ERP Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring ERP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing ERP 7 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 2.79% 2.11% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 2.70% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £410
25th Percentile £325 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.28%
75th Percentile £375 - £475
90th Percentile - - £490
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 226 148 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.04% 77.89% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 66 75
10th Percentile £263 £146 £200
25th Percentile £325 £168 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -19.15%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £529
90th Percentile £634 £650 £615
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 17 9
10th Percentile £12.52 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +27.01%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.25 £16.00
90th Percentile - £43.00 £18.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £43.86
% change year-on-year -30.30% -17.73% +25.31%

ERP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

ERP job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

ERP
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing ERP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing ERP

ERP
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing ERP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing ERP

ERP
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
County Antrim -6 4 £350 - 5
County Tyrone - 3 - - 4
ERP
UK

ERP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) EDI Specialist
1 3 (42.86%) IT Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) IT Support
1 3 (42.86%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Project Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Project Support Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) ERP Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Procurement Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) B2B
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Contract Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Master Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
1 3 (42.86%) IBM Sterling
1 3 (42.86%) OpenText
1 3 (42.86%) SEEBURGER
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Workday