ERP Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring ERP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 68 44
Rank change year-on-year +20 -24 +1
Contract jobs citing ERP 182 50 105
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 4.17% 2.52% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 2.85% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 35 80
10th Percentile £313 £340 £334
25th Percentile £363 £416 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.10%
75th Percentile £601 £581 £583
90th Percentile £663 £650 £775
England median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.82 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.36% +150.00% -63.64%
75th Percentile £20.96 - -
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +75.00% -37.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,591 1,753 2,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.32% 88.18% 81.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,248 1,154 1,518
10th Percentile £303 £200 £235
25th Percentile £400 £357 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -1.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £669 £640 £692
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 94 172
10th Percentile £13.82 £12.62 £11.07
25th Percentile £16.72 £14.64 £13.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.87 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.49% +2.00% -17.45%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.51 £34.20
90th Percentile £70.23 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

ERP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

ERP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

ERP
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ERP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ERP

ERP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ERP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ERP in the Midlands

ERP
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ERP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ERP

ERP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ERP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ERP in the Midlands

ERP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
West Midlands +5 109 £525 +5.00% 61
East Midlands +19 69 £525 +10.53% 57
ERP
England

ERP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (2.20%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.55%) SAP EP
Applications
1 13 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (8.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (6.04%) SAP ERP
3 9 (4.95%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (4.40%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (3.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (3.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (3.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (2.75%) Workday HCM
7 4 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (1.65%) NetSuite
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (1.10%) SAP QM
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.55%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.55%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.55%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.69%) Azure
2 12 (6.59%) Power Platform
3 9 (4.95%) SaaS
4 7 (3.85%) OCI
5 5 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.75%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 3 (1.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.10%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.55%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.55%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.55%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
2 12 (6.59%) Power BI
3 10 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.10%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.10%) Power Query
7 2 (1.10%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.10%) Tableau
8 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.55%) Big Data
8 1 (0.55%) Looker
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Hudson
2 6 (3.30%) JIRA
3 4 (2.20%) Git
4 3 (1.65%) Selenium
5 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.10%) Postman
6 1 (0.55%) JMeter
General
1 94 (51.65%) Finance
2 63 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.68%) Local Government
4 25 (13.74%) Manufacturing
5 19 (10.44%) Public Sector
6 17 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (7.14%) Retail
8 11 (6.04%) Legal
9 7 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.75%) General Ledger
12 4 (2.20%) Billing
13 3 (1.65%) Automotive
13 3 (1.65%) Aviation
13 3 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.55%) Banking
15 1 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (14.84%) Architect
2 26 (14.29%) Accountant
3 25 (13.74%) Analyst
3 25 (13.74%) Systems Accountant
4 21 (11.54%) Project Manager
4 21 (11.54%) Senior
5 18 (9.89%) Consultant
5 18 (9.89%) Lead
6 15 (8.24%) Business Analyst
7 13 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.04%) ERP Manager
8 11 (6.04%) Senior Accountant
8 11 (6.04%) Senior Systems Accountant
9 10 (5.49%) SAP Architect
10 9 (4.95%) Project Accountant
10 9 (4.95%) Trainer
11 7 (3.85%) Data Manager
11 7 (3.85%) Data Warehouse Manager
11 7 (3.85%) Developer
11 7 (3.85%) ERP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (4.95%) REST
3 8 (4.40%) Middleware
3 8 (4.40%) PySpark
4 3 (1.65%) .NET
4 3 (1.65%) ADO
4 3 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.65%) Node.js
4 3 (1.65%) SOAP
5 2 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.10%) XML
6 1 (0.55%) BAPI
6 1 (0.55%) EDI
6 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.55%) JSON
6 1 (0.55%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.55%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.55%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.55%) SAPUI5
6 1 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.89%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.20%) EPoS
5 3 (1.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.65%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.65%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.55%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 48 (26.37%) Migration
3 32 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (16.48%) User Acceptance Testing
5 26 (14.29%) Change Management
6 24 (13.19%) Project Management
7 23 (12.64%) Data Migration
7 23 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (12.09%) Validation
9 21 (11.54%) Agile
10 20 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (10.99%) Project Delivery
11 17 (9.34%) Analytics
12 16 (8.79%) CRM
13 14 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (7.14%) Procure-to-Pay
15 12 (6.59%) Budgeting
15 12 (6.59%) Budgeting and Forecasting
15 12 (6.59%) Logistics
16 11 (6.04%) Financial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.64%) SQL
2 4 (2.20%) PL/SQL
3 3 (1.65%) Apex Code
3 3 (1.65%) SOQL
3 3 (1.65%) SOSL
4 2 (1.10%) Java
4 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.10%) VBA
5 1 (0.55%) ABAP
5 1 (0.55%) Python
5 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (6.04%) Degree
2 10 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.85%) ACCA
3 7 (3.85%) CIMA
3 7 (3.85%) PMP
4 6 (3.30%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.20%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) APMG
6 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.55%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.75%) GDPR
2 5 (2.75%) QA
3 3 (1.65%) IFRS
3 3 (1.65%) PMO
3 3 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) GAAP
5 1 (0.55%) GRC
5 1 (0.55%) ITGC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 55 (30.22%) Oracle
2 46 (25.27%) SAP
3 21 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.04%) Databricks
5 10 (5.49%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.40%) Epicor
7 7 (3.85%) Workday
8 6 (3.30%) IFS
9 4 (2.20%) JD Edwards
9 4 (2.20%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.65%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.10%) Ariba
11 2 (1.10%) CODA
11 2 (1.10%) Concur
11 2 (1.10%) Google
12 1 (0.55%) Dell
12 1 (0.55%) HP
12 1 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.55%) Sybase