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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 81 95
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,628 834 785
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 3.01% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 3.31% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 508 461
10th Percentile £381 £350 £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 £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £533
% change year-on-year +2.33% +0.94% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 39 34
10th Percentile £14.82 £6.00 £17.38
25th Percentile £17.12 £9.50 £28.00
Median hourly rate £26.95 £16.92 £40.18
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -57.89% -37.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £63.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.38 £76.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.30 £17.43 £46.25
% change year-on-year +56.67% -62.32% -27.17%

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 38,818 25,195 28,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 90.79% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,932 16,050 18,115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,599 1,473 1,445
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +8 681 £600 +9.09% 195
North of England +68 275 £525 +5.00% 154
South East -1 268 £525 +1.94% 234
Midlands +34 209 £525 -4.55% 164
North West +43 159 £525 +5.00% 79
West Midlands +20 118 £525 - 100
Yorkshire +30 95 £500 +10.50% 54
East of England +2 84 £509 -9.91% 75
East Midlands +26 82 £525 -12.50% 61
South West -30 78 £525 -12.50% 83
North East -20 21 £500 -6.98% 24
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 33 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.11%) Confluence
3 17 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.31%) CMS
4 5 (0.31%) SAS
5 4 (0.25%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.18%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.12%) Apache
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.12%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.061%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.061%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.061%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.061%) Mendix
Applications
1 88 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.31%) Windchill
7 4 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 217 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 145 (8.91%) Oracle ERP
3 64 (3.93%) NetSuite
4 59 (3.62%) Oracle Payables
5 49 (3.01%) SAP ERP
6 45 (2.76%) Oracle Receivables
7 36 (2.21%) Oracle EBS
8 31 (1.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 29 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
10 26 (1.60%) Oracle General Ledger
11 21 (1.29%) Oracle Financials
12 15 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
13 14 (0.86%) SAP MDG
14 13 (0.80%) Workday HCM
15 12 (0.74%) SAP MM
16 10 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
16 10 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
17 9 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
18 8 (0.49%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 177 (10.87%) Power Platform
2 159 (9.77%) Azure
3 156 (9.58%) Dynamics 365
4 106 (6.51%) SaaS
5 103 (6.33%) OCI
6 67 (4.12%) AWS
7 49 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.03%) GCP
9 31 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 30 (1.84%) PaaS
11 29 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
12 28 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
13 26 (1.60%) PowerApps
14 22 (1.35%) GitHub
15 20 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.11%) Boomi
17 15 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 13 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (0.80%) Entra ID
18 13 (0.80%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) Network Security
2 4 (0.25%) FTP
2 4 (0.25%) SSL
3 3 (0.18%) Firewall
4 2 (0.12%) 5G
4 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 2 (0.12%) Intranet
4 2 (0.12%) LAN
4 2 (0.12%) SMS
4 2 (0.12%) WAN
5 1 (0.061%) DHCP
5 1 (0.061%) DMZ
5 1 (0.061%) DNS
5 1 (0.061%) MQTT
5 1 (0.061%) RFID
5 1 (0.061%) SMTP
5 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.061%) VPN
5 1 (0.061%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.17%) Power BI
2 62 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
4 26 (1.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 25 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.47%) Oracle ODI
7 22 (1.35%) Tableau
8 21 (1.29%) Data Lake
9 19 (1.17%) Metadata
10 13 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.43%) Power Query
13 7 (0.43%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.37%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
14 6 (0.37%) SAP HANA
14 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 73 (4.48%) JIRA
2 22 (1.35%) Git
3 13 (0.80%) Hudson
4 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.18%) LSMW
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.18%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) GitLab
9 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.12%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.061%) ERwin
10 1 (0.061%) JDeveloper
10 1 (0.061%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.061%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 860 (52.83%) Finance
2 443 (27.21%) Social Skills
3 219 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (10.44%) Manufacturing
5 143 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 99 (6.08%) Retail
7 63 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
8 61 (3.75%) General Ledger
9 50 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
10 46 (2.83%) Banking
10 46 (2.83%) Law
11 45 (2.76%) Billing
11 45 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (2.15%) Local Government
13 33 (2.03%) Legal
14 32 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (1.17%) Aerospace
17 18 (1.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 325 (19.96%) Lead
2 263 (16.15%) Architect
3 234 (14.37%) Analyst
4 163 (10.01%) Consultant
5 129 (7.92%) Senior
6 121 (7.43%) Solutions Architect
7 114 (7.00%) Project Manager
8 100 (6.14%) Business Analyst
9 88 (5.41%) Developer
10 57 (3.50%) ERP Manager
11 55 (3.38%) Oracle Consultant
12 48 (2.95%) Data Analyst
13 47 (2.89%) Financial Analyst
14 46 (2.83%) Accountant
15 43 (2.64%) Functional Consultant
16 41 (2.52%) Lead Architect
17 36 (2.21%) Administrator
17 36 (2.21%) Finance Manager
17 36 (2.21%) Programme Manager
17 36 (2.21%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (10.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 93 (5.71%) REST
3 77 (4.73%) Middleware
4 54 (3.32%) SOAP
5 30 (1.84%) JSON
6 27 (1.66%) XML
7 24 (1.47%) .NET
8 21 (1.29%) Web Services
9 17 (1.04%) OAuth
10 16 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (0.92%) EDI
11 15 (0.92%) Terraform
12 13 (0.80%) OAuth2
13 11 (0.68%) CSS
13 11 (0.68%) HTML
13 11 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
14 10 (0.61%) RESTful
14 10 (0.61%) XSLT
15 9 (0.55%) Ajax
15 9 (0.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
2 63 (3.87%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.19%) Management Information System
4 45 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 40 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 34 (2.09%) FMCG
8 30 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.66%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.04%) Life Science
12 16 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (0.86%) Low-Code
14 14 (0.86%) Operational Technology
15 12 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.74%) CMDB
16 11 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (0.61%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.04%) Windows
2 7 (0.43%) 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%) Unix
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%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (28.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 444 (27.27%) Migration
3 330 (20.27%) Data Migration
4 275 (16.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 254 (15.60%) User Acceptance Testing
6 237 (14.56%) Agile
7 230 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 217 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 180 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
10 177 (10.87%) Change Management
11 176 (10.81%) Validation
12 166 (10.20%) CRM
13 159 (9.77%) Process Improvement
14 154 (9.46%) Analytics
14 154 (9.46%) Roadmaps
15 153 (9.40%) Data Modelling
16 128 (7.86%) Translating Business Requirements
17 122 (7.49%) Project Management
18 120 (7.37%) Project Delivery
19 111 (6.82%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 147 (9.03%) SQL
2 55 (3.38%) Python
3 31 (1.90%) JavaScript
4 28 (1.72%) PL/SQL
5 26 (1.60%) Java
6 22 (1.35%) C#
7 18 (1.11%) X++
8 17 (1.04%) Apex Code
9 15 (0.92%) Ruby
10 14 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.74%) ABAP
12 10 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.43%) Groovy
13 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.31%) VBA
15 4 (0.25%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.25%) SOQL
15 4 (0.25%) SOSL
16 3 (0.18%) C++
16 3 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 208 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 147 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 104 (6.39%) Degree
4 66 (4.05%) ACCA
5 60 (3.69%) CIMA
6 53 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 34 (2.09%) PMP
8 31 (1.90%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.55%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.43%) CISM
13 7 (0.43%) CISSP
14 6 (0.37%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.37%) IIBA
14 6 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.31%) APMG
15 5 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 64 (3.93%) GDPR
3 50 (3.07%) PMO
4 45 (2.76%) QA
5 24 (1.47%) IFRS
6 19 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (0.98%) GAAP
8 16 (0.98%) GRC
9 8 (0.49%) NCSC
10 6 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.37%) SLA
11 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.31%) GMP
11 5 (0.31%) P3O
11 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 3 (0.18%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.12%) COBIT
System Software
1 13 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.55%) Docker
3 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.061%) Firmware
4 1 (0.061%) IAG
4 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.31%) Grafana
2 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
2 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
3 4 (0.25%) Kibana
4 3 (0.18%) MOM
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.12%) SCCM
6 1 (0.061%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.061%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 491 (30.16%) SAP
2 458 (28.13%) Oracle
3 307 (18.86%) Microsoft
4 78 (4.79%) Salesforce
5 67 (4.12%) ServiceNow
6 66 (4.05%) Workday
7 57 (3.50%) IFS
8 29 (1.78%) Sage
9 28 (1.72%) Databricks
10 24 (1.47%) Ariba
11 21 (1.29%) Google
11 21 (1.29%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.92%) Concur
12 15 (0.92%) SYSPRO
13 14 (0.86%) Infor
14 12 (0.74%) JD Edwards
14 12 (0.74%) Siemens
15 11 (0.68%) Epicor
16 10 (0.61%) Adobe
17 8 (0.49%) IBM