SAP ERP Contract Job Trends in England

SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SAP ERP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 460 542
Rank change year-on-year -17 +82 +165
Contract jobs citing SAP ERP 40 76 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.70% 3.26% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 47 52
10th Percentile £350 £438 £368
25th Percentile £513 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £693 £631 £750
90th Percentile £750 £650 £794
UK median daily rate £640 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +16.36% -4.35% -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - £35.36 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year - -62.78% -
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £35.36 £95.00
% change year-on-year - -62.78% -

All Business Application Skills
England

SAP ERP falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,348 2,329 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.46% 7.07% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 1,313 1,710
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.65%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 72 57
10th Percentile £12.82 £24.55 £22.96
25th Percentile £24.59 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £42.75 £43.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -22.55% +32.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £67.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £54.33
% change year-on-year -23.38% -17.18% +20.74%

SAP ERP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP ERP in England

SAP ERP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAP ERP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAP ERP

SAP ERP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP ERP in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP ERP in England

SAP ERP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAP ERP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAP ERP

SAP 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 SAP ERP within the England region over the 6 months to 13 September 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 +21 14 £650 +25.00% 14
Midlands -10 7 £515 -14.17% 4
South East +21 6 £350 -37.22% 9
East of England - 6 £600 -
North of England -22 5 £670 +34.00% 1
East Midlands -2 4 £825 +37.50% 3
North West -11 4 £695 +39.00% 1
West Midlands -17 3 £515 -4.63% 1
Yorkshire -17 1 £670 +34.00%
SAP ERP
UK

SAP ERP
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 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (47.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.50%) Primavera
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (2.50%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (7.50%) SaaS
3 2 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.50%) Azure
4 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.50%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Power BI
2 3 (7.50%) SAP BW
3 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.50%) EDMS
4 1 (2.50%) GIS
4 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) LoadRunner
2 4 (10.00%) NeoLoad
3 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (57.50%) Finance
2 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
4 8 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.50%) General Ledger
6 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.00%) Billing
7 2 (5.00%) Legal
7 2 (5.00%) Local Government
8 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.50%) French Language
8 1 (2.50%) German Language
8 1 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 6 (15.00%) Programme Manager
2 6 (15.00%) SAP Programme Manager
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Lead
3 5 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Accountant
4 4 (10.00%) Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) ERP Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Systems Accountant
4 4 (10.00%) Test Leader
5 3 (7.50%) ERP Architect
5 3 (7.50%) ERP Project Manager
5 3 (7.50%) SAP BW Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Architect
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Implementation Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) jQuery
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) SOAP
2 1 (2.50%) Visualforce
2 1 (2.50%) Web Services
2 1 (2.50%) XML
2 1 (2.50%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.00%) FMCG
2 4 (10.00%) Life Science
3 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) ERP
2 8 (20.00%) Agile
2 8 (20.00%) Programme Governance
2 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (17.50%) Migration
3 7 (17.50%) Project Management
3 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (15.00%) Analytics
4 6 (15.00%) CRM
4 6 (15.00%) Data Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Change Management
5 5 (12.50%) Test Management
5 5 (12.50%) Validation
5 5 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 4 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 4 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (10.00%) Test Strategy
6 4 (10.00%) TOGAF
6 4 (10.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) ABAP
3 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.50%) C#
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) CCA
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) ACCA
4 2 (5.00%) CIMA
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.00%) PMP
4 2 (5.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) GxP
2 2 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.50%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) SAP
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Ariba
4 2 (5.00%) Concur
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) ESRI
5 1 (2.50%) HP
5 1 (2.50%) SnapLogic