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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 100 105
Rank change year-on-year +36 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,381 661 816
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.53% 2.71% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 2.99% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 402 533
10th Percentile £363 £355 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £674 £638
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 17 32
10th Percentile £18.27 £39.16 £13.17
25th Percentile £30.00 £65.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +40.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £69.16
90th Percentile £60.00 - £86.50
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -20.69% +34.88% -14.00%

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 33,535 22,134 32,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.78% 90.89% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,490 14,584 21,356
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £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 2,083 869 2,177
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.72 £19.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -1.71% -11.83%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.65 £70.43
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.17%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +30 614 £550 - 210
South East +14 203 £530 -3.64% 200
North of England +36 195 £550 +25.71% 135
Midlands -9 135 £550 +10.00% 113
South West +20 121 £525 +10.53% 64
North West +47 117 £500 +2.41% 65
West Midlands -22 91 £565 +13.00% 79
East of England +3 83 £563 -4.26% 69
Yorkshire -8 67 £595 +48.75% 59
East Midlands -9 43 £494 +3.95% 34
North East -17 11 £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 15 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.01%) Confluence
2 14 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
3 12 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 9 (0.65%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.29%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle Service Bus
5 4 (0.29%) SAP EP
6 3 (0.22%) Apache
6 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.22%) Documentum
6 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.072%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.072%) CMS
8 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.072%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.36%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.29%) Trello
9 3 (0.22%) Windchill
10 1 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.072%) InVision
10 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 172 (12.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 103 (7.46%) Oracle ERP
3 55 (3.98%) Oracle EBS
4 49 (3.55%) SAP ERP
5 44 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 36 (2.61%) Oracle Payables
7 28 (2.03%) NetSuite
8 27 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 25 (1.81%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (1.23%) Shopify
11 16 (1.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 15 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
13 13 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
13 13 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
13 13 (0.94%) Unit4 Business World
14 12 (0.87%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
15 11 (0.80%) Teamcenter
16 10 (0.72%) Oracle 11i
17 9 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 183 (13.25%) Azure
2 164 (11.88%) Dynamics 365
3 129 (9.34%) OCI
4 123 (8.91%) Power Platform
5 78 (5.65%) SaaS
6 50 (3.62%) AWS
7 41 (2.97%) PaaS
8 33 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.67%) Power Automate
10 22 (1.59%) Boomi
11 21 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (1.52%) GCP
11 21 (1.52%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
12 16 (1.16%) IaaS
13 14 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (0.87%) iPaaS
14 12 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.14%) Firewall
1 2 (0.14%) FTP
1 2 (0.14%) LAN
2 1 (0.072%) 5G
2 1 (0.072%) DHCP
2 1 (0.072%) DNS
2 1 (0.072%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.072%) HTTP
2 1 (0.072%) Intranet
2 1 (0.072%) Modbus
2 1 (0.072%) RFID
2 1 (0.072%) SMS
2 1 (0.072%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.072%) VoIP
2 1 (0.072%) VPN
2 1 (0.072%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (7.17%) Power BI
2 58 (4.20%) Oracle Reports
3 44 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (1.74%) Oracle ODI
5 19 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 17 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 17 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (0.72%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.65%) Metadata
10 8 (0.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.51%) GIS
12 6 (0.43%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.43%) Tableau
13 5 (0.36%) Power Query
13 5 (0.36%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.36%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 71 (5.14%) JIRA
2 26 (1.88%) Postman
3 18 (1.30%) Git
4 15 (1.09%) Hudson
5 8 (0.58%) SoapUI
6 7 (0.51%) GitLab
6 7 (0.51%) Selenium
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.36%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.14%) Gradle
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.14%) TestRail
11 1 (0.072%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.072%) JMeter
11 1 (0.072%) QADirector
11 1 (0.072%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 719 (52.06%) Finance
2 417 (30.20%) Social Skills
3 199 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.75%) Manufacturing
6 69 (5.00%) Retail
7 59 (4.27%) Local Government
8 44 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.19%) Law
9 41 (2.97%) Legal
10 39 (2.82%) Banking
11 32 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (2.17%) General Ledger
13 24 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 23 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.30%) Billing
17 18 (1.30%) Marketing
17 18 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 225 (16.29%) Lead
2 200 (14.48%) Architect
3 195 (14.12%) Consultant
4 151 (10.93%) Analyst
5 140 (10.14%) Project Manager
6 122 (8.83%) Senior
7 95 (6.88%) Solutions Architect
8 78 (5.65%) Business Analyst
9 66 (4.78%) Developer
10 58 (4.20%) ERP Manager
11 49 (3.55%) Implementation Consultant
12 47 (3.40%) Accountant
13 46 (3.33%) SAP Manager
14 39 (2.82%) SAP Consultant
14 39 (2.82%) Senior Manager
15 37 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
16 35 (2.53%) Lead Architect
17 33 (2.39%) Transformation Manager
18 32 (2.32%) Systems Accountant
19 31 (2.24%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (12.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 81 (5.87%) REST
3 60 (4.34%) Middleware
4 55 (3.98%) SOAP
5 45 (3.26%) XML
6 42 (3.04%) JSON
7 36 (2.61%) Web Services
8 22 (1.59%) OAuth
9 19 (1.38%) XSLT
10 18 (1.30%) .NET
11 14 (1.01%) JWT
12 11 (0.80%) PySpark
12 11 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
13 10 (0.72%) EDI
14 7 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
15 6 (0.43%) ADO
15 6 (0.43%) Kafka
15 6 (0.43%) Node.js
15 6 (0.43%) SAPUI5
16 5 (0.36%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
2 50 (3.62%) Data Structures
3 42 (3.04%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 26 (1.88%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.09%) FMCG
10 13 (0.94%) AI Agents
10 13 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (0.80%) IoT
13 9 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.51%) Life Science
14 7 (0.51%) SCADA
14 7 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.94%) Windows
2 5 (0.36%) Linux
3 3 (0.22%) Unix
4 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (27.81%) Migration
2 271 (19.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 250 (18.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 247 (17.89%) Data Migration
5 210 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
6 197 (14.27%) User Acceptance Testing
7 191 (13.83%) Agile
8 171 (12.38%) Change Management
9 163 (11.80%) Project Management
10 156 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 151 (10.93%) Validation
12 140 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
13 128 (9.27%) CRM
14 108 (7.82%) Data Modelling
15 101 (7.31%) Project Delivery
16 97 (7.02%) Roadmaps
17 96 (6.95%) DevOps
17 96 (6.95%) Procure-to-Pay
18 85 (6.15%) Analytics
19 84 (6.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 127 (9.20%) SQL
2 39 (2.82%) Python
3 38 (2.75%) PL/SQL
4 26 (1.88%) C#
5 25 (1.81%) Java
6 15 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.65%) ABAP
8 8 (0.58%) Apex Code
8 8 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (0.58%) Ruby
9 7 (0.51%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.43%) VBA
11 5 (0.36%) Korn
11 5 (0.36%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.36%) X++
12 3 (0.22%) C++
12 3 (0.22%) Perl
13 2 (0.14%) SOQL
13 2 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 168 (12.17%) Security Cleared
2 122 (8.83%) SC Cleared
3 108 (7.82%) Degree
4 73 (5.29%) CIMA
5 62 (4.49%) ACCA
6 41 (2.97%) PMP
7 31 (2.24%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
12 10 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.58%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.58%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.43%) APMP
15 6 (0.43%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.43%) OCA
16 5 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 4 (0.29%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 61 (4.42%) QA
3 56 (4.06%) GDPR
4 50 (3.62%) PMO
5 17 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.09%) SLA
7 14 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.87%) IFRS
9 10 (0.72%) ITGC
9 10 (0.72%) NIST
10 9 (0.65%) GAAP
11 7 (0.51%) COBIT
11 7 (0.51%) SOX 404
12 6 (0.43%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.43%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.43%) NCSC
13 5 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.36%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.072%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.36%) Terraform
2 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.22%) Control-M
3 3 (0.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.14%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.14%) MOM
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.072%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.072%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.072%) Kibana
5 1 (0.072%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 411 (29.76%) Oracle
2 394 (28.53%) SAP
3 229 (16.58%) Microsoft
4 78 (5.65%) Workday
5 55 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 51 (3.69%) Siemens
7 50 (3.62%) IFS
8 34 (2.46%) Databricks
9 30 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.03%) Sage
11 24 (1.74%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.52%) Ariba
13 15 (1.09%) Informatica
14 9 (0.65%) Foundry
15 7 (0.51%) Google
15 7 (0.51%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.51%) Talend
16 6 (0.43%) Adobe
16 6 (0.43%) IBM
17 5 (0.36%) Epicor