SAP Manager Contract Job Trends in England

SAP Manager
UK > England

The median SAP Manager daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 394 428
Rank change year-on-year -84 +34 +3
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Manager 143 105 132
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.42% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 64 65
10th Percentile £450 £433 £450
25th Percentile £510 £517 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £741 £750 £832
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £583
% change year-on-year - +3.00% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £35.55 - -
25th Percentile £50.58 - £62.96
Median hourly rate £60.96 £65.00 £65.92
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% -1.40% +31.84%
75th Percentile £71.50 - £68.88
90th Percentile £79.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £65.92
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.40% +31.84%

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 41,413 25,002 33,620
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.90% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,306 16,263 22,078
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,966 1,234 2,327
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.26 £17.87 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.70 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.46% -30.75% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.03 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £25.31 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.82% -36.73% -5.88%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -85 50 £613 +2.08% 9
North of England -58 31 £600 -6.25% 8
Midlands -42 25 £638 +2.00% 5
West Midlands -49 19 £513 -18.00% 3
South East -63 19 £650 +11.25% 4
Yorkshire -28 17 £595 - 2
East of England -14 12 £510 -15.00%
North West -46 11 £600 +33.33% 6
East Midlands -9 6 £638 -8.93% 2
South West -40 4 £825 +75.10%
North East - 2 £500 -
SAP Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 51 (35.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (32.87%) Migration
5 37 (25.87%) ERP
6 30 (20.98%) PMO
7 29 (20.28%) Agile
8 26 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (17.48%) Change Management
9 25 (17.48%) Project Management
10 24 (16.78%) Data Migration
11 22 (15.38%) Cutover Planning
11 22 (15.38%) Project Delivery
12 17 (11.89%) Decision-Making
13 16 (11.19%) PMP
13 16 (11.19%) QA
14 15 (10.49%) Programme Management
14 15 (10.49%) User Acceptance Testing
15 14 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (9.79%) PMI Certification
16 13 (9.09%) PRINCE2
16 13 (9.09%) Project Governance
17 12 (8.39%) Budget Management
17 12 (8.39%) Microsoft Project
17 12 (8.39%) Resource Allocation
17 12 (8.39%) SAP CO
17 12 (8.39%) SAP FI
17 12 (8.39%) SAP FI/CO
18 11 (7.69%) Azure
18 11 (7.69%) Dependency Management

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 5 (3.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (8.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 87 (60.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (8.39%) SAP CO
2 12 (8.39%) SAP FI
2 12 (8.39%) 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 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 GRC
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 PP
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.69%) Azure
2 7 (4.90%) AWS
2 7 (4.90%) SuccessFactors
3 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.10%) GCP
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%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.40%) Power BI
2 1 (0.70%) Metadata
2 1 (0.70%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.70%) Hudson
2 1 (0.70%) LSMW
2 1 (0.70%) TestDirector
2 1 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 49 (34.27%) Finance
2 36 (25.17%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.69%) Manufacturing
4 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.90%) Retail
6 5 (3.50%) Local Government
6 5 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.80%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.80%) Law
7 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.10%) German Language
8 3 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Billing
9 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Portuguese Language
9 1 (0.70%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.59%) Middleware
2 5 (3.50%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (2.10%) SAP Basis
4 2 (1.40%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.99%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (6.29%) FMCG
3 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.50%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.10%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.70%) IoT
6 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.70%) Life Science
6 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 47 (32.87%) Migration
3 37 (25.87%) ERP
4 29 (20.28%) Agile
5 26 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 25 (17.48%) Change Management
6 25 (17.48%) Project Management
7 24 (16.78%) Data Migration
8 22 (15.38%) Cutover Planning
8 22 (15.38%) Project Delivery
9 17 (11.89%) Decision-Making
10 15 (10.49%) Programme Management
10 15 (10.49%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (9.09%) PRINCE2
12 13 (9.09%) Project Governance
13 12 (8.39%) Budget Management
13 12 (8.39%) Resource Allocation
14 11 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.90%) ABAP
2 1 (0.70%) Java
2 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (11.19%) PMP
2 14 (9.79%) PMI Certification
3 10 (6.99%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.29%) Degree
4 9 (6.29%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.40%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.98%) PMO
2 16 (11.19%) QA
3 8 (5.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.10%) GDPR
4 3 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.70%) GMP
5 1 (0.70%) GRC
5 1 (0.70%) GxP
5 1 (0.70%) ITGC
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
5 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 7 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.20%) Ariba
4 4 (2.80%) Concur
5 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.40%) IFS
6 2 (1.40%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.70%) Cegedim Rx
7 1 (0.70%) Cognos
7 1 (0.70%) HP
7 1 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft