ERP Contract Job Trends in the North East

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring ERP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing ERP 3 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.75% 4.33% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 4.68% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 9
10th Percentile £470 £358 £366
25th Percentile £472 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -20.93%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £575
90th Percentile £615 £695 £633
England median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +3.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 351 278 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.75% 92.67% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 132 145
10th Percentile £178 £306 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
75th Percentile £536 £591 £575
90th Percentile £591 £718 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 9
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.13 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.27% +5.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

ERP job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing ERP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ERP in the North East over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ERP in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing ERP

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the North East region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Tyne and Wear -19 2 £556 +23.61% 14
Durham +5 1 £500 - 2
ERP
England

ERP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Sage