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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 86 104
Rank change year-on-year +15 +18 +15
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,101 747 823
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 2.76% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.10% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 429 524
10th Percentile £360 £359 £375
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +4.44%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 11 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £14.50 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.56 £15.99 £55.00
Median hourly rate £22.85 £30.59 £84.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% -63.80% +227.39%
75th Percentile £44.94 £46.13 £86.50
90th Percentile £51.42 £65.00 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £30.59 £84.75
% change year-on-year -25.30% -63.91% +172.07%

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 27,667 24,065 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.37% 88.96% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,632 14,776 21,577
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,736 770 1,456
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.61 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.49 £18.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -20.73% +25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -22.62% -22.97% +23.04%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +29 484 £575 +6.98% 115
South East +27 161 £515 +3.00% 193
North of England -6 147 £550 +10.00% 95
Midlands -28 116 £525 -2.33% 94
North West +13 96 £506 +0.75% 42
South West +4 91 £525 +5.00% 70
East of England +1 74 £529 +5.75% 76
West Midlands -32 72 £550 +4.76% 61
Yorkshire -36 46 £595 +40.00% 40
East Midlands -9 44 £525 -12.50% 33
North East -14 5 £500 - 15
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 25 (2.27%) Confluence
2 21 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 17 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.45%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.36%) CMS
6 4 (0.36%) Documentum
6 4 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.27%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.18%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.18%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.091%) Apache
9 1 (0.091%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.091%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.091%) Camunda
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.091%) SAS
Applications
1 59 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.18%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.45%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) InVision
7 2 (0.18%) Sketch
7 2 (0.18%) Windchill
8 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.091%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.091%) Notion
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 144 (13.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 82 (7.45%) Oracle ERP
3 50 (4.54%) SAP ERP
4 41 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 40 (3.63%) Oracle EBS
6 38 (3.45%) Oracle Payables
7 30 (2.72%) Oracle Receivables
8 29 (2.63%) NetSuite
9 26 (2.36%) Oracle General Ledger
10 18 (1.63%) Oracle Assets
10 18 (1.63%) Unit4 Business World
11 16 (1.45%) SAP EWM
11 16 (1.45%) Shopify
12 15 (1.36%) Oracle Cash Management
13 14 (1.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 14 (1.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 13 (1.18%) SAP WM
15 12 (1.09%) Workday HCM
16 10 (0.91%) Oracle SCM
17 9 (0.82%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 140 (12.72%) OCI
2 136 (12.35%) Azure
3 115 (10.45%) Dynamics 365
4 91 (8.27%) Power Platform
5 82 (7.45%) SaaS
6 37 (3.36%) PaaS
7 31 (2.82%) AWS
8 24 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (1.63%) Power Automate
9 18 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
10 17 (1.54%) Lucidchart
10 17 (1.54%) PowerApps
11 16 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (1.27%) Boomi
13 13 (1.18%) Entra ID
13 13 (1.18%) GCP
13 13 (1.18%) Tricentis Tosca
14 12 (1.09%) IaaS
15 10 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.091%) LAN
1 1 (0.091%) Network Security
1 1 (0.091%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.27%) Power BI
2 50 (4.54%) Oracle Reports
3 30 (2.72%) SQL Server
4 29 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.09%) Oracle Database
6 16 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 12 (1.09%) SAP HANA
9 9 (0.82%) Power Query
10 8 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.73%) Tableau
11 7 (0.64%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.64%) SAP BW
11 7 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
13 5 (0.45%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (0.36%) GIS
15 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database 11g
15 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 62 (5.63%) JIRA
2 22 (2.00%) Postman
3 11 (1.00%) GitLab
4 8 (0.73%) Git
4 8 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.36%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.27%) Hudson
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.27%) Selenium
7 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.18%) Gradle
8 2 (0.18%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.18%) TestRail
8 2 (0.18%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.091%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.091%) MLflow
9 1 (0.091%) QADirector
General
1 542 (49.23%) Finance
2 406 (36.88%) Social Skills
3 141 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (11.53%) Public Sector
5 102 (9.26%) Manufacturing
6 43 (3.91%) Local Government
7 42 (3.81%) Retail
8 39 (3.54%) General Ledger
9 36 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 35 (3.18%) Banking
10 35 (3.18%) Legal
11 31 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
12 30 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.91%) Billing
16 20 (1.82%) Marketing
17 12 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (1.09%) Law
18 11 (1.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 145 (13.17%) Consultant
2 141 (12.81%) Lead
3 123 (11.17%) Project Manager
4 117 (10.63%) Analyst
5 110 (9.99%) Architect
6 76 (6.90%) Senior
7 58 (5.27%) Business Analyst
8 54 (4.90%) Developer
9 52 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
10 45 (4.09%) ERP Manager
11 43 (3.91%) SAP Consultant
12 41 (3.72%) SAP Manager
13 29 (2.63%) Functional Consultant
14 28 (2.54%) Oracle Consultant
15 25 (2.27%) Programme Manager
16 24 (2.18%) ERP Analyst
16 24 (2.18%) ERP Project Manager
16 24 (2.18%) Oracle Specialist
17 23 (2.09%) Accountant
17 23 (2.09%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (16.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 67 (6.09%) REST
3 46 (4.18%) SOAP
4 43 (3.91%) XML
5 39 (3.54%) Middleware
6 37 (3.36%) JSON
7 35 (3.18%) Web Services
8 20 (1.82%) OAuth
8 20 (1.82%) XSLT
9 15 (1.36%) .NET
10 14 (1.27%) EDI
11 10 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
12 9 (0.82%) JWT
13 7 (0.64%) HTML
14 6 (0.54%) ADO
15 4 (0.36%) BAPI
15 4 (0.36%) CSS
15 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (0.36%) RESTful
15 4 (0.36%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 58 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
2 35 (3.18%) Management Information System
3 33 (3.00%) Data Structures
4 29 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.45%) Life Science
8 13 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.09%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.00%) FMCG
11 9 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.82%) Synthetic Data
12 8 (0.73%) IoT
12 8 (0.73%) Mobile App
12 8 (0.73%) SCADA
12 8 (0.73%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.64%) AS400
14 6 (0.54%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.64%) Windows
2 5 (0.45%) Linux
3 4 (0.36%) Unix
4 2 (0.18%) Android
4 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.091%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (21.16%) Migration
2 203 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
2 203 (18.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 202 (18.35%) Agile
4 189 (17.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 147 (13.35%) Data Migration
6 121 (10.99%) CRM
7 120 (10.90%) Change Management
7 120 (10.90%) Project Management
8 115 (10.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 99 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 93 (8.45%) Roadmaps
11 91 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
11 91 (8.27%) Project Delivery
12 87 (7.90%) Validation
13 78 (7.08%) Workshop Facilitation
14 75 (6.81%) DevOps
15 67 (6.09%) Analytics
16 55 (5.00%) Decision-Making
16 55 (5.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (12.17%) SQL
2 37 (3.36%) PL/SQL
3 21 (1.91%) C#
3 21 (1.91%) Python
4 17 (1.54%) Java
4 17 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 10 (0.91%) VBA
6 7 (0.64%) ABAP
7 6 (0.54%) Groovy
7 6 (0.54%) X++
8 5 (0.45%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.27%) PHP
9 3 (0.27%) R
9 3 (0.27%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.27%) XPath
10 2 (0.18%) C++
10 2 (0.18%) Korn
10 2 (0.18%) Perl
10 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 136 (12.35%) Degree
3 122 (11.08%) SC Cleared
4 41 (3.72%) CIMA
5 36 (3.27%) ACCA
6 32 (2.91%) PMP
7 31 (2.82%) PMI Certification
8 23 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.00%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.73%) SAP Certification
11 15 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
12 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.00%) ISTQB
13 11 (1.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 9 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.82%) OCA
15 8 (0.73%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.54%) APMP
17 5 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 4 (0.36%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.63%) QA
2 47 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 40 (3.63%) PMO
4 36 (3.27%) GDPR
5 30 (2.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.00%) GxP
8 10 (0.91%) IFRS
8 10 (0.91%) ITGC
8 10 (0.91%) NIST
9 9 (0.82%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.73%) GAAP
10 8 (0.73%) SLA
11 7 (0.64%) COBIT
11 7 (0.64%) SOX 404
12 5 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.45%) IFRS 17
12 5 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.45%) NCSC
13 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.36%) Docker
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.091%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (0.64%) Terraform
2 4 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.27%) Control-M
4 2 (0.18%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.091%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.091%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 401 (36.42%) Oracle
2 322 (29.25%) SAP
3 151 (13.71%) Microsoft
4 69 (6.27%) Workday
5 52 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.63%) IFS
7 23 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.45%) Databricks
9 12 (1.09%) Sage
10 11 (1.00%) Ariba
10 11 (1.00%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.64%) Adobe
11 7 (0.64%) Informatica
12 5 (0.45%) Anaplan
12 5 (0.45%) Hyperion
13 4 (0.36%) Concur
13 4 (0.36%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.36%) Epicor
13 4 (0.36%) Murex
13 4 (0.36%) PeopleSoft