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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 99 103
Rank change year-on-year +34 +4 +28
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,382 660 802
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 2.71% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 2.98% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 402 527
10th Percentile £361 £355 £363
25th Percentile £463 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £648 £675 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 17 28
10th Percentile £17.73 £39.16 £13.05
25th Percentile £28.85 £65.00 £16.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +72.35% -35.02%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £63.16
90th Percentile £60.00 - £86.50
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £41.23
% change year-on-year -20.69% +75.84% -34.03%

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 33,405 22,176 32,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 90.94% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,387 14,594 21,148
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 £613 £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 2,074 880 2,191
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.88 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.61% -6.24% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.79 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.16% -6.87% -8.79%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +28 612 £550 - 206
South East +10 203 £525 -4.55% 159
North of England +33 194 £550 +25.71% 137
Midlands -18 137 £540 +8.00% 134
South West +16 121 £525 +10.53% 58
North West +40 115 £500 +2.41% 73
West Midlands -17 92 £565 +13.00% 81
East of England +7 84 £563 -6.25% 60
Yorkshire -15 66 £595 +48.75% 54
East Midlands -13 44 £494 +3.95% 53
North East -16 13 £500 +11.11% 10
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 14 (1.01%) Confluence
1 14 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
2 13 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (0.51%) 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 55 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.36%) PTC Creo
8 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 3 (0.22%) Windchill
9 1 (0.072%) InVision
9 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 170 (12.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 100 (7.24%) Oracle ERP
3 55 (3.98%) Oracle EBS
4 46 (3.33%) SAP ERP
5 39 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
6 33 (2.39%) Oracle Payables
7 28 (2.03%) NetSuite
7 28 (2.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 22 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
9 17 (1.23%) Shopify
10 16 (1.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 13 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
11 13 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
11 13 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
12 12 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
12 12 (0.87%) Workday HCM
13 11 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
13 11 (0.80%) Teamcenter
14 10 (0.72%) Oracle 11i
15 8 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 181 (13.10%) Azure
2 157 (11.36%) Dynamics 365
3 126 (9.12%) OCI
4 122 (8.83%) Power Platform
5 77 (5.57%) SaaS
6 50 (3.62%) AWS
7 41 (2.97%) PaaS
8 33 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.59%) Boomi
10 21 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
11 20 (1.45%) GCP
12 19 (1.37%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.30%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.23%) IaaS
15 14 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
17 12 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
18 11 (0.80%) iPaaS
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 (7.16%) Power BI
2 60 (4.34%) Oracle Reports
3 42 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
5 19 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 17 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.72%) Metadata
10 9 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.58%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.51%) Tableau
13 5 (0.36%) GIS
13 5 (0.36%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.29%) Power Query
14 4 (0.29%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.29%) SAP HANA
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%) GitLab
5 8 (0.58%) SoapUI
6 7 (0.51%) Selenium
7 5 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.36%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
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
1 722 (52.24%) Finance
2 411 (29.74%) Social Skills
3 207 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.89%) Manufacturing
6 67 (4.85%) Retail
7 58 (4.20%) Local Government
8 44 (3.18%) Law
9 43 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 42 (3.04%) Legal
11 37 (2.68%) Banking
12 35 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (2.17%) General Ledger
14 23 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 23 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.37%) Billing
15 19 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.37%) Military
16 16 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 233 (16.86%) Lead
2 197 (14.25%) Architect
3 190 (13.75%) Consultant
4 150 (10.85%) Analyst
5 136 (9.84%) Project Manager
6 125 (9.04%) Senior
7 93 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
8 78 (5.64%) Business Analyst
9 65 (4.70%) Developer
10 57 (4.12%) ERP Manager
11 49 (3.55%) Accountant
11 49 (3.55%) Implementation Consultant
12 44 (3.18%) SAP Manager
13 39 (2.82%) Senior Manager
14 38 (2.75%) SAP Consultant
15 36 (2.60%) Financial Analyst
16 35 (2.53%) Lead Architect
17 34 (2.46%) Systems Accountant
18 33 (2.39%) Transformation Manager
19 31 (2.24%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (12.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 78 (5.64%) REST
3 59 (4.27%) Middleware
4 52 (3.76%) SOAP
5 45 (3.26%) XML
6 42 (3.04%) JSON
7 36 (2.60%) Web Services
8 22 (1.59%) OAuth
9 19 (1.37%) XSLT
10 16 (1.16%) .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 80 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
2 51 (3.69%) Data Structures
3 44 (3.18%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 26 (1.88%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.23%) Cloud Native
9 16 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (0.94%) AI Agents
11 13 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (0.94%) FMCG
12 12 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.80%) IoT
14 9 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.51%) Life Science
15 7 (0.51%) SCADA
15 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
1 386 (27.93%) Migration
2 278 (20.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 248 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 247 (17.87%) Data Migration
5 214 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
6 199 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
7 189 (13.68%) Agile
8 171 (12.37%) Change Management
9 161 (11.65%) Project Management
10 157 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 155 (11.22%) Validation
12 139 (10.06%) Business Intelligence
13 125 (9.04%) CRM
14 109 (7.89%) Data Modelling
15 100 (7.24%) Procure-to-Pay
16 99 (7.16%) Project Delivery
17 98 (7.09%) Roadmaps
18 95 (6.87%) DevOps
19 85 (6.15%) Analytics
20 83 (6.01%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.83%) SQL
2 40 (2.89%) Python
3 36 (2.60%) PL/SQL
4 25 (1.81%) Java
5 24 (1.74%) C#
6 13 (0.94%) 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 5 (0.36%) Korn
10 5 (0.36%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.36%) VBA
10 5 (0.36%) X++
11 4 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.22%) C++
12 3 (0.22%) Perl
13 2 (0.14%) SOQL
13 2 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 165 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 121 (8.76%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.60%) Degree
4 75 (5.43%) CIMA
5 64 (4.63%) ACCA
6 41 (2.97%) PMP
7 31 (2.24%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
12 10 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.58%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.58%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.43%) APMP
14 6 (0.43%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.43%) OCA
15 5 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.29%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 62 (4.49%) QA
3 57 (4.12%) GDPR
4 47 (3.40%) PMO
5 18 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.09%) SLA
7 14 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.94%) 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 3 (0.22%) Docker
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.072%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.36%) Terraform
2 4 (0.29%) HP ALM
2 4 (0.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.22%) Control-M
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
1 408 (29.52%) Oracle
2 394 (28.51%) SAP
3 221 (15.99%) Microsoft
4 79 (5.72%) Workday
5 55 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 52 (3.76%) IFS
7 51 (3.69%) Siemens
8 35 (2.53%) Databricks
9 32 (2.32%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.03%) Sage
11 24 (1.74%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.59%) Ariba
13 15 (1.09%) Informatica
14 9 (0.65%) Foundry
15 8 (0.58%) Google
16 7 (0.51%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.51%) Talend
17 6 (0.43%) IBM
18 5 (0.36%) Adobe
18 5 (0.36%) Epicor