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 17 June 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 82 115
Rank change year-on-year +25 +33 +17
Contract jobs citing SAP 60 38 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.68% 1.80% 1.64%
As % of the Vendors category 7.59% 4.67% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 23
10th Percentile £380 £288 £199
25th Percentile £550 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +13.52% -7.71%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £541
90th Percentile - - £625
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £17.90 £19.55
25th Percentile £20.40 £19.25 £27.13
Median hourly rate £20.80 £19.50 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -50.94% +229.88%
75th Percentile £24.57 £19.75 £52.38
90th Percentile £26.60 - £59.95
UK median hourly rate £50.49 £26.03 £45.00
% change year-on-year +93.98% -42.16% +3.02%

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 791 813 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 48.56% 38.60% 41.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 526 787
10th Percentile £222 £177 £199
25th Percentile £359 £321 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £600 £669 £614
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 44 22
10th Percentile £16.02 £11.79 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.51 £17.75 £38.18
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -53.51% -4.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £19.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.99 £59.78 £68.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.57 £42.50
% change year-on-year +11.43% -46.89% +97.67%

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 17 June 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

SAP
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 17 June 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
West Lothian - 18 - - 1
Edinburgh +17 9 - - 105
Glasgow -14 7 £600 +4.35% 150
Stirling - 4 - -
Fife +1 3 - - 6
Aberdeen -3 3 £168 -69.55% 102
Midlothian - 3 - -
Clackmannanshire - 2 - - 1
Highlands -1 1 - - 2
East Lothian - 1 - - 2
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 3
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:

Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (11.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.67%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 40 (66.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) DB2
1 1 (1.67%) Sybase ASE
General
1 50 (83.33%) Finance
2 45 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 40 (66.67%) General Ledger
4 10 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 9 (15.00%) Electronics
5 9 (15.00%) Marketing
5 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (15.00%) Telecoms
6 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (80.00%) Analyst
2 40 (66.67%) Financial Analyst
2 40 (66.67%) Senior
2 40 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
2 40 (66.67%) Senior Financial Analyst
3 6 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (10.00%) RF Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
3 6 (10.00%) SAP Business Analyst
4 3 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (3.33%) Administrator
6 1 (1.67%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (1.67%) Field Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) IT Support
6 1 (1.67%) Project Administrator
6 1 (1.67%) Quality Analyst
6 1 (1.67%) SAP PP Analyst
6 1 (1.67%) SAP PP Business Analyst
6 1 (1.67%) SAP WM Analyst
6 1 (1.67%) Sybase DBA
Miscellaneous
1 40 (66.67%) Social Media
2 1 (1.67%) Clustering
2 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (1.67%) FMCG
2 1 (1.67%) Replication
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (76.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (68.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 40 (66.67%) Accounts Payable
3 40 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
4 9 (15.00%) Programme Management
5 6 (10.00%) Feasibility Study
5 6 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 6 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (10.00%) Schematic Capture
6 4 (6.67%) Migration
7 2 (3.33%) Bill of Materials
7 2 (3.33%) Change Management
7 2 (3.33%) PLM
8 1 (1.67%) Asset Management
8 1 (1.67%) Incident Management
8 1 (1.67%) Workflow
8 1 (1.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.67%) Perl
1 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (66.67%) ACCA
1 40 (66.67%) CIMA
2 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.67%) Ariba
2 1 (1.67%) Concur
2 1 (1.67%) Dell
2 1 (1.67%) HP
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle
2 1 (1.67%) Sun
2 1 (1.67%) Sybase