Ariba Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ariba
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Ariba products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ariba over the 6 months leading up to 6 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 Ariba.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 319 344
Rank change year-on-year +52 +25 +122
Contract jobs citing Ariba 69 69 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.11% 0.79% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 62 68
10th Percentile £345 £255 £350
25th Percentile £462 £453 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £648 £584 £678
90th Percentile £700 £693 £702
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.39 - -
UK median hourly rate £21.39 - £95.00
% change year-on-year - - +131.71%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Ariba 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,226 8,743 10,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.67% 42.53% 44.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,947 5,273 7,261
10th Percentile £217 £206 £205
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 950 480
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.67
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -42.77% +100.53%
75th Percentile £58.73 £59.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.13 £70.00 £70.03
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.08 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.82% -48.06% +97.67%

Ariba
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ariba as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ariba in the UK excluding London

Ariba
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ariba in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ariba in the UK excluding London

Ariba
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ariba in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ariba in the UK excluding London

Ariba
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ariba in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ariba in the UK excluding London

Ariba
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ariba within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
East of England +11 18 £590 +12.38%
South West - 18 £433 - 1
North of England +6 16 £580 +10.48% 2
South East +37 13 £600 +140.00% 8
North West +4 12 £565 +7.62%
Midlands +19 7 £600 +17.07% 3
West Midlands +18 6 £600 +17.07% 3
Scotland +7 2 £625 +19.05% 1
Yorkshire +16 1 £650 +116.67% 2
North East -3 1 £550 +4.76%
Ariba
UK

Ariba
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (10.14%) NetWeaver
1 7 (10.14%) SAP EP
2 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.90%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (52.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (10.14%) SAP CRM
3 3 (4.35%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.45%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.45%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.45%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.45%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (1.45%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.94%) Power Platform
2 10 (14.49%) SuccessFactors
3 6 (8.70%) Azure
4 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.45%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.45%) AWS
5 1 (1.45%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.45%) GCP
5 1 (1.45%) GitHub
5 1 (1.45%) Google Gemini
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) Power BI
2 7 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.80%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.45%) Metadata
4 1 (1.45%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) JMeter
2 1 (1.45%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.45%) NeoLoad
General
1 27 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 25 (36.23%) Finance
3 19 (27.54%) Pharmaceutical
4 13 (18.84%) Local Government
5 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (11.59%) Manufacturing
7 7 (10.14%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Banking
8 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Multimedia
8 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.45%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Architect
2 10 (14.49%) Analyst
2 10 (14.49%) SAP Analyst
2 10 (14.49%) SAP Architect
3 8 (11.59%) Lead
3 8 (11.59%) SAP Manager
4 7 (10.14%) SAP Technical Architect
4 7 (10.14%) Technical Architect
5 6 (8.70%) Project Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Consultant
6 5 (7.25%) Data Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) SAP Data Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) SAP Trainer
6 5 (7.25%) Trainer
7 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (5.80%) Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Procurement Manager
7 4 (5.80%) SAP Business Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) SAP Fiori
1 7 (10.14%) SAP PI
1 7 (10.14%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.45%) Middleware
2 1 (1.45%) OLE
2 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Life Science
2 8 (11.59%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.35%) e-Learning
3 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) EPoS
5 1 (1.45%) FMCG
5 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.45%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) ERP
2 14 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (18.84%) Analytics
4 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.94%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (15.94%) Data Analysis
5 11 (15.94%) Migration
6 10 (14.49%) Agile
7 9 (13.04%) Data Management
8 7 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (10.14%) CRM
8 7 (10.14%) Decision-Making
8 7 (10.14%) Strategic Thinking
8 7 (10.14%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (8.70%) Data Integration
9 6 (8.70%) Data Migration
9 6 (8.70%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (8.70%) Record to Report
9 6 (8.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) ABAP
2 7 (10.14%) Java
3 1 (1.45%) Python
3 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) Degree
3 5 (7.25%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.90%) CISM
5 2 (2.90%) CISSP
6 1 (1.45%) CCA
6 1 (1.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.90%) PMO
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) GRC
3 1 (1.45%) GxP
3 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (95.65%) SAP
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.90%) Anaplan
4 2 (2.90%) Concur
4 2 (2.90%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.45%) Aruba
5 1 (1.45%) Qualys