SAP Contract Job Trends in the South East

SAP
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 March 2026, 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
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 26 31
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing SAP 264 217 309
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.81% 7.35% 5.48%
As % of the Vendors category 10.71% 13.99% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 140 193
10th Percentile £400 £205 £205
25th Percentile £481 £488 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -6.14%
75th Percentile £678 £655 £675
90th Percentile £772 £700 £765
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 33
10th Percentile £16.79 £19.57 £13.05
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.50 £26.03
Median hourly rate £33.13 £29.00 £55.80
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -48.03% +24.00%
75th Percentile £90.09 £58.75 £63.29
90th Percentile - £73.41 £80.00
England median hourly rate £24.00 £56.25 £28.25
% change year-on-year -57.33% +99.12% -37.22%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,464 1,551 2,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.88% 52.51% 48.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 1,040 1,663
10th Percentile £305 £245 £213
25th Percentile £413 £404 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 87 175
10th Percentile £13.31 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £37.69 £25.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.74% -47.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £85.81 £62.50 £61.45
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.88 £67.31
England median hourly rate £25.47 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.38% +21.13% -32.87%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

SAP job vacancy trend in the South East

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the South East over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the South East

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in the South East over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the South East

SAP
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. 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
Thames Valley -27 91 £596 -5.55% 42
West Sussex +1 67 £502 -2.62% 4
Berkshire -38 64 £670 +3.08% 32
Surrey +2 47 £613 +36.11% 31
Hampshire -18 39 £644 +9.62% 8
Buckinghamshire -16 18 £415 -17.00% 7
Oxfordshire -20 9 £500 -11.11% 4
Kent -5 7 £475 +131.71% 4
East Sussex +1 2 - -
Home Counties -2 2 £700 +16.67%
SAP
England

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.03%) NetWeaver
2 7 (2.65%) CMS
3 5 (1.89%) SAP EP
4 3 (1.14%) MS Project Server
5 2 (0.76%) Confluence
5 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 76 (28.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (10.23%) SAP PSCD
3 18 (6.82%) SAP Hybris
4 17 (6.44%) SAP FI
5 16 (6.06%) SAP BRIM
6 15 (5.68%) SAP ERP
7 9 (3.41%) SAP FI-CA
8 8 (3.03%) SAP Payroll
9 7 (2.65%) SAP MDG
10 6 (2.27%) SAP SD
11 5 (1.89%) Primavera
11 5 (1.89%) SAP CO
11 5 (1.89%) SAP CRM
11 5 (1.89%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (1.89%) SAP R/3
12 4 (1.52%) SAP HCM
12 4 (1.52%) SAP IBP
12 4 (1.52%) SAP PM
13 3 (1.14%) SAP MDG-F
13 3 (1.14%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 22 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
2 19 (7.20%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 13 (4.92%) Azure
4 11 (4.17%) AWS
5 7 (2.65%) GCP
6 5 (1.89%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.89%) SaaS
7 4 (1.52%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.14%) GitHub
8 3 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) VPN
2 3 (1.14%) BGP
2 3 (1.14%) Firewall
2 3 (1.14%) Junos
2 3 (1.14%) OSPF
3 1 (0.38%) DHCP
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.17%) SAP Data Services
2 8 (3.03%) SAP HANA
3 7 (2.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 5 (1.89%) Power BI
5 3 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (1.14%) GIS
5 3 (1.14%) MySQL
5 3 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.76%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (0.76%) QlikView
6 2 (0.76%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.38%) Tableau
7 1 (0.38%) Tableau Desktop
7 1 (0.38%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.03%) JIRA
2 5 (1.89%) Toad
3 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.14%) JUnit
3 3 (1.14%) Storybook
4 1 (0.38%) Hudson
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.38%) TestDirector
General
1 86 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 84 (31.82%) Finance
3 50 (18.94%) Public Sector
4 39 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (13.26%) Telecoms
6 28 (10.61%) Manufacturing
7 26 (9.85%) Billing
8 19 (7.20%) Marketing
9 18 (6.82%) Electronics
10 9 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.52%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.52%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.52%) Military
14 3 (1.14%) Banking
14 3 (1.14%) Legal
14 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (22.73%) Consultant
2 57 (21.59%) SAP Consultant
3 47 (17.80%) Lead
4 26 (9.85%) Senior
5 24 (9.09%) Architect
6 23 (8.71%) Analyst
7 18 (6.82%) Data Migration Lead
7 18 (6.82%) SAP Architect
8 13 (4.92%) Functional Consultant
8 13 (4.92%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 12 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.79%) Finance Manager
10 10 (3.79%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.79%) SAP Data Migration Lead
11 9 (3.41%) SAP Manager
12 8 (3.03%) Data Analyst
12 8 (3.03%) Developer
12 8 (3.03%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
12 8 (3.03%) Oracle Specialist
12 8 (3.03%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
2 11 (4.17%) Web Services
3 8 (3.03%) BAPI
4 7 (2.65%) SAPUI5
5 6 (2.27%) SAP PI
6 5 (1.89%) XML
7 4 (1.52%) SAP ALE
7 4 (1.52%) SAP Smart Forms
8 3 (1.14%) CSS
8 3 (1.14%) HTML
8 3 (1.14%) JWT
8 3 (1.14%) OAuth
8 3 (1.14%) React
8 3 (1.14%) RESTful
8 3 (1.14%) SAML
8 3 (1.14%) SOAP
8 3 (1.14%) Spring
8 3 (1.14%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.14%) Vitest
9 2 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
1 12 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.79%) Replication
3 9 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.03%) NHS
5 6 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.14%) FPGA
8 3 (1.14%) Tandem
8 3 (1.14%) Verilog
8 3 (1.14%) VHDL
9 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.76%) CMDB
9 2 (0.76%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.76%) FMCG
9 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.41%) Windows
2 6 (2.27%) Linux
2 6 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.76%) SUSE
4 2 (0.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (21.21%) Migration
2 45 (17.05%) ERP
3 35 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
4 32 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (11.74%) Data Migration
6 28 (10.61%) Agile
7 24 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (9.09%) Project Management
8 23 (8.71%) Workshop Facilitation
9 21 (7.95%) Revenue Management
10 19 (7.20%) DevOps
10 19 (7.20%) Digital Marketing
10 19 (7.20%) Programme Management
11 18 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (6.44%) Data Cleansing
12 17 (6.44%) Data Modelling
12 17 (6.44%) User Acceptance Testing
13 16 (6.06%) Project Delivery
14 15 (5.68%) Data Analysis
15 14 (5.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.44%) ABAP
2 13 (4.92%) SQL
3 12 (4.55%) Java
4 3 (1.14%) C
4 3 (1.14%) C++
4 3 (1.14%) Embedded C
4 3 (1.14%) Embedded C++
4 3 (1.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.14%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.76%) Python
6 1 (0.38%) C#
6 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.38%) R
6 1 (0.38%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 97 (36.74%) Security Cleared
2 71 (26.89%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.88%) DV Cleared
4 27 (10.23%) Degree
5 14 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.27%) ACCA
7 6 (2.27%) CIMA
8 4 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.14%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.14%) JNCIP
9 3 (1.14%) JNCIS
9 3 (1.14%) PMP
10 2 (0.76%) ISEB
10 2 (0.76%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.76%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.38%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.17%) PMO
3 8 (3.03%) QA
4 2 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 25 (9.47%) Oracle
2 19 (7.20%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.55%) Ariba
4 8 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.65%) Sage
6 6 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.14%) Adobe
7 3 (1.14%) Callidus
7 3 (1.14%) Cisco
7 3 (1.14%) ESRI
7 3 (1.14%) IBM
7 3 (1.14%) Intel
7 3 (1.14%) Juniper
7 3 (1.14%) Xilinx
8 2 (0.76%) SYSPRO
8 2 (0.76%) webMethods
9 1 (0.38%) HP
9 1 (0.38%) Infor
9 1 (0.38%) JDA
9 1 (0.38%) MapR