SAP Architect Contracts in England

SAP Architect
UK > England

The median SAP Architect daily rate in England is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 475 507
Rank change year-on-year +73 +32 +178
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Architect 83 67 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 87
10th Percentile £550 £444 £538
25th Percentile £600 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £633 £678
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -6.71% +4.31%
75th Percentile £751 £747 £800
90th Percentile £874 £876 £875
UK median daily rate £650 £613 £678
% change year-on-year +6.12% -9.66% +0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

SAP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SAP Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAP Architect in England

SAP Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for SAP Architect in England

SAP Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Architect in England

SAP Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for SAP Architect in England

SAP Architect
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 SAP Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +48 40 £700 +3.70% 13
South East +57 16 £627 +0.32% 8
North of England +26 12 £593 +3.04% 5
North West +24 10 £593 - 3
Midlands +22 6 £630 +29.23% 4
West Midlands +15 6 £630 +40.00% 3
East of England +24 3 £638 -5.56% 1
South West +43 1 £465 -25.55% 1
North East - 1 - -
SAP Architect
UK

SAP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SAP Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SAP Architect in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) SAP
2 40 (48.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
4 21 (25.30%) Ariba
5 20 (24.10%) Security Cleared
6 18 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (20.48%) ERP
8 16 (19.28%) Migration
9 15 (18.07%) Finance
9 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
9 15 (18.07%) SuccessFactors
10 14 (16.87%) SAP Fiori
10 14 (16.87%) Roadmaps
10 14 (16.87%) ABAP
11 13 (15.66%) Technical Architecture
11 13 (15.66%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (14.46%) TOGAF
12 12 (14.46%) Manufacturing
13 11 (13.25%) Data Modelling
13 11 (13.25%) SAP PI
13 11 (13.25%) Decision-Making
13 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (12.05%) SAPUI5
14 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (12.05%) Analytics
14 10 (12.05%) Agile
15 9 (10.84%) Middleware
15 9 (10.84%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (9.64%) Collaborative Working
16 8 (9.64%) SAP HANA

SAP Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.43%) NetWeaver
1 7 (8.43%) SAP EP
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 40 (48.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (8.43%) SAP CRM
3 4 (4.82%) SAP PS
3 4 (4.82%) SAP QM
4 3 (3.61%) SAP GRC
5 2 (2.41%) SAP CO
5 2 (2.41%) SAP ERP
5 2 (2.41%) SAP FI
5 2 (2.41%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (2.41%) SAP IS-U
5 2 (2.41%) SAP MDG
5 2 (2.41%) SAP MDG-S
5 2 (2.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (2.41%) SAP PP
5 2 (2.41%) SAP Retail
6 1 (1.20%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (1.20%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (1.20%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.07%) SuccessFactors
2 8 (9.64%) Azure
3 4 (4.82%) AWS
4 2 (2.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) SAP HANA
2 3 (3.61%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (3.61%) SAP BW
3 2 (2.41%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Postman
General
1 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Manufacturing
4 9 (10.84%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (7.23%) Retail
7 5 (6.02%) Banking
8 4 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.41%) Billing
9 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.20%) Automotive
10 1 (1.20%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.87%) SAP Fiori
2 11 (13.25%) SAP PI
3 10 (12.05%) SAPUI5
4 9 (10.84%) Middleware
5 3 (3.61%) CSS
5 3 (3.61%) CSS3
5 3 (3.61%) HTML
5 3 (3.61%) HTML5
5 3 (3.61%) jQuery
6 2 (2.41%) Web Services
7 1 (1.20%) EDI
7 1 (1.20%) IDoc
7 1 (1.20%) J2EE
7 1 (1.20%) JDBC
7 1 (1.20%) OAuth
7 1 (1.20%) REST
7 1 (1.20%) SAML
7 1 (1.20%) SAP Basis
7 1 (1.20%) SOAP
7 1 (1.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Public Cloud
2 7 (8.43%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.23%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (6.02%) Life Science
5 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) EPoS
6 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (20.48%) ERP
3 16 (19.28%) Migration
4 14 (16.87%) Roadmaps
5 13 (15.66%) Enterprise Architecture
5 13 (15.66%) Technical Architecture
6 12 (14.46%) TOGAF
7 11 (13.25%) Data Modelling
7 11 (13.25%) Decision-Making
7 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.05%) Agile
8 10 (12.05%) Analytics
8 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (9.64%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (9.64%) CRM
10 7 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.43%) Data Governance
10 7 (8.43%) Strategic Thinking
10 7 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (8.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.87%) ABAP
2 8 (9.64%) Java
3 4 (4.82%) COBOL
3 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.20%) C
4 1 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 20 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) SAP Certification
3 5 (6.02%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (4.82%) Degree
5 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.41%) CISM
6 2 (2.41%) CISSP
7 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) QA
2 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) GRC
4 2 (2.41%) GDPR
5 1 (1.20%) IFRS
5 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) IAG
Vendors
1 83 (100.00%) SAP
2 21 (25.30%) Ariba
3 5 (6.02%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.61%) Concur
6 2 (2.41%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.20%) Google
7 1 (1.20%) Informatica