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

 6 months to
5 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 85 103
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,251 742 844
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.44% 2.93% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.24% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 440 558
10th Percentile £350 £357 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +1.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £643
90th Percentile £730 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 17 36
10th Percentile £18.10 £17.18 £13.66
25th Percentile £25.29 £35.00 £35.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £59.65
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +13.17% -4.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £86.50
90th Percentile £58.80 - £90.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £61.79
% change year-on-year -14.81% +9.24% -1.14%

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 31,583 22,934 32,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.97% 90.41% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,210 14,556 21,603
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £618 £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 1,944 784 2,086
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63.81 £65.00 £59.33
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.18 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.05% -6.16%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +8 541 £575 +4.55% 254
North of England +17 179 £550 +15.79% 145
South East -3 153 £550 +4.76% 226
Midlands -22 137 £550 +4.76% 142
South West +17 125 £525 +13.26% 60
North West +31 117 £500 +2.41% 81
West Midlands -23 94 £565 +8.65% 81
East of England +3 82 £550 +1.15% 84
Yorkshire -34 56 £595 +48.75% 54
East Midlands -18 42 £525 - 59
North East -17 6 £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 (1.44%) Confluence
1 18 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 18 (1.44%) Oracle Workflow
1 18 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.48%) WebLogic
3 4 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
4 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.24%) Documentum
4 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.16%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.16%) SAP EP
6 1 (0.080%) Apache
6 1 (0.080%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.080%) CMS
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.080%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 50 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.68%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.40%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.32%) Trello
8 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.16%) InVision
9 2 (0.16%) Sketch
9 2 (0.16%) Windchill
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 165 (13.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 86 (6.87%) Oracle ERP
3 48 (3.84%) Oracle EBS
4 47 (3.76%) SAP ERP
5 43 (3.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 37 (2.96%) Oracle Payables
7 28 (2.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 27 (2.16%) NetSuite
9 21 (1.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 18 (1.44%) Oracle General Ledger
11 17 (1.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 17 (1.36%) Shopify
12 16 (1.28%) Oracle Assets
13 15 (1.20%) Workday HCM
14 13 (1.04%) Oracle Cash Management
15 11 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
16 10 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
17 9 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
17 9 (0.72%) SAP EWM
17 9 (0.72%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 189 (15.11%) Azure
2 147 (11.75%) OCI
3 129 (10.31%) Dynamics 365
4 88 (7.03%) SaaS
5 87 (6.95%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.12%) PaaS
7 37 (2.96%) AWS
8 31 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.84%) Boomi
9 23 (1.84%) Power Automate
9 23 (1.84%) PowerApps
10 21 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
12 19 (1.52%) GCP
13 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (1.20%) IaaS
14 15 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (1.04%) Copilot Studio
16 12 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.080%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.080%) Firewall
1 1 (0.080%) LAN
1 1 (0.080%) Modbus
1 1 (0.080%) Network Security
1 1 (0.080%) RFID
1 1 (0.080%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.96%) Power BI
2 55 (4.40%) Oracle Reports
3 40 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 19 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 15 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 14 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 13 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.72%) Oracle ODI
11 8 (0.64%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.56%) GIS
12 7 (0.56%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.48%) Tableau
14 5 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.32%) Power Query
15 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 3 (0.24%) Oracle BI EE
16 3 (0.24%) Oracle Database 11g
16 3 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (4.96%) JIRA
2 26 (2.08%) Postman
3 9 (0.72%) Git
4 7 (0.56%) GitLab
4 7 (0.56%) Hudson
4 7 (0.56%) SoapUI
5 6 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.48%) Selenium
6 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.24%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.24%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.16%) Gradle
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.16%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.16%) TestRail
10 1 (0.080%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.080%) JMeter
10 1 (0.080%) QADirector
10 1 (0.080%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 627 (50.12%) Finance
2 428 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 171 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 99 (7.91%) Manufacturing
6 59 (4.72%) Local Government
7 50 (4.00%) Retail
8 45 (3.60%) Legal
9 38 (3.04%) Banking
10 35 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
11 33 (2.64%) General Ledger
12 30 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 24 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.60%) Billing
17 19 (1.52%) Marketing
18 17 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (1.12%) Financial Institution
19 14 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 199 (15.91%) Consultant
2 155 (12.39%) Lead
3 142 (11.35%) Architect
4 137 (10.95%) Project Manager
5 119 (9.51%) Analyst
6 102 (8.15%) Senior
7 73 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
8 72 (5.76%) Business Analyst
9 61 (4.88%) Developer
10 51 (4.08%) ERP Manager
11 48 (3.84%) Implementation Consultant
12 47 (3.76%) SAP Consultant
13 46 (3.68%) SAP Manager
14 37 (2.96%) Accountant
15 32 (2.56%) Senior Manager
16 28 (2.24%) Delivery Manager
16 28 (2.24%) Oracle Specialist
16 28 (2.24%) Systems Accountant
16 28 (2.24%) Transformation Manager
17 27 (2.16%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (15.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 78 (6.24%) REST
3 54 (4.32%) Middleware
4 53 (4.24%) SOAP
5 44 (3.52%) XML
6 43 (3.44%) JSON
7 40 (3.20%) Web Services
8 21 (1.68%) OAuth
9 18 (1.44%) XSLT
10 17 (1.36%) .NET
11 12 (0.96%) JWT
12 10 (0.80%) EDI
13 8 (0.64%) HTML
13 8 (0.64%) PySpark
13 8 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (0.56%) ADO
15 5 (0.40%) GraphQL
15 5 (0.40%) Node.js
15 5 (0.40%) RESTful
16 4 (0.32%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 36 (2.88%) Data Structures
4 26 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.28%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.20%) FMCG
8 15 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 11 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (0.88%) IoT
10 10 (0.80%) Cloud Native
10 10 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.72%) Life Science
12 8 (0.64%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.56%) LIMS
13 7 (0.56%) SCADA
13 7 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.20%) Windows
2 6 (0.48%) Linux
3 3 (0.24%) Unix
4 1 (0.080%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (24.38%) Migration
2 240 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 217 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
4 215 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 183 (14.63%) Data Migration
6 181 (14.47%) Agile
7 152 (12.15%) Project Management
8 142 (11.35%) Change Management
9 140 (11.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 121 (9.67%) CRM
11 118 (9.43%) Validation
12 115 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (8.31%) Roadmaps
14 100 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
15 93 (7.43%) Project Delivery
16 86 (6.87%) Workshop Facilitation
17 81 (6.47%) DevOps
18 79 (6.31%) Analytics
19 65 (5.20%) Data Modelling
19 65 (5.20%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 120 (9.59%) SQL
2 35 (2.80%) PL/SQL
3 30 (2.40%) Python
4 26 (2.08%) C#
5 19 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.20%) Java
7 7 (0.56%) ABAP
7 7 (0.56%) Groovy
8 6 (0.48%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.48%) X++
9 5 (0.40%) VBA
10 4 (0.32%) C++
10 4 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.32%) Korn
10 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.24%) Perl
12 2 (0.16%) PHP
12 2 (0.16%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 158 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 124 (9.91%) Degree
3 118 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.12%) CIMA
5 51 (4.08%) ACCA
6 38 (3.04%) PMP
7 30 (2.40%) PMI Certification
8 22 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.20%) SAP Certification
10 13 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.04%) ISTQB
11 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.80%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.56%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.56%) OCA
13 7 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 6 (0.48%) APMP
15 5 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 59 (4.72%) QA
3 48 (3.84%) PMO
4 43 (3.44%) GDPR
5 25 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (1.12%) SLA
7 13 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.88%) IFRS
9 10 (0.80%) ITGC
9 10 (0.80%) NIST
10 9 (0.72%) GAAP
11 7 (0.56%) COBIT
11 7 (0.56%) SOX 404
12 6 (0.48%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.48%) GxP
12 6 (0.48%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.48%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.48%) NCSC
13 5 (0.40%) GMP
System Software
1 7 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.24%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.080%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.40%) Terraform
2 4 (0.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.24%) Control-M
4 2 (0.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.080%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.080%) Kibana
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.080%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 401 (32.05%) Oracle
2 361 (28.86%) SAP
3 192 (15.35%) Microsoft
4 81 (6.47%) Workday
5 49 (3.92%) Salesforce
5 49 (3.92%) Siemens
6 39 (3.12%) IFS
7 29 (2.32%) Sage
8 27 (2.16%) Databricks
8 27 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.12%) Ariba
10 14 (1.12%) Informatica
11 9 (0.72%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.64%) Foundry
13 7 (0.56%) Adobe
14 6 (0.48%) Epicor
14 6 (0.48%) Google
15 5 (0.40%) JD Edwards
15 5 (0.40%) Talend
856 ERP jobs in England