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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 430 394
Rank change year-on-year -55 -36 +48
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Manager 145 88 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.35% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 48 54
10th Percentile £488 £443 £454
25th Percentile £514 £517 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £724
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
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 42,222 25,226 30,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,437 16,285 19,969
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 3,228 1,378 1,700
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.68 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -70 55 £650 +8.33% 11
North of England -57 29 £595 - 6
South East -60 22 £650 - 6
Midlands -43 19 £638 -3.77% 1
North West -45 14 £600 +33.33% 5
East of England -15 13 £510 -15.00% 3
Yorkshire -28 12 £588 -1.26% 1
West Midlands -54 11 £650 -1.89% 1
East Midlands -10 8 £638 +4.08%
South West - 3 £788 -
North East - 2 £500 -
SAP Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 145 (100.00%) SAP
2 90 (62.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 50 (34.48%) Migration
4 46 (31.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (24.83%) ERP
6 25 (17.24%) Data Migration
7 24 (16.55%) Agile
7 24 (16.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (15.17%) PMO
9 21 (14.48%) Project Delivery
10 20 (13.79%) Cutover Planning
10 20 (13.79%) Decision-Making
11 19 (13.10%) Change Management
11 19 (13.10%) User Acceptance Testing
12 18 (12.41%) Programme Management
12 18 (12.41%) Project Management
13 16 (11.03%) Risk Management
14 15 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (10.34%) Integration Testing
14 15 (10.34%) Roadmaps
15 14 (9.66%) System Integration Testing
16 13 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (8.97%) Programme Governance
16 13 (8.97%) QA
16 13 (8.97%) Security Cleared
16 13 (8.97%) Test Strategy
16 13 (8.97%) Validation
17 12 (8.28%) Defect Management
17 12 (8.28%) Middleware
17 12 (8.28%) PMP

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 (1.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 90 (62.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (6.90%) SAP CO
2 10 (6.90%) SAP FI
2 10 (6.90%) SAP FI/CO
3 7 (4.83%) SAP ERP
4 4 (2.76%) SAP GRC
4 4 (2.76%) SAP MDG
5 3 (2.07%) SAP QM
6 2 (1.38%) SAP EWM
6 2 (1.38%) SAP MDG-F
6 2 (1.38%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.69%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.69%) SAP BRIM
7 1 (0.69%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.69%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 1 (0.69%) SAP FI-AR
7 1 (0.69%) SAP MDG-S
7 1 (0.69%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.69%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
2 8 (5.52%) Azure
3 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.76%) AWS
5 3 (2.07%) Smartsheet
5 3 (2.07%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.38%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.69%) SaaS
7 1 (0.69%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.69%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.38%) Metadata
1 2 (1.38%) Power BI
2 1 (0.69%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (5.52%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Hudson
2 1 (0.69%) LSMW
2 1 (0.69%) TestDirector
2 1 (0.69%) TestRail
General
1 52 (35.86%) Finance
2 34 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.48%) Manufacturing
4 9 (6.21%) Retail
5 6 (4.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (4.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.45%) Law
7 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Billing
8 3 (2.07%) German Language
8 3 (2.07%) Local Government
9 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.28%) Middleware
2 6 (4.14%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.38%) SAP Basis
3 2 (1.38%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.21%) FMCG
2 8 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.14%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.76%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.07%) Life Science
6 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.38%) 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 50 (34.48%) Migration
2 46 (31.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (24.83%) ERP
4 25 (17.24%) Data Migration
5 24 (16.55%) Agile
5 24 (16.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 21 (14.48%) Project Delivery
7 20 (13.79%) Cutover Planning
7 20 (13.79%) Decision-Making
8 19 (13.10%) Change Management
8 19 (13.10%) User Acceptance Testing
9 18 (12.41%) Programme Management
9 18 (12.41%) Project Management
10 16 (11.03%) Risk Management
11 15 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.34%) Integration Testing
11 15 (10.34%) Roadmaps
12 14 (9.66%) System Integration Testing
13 13 (8.97%) Programme Governance
13 13 (8.97%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.14%) ABAP
2 1 (0.69%) Java
2 1 (0.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.28%) PMP
2 12 (8.28%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.59%) PMI Certification
4 5 (3.45%) Degree
5 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.17%) PMO
2 13 (8.97%) QA
3 8 (5.52%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.76%) GRC
5 3 (2.07%) GDPR
5 3 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.69%) GMP
6 1 (0.69%) GxP
6 1 (0.69%) ITGC
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.69%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) HP ALM
1 1 (0.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 145 (100.00%) SAP
2 5 (3.45%) Ariba
2 5 (3.45%) Concur
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.38%) IFS
5 1 (0.69%) Cegedim Rx
5 1 (0.69%) Cognos
5 1 (0.69%) Databricks
5 1 (0.69%) HP
5 1 (0.69%) IBM
5 1 (0.69%) JD Edwards
5 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow