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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 88 103
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -4
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,003 795 947
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.33% 2.59% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 2.98% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 437 610
10th Percentile £350 £363 £387
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £562
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.74% +4.49%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 27 31
10th Percentile £6.00 £16.04 £51.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £28.00 £59.02
Median hourly rate £21.40 £35.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.86% -58.82% +289.19%
75th Percentile £30.00 £72.50 £88.75
90th Percentile £51.02 £75.00 £93.75
UK median hourly rate £21.65 £35.18 £85.00
% change year-on-year -38.46% -58.61% +148.45%

All Process and 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 27,183 26,639 35,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.25% 86.82% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,253 16,245 24,094
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 955 1,480
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £47.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.94 £74.82 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 +31 447 £575 +4.55% 426
South East +37 168 £515 +3.00% 246
Midlands -31 109 £550 +4.76% 163
North of England -28 101 £525 +5.00% 183
South West +4 86 £600 +20.00% 74
North West +6 78 £513 +2.50% 105
East of England +16 66 £550 +15.79% 62
West Midlands -44 65 £575 +9.52% 109
East Midlands -7 44 £525 -12.50% 53
Yorkshire -60 20 £538 +26.47% 62
North East -9 3 £500 -12.66% 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 22 (2.19%) Confluence
2 17 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.40%) CMS
5 4 (0.40%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.30%) Documentum
6 3 (0.30%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.20%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.100%) Apache
8 1 (0.100%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.100%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.100%) Camunda
8 1 (0.100%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.100%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.100%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.39%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.40%) Trello
7 2 (0.20%) InVision
7 2 (0.20%) Sketch
7 2 (0.20%) Windchill
8 1 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.100%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.100%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.100%) Notion
8 1 (0.100%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 125 (12.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 80 (7.98%) Oracle ERP
3 49 (4.89%) SAP ERP
4 35 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 33 (3.29%) Oracle EBS
6 29 (2.89%) Oracle Payables
7 28 (2.79%) NetSuite
8 21 (2.09%) Oracle General Ledger
9 20 (1.99%) Oracle Receivables
10 19 (1.89%) Oracle Assets
11 17 (1.69%) SAP EWM
12 14 (1.40%) Oracle Cash Management
12 14 (1.40%) Oracle EBS R12
12 14 (1.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 14 (1.40%) Oracle SCM
12 14 (1.40%) Unit4 Business World
13 13 (1.30%) SAP WM
14 10 (1.00%) Primavera
15 7 (0.70%) SAP IBP
16 6 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 129 (12.86%) Azure
2 111 (11.07%) OCI
3 90 (8.97%) SaaS
4 87 (8.67%) Dynamics 365
5 82 (8.18%) Power Platform
6 28 (2.79%) PaaS
7 27 (2.69%) AWS
8 20 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (1.79%) Lucidchart
10 15 (1.50%) Power Automate
11 14 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (1.40%) Entra ID
12 13 (1.30%) Boomi
12 13 (1.30%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
14 9 (0.90%) Smartsheet
14 9 (0.90%) Tricentis Tosca
15 8 (0.80%) GCP
15 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.100%) Internet
1 1 (0.100%) LAN
1 1 (0.100%) Network Security
1 1 (0.100%) SAN
1 1 (0.100%) VPN
1 1 (0.100%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (6.48%) Power BI
2 48 (4.79%) Oracle Reports
3 31 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 25 (2.49%) Oracle Database
5 19 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.60%) SAP HANA
7 15 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 8 (0.80%) Power Query
10 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.70%) SAP BW
10 7 (0.70%) Tableau
11 6 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.50%) GIS
12 5 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
12 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.30%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle BI EE
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database 11g
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 43 (4.29%) JIRA
2 11 (1.10%) Postman
3 9 (0.90%) GitLab
4 8 (0.80%) Git
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.20%) Hudson
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.20%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.100%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.100%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.100%) MLflow
8 1 (0.100%) QADirector
8 1 (0.100%) Selenium
8 1 (0.100%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.100%) TestRail
General
1 494 (49.25%) Finance
2 342 (34.10%) Social Skills
3 134 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 106 (10.57%) Manufacturing
6 41 (4.09%) Retail
7 39 (3.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 37 (3.69%) Legal
9 36 (3.59%) Local Government
10 34 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (2.89%) Banking
12 29 (2.89%) General Ledger
13 28 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (2.49%) Billing
15 24 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (2.19%) Marketing
17 18 (1.79%) Aerospace
17 18 (1.79%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 135 (13.46%) Consultant
2 129 (12.86%) Analyst
3 123 (12.26%) Lead
4 99 (9.87%) Project Manager
5 93 (9.27%) Architect
6 60 (5.98%) Senior
7 58 (5.78%) Business Analyst
8 52 (5.18%) Developer
9 37 (3.69%) ERP Manager
9 37 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (3.59%) SAP Consultant
11 35 (3.49%) SAP Manager
12 30 (2.99%) Oracle Consultant
13 29 (2.89%) Functional Consultant
14 25 (2.49%) ERP Support
15 24 (2.39%) ERP Project Manager
16 23 (2.29%) ERP Analyst
16 23 (2.29%) Programme Manager
17 21 (2.09%) Administrator
17 21 (2.09%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (13.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 45 (4.49%) REST
3 30 (2.99%) SOAP
3 30 (2.99%) Web Services
4 27 (2.69%) Middleware
5 24 (2.39%) JSON
5 24 (2.39%) XML
6 18 (1.79%) .NET
7 12 (1.20%) OAuth
8 11 (1.10%) XSLT
9 8 (0.80%) EDI
9 8 (0.80%) HTML
10 6 (0.60%) CSS
10 6 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.40%) ADO
11 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.40%) SAP Basis
12 3 (0.30%) IDoc
12 3 (0.30%) JWT
12 3 (0.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 50 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
2 44 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 28 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 16 (1.60%) Life Science
7 14 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.30%) FMCG
8 13 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.20%) AS400
9 12 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.80%) e-Learning
13 7 (0.70%) IoT
13 7 (0.70%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (0.70%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.50%) Windows
2 4 (0.40%) Unix
3 2 (0.20%) Android
3 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Linux
4 1 (0.100%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (20.84%) Migration
2 192 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
3 178 (17.75%) Agile
4 171 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 168 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 149 (14.86%) Data Migration
7 122 (12.16%) CRM
8 117 (11.67%) Change Management
9 103 (10.27%) User Acceptance Testing
10 102 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (9.77%) Project Management
12 95 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
13 86 (8.57%) Project Delivery
14 82 (8.18%) Roadmaps
15 75 (7.48%) Validation
16 64 (6.38%) DevOps
17 63 (6.28%) Workshop Facilitation
18 56 (5.58%) Analytics
19 55 (5.48%) Data Management
19 55 (5.48%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 143 (14.26%) SQL
2 34 (3.39%) PL/SQL
3 19 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 17 (1.69%) C#
4 17 (1.69%) Python
5 13 (1.30%) Java
6 8 (0.80%) VBA
7 6 (0.60%) Groovy
7 6 (0.60%) X++
8 5 (0.50%) ABAP
8 5 (0.50%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.40%) PHP
10 3 (0.30%) R
10 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.20%) Korn
11 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.20%) XPath
12 1 (0.100%) C++
12 1 (0.100%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 117 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 107 (10.67%) Degree
3 96 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 30 (2.99%) PMP
5 29 (2.89%) PMI Certification
6 26 (2.59%) CIMA
7 24 (2.39%) ACCA
8 22 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.79%) SAP Certification
11 13 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 10 (1.00%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.70%) OCA
15 5 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 3 (0.30%) APMG
16 3 (0.30%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.99%) QA
2 36 (3.59%) Data Quality
2 36 (3.59%) PMO
3 32 (3.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 28 (2.79%) GDPR
5 11 (1.10%) SLA
6 9 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.90%) NIST
7 8 (0.80%) GxP
7 8 (0.80%) IFRS
7 8 (0.80%) ITGC
8 7 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.70%) APQC
9 6 (0.60%) COBIT
9 6 (0.60%) SOX 404
10 4 (0.40%) GMP
10 4 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.30%) GAAP
11 3 (0.30%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 8 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.50%) Docker
3 1 (0.100%) Firmware
3 1 (0.100%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.100%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (0.70%) Terraform
2 5 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.100%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.100%) Control-M
5 1 (0.100%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.100%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 369 (36.79%) Oracle
2 292 (29.11%) SAP
3 140 (13.96%) Microsoft
4 61 (6.08%) Salesforce
5 59 (5.88%) Workday
6 37 (3.69%) IFS
7 16 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.10%) Databricks
9 10 (1.00%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.00%) Sage
10 9 (0.90%) Ariba
11 7 (0.70%) Hyperion
12 6 (0.60%) Adobe
13 5 (0.50%) Anaplan
13 5 (0.50%) PeopleSoft
14 4 (0.40%) Axway
14 4 (0.40%) Murex
14 4 (0.40%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.30%) Adaptive Insights
15 3 (0.30%) Google