SAP Data Services Contracts in England

SAP Data Services (SAP BODS, SAP DS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SAP Data Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP Data Services over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 507 584
Rank change year-on-year +35 +77 +173
Contract jobs citing SAP Data Services 31 27 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.081% 0.088%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.62% 0.44% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 29
10th Percentile £491 £438 £595
25th Percentile £529 £509 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £580 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -10.85% +14.54%
75th Percentile £628 £593 -
90th Percentile £642 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £580 £650
% change year-on-year -0.86% -10.77% +13.79%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

SAP Data Services falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,021 6,136 7,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.18% 18.32% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,482 4,380 5,553
10th Percentile £345 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £825 £757
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.10% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 91 147
10th Percentile £18.64 £14.25 £21.05
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.38 £32.35
Median hourly rate £34.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -31.82% +35.04%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.78 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.98 £71.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.41% -35.45% +35.04%

SAP Data Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SAP Data Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAP Data Services in England

SAP Data Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SAP Data Services in England

SAP Data Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Data Services in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Data Services in England

SAP Data Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP Data Services in England

SAP Data Services
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 Data Services within the England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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 +9 18 £613 +10.96% 5
East of England +9 3 £604 -6.36%
West Midlands -2 2 £500 -6.98%
Midlands -9 2 £500 -6.98%
North of England -15 2 £500 +66.67% 2
South East +19 1 £321 -45.01% 2
Yorkshire -5 1 - -
North West - 1 £500 - 2
SAP Data Services
UK

SAP Data Services
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 1 (3.23%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (38.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (16.13%) SAP HR
3 3 (9.68%) SAP BPC
4 2 (6.45%) SAP MDG
5 1 (3.23%) SAP CO
5 1 (3.23%) SAP FI
5 1 (3.23%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (3.23%) SAP PM
5 1 (3.23%) SAP PS
5 1 (3.23%) SAP SCM
5 1 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) SuccessFactors
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) Boomi
3 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) SAP HANA
2 11 (35.48%) SAP BW
3 5 (16.13%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (16.13%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (12.90%) Metadata
4 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.68%) Big Data
5 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (9.68%) OLAP
5 3 (9.68%) OLTP
6 2 (6.45%) Power BI
7 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 1 (3.23%) Data Hub
7 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.23%) PowerCenter
7 1 (3.23%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) LSMW
2 1 (3.23%) Postman
2 1 (3.23%) Selenium
General
1 17 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Law
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.23%) Aviation
5 1 (3.23%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Consultant
2 9 (29.03%) SAP Consultant
3 6 (19.35%) Architect
4 5 (16.13%) Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Data Consultant
5 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Lead
5 4 (12.90%) SAP Data Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Data Migration Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Lead Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Migration Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Principal Data Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) SAP Architect
6 3 (9.68%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) SAP Financial Architect
6 3 (9.68%) SAP Migration Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) REST
1 3 (9.68%) SAP Fiori
1 3 (9.68%) SAP PI
1 3 (9.68%) Web Services
2 2 (6.45%) Middleware
2 2 (6.45%) SAML
2 2 (6.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.23%) BAPI
3 1 (3.23%) Pandas
3 1 (3.23%) PySpark
3 1 (3.23%) pytest
3 1 (3.23%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Migration
2 15 (48.39%) Data Migration
3 11 (35.48%) Validation
4 10 (32.26%) Analytics
4 10 (32.26%) Data Governance
5 8 (25.81%) ETL
6 7 (22.58%) Data Cleansing
7 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
7 6 (19.35%) Data Validation
7 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.13%) Data Analysis
8 5 (16.13%) Data Management
8 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (16.13%) Translating Business Requirements
9 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (12.90%) Data Extraction
9 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
9 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) Python
1 6 (19.35%) SQL
2 3 (9.68%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) ABAP
3 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) SAP Certification
4 3 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (16.13%) GDPR
3 3 (9.68%) QA
4 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.23%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (93.55%) SAP
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) Informatica
3 2 (6.45%) Ping Identity
3 2 (6.45%) Qualtrics
3 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.45%) webMethods
4 1 (3.23%) Concur
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) QAD
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Sparx