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 25 November 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
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing SAP 270 310 373
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 6.61% 7.61% 7.05%
As % of the Vendors category 12.64% 15.40% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 181 233
10th Percentile £266 £400 £205
25th Percentile £447 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £518
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +15.83% -2.72%
75th Percentile £675 £720 £631
90th Percentile £760 £788 £700
England median daily rate £565 £558 £550
% change year-on-year +1.35% +1.36% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 21
10th Percentile - £22.83 £21.00
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.69 £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.75 £44.36 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -44.20% -29.92% +40.64%
75th Percentile £86.94 £64.92 £67.75
90th Percentile £90.09 £78.66 £77.50
England median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £49.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% -27.84% +8.89%

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 2,136 2,013 2,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.33% 49.39% 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 1,292 1,768
10th Percentile £219 £252 £205
25th Percentile £393 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.32% +2.62%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £610
90th Percentile £663 £690 £678
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 63 125
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.72 £23.84 £23.63
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +8.09% +105.88%
75th Percentile £44.24 £67.26 £66.25
90th Percentile £86.36 £74.14 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -24.24% -26.26% +72.12%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 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
Thames Valley -17 111 £575 -4.88% 35
Berkshire -26 69 £650 +4.00% 21
West Sussex +2 60 £514 -0.19% 12
Surrey +28 54 £582 +36.40% 16
Hampshire -28 33 £663 -3.28% 15
Buckinghamshire +9 23 £410 +46.43% 9
Oxfordshire +2 18 £450 -14.29% 5
Kent 0 4 - - 2
East Sussex - 2 - -
Home Counties - 2 £700 -
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 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.48%) NetWeaver
3 2 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) SAP EP
4 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 89 (32.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (7.04%) SAP Payroll
3 16 (5.93%) SAP FI
4 15 (5.56%) SAP PSCD
5 14 (5.19%) SAP ERP
6 13 (4.81%) SAP BRIM
6 13 (4.81%) SAP CO
6 13 (4.81%) SAP Hybris
7 12 (4.44%) SAP FI/CO
7 12 (4.44%) SAP HR
8 9 (3.33%) SAP EWM
8 9 (3.33%) SAP HCM
9 8 (2.96%) SAP WM
10 7 (2.59%) SAP MDG
10 7 (2.59%) SAP PM
11 6 (2.22%) SAP MM
12 5 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
12 5 (1.85%) NetSuite
12 5 (1.85%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 4 (1.48%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.30%) Power Platform
2 16 (5.93%) Azure
3 13 (4.81%) AWS
3 13 (4.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 12 (4.44%) SaaS
4 12 (4.44%) SuccessFactors
5 8 (2.96%) GCP
6 5 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.48%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.11%) GitHub
8 3 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.74%) iPaaS
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.37%) OCI
10 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.37%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.11%) VPN
2 2 (0.74%) BGP
2 2 (0.74%) Firewall
2 2 (0.74%) Junos
2 2 (0.74%) OSPF
3 1 (0.37%) DHCP
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.93%) Power BI
2 12 (4.44%) SAP HANA
3 9 (3.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 9 (3.33%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.11%) MySQL
4 3 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.11%) SAP BW
4 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.11%) Tableau
5 2 (0.74%) Tableau Desktop
5 2 (0.74%) Tableau Server
6 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.37%) QlikView
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.33%) JIRA
2 4 (1.48%) Toad
3 3 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.11%) JUnit
3 3 (1.11%) Storybook
General
1 103 (38.15%) Finance
2 99 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 65 (24.07%) Manufacturing
4 46 (17.04%) Public Sector
5 44 (16.30%) Telecoms
6 37 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (9.63%) Electronics
8 20 (7.41%) Marketing
9 16 (5.93%) Billing
10 14 (5.19%) Aerospace
11 13 (4.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (2.22%) French Language
15 4 (1.48%) Automotive
16 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
16 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (1.11%) Legal
17 2 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (25.19%) Consultant
2 62 (22.96%) SAP Consultant
3 43 (15.93%) Lead
4 25 (9.26%) Analyst
5 21 (7.78%) Architect
6 17 (6.30%) Senior
7 14 (5.19%) SAP Architect
8 12 (4.44%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.07%) Developer
9 11 (4.07%) Payroll Consultant
9 11 (4.07%) SAP Payroll Consultant
10 10 (3.70%) Data Migration Lead
10 10 (3.70%) Functional Consultant
10 10 (3.70%) HR Consultant
10 10 (3.70%) SAP Functional Consultant
10 10 (3.70%) SAP HR Consultant
10 10 (3.70%) SAP HR/Payroll Consultant
11 9 (3.33%) SAP Data Migration Lead
11 9 (3.33%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.04%) SAP Fiori
2 13 (4.81%) Web Services
3 9 (3.33%) BAPI
4 5 (1.85%) SAP PI
5 4 (1.48%) RESTful
5 4 (1.48%) SAP Smart Forms
5 4 (1.48%) XML
6 3 (1.11%) CSS
6 3 (1.11%) HTML
6 3 (1.11%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.11%) OAuth
6 3 (1.11%) React
6 3 (1.11%) SAP ALE
6 3 (1.11%) Spring
6 3 (1.11%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.11%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.11%) Vitest
7 2 (0.74%) IDoc
7 2 (0.74%) JWT
7 2 (0.74%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 8 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.22%) Augmented Reality
3 6 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.22%) Life Science
3 6 (2.22%) NHS
4 5 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.11%) FMCG
5 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.11%) Tandem
6 2 (0.74%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.74%) Clustering
6 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.44%) Windows
2 5 (1.85%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.11%) Linux
4 2 (0.74%) SUSE
4 2 (0.74%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (19.63%) Migration
2 46 (17.04%) ERP
3 38 (14.07%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (12.59%) Agile
6 30 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 24 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (8.89%) Programme Management
7 24 (8.89%) Workshop Facilitation
8 22 (8.15%) Decision-Making
9 20 (7.41%) Digital Marketing
9 20 (7.41%) Workflow
10 19 (7.04%) CRM
10 19 (7.04%) Project Management
11 17 (6.30%) Revenue Management
11 17 (6.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (5.93%) DevOps
12 16 (5.93%) User Acceptance Testing
13 15 (5.56%) Data Modelling
14 14 (5.19%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.41%) SQL
2 16 (5.93%) ABAP
3 8 (2.96%) Java
4 3 (1.11%) Apex Code
4 3 (1.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.37%) C#
5 1 (0.37%) Korn
5 1 (0.37%) Python
Qualifications
1 82 (30.37%) Security Cleared
2 59 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.89%) Degree
4 21 (7.78%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.85%) SAP Certification
8 3 (1.11%) ACCA
8 3 (1.11%) CCA
8 3 (1.11%) CIMA
9 2 (0.74%) ISEB
9 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIP
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.74%) PMP
9 2 (0.74%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 2 (0.74%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 10 (3.70%) QA
2 9 (3.33%) PMO
3 2 (0.74%) GDPR
3 2 (0.74%) GRC
3 2 (0.74%) PMBOK
3 2 (0.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 30 (11.11%) Oracle
2 28 (10.37%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.93%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.33%) Ariba
4 9 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.48%) Workday
6 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.74%) Cisco
6 2 (0.74%) Hyperion
6 2 (0.74%) Juniper
6 2 (0.74%) webMethods
7 1 (0.37%) Google
7 1 (0.37%) HP
7 1 (0.37%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.37%) Sage
7 1 (0.37%) Siemens