SAP Contract Job Trends in the South West

SAP
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 18 December 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
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -25 +4 +19
Contract jobs citing SAP 94 150 182
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 4.06% 7.10% 6.11%
As % of the Vendors category 9.88% 15.51% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 92 145
10th Percentile £390 £400 £353
25th Percentile £513 £461 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% +6.19%
75th Percentile £675 £657 £638
90th Percentile £705 £736 £688
England median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 6
10th Percentile £15.60 - £41.00
25th Percentile £22.63 - £50.41
Median hourly rate £23.83 - £55.00
75th Percentile £24.50 - £58.69
90th Percentile - - £60.09
England median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% -32.69% +15.56%

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 951 967 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 41.04% 45.79% 41.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 586 823
10th Percentile £261 £223 £232
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -6.51% +4.76%
75th Percentile £624 £618 £638
90th Percentile £725 £709 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 48 121
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £32.56 £46.39
Median hourly rate £23.58 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.73% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £41.72 £70.31 £65.98
90th Percentile £70.30 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

SAP job vacancy trend in the South West

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the South West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the South West

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in the South West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the South West

SAP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Wiltshire +3 38 £625 +8.70% 4
Bristol -15 32 £600 +11.63% 12
Cornwall - 6 £158 -
Devon +14 5 £363 - 1
Gloucestershire -45 5 - - 6
Somerset -22 2 £525 -12.13% 2
SAP
England

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.06%) Apache
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (10.64%) SAP EWM
1 10 (10.64%) SAP PP
2 9 (9.57%) SAP WM
3 7 (7.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (5.32%) SAP QM
5 3 (3.19%) SAP PM
6 2 (2.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (1.06%) iTrent
7 1 (1.06%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.45%) Power Platform
2 6 (6.38%) Azure
3 4 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.26%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (3.19%) AWS
5 1 (1.06%) Collibra
5 1 (1.06%) GCP
5 1 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.26%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.13%) LAN
3 1 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.06%) DHCP
3 1 (1.06%) DNS
3 1 (1.06%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (1.06%) VLAN
3 1 (1.06%) VPN
3 1 (1.06%) WAN
3 1 (1.06%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) Power BI
2 3 (3.19%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.13%) Metadata
3 2 (2.13%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.06%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.06%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.06%) GoCD
2 1 (1.06%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (62.77%) Finance
2 54 (57.45%) Manufacturing
3 51 (54.26%) Public Sector
4 47 (50.00%) Electronics
4 47 (50.00%) Marketing
4 47 (50.00%) Telecoms
5 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
6 12 (12.77%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.45%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (6.38%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.13%) Aviation
9 2 (2.13%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.06%) Law
10 1 (1.06%) Legal
10 1 (1.06%) Local Government
10 1 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Consultant
2 14 (14.89%) SAP Consultant
3 10 (10.64%) Architect
4 9 (9.57%) IT Engineer
4 9 (9.57%) Migration Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Security Consultant
6 7 (7.45%) Administrator
6 7 (7.45%) IT Support
6 7 (7.45%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Developer
7 6 (6.38%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) ITIL Manager
7 6 (6.38%) Management Consultant
7 6 (6.38%) SAP WM Consultant
8 5 (5.32%) Availability Manager
8 5 (5.32%) Incident Manager
8 5 (5.32%) ITIL Incident Manager
9 4 (4.26%) Lead
9 4 (4.26%) Logistics Coordinator
9 4 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.13%) .NET
1 2 (2.13%) Web Services
2 1 (1.06%) BAPI
2 1 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.06%) FHIR
2 1 (1.06%) NumPy
2 1 (1.06%) ODBC
2 1 (1.06%) Pandas
2 1 (1.06%) PySpark
2 1 (1.06%) React
2 1 (1.06%) SAP Smart Forms
2 1 (1.06%) XML
2 1 (1.06%) XMPP
2 1 (1.06%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.32%) CMDB
2 4 (4.26%) FMCG
2 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.13%) NHS
3 2 (2.13%) SCADA
4 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.06%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.06%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.06%) IoT
4 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.06%) STB
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
2 2 (2.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.13%) Windows 10
2 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.06%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (57.45%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (52.13%) Programme Management
3 47 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
4 27 (28.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (20.21%) Migration
6 15 (15.96%) Risk Management
7 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (13.83%) Workflow
8 12 (12.77%) ITIL
8 12 (12.77%) Logistics
8 12 (12.77%) Service Management
9 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (11.70%) ERP
10 10 (10.64%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
10 10 (10.64%) Workflow Management
11 8 (8.51%) Cloud Security
11 8 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (8.51%) Project Management
11 8 (8.51%) Translating Business Requirements
12 7 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.26%) Python
2 3 (3.19%) ABAP
2 3 (3.19%) SQL
3 2 (2.13%) C#
4 1 (1.06%) Java
4 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.06%) SAPscript
4 1 (1.06%) Tcl
4 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (70.21%) Security Cleared
2 49 (52.13%) SC Cleared
3 19 (20.21%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.51%) Degree
5 7 (7.45%) CESG Certified Professional
5 7 (7.45%) CISSP
6 6 (6.38%) SAP Certification
7 5 (5.32%) CISM
7 5 (5.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.13%) CLAS
9 1 (1.06%) ACCA
9 1 (1.06%) CIMA
9 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) PMO
2 8 (8.51%) NCSC
3 7 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.45%) RMADS
4 5 (5.32%) JSP 440
5 3 (3.19%) NIST
6 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.06%) DICOM
7 1 (1.06%) GDPR
7 1 (1.06%) HL7
7 1 (1.06%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) AirWatch
1 1 (1.06%) Ansible
1 1 (1.06%) FreeIPA
1 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.06%) SCOM
1 1 (1.06%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.32%) Remedy
2 5 (5.32%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.26%) Cisco
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle
4 2 (2.13%) Citrix
4 2 (2.13%) Databricks
4 2 (2.13%) IBM
4 2 (2.13%) VMware
4 2 (2.13%) Workday
5 1 (1.06%) Apple
5 1 (1.06%) Cognos
5 1 (1.06%) HP
5 1 (1.06%) Informatica
5 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow