SAP Manager Contract Job Trends in England

SAP Manager
UK > England

The median SAP Manager daily rate in England is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 415 415
Rank change year-on-year -65 0 +23
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Manager 144 99 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.39% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 58 55
10th Percentile £459 £425 £455
25th Percentile £510 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £681
90th Percentile £741 £750 £733
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £563
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
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% +119.73%
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% +119.73%

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 42,356 25,309 30,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 91.68% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,686 16,403 20,377
10th Percentile £326 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £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 3,156 1,311 1,814
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.65 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.78% -42.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
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% +0.58%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -75 49 £650 +8.33% 14
North of England -61 33 £598 +0.42% 8
Midlands -35 25 £638 +2.00% 6
South East -59 18 £650 +8.51% 3
Yorkshire -26 16 £595 - 2
West Midlands -44 16 £575 -8.00% 6
North West -41 14 £600 +33.33% 6
East of England -8 12 £510 -15.00% 1
East Midlands -4 9 £638 +4.08%
South West -42 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 8 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.

1 144 (100.00%) SAP
2 88 (61.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 49 (34.03%) Migration
4 44 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (23.61%) ERP
6 26 (18.06%) Agile
7 25 (17.36%) PMO
8 24 (16.67%) Data Migration
9 23 (15.97%) Project Delivery
9 23 (15.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (15.28%) Change Management
11 21 (14.58%) Cutover Planning
12 20 (13.89%) Project Management
13 17 (11.81%) Decision-Making
14 15 (10.42%) PMP
14 15 (10.42%) Programme Management
15 14 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
16 13 (9.03%) PMI Certification
16 13 (9.03%) QA
16 13 (9.03%) Roadmaps
17 12 (8.33%) Integration Testing
17 12 (8.33%) PRINCE2
18 11 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (7.64%) Project Governance
18 11 (7.64%) Risk Management
18 11 (7.64%) SAP CO
18 11 (7.64%) SAP FI
18 11 (7.64%) SAP FI/CO
19 10 (6.94%) Defect 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 3 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 88 (61.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (7.64%) SAP CO
2 11 (7.64%) SAP FI
2 11 (7.64%) SAP FI/CO
3 6 (4.17%) SAP ERP
4 3 (2.08%) SAP EWM
4 3 (2.08%) SAP MDG
4 3 (2.08%) SAP QM
5 2 (1.39%) SAP MDG-F
5 2 (1.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.69%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.69%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.69%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.69%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 1 (0.69%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (0.69%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.69%) SAP MDG-S
6 1 (0.69%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.69%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.25%) Azure
1 9 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.78%) AWS
4 3 (2.08%) SaaS
4 3 (2.08%) Smartsheet
5 2 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.39%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.69%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.69%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.39%) Metadata
1 2 (1.39%) Power BI
2 1 (0.69%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Hudson
2 1 (0.69%) LSMW
2 1 (0.69%) TestDirector
2 1 (0.69%) TestRail
General
1 49 (34.03%) Finance
2 35 (24.31%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.28%) Manufacturing
4 9 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.86%) Retail
6 6 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.47%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.47%) Law
7 5 (3.47%) Local Government
8 4 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Billing
9 3 (2.08%) German Language
10 1 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.69%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.56%) Middleware
2 5 (3.47%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (2.08%) SAP Basis
4 2 (1.39%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (6.25%) FMCG
3 6 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.08%) Life Science
6 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.69%) IoT
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (34.03%) Migration
2 44 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (23.61%) ERP
4 26 (18.06%) Agile
5 24 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 23 (15.97%) Project Delivery
6 23 (15.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (15.28%) Change Management
8 21 (14.58%) Cutover Planning
9 20 (13.89%) Project Management
10 17 (11.81%) Decision-Making
11 15 (10.42%) Programme Management
12 14 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
13 13 (9.03%) Roadmaps
14 12 (8.33%) Integration Testing
14 12 (8.33%) PRINCE2
15 11 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (7.64%) Project Governance
15 11 (7.64%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.86%) ABAP
2 1 (0.69%) Java
2 1 (0.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (10.42%) PMP
2 13 (9.03%) PMI Certification
3 9 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.86%) Degree
6 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.39%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.36%) PMO
2 13 (9.03%) QA
3 8 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.69%) GMP
5 1 (0.69%) GRC
5 1 (0.69%) GxP
5 1 (0.69%) ITGC
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.69%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.69%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) HP ALM
1 1 (0.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 144 (100.00%) SAP
2 6 (4.17%) Ariba
3 5 (3.47%) Concur
4 4 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.39%) IFS
5 2 (1.39%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.69%) Cegedim Rx
6 1 (0.69%) Cognos
6 1 (0.69%) Databricks
6 1 (0.69%) HP
6 1 (0.69%) IBM
6 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft