SAP Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAP Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median SAP Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 368 389
Rank change year-on-year +72 +21 +98
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Architect 40 31 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.16% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 47
10th Percentile £540 £460 £538
25th Percentile £573 £555 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £678
Median % change year-on-year - -7.82% +4.31%
75th Percentile £681 £725 £763
90th Percentile £763 £745 £830
UK median daily rate £650 £613 £678
% change year-on-year +6.12% -9.66% +0.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

SAP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SAP Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAP Architect in the UK excluding London

SAP Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SAP Architect in the UK excluding London

SAP Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Architect in the UK excluding London

SAP Architect
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 SAP Architect within the UK excluding London 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
South East +57 16 £627 +0.32% 8
North of England +26 12 £593 +3.04% 5
North West +24 10 £593 - 3
Midlands +22 6 £630 +29.23% 4
West Midlands +15 6 £630 +40.00% 3
East of England +24 3 £638 -5.56% 1
Wales +2 3 £725 -
South West +43 1 £465 -25.55% 1
North East - 1 - -
SAP Architect
UK

SAP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SAP Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SAP Architect in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) SAP
2 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (35.00%) ABAP
5 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
6 11 (27.50%) SuccessFactors
6 11 (27.50%) ERP
6 11 (27.50%) Ariba
6 11 (27.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 11 (27.50%) Roadmaps
7 10 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
7 10 (25.00%) SAPUI5
8 9 (22.50%) SAP PI
8 9 (22.50%) Technical Architecture
8 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (20.00%) CRM
9 8 (20.00%) Java
9 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
10 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (17.50%) NetWeaver
10 7 (17.50%) Middleware
10 7 (17.50%) SAP CRM
10 7 (17.50%) SAP EP
10 7 (17.50%) Agile
10 7 (17.50%) TOGAF
10 7 (17.50%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (17.50%) Strategic Thinking
10 7 (17.50%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (17.50%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving

SAP Architect Skill Set
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 (17.50%) NetWeaver
1 7 (17.50%) SAP EP
Business Applications
1 16 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (17.50%) SAP CRM
3 2 (5.00%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (2.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (5.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) IaaS
2 2 (5.00%) PaaS
2 2 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SAP HANA
2 3 (7.50%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (7.50%) SAP BW
3 2 (5.00%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Postman
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.50%) Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.50%) Billing
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
1 10 (25.00%) SAPUI5
2 9 (22.50%) SAP PI
3 7 (17.50%) Middleware
4 3 (7.50%) CSS
4 3 (7.50%) CSS3
4 3 (7.50%) HTML
4 3 (7.50%) HTML5
4 3 (7.50%) jQuery
5 1 (2.50%) EDI
5 1 (2.50%) IDoc
5 1 (2.50%) J2EE
5 1 (2.50%) JDBC
5 1 (2.50%) REST
5 1 (2.50%) SAP Basis
5 1 (2.50%) SOAP
5 1 (2.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) EPoS
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Enterprise Architecture
1 11 (27.50%) ERP
1 11 (27.50%) Roadmaps
2 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (22.50%) Technical Architecture
3 8 (20.00%) CRM
4 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 7 (17.50%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (17.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 7 (17.50%) TOGAF
5 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
6 5 (12.50%) Analytics
6 5 (12.50%) Data Management
6 5 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (10.00%) Migration
7 4 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 4 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) ABAP
2 8 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (10.00%) COBOL
3 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 2 (5.00%) SAP Certification
5 2 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) SAP
2 11 (27.50%) Ariba
3 5 (12.50%) MuleSoft
4 3 (7.50%) Concur
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) TOWER Software