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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 101 100
Rank change year-on-year +40 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,505 644 811
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 2.65% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.90% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 410 525
10th Percentile £350 £358 £368
25th Percentile £459 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.95% -
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £726 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 20 29
10th Percentile £17.69 £47.29 £13.05
25th Percentile £31.25 £65.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +75.00% -38.15%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £68.05 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +81.25% -38.15%

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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +40 640 £550 - 211
South East +8 232 £550 +1.15% 131
North of England +37 208 £500 +12.68% 122
Midlands +12 172 £525 +5.00% 115
South West +31 123 £523 +4.50% 52
North West +32 110 £500 +2.25% 56
West Midlands -2 102 £533 +6.50% 62
East of England +18 98 £575 -2.13% 51
Yorkshire +5 85 £590 +47.50% 51
East Midlands +10 66 £525 +10.53% 51
North East -20 13 £500 +7.82% 16
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 18 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.06%) Confluence
3 15 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 13 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.40%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (0.27%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.20%) Apache
7 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.13%) CMS
8 2 (0.13%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.066%) Documentum
9 1 (0.066%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.066%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 68 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.33%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 207 (13.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 113 (7.51%) Oracle ERP
3 50 (3.32%) SAP ERP
4 43 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
5 41 (2.72%) NetSuite
6 36 (2.39%) Oracle Payables
7 31 (2.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 30 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
9 26 (1.73%) Oracle Receivables
10 16 (1.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 16 (1.06%) Shopify
11 15 (1.00%) Unit4 Business World
12 14 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
13 13 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
13 13 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
14 12 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.80%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.73%) Teamcenter
16 10 (0.66%) Oracle 11i
17 8 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 186 (12.36%) Azure
2 170 (11.30%) Dynamics 365
3 135 (8.97%) Power Platform
4 115 (7.64%) OCI
5 85 (5.65%) SaaS
6 52 (3.46%) AWS
7 41 (2.72%) PaaS
8 40 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.53%) PowerApps
10 22 (1.46%) Power Automate
10 22 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
11 20 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (1.26%) Boomi
13 18 (1.20%) GCP
14 16 (1.06%) IaaS
15 15 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 12 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.27%) FTP
2 3 (0.20%) Firewall
2 3 (0.20%) LAN
3 2 (0.13%) 5G
3 2 (0.13%) Intranet
3 2 (0.13%) WAN
4 1 (0.066%) DHCP
4 1 (0.066%) DMZ
4 1 (0.066%) DNS
4 1 (0.066%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.066%) HTTP
4 1 (0.066%) Modbus
4 1 (0.066%) MQTT
4 1 (0.066%) RFID
4 1 (0.066%) SMS
4 1 (0.066%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.066%) VoIP
4 1 (0.066%) VPN
4 1 (0.066%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (6.58%) Power BI
2 54 (3.59%) Oracle Reports
3 41 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.53%) Oracle ODI
5 18 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 12 (0.80%) Metadata
9 10 (0.66%) Tableau
10 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.33%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.27%) GIS
13 4 (0.27%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.27%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 82 (5.45%) JIRA
2 23 (1.53%) Postman
3 21 (1.40%) Git
4 17 (1.13%) Hudson
5 9 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.53%) SoapUI
7 7 (0.47%) Selenium
8 5 (0.33%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.27%) GitLab
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.20%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.20%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.13%) Gradle
12 1 (0.066%) ERwin
12 1 (0.066%) JMeter
12 1 (0.066%) PowerDesigner
12 1 (0.066%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.066%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 768 (51.03%) Finance
2 404 (26.84%) Social Skills
3 213 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (8.84%) Manufacturing
5 107 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 79 (5.25%) Retail
7 49 (3.26%) Local Government
8 46 (3.06%) Law
8 46 (3.06%) Legal
9 42 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 38 (2.52%) General Ledger
10 38 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (2.19%) Banking
12 29 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (1.73%) Billing
13 26 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
14 20 (1.33%) Military
14 20 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.06%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 243 (16.15%) Lead
2 226 (15.02%) Architect
3 189 (12.56%) Consultant
4 184 (12.23%) Analyst
5 160 (10.63%) Project Manager
6 137 (9.10%) Senior
7 110 (7.31%) Solutions Architect
8 90 (5.98%) Business Analyst
9 74 (4.92%) Developer
10 67 (4.45%) ERP Manager
11 57 (3.79%) Accountant
12 50 (3.32%) Implementation Consultant
13 46 (3.06%) Senior Manager
14 42 (2.79%) Financial Analyst
15 41 (2.72%) Systems Accountant
16 40 (2.66%) SAP Manager
17 39 (2.59%) SAP Consultant
18 38 (2.52%) Data Analyst
19 36 (2.39%) Transformation Manager
20 35 (2.33%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (11.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 86 (5.71%) REST
3 68 (4.52%) Middleware
4 49 (3.26%) SOAP
5 41 (2.72%) JSON
6 39 (2.59%) XML
7 28 (1.86%) Web Services
8 18 (1.20%) OAuth
9 17 (1.13%) .NET
9 17 (1.13%) XSLT
10 13 (0.86%) EDI
11 12 (0.80%) JWT
11 12 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
11 12 (0.80%) Node.js
11 12 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
12 10 (0.66%) HTML
13 9 (0.60%) PySpark
14 8 (0.53%) RESTful
15 7 (0.47%) CSS
15 7 (0.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
2 52 (3.46%) Data Structures
3 40 (2.66%) Management Information System
4 37 (2.46%) Public Cloud
5 36 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 25 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.53%) FMCG
8 21 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (0.93%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
16 10 (0.66%) Virtual Team
17 9 (0.60%) IoT
17 9 (0.60%) SCADA
18 8 (0.53%) Operational Technology
19 7 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.20%) Windows
2 4 (0.27%) Linux
3 3 (0.20%) Unix
3 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.066%) Android
4 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.066%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (27.38%) Migration
2 315 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 261 (17.34%) Data Migration
4 256 (17.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 216 (14.35%) Agile
5 216 (14.35%) User Acceptance Testing
6 209 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 178 (11.83%) Change Management
7 178 (11.83%) Project Management
8 167 (11.10%) Validation
9 166 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 139 (9.24%) Business Intelligence
11 126 (8.37%) Data Modelling
12 124 (8.24%) CRM
13 112 (7.44%) Procure-to-Pay
14 109 (7.24%) Roadmaps
15 103 (6.84%) Project Delivery
16 100 (6.64%) Analytics
17 94 (6.25%) DevOps
18 91 (6.05%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 124 (8.24%) SQL
2 40 (2.66%) Python
3 32 (2.13%) PL/SQL
4 27 (1.79%) C#
4 27 (1.79%) Java
5 22 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 13 (0.86%) Apex Code
7 12 (0.80%) X++
8 10 (0.66%) ABAP
8 10 (0.66%) Ruby
9 8 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.40%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.33%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.33%) VBA
13 3 (0.20%) C++
13 3 (0.20%) Korn
13 3 (0.20%) Perl
13 3 (0.20%) SOQL
13 3 (0.20%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 173 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 130 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 113 (7.51%) Degree
4 79 (5.25%) CIMA
5 70 (4.65%) ACCA
6 44 (2.92%) PMP
7 34 (2.26%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.47%) SAP Certification
12 6 (0.40%) APMP
12 6 (0.40%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.27%) APMG
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 63 (4.19%) GDPR
3 52 (3.46%) QA
4 46 (3.06%) PMO
5 17 (1.13%) SLA
6 14 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.80%) IFRS
8 10 (0.66%) GAAP
9 8 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.33%) NCSC
11 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.20%) GMP
13 3 (0.20%) GxP
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (0.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (0.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (0.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.33%) Terraform
3 4 (0.27%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.20%) Control-M
4 3 (0.20%) Kibana
4 3 (0.20%) MOM
4 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.13%) Grafana
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.066%) SCCM
Vendors
1 455 (30.23%) SAP
2 421 (27.97%) Oracle
3 248 (16.48%) Microsoft
4 82 (5.45%) Workday
5 64 (4.25%) IFS
6 63 (4.19%) Salesforce
7 55 (3.65%) Siemens
8 42 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 32 (2.13%) Databricks
10 28 (1.86%) Sage
11 25 (1.66%) MuleSoft
12 23 (1.53%) Ariba
13 15 (1.00%) Informatica
14 12 (0.80%) Infor
15 10 (0.66%) Epicor
16 9 (0.60%) Google
17 8 (0.53%) Foundry
18 7 (0.47%) JD Edwards
18 7 (0.47%) Talend
19 6 (0.40%) IBM