SAP Contracts in Scotland

SAP
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 94 138
Rank change year-on-year -7 +44 -3
Contract jobs citing SAP 18 34 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.12% 1.53% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 2.52% 3.83% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 16
10th Percentile £426 £283 £289
25th Percentile £466 £438 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £519
90th Percentile £693 - £606
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.90 -
25th Percentile £21.44 £19.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £19.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -70.00% +439.42%
75th Percentile £23.50 £19.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £25.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +123.30% -42.78% +53.17%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 714 887 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.24% 39.95% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 543 823
10th Percentile £236 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £467 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -1.27% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 52 16
10th Percentile £16.36 £13.28 £21.26
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £43.86
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%
75th Percentile £24.62 £55.63 £65.39
90th Percentile £28.26 £60.00 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP in Scotland

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SAP in Scotland

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in Scotland

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow +1 9 £600 +4.35% 12
Edinburgh +10 6 £448 - 6
Fife 0 1 - -
Highlands -1 1 - -
Aberdeen -2 1 £775 +34.78%
SAP
UK

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (5.56%) SAP APO
2 1 (5.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) DB2
1 1 (5.56%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
1 6 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 5 (27.78%) Electronics
2 5 (27.78%) Marketing
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) SAP Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) DBA
4 1 (5.56%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SOAP
1 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) FMCG
1 2 (11.11%) iPhone
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 6 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.56%) Data Management
5 1 (5.56%) Data Modelling
5 1 (5.56%) High Availability
5 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.56%) Information Security
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Project Governance
5 1 (5.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Perl
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) Def Stans
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Dell
2 1 (5.56%) Hitachi
2 1 (5.56%) HP
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Pega
2 1 (5.56%) Planview
2 1 (5.56%) Sun
2 1 (5.56%) Sybase