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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 94 98
Rank change year-on-year +29 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,625 735 834
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.63% 2.70% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 2.98% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 458 509
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £627
90th Percentile £738 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £540
% change year-on-year - -0.46% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 42 41
10th Percentile £17.75 £6.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £27.30 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.10 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +148.87% -44.75% -38.37%
75th Percentile £58.75 £73.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £27.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +104.55% -38.89% -30.42%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +26 677 £575 +4.55% 188
South East +3 255 £525 +1.94% 114
North of England +50 238 £500 +6.67% 131
Midlands +41 200 £525 - 145
North West +36 140 £525 +9.09% 66
South West +21 125 £538 +7.50% 51
West Midlands +19 122 £540 +2.86% 77
East of England +23 99 £575 - 34
Yorkshire +6 78 £458 +12.96% 51
East Midlands +25 72 £525 - 68
North East -23 20 £500 -6.98% 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 29 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.98%) Confluence
2 16 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (0.31%) SAS
4 4 (0.25%) NetWeaver
4 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.18%) Apache
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.18%) SAP EP
6 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.062%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.062%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.062%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 65 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.18%) PTC Creo
9 2 (0.12%) Windchill
10 1 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.062%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 220 (13.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 138 (8.49%) Oracle ERP
3 54 (3.32%) NetSuite
4 53 (3.26%) SAP ERP
5 45 (2.77%) Oracle Payables
6 36 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
7 35 (2.15%) Oracle Receivables
8 30 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 25 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
10 21 (1.29%) Oracle Financials
11 20 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 14 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
13 13 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
14 12 (0.74%) SAP MDG
15 10 (0.62%) Oracle 11i
15 10 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
16 9 (0.55%) Sage X3
16 9 (0.55%) Teamcenter
17 8 (0.49%) iTrent
17 8 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 208 (12.80%) Azure
2 173 (10.65%) Power Platform
3 143 (8.80%) Dynamics 365
4 101 (6.22%) SaaS
5 100 (6.15%) OCI
6 59 (3.63%) AWS
7 45 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (2.09%) PaaS
9 26 (1.60%) Power Automate
9 26 (1.60%) PowerApps
10 25 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
11 24 (1.48%) GCP
12 22 (1.35%) Boomi
12 22 (1.35%) GitHub
12 22 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.43%) Network Security
2 4 (0.25%) FTP
3 3 (0.18%) Firewall
4 2 (0.12%) 5G
4 2 (0.12%) HTTP
4 2 (0.12%) Intranet
4 2 (0.12%) LAN
4 2 (0.12%) RFID
4 2 (0.12%) SSL
4 2 (0.12%) WAN
5 1 (0.062%) DHCP
5 1 (0.062%) DMZ
5 1 (0.062%) DNS
5 1 (0.062%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.062%) Modbus
5 1 (0.062%) SMS
5 1 (0.062%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.062%) VoIP
5 1 (0.062%) VPN
5 1 (0.062%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.18%) Power BI
2 60 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.77%) Oracle Reports
4 26 (1.60%) Oracle ODI
5 25 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.42%) SQL Server
7 20 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 20 (1.23%) Tableau
8 17 (1.05%) Metadata
9 15 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
10 12 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.43%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
12 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.31%) GIS
13 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (3.88%) JIRA
2 24 (1.48%) Git
3 16 (0.98%) Hudson
4 9 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.49%) Postman
6 5 (0.31%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.25%) SoapUI
7 4 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.18%) LSMW
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 3 (0.18%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.12%) GitLab
9 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.062%) ERwin
10 1 (0.062%) JDeveloper
10 1 (0.062%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.062%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 833 (51.26%) Finance
2 391 (24.06%) Social Skills
3 219 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (10.09%) Manufacturing
5 135 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 95 (5.85%) Retail
7 56 (3.45%) Local Government
8 50 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (2.95%) General Ledger
11 46 (2.83%) Law
12 43 (2.65%) Billing
13 41 (2.52%) Legal
14 36 (2.22%) Banking
15 31 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 30 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (0.98%) Aerospace
20 15 (0.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 297 (18.28%) Lead
2 264 (16.25%) Architect
3 206 (12.68%) Analyst
4 193 (11.88%) Consultant
5 145 (8.92%) Senior
6 141 (8.68%) Project Manager
7 128 (7.88%) Solutions Architect
8 92 (5.66%) Business Analyst
9 85 (5.23%) Developer
10 68 (4.18%) ERP Manager
11 55 (3.38%) Accountant
12 49 (3.02%) Implementation Consultant
13 45 (2.77%) Senior Manager
14 44 (2.71%) Financial Analyst
15 41 (2.52%) Lead Architect
15 41 (2.52%) Systems Accountant
16 40 (2.46%) Finance Manager
17 38 (2.34%) Data Analyst
17 38 (2.34%) ERP Project Manager
18 37 (2.28%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (10.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 82 (5.05%) REST
3 78 (4.80%) Middleware
4 42 (2.58%) SOAP
5 35 (2.15%) JSON
6 27 (1.66%) Web Services
7 26 (1.60%) XML
8 23 (1.42%) .NET
9 14 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
9 14 (0.86%) Node.js
9 14 (0.86%) OAuth
10 13 (0.80%) EDI
10 13 (0.80%) HTML
11 11 (0.68%) CSS
12 10 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
13 9 (0.55%) Ajax
13 9 (0.55%) PySpark
13 9 (0.55%) XSLT
14 8 (0.49%) JWT
14 8 (0.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
2 64 (3.94%) Data Structures
3 45 (2.77%) Management Information System
3 45 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 32 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 31 (1.91%) FMCG
7 23 (1.42%) Cloud Native
8 21 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (0.98%) AI Agents
10 16 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (0.80%) IoT
13 12 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (0.74%) Taxonomies
13 12 (0.74%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.68%) Life Science
14 11 (0.68%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.05%) Windows
2 4 (0.25%) Linux
3 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.062%) AIX
5 1 (0.062%) Android
5 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.062%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.062%) Unix
5 1 (0.062%) VMS
5 1 (0.062%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (27.88%) Migration
2 385 (23.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 314 (19.32%) Data Migration
4 280 (17.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 242 (14.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 211 (12.98%) Agile
6 211 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 211 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
7 187 (11.51%) Validation
8 183 (11.26%) Change Management
9 181 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
10 153 (9.42%) Data Modelling
11 151 (9.29%) CRM
12 150 (9.23%) Project Management
13 144 (8.86%) Analytics
14 135 (8.31%) Roadmaps
15 114 (7.02%) Project Delivery
16 112 (6.89%) Process Improvement
16 112 (6.89%) Procure-to-Pay
17 108 (6.65%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 153 (9.42%) SQL
2 61 (3.75%) Python
3 33 (2.03%) JavaScript
4 28 (1.72%) Java
5 27 (1.66%) PL/SQL
6 24 (1.48%) C#
7 15 (0.92%) Apex Code
7 15 (0.92%) Ruby
7 15 (0.92%) X++
8 13 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (0.74%) ABAP
10 11 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.31%) Groovy
12 5 (0.31%) VBA
13 4 (0.25%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.18%) C++
14 3 (0.18%) Korn
14 3 (0.18%) SOQL
14 3 (0.18%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 173 (10.65%) Security Cleared
2 122 (7.51%) SC Cleared
3 95 (5.85%) Degree
4 67 (4.12%) CIMA
5 65 (4.00%) ACCA
6 33 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.97%) PMP
8 26 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 14 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.49%) SAP Certification
13 7 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.31%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.25%) CISM
15 4 (0.25%) CISSP
15 4 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
16 3 (0.18%) CCAB
16 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.18%) Data Quality
2 73 (4.49%) GDPR
3 45 (2.77%) PMO
3 45 (2.77%) QA
4 23 (1.42%) IFRS
5 18 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (0.98%) GAAP
7 14 (0.86%) SLA
8 12 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.55%) NCSC
10 7 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.43%) GMP
11 6 (0.37%) GRC
11 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.18%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (0.43%) Active Directory
1 7 (0.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.062%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (0.80%) Terraform
2 9 (0.55%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.31%) Grafana
4 5 (0.31%) Kibana
5 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.18%) MOM
6 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.062%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.062%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 488 (30.03%) SAP
2 448 (27.57%) Oracle
3 273 (16.80%) Microsoft
4 70 (4.31%) Salesforce
5 69 (4.25%) IFS
6 67 (4.12%) Workday
7 52 (3.20%) Siemens
8 50 (3.08%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.22%) Databricks
9 36 (2.22%) Sage
10 27 (1.66%) MuleSoft
11 26 (1.60%) Ariba
12 16 (0.98%) Infor
13 15 (0.92%) Concur
14 14 (0.86%) JD Edwards
15 13 (0.80%) Google
16 12 (0.74%) Epicor
17 10 (0.62%) Informatica
18 8 (0.49%) Foundry
18 8 (0.49%) SYSPRO