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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 96 102
Rank change year-on-year +33 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,452 668 815
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 2.72% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 2.98% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 422 534
10th Percentile £363 £351 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £648 £662 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.56% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 19 28
10th Percentile £17.69 £44.58 £13.05
25th Percentile £25.19 £65.00 £16.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +75.00% -36.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £58.06
90th Percentile £60.75 - £69.22
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -19.30% +78.13% -36.00%

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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +38 633 £550 - 140
South East +13 227 £525 -4.55% 145
North of England +38 204 £525 +16.67% 125
Midlands -8 142 £531 +6.25% 110
South West +13 122 £525 +10.53% 55
North West +38 119 £500 +2.25% 58
East of England 0 92 £575 -4.17% 47
West Midlands -18 92 £550 +10.00% 58
Yorkshire -8 73 £590 +47.50% 56
East Midlands -11 49 £505 +6.32% 51
North East -17 12 £500 +11.11% 13
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 16 (1.10%) Confluence
2 15 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 13 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.41%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.28%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (0.28%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.21%) Apache
7 3 (0.21%) CMS
7 3 (0.21%) Documentum
7 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.14%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.069%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.069%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 62 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.34%) PTC Creo
8 3 (0.21%) Windchill
9 2 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 181 (12.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (7.37%) Oracle ERP
3 53 (3.65%) Oracle EBS
4 49 (3.37%) SAP ERP
5 38 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
6 35 (2.41%) NetSuite
7 34 (2.34%) Oracle Payables
8 27 (1.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 25 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (1.17%) Shopify
11 16 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 14 (0.96%) Workday HCM
13 13 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
13 13 (0.90%) Oracle EBS R12
13 13 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
14 12 (0.83%) Unit4 Business World
15 11 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
15 11 (0.76%) Teamcenter
16 10 (0.69%) Oracle 11i
17 8 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 187 (12.88%) Azure
2 168 (11.57%) Dynamics 365
3 137 (9.44%) Power Platform
4 120 (8.26%) OCI
5 89 (6.13%) SaaS
6 51 (3.51%) AWS
7 42 (2.89%) PaaS
8 34 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.65%) PowerApps
10 23 (1.58%) Power Automate
11 21 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (1.45%) Boomi
12 20 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
13 19 (1.31%) GCP
14 17 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (1.17%) IaaS
15 16 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.28%) FTP
2 2 (0.14%) Firewall
2 2 (0.14%) Intranet
2 2 (0.14%) LAN
3 1 (0.069%) 5G
3 1 (0.069%) DHCP
3 1 (0.069%) DNS
3 1 (0.069%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.069%) HTTP
3 1 (0.069%) Modbus
3 1 (0.069%) MQTT
3 1 (0.069%) RFID
3 1 (0.069%) SMS
3 1 (0.069%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.069%) VoIP
3 1 (0.069%) VPN
3 1 (0.069%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (7.30%) Power BI
2 54 (3.72%) Oracle Reports
3 47 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.58%) Oracle ODI
5 21 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 18 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 11 (0.76%) Metadata
9 10 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.48%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.48%) Tableau
12 6 (0.41%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.28%) GIS
14 4 (0.28%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.28%) Power Query
14 4 (0.28%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 80 (5.51%) JIRA
2 24 (1.65%) Postman
3 20 (1.38%) Git
4 15 (1.03%) Hudson
5 8 (0.55%) GitLab
5 8 (0.55%) SoapUI
6 7 (0.48%) Selenium
6 7 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.34%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.14%) Gradle
9 2 (0.14%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.14%) TestRail
10 1 (0.069%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.069%) JMeter
10 1 (0.069%) LSMW
10 1 (0.069%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 754 (51.93%) Finance
2 419 (28.86%) Social Skills
3 216 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 114 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 78 (5.37%) Retail
7 55 (3.79%) Local Government
8 46 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
9 45 (3.10%) Law
10 44 (3.03%) Legal
11 42 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.62%) General Ledger
13 36 (2.48%) Banking
14 26 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.65%) Billing
15 24 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.38%) Military
18 17 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 245 (16.87%) Lead
2 214 (14.74%) Architect
3 186 (12.81%) Consultant
4 165 (11.36%) Analyst
5 146 (10.06%) Project Manager
6 134 (9.23%) Senior
7 100 (6.89%) Solutions Architect
8 83 (5.72%) Business Analyst
9 75 (5.17%) Developer
10 62 (4.27%) ERP Manager
11 53 (3.65%) Accountant
12 49 (3.37%) Implementation Consultant
13 47 (3.24%) Senior Manager
14 45 (3.10%) SAP Manager
15 39 (2.69%) Financial Analyst
16 37 (2.55%) SAP Consultant
17 36 (2.48%) Transformation Manager
18 35 (2.41%) Lead Architect
18 35 (2.41%) Systems Accountant
19 33 (2.27%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (11.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 84 (5.79%) REST
3 61 (4.20%) Middleware
4 51 (3.51%) SOAP
5 44 (3.03%) XML
6 41 (2.82%) JSON
7 34 (2.34%) Web Services
8 20 (1.38%) OAuth
9 19 (1.31%) XSLT
10 17 (1.17%) .NET
11 13 (0.90%) JWT
12 12 (0.83%) EDI
13 11 (0.76%) Node.js
14 10 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (0.69%) PySpark
14 10 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
15 6 (0.41%) ADO
15 6 (0.41%) Kafka
15 6 (0.41%) RESTful
15 6 (0.41%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.72%) Legacy Systems
2 54 (3.72%) Data Structures
3 47 (3.24%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.34%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.07%) Public Cloud
6 22 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.31%) Cloud Native
8 18 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.17%) FMCG
10 15 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (0.90%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (0.83%) IoT
14 10 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.55%) SCADA
15 8 (0.55%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
16 7 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.03%) Windows
2 5 (0.34%) Linux
3 3 (0.21%) Unix
4 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (27.89%) Migration
2 305 (21.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 259 (17.84%) Data Migration
4 255 (17.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 220 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 210 (14.46%) Agile
6 210 (14.46%) User Acceptance Testing
7 181 (12.47%) Change Management
8 171 (11.78%) Project Management
9 165 (11.36%) Validation
10 158 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 147 (10.12%) Business Intelligence
12 130 (8.95%) CRM
13 126 (8.68%) Data Modelling
14 112 (7.71%) Roadmaps
15 105 (7.23%) Procure-to-Pay
15 105 (7.23%) Project Delivery
16 96 (6.61%) Analytics
17 95 (6.54%) DevOps
18 90 (6.20%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 125 (8.61%) SQL
2 39 (2.69%) Python
3 34 (2.34%) PL/SQL
4 28 (1.93%) C#
5 27 (1.86%) Java
6 18 (1.24%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.76%) Apex Code
7 11 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (0.69%) X++
9 9 (0.62%) ABAP
10 8 (0.55%) Ruby
11 7 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.34%) Korn
12 5 (0.34%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.34%) VBA
13 4 (0.28%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.21%) C++
14 3 (0.21%) Perl
15 2 (0.14%) SOQL
15 2 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 173 (11.91%) Security Cleared
2 128 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.58%) Degree
4 80 (5.51%) CIMA
5 69 (4.75%) ACCA
6 42 (2.89%) PMP
7 31 (2.13%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.48%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.41%) APMP
14 6 (0.41%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.41%) OCA
15 5 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.28%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 69 (4.75%) GDPR
3 63 (4.34%) QA
4 49 (3.37%) PMO
5 15 (1.03%) SLA
6 12 (0.83%) IFRS
6 12 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.62%) GAAP
8 8 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.41%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.34%) IFRS 17
11 5 (0.34%) NCSC
12 4 (0.28%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.28%) NIST
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.21%) GMP
System Software
1 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.21%) Docker
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (0.28%) HP ALM
1 4 (0.28%) Kubernetes
1 4 (0.28%) Terraform
2 3 (0.21%) Control-M
2 3 (0.21%) MOM
2 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.14%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.069%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.069%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.069%) Kibana
4 1 (0.069%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 426 (29.34%) SAP
2 413 (28.44%) Oracle
3 238 (16.39%) Microsoft
4 85 (5.85%) Workday
5 60 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 57 (3.93%) IFS
7 52 (3.58%) Siemens
8 37 (2.55%) Databricks
9 36 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.07%) Sage
11 26 (1.79%) MuleSoft
12 24 (1.65%) Ariba
13 15 (1.03%) Informatica
14 10 (0.69%) Infor
15 9 (0.62%) Foundry
15 9 (0.62%) Google
16 7 (0.48%) Talend
17 6 (0.41%) Epicor
17 6 (0.41%) IBM
17 6 (0.41%) OpenAI
577 ERP jobs in England