SAP Manager Contract Job Trends in England

SAP Manager
UK > England

The median SAP Manager daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 417 408
Rank change year-on-year -64 -9 +30
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Manager 143 98 117
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.39% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 56 51
10th Percentile £484 £456 £450
25th Percentile £510 £517 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £663
90th Percentile £744 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £580
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £32.23 - -
25th Percentile £42.27 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -
75th Percentile £76.00 - -
90th Percentile £81.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +6.15% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 42,174 25,315 30,946
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.60% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,372 20,290
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,176 1,336 1,796
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%

SAP Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SAP Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SAP Manager job vacancy trend in England

SAP Manager
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAP Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAP Manager job vacancies in England

SAP Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Manager in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Manager in England

SAP Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAP Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAP Manager job vacancies in England

SAP Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP Manager in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP Manager in England

SAP Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 14 August 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 -78 49 £650 +8.33% 30
North of England -47 31 £598 +0.42% 10
Midlands -34 24 £638 -3.77% 6
South East -66 19 £650 +8.51% 5
West Midlands -45 15 £613 -7.55% 6
Yorkshire -27 14 £595 - 2
North West -38 14 £600 +33.33% 8
East of England -11 12 £510 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -14 9 £638 +4.08%
South West -44 4 £825 +13.79%
North East - 2 £500 -
SAP Manager
UK

SAP Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 August 2026, SAP Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SAP Manager in the job title.

1 143 (100.00%) SAP
2 87 (60.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 48 (33.57%) Migration
4 42 (29.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (23.78%) ERP
6 25 (17.48%) Data Migration
7 24 (16.78%) Agile
7 24 (16.78%) PMO
8 22 (15.38%) Cutover Planning
8 22 (15.38%) Project Delivery
8 22 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (13.99%) Project Management
10 19 (13.29%) Change Management
11 16 (11.19%) Decision-Making
11 16 (11.19%) Programme Management
11 16 (11.19%) User Acceptance Testing
12 14 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.79%) PMP
13 13 (9.09%) Integration Testing
13 13 (9.09%) QA
13 13 (9.09%) Roadmaps
14 12 (8.39%) PMI Certification
14 12 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (8.39%) Risk Management
15 11 (7.69%) Defect Management
15 11 (7.69%) PRINCE2
15 11 (7.69%) System Integration Testing
15 11 (7.69%) Test Strategy
16 10 (6.99%) Middleware
16 10 (6.99%) Programme Governance

SAP Manager Skill Set
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 2 (1.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 87 (60.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (6.99%) SAP CO
2 10 (6.99%) SAP FI
2 10 (6.99%) SAP FI/CO
3 6 (4.20%) SAP ERP
4 3 (2.10%) SAP EWM
4 3 (2.10%) SAP MDG
4 3 (2.10%) SAP QM
5 2 (1.40%) SAP GRC
5 2 (1.40%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.70%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.70%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.70%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.70%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 1 (0.70%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (0.70%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.70%) SAP MDG-S
6 1 (0.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.70%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.29%) Azure
1 9 (6.29%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.80%) AWS
4 3 (2.10%) SaaS
4 3 (2.10%) Smartsheet
5 2 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.40%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.70%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (0.70%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.40%) Metadata
1 2 (1.40%) Power BI
2 1 (0.70%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (5.59%) JIRA
2 1 (0.70%) Hudson
2 1 (0.70%) LSMW
2 1 (0.70%) TestDirector
2 1 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 48 (33.57%) Finance
2 33 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.59%) Retail
5 6 (4.20%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.50%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.50%) Law
7 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.10%) Billing
8 3 (2.10%) German Language
8 3 (2.10%) Local Government
9 2 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.70%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.99%) Middleware
2 5 (3.50%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (2.10%) SAP Basis
4 2 (1.40%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.29%) FMCG
1 9 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.20%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.80%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.10%) Life Science
5 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) IoT
6 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.57%) Migration
2 42 (29.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (23.78%) ERP
4 25 (17.48%) Data Migration
5 24 (16.78%) Agile
6 22 (15.38%) Cutover Planning
6 22 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 22 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 20 (13.99%) Project Management
8 19 (13.29%) Change Management
9 16 (11.19%) Decision-Making
9 16 (11.19%) Programme Management
9 16 (11.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (9.09%) Integration Testing
11 13 (9.09%) Roadmaps
12 12 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (8.39%) Risk Management
13 11 (7.69%) System Integration Testing
13 11 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.90%) ABAP
2 1 (0.70%) Java
2 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (9.79%) PMP
2 12 (8.39%) PMI Certification
3 10 (6.99%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.29%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.20%) Degree
6 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.40%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.78%) PMO
2 13 (9.09%) QA
3 8 (5.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.10%) GDPR
4 3 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.70%) GMP
6 1 (0.70%) GxP
6 1 (0.70%) ITGC
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.70%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
1 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 143 (100.00%) SAP
2 5 (3.50%) Concur
3 4 (2.80%) Ariba
3 4 (2.80%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.40%) IFS
4 2 (1.40%) JD Edwards
5 1 (0.70%) Cegedim Rx
5 1 (0.70%) Cognos
5 1 (0.70%) Databricks
5 1 (0.70%) HP
5 1 (0.70%) IBM
5 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft