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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 79 41
Rank change year-on-year +35 -38 +1
Contract jobs citing ERP 202 50 108
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 4.38% 2.14% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.23% 2.44% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 35 80
10th Percentile £313 £340 £324
25th Percentile £355 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £589
90th Percentile £678 £673 £742
England median daily rate £550 £538 £539
% change year-on-year +2.33% -0.23% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.17 -
25th Percentile £14.82 £28.48 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £35.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.72% +78.25% -77.78%
75th Percentile £26.90 £42.83 -
90th Percentile £27.06 £47.13 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.94% -3.13% -38.15%

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 3,863 2,050 2,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.67% 87.87% 80.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 1,311 1,590
10th Percentile £306 £210 £250
25th Percentile £404 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 155 169
10th Percentile £13.52 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £17.49 £15.25 £13.52
Median hourly rate £25.47 £21.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% +15.14% -29.04%
75th Percentile £49.00 £27.70 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.51 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 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
West Midlands +17 126 £540 +2.86% 73
East Midlands +26 71 £515 -1.90% 67
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 8 (3.96%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.50%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) SAP EP
Applications
1 15 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (6.44%) SAP ERP
1 13 (6.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.96%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (3.96%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (3.47%) Oracle Financials
3 7 (3.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (2.48%) NetSuite
6 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (1.49%) SAP PSCD
7 2 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.99%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.99%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.50%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.50%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.50%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.93%) Azure
2 13 (6.44%) OCI
3 11 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.95%) SaaS
5 5 (2.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.99%) AWS
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.99%) Google Sheets
8 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.50%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.50%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.50%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.93%) Oracle Reports
2 11 (5.45%) Power BI
3 10 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.49%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.49%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.99%) Power Query
7 2 (0.99%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.99%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.99%) Tableau
8 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.50%) Big Data
8 1 (0.50%) Looker
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Hudson
2 5 (2.48%) JIRA
3 4 (1.98%) Git
4 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.99%) Postman
4 2 (0.99%) Selenium
5 1 (0.50%) JMeter
General
1 110 (54.46%) Finance
2 63 (31.19%) Social Skills
3 38 (18.81%) Local Government
4 29 (14.36%) Manufacturing
5 23 (11.39%) Public Sector
6 19 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.93%) Retail
8 11 (5.45%) Legal
9 7 (3.47%) Automotive
9 7 (3.47%) General Ledger
9 7 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.97%) Billing
11 4 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Aviation
12 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.99%) Banking
13 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.99%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (13.86%) Lead
1 28 (13.86%) Project Manager
2 26 (12.87%) Accountant
3 25 (12.38%) Systems Accountant
4 23 (11.39%) Analyst
4 23 (11.39%) Architect
4 23 (11.39%) Senior
5 21 (10.40%) Consultant
6 12 (5.94%) Business Analyst
6 12 (5.94%) Oracle Project Manager
7 11 (5.45%) Senior Accountant
7 11 (5.45%) Senior Systems Accountant
7 11 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.95%) ERP Manager
8 10 (4.95%) SAP Architect
9 9 (4.46%) Developer
9 9 (4.46%) Project Accountant
9 9 (4.46%) Trainer
10 7 (3.47%) Data Manager
10 7 (3.47%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (25.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (4.46%) REST
3 8 (3.96%) PySpark
4 6 (2.97%) Middleware
5 4 (1.98%) .NET
6 3 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.49%) Node.js
6 3 (1.49%) SOAP
7 2 (0.99%) ADO
7 2 (0.99%) React
7 2 (0.99%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.99%) XML
8 1 (0.50%) BAPI
8 1 (0.50%) Django
8 1 (0.50%) EDI
8 1 (0.50%) Express.js
8 1 (0.50%) JSON
8 1 (0.50%) Kafka
8 1 (0.50%) React Native
8 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.91%) Management Information System
2 15 (7.43%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.98%) EPoS
4 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.50%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.50%) FMCG
7 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.50%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) OpenVMS
1 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (24.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (24.26%) Migration
3 37 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (14.85%) User Acceptance Testing
5 26 (12.87%) Project Management
5 26 (12.87%) Validation
6 25 (12.38%) Change Management
6 25 (12.38%) Data Migration
6 25 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (10.40%) Analytics
8 20 (9.90%) Agile
9 19 (9.41%) Project Delivery
9 19 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (8.91%) CRM
11 14 (6.93%) Logistics
11 14 (6.93%) Process Improvement
12 13 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (5.94%) Budgeting
13 12 (5.94%) Procure-to-Pay
13 12 (5.94%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.90%) SQL
2 4 (1.98%) ABAP
2 4 (1.98%) PL/SQL
3 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
3 3 (1.49%) Java
3 3 (1.49%) SOQL
3 3 (1.49%) SOSL
4 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.99%) Python
4 2 (0.99%) VBA
5 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (6.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.95%) ACCA
2 10 (4.95%) CIMA
3 9 (4.46%) Degree
3 9 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.48%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.48%) PMP
5 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.49%) CCA
6 3 (1.49%) CCAB
7 2 (0.99%) APMG
7 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.48%) QA
3 4 (1.98%) PMO
4 3 (1.49%) GDPR
4 3 (1.49%) IFRS
4 3 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) GAAP
6 1 (0.50%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 72 (35.64%) Oracle
2 49 (24.26%) SAP
3 22 (10.89%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.45%) Databricks
5 9 (4.46%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.96%) Epicor
7 5 (2.48%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.98%) IFS
8 4 (1.98%) JD Edwards
8 4 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.98%) Workday
9 3 (1.49%) Concur
9 3 (1.49%) Google
10 2 (0.99%) Ariba
11 1 (0.50%) CODA
11 1 (0.50%) Dell
11 1 (0.50%) HP
11 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.50%) Sybase