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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 89 92
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,645 765 792
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.63% 2.75% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.03% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 466 472
10th Percentile £374 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £544 £530 £530
% change year-on-year +2.59% - -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 46 35
10th Percentile £15.75 £6.00 £22.40
25th Percentile £23.00 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £19.40 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.23% -59.16% -27.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.94 £69.44
90th Percentile £60.75 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £26.21 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.06% -50.08% -19.11%

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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +23 688 £600 +9.09% 385
South East +5 267 £525 +1.94% 204
North of England +54 249 £500 +2.56% 185
Midlands +35 205 £525 -4.55% 211
North West +32 144 £525 +7.36% 90
West Midlands +13 119 £540 +2.86% 132
South West +8 111 £550 -12.14% 63
East of England +16 92 £575 - 66
Yorkshire +17 85 £475 +18.01% 73
East Midlands +26 78 £525 -12.50% 79
North East -23 20 £500 -6.98% 24
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 30 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.97%) Confluence
3 15 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.30%) SAS
5 4 (0.24%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.24%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.18%) Apache
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.18%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.12%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.061%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.061%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.061%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.061%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 80 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.12%) Windchill
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.061%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 219 (13.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 139 (8.45%) Oracle ERP
3 59 (3.59%) NetSuite
4 52 (3.16%) SAP ERP
5 51 (3.10%) Oracle Payables
6 39 (2.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 37 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
8 28 (1.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 23 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
9 23 (1.40%) Oracle Financials
10 22 (1.34%) Oracle General Ledger
11 15 (0.91%) Unit4 Business World
12 14 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
13 12 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
14 11 (0.67%) SAP MDG
15 10 (0.61%) Oracle 11i
15 10 (0.61%) Workday HCM
16 8 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
16 8 (0.49%) Sage X3
16 8 (0.49%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 183 (11.12%) Azure
2 174 (10.58%) Power Platform
3 157 (9.54%) Dynamics 365
4 112 (6.81%) OCI
5 106 (6.44%) SaaS
6 57 (3.47%) AWS
7 45 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.01%) PaaS
9 27 (1.64%) Power Automate
9 27 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
10 26 (1.58%) PowerApps
11 24 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (1.40%) GitHub
13 22 (1.34%) Boomi
13 22 (1.34%) GCP
14 14 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (0.85%) iPaaS
14 14 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 14 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) Network Security
2 4 (0.24%) Firewall
2 4 (0.24%) FTP
2 4 (0.24%) SSL
3 2 (0.12%) 5G
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
3 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 2 (0.12%) LAN
3 2 (0.12%) RFID
3 2 (0.12%) WAN
4 1 (0.061%) DHCP
4 1 (0.061%) DMZ
4 1 (0.061%) DNS
4 1 (0.061%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.061%) Modbus
4 1 (0.061%) MQTT
4 1 (0.061%) SMS
4 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.061%) VPN
4 1 (0.061%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.09%) Power BI
2 66 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
4 27 (1.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 27 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 26 (1.58%) Oracle ODI
6 25 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 23 (1.40%) Tableau
8 17 (1.03%) Metadata
9 15 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 12 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (0.43%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.36%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.36%) Power Query
13 6 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
13 6 (0.36%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (4.01%) JIRA
2 23 (1.40%) Git
3 17 (1.03%) Hudson
4 12 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.36%) Postman
5 6 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.30%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.18%) LSMW
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 3 (0.18%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.18%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.12%) GitLab
9 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.061%) ERwin
10 1 (0.061%) JDeveloper
10 1 (0.061%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.061%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 856 (52.04%) Finance
2 404 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 219 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (10.27%) Manufacturing
5 145 (8.81%) Public Sector
6 103 (6.26%) Retail
7 59 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (3.16%) General Ledger
10 47 (2.86%) Local Government
11 45 (2.74%) Law
12 41 (2.49%) Billing
13 40 (2.43%) Banking
14 36 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 36 (2.19%) Legal
15 35 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.16%) Marketing
19 17 (1.03%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 317 (19.27%) Lead
2 271 (16.47%) Architect
3 211 (12.83%) Analyst
4 186 (11.31%) Consultant
5 138 (8.39%) Senior
6 134 (8.15%) Solutions Architect
7 133 (8.09%) Project Manager
8 95 (5.78%) Developer
9 89 (5.41%) Business Analyst
10 63 (3.83%) ERP Manager
11 51 (3.10%) Accountant
12 48 (2.92%) Oracle Consultant
13 46 (2.80%) Financial Analyst
14 41 (2.49%) Data Analyst
14 41 (2.49%) Lead Architect
15 39 (2.37%) Senior Manager
16 38 (2.31%) ERP Project Manager
17 37 (2.25%) Finance Manager
18 36 (2.19%) ERP Architect
18 36 (2.19%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (11.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 88 (5.35%) REST
3 76 (4.62%) Middleware
4 49 (2.98%) SOAP
5 31 (1.88%) JSON
6 27 (1.64%) XML
7 24 (1.46%) Web Services
8 22 (1.34%) .NET
9 15 (0.91%) OAuth
10 14 (0.85%) EDI
10 14 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
11 12 (0.73%) HTML
12 11 (0.67%) CSS
13 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
13 10 (0.61%) RESTful
13 10 (0.61%) SAP Fiori
13 10 (0.61%) XSLT
14 9 (0.55%) Ajax
14 9 (0.55%) Node.js
14 9 (0.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.35%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 48 (2.92%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 39 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 30 (1.82%) FMCG
8 26 (1.58%) Cloud Native
8 26 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.73%) AI Agents
12 12 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (0.73%) IoT
12 12 (0.73%) Life Science
12 12 (0.73%) Operational Technology
13 11 (0.67%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.16%) Windows
2 6 (0.36%) Linux
3 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.12%) Android
4 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.061%) AIX
5 1 (0.061%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.061%) Unix
5 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (27.84%) Migration
2 413 (25.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 334 (20.30%) Data Migration
4 281 (17.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 248 (15.08%) User Acceptance Testing
6 224 (13.62%) Agile
7 218 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 210 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
9 189 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
10 182 (11.06%) Change Management
11 177 (10.76%) Validation
12 166 (10.09%) Analytics
13 159 (9.67%) Data Modelling
14 147 (8.94%) CRM
15 144 (8.75%) Roadmaps
16 142 (8.63%) Project Management
17 134 (8.15%) Process Improvement
18 121 (7.36%) Project Delivery
19 120 (7.29%) Translating Business Requirements
20 108 (6.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 154 (9.36%) SQL
2 56 (3.40%) Python
3 32 (1.95%) PL/SQL
4 30 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 25 (1.52%) Java
6 19 (1.16%) C#
7 18 (1.09%) X++
8 15 (0.91%) Apex Code
8 15 (0.91%) Ruby
9 14 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (0.79%) ABAP
11 8 (0.49%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.43%) Groovy
12 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.30%) VBA
14 4 (0.24%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.18%) C++
15 3 (0.18%) Rust
15 3 (0.18%) SOQL
15 3 (0.18%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 195 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 136 (8.27%) SC Cleared
3 99 (6.02%) Degree
4 66 (4.01%) ACCA
5 65 (3.95%) CIMA
6 50 (3.04%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.13%) PMP
8 30 (1.82%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.43%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.30%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.24%) CISM
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 70 (4.26%) GDPR
3 50 (3.04%) PMO
4 43 (2.61%) QA
5 26 (1.58%) IFRS
6 21 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 18 (1.09%) GAAP
8 12 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.73%) SLA
9 8 (0.49%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.49%) GRC
9 8 (0.49%) NCSC
10 7 (0.43%) GMP
11 6 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.24%) P3O
13 3 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.18%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.49%) Docker
3 1 (0.061%) Firmware
3 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.061%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (0.85%) Terraform
2 10 (0.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.30%) Grafana
4 5 (0.30%) Kibana
4 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.24%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.18%) MOM
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.12%) SCCM
8 1 (0.061%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.061%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 485 (29.48%) SAP
2 466 (28.33%) Oracle
3 288 (17.51%) Microsoft
4 74 (4.50%) Workday
5 71 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 69 (4.19%) IFS
7 57 (3.47%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.19%) Databricks
9 35 (2.13%) Sage
10 34 (2.07%) Siemens
11 29 (1.76%) MuleSoft
12 24 (1.46%) Ariba
13 16 (0.97%) Infor
14 15 (0.91%) Concur
15 14 (0.85%) JD Edwards
16 12 (0.73%) Epicor
16 12 (0.73%) Google
16 12 (0.73%) SYSPRO
17 10 (0.61%) Informatica
18 8 (0.49%) Baan