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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 84 102
Rank change year-on-year +15 +18 +11
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,121 779 835
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 2.77% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.12% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 445 530
10th Percentile £360 £359 £374
25th Percentile £462 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £544 £532 £550
% change year-on-year +2.30% -3.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 17 33
10th Percentile £6.00 £15.25 £22.80
25th Percentile £15.75 £16.92 £55.00
Median hourly rate £22.85 £56.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.56% -33.53% +229.33%
75th Percentile £44.94 £73.75 £88.75
90th Percentile £51.02 £75.00 £93.05
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £56.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year -59.56% -33.53% +172.87%

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 28,064 24,952 32,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.52% 88.77% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,908 15,353 21,703
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,766 818 1,417
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +31 497 £575 +5.50% 189
South East +30 168 £515 +3.00% 193
North of England -19 143 £538 +7.50% 122
Midlands -32 118 £525 -2.33% 87
North West +14 95 £500 -0.50% 58
South West +6 94 £525 +5.00% 46
West Midlands -34 74 £550 +4.76% 64
East of England +6 73 £533 +6.50% 55
East Midlands -11 44 £525 -12.50% 23
Yorkshire -46 44 £593 +39.41% 52
North East -16 4 £500 - 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 26 (2.32%) Confluence
2 20 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 17 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (0.45%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.36%) CMS
5 4 (0.36%) Documentum
5 4 (0.36%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.18%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.18%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.089%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.089%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.089%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.089%) Camunda
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.089%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.23%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.45%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) InVision
7 2 (0.18%) Sketch
7 2 (0.18%) Windchill
8 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.089%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.089%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.089%) Notion
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 143 (12.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 90 (8.03%) Oracle ERP
3 54 (4.82%) SAP ERP
4 43 (3.84%) Oracle EBS
5 41 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
6 38 (3.39%) Oracle Payables
7 31 (2.77%) NetSuite
8 29 (2.59%) Oracle Receivables
9 24 (2.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 18 (1.61%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (1.43%) Oracle Cash Management
11 16 (1.43%) SAP EWM
11 16 (1.43%) Shopify
11 16 (1.43%) Unit4 Business World
12 14 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 14 (1.25%) Oracle SCM
13 13 (1.16%) SAP WM
14 12 (1.07%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
16 10 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 141 (12.58%) OCI
2 136 (12.13%) Azure
3 111 (9.90%) Dynamics 365
4 93 (8.30%) Power Platform
5 83 (7.40%) SaaS
6 37 (3.30%) PaaS
7 31 (2.77%) AWS
8 23 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
11 17 (1.52%) Lucidchart
11 17 (1.52%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (1.43%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.25%) Boomi
14 13 (1.16%) Entra ID
14 13 (1.16%) GCP
14 13 (1.16%) Tricentis Tosca
15 12 (1.07%) IaaS
16 10 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.089%) Internet
1 1 (0.089%) LAN
1 1 (0.089%) Network Security
1 1 (0.089%) SAN
1 1 (0.089%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.42%) Power BI
2 51 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
3 32 (2.85%) SQL Server
4 27 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.23%) Oracle Database
6 16 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 13 (1.16%) SAP HANA
9 10 (0.89%) Power Query
10 8 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.71%) Tableau
11 7 (0.62%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.62%) SAP BW
11 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
13 5 (0.45%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (0.36%) GIS
15 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database 11g
15 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 64 (5.71%) JIRA
2 22 (1.96%) Postman
3 11 (0.98%) GitLab
4 8 (0.71%) Git
4 8 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.36%) SoapUI
5 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.27%) Hudson
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.27%) Selenium
6 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.27%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.18%) Gradle
7 2 (0.18%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.18%) TestRail
8 1 (0.089%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.089%) MLflow
8 1 (0.089%) QADirector
General
1 545 (48.62%) Finance
2 406 (36.22%) Social Skills
3 138 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (11.60%) Public Sector
5 106 (9.46%) Manufacturing
6 47 (4.19%) Retail
7 43 (3.84%) Local Government
8 37 (3.30%) General Ledger
8 37 (3.30%) Legal
8 37 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 33 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.85%) Banking
10 32 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (2.14%) Billing
12 24 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.78%) Marketing
14 14 (1.25%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.07%) Law
Job Titles
1 143 (12.76%) Consultant
2 138 (12.31%) Lead
3 124 (11.06%) Analyst
4 118 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 114 (10.17%) Architect
6 75 (6.69%) Senior
7 59 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 53 (4.73%) Developer
9 52 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
10 45 (4.01%) ERP Manager
11 42 (3.75%) SAP Manager
12 40 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
13 31 (2.77%) Oracle Consultant
14 29 (2.59%) Functional Consultant
15 25 (2.23%) ERP Project Manager
15 25 (2.23%) Programme Manager
16 24 (2.14%) Oracle Specialist
17 23 (2.05%) ERP Analyst
17 23 (2.05%) ERP Support
17 23 (2.05%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (16.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 66 (5.89%) REST
3 45 (4.01%) SOAP
4 40 (3.57%) XML
5 38 (3.39%) Middleware
6 37 (3.30%) JSON
7 36 (3.21%) Web Services
8 20 (1.78%) OAuth
8 20 (1.78%) XSLT
9 15 (1.34%) .NET
10 13 (1.16%) EDI
11 10 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
12 9 (0.80%) JWT
13 7 (0.62%) HTML
14 6 (0.54%) ADO
15 4 (0.36%) BAPI
15 4 (0.36%) CSS
15 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (0.36%) XML Messaging
16 3 (0.27%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 59 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 32 (2.85%) Data Structures
4 30 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (1.78%) Public Cloud
7 17 (1.52%) Life Science
8 16 (1.43%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.16%) Onboarding
11 11 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.89%) FMCG
13 9 (0.80%) AS400
13 9 (0.80%) Synthetic Data
14 8 (0.71%) IoT
14 8 (0.71%) Mobile App
14 8 (0.71%) SCADA
14 8 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.62%) Windows
2 5 (0.45%) Linux
2 5 (0.45%) Unix
3 2 (0.18%) Android
3 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.089%) AIX
4 1 (0.089%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (20.16%) Migration
2 207 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
3 205 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 204 (18.20%) Agile
5 186 (16.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 143 (12.76%) Data Migration
7 123 (10.97%) CRM
8 118 (10.53%) Project Management
9 117 (10.44%) Change Management
10 113 (10.08%) User Acceptance Testing
11 100 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
13 95 (8.47%) Roadmaps
14 92 (8.21%) Project Delivery
15 85 (7.58%) Validation
16 75 (6.69%) DevOps
17 73 (6.51%) Workshop Facilitation
18 66 (5.89%) Analytics
19 59 (5.26%) Data Management
20 56 (5.00%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 142 (12.67%) SQL
2 37 (3.30%) PL/SQL
3 21 (1.87%) Python
4 20 (1.78%) C#
5 17 (1.52%) Java
5 17 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.89%) VBA
7 7 (0.62%) ABAP
8 6 (0.54%) Groovy
8 6 (0.54%) X++
9 5 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.27%) PHP
11 3 (0.27%) R
11 3 (0.27%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.27%) XPath
12 2 (0.18%) C++
12 2 (0.18%) Korn
12 2 (0.18%) Perl
12 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (14.27%) Security Cleared
2 138 (12.31%) Degree
3 126 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.03%) CIMA
5 32 (2.85%) PMP
6 31 (2.77%) ACCA
6 31 (2.77%) PMI Certification
7 23 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.69%) SAP Certification
10 15 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.98%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 10 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.80%) OCA
15 8 (0.71%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.54%) APMP
17 5 (0.45%) CFA
17 5 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.26%) QA
2 47 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 39 (3.48%) PMO
4 36 (3.21%) GDPR
5 30 (2.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.98%) GxP
8 10 (0.89%) IFRS
8 10 (0.89%) ITGC
8 10 (0.89%) NIST
9 9 (0.80%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.71%) SLA
11 7 (0.62%) COBIT
11 7 (0.62%) SOX 404
12 6 (0.54%) GAAP
13 5 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.45%) IFRS 17
13 5 (0.45%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.45%) NCSC
14 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.36%) Docker
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.089%) Firmware
4 1 (0.089%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (0.62%) Terraform
2 4 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.27%) Control-M
4 2 (0.18%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.089%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.089%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.089%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.089%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 417 (37.20%) Oracle
2 327 (29.17%) SAP
3 154 (13.74%) Microsoft
4 65 (5.80%) Workday
5 56 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.68%) IFS
7 22 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.43%) Databricks
9 12 (1.07%) Ariba
10 11 (0.98%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.89%) Sage
12 7 (0.62%) Adobe
12 7 (0.62%) Hyperion
12 7 (0.62%) Informatica
13 5 (0.45%) Anaplan
14 4 (0.36%) Concur
14 4 (0.36%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.36%) Epicor
14 4 (0.36%) Murex
14 4 (0.36%) PeopleSoft