SAP Contracts in Tyne and Wear

SAP
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 25 23 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 -4
Contract jobs citing SAP 12 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.92% 3.70% 1.44%
As % of the Vendors category 10.08% 8.11% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £305 £276 £277
25th Percentile £328 £291 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £330 £312
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +5.85% -
75th Percentile £518 £398 £369
90th Percentile £573 £429 £470
North East median daily rate £515 £390 £312
% change year-on-year +32.05% +25.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.99 -
North East median hourly rate - £13.99 -

All Vendors
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 119 111 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 48.77% 45.68% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 57 77
10th Percentile £213 £188 £194
25th Percentile £328 £363 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £560
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -15.18% +12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £675
90th Percentile £625 £685 £775
North East median daily rate £438 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £15.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +230.26% - -
North East median hourly rate £35.44 £17.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +102.49% -64.29% +184.06%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing SAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for SAP in Tyne and Wear

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for SAP in Tyne and Wear

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in Tyne and Wear

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for SAP in Tyne and Wear

SAP
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 11 £350 +6.06% 8
SAP
North East

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (8.33%) SAP CO
2 1 (8.33%) SAP FI
2 1 (8.33%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 8 (66.67%) Electronics
2 8 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 8 (66.67%) Marketing
2 8 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (16.67%) SAP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SAP CO Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP FI Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) Jest
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
1 2 (16.67%) pytest
1 2 (16.67%) Sass
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) SAP ALE
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
1 8 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (16.67%) Business Transformation
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) ABAP
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) WCAG
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible