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 1 September 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing SAP 13 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 3.72% 2.50% -
As % of the Vendors category 11.30% 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 £580 £580 £500
% change year-on-year - +16.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £38.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.95% - -
75th Percentile £27.00 £39.50 -
90th Percentile £44.10 - -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £20.11 £17.40
% change year-on-year +98.88% +15.59% -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 115 45 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 32.95% 37.50% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 30 24
10th Percentile £335 £223 £177
25th Percentile £350 £248 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £388 £344
Median % change year-on-year +18.71% +12.65% -29.80%
75th Percentile £541 £482 £550
90th Percentile £600 £525 £575
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 8
10th Percentile £13.85 £21.13 £15.91
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.63 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.25 £37.75 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.66% -13.22% -22.79%
75th Percentile £20.69 £42.46 £64.25
90th Percentile £49.51 £59.10 £66.95
East of England median hourly rate £31.93 £21.89 £16.23
% change year-on-year +45.84% +34.87% -44.47%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -11 3 £380 - 4
Thurrock - 3 - -
Harlow - 1 £600 - 10
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 5 (38.46%) NetWeaver
2 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (69.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Veeva
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) dbt
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) MaxDB
1 5 (38.46%) SAP HANA
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
1 5 (38.46%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JMeter
General
1 3 (23.08%) Retail
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) SAP Basis Support
1 5 (38.46%) SAP Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) SAP Support
1 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Data Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Accountant
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) SAP Basis
1 5 (38.46%) SAP Fiori
1 5 (38.46%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Migration
1 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (38.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (38.46%) High Availability
3 4 (30.77%) Database Optimisation
3 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (30.77%) Runbook
4 3 (23.08%) Time Management
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) ERP
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.69%) Analytical Modelling
6 1 (7.69%) Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
6 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (7.69%) Feature Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Generative AI
6 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
1 5 (38.46%) Sybase
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Ingenico
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce