SAP Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAP Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median SAP Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600, 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 320 376 431
Rank change year-on-year +56 +55 +63
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Solutions Architect 16 23 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 26
10th Percentile £550 £559 £538
25th Percentile £561 £575 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £693
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.83% +6.63%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £813
90th Percentile - £750 £838
UK median daily rate £700 £625 £700
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.28%

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 Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

SAP Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SAP Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

SAP Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SAP Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

SAP Solutions 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 Solutions 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
North West +24 9 £571 - 2
North of England +24 9 £571 -0.65% 2
South East +45 3 £750 +20.00% 5
Wales +2 3 £725 -
Midlands +21 1 - - 1
West Midlands +13 1 - - 1
SAP Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SAP Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) SAP
2 9 (56.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
5 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (37.50%) TOGAF
5 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (37.50%) Middleware
6 5 (31.25%) Agile
6 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
6 5 (31.25%) MuleSoft
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (18.75%) Impact Assessments
8 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
8 3 (18.75%) Programme Delivery
8 3 (18.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
8 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (18.75%) Analytics
8 3 (18.75%) QA
8 3 (18.75%) SAP HANA
8 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (18.75%) Concur
9 2 (12.50%) Programme Governance
9 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project

SAP Solutions 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:

Business Applications
1 9 (56.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.25%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (12.50%) IaaS
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SAP HANA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
2 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (37.50%) TOGAF
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
6 2 (12.50%) Programme Governance
6 2 (12.50%) Quality Management
6 2 (12.50%) SAP Implementation
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) SAP
2 5 (31.25%) MuleSoft
3 3 (18.75%) Concur
4 1 (6.25%) Ariba
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) TOWER Software