SAP Contracts in the Thames Valley

SAP
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 34 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +15
Contract jobs citing SAP 113 143 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.48% 5.32% 7.54%
As % of the Vendors category 14.23% 11.11% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 86 157
10th Percentile £425 £425 £425
25th Percentile £531 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £666 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +11.04% +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £749 £689
90th Percentile £705 £806 £735
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £586
% change year-on-year - -6.14% +17.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 6
10th Percentile £23.55 £23.05 £22.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £27.50 £23.41
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £45.96
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% +34.02% +118.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £66.21
90th Percentile £80.23 £63.29 -
South East median hourly rate £28.25 £55.80 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.37% +24.00% +13.92%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SAP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SAP in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the Thames Valley

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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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +9 88 £650 -3.70% 57
Oxfordshire +8 16 £450 -10.00% 23
Buckinghamshire +6 11 £500 +11.11% 19
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (0.88%) CMS
1 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.77%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (31.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (10.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 4 (3.54%) SAP ERP
3 4 (3.54%) SAP EWM
3 4 (3.54%) SAP GRC
4 3 (2.65%) SAP MDG
4 3 (2.65%) SAP WM
5 2 (1.77%) SAP CO
5 2 (1.77%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.77%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.77%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (1.77%) SAP IS-U
5 2 (1.77%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.88%) Maximo
6 1 (0.88%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.88%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.88%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.88%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.08%) Azure
2 3 (2.65%) AWS
2 3 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (2.65%) SaaS
3 2 (1.77%) Azure AKS
3 2 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (1.77%) PaaS
3 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.88%) FTP
2 1 (0.88%) HTTP
2 1 (0.88%) Junos
2 1 (0.88%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.54%) Big Data
2 4 (3.54%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (3.54%) Metadata
2 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.65%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.65%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.77%) Power BI
4 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.77%) Tableau
5 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (3.54%) ERwin
1 4 (3.54%) Git
1 4 (3.54%) PowerDesigner
1 4 (3.54%) Selenium
2 3 (2.65%) SpecFlow
3 2 (1.77%) JIRA
General
1 66 (58.41%) Finance
2 53 (46.90%) Manufacturing
3 41 (36.28%) Social Skills
4 38 (33.63%) Public Sector
5 37 (32.74%) Electronics
5 37 (32.74%) Marketing
6 36 (31.86%) Telecoms
7 15 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (7.96%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (7.08%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (6.19%) Billing
11 4 (3.54%) Agriculture
11 4 (3.54%) Automotive
12 3 (2.65%) Dutch Language
12 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.65%) Retail
13 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 32 (28.32%) Architect
2 21 (18.58%) Active Directory Architect
3 16 (14.16%) Project Manager
4 14 (12.39%) Consultant
5 10 (8.85%) Lead
5 10 (8.85%) SAP Consultant
6 9 (7.96%) SAP Architect
6 9 (7.96%) SAP Manager
7 7 (6.19%) SAP Project Manager
7 7 (6.19%) Senior
8 6 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (3.54%) Data Modeller
10 4 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Payroll Manager
10 4 (3.54%) Programme Manager
10 4 (3.54%) SAP Security Consultant
10 4 (3.54%) Security Consultant
11 3 (2.65%) SAP EWM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (2.65%) Gherkin
2 3 (2.65%) PySpark
3 2 (1.77%) EDI
3 2 (1.77%) Middleware
3 2 (1.77%) Node.js
3 2 (1.77%) Parceljs
3 2 (1.77%) RESTful
3 2 (1.77%) YAML
4 1 (0.88%) .NET
4 1 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.88%) MSMQ
4 1 (0.88%) REST
4 1 (0.88%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.88%) SAP TM
4 1 (0.88%) SAPUI5
4 1 (0.88%) SOAP
4 1 (0.88%) WCF
4 1 (0.88%) XML
4 1 (0.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Life Science
2 11 (9.73%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.65%) IoT
3 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.77%) SCADA
4 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.88%) CMDB
5 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.01%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.05%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (36.28%) Programme Management
3 39 (34.51%) Agile
4 36 (31.86%) Digital Marketing
5 26 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (21.24%) Identity Access Management
6 24 (21.24%) Test Automation
7 19 (16.81%) Migration
8 17 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.39%) Change Management
9 14 (12.39%) ERP
9 14 (12.39%) Project Management
10 10 (8.85%) Data Migration
10 10 (8.85%) Project Delivery
10 10 (8.85%) Time Management
11 9 (7.96%) Asset Management
11 9 (7.96%) PRINCE2
12 8 (7.08%) Data Security
12 8 (7.08%) Risk Management
12 8 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.01%) PowerShell
2 10 (8.85%) SQL
3 9 (7.96%) ABAP
4 6 (5.31%) Python
5 4 (3.54%) Bash
6 2 (1.77%) Bicep
6 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.88%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.88%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.88%) R
7 1 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (43.36%) Security Cleared
2 36 (31.86%) DV Cleared
3 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (11.50%) Degree
5 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.31%) PMI Certification
5 6 (5.31%) PMP
6 4 (3.54%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.65%) APMG
7 3 (2.65%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.77%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.88%) ACCA
9 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.88%) MBA
9 1 (0.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.88%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.54%) GRC
1 4 (3.54%) PMBOK
2 3 (2.65%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.65%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (18.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.77%) NFS
2 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.77%) vRealize
1 2 (1.77%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (0.88%) Ansible
2 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.73%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.54%) Ariba
3 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.65%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.65%) Databricks
5 2 (1.77%) IBM
5 2 (1.77%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.77%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) Aruba
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco
6 1 (0.88%) Citrix
6 1 (0.88%) Dell
6 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.88%) Epicor
6 1 (0.88%) F5
6 1 (0.88%) HP
6 1 (0.88%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.88%) Juniper
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle