SAP Contracts in Reading

SAP
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 26 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +29
Contract jobs citing SAP 54 78 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 9.05% 6.54% 9.41%
As % of the Vendors category 16.77% 13.57% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 46 78
10th Percentile £585 £488 £554
25th Percentile £600 £663 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £716 £680
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +5.22% +18.26%
75th Percentile £700 £765 £721
90th Percentile £828 £775 £735
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £675 £619
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.09% +19.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 3
10th Percentile - £52.90 -
25th Percentile - £54.58 £63.14
Median hourly rate £29.00 £61.60 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% -4.75% -
75th Percentile - £62.88 £66.21
90th Percentile - £63.29 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £43.25 £61.60 £64.68
% change year-on-year -29.79% -4.75% -

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 322 575 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 53.94% 48.24% 51.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 358 369
10th Percentile £350 £213 £372
25th Percentile £456 £413 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -4.35% +11.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £685
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 15
10th Percentile £33.82 £52.90 £29.10
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.38 £47.95
Median hourly rate £53.10 £60.14 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% -7.01% +115.58%
75th Percentile £65.14 £62.03 £66.21
90th Percentile £72.37 £64.66 £73.45
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
% change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP in Reading

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SAP in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in Reading

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 9 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.56%) SAP EWM
3 2 (3.70%) SAP WM
4 1 (1.85%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.85%) SAP GTS
4 1 (1.85%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.81%) Azure
2 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (5.56%) SaaS
3 2 (3.70%) AWS
3 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
3 2 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.85%) Junos
1 1 (1.85%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (5.56%) SAP BW
2 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.70%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Git
1 4 (7.41%) Selenium
2 3 (5.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 34 (62.96%) Finance
1 34 (62.96%) Manufacturing
1 34 (62.96%) Public Sector
2 33 (61.11%) Electronics
2 33 (61.11%) Marketing
2 33 (61.11%) Telecoms
3 5 (9.26%) Billing
3 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Dutch Language
5 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (55.56%) Architect
2 21 (38.89%) Active Directory Architect
3 7 (12.96%) SAP Architect
4 6 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior
6 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Programme Manager
7 2 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) SAP EWM Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Tester
7 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) Gherkin
1 3 (5.56%) PySpark
2 2 (3.70%) Middleware
2 2 (3.70%) YAML
3 1 (1.85%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.85%) SAP TM
3 1 (1.85%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (5.56%) IoT
2 2 (3.70%) SCADA
3 1 (1.85%) CMDB
3 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (46.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (62.96%) Programme Management
2 33 (61.11%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (61.11%) Digital Marketing
3 29 (53.70%) Agile
4 24 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 21 (38.89%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (11.11%) DevOps
6 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.26%) B2B
8 4 (7.41%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (7.41%) Customer Retention
8 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (7.41%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (7.41%) Roadmaps
8 4 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (5.56%) Data-Driven Testing
9 3 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (46.30%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.11%) ABAP
3 5 (9.26%) Python
4 4 (7.41%) Bash
5 3 (5.56%) SQL
6 2 (3.70%) Bicep
7 1 (1.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 30 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 21 (38.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
2 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.56%) Databricks
3 2 (3.70%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.85%) Citrix
4 1 (1.85%) Dell
4 1 (1.85%) F5
4 1 (1.85%) HP
4 1 (1.85%) IBM
4 1 (1.85%) Juniper