ERP Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring ERP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing ERP 7 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 4.35% 2.96% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 4.11% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile - £476 £443
25th Percentile £425 £497 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -2.27% -26.67%
75th Percentile £600 £572 -
90th Percentile £615 £589 -
North West median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.36 -
North West median hourly rate - £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +1.03% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

ERP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 138 146 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 85.71% 71.92% 91.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 55 138
10th Percentile £310 £259 £356
25th Percentile £419 £344 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £645
90th Percentile £679 £630 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 53
10th Percentile £18.87 £25.87 £20.58
25th Percentile £23.32 £35.36 £37.75
Median hourly rate £47.12 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -12.68% +22.17%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.36 £51.35 £71.80
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +28.79% +41.63%

ERP
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

ERP job vacancy trend in Lancashire

ERP
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing ERP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing ERP

ERP
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ERP in Lancashire over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ERP in Lancashire

ERP
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing ERP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing ERP

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Preston - 5 £450 - 1
Blackburn - 1 - -
Blackpool - 1 £600 -
ERP
North West

ERP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (28.57%) NetWeaver
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Integration Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) SAP Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Integration Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) ERP Architect
3 1 (14.29%) ERP Manager
3 1 (14.29%) ERP Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Procurement Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Procurement Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Business Case
4 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Business Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Lean Six Sigma
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Source to Pay
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Map
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) SAP
2 4 (57.14%) Axway
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Ariba
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) webMethods