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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 101 99
Rank change year-on-year +42 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,506 637 814
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.71% 2.64% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 2.90% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 407 528
10th Percentile £358 £357 £363
25th Percentile £461 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.30% -3.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £759
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £545
% change year-on-year -2.33% -1.38% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 20 27
10th Percentile £17.69 £47.29 £13.05
25th Percentile £30.31 £65.00 £16.25
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 £67.88 - £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 34,393 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,924 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £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 £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.36 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +40 645 £550 - 200
South East +12 236 £550 - 135
North of England +36 206 £525 +16.67% 132
Midlands +7 165 £525 +5.00% 100
South West +25 123 £525 +5.00% 50
North West +32 111 £500 +2.25% 62
East of England +8 98 £575 -2.13% 48
West Midlands -8 98 £540 +8.00% 52
Yorkshire +8 83 £590 +47.50% 56
East Midlands +11 64 £525 +10.53% 46
North East -18 12 £500 +11.11% 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 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 67 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.13%) 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
1 204 (13.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 113 (7.50%) Oracle ERP
3 49 (3.25%) SAP ERP
4 47 (3.12%) Oracle EBS
5 41 (2.72%) NetSuite
6 37 (2.46%) Oracle Payables
7 32 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
8 31 (2.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 27 (1.79%) 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
12 14 (0.93%) Workday HCM
13 13 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
13 13 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
14 12 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
15 11 (0.73%) Teamcenter
16 10 (0.66%) Oracle 11i
17 8 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 187 (12.42%) Azure
2 168 (11.16%) Dynamics 365
3 137 (9.10%) Power Platform
4 118 (7.84%) OCI
5 86 (5.71%) SaaS
6 54 (3.59%) AWS
7 43 (2.86%) PaaS
8 39 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.46%) PowerApps
9 22 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
10 21 (1.39%) Power Automate
11 20 (1.33%) Boomi
12 19 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (1.20%) GCP
14 17 (1.13%) IaaS
15 16 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 12 (0.80%) GitHub
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
1 103 (6.84%) Power BI
2 55 (3.65%) Oracle Reports
3 44 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.53%) Oracle ODI
5 20 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 13 (0.86%) Metadata
10 10 (0.66%) Tableau
11 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.53%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.40%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.27%) GIS
15 4 (0.27%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.27%) Power Query
15 4 (0.27%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 85 (5.64%) JIRA
2 25 (1.66%) Postman
3 22 (1.46%) Git
4 18 (1.20%) Hudson
5 8 (0.53%) SoapUI
5 8 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.46%) Selenium
7 6 (0.40%) GitLab
8 5 (0.33%) Jenkins
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%) LSMW
12 1 (0.066%) PowerDesigner
12 1 (0.066%) SpecFlow
General
1 767 (50.93%) Finance
2 409 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 215 (14.28%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (8.90%) Manufacturing
5 109 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 79 (5.25%) Retail
7 49 (3.25%) Local Government
8 46 (3.05%) Law
9 45 (2.99%) Legal
10 41 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 40 (2.66%) General Ledger
12 38 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (2.26%) Banking
14 28 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.73%) Billing
15 26 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.33%) Military
18 18 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (1.06%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 249 (16.53%) Lead
2 222 (14.74%) Architect
3 189 (12.55%) Consultant
4 183 (12.15%) Analyst
5 158 (10.49%) Project Manager
6 138 (9.16%) Senior
7 106 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
8 88 (5.84%) Business Analyst
9 77 (5.11%) Developer
10 68 (4.52%) ERP Manager
11 56 (3.72%) Accountant
12 50 (3.32%) Implementation Consultant
13 46 (3.05%) Senior Manager
14 42 (2.79%) Financial Analyst
15 40 (2.66%) Systems Accountant
16 39 (2.59%) SAP Consultant
16 39 (2.59%) SAP Manager
17 38 (2.52%) Data Analyst
18 36 (2.39%) Transformation Manager
19 35 (2.32%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (12.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 87 (5.78%) REST
3 67 (4.45%) Middleware
4 51 (3.39%) SOAP
5 42 (2.79%) JSON
6 39 (2.59%) XML
7 31 (2.06%) Web Services
8 19 (1.26%) OAuth
9 18 (1.20%) XSLT
10 15 (1.00%) .NET
11 13 (0.86%) JWT
12 12 (0.80%) EDI
12 12 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
12 12 (0.80%) Node.js
12 12 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
13 10 (0.66%) PySpark
14 9 (0.60%) HTML
15 8 (0.53%) RESTful
16 7 (0.46%) Kafka
17 6 (0.40%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
2 54 (3.59%) Data Structures
3 41 (2.72%) Management Information System
4 37 (2.46%) Public Cloud
5 36 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 25 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 22 (1.46%) FMCG
8 21 (1.39%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (0.66%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.60%) IoT
15 9 (0.60%) SCADA
16 8 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
16 8 (0.53%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.20%) Windows
2 5 (0.33%) 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
1 415 (27.56%) Migration
2 317 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 262 (17.40%) Data Migration
4 255 (16.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 220 (14.61%) User Acceptance Testing
6 218 (14.48%) Agile
7 210 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
8 179 (11.89%) Project Management
9 176 (11.69%) Change Management
10 168 (11.16%) Validation
11 163 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 144 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
13 127 (8.43%) CRM
14 126 (8.37%) Data Modelling
15 112 (7.44%) Procure-to-Pay
16 108 (7.17%) Roadmaps
17 103 (6.84%) Project Delivery
18 102 (6.77%) Analytics
19 96 (6.37%) DevOps
20 91 (6.04%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 128 (8.50%) SQL
2 41 (2.72%) Python
3 34 (2.26%) PL/SQL
4 27 (1.79%) C#
4 27 (1.79%) Java
5 21 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 13 (0.86%) Apex Code
7 11 (0.73%) X++
8 10 (0.66%) ABAP
8 10 (0.66%) Ruby
9 9 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.46%) TypeScript
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
1 175 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 131 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.30%) Degree
4 78 (5.18%) CIMA
5 69 (4.58%) ACCA
6 45 (2.99%) PMP
7 35 (2.32%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
11 9 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.53%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.46%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.40%) APMP
15 5 (0.33%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.27%) APMG
16 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 66 (4.38%) GDPR
3 55 (3.65%) QA
4 47 (3.12%) PMO
5 16 (1.06%) SLA
6 13 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.80%) IFRS
8 10 (0.66%) GAAP
9 9 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.33%) NCSC
12 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.20%) GMP
13 3 (0.20%) GxP
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (0.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (0.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (0.46%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.40%) 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
1 453 (30.08%) SAP
2 428 (28.42%) Oracle
3 245 (16.27%) Microsoft
4 84 (5.58%) Workday
5 64 (4.25%) IFS
6 62 (4.12%) Salesforce
7 55 (3.65%) Siemens
8 40 (2.66%) ServiceNow
9 35 (2.32%) Databricks
10 29 (1.93%) Sage
11 25 (1.66%) MuleSoft
12 23 (1.53%) Ariba
13 15 (1.00%) Informatica
14 12 (0.80%) Infor
15 9 (0.60%) Google
16 8 (0.53%) Foundry
17 7 (0.46%) Epicor
17 7 (0.46%) JD Edwards
17 7 (0.46%) Talend
18 6 (0.40%) IBM