SAP Basis Contract Job Trends in Essex

SAP Basis
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring SAP Basis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAP Basis 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.75% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate £489 £450 £700
% change year-on-year +8.63% -35.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £54.69 - -
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
East of England median hourly rate £53.75 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

SAP Basis falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8 18 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 7.02% 19.35% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 43
10th Percentile - £305 £300
25th Percentile £300 £315 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £318 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.65% -36.40% -6.54%
75th Percentile - £321 £551
90th Percentile £475 £378 £600
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £52.00 - £41.74
25th Percentile £53.13 - £43.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £55.50
90th Percentile £63.00 - £55.54
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.53
% change year-on-year -7.14% +26.06% -15.22%

SAP Basis
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP Basis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

SAP Basis job vacancy trend in Essex

SAP Basis
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SAP Basis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SAP Basis

SAP Basis
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Basis within the Essex region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Basildon - 2 - - 2
SAP Basis
East of England

SAP Basis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 (100.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SAP HANA
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (50.00%) MaxDB
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Support
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Basis Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (50.00%) SAPUI5
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle