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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 79 98
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 +9
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,636 816 775
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 2.96% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.26% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 496 459
10th Percentile £379 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £648 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £716 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £530
% change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 40 33
10th Percentile £14.82 £6.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.28 £11.25 £28.00
Median hourly rate £27.15 £16.92 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +60.46% -52.15% -44.83%
75th Percentile £40.00 £68.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.13 £75.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £17.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +65.71% -61.11% -29.13%

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 38,831 25,009 28,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.78% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,961 15,919 18,268
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £421
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 2,587 1,463 1,501
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.68 £17.87 £18.11
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.47 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +6 682 £600 +9.09% 709
North of England +70 279 £510 +2.00% 282
South East +2 272 £525 +1.94% 319
Midlands +37 209 £525 -2.33% 242
North West +49 162 £525 +5.00% 150
West Midlands +11 118 £525 - 139
Yorkshire +31 96 £500 +10.50% 91
East of England +1 85 £509 -11.48% 109
East Midlands +25 82 £525 -12.50% 103
South West -13 76 £525 -15.32% 132
North East -23 21 £500 -6.98% 44
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 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.10%) Confluence
3 17 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.31%) SAS
5 4 (0.24%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.24%) CMS
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.24%) 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%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.061%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.061%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.061%) Mendix
Applications
1 88 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.10%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.31%) Windchill
7 4 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 218 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 149 (9.11%) Oracle ERP
3 63 (3.85%) NetSuite
4 59 (3.61%) Oracle Payables
5 50 (3.06%) SAP ERP
6 45 (2.75%) Oracle Receivables
7 36 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
8 31 (1.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 28 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
10 26 (1.59%) Oracle General Ledger
11 21 (1.28%) Oracle Financials
12 15 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
13 14 (0.86%) SAP MDG
14 13 (0.79%) Workday HCM
15 12 (0.73%) SAP MM
16 11 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
17 10 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
17 10 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
18 8 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 176 (10.76%) Power Platform
2 159 (9.72%) Azure
3 157 (9.60%) Dynamics 365
4 106 (6.48%) SaaS
5 103 (6.30%) OCI
6 68 (4.16%) AWS
7 49 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.02%) GCP
9 31 (1.89%) Power Automate
10 30 (1.83%) PaaS
11 29 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
12 28 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
13 26 (1.59%) PowerApps
14 22 (1.34%) GitHub
15 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.10%) Boomi
17 15 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 13 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (0.79%) iPaaS
18 13 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) Network Security
2 4 (0.24%) FTP
2 4 (0.24%) 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
1 132 (8.07%) Power BI
2 62 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
4 27 (1.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
6 25 (1.53%) SQL Server
7 22 (1.34%) Tableau
8 21 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 19 (1.16%) Metadata
10 13 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (0.67%) 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 74 (4.52%) JIRA
2 22 (1.34%) Git
3 14 (0.86%) Hudson
4 12 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.18%) LSMW
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.18%) Postman
8 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 3 (0.18%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.12%) GitLab
9 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.12%) SoapUI
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
1 864 (52.81%) Finance
2 444 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 219 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (10.39%) Manufacturing
5 143 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 100 (6.11%) Retail
7 63 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (3.67%) General Ledger
9 50 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 47 (2.87%) Law
11 46 (2.81%) Banking
12 45 (2.75%) Billing
13 44 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (2.20%) Local Government
15 35 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 34 (2.08%) Legal
17 32 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
19 19 (1.16%) Aerospace
20 18 (1.10%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 324 (19.80%) Lead
2 262 (16.01%) Architect
3 235 (14.36%) Analyst
4 165 (10.09%) Consultant
5 129 (7.89%) Senior
6 120 (7.33%) Solutions Architect
7 117 (7.15%) Project Manager
8 101 (6.17%) Business Analyst
9 91 (5.56%) Developer
10 58 (3.55%) ERP Manager
11 55 (3.36%) Oracle Consultant
12 48 (2.93%) Data Analyst
13 47 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
14 46 (2.81%) Accountant
15 42 (2.57%) Functional Consultant
15 42 (2.57%) Lead Architect
16 37 (2.26%) Finance Manager
17 36 (2.20%) Administrator
17 36 (2.20%) ERP Project Manager
17 36 (2.20%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (10.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 92 (5.62%) REST
3 77 (4.71%) Middleware
4 54 (3.30%) SOAP
5 30 (1.83%) JSON
6 27 (1.65%) XML
7 23 (1.41%) .NET
8 21 (1.28%) 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 (0.79%) OAuth2
13 11 (0.67%) CSS
13 11 (0.67%) HTML
13 11 (0.67%) 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 82 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
2 64 (3.91%) Data Structures
3 53 (3.24%) Management Information System
4 44 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 40 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (2.32%) Onboarding
7 34 (2.08%) FMCG
8 30 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.59%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (0.98%) Life Science
11 16 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.86%) Low-Code
13 14 (0.86%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.73%) CMDB
15 11 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (0.61%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.10%) 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
1 455 (27.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 448 (27.38%) Migration
3 333 (20.35%) Data Migration
4 280 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 255 (15.59%) User Acceptance Testing
6 237 (14.49%) Agile
7 232 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 217 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
9 181 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
9 181 (11.06%) Change Management
10 178 (10.88%) Validation
11 165 (10.09%) CRM
12 159 (9.72%) Process Improvement
13 154 (9.41%) Analytics
14 153 (9.35%) Data Modelling
14 153 (9.35%) Roadmaps
15 130 (7.95%) Translating Business Requirements
16 124 (7.58%) Project Management
17 122 (7.46%) Project Delivery
18 113 (6.91%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 148 (9.05%) SQL
2 55 (3.36%) Python
3 31 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 29 (1.77%) PL/SQL
5 26 (1.59%) Java
6 21 (1.28%) 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 12 (0.73%) ABAP
12 10 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.43%) Groovy
13 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.31%) VBA
15 4 (0.24%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.24%) SOQL
15 4 (0.24%) SOSL
16 3 (0.18%) C++
16 3 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 208 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 146 (8.92%) SC Cleared
3 106 (6.48%) Degree
4 65 (3.97%) ACCA
5 60 (3.67%) CIMA
6 53 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 34 (2.08%) PMP
8 31 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.43%) CISM
12 7 (0.43%) CISSP
13 6 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.37%) IIBA
13 6 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.31%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.31%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 65 (3.97%) GDPR
3 51 (3.12%) PMO
4 45 (2.75%) QA
5 24 (1.47%) IFRS
6 19 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (0.98%) GAAP
9 15 (0.92%) GRC
10 8 (0.49%) NCSC
11 6 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.37%) SLA
12 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.31%) GMP
12 5 (0.31%) P3O
12 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 3 (0.18%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.12%) COBIT
System Software
1 12 (0.73%) 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%) HP ALM
2 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
2 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.24%) 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
1 494 (30.20%) SAP
2 464 (28.36%) Oracle
3 310 (18.95%) Microsoft
4 78 (4.77%) Salesforce
5 67 (4.10%) ServiceNow
6 66 (4.03%) Workday
7 57 (3.48%) IFS
8 30 (1.83%) Sage
9 28 (1.71%) Databricks
10 24 (1.47%) Ariba
11 21 (1.28%) Google
11 21 (1.28%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.92%) Concur
12 15 (0.92%) SYSPRO
13 14 (0.86%) Infor
14 12 (0.73%) JD Edwards
14 12 (0.73%) Siemens
15 11 (0.67%) Epicor
16 10 (0.61%) Adobe
17 8 (0.49%) IBM