SAP S/4HANA Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAP S/4HANA
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAP S/4HANA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP S/4HANA over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 171 156
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 +192
Contract jobs citing SAP S/4HANA 266 235 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.73% 1.28% 1.47%
As % of the Business Applications category 25.31% 22.02% 22.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 116 188
10th Percentile £414 £455 £425
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +2.39%
75th Percentile £700 £656 £715
90th Percentile £750 £730 £813
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +0.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 7
10th Percentile £22.40 £30.00 £49.25
25th Percentile £24.05 £59.13 £53.13
Median hourly rate £26.81 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.49% +2.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £29.56 - £97.50
90th Percentile £31.21 £74.87 £98.50
UK median hourly rate £32.41 £61.60 £58.75
% change year-on-year -47.39% +4.85% -14.55%

All Business Application Skills
UK excluding London

SAP S/4HANA falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,051 1,067 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.85% 5.83% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 659 871
10th Percentile £359 £313 £325
25th Percentile £447 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% - -
75th Percentile £626 £638 £625
90th Percentile £703 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 69 52
10th Percentile £12.82 £24.55 £41.75
25th Percentile £25.36 £37.50 £49.00
Median hourly rate £51.49 £45.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -20.34% +73.84%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.75 £65.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £40.49 £45.59 £53.67
% change year-on-year -11.19% -15.05% +22.66%

SAP S/4HANA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAP S/4HANA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAP S/4HANA in the UK excluding London

SAP S/4HANA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP S/4HANA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SAP S/4HANA in the UK excluding London

SAP S/4HANA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP S/4HANA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP S/4HANA in the UK excluding London

SAP S/4HANA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP S/4HANA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SAP S/4HANA in the UK excluding London

SAP S/4HANA
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 S/4HANA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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 +12 87 £580 +5.45% 45
South East +21 75 £600 +3.09% 57
North West +8 59 £580 +9.43% 35
East of England +26 57 £600 +2.56% 9
Midlands +2 44 £700 +25.00% 20
West Midlands -6 22 £625 +14.68% 14
Yorkshire -7 19 £525 -4.55% 6
East Midlands +1 18 £700 +20.69% 5
South West +14 7 £513 -17.67% 7
North East +7 7 £575 -4.17% 4
Wales +5 1 - - 1
Scotland -17 1 - - 12
SAP S/4HANA
UK

SAP S/4HANA
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 1 (0.38%) Confluence
1 1 (0.38%) NetWeaver
1 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (7.14%) SAP CO
1 19 (7.14%) SAP FI
1 19 (7.14%) SAP FI/CO
2 14 (5.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 13 (4.89%) SAP MM
4 9 (3.38%) SAP EWM
5 8 (3.01%) SAP ERP
5 8 (3.01%) SAP PP
6 6 (2.26%) SAP IBP
6 6 (2.26%) SAP WM
7 5 (1.88%) SAP GRC
7 5 (1.88%) SAP SD
8 3 (1.13%) SAP MDG
8 3 (1.13%) SAP PS
9 2 (0.75%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.75%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.75%) SAP QM
9 2 (0.75%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
10 1 (0.38%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.39%) Power Platform
2 16 (6.02%) Azure
3 11 (4.14%) SuccessFactors
4 10 (3.76%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.26%) GCP
7 4 (1.50%) AWS
8 3 (1.13%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.13%) SaaS
9 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.75%) GitHub
9 2 (0.75%) Lucidchart
9 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.38%) Boomi
10 1 (0.38%) IaaS
10 1 (0.38%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.38%) PaaS
10 1 (0.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.77%) SAP HANA
2 16 (6.02%) Power BI
3 15 (5.64%) SAP BW
4 13 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.88%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.13%) GIS
7 3 (1.13%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.75%) Metadata
8 2 (0.75%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.38%) Lumira
9 1 (0.38%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (2.63%) JIRA
2 5 (1.88%) LoadRunner
3 4 (1.50%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.75%) JMeter
5 1 (0.38%) Git
5 1 (0.38%) LSMW
General
1 111 (41.73%) Finance
2 102 (38.35%) Social Skills
3 59 (22.18%) Pharmaceutical
4 47 (17.67%) Manufacturing
5 33 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.26%) Automotive
8 6 (2.26%) Retail
9 5 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.50%) Banking
10 4 (1.50%) Billing
10 4 (1.50%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.50%) Local Government
11 2 (0.75%) Law
11 2 (0.75%) Legal
12 1 (0.38%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 92 (34.59%) Consultant
2 84 (31.58%) SAP Consultant
3 39 (14.66%) Lead
4 26 (9.77%) SAP Manager
5 25 (9.40%) Project Manager
6 24 (9.02%) Architect
7 20 (7.52%) SAP Architect
8 19 (7.14%) Analyst
9 14 (5.26%) SAP Project Manager
10 13 (4.89%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
11 12 (4.51%) Programme Manager
12 11 (4.14%) SAP Analyst
12 11 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
13 10 (3.76%) SAP CO Consultant
13 10 (3.76%) SAP FI Consultant
13 10 (3.76%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
13 10 (3.76%) Senior
14 9 (3.38%) SAP MM Consultant
15 8 (3.01%) SAP EWM Consultant
15 8 (3.01%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.90%) SAP Fiori
2 12 (4.51%) SAP PI
3 10 (3.76%) Middleware
4 9 (3.38%) BAPI
5 8 (3.01%) IDoc
6 6 (2.26%) SAP Basis
6 6 (2.26%) Web Services
7 4 (1.50%) EDI
7 4 (1.50%) SAP ALE
8 2 (0.75%) JSON
8 2 (0.75%) REST
8 2 (0.75%) SAP TM
8 2 (0.75%) SAP XI
8 2 (0.75%) SOAP
8 2 (0.75%) XML
9 1 (0.38%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.38%) RESTful
9 1 (0.38%) SAP Smart Forms
9 1 (0.38%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.29%) Life Science
2 17 (6.39%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (4.51%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (3.38%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.26%) FMCG
6 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.88%) Augmented Reality
7 5 (1.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.50%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.75%) SCADA
11 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.38%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.75%) Linux
1 2 (0.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Unix
2 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (25.56%) Migration
2 60 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 56 (21.05%) Analytics
4 55 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (15.04%) ERP
6 34 (12.78%) Project Management
7 33 (12.41%) Agile
8 31 (11.65%) Data Migration
9 26 (9.77%) Data Modelling
10 25 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (8.65%) Data Governance
12 23 (8.65%) Decision-Making
13 22 (8.27%) Risk Management
14 21 (7.89%) Workshop Facilitation
15 20 (7.52%) User Acceptance Testing
16 19 (7.14%) Logistics
16 19 (7.14%) Quality Management
17 18 (6.77%) Record to Report
17 18 (6.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.89%) ABAP
2 10 (3.76%) SQL
3 3 (1.13%) Python
4 2 (0.75%) Java
5 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (8.65%) Degree
2 16 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.38%) ACCA
3 9 (3.38%) SAP Certification
3 9 (3.38%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.01%) CIMA
4 8 (3.01%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.88%) ISTQB
5 5 (1.88%) PMP
6 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) AAT
9 1 (0.38%) CIPD
9 1 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.77%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 12 (4.51%) GxP
4 9 (3.38%) PMO
4 9 (3.38%) QA
5 6 (2.26%) PMBOK
6 4 (1.50%) GRC
6 4 (1.50%) IFRS
7 3 (1.13%) Basel III
7 3 (1.13%) IFRS 17
7 3 (1.13%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) GAAP
8 1 (0.38%) HL7
8 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Docker
1 1 (0.38%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (0.75%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 261 (98.12%) SAP
2 32 (12.03%) Ariba
3 16 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.63%) Oracle
5 5 (1.88%) Concur
6 3 (1.13%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.13%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.75%) HP
7 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.38%) Adobe
8 1 (0.38%) Dell
8 1 (0.38%) ESRI
8 1 (0.38%) Google
8 1 (0.38%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.38%) NCR
8 1 (0.38%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.38%) Toshiba