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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 88 97
Rank change year-on-year +22 +9 +22
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,315 686 847
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 2.83% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 3.11% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 422 552
10th Percentile £363 £358 £351
25th Percentile £463 £427 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £668 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.56% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 17 39
10th Percentile £18.27 £17.18 £14.03
25th Percentile £25.38 £65.00 £27.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £86.50
90th Percentile £60.00 - £90.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% -8.00%

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 32,391 22,052 32,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.35% 90.83% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,759 14,493 21,652
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 1,980 839 2,155
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.56 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.44 £77.25 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.72%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +22 580 £552 +0.36% 212
North of England +30 186 £550 +20.55% 135
South East +2 182 £550 - 201
Midlands -22 135 £525 +5.00% 111
North West +42 118 £500 +2.41% 66
South West +19 116 £525 +13.26% 65
West Midlands -12 92 £565 +13.00% 77
East of England +2 84 £533 -5.33% 69
Yorkshire -18 59 £595 +48.75% 59
East Midlands -20 42 £500 +5.26% 34
North East -15 9 £500 - 14
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 18 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.22%) Confluence
3 13 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
4 12 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (0.53%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.30%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.30%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (0.30%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.23%) Apache
7 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.23%) Documentum
7 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.15%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.076%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.076%) CMS
9 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.076%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 51 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.38%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.30%) Trello
8 4 (0.30%) Windchill
9 1 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.076%) InVision
9 1 (0.076%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 164 (12.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 89 (6.77%) Oracle ERP
3 55 (4.18%) Oracle EBS
4 46 (3.50%) SAP ERP
5 41 (3.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 35 (2.66%) Oracle Payables
7 28 (2.13%) NetSuite
8 25 (1.90%) Oracle Receivables
9 24 (1.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 17 (1.29%) Shopify
11 16 (1.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 15 (1.14%) Oracle General Ledger
12 15 (1.14%) Workday HCM
13 14 (1.06%) Oracle Assets
14 12 (0.91%) Oracle EBS R12
15 11 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
15 11 (0.84%) Teamcenter
15 11 (0.84%) Unit4 Business World
16 9 (0.68%) Oracle 11i
16 9 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 189 (14.37%) Azure
2 156 (11.86%) Dynamics 365
3 129 (9.81%) OCI
4 114 (8.67%) Power Platform
5 82 (6.24%) SaaS
6 50 (3.80%) AWS
7 38 (2.89%) PaaS
8 36 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.83%) Power Automate
9 24 (1.83%) PowerApps
10 23 (1.75%) Boomi
11 21 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (1.52%) GCP
12 20 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
13 16 (1.22%) IaaS
14 15 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (0.91%) Copilot Studio
17 11 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.15%) Firewall
1 2 (0.15%) LAN
2 1 (0.076%) 5G
2 1 (0.076%) DHCP
2 1 (0.076%) DNS
2 1 (0.076%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.076%) HTTP
2 1 (0.076%) Intranet
2 1 (0.076%) Modbus
2 1 (0.076%) Network Security
2 1 (0.076%) RFID
2 1 (0.076%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.076%) VoIP
2 1 (0.076%) VPN
2 1 (0.076%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.77%) Power BI
2 58 (4.41%) Oracle Reports
3 43 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (1.29%) Data Lake
4 17 (1.29%) Oracle ODI
4 17 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 12 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.76%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.53%) GIS
10 7 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.53%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.46%) Tableau
12 5 (0.38%) Power Query
13 4 (0.30%) Metadata
14 3 (0.23%) Oracle BI EE
14 3 (0.23%) Oracle Database 11g
14 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 65 (4.94%) JIRA
2 26 (1.98%) Postman
3 19 (1.44%) Git
4 13 (0.99%) Hudson
5 8 (0.61%) SoapUI
6 7 (0.53%) GitLab
7 6 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.46%) Selenium
8 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.30%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.15%) Gradle
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.15%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.15%) TestRail
11 1 (0.076%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.076%) MLflow
11 1 (0.076%) QADirector
11 1 (0.076%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 667 (50.72%) Finance
2 423 (32.17%) Social Skills
3 186 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 102 (7.76%) Manufacturing
6 64 (4.87%) Retail
7 61 (4.64%) Local Government
8 40 (3.04%) Legal
9 39 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 35 (2.66%) Banking
11 33 (2.51%) Law
12 32 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (2.36%) General Ledger
14 23 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.44%) Marketing
17 16 (1.22%) Billing
17 16 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 200 (15.21%) Lead
2 195 (14.83%) Consultant
3 182 (13.84%) Architect
4 136 (10.34%) Analyst
5 135 (10.27%) Project Manager
6 112 (8.52%) Senior
7 85 (6.46%) Solutions Architect
8 76 (5.78%) Business Analyst
9 65 (4.94%) Developer
10 53 (4.03%) ERP Manager
11 48 (3.65%) Implementation Consultant
12 44 (3.35%) SAP Manager
13 42 (3.19%) Accountant
14 40 (3.04%) SAP Consultant
15 32 (2.43%) Senior Manager
16 31 (2.36%) Financial Analyst
16 31 (2.36%) Systems Accountant
17 30 (2.28%) Delivery Manager
18 29 (2.21%) Transformation Manager
19 27 (2.05%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (13.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 77 (5.86%) REST
3 57 (4.33%) Middleware
4 52 (3.95%) SOAP
5 45 (3.42%) XML
6 40 (3.04%) JSON
7 39 (2.97%) Web Services
8 23 (1.75%) OAuth
9 19 (1.44%) XSLT
10 17 (1.29%) .NET
11 14 (1.06%) JWT
12 11 (0.84%) PySpark
13 9 (0.68%) EDI
13 9 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (0.53%) ADO
14 7 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
15 6 (0.46%) Node.js
15 6 (0.46%) SAPUI5
16 5 (0.38%) GraphQL
16 5 (0.38%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 73 (5.55%) Legacy Systems
2 47 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 43 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 30 (2.28%) Product Ownership
5 23 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (1.67%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.22%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.14%) FMCG
8 15 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (0.91%) IoT
10 12 (0.91%) Onboarding
11 9 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.53%) LIMS
12 7 (0.53%) SCADA
12 7 (0.53%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.46%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.14%) Windows
2 6 (0.46%) Linux
3 3 (0.23%) Unix
4 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (26.77%) Migration
2 256 (19.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 240 (18.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 222 (16.88%) Data Migration
5 209 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (14.45%) Agile
7 180 (13.69%) User Acceptance Testing
8 163 (12.40%) Project Management
9 151 (11.48%) Change Management
10 142 (10.80%) Validation
11 139 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
13 125 (9.51%) CRM
14 98 (7.45%) Project Delivery
15 96 (7.30%) Data Modelling
15 96 (7.30%) DevOps
15 96 (7.30%) Roadmaps
16 85 (6.46%) Procure-to-Pay
17 80 (6.08%) Workshop Facilitation
18 78 (5.93%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 117 (8.90%) SQL
2 40 (3.04%) Python
3 36 (2.74%) PL/SQL
4 26 (1.98%) C#
5 25 (1.90%) Java
6 16 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.61%) ABAP
7 8 (0.61%) Apex Code
7 8 (0.61%) Ruby
8 7 (0.53%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.46%) VBA
9 6 (0.46%) X++
10 5 (0.38%) Korn
10 5 (0.38%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.23%) C++
11 3 (0.23%) Perl
12 2 (0.15%) PHP
12 2 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 169 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 123 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 111 (8.44%) Degree
4 68 (5.17%) CIMA
5 56 (4.26%) ACCA
6 39 (2.97%) PMP
7 31 (2.36%) PMI Certification
8 22 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.68%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.68%) SAP Certification
13 8 (0.61%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.46%) APMP
14 6 (0.46%) OCA
15 5 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.30%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.55%) Data Quality
2 60 (4.56%) QA
3 50 (3.80%) PMO
4 49 (3.73%) GDPR
5 18 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.06%) SLA
7 11 (0.84%) IFRS
8 10 (0.76%) ITGC
8 10 (0.76%) NIST
9 9 (0.68%) GAAP
10 7 (0.53%) COBIT
10 7 (0.53%) SOX 404
11 6 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.46%) IFRS 17
11 6 (0.46%) NCSC
12 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (0.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.30%) Docker
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.076%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.38%) Terraform
2 4 (0.30%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.23%) Control-M
3 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.15%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.15%) MOM
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.076%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.076%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.076%) Kibana
5 1 (0.076%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 396 (30.11%) Oracle
2 364 (27.68%) SAP
3 220 (16.73%) Microsoft
4 75 (5.70%) Workday
5 52 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 51 (3.88%) Siemens
7 46 (3.50%) IFS
8 32 (2.43%) Databricks
9 28 (2.13%) Sage
10 27 (2.05%) ServiceNow
11 23 (1.75%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.37%) Ariba
13 15 (1.14%) Informatica
14 9 (0.68%) Foundry
15 8 (0.61%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.53%) Adobe
17 6 (0.46%) Epicor
17 6 (0.46%) Google
17 6 (0.46%) IBM
17 6 (0.46%) Talend