ERP Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 61 51 79
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 -4
Contract jobs citing ERP 22 33 25
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.20% 2.81% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 3.22% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 20
10th Percentile £406 £446 £425
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £613 £581
90th Percentile £743 £700 £629
North West median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 898 1,025 1,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.80% 87.23% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 589 1,068
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £394 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £594
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 35 63
10th Percentile £15.71 £15.95 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.02 £23.68 £16.46
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -3.13%
75th Percentile £35.50 £63.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £85.60 £70.00
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 Manchester

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

ERP job vacancy trend in Manchester

ERP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ERP

ERP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for ERP in Manchester

ERP
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ERP

ERP
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the Manchester 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
Oldham -1 1 - -
Bolton - 1 £425 - 3
ERP
North West

ERP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (9.09%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) InVision
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) SAP ERP
2 3 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (4.55%) NetSuite
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (4.55%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Boomi
2 6 (27.27%) SaaS
3 4 (18.18%) OCI
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) Figma
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.55%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.09%) Billing
4 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Games
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Project Manager
1 5 (22.73%) Release Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Environment And Release Manager
3 3 (13.64%) ERP Manager
3 3 (13.64%) ERP Project Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Business Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Environment Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Finance Systems Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.55%) Bootstrap
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) Laravel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (9.09%) SCADA
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Programme Delivery
1 5 (22.73%) Project Management
1 5 (22.73%) RBAC
1 5 (22.73%) Release Management
2 4 (18.18%) Migration
2 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (13.64%) Business Strategy
3 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
3 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
3 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
3 3 (13.64%) Service Design
3 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (9.09%) Business Transformation
4 2 (9.09%) Generative AI
4 2 (9.09%) Patch Management
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 2 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PHP
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) ACCA
3 2 (9.09%) CIMA
4 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.55%) PMP
4 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) PMO
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) SAP
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) AVEVA
4 2 (9.09%) Rockwell
4 2 (9.09%) Siemens
5 1 (4.55%) Adobe
5 1 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) SYSPRO