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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 85 102
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +13
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,109 762 819
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 2.79% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.14% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 437 520
10th Percentile £360 £359 £375
25th Percentile £463 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £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 42 17 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £15.25 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.48 £16.92 £55.00
Median hourly rate £22.85 £56.50 £84.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.56% -33.14% +227.39%
75th Percentile £44.94 £73.75 £86.50
90th Percentile £51.02 £75.00 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £56.50 £84.75
% change year-on-year -59.56% -33.33% +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 27,971 24,304 31,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.38% 88.87% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,863 14,942 21,444
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 £645 £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 1,750 794 1,430
10th Percentile £15.21 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +31 489 £575 +5.50% 139
South East +22 166 £515 +3.00% 153
North of England -7 147 £550 +10.00% 80
Midlands -27 116 £525 -2.33% 73
North West +15 96 £506 +0.75% 39
South West +11 91 £525 +5.00% 40
East of England +6 73 £529 +5.75% 53
West Midlands -32 72 £550 +4.76% 56
Yorkshire -40 46 £595 +40.00% 30
East Midlands -14 44 £525 -12.50% 17
North East -20 5 £500 - 12
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 26 (2.34%) Confluence
2 20 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 17 (1.53%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.45%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.36%) CMS
5 4 (0.36%) Documentum
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.18%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.18%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.090%) Apache
8 1 (0.090%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.090%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.090%) Camunda
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.090%) SAS
Applications
1 60 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.44%) 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 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.090%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.090%) Notion
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 144 (12.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 86 (7.75%) Oracle ERP
3 53 (4.78%) SAP ERP
4 43 (3.88%) Oracle EBS
5 41 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 38 (3.43%) Oracle Payables
7 30 (2.71%) NetSuite
8 29 (2.61%) Oracle Receivables
9 25 (2.25%) Oracle General Ledger
10 18 (1.62%) Oracle Assets
10 18 (1.62%) Unit4 Business World
11 16 (1.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 16 (1.44%) SAP EWM
11 16 (1.44%) Shopify
12 15 (1.35%) Oracle Cash Management
13 13 (1.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 13 (1.17%) SAP WM
14 12 (1.08%) Workday HCM
15 10 (0.90%) Oracle SCM
16 9 (0.81%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 139 (12.53%) OCI
2 135 (12.17%) Azure
3 112 (10.10%) Dynamics 365
4 92 (8.30%) Power Platform
5 83 (7.48%) SaaS
6 37 (3.34%) PaaS
7 30 (2.71%) AWS
8 23 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
10 17 (1.53%) Lucidchart
10 17 (1.53%) Power Automate
11 16 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (1.44%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.26%) Boomi
13 13 (1.17%) Entra ID
13 13 (1.17%) GCP
13 13 (1.17%) Tricentis Tosca
14 12 (1.08%) IaaS
15 10 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.090%) Internet
1 1 (0.090%) LAN
1 1 (0.090%) Network Security
1 1 (0.090%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (6.40%) Power BI
2 52 (4.69%) Oracle Reports
3 32 (2.89%) SQL Server
4 28 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.16%) Oracle Database
6 16 (1.44%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 13 (1.17%) SAP HANA
9 10 (0.90%) Power Query
10 8 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.72%) Tableau
11 7 (0.63%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.63%) SAP BW
11 7 (0.63%) 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 64 (5.77%) JIRA
2 22 (1.98%) Postman
3 11 (0.99%) GitLab
4 8 (0.72%) Git
4 8 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.36%) SoapUI
5 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.27%) Hudson
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.27%) Selenium
6 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.27%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.18%) Gradle
7 2 (0.18%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.18%) TestRail
8 1 (0.090%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.090%) MLflow
8 1 (0.090%) QADirector
General
1 542 (48.87%) Finance
2 404 (36.43%) Social Skills
3 139 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 105 (9.47%) Manufacturing
6 43 (3.88%) Local Government
7 42 (3.79%) Retail
8 38 (3.43%) General Ledger
9 37 (3.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 36 (3.25%) Legal
11 33 (2.98%) Banking
12 31 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (2.07%) Billing
17 20 (1.80%) Marketing
18 12 (1.08%) Aerospace
18 12 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (1.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 145 (13.07%) Consultant
2 139 (12.53%) Lead
3 123 (11.09%) Project Manager
4 119 (10.73%) Analyst
5 109 (9.83%) Architect
6 76 (6.85%) Senior
7 58 (5.23%) Business Analyst
8 53 (4.78%) Developer
9 52 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
10 46 (4.15%) ERP Manager
11 42 (3.79%) SAP Consultant
11 42 (3.79%) SAP Manager
12 30 (2.71%) Oracle Consultant
13 29 (2.61%) Functional Consultant
14 25 (2.25%) ERP Project Manager
14 25 (2.25%) Programme Manager
15 24 (2.16%) Oracle Specialist
16 23 (2.07%) ERP Analyst
16 23 (2.07%) SAP Project Manager
17 22 (1.98%) ERP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (16.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 66 (5.95%) REST
3 45 (4.06%) SOAP
4 41 (3.70%) XML
5 38 (3.43%) Middleware
6 37 (3.34%) JSON
7 35 (3.16%) Web Services
8 20 (1.80%) OAuth
8 20 (1.80%) XSLT
9 15 (1.35%) .NET
10 13 (1.17%) EDI
11 10 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
12 9 (0.81%) JWT
13 7 (0.63%) 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%) XML Messaging
16 3 (0.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 59 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
2 36 (3.25%) Management Information System
3 32 (2.89%) Data Structures
4 29 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 17 (1.53%) Life Science
8 14 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.08%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (0.99%) FMCG
11 11 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.81%) Synthetic Data
13 8 (0.72%) AS400
13 8 (0.72%) IoT
13 8 (0.72%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.72%) SCADA
13 8 (0.72%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.54%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.63%) Windows
2 5 (0.45%) Linux
3 4 (0.36%) Unix
4 2 (0.18%) Android
4 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.090%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (20.92%) Migration
2 206 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
3 203 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 202 (18.21%) Agile
5 188 (16.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 145 (13.07%) Data Migration
7 121 (10.91%) CRM
8 120 (10.82%) Project Management
9 119 (10.73%) Change Management
10 114 (10.28%) User Acceptance Testing
11 99 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
13 91 (8.21%) Project Delivery
13 91 (8.21%) Roadmaps
14 86 (7.75%) Validation
15 74 (6.67%) DevOps
15 74 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
16 66 (5.95%) Analytics
17 56 (5.05%) Decision-Making
18 55 (4.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (12.62%) SQL
2 37 (3.34%) PL/SQL
3 21 (1.89%) Python
4 20 (1.80%) C#
5 17 (1.53%) Java
5 17 (1.53%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.90%) VBA
7 7 (0.63%) ABAP
8 6 (0.54%) Groovy
8 6 (0.54%) X++
9 5 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.27%) PHP
11 3 (0.27%) R
11 3 (0.27%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.27%) XPath
12 2 (0.18%) C++
12 2 (0.18%) Korn
12 2 (0.18%) Perl
12 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 135 (12.17%) Degree
3 122 (11.00%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.34%) CIMA
5 33 (2.98%) ACCA
6 32 (2.89%) PMP
7 31 (2.80%) PMI Certification
8 23 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.71%) SAP Certification
11 15 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
12 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.90%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.81%) OCA
16 8 (0.72%) Azure Certification
17 6 (0.54%) APMP
18 5 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
19 4 (0.36%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.32%) QA
2 47 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 39 (3.52%) PMO
4 36 (3.25%) GDPR
5 30 (2.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.99%) GxP
8 10 (0.90%) IFRS
8 10 (0.90%) ITGC
8 10 (0.90%) NIST
9 9 (0.81%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.72%) SLA
11 7 (0.63%) COBIT
11 7 (0.63%) GAAP
11 7 (0.63%) 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 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.36%) Docker
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.090%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (0.63%) 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 (0.090%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.090%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.090%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 409 (36.88%) Oracle
2 326 (29.40%) SAP
3 152 (13.71%) Microsoft
4 67 (6.04%) Workday
5 53 (4.78%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.61%) IFS
7 22 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.44%) Databricks
9 11 (0.99%) Ariba
9 11 (0.99%) MuleSoft
9 11 (0.99%) Sage
10 7 (0.63%) Adobe
10 7 (0.63%) Informatica
11 5 (0.45%) Anaplan
11 5 (0.45%) Hyperion
12 4 (0.36%) Concur
12 4 (0.36%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.36%) Epicor
12 4 (0.36%) Murex
12 4 (0.36%) PeopleSoft