SAP S/4HANA Contract Job Trends in the North East

SAP S/4HANA
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SAP S/4HANA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 -
Contract jobs citing SAP S/4HANA 5 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.83% 2.22% 0.31%
As % of the Business Applications category 29.41% 36.84% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600

All Business Application Skills
North East

SAP S/4HANA falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 17 19 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 2.84% 6.01% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 1
10th Percentile £380 £293 -
25th Percentile £444 £331 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -17.50% +92.15%
75th Percentile £550 £543 -
90th Percentile £558 £581 -
England median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £52.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year -8.33% +68.30% -27.24%

SAP S/4HANA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP S/4HANA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

SAP S/4HANA job vacancy trend in the North East

SAP S/4HANA
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SAP S/4HANA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA
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 SAP S/4HANA within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Tyne and Wear -19 5 £500 - 1
SAP S/4HANA
England

SAP S/4HANA
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP CO
1 2 (40.00%) SAP FI
1 2 (40.00%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Hudson
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Business Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Business Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Financial Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Financial Support
1 2 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Support
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Support Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Support Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ERP
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Business Process Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) DataOps
4 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AAT
1 2 (40.00%) ACCA
1 2 (40.00%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) IFS