SAP Basis Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAP Basis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAP Basis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP Basis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 376 449
Rank change year-on-year +51 +73 +40
Contract jobs citing SAP Basis 11 23 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.11% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% 0.70% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 10
10th Percentile - - £496
25th Percentile £425 £325 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £533 £475 £585
90th Percentile £586 £506 £624
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £588
% change year-on-year +2.78% -23.40% +9.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
UK median hourly rate - £61.60 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

SAP Basis falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SAP Basis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP Basis in the UK excluding London

SAP Basis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SAP Basis in the UK excluding London

SAP Basis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SAP Basis in the UK excluding London

SAP Basis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP Basis in the UK excluding London

SAP Basis
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 Basis 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 +39 5 £525 +16.67% 8
East of England +28 5 £450 +28.57%
South West +45 1 - -
SAP Basis
UK

SAP Basis
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 6 (54.55%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) SAP IBP
2 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SAP HANA
2 4 (36.36%) SAP BW
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database
4 2 (18.18%) Sybase IQ
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Consultant
1 10 (90.91%) SAP Consultant
2 9 (81.82%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Architect
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Basis Architect
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Implementation Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP PI Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (9.09%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (45.45%) SAP Security
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Change Management
5 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) Sybase