SAP Contract Job Trends in Essex

SAP
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 12 July 2026, 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
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing SAP 15 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 5.00% 2.68% -
As % of the Vendors category 13.64% 6.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £423 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £583 - -
90th Percentile £623 - -
East of England median daily rate £510 £598 £500
% change year-on-year -14.64% +19.50% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.50 £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% - -
75th Percentile £55.25 £39.50 -
90th Percentile £57.30 - -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.63 £17.40
% change year-on-year +76.76% +30.06% -64.49%

All Vendors
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 110 45 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 36.67% 40.18% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 43
10th Percentile £326 £197 £165
25th Percentile £350 £230 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £323 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% -31.96% -4.04%
75th Percentile £515 £413 £563
90th Percentile £593 £503 £671
East of England median daily rate £505 £529 £500
% change year-on-year -4.54% +5.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 10
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.92 £15.47
25th Percentile £16.75 £21.06 £16.99
Median hourly rate £18.25 £30.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% -31.03% -33.59%
75th Percentile £35.53 £40.06 £64.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £41.73 £74.73
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £20.75 £16.30
% change year-on-year +9.06% +27.30% -25.91%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

SAP job vacancy trend in Essex

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in Essex over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in Essex

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SAP

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in Essex over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in Essex

SAP
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 within the Essex region over the 6 months to 12 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
Basildon -6 6 £380 -
Thurrock - 3 - -
Harlow - 1 £600 - 2
SAP
East of England

SAP
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 7 (46.67%) NetWeaver
2 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (73.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Veeva
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) dbt
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) SAP HANA
1 7 (46.67%) Sybase ASE
2 6 (40.00%) MaxDB
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JMeter
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) SAP Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) SAP Support
1 7 (46.67%) Support Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) SAP Basis Support
3 3 (20.00%) Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) Data Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Accountant
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Accountant
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) SAP Basis
2 6 (40.00%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (40.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Migration
1 8 (53.33%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (46.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 7 (46.67%) High Availability
3 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (26.67%) Database Optimisation
4 4 (26.67%) Runbook
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (20.00%) Time Management
6 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (13.33%) ERP
6 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
6 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) SAP Security
7 1 (6.67%) Analytics
7 1 (6.67%) Risk Analytics
7 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Sybase
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.67%) Ingenico
4 1 (6.67%) Siemens