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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 86 98
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,016 821 924
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.31% 2.65% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.03% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 452 592
10th Percentile £350 £359 £380
25th Percentile £463 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £532 £550
% change year-on-year +3.48% -3.36% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 29 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £16.13 £51.00
25th Percentile £14.75 £28.00 £61.04
Median hourly rate £21.50 £35.36 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.20% -58.40% +251.89%
75th Percentile £41.20 £71.25 £88.75
90th Percentile £53.81 £75.00 £93.75
UK median hourly rate £21.65 £35.36 £85.00
% change year-on-year -38.77% -58.40% +148.45%

All Process and 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 27,581 27,123 34,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.93% 87.40% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,503 16,556 23,537
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,803 997 1,447
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.62
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.26 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 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 +23 442 £575 +4.55% 228
South East +40 169 £515 +3.00% 330
Midlands -30 112 £575 +9.52% 139
North of England -34 111 £538 +7.50% 173
South West +3 88 £575 +15.00% 76
North West +11 84 £506 +1.25% 100
West Midlands -36 70 £575 +9.52% 92
East of England +19 67 £550 +13.99% 75
East Midlands -7 42 £525 -12.50% 44
Yorkshire -52 24 £550 +29.41% 55
North East -14 3 £500 +5.26% 18
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 24 (2.36%) Confluence
2 17 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.39%) CMS
5 4 (0.39%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.30%) Documentum
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.20%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.20%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.098%) Apache
8 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.098%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.098%) Camunda
8 1 (0.098%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.098%) SAS
Applications
1 52 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.39%) Trello
7 2 (0.20%) InVision
7 2 (0.20%) Sketch
7 2 (0.20%) Windchill
8 1 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.098%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.098%) Notion
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 128 (12.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 78 (7.68%) Oracle ERP
3 51 (5.02%) SAP ERP
4 39 (3.84%) Dynamics CRM
5 33 (3.25%) Oracle EBS
6 29 (2.85%) Oracle Payables
7 28 (2.76%) NetSuite
8 20 (1.97%) Oracle General Ledger
8 20 (1.97%) Oracle Receivables
9 17 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
9 17 (1.67%) SAP EWM
10 14 (1.38%) Oracle SCM
11 13 (1.28%) Oracle Cash Management
11 13 (1.28%) Oracle EBS R12
11 13 (1.28%) SAP WM
11 13 (1.28%) Unit4 Business World
12 12 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 10 (0.98%) Primavera
14 7 (0.69%) SAP IBP
14 7 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (13.39%) Azure
2 110 (10.83%) OCI
3 93 (9.15%) SaaS
4 92 (9.06%) Dynamics 365
5 87 (8.56%) Power Platform
6 29 (2.85%) AWS
7 27 (2.66%) PaaS
8 21 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (1.77%) Lucidchart
11 16 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
12 15 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.38%) Entra ID
13 14 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 13 (1.28%) Boomi
14 13 (1.28%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.08%) Tricentis Tosca
16 10 (0.98%) GCP
17 9 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (0.89%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.098%) Internet
1 1 (0.098%) LAN
1 1 (0.098%) Network Security
1 1 (0.098%) SAN
1 1 (0.098%) VPN
1 1 (0.098%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.89%) Power BI
2 50 (4.92%) Oracle Reports
3 32 (3.15%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.36%) Oracle Database
5 22 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.67%) SAP HANA
7 14 (1.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 10 (0.98%) Power Query
9 8 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.79%) Tableau
10 7 (0.69%) SAP BW
11 6 (0.59%) GIS
11 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
13 3 (0.30%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle BI EE
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database 11g
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 47 (4.63%) JIRA
2 11 (1.08%) Postman
3 10 (0.98%) GitLab
4 9 (0.89%) Git
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.20%) Hudson
7 2 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.20%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.098%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.098%) MLflow
8 1 (0.098%) QADirector
8 1 (0.098%) Selenium
8 1 (0.098%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.098%) TestRail
General
1 497 (48.92%) Finance
2 348 (34.25%) Social Skills
3 134 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (11.32%) Manufacturing
5 112 (11.02%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.23%) Retail
7 38 (3.74%) Legal
7 38 (3.74%) Local Government
8 37 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 33 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (2.95%) General Ledger
10 30 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.85%) Banking
12 28 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (2.26%) Billing
13 23 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (2.17%) Marketing
15 17 (1.67%) Telecoms
16 16 (1.57%) Aerospace
17 15 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 136 (13.39%) Consultant
2 132 (12.99%) Analyst
3 123 (12.11%) Lead
4 101 (9.94%) Project Manager
5 96 (9.45%) Architect
6 68 (6.69%) Senior
7 58 (5.71%) Business Analyst
8 54 (5.31%) Developer
9 39 (3.84%) SAP Manager
10 38 (3.74%) SAP Consultant
10 38 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (3.54%) ERP Manager
12 30 (2.95%) Functional Consultant
13 29 (2.85%) Oracle Consultant
14 25 (2.46%) ERP Support
14 25 (2.46%) Programme Manager
15 24 (2.36%) ERP Analyst
16 22 (2.17%) Applications Support
16 22 (2.17%) ERP Project Manager
17 20 (1.97%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (13.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 46 (4.53%) REST
3 30 (2.95%) SOAP
3 30 (2.95%) Web Services
4 26 (2.56%) Middleware
5 24 (2.36%) JSON
6 23 (2.26%) XML
7 18 (1.77%) .NET
8 12 (1.18%) OAuth
9 11 (1.08%) XSLT
10 9 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (0.79%) EDI
11 8 (0.79%) HTML
12 6 (0.59%) CSS
13 5 (0.49%) ADO
14 4 (0.39%) BAPI
14 4 (0.39%) IDoc
14 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
14 4 (0.39%) SAP Basis
15 3 (0.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 53 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
2 44 (4.33%) Management Information System
3 28 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (2.66%) Data Structures
4 27 (2.66%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.67%) Life Science
6 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.38%) Public Cloud
7 13 (1.28%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.18%) AS400
8 12 (1.18%) FMCG
9 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
10 9 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.79%) Synthetic Data
12 7 (0.69%) e-Learning
12 7 (0.69%) IoT
12 7 (0.69%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.39%) Unix
1 4 (0.39%) Windows
2 2 (0.20%) Android
2 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.098%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (21.36%) Migration
2 193 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
3 183 (18.01%) Agile
4 177 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 171 (16.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 152 (14.96%) Data Migration
7 128 (12.60%) CRM
8 119 (11.71%) Change Management
9 105 (10.33%) Project Management
10 104 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 103 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
12 99 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
13 91 (8.96%) Project Delivery
14 84 (8.27%) Roadmaps
15 76 (7.48%) Validation
16 67 (6.59%) DevOps
17 64 (6.30%) Workshop Facilitation
18 58 (5.71%) Analytics
18 58 (5.71%) Data Management
19 57 (5.61%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 145 (14.27%) SQL
2 34 (3.35%) PL/SQL
3 19 (1.87%) JavaScript
4 17 (1.67%) C#
4 17 (1.67%) Python
5 13 (1.28%) Java
6 9 (0.89%) VBA
7 7 (0.69%) ABAP
8 6 (0.59%) Groovy
8 6 (0.59%) X++
9 5 (0.49%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.39%) PHP
11 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.20%) Korn
12 2 (0.20%) R
12 2 (0.20%) XPath
13 1 (0.098%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.098%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 121 (11.91%) Security Cleared
2 108 (10.63%) Degree
3 100 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 31 (3.05%) PMP
5 30 (2.95%) PMI Certification
6 29 (2.85%) CIMA
7 27 (2.66%) ACCA
8 19 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.77%) SAP Certification
10 13 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 10 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.79%) OCA
15 5 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 3 (0.30%) APMG
16 3 (0.30%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.22%) QA
2 40 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 38 (3.74%) PMO
4 31 (3.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 30 (2.95%) GDPR
6 10 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.98%) NIST
7 9 (0.89%) GxP
7 9 (0.89%) SLA
8 8 (0.79%) IFRS
8 8 (0.79%) ITGC
9 7 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.69%) APQC
10 6 (0.59%) COBIT
10 6 (0.59%) SOX 404
11 4 (0.39%) GMP
11 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 8 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.49%) Docker
3 1 (0.098%) Firmware
3 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.098%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (0.69%) Terraform
2 5 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.098%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.098%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.098%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 365 (35.93%) Oracle
2 306 (30.12%) SAP
3 144 (14.17%) Microsoft
4 61 (6.00%) Workday
5 59 (5.81%) Salesforce
6 36 (3.54%) IFS
7 16 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.28%) Databricks
9 11 (1.08%) Ariba
9 11 (1.08%) Sage
10 10 (0.98%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.69%) Hyperion
12 6 (0.59%) Adobe
13 5 (0.49%) Anaplan
13 5 (0.49%) PeopleSoft
14 4 (0.39%) Axway
14 4 (0.39%) Concur
14 4 (0.39%) Google
14 4 (0.39%) Murex
14 4 (0.39%) OpenAI