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 £610, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 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
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 348 382
Rank change year-on-year +2 +34 +110
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Architect 17 40 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 38
10th Percentile £530 £525 £538
25th Percentile £550 £541 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £613 £678
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -9.66% +4.31%
75th Percentile £775 £734 £800
90th Percentile £840 £743 £838
UK median daily rate £683 £669 £678
% change year-on-year +2.09% -1.40% +0.30%

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 13,501 18,343 21,680
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 92.22% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,293 11,169 14,803
10th Percentile £215 £214 £233
25th Percentile £363 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,151 2,088 1,190
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £13.91
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.58 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.81 £39.58
Median % change year-on-year -39.85% +5.65% +88.45%
75th Percentile £56.22 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

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 21 July 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 21 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
South East +29 8 £623 -8.79% 31
North West -1 6 £550 -4.35% 9
North of England -9 6 £550 -4.35% 18
West Midlands +6 2 £690 +62.35% 14
Midlands -9 2 £690 +62.35% 20
East of England +3 1 £600 -11.11% 14
SAP Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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 17 (100.00%) SAP
2 10 (58.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
4 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
5 6 (35.29%) SuccessFactors
5 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
5 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (35.29%) Ariba
6 5 (29.41%) Middleware
6 5 (29.41%) TOGAF
6 5 (29.41%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (29.41%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
7 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (23.53%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
7 4 (23.53%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (23.53%) SAPUI5
7 4 (23.53%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (23.53%) SAP PI
7 4 (23.53%) SAP CRM
7 4 (23.53%) SAP EP
7 4 (23.53%) NetWeaver
7 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (23.53%) Java
7 4 (23.53%) ABAP
7 4 (23.53%) CRM
7 4 (23.53%) ERP
8 3 (17.65%) Finance

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 4 (23.53%) NetWeaver
1 4 (23.53%) SAP EP
Business Applications
1 10 (58.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (23.53%) SAP CRM
3 1 (5.88%) SAP MDG
3 1 (5.88%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.88%) SAP BW
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Middleware
2 4 (23.53%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (23.53%) SAP PI
2 4 (23.53%) SAPUI5
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.76%) Life Science
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) EPoS
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (29.41%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (29.41%) TOGAF
4 4 (23.53%) CRM
4 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
4 4 (23.53%) ERP
4 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 4 (23.53%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (17.65%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.76%) Data Management
6 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Programme Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) ABAP
1 4 (23.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) SAP
2 6 (35.29%) Ariba
3 1 (5.88%) Concur
3 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft