ERP Contract Job Trends

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ERP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 88 89
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 +24
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,365 879 1,069
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.43% 2.84% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.17% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 488 684
10th Percentile £350 £359 £363
25th Percentile £456 £436 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +3.29%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £723 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.61% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 12 35
10th Percentile £17.69 £16.30 £13.54
25th Percentile £22.30 £30.48 £37.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.75 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -1.68% +12.35%
75th Percentile £58.75 £69.06 £86.50
90th Percentile £59.25 £85.75 £90.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £36.71 £40.62
% change year-on-year +49.82% -9.61% +30.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

ERP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,652 27,713 38,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.01% 89.46% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,939 16,970 25,283
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.06% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,087 853 2,111
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -9.97% +9.38%

ERP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ERP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ERP job vacancy trend in the UK

ERP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ERP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ERP

ERP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ERP over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ERP in the UK

ERP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ERP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ERP

ERP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ERP over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ERP in the UK

ERP
Top 18 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the UK over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. 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
England +16 1,175 £550 +4.76% 602
UK excluding London +13 682 £525 +5.00% 510
London +25 519 £575 +5.02% 184
Work from Home +28 474 £525 -4.55% 278
North of England -6 160 £550 +15.79% 128
South East +5 146 £550 +5.26% 177
Midlands -25 126 £525 -2.33% 97
South West +8 115 £525 +6.06% 48
North West +31 101 £500 +2.25% 84
West Midlands -32 83 £550 +4.76% 61
East of England +8 79 £525 -2.33% 56
Yorkshire -38 54 £595 +48.75% 35
East Midlands -15 42 £525 -12.21% 36
Scotland +24 33 £535 +12.63% 12
Wales +19 21 £438 -39.66% 3
Northern Ireland +6 10 £475 +18.75% 3
North East -21 5 £500 +5.26% 11
Channel Islands - 1 - -

ERP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (1.61%) Confluence
2 20 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
2 20 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.44%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.37%) CMS
6 4 (0.29%) Documentum
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.22%) Apache
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.22%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.073%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.073%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.073%) Camunda
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.073%) SAS
Applications
1 70 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (2.27%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.37%) PTC Creo
5 5 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.29%) Trello
7 2 (0.15%) InVision
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.15%) Sketch
7 2 (0.15%) Windchill
8 1 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.073%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 197 (14.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 78 (5.71%) Oracle ERP
3 58 (4.25%) SAP ERP
4 53 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 47 (3.44%) Oracle Payables
6 44 (3.22%) Oracle EBS
7 35 (2.56%) NetSuite
8 33 (2.42%) Oracle Receivables
9 23 (1.68%) Oracle General Ledger
10 22 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 18 (1.32%) Oracle Assets
11 18 (1.32%) Shopify
12 17 (1.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 17 (1.25%) SAP EWM
13 15 (1.10%) Workday HCM
14 14 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
14 14 (1.03%) SAP WM
14 14 (1.03%) Unit4 Business World
15 13 (0.95%) SAP PP
16 10 (0.73%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 200 (14.65%) Azure
2 147 (10.77%) Dynamics 365
3 144 (10.55%) OCI
4 102 (7.47%) Power Platform
5 96 (7.03%) SaaS
6 43 (3.15%) AWS
7 41 (3.00%) PaaS
8 35 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (2.20%) Power Automate
10 29 (2.12%) PowerApps
11 26 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (1.61%) Lucidchart
14 21 (1.54%) Boomi
14 21 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
15 18 (1.32%) GCP
16 17 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 16 (1.17%) IaaS
18 15 (1.10%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.15%) LAN
3 1 (0.073%) DKIM
3 1 (0.073%) DMARC
3 1 (0.073%) Network Security
3 1 (0.073%) RFID
3 1 (0.073%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (5.27%) Power BI
2 46 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
3 43 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 28 (2.05%) Data Lake
6 18 (1.32%) Oracle Database
7 14 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 10 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.66%) SAP HANA
11 8 (0.59%) GIS
11 8 (0.59%) Tableau
12 7 (0.51%) Power Query
13 5 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.37%) Metadata
14 4 (0.29%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.29%) Oracle ODI
14 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 3 (0.22%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 69 (5.05%) JIRA
2 32 (2.34%) Postman
3 11 (0.81%) Git
3 11 (0.81%) GitLab
4 7 (0.51%) SoapUI
5 6 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.44%) Selenium
6 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.29%) Hudson
8 2 (0.15%) Gradle
8 2 (0.15%) LSMW
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.15%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.15%) TestRail
8 2 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.073%) CircleCI
General
1 669 (49.01%) Finance
2 495 (36.26%) Social Skills
3 179 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 119 (8.72%) Manufacturing
6 56 (4.10%) Local Government
7 46 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (3.37%) General Ledger
8 45 (3.30%) Retail
9 42 (3.08%) Banking
10 41 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 39 (2.86%) Legal
12 34 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.83%) Marketing
16 22 (1.61%) Billing
17 16 (1.17%) Military
18 13 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 12 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 213 (15.60%) Consultant
2 161 (11.79%) Lead
3 158 (11.58%) Analyst
4 156 (11.43%) Architect
5 136 (9.96%) Project Manager
6 104 (7.62%) Senior
7 93 (6.81%) Business Analyst
8 83 (6.08%) Solutions Architect
9 70 (5.13%) Developer
10 61 (4.47%) SAP Consultant
11 53 (3.88%) ERP Manager
12 48 (3.52%) SAP Manager
13 40 (2.93%) Accountant
14 34 (2.49%) Implementation Consultant
14 34 (2.49%) Programme Manager
15 33 (2.42%) Senior Manager
16 31 (2.27%) Functional Consultant
16 31 (2.27%) Systems Accountant
17 30 (2.20%) ERP Analyst
17 30 (2.20%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (14.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 88 (6.45%) REST
3 62 (4.54%) SOAP
4 53 (3.88%) XML
5 52 (3.81%) Middleware
6 50 (3.66%) JSON
7 47 (3.44%) Web Services
8 25 (1.83%) OAuth
9 24 (1.76%) XSLT
10 19 (1.39%) .NET
11 13 (0.95%) EDI
11 13 (0.95%) JWT
12 11 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
13 10 (0.73%) ADO
14 8 (0.59%) HTML
15 7 (0.51%) Node.js
16 6 (0.44%) Kafka
16 6 (0.44%) RESTful
17 5 (0.37%) CSS
17 5 (0.37%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 79 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
2 40 (2.93%) Data Structures
2 40 (2.93%) Management Information System
3 31 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 25 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 19 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.25%) IoT
8 16 (1.17%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.10%) FMCG
10 14 (1.03%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (0.88%) Life Science
12 12 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.81%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.73%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.66%) SCADA
15 9 (0.66%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.10%) Windows
2 7 (0.51%) Linux
3 3 (0.22%) Unix
4 2 (0.15%) Android
4 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (23.88%) Migration
2 256 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 252 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
4 227 (16.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 225 (16.48%) Agile
6 194 (14.21%) Data Migration
7 163 (11.94%) CRM
8 153 (11.21%) Project Management
8 153 (11.21%) User Acceptance Testing
9 143 (10.48%) Change Management
10 120 (8.79%) Validation
11 113 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
12 112 (8.21%) Project Delivery
13 110 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (8.06%) Roadmaps
14 98 (7.18%) Workshop Facilitation
15 89 (6.52%) DevOps
16 87 (6.37%) Analytics
17 69 (5.05%) Data Governance
17 69 (5.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 134 (9.82%) SQL
2 37 (2.71%) PL/SQL
3 31 (2.27%) C#
4 30 (2.20%) Python
5 25 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.54%) Java
7 8 (0.59%) Groovy
8 7 (0.51%) ABAP
8 7 (0.51%) VBA
9 6 (0.44%) X++
10 5 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.29%) Korn
11 4 (0.29%) Perl
11 4 (0.29%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.29%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.22%) C++
12 3 (0.22%) PHP
12 3 (0.22%) R
12 3 (0.22%) XPath
Qualifications
1 174 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 165 (12.09%) Degree
3 136 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.71%) CIMA
5 68 (4.98%) ACCA
6 41 (3.00%) PMP
7 38 (2.78%) PMI Certification
8 27 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.83%) SAP Certification
11 15 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
12 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.81%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.73%) OCA
16 7 (0.51%) APMP
16 7 (0.51%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 6 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.42%) QA
2 70 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.18%) GDPR
4 51 (3.74%) PMO
5 30 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (1.17%) GAAP
6 16 (1.17%) IFRS
7 14 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.81%) GxP
10 10 (0.73%) ITGC
10 10 (0.73%) NIST
10 10 (0.73%) SLA
11 8 (0.59%) COBIT
12 7 (0.51%) SOX 404
13 6 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.44%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.44%) IFRS 17
13 6 (0.44%) NCSC
14 5 (0.37%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 7 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.22%) Docker
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.073%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.37%) Kubernetes
1 5 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (0.37%) Terraform
2 3 (0.22%) Control-M
2 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.15%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle Identity Management
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.073%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.073%) Kibana
4 1 (0.073%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 419 (30.70%) SAP
2 417 (30.55%) Oracle
3 230 (16.85%) Microsoft
4 85 (6.23%) Workday
5 68 (4.98%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.49%) Siemens
7 32 (2.34%) IFS
8 28 (2.05%) Sage
9 26 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 24 (1.76%) Databricks
11 21 (1.54%) Ariba
12 15 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.81%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.73%) Informatica
15 8 (0.59%) Adobe
16 7 (0.51%) Foundry
17 6 (0.44%) Google
17 6 (0.44%) Infor
18 4 (0.29%) ESRI
18 4 (0.29%) OpenText