SAP Data Services Contract Job Trends in the South East

SAP Data Services (SAP BODS, SAP DS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SAP Data Services skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 172 211
Rank change year-on-year +12 +39 +50
Contract jobs citing SAP Data Services 1 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.029% 0.26% 0.054%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 1.95% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £570 -
25th Percentile £231 £576 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £583 £625
Median % change year-on-year -59.23% -6.80% +6.38%
75th Percentile £244 £595 £638
90th Percentile - £612 -
England median daily rate £529 £580 £650
% change year-on-year -8.79% -10.77% +15.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

SAP Data Services falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 453 615 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.01% 13.40% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 408 524
10th Percentile £205 £263 £319
25th Percentile £325 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -8.05% +8.75%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 20 46
10th Percentile £13.25 £22.24 £21.05
25th Percentile £18.38 £30.00 £31.12
Median hourly rate £32.05 £51.59 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.88% -1.26% +134.83%
75th Percentile £34.15 £61.60 £69.69
90th Percentile £43.25 £61.91 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.85% -34.09% +22.22%

SAP Data Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SAP Data Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SAP Data Services in the South East

SAP Data Services
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAP Data Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAP Data Services

SAP Data Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAP Data Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAP Data Services

SAP Data Services
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Data Services within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Buckinghamshire +6 1 £238 -62.30%
Thames Valley +1 1 £238 -59.23%
SAP Data Services
England

SAP Data Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP