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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 61 43
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 +11
Contract jobs citing ERP 165 61 105
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.86% 3.11% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 3.53% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 40 79
10th Percentile £313 £374 £333
25th Percentile £388 £417 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £578 £578
90th Percentile £675 £688 £775
England median daily rate £548 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.30% -3.64% +1.85%
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 £24.18 - -
90th Percentile £28.65 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +75.00% -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 3,511 1,726 2,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.07% 87.93% 82.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 1,133 1,482
10th Percentile £300 £200 £238
25th Percentile £400 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.36%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £656 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 89 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.63 £13.60
Median hourly rate £24.13 £18.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.74% +1.30% -7.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £24.66 £34.56
90th Percentile £70.53 £39.56 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -8 98 £540 +8.00% 53
East Midlands +11 64 £525 +10.53% 46
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 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.61%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.61%) SAP EP
Applications
1 11 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.42%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (10.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (6.67%) SAP ERP
3 6 (3.64%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (3.03%) Workday HCM
5 4 (2.42%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (2.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (1.21%) SAP PP
7 2 (1.21%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.61%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.61%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.48%) Azure
2 12 (7.27%) Power Platform
3 8 (4.85%) SaaS
4 7 (4.24%) OCI
5 5 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.03%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 4 (2.42%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.21%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.21%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.61%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.48%) Oracle Reports
2 12 (7.27%) Power BI
3 10 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.21%) Power Query
7 2 (1.21%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.21%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.21%) Tableau
8 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.61%) Big Data
8 1 (0.61%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.61%) Looker
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Hudson
2 6 (3.64%) JIRA
3 4 (2.42%) Git
4 3 (1.82%) Selenium
5 2 (1.21%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.21%) Postman
6 1 (0.61%) JMeter
General
1 83 (50.30%) Finance
2 61 (36.97%) Social Skills
3 30 (18.18%) Local Government
4 23 (13.94%) Manufacturing
5 19 (11.52%) Public Sector
6 17 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (7.27%) Legal
7 12 (7.27%) Retail
8 7 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.03%) General Ledger
9 5 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.82%) Automotive
10 3 (1.82%) Aviation
10 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.21%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.21%) Billing
11 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.61%) Back Office
12 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (16.36%) Architect
2 25 (15.15%) Analyst
3 23 (13.94%) Accountant
4 22 (13.33%) Systems Accountant
5 21 (12.73%) Senior
6 19 (11.52%) Project Manager
7 15 (9.09%) Business Analyst
8 13 (7.88%) Consultant
8 13 (7.88%) Lead
8 13 (7.88%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (6.67%) Senior Accountant
9 11 (6.67%) Senior Systems Accountant
10 10 (6.06%) SAP Architect
11 9 (5.45%) ERP Manager
11 9 (5.45%) Project Accountant
12 8 (4.85%) Trainer
13 7 (4.24%) Data Manager
13 7 (4.24%) Data Warehouse Manager
13 7 (4.24%) Developer
13 7 (4.24%) ERP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (5.45%) REST
3 8 (4.85%) PySpark
4 6 (3.64%) Middleware
5 3 (1.82%) ADO
5 3 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.82%) Node.js
5 3 (1.82%) SOAP
6 2 (1.21%) .NET
6 2 (1.21%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.21%) XML
7 1 (0.61%) BAPI
7 1 (0.61%) EDI
7 1 (0.61%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.61%) JSON
7 1 (0.61%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.61%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.61%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.61%) Swagger
7 1 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.91%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.48%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.42%) EPoS
5 3 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.61%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (28.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (26.67%) Migration
3 28 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (16.36%) Change Management
5 26 (15.76%) User Acceptance Testing
6 24 (14.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (13.33%) Project Management
8 20 (12.12%) Agile
8 20 (12.12%) Data Migration
8 20 (12.12%) Project Delivery
9 17 (10.30%) Analytics
9 17 (10.30%) Validation
10 15 (9.09%) CRM
10 15 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (8.48%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (7.88%) Logistics
13 12 (7.27%) Budgeting
13 12 (7.27%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 11 (6.67%) Business Strategy
14 11 (6.67%) Financial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.12%) SQL
2 4 (2.42%) PL/SQL
3 3 (1.82%) Apex Code
3 3 (1.82%) SOQL
3 3 (1.82%) SOSL
4 2 (1.21%) Java
4 2 (1.21%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.21%) VBA
5 1 (0.61%) ABAP
5 1 (0.61%) Python
5 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (6.67%) Degree
1 11 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.24%) PMP
3 6 (3.64%) PMI Certification
3 6 (3.64%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.03%) ACCA
4 5 (3.03%) CIMA
5 4 (2.42%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.21%) APMG
6 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.03%) GDPR
3 4 (2.42%) PMO
3 4 (2.42%) QA
4 2 (1.21%) IFRS
4 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.61%) GAAP
5 1 (0.61%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) ITGC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 45 (27.27%) SAP
2 43 (26.06%) Oracle
3 21 (12.73%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.67%) Databricks
5 9 (5.45%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.24%) Workday
7 6 (3.64%) IFS
8 4 (2.42%) JD Edwards
8 4 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.82%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.21%) Ariba
10 2 (1.21%) CODA
10 2 (1.21%) Concur
10 2 (1.21%) Epicor
10 2 (1.21%) Google
11 1 (0.61%) Dell
11 1 (0.61%) HP
11 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Sybase