SAP Contracts in England

SAP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 31 42
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing SAP 1,574 2,059 2,496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 6.47% 5.53% 4.95%
As % of the Vendors category 13.63% 13.13% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 1,122 1,459
10th Percentile £361 £328 £357
25th Percentile £492 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £664 £675 £675
90th Percentile £765 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 123 54
10th Percentile £21.28 £13.01 £19.71
25th Percentile £31.76 £15.30 £27.64
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.03 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.50% -42.16% +62.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.10 £49.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £67.00 £66.21
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £25.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +123.30% -42.78% +53.17%

All Vendors
England

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,548 15,682 21,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.44% 42.13% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,449 9,975 14,526
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 1,003 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.03 £15.19
25th Percentile £18.10 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.68 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP in England

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP in England.

Daily rate trend for SAP in England

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in England

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP in England.

Hourly rate trend for SAP in England

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in England

SAP
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +3 677 £600 +3.90% 358
North of England +3 247 £530 +3.41% 144
South East +5 233 £550 - 149
North West +12 189 £530 +0.95% 107
Midlands -3 115 £550 +6.80% 109
East of England 0 104 £580 +10.48% 43
South West +10 94 £465 -22.45% 38
West Midlands +2 81 £594 +22.42% 70
Yorkshire -32 33 £381 -21.39% 32
East Midlands +2 27 £500 -9.91% 37
North East +10 21 £515 +32.05% 5
SAP
UK

SAP
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 24 (1.52%) NetWeaver
2 16 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.70%) Confluence
4 7 (0.44%) MTS
4 7 (0.44%) SAP EP
5 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.25%) SAS
6 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.13%) CMS
7 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.064%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.064%) IIS
8 1 (0.064%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.064%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.064%) WinCC
Applications
1 57 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.13%) Blender
8 2 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.13%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.064%) InVision
9 1 (0.064%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.064%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.064%) Simulink
9 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 525 (33.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 76 (4.83%) SAP FI
3 70 (4.45%) SAP CO
4 65 (4.13%) SAP FI/CO
5 43 (2.73%) SAP PP
6 41 (2.60%) SAP ERP
7 40 (2.54%) SAP SD
8 39 (2.48%) SAP HR
9 37 (2.35%) SAP Payroll
10 33 (2.10%) SAP MDG
11 28 (1.78%) SAP MM
12 26 (1.65%) SAP PS
13 24 (1.52%) SAP EWM
14 21 (1.33%) Shopify
15 20 (1.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
16 18 (1.14%) SAP IBP
17 17 (1.08%) SAP GRC
17 17 (1.08%) SAP HCM
18 15 (0.95%) SAP BPC
18 15 (0.95%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 118 (7.50%) SuccessFactors
2 104 (6.61%) Azure
3 69 (4.38%) Power Platform
4 33 (2.10%) AWS
5 25 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (1.40%) GCP
7 21 (1.33%) SaaS
8 20 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (1.21%) BigCommerce
10 17 (1.08%) Snowflake
11 14 (0.89%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 9 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (0.57%) GitHub
13 8 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (0.44%) Entra ID
15 6 (0.38%) Boomi
15 6 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.38%) PaaS
16 5 (0.32%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.95%) Firewall
2 10 (0.64%) HTTP
2 10 (0.64%) VPN
3 7 (0.44%) DNS
4 6 (0.38%) LAN
4 6 (0.38%) Network Security
5 5 (0.32%) DHCP
5 5 (0.32%) SAN
5 5 (0.32%) WAN
5 5 (0.32%) Wireless
6 4 (0.25%) SSL
7 3 (0.19%) Intranet
7 3 (0.19%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.19%) RFID
8 2 (0.13%) BGP
8 2 (0.13%) DSL
8 2 (0.13%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.13%) IMAP
8 2 (0.13%) NAS
8 2 (0.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.45%) SAP HANA
2 67 (4.26%) Power BI
3 39 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (2.48%) Relational Database
4 36 (2.29%) SAP BW
5 26 (1.65%) SAP Data Services
6 25 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
7 24 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (0.95%) Data Lake
8 15 (0.95%) Metadata
9 14 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 14 (0.89%) SQL Server
10 12 (0.76%) Tableau
11 9 (0.57%) Big Data
11 9 (0.57%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 7 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.38%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
14 5 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.32%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 43 (2.73%) JIRA
2 36 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 24 (1.52%) Liquibase
4 23 (1.46%) GitLab
5 22 (1.40%) Git
5 22 (1.40%) Gradle
6 21 (1.33%) JUnit
6 21 (1.33%) Mockito
7 10 (0.64%) Postman
7 10 (0.64%) Selenium
8 7 (0.44%) ERwin
8 7 (0.44%) JMeter
9 6 (0.38%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.32%) NeoLoad
10 5 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.25%) LSMW
11 4 (0.25%) Toad
12 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.19%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 577 (36.66%) Finance
2 513 (32.59%) Social Skills
3 312 (19.82%) Manufacturing
4 226 (14.36%) Public Sector
5 199 (12.64%) Marketing
6 192 (12.20%) Telecoms
7 182 (11.56%) Electronics
8 175 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
9 120 (7.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 110 (6.99%) Retail
11 54 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (2.48%) Banking
13 35 (2.22%) Aerospace
13 35 (2.22%) Billing
13 35 (2.22%) Legal
13 35 (2.22%) Local Government
14 30 (1.91%) Automotive
15 29 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (1.33%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 413 (26.24%) Consultant
2 354 (22.49%) SAP Consultant
3 196 (12.45%) Lead
4 171 (10.86%) Architect
5 129 (8.20%) Analyst
6 122 (7.75%) Developer
7 97 (6.16%) Senior
8 91 (5.78%) Project Manager
9 89 (5.65%) SAP Manager
10 83 (5.27%) SAP Architect
11 70 (4.45%) Business Analyst
11 70 (4.45%) SAP Analyst
12 59 (3.75%) SAP Developer
13 50 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (2.67%) ABAP Developer
15 41 (2.60%) SAP Project Manager
16 32 (2.03%) Functional Consultant
17 31 (1.97%) SAP PP Consultant
18 30 (1.91%) SAP Business Analyst
18 30 (1.91%) SAP CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.27%) SAP Fiori
2 38 (2.41%) SAPUI5
3 37 (2.35%) Web Services
4 30 (1.91%) Middleware
5 28 (1.78%) Kafka
5 28 (1.78%) REST
5 28 (1.78%) SAP PI
6 27 (1.72%) React
7 26 (1.65%) SOAP
8 24 (1.52%) CSS
9 23 (1.46%) HTML
10 22 (1.40%) .NET
10 22 (1.40%) OpenAPI
10 22 (1.40%) Spring
10 22 (1.40%) Swagger
11 21 (1.33%) BAPI
11 21 (1.33%) Spring Boot
12 20 (1.27%) XML
13 19 (1.21%) VML
14 16 (1.02%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.76%) Life Science
2 50 (3.18%) Management Information System
3 39 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
4 37 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 33 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
6 29 (1.84%) Virtual Team
7 28 (1.78%) Data Structures
7 28 (1.78%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.27%) FMCG
10 18 (1.14%) NHS
10 18 (1.14%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (0.76%) Industry 4.0
12 12 (0.76%) IoT
12 12 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (0.64%) LIMS
14 9 (0.57%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.94%) Windows
2 28 (1.78%) Linux
3 13 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 9 (0.57%) Unix
5 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.13%) Android
6 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.13%) SUSE
6 2 (0.13%) VMS
7 1 (0.064%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.064%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
2 259 (16.45%) Agile
3 255 (16.20%) Business Intelligence
4 226 (14.36%) Migration
5 224 (14.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 221 (14.04%) ERP
7 206 (13.09%) Programme Management
8 181 (11.50%) Project Management
9 179 (11.37%) Digital Marketing
10 150 (9.53%) Analytics
11 118 (7.50%) Change Management
12 117 (7.43%) Data Migration
13 100 (6.35%) Data Modelling
14 96 (6.10%) Workshop Facilitation
15 94 (5.97%) User Acceptance Testing
16 91 (5.78%) Process Improvement
17 85 (5.40%) Logistics
18 83 (5.27%) Project Delivery
19 80 (5.08%) Data Governance
19 80 (5.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 115 (7.31%) ABAP
2 114 (7.24%) SQL
3 69 (4.38%) Java
4 46 (2.92%) Python
5 43 (2.73%) JavaScript
6 41 (2.60%) PowerShell
7 27 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 22 (1.40%) C#
9 12 (0.76%) Bash
10 9 (0.57%) Groovy
11 8 (0.51%) C++
11 8 (0.51%) COBOL
12 6 (0.38%) R
13 5 (0.32%) Bicep
13 5 (0.32%) C
13 5 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.32%) VBA
14 4 (0.25%) Perl
14 4 (0.25%) PHP
14 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 253 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 187 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 137 (8.70%) Degree
4 63 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 53 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 39 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (2.48%) SAP Certification
7 31 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.40%) PMI Certification
8 22 (1.40%) PMP
9 12 (0.76%) ACCA
9 12 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (0.70%) CIMA
11 10 (0.64%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.44%) CCA
12 7 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.38%) CISSP
13 6 (0.38%) ISEB
14 5 (0.32%) APMG
14 5 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 58 (3.68%) QA
3 34 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.78%) GDPR
5 27 (1.72%) PMO
6 24 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 20 (1.27%) GRC
8 19 (1.21%) IFRS
9 9 (0.57%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.44%) GAAP
11 6 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.32%) GxP
12 5 (0.32%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.32%) SLA
13 4 (0.25%) ITGC
13 4 (0.25%) NIST
13 4 (0.25%) PMBOK
13 4 (0.25%) WCAG
14 3 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.91%) Docker
3 7 (0.44%) IAG
4 4 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.13%) Firmware
6 2 (0.13%) NFS
6 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (1.02%) Kubernetes
1 16 (1.02%) Terraform
2 8 (0.51%) Ansible
3 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.38%) MOM
5 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.25%) Puppet
7 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.13%) Argo
8 2 (0.13%) Grafana
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.13%) Salt
8 2 (0.13%) vRealize
8 2 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (0.13%) WSUS
9 1 (0.064%) Control-M
9 1 (0.064%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 149 (9.47%) Ariba
2 129 (8.20%) Microsoft
3 84 (5.34%) Oracle
4 81 (5.15%) Salesforce
5 35 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 31 (1.97%) Workday
7 29 (1.84%) Adobe
8 27 (1.72%) Google
9 19 (1.21%) Sitecore
10 15 (0.95%) Databricks
11 14 (0.89%) Concur
12 13 (0.83%) HP
13 12 (0.76%) Dell
14 11 (0.70%) Siemens
15 10 (0.64%) OpenText
16 9 (0.57%) VMware
17 8 (0.51%) IBM
17 8 (0.51%) MuleSoft
18 7 (0.44%) Anaplan
18 7 (0.44%) Qualtrics