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 212 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
9 185 (11.31%) Change Management
10 180 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
11 178 (10.89%) Validation
12 164 (10.03%) Analytics
13 161 (9.85%) Data Modelling
14 151 (9.24%) CRM
15 144 (8.81%) Roadmaps
16 141 (8.62%) Process Improvement
17 135 (8.26%) Project Management
18 121 (7.40%) Project Delivery
18 121 (7.40%) Translating Business Requirements
19 108 (6.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 150 (9.17%) SQL
2 56 (3.43%) Python
3 31 (1.90%) PL/SQL
4 29 (1.77%) JavaScript
5 25 (1.53%) Java
6 20 (1.22%) C#
7 18 (1.10%) X++
8 17 (1.04%) Apex Code
9 15 (0.92%) Ruby
10 14 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (0.67%) ABAP
12 8 (0.49%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.43%) Groovy
13 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.31%) VBA
15 4 (0.24%) C++
15 4 (0.24%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.24%) SOQL
15 4 (0.24%) SOSL
16 3 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 195 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 134 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.24%) Degree
4 67 (4.10%) ACCA
5 65 (3.98%) CIMA
6 52 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.14%) PMP
8 30 (1.83%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.31%) APMG
13 5 (0.31%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.31%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.99%) Data Quality
2 69 (4.22%) GDPR
3 44 (2.69%) PMO
3 44 (2.69%) QA
4 26 (1.59%) IFRS
5 21 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.10%) GAAP
7 12 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.61%) SLA
9 8 (0.49%) GRC
9 8 (0.49%) NCSC
10 7 (0.43%) GMP
11 6 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.24%) P3O
13 3 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.18%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 9 (0.55%) Active Directory
1 9 (0.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.061%) Firmware
2 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.061%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (0.86%) Terraform
2 10 (0.61%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.31%) Grafana
3 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.24%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.24%) Kibana
5 3 (0.18%) MOM
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.12%) SCCM
7 1 (0.061%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.061%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 480 (29.36%) SAP
2 477 (29.17%) Oracle
3 287 (17.55%) Microsoft
4 73 (4.46%) Salesforce
5 72 (4.40%) Workday
6 65 (3.98%) IFS
7 60 (3.67%) ServiceNow
8 33 (2.02%) Sage
9 32 (1.96%) Databricks
10 28 (1.71%) MuleSoft
11 25 (1.53%) Siemens
12 22 (1.35%) Ariba
13 16 (0.98%) Infor
14 15 (0.92%) Concur
14 15 (0.92%) JD Edwards
15 13 (0.80%) Google
15 13 (0.80%) SYSPRO
16 12 (0.73%) Epicor
17 9 (0.55%) Informatica
18 8 (0.49%) Baan