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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 77 92
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,591 888 826
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.42% 3.19% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 3.51% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 547 458
10th Percentile £373 £350 £371
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £636
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £530
% change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 38 33
10th Percentile £14.03 £6.00 £18.30
25th Percentile £17.12 £7.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £16.29 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% -53.93% -45.02%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.13 £76.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £17.35 £47.50
% change year-on-year +38.37% -63.48% -25.20%

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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -5 638 £600 +8.11% 932
North of England +69 273 £525 +5.00% 328
South East -7 249 £519 +0.73% 380
Midlands +23 223 £525 -4.55% 311
North West +24 150 £525 +5.00% 160
West Midlands +23 129 £525 -4.55% 184
Yorkshire +39 104 £463 -11.90% 117
East of England -15 86 £509 -9.91% 132
East Midlands +19 85 £525 -12.50% 125
South West -38 79 £550 -8.33% 123
North East -27 19 £513 +13.89% 57
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 35 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.07%) Confluence
2 17 (1.07%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (0.38%) CMS
4 5 (0.31%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.31%) SAS
5 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.13%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.13%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.063%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.063%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.063%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.063%) Mendix
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.063%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 95 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.82%) Windchill
6 11 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.063%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.063%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 211 (13.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 134 (8.42%) Oracle ERP
3 60 (3.77%) Oracle Payables
4 58 (3.65%) NetSuite
5 52 (3.27%) SAP ERP
6 45 (2.83%) Oracle Receivables
7 31 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
8 28 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
9 27 (1.70%) Oracle General Ledger
9 27 (1.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 20 (1.26%) Oracle Financials
11 15 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
11 15 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
11 15 (0.94%) SAP MDG
12 14 (0.88%) Workday HCM
13 13 (0.82%) Teamcenter
13 13 (0.82%) Unit4 Business World
14 11 (0.69%) SAP MM
15 10 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
16 8 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 162 (10.18%) Azure
2 157 (9.87%) Power Platform
3 138 (8.67%) Dynamics 365
4 107 (6.73%) SaaS
5 92 (5.78%) OCI
6 59 (3.71%) AWS
7 50 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (2.20%) Power Automate
9 34 (2.14%) GCP
10 33 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (1.57%) PowerApps
12 24 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
13 21 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.32%) PaaS
14 17 (1.07%) Boomi
14 17 (1.07%) GitHub
15 15 (0.94%) Entra ID
16 13 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 13 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.44%) Network Security
2 5 (0.31%) HTTP
3 4 (0.25%) FTP
3 4 (0.25%) SSL
4 3 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.13%) DMZ
5 2 (0.13%) MQTT
5 2 (0.13%) SMS
6 1 (0.063%) 5G
6 1 (0.063%) DNS
6 1 (0.063%) Intranet
6 1 (0.063%) LAN
6 1 (0.063%) RFID
6 1 (0.063%) SMTP
6 1 (0.063%) VPN
6 1 (0.063%) WAN
6 1 (0.063%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (7.04%) Power BI
2 59 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
4 23 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 22 (1.38%) Data Lake
5 22 (1.38%) Tableau
6 20 (1.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 17 (1.07%) Metadata
8 14 (0.88%) Oracle ODI
9 13 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
10 9 (0.57%) SAP HANA
11 8 (0.50%) Power Query
12 7 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.44%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.44%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.38%) GIS
14 5 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.31%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 83 (5.22%) JIRA
2 17 (1.07%) Git
3 12 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (0.38%) Hudson
5 6 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.25%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.25%) Postman
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.13%) Flyway
8 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.13%) LSMW
9 1 (0.063%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.063%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.063%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.063%) GitLab
9 1 (0.063%) Selenium
9 1 (0.063%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.063%) Zephyr
General
1 813 (51.10%) Finance
2 456 (28.66%) Social Skills
3 221 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (12.76%) Manufacturing
5 137 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 102 (6.41%) Retail
7 67 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
8 66 (4.15%) General Ledger
9 58 (3.65%) Billing
10 53 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 45 (2.83%) Banking
12 43 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (2.01%) Local Government
14 30 (1.89%) Legal
15 29 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (1.38%) Law
18 21 (1.32%) Aerospace
19 20 (1.26%) Marketing
19 20 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 283 (17.79%) Lead
2 236 (14.83%) Architect
3 217 (13.64%) Analyst
4 155 (9.74%) Consultant
5 121 (7.61%) Senior
6 116 (7.29%) Solutions Architect
7 112 (7.04%) Project Manager
8 100 (6.29%) Business Analyst
9 80 (5.03%) Developer
10 56 (3.52%) Oracle Consultant
11 55 (3.46%) ERP Manager
12 50 (3.14%) Administrator
13 48 (3.02%) Accountant
13 48 (3.02%) Functional Consultant
14 43 (2.70%) Data Analyst
15 41 (2.58%) Financial Analyst
16 35 (2.20%) Finance Manager
17 34 (2.14%) Programme Manager
18 32 (2.01%) Senior Manager
19 31 (1.95%) ERP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (10.87%) Oracle Fusion
2 93 (5.85%) REST
3 78 (4.90%) Middleware
4 60 (3.77%) SOAP
5 33 (2.07%) JSON
5 33 (2.07%) XML
6 26 (1.63%) Web Services
7 22 (1.38%) .NET
8 18 (1.13%) OAuth
9 17 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
10 16 (1.01%) OAuth2
11 15 (0.94%) EDI
12 14 (0.88%) Terraform
13 11 (0.69%) CSS
13 11 (0.69%) HTML
13 11 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (0.63%) RESTful
14 10 (0.63%) XSLT
15 9 (0.57%) Ajax
15 9 (0.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (3.46%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 50 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 50 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 47 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (2.01%) FMCG
7 25 (1.57%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.32%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.26%) Life Science
10 16 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (0.94%) Low-Code
12 14 (0.88%) Operational Technology
13 12 (0.75%) CMDB
14 11 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (0.63%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.19%) Windows
2 9 (0.57%) Linux
3 4 (0.25%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Android
4 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.063%) AIX
6 1 (0.063%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (30.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 404 (25.39%) Migration
3 298 (18.73%) Data Migration
4 240 (15.08%) Agile
5 239 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
6 233 (14.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 220 (13.83%) User Acceptance Testing
8 212 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (10.94%) Validation
10 170 (10.69%) Process Improvement
11 169 (10.62%) CRM
12 166 (10.43%) Change Management
13 162 (10.18%) Roadmaps
14 154 (9.68%) Analytics
15 152 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
16 137 (8.61%) Data Modelling
17 122 (7.67%) Project Delivery
18 120 (7.54%) Workshop Facilitation
19 111 (6.98%) Decision-Making
20 110 (6.91%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (9.49%) SQL
2 49 (3.08%) Python
3 31 (1.95%) JavaScript
4 23 (1.45%) Java
5 21 (1.32%) C#
5 21 (1.32%) PL/SQL
6 18 (1.13%) X++
7 16 (1.01%) ABAP
8 12 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (0.69%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.44%) Groovy
11 7 (0.44%) Ruby
12 6 (0.38%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.25%) PHP
14 3 (0.19%) C++
14 3 (0.19%) Rust
15 2 (0.13%) DataWeave
15 2 (0.13%) SOQL
15 2 (0.13%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 223 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 165 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 109 (6.85%) Degree
4 68 (4.27%) ACCA
5 63 (3.96%) CIMA
6 52 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.58%) PMP
8 38 (2.39%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.44%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.44%) CISM
14 7 (0.44%) CISSP
14 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.38%) APMG
16 5 (0.31%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (9.99%) Data Quality
2 56 (3.52%) GDPR
3 44 (2.77%) PMO
3 44 (2.77%) QA
4 24 (1.51%) IFRS
5 18 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.07%) GRC
6 17 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.01%) GAAP
8 9 (0.57%) SLA
9 8 (0.50%) NCSC
10 7 (0.44%) GMP
11 6 (0.38%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.31%) P3O
12 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.19%) COSHH
14 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 3 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.50%) Docker
3 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.13%) IAG
5 1 (0.063%) Firmware
5 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.31%) Grafana
3 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.25%) Kibana
5 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.19%) SCCM
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.063%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.063%) MOM
Vendors
1 515 (32.37%) SAP
2 436 (27.40%) Oracle
3 293 (18.42%) Microsoft
4 78 (4.90%) Salesforce
5 73 (4.59%) Workday
6 65 (4.09%) ServiceNow
7 46 (2.89%) IFS
8 29 (1.82%) Sage
9 25 (1.57%) Ariba
10 22 (1.38%) JD Edwards
11 21 (1.32%) Databricks
12 20 (1.26%) Google
13 18 (1.13%) Infor
13 18 (1.13%) Siemens
14 16 (1.01%) SYSPRO
15 15 (0.94%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.88%) Concur
16 14 (0.88%) IBM
17 13 (0.82%) PTC
18 11 (0.69%) UiPath