SAP Contracts in the North West

SAP
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 27 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +15
Contract jobs citing SAP 159 130 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 7.22% 5.39% 3.99%
As % of the Vendors category 14.60% 13.71% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 54 46
10th Percentile £417 £438 £372
25th Percentile £463 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +8.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £645 £627 £663
90th Percentile £750 £671 £688
England median daily rate £555 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 7
10th Percentile £19.07 £30.50 £21.74
25th Percentile £21.39 £35.27 £22.27
Median hourly rate £22.47 £38.93 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -42.27% +72.79% -68.92%
75th Percentile £29.16 £50.00 £31.88
90th Percentile £50.55 £55.21 £39.02
England median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £43.58
% change year-on-year -36.00% -18.86% -3.16%

All Vendors
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,089 948 1,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 49.48% 39.27% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 536 826
10th Percentile £300 £300 £225
25th Percentile £385 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £675 £675 £656
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.90% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 89 94
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £15.88
25th Percentile £19.07 £11.07 £17.55
Median hourly rate £26.26 £16.06 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.51% -52.76% +68.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £36.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £55.79 £55.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the North West

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SAP in the North West

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the North West over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the North West

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP in the North West

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in the North West over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the North West

SAP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
Manchester +13 89 £530 -3.64% 65
Cheshire -9 43 £550 +4.76% 27
Lancashire -5 23 £600 -2.44% 54
Cumbria +8 1 - - 1
Merseyside -4 1 £513 +139.77% 11
SAP
England

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (2.52%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.63%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (11.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 61 (38.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.03%) SAP HR
3 6 (3.77%) SAP EWM
4 5 (3.14%) SAP APO
4 5 (3.14%) SAP ERP
5 4 (2.52%) Primavera
5 4 (2.52%) SAP CO
5 4 (2.52%) SAP FI
5 4 (2.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (2.52%) SAP MM
5 4 (2.52%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (1.89%) SAP IBP
6 3 (1.89%) SAP PS
7 2 (1.26%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.63%) SAP LE
8 1 (0.63%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.72%) SuccessFactors
2 10 (6.29%) Azure
3 6 (3.77%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.14%) Snowflake
5 4 (2.52%) AWS
6 3 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.63%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.63%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.63%) Boomi
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.63%) GCP
7 1 (0.63%) Google Gemini
7 1 (0.63%) SaaS
7 1 (0.63%) Slack
7 1 (0.63%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Broadband
1 1 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.29%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.77%) Power BI
3 5 (3.14%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.89%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.89%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.26%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (6.92%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.29%) Gradle
2 10 (6.29%) JUnit
2 10 (6.29%) Liquibase
2 10 (6.29%) Mockito
3 5 (3.14%) GitLab
4 4 (2.52%) JIRA
5 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.63%) Git
5 1 (0.63%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.63%) LSMW
General
1 67 (42.14%) Finance
2 43 (27.04%) Social Skills
3 35 (22.01%) Manufacturing
4 32 (20.13%) Pharmaceutical
5 21 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (13.21%) Public Sector
6 14 (8.81%) Marketing
7 12 (7.55%) Electronics
7 12 (7.55%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.77%) Legal
9 5 (3.14%) Aerospace
9 5 (3.14%) Local Government
9 5 (3.14%) Retail
10 4 (2.52%) Law
11 3 (1.89%) Aviation
11 3 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.26%) Billing
12 2 (1.26%) French Language
12 2 (1.26%) German Language
12 2 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (30.19%) Consultant
2 39 (24.53%) SAP Consultant
3 21 (13.21%) Analyst
4 18 (11.32%) Administrator
5 17 (10.69%) SAP Administrator
6 16 (10.06%) SAP Support
7 12 (7.55%) SAP Analyst
8 10 (6.29%) SAP Financial Consultant
8 10 (6.29%) SAP Manager
9 8 (5.03%) Developer
9 8 (5.03%) Project Manager
9 8 (5.03%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
10 6 (3.77%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.77%) Data Consultant
10 6 (3.77%) HR Consultant
10 6 (3.77%) Lead
10 6 (3.77%) Programme Manager
10 6 (3.77%) SAP HR Consultant
11 5 (3.14%) React Developer
11 5 (3.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.29%) Kafka
1 10 (6.29%) OpenAPI
1 10 (6.29%) React
1 10 (6.29%) Spring
1 10 (6.29%) Spring Boot
1 10 (6.29%) Swagger
2 6 (3.77%) Middleware
3 5 (3.14%) SAP PI
3 5 (3.14%) Web Services
4 4 (2.52%) SAP Core Interface
5 3 (1.89%) IDoc
6 2 (1.26%) REST
6 2 (1.26%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.26%) SOAP
7 1 (0.63%) EDI
7 1 (0.63%) JDBC
7 1 (0.63%) JMS
7 1 (0.63%) OLE
7 1 (0.63%) XML
7 1 (0.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.77%) Data Structures
1 6 (3.77%) Public Cloud
2 5 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.52%) Life Science
4 2 (1.26%) FMCG
4 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.63%) Social Media
5 1 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Linux
1 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (16.35%) Migration
3 25 (15.72%) Change Management
3 25 (15.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (15.09%) Project Management
5 23 (14.47%) Agile
6 19 (11.95%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (11.32%) Programme Management
8 17 (10.69%) ERP
9 16 (10.06%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (9.43%) Roadmaps
11 14 (8.81%) Analytics
11 14 (8.81%) DevOps
11 14 (8.81%) Logistics
12 13 (8.18%) Data Migration
12 13 (8.18%) SAP Implementation
13 12 (7.55%) CI/CD
13 12 (7.55%) Containerisation
13 12 (7.55%) Digital Marketing
13 12 (7.55%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.81%) Java
2 11 (6.92%) SQL
3 10 (6.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (1.89%) ABAP
5 1 (0.63%) C
5 1 (0.63%) C++
5 1 (0.63%) Python
5 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.81%) Degree
4 13 (8.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.03%) CIMA
6 7 (4.40%) ACCA
7 6 (3.77%) ISTQB
7 6 (3.77%) Master's Degree
8 5 (3.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 3 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.89%) PMP
10 2 (1.26%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.63%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.14%) GxP
2 5 (3.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (2.52%) PMO
4 3 (1.89%) QA
5 2 (1.26%) IFRS
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.63%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 11 (6.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.26%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.92%) Ariba
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle
4 3 (1.89%) Axway
4 3 (1.89%) TOWER Software
4 3 (1.89%) Twitter
5 2 (1.26%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.26%) Concur
5 2 (1.26%) HP
5 2 (1.26%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.63%) Databricks
6 1 (0.63%) Dell
6 1 (0.63%) EXASOL
6 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.63%) Splunk
6 1 (0.63%) Workday