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 16 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
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 24 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing SAP 243 215 292
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.60% 7.18% 5.19%
As % of the Vendors category 9.93% 13.93% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 141 181
10th Percentile £400 £205 £205
25th Percentile £470 £460 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.00% -11.60%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £634
90th Percentile £760 £700 £735
England median daily rate £556 £554 £550
% change year-on-year +0.41% +0.68% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 28
10th Percentile £19.44 £19.57 £13.05
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.50 £24.17
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £58.70
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -50.60% +30.44%
75th Percentile £90.09 £58.75 £63.29
90th Percentile - £73.41 £81.34
England median hourly rate £23.83 £50.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -52.35% +55.69% -28.63%

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 2,447 1,543 2,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 46.34% 51.55% 49.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 1,031 1,691
10th Percentile £281 £238 £208
25th Percentile £413 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 81 159
10th Percentile £13.13 £15.25 £12.55
25th Percentile £17.25 £19.97 £17.06
Median hourly rate £30.63 £27.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -15.38% -27.78%
75th Percentile £83.00 £62.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.19 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.43 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.83% +21.70% -28.57%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -47 77 £583 -7.53% 34
West Sussex +2 71 £502 -1.15% 9
Berkshire -53 50 £625 -3.85% 24
Surrey +7 48 £585 +42.25% 30
Hampshire -25 32 £703 +19.74% 18
Buckinghamshire -11 18 £415 -17.00% 7
Oxfordshire -15 9 £500 -11.11% 4
Kent -8 7 £475 +131.71% 8
East Sussex +4 2 - - 3
Home Counties -3 1 £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 7 (2.88%) CMS
2 5 (2.06%) NetWeaver
3 3 (1.23%) MS Project Server
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) SAP EP
4 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.17%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 71 (29.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (10.29%) SAP PSCD
3 18 (7.41%) SAP Hybris
4 17 (7.00%) SAP FI
5 16 (6.58%) SAP BRIM
6 14 (5.76%) SAP ERP
6 14 (5.76%) SAP Payroll
7 9 (3.70%) SAP FI-CA
7 9 (3.70%) SAP MDG
8 7 (2.88%) SAP HR
9 5 (2.06%) Primavera
9 5 (2.06%) SAP CO
9 5 (2.06%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (2.06%) SAP R/3
10 4 (1.65%) SAP HCM
10 4 (1.65%) SAP MM
10 4 (1.65%) SAP PM
11 3 (1.23%) SAP MDG-F
11 3 (1.23%) SAP MDG-S
11 3 (1.23%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.82%) Azure
1 19 (7.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 15 (6.17%) AWS
3 14 (5.76%) SuccessFactors
4 10 (4.12%) GCP
5 4 (1.65%) SaaS
5 4 (1.65%) Tricentis Tosca
6 3 (1.23%) GitHub
6 3 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) VPN
2 3 (1.23%) BGP
2 3 (1.23%) Firewall
2 3 (1.23%) Junos
2 3 (1.23%) OSPF
3 1 (0.41%) DHCP
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
3 1 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.53%) SAP Data Services
2 9 (3.70%) SAP HANA
3 7 (2.88%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 3 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.23%) GIS
4 3 (1.23%) MySQL
4 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.23%) Power BI
5 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.82%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (0.82%) QlikView
5 2 (0.82%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.41%) Tableau
6 1 (0.41%) Tableau Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.29%) JIRA
2 5 (2.06%) Toad
3 3 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.23%) JUnit
3 3 (1.23%) Storybook
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 82 (33.74%) Finance
2 74 (30.45%) Social Skills
3 48 (19.75%) Public Sector
4 37 (15.23%) Manufacturing
5 36 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (14.40%) Telecoms
7 26 (10.70%) Billing
8 19 (7.82%) Marketing
9 18 (7.41%) Electronics
10 12 (4.94%) Aerospace
11 11 (4.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.65%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.65%) Legal
14 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.23%) Banking
16 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.82%) Military
17 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 51 (20.99%) Consultant
2 48 (19.75%) Lead
2 48 (19.75%) SAP Consultant
3 21 (8.64%) Senior
4 20 (8.23%) Architect
5 19 (7.82%) Analyst
6 14 (5.76%) Data Migration Lead
7 13 (5.35%) SAP Architect
7 13 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.94%) Functional Consultant
8 12 (4.94%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 11 (4.53%) Project Manager
10 10 (4.12%) SAP Data Migration Lead
11 9 (3.70%) SAP Manager
12 8 (3.29%) Developer
12 8 (3.29%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
12 8 (3.29%) Oracle Specialist
12 8 (3.29%) Project Planner
12 8 (3.29%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.88%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.00%) SAP Fiori
2 13 (5.35%) Web Services
3 10 (4.12%) BAPI
4 5 (2.06%) XML
5 4 (1.65%) SAP Smart Forms
5 4 (1.65%) SAPUI5
6 3 (1.23%) CSS
6 3 (1.23%) HTML
6 3 (1.23%) JWT
6 3 (1.23%) OAuth
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.23%) React
6 3 (1.23%) RESTful
6 3 (1.23%) SAML
6 3 (1.23%) SAP ALE
6 3 (1.23%) SAP PI
6 3 (1.23%) SOAP
6 3 (1.23%) Spring
6 3 (1.23%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.23%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.76%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (3.29%) NHS
3 7 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.23%) Replication
7 3 (1.23%) Tandem
8 2 (0.82%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.82%) Clustering
8 2 (0.82%) CMDB
8 2 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.82%) FPGA
8 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.82%) Verilog
8 2 (0.82%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.94%) Windows
2 6 (2.47%) Linux
2 6 (2.47%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (0.82%) SUSE
3 2 (0.82%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.05%) Migration
2 36 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (13.99%) ERP
5 31 (12.76%) Agile
6 28 (11.52%) Data Migration
7 25 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (10.29%) Project Management
8 22 (9.05%) DevOps
9 21 (8.64%) Workshop Facilitation
10 19 (7.82%) Digital Marketing
10 19 (7.82%) Programme Management
10 19 (7.82%) Revenue Management
10 19 (7.82%) Workflow
11 17 (7.00%) User Acceptance Testing
12 16 (6.58%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 16 (6.58%) Data Modelling
12 16 (6.58%) Project Planning
13 15 (6.17%) Data Cleansing
13 15 (6.17%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.17%) ABAP
2 12 (4.94%) SQL
3 9 (3.70%) Java
4 3 (1.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.23%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.82%) C
5 2 (0.82%) C++
5 2 (0.82%) Embedded C
5 2 (0.82%) Embedded C++
6 1 (0.41%) C#
6 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.41%) Python
6 1 (0.41%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 83 (34.16%) Security Cleared
2 60 (24.69%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.29%) Degree
4 22 (9.05%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.65%) ACCA
8 4 (1.65%) CIMA
9 3 (1.23%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.23%) JNCIP
9 3 (1.23%) JNCIS
9 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.23%) PMP
10 2 (0.82%) ISEB
10 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.82%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.41%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.53%) Data Quality
1 11 (4.53%) QA
2 10 (4.12%) PMO
3 2 (0.82%) GDPR
3 2 (0.82%) SLA
4 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.41%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 24 (9.88%) Oracle
2 21 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.53%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.12%) Ariba
5 6 (2.47%) Sage
5 6 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.23%) Adobe
6 3 (1.23%) Cisco
6 3 (1.23%) ESRI
6 3 (1.23%) IBM
6 3 (1.23%) Juniper
7 2 (0.82%) Intel
7 2 (0.82%) webMethods
7 2 (0.82%) Workday
7 2 (0.82%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.41%) Callidus
8 1 (0.41%) Concur
8 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.41%) MapR
8 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud