SAP Data Services Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

SAP Data Services (SAP BODS, SAP DS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SAP Data Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 115 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing SAP Data Services 5 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.27% 0.51% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.71% 3.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £242 £570 -
25th Percentile £259 £573 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £347 £582 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.49% - -
75th Percentile £512 £590 -
90th Percentile £669 £610 -
South East median daily rate £347 £582 £625
% change year-on-year -40.49% -6.84% +6.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 292 363 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.65% 16.95% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 230 274
10th Percentile £325 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% -2.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £643
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 11
10th Percentile - £24.85 £32.32
25th Percentile £13.25 £41.25 £41.42
Median hourly rate £13.50 £58.30 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.84% -7.46% +196.47%
75th Percentile £19.13 £61.60 £75.89
90th Percentile £22.35 £64.73 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £18.75 £48.18 £49.50
% change year-on-year -61.08% -2.67% +132.39%

SAP Data Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP Data Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

SAP Data Services job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SAP Data Services
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAP Data Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAP Data Services

SAP Data Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Data Services in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Data Services in the Thames Valley

SAP Data Services
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Buckinghamshire +9 3 £268 -57.46%
Berkshire -2 2 £766 +31.62% 7
SAP Data Services
South East

SAP Data Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (20.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (40.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau Desktop
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau Server
3 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Migration Lead
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Migration Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Security Patching
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Server Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SAP