SAP Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 30 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing SAP 810 1,129 1,315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.83% 5.36% 5.73%
As % of the Vendors category 11.90% 12.61% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 616 844
10th Percentile £325 £306 £330
25th Percentile £457 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 123 49
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.01 £20.54
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.50 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.31 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.27% -42.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £64.38 £43.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £61.60 £66.21
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.72 £45.00
% change year-on-year +35.28% -38.40% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,805 8,956 10,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.96% 42.51% 44.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,173 5,351 6,956
10th Percentile £220 £213 £206
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 1,012 451
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.48 £17.60
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.53 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -23.11% +49.55%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.75 £58.67
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +81.82%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the UK excluding London

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SAP in the UK excluding London

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the UK excluding London

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP in the UK excluding London

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the UK excluding London

SAP
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 -2 216 £537 -9.69% 660
North of England -1 210 £530 +2.17% 538
North West +6 156 £530 - 379
Midlands -7 122 £541 -1.55% 416
East of England +8 107 £598 +19.50% 303
South West -4 82 £525 -16.00% 229
West Midlands -7 82 £546 +12.52% 265
Scotland +26 63 £600 +9.09% 128
Yorkshire -32 38 £388 -22.54% 128
East Midlands -14 33 £510 -15.00% 148
Wales +14 12 £453 -17.64% 53
North East +1 12 £535 +37.18% 32
Northern Ireland -16 4 £281 +167.62% 41
SAP
UK

SAP
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 20 (2.47%) NetWeaver
2 9 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.86%) SAP EP
4 6 (0.74%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.25%) MS Project Server
6 2 (0.25%) SAS
7 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 47 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Simulink
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 243 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (3.21%) SAP HR
3 25 (3.09%) SAP FI
3 25 (3.09%) SAP Payroll
4 23 (2.84%) SAP CO
4 23 (2.84%) SAP FI/CO
5 17 (2.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 17 (2.10%) SAP PP
5 17 (2.10%) SAP SD
6 16 (1.98%) Primavera
6 16 (1.98%) SAP MM
7 12 (1.48%) SAP ERP
7 12 (1.48%) SAP IBP
8 10 (1.23%) SAP CRM
8 10 (1.23%) SAP PM
8 10 (1.23%) SAP PSCD
9 9 (1.11%) SAP PS
10 8 (0.99%) SAP BRIM
10 8 (0.99%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (0.86%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 61 (7.53%) SuccessFactors
2 54 (6.67%) Azure
3 32 (3.95%) Power Platform
4 22 (2.72%) AWS
5 15 (1.85%) GCP
6 13 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (1.36%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 10 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (1.23%) SaaS
9 8 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (0.99%) Snowflake
10 7 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (0.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (0.74%) Collibra
11 6 (0.74%) Entra ID
11 6 (0.74%) GitHub
11 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.37%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.43%) Broadband
2 6 (0.74%) HTTP
3 4 (0.49%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.12%) DNS
5 1 (0.12%) FTP
5 1 (0.12%) Junos
5 1 (0.12%) LAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.20%) SAP HANA
2 30 (3.70%) Power BI
3 25 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.10%) SAP BW
5 15 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.60%) GIS
7 12 (1.48%) Oracle Database
8 11 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.99%) Delta Lake
9 8 (0.99%) Metadata
10 7 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.74%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.74%) Tableau
12 5 (0.62%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.62%) SAP Data Services
13 4 (0.49%) Big Data
14 2 (0.25%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.25%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 16 (1.98%) JIRA
2 14 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.23%) Gradle
3 10 (1.23%) JUnit
3 10 (1.23%) Liquibase
3 10 (1.23%) Mockito
4 7 (0.86%) Git
5 6 (0.74%) GitLab
5 6 (0.74%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.62%) ERwin
6 5 (0.62%) NeoLoad
7 4 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.49%) Selenium
7 4 (0.49%) Toad
8 3 (0.37%) JMeter
9 1 (0.12%) JIRA Agile
9 1 (0.12%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 337 (41.60%) Finance
2 319 (39.38%) Social Skills
3 168 (20.74%) Manufacturing
4 124 (15.31%) Public Sector
5 114 (14.07%) Telecoms
6 106 (13.09%) Marketing
7 103 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
8 101 (12.47%) Electronics
9 70 (8.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 51 (6.30%) General Ledger
11 24 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.72%) Automotive
13 20 (2.47%) Aerospace
13 20 (2.47%) Retail
14 18 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (2.10%) Billing
15 17 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.73%) French Language
16 14 (1.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 205 (25.31%) Consultant
2 173 (21.36%) SAP Consultant
3 120 (14.81%) Analyst
4 79 (9.75%) Lead
5 75 (9.26%) Senior
6 68 (8.40%) Architect
7 53 (6.54%) Developer
8 51 (6.30%) Financial Analyst
9 48 (5.93%) Senior Analyst
10 47 (5.80%) SAP Manager
11 45 (5.56%) Project Manager
12 44 (5.43%) Senior Financial Analyst
13 41 (5.06%) SAP Analyst
14 31 (3.83%) Business Analyst
15 26 (3.21%) SAP Developer
16 24 (2.96%) Administrator
17 21 (2.59%) Active Directory Architect
17 21 (2.59%) Payroll Consultant
17 21 (2.59%) SAP Payroll Consultant
17 21 (2.59%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.06%) SAP Fiori
2 24 (2.96%) Middleware
3 23 (2.84%) SAP PI
4 17 (2.10%) Kafka
5 14 (1.73%) .NET
6 13 (1.60%) SAP Basis
6 13 (1.60%) SAPUI5
6 13 (1.60%) XML
7 11 (1.36%) OpenAPI
7 11 (1.36%) Swagger
8 10 (1.23%) React
8 10 (1.23%) Spring
8 10 (1.23%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.11%) CSS
9 9 (1.11%) EDI
9 9 (1.11%) HTML
9 9 (1.11%) Web Services
10 8 (0.99%) BAPI
10 8 (0.99%) IDoc
11 7 (0.86%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.93%) Life Science
2 45 (5.56%) Social Media
3 30 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
8 12 (1.48%) FMCG
8 12 (1.48%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.23%) Product Ownership
11 8 (0.99%) IoT
11 8 (0.99%) NHS
12 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 6 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.74%) SCADA
14 5 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.81%) Windows
2 13 (1.60%) Linux
3 9 (1.11%) Unix
4 5 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (21.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 146 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
3 138 (17.04%) Business Intelligence
4 130 (16.05%) Migration
5 121 (14.94%) Programme Management
6 119 (14.69%) Agile
7 100 (12.35%) Digital Marketing
8 93 (11.48%) ERP
9 89 (10.99%) Project Management
10 80 (9.88%) Change Management
11 75 (9.26%) Analytics
12 70 (8.64%) Data Migration
13 65 (8.02%) Procure-to-Pay
14 60 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
15 55 (6.79%) Accounts Payable
16 47 (5.80%) Logistics
17 45 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (5.56%) Data Governance
17 45 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
18 43 (5.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 66 (8.15%) SQL
2 41 (5.06%) ABAP
3 37 (4.57%) Java
4 33 (4.07%) PowerShell
5 27 (3.33%) Python
6 16 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.60%) C#
8 10 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.62%) Bash
10 5 (0.62%) Perl
10 5 (0.62%) R
11 4 (0.49%) VBA
12 3 (0.37%) Bicep
12 3 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.37%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 149 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.16%) Degree
4 55 (6.79%) ACCA
4 55 (6.79%) CIMA
5 43 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.36%) PMP
9 10 (1.23%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.11%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.99%) CISSP
11 8 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.99%) SAP Certification
12 7 (0.86%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (0.62%) CLAS
14 4 (0.49%) APMG
14 4 (0.49%) ISEB
14 4 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.22%) PMO
3 13 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (1.48%) QA
5 10 (1.23%) GDPR
5 10 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.11%) GxP
7 8 (0.99%) IFRS
8 7 (0.86%) GRC
8 7 (0.86%) JSP 440
8 7 (0.86%) RMADS
9 5 (0.62%) NIST
9 5 (0.62%) SLA
10 4 (0.49%) GAAP
10 4 (0.49%) PMBOK
11 3 (0.37%) Basel III
11 3 (0.37%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.37%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.25%) NCSC
13 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 28 (3.46%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.48%) Docker
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (1.11%) Terraform
2 5 (0.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 5 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (0.37%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.37%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.25%) Ansible
4 2 (0.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.12%) Puppet
5 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 81 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.53%) Ariba
3 43 (5.31%) Oracle
4 25 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 18 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.10%) Google
7 8 (0.99%) Adobe
7 8 (0.99%) Databricks
7 8 (0.99%) Workday
8 7 (0.86%) Informatica
9 6 (0.74%) Hyperion
10 5 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.62%) Concur
10 5 (0.62%) webMethods
11 4 (0.49%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.49%) HP
12 3 (0.37%) Apple
12 3 (0.37%) SnapLogic
12 3 (0.37%) Sybase
12 3 (0.37%) Twitter