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 28 July 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
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 327 361
Rank change year-on-year +28 +34 +119
Contract jobs citing Ariba 57 55 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.78% 0.67% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 47
10th Percentile £411 £295 £350
25th Percentile £500 £438 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £660 £585 £678
90th Percentile £700 £605 £685
UK median daily rate £580 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +5.45% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £21.32 - -
25th Percentile £21.35 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £19.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% - -
75th Percentile £26.85 £24.19 -
90th Percentile £30.13 £27.68 -
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £21.50 £95.00
% change year-on-year +41.86% -77.37% +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 7,285 8,195 10,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.27% 42.77% 45.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,419 5,007 6,780
10th Percentile £220 £213 £205
25th Percentile £363 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £682
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 799 477
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £14.32
25th Percentile £16.88 £15.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -21.88% +61.53%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.30 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.91
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% -32.50% +81.82%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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
North of England 0 19 £580 +22.11% 3
East of England +15 17 £600 +20.00% 1
North West -3 14 £538 +10.26% 3
South East +20 10 £575 +56.46% 6
Midlands -5 7 £640 +34.79% 8
South West +40 6 £409 -18.20% 5
West Midlands 0 5 £640 +34.79% 7
Scotland -8 2 £625 +13.64% 4
East Midlands -5 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -18 1 £650 +116.67%
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 3 (5.26%) NetWeaver
1 3 (5.26%) SAP EP
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 37 (64.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.26%) SAP CRM
3 2 (3.51%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.75%) BPCS
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.75%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.75%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.75%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.75%) SAP GRC
4 1 (1.75%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 7 (12.28%) SuccessFactors
3 5 (8.77%) Azure
4 4 (7.02%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.51%) GCP
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.75%) AWS
6 1 (1.75%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub
6 1 (1.75%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.75%) IaaS
6 1 (1.75%) PaaS
6 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Power BI
2 7 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.02%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.51%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.75%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.75%) JIRA
1 1 (1.75%) JMeter
1 1 (1.75%) LoadRunner
1 1 (1.75%) NeoLoad
General
1 26 (45.61%) Finance
2 23 (40.35%) Social Skills
3 19 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (14.04%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.02%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Local Government
7 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.51%) Multimedia
8 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Banking
9 1 (1.75%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.75%) Legal
9 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (14.04%) SAP Manager
2 7 (12.28%) Analyst
2 7 (12.28%) Lead
3 6 (10.53%) Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 6 (10.53%) SAP Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Consultant
4 4 (7.02%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 4 (7.02%) SAP Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Developer
5 3 (5.26%) IT Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
5 3 (5.26%) SAP Developer
5 3 (5.26%) SAP Financial Specialist
5 3 (5.26%) SAP Technical Architect
5 3 (5.26%) SAP Trainer
5 3 (5.26%) Senior
5 3 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Technical Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (5.26%) SAP PI
2 3 (5.26%) SAPUI5
3 1 (1.75%) EDI
3 1 (1.75%) Middleware
3 1 (1.75%) OLE
3 1 (1.75%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.75%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.75%) Streamlit
3 1 (1.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Life Science
2 4 (7.02%) e-Learning
2 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) FMCG
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Linux
1 1 (1.75%) Unix
1 1 (1.75%) VMS
1 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (21.05%) Analytics
2 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.30%) ERP
4 10 (17.54%) Project Management
5 9 (15.79%) Agile
6 8 (14.04%) Data Analysis
6 8 (14.04%) Migration
7 7 (12.28%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.53%) Decision-Making
8 6 (10.53%) Process Improvement
9 5 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (8.77%) Data Design
9 5 (8.77%) Data Modelling
9 5 (8.77%) Record to Report
9 5 (8.77%) Risk Management
9 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (7.02%) Change Management
10 4 (7.02%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.26%) ABAP
1 3 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (1.75%) Python
2 1 (1.75%) R
2 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.51%) CISM
4 2 (3.51%) CISSP
5 1 (1.75%) MBA
5 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.75%) PMP
5 1 (1.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.26%) GxP
2 3 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.51%) PMO
3 2 (3.51%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) GRC
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (94.74%) SAP
2 4 (7.02%) Concur
2 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.51%) Anaplan
4 2 (3.51%) Hyperion
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) Adobe
5 1 (1.75%) Aruba
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.75%) Qualys