SAP Contracts in the Midlands

SAP
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 23 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +12
Contract jobs citing SAP 134 155 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.67% 5.75% 8.06%
As % of the Vendors category 14.42% 13.75% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 89 168
10th Percentile £443 £275 £329
25th Percentile £492 £414 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.55% +3.21%
75th Percentile £639 £600 £638
90th Percentile £739 £725 £752
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 21 5
10th Percentile £19.42 £11.25 £40.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £12.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £31.76 £22.50 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.16% -76.32% +308.73%
75th Percentile - £26.98 £97.50
90th Percentile £42.70 £28.75 £99.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £26.03 £45.00
% change year-on-year +130.50% -42.16% +53.17%

All Vendors
Midlands

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 929 1,127 1,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 46.24% 41.80% 49.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 720 1,079
10th Percentile £200 £206 £205
25th Percentile £321 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £651 £698 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.35% -3.63% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 80 52
10th Percentile £13.76 £10.93 £12.76
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -24.63% +21.79%
75th Percentile £19.63 £26.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £31.76 £42.94 £63.88
England median hourly rate £26.34 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.70% -37.14% +63.78%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing SAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SAP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SAP in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the Midlands

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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 SAP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
West Midlands -1 94 £550 +13.40% 113
East Midlands +7 33 £510 -11.30% 57
SAP
England

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.75%) MS Project Server
1 1 (0.75%) NetWeaver
1 1 (0.75%) SAP EP
1 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 41 (30.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.97%) SAP PM
3 7 (5.22%) SAP MM
4 6 (4.48%) SAP CO
4 6 (4.48%) SAP FI
4 6 (4.48%) SAP HR
5 5 (3.73%) SAP ERP
5 5 (3.73%) SAP Payroll
5 5 (3.73%) SAP PP
6 4 (2.99%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (2.24%) Maximo
7 3 (2.24%) SAP BPC
7 3 (2.24%) SAP SD
8 2 (1.49%) SAP CCM
8 2 (1.49%) SAP CRM
8 2 (1.49%) SAP GRC
8 2 (1.49%) SAP MDG
8 2 (1.49%) SAP PSCD
9 1 (0.75%) Primavera
9 1 (0.75%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.18%) SuccessFactors
2 13 (9.70%) Azure
3 9 (6.72%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.48%) Collibra
5 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.73%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.24%) GitHub
8 3 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.49%) SaaS
9 2 (1.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.49%) Serverless
9 2 (1.49%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.75%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) HTTP
2 2 (1.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.72%) Power BI
2 7 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (4.48%) Delta Lake
3 6 (4.48%) GIS
4 5 (3.73%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.73%) SAP HANA
5 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.24%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.49%) Power Query
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Postman
2 4 (2.99%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) ERwin
3 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.75%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.75%) Toad
General
1 45 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.15%) Finance
3 24 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.45%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.97%) Automotive
5 8 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.97%) Retail
6 7 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.99%) Local Government
8 4 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.24%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.24%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.49%) Electronics
10 2 (1.49%) Marketing
10 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (31.34%) Consultant
2 36 (26.87%) SAP Consultant
3 18 (13.43%) Architect
4 12 (8.96%) Developer
5 10 (7.46%) SAP Manager
6 9 (6.72%) Lead
7 8 (5.97%) SAP Developer
8 7 (5.22%) Analyst
8 7 (5.22%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.22%) SAP MM Consultant
9 6 (4.48%) Engagement Manager
9 6 (4.48%) Payroll Consultant
9 6 (4.48%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.48%) SAP Architect
9 6 (4.48%) SAP CO Consultant
9 6 (4.48%) SAP FI Consultant
9 6 (4.48%) SAP Payroll Consultant
10 5 (3.73%) SAP Analyst
10 5 (3.73%) SAP Project Manager
10 5 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.45%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (6.72%) SAPUI5
3 7 (5.22%) IDoc
3 7 (5.22%) SailPoint
4 6 (4.48%) Kafka
5 5 (3.73%) CSS
5 5 (3.73%) CSS3
5 5 (3.73%) EDI
5 5 (3.73%) HTML
5 5 (3.73%) HTML5
5 5 (3.73%) jQuery
5 5 (3.73%) REST
5 5 (3.73%) SOAP
6 3 (2.24%) BAPI
6 3 (2.24%) J2EE
6 3 (2.24%) JDBC
6 3 (2.24%) SAP PI
6 3 (2.24%) XSLT
7 2 (1.49%) RESTful
7 2 (1.49%) SAP Smart Forms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.21%) IoT
2 7 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.48%) SCADA
4 5 (3.73%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.49%) FMCG
6 2 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.75%) PMI
7 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.24%) Windows
2 2 (1.49%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (14.93%) Agile
3 18 (13.43%) Data Modelling
4 17 (12.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (11.94%) Data Governance
5 16 (11.94%) Project Management
6 15 (11.19%) Validation
7 13 (9.70%) Analytics
7 13 (9.70%) Data Architecture
7 13 (9.70%) ERP
8 11 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (8.21%) Project Delivery
9 10 (7.46%) Budget Management
9 10 (7.46%) Computer Science
9 10 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (7.46%) Migration
9 10 (7.46%) SAP Implementation
10 9 (6.72%) Programme Management
10 9 (6.72%) Waterfall
11 8 (5.97%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.94%) SQL
2 15 (11.19%) ABAP
3 8 (5.97%) COBOL
3 8 (5.97%) JavaScript
3 8 (5.97%) Python
4 6 (4.48%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (3.73%) Java
6 3 (2.24%) Bicep
6 3 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.24%) Groovy
7 2 (1.49%) R
8 1 (0.75%) C#
8 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (11.94%) Degree
2 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
2 11 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.48%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.49%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.49%) PMP
6 1 (0.75%) AAT
6 1 (0.75%) ACCA
6 1 (0.75%) APMG
6 1 (0.75%) CIMA
6 1 (0.75%) ISEB
6 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.97%) PMO
3 7 (5.22%) GDPR
4 3 (2.24%) GAAP
4 3 (2.24%) IFRS
4 3 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.49%) GRC
5 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.49%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.24%) Terraform
2 1 (0.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Oracle
3 7 (5.22%) Informatica
4 6 (4.48%) Ariba
4 6 (4.48%) Databricks
4 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.99%) Adobe
6 3 (2.24%) Concur
6 3 (2.24%) Google
7 2 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.49%) Workday
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco
8 1 (0.75%) Citrix
8 1 (0.75%) Cognos
8 1 (0.75%) Dell
8 1 (0.75%) HP
8 1 (0.75%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.75%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.75%) webMethods