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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 92 96
Rank change year-on-year +31 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,718 796 1,025
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.70% 2.70% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 2.97% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 478 653
10th Percentile £361 £358 £358
25th Percentile £463 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% -2.95% -
75th Percentile £639 £675 £650
90th Percentile £737 £760 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 22 29
10th Percentile £17.69 £51.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £25.42 £65.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £41.23
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +72.81% -34.03%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £60.75 £86.25 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £35.75
% change year-on-year -19.30% +99.30% -44.72%

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 39,369 26,799 37,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.74% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,829 17,326 24,410
10th Percentile £318 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,054 2,423
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.25 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £28.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -19.49% -6.17%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +37 1,436 £550 +3.77% 603
UK excluding London +37 864 £525 +5.00% 516
London +37 628 £550 - 162
Work from Home +44 551 £540 +2.86% 285
South East +17 223 £530 -3.64% 141
North of England +46 201 £525 +20.00% 131
Midlands -12 142 £525 +5.00% 119
South West +16 121 £525 +10.53% 52
North West +43 118 £500 +2.41% 70
West Midlands -19 94 £558 +11.50% 62
East of England +13 89 £575 -4.17% 41
Yorkshire -1 71 £593 +48.13% 51
Scotland +24 51 £519 +2.72% 21
East Midlands -12 47 £500 +5.26% 56
Wales +12 23 £475 -34.48% 6
Northern Ireland +18 18 £475 +18.75% 14
North East -18 12 £500 +11.11% 12
Channel Islands - 2 - -

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 17 (0.99%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
3 14 (0.81%) Confluence
3 14 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.35%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.29%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.29%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.23%) Apache
6 4 (0.23%) CMS
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.17%) Documentum
7 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.058%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.058%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.29%) PTC Creo
8 3 (0.17%) Windchill
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 264 (15.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 115 (6.69%) Oracle ERP
3 65 (3.78%) Oracle EBS
3 65 (3.78%) SAP ERP
4 47 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 43 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
6 38 (2.21%) NetSuite
7 30 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
8 29 (1.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 18 (1.05%) Shopify
10 17 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 15 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
12 15 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
13 14 (0.81%) Workday HCM
14 13 (0.76%) SAP FI
14 13 (0.76%) SAP PP
14 13 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
15 11 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
15 11 (0.64%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 212 (12.34%) Azure
2 192 (11.18%) Dynamics 365
3 157 (9.14%) OCI
4 147 (8.56%) Power Platform
5 97 (5.65%) SaaS
6 60 (3.49%) AWS
7 50 (2.91%) PaaS
8 41 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (1.69%) Boomi
9 29 (1.69%) Power Automate
10 28 (1.63%) PowerApps
11 26 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
12 25 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (1.16%) GCP
14 19 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (1.11%) IaaS
15 18 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (0.81%) Tricentis Tosca
18 13 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.17%) FTP
1 3 (0.17%) LAN
2 2 (0.12%) 5G
2 2 (0.12%) Firewall
2 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 1 (0.058%) DHCP
3 1 (0.058%) DNS
3 1 (0.058%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.058%) HTTP
3 1 (0.058%) Modbus
3 1 (0.058%) MQTT
3 1 (0.058%) RFID
3 1 (0.058%) SMS
3 1 (0.058%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.058%) VoIP
3 1 (0.058%) VPN
3 1 (0.058%) WAN
3 1 (0.058%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.64%) Power BI
2 63 (3.67%) Oracle Reports
3 57 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.34%) Oracle ODI
5 23 (1.34%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 20 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (0.70%) Metadata
8 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.52%) Tableau
10 8 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.47%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.35%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.35%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (0.23%) GIS
13 4 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 94 (5.47%) JIRA
2 27 (1.57%) Postman
3 23 (1.34%) Git
4 19 (1.11%) Hudson
5 10 (0.58%) SoapUI
6 9 (0.52%) GitLab
7 7 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.41%) Selenium
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.35%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.29%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.17%) LSMW
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.12%) Gradle
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.12%) TestRail
12 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 896 (52.15%) Finance
2 503 (29.28%) Social Skills
3 243 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (8.96%) Manufacturing
5 132 (7.68%) Public Sector
6 82 (4.77%) Retail
7 63 (3.67%) Legal
8 60 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 59 (3.43%) Local Government
10 55 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.85%) General Ledger
12 46 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 45 (2.62%) Law
14 38 (2.21%) Banking
15 27 (1.57%) Billing
15 27 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.22%) Military
18 18 (1.05%) Marketing
19 17 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 285 (16.59%) Lead
2 245 (14.26%) Architect
3 234 (13.62%) Consultant
4 197 (11.47%) Analyst
5 162 (9.43%) Project Manager
6 151 (8.79%) Senior
7 121 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
8 106 (6.17%) Business Analyst
9 87 (5.06%) Developer
10 77 (4.48%) ERP Manager
11 57 (3.32%) Accountant
12 55 (3.20%) SAP Consultant
13 52 (3.03%) SAP Manager
14 50 (2.91%) Implementation Consultant
14 50 (2.91%) Senior Manager
15 48 (2.79%) Financial Analyst
16 47 (2.74%) Oracle Consultant
17 39 (2.27%) Systems Accountant
18 38 (2.21%) Programme Manager
18 38 (2.21%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (11.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 87 (5.06%) REST
3 72 (4.19%) Middleware
4 57 (3.32%) SOAP
5 49 (2.85%) XML
6 45 (2.62%) JSON
7 38 (2.21%) Web Services
8 23 (1.34%) OAuth
9 22 (1.28%) XSLT
10 19 (1.11%) .NET
11 16 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
12 15 (0.87%) JWT
13 13 (0.76%) EDI
14 11 (0.64%) PySpark
15 10 (0.58%) Node.js
16 9 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
17 7 (0.41%) ADO
17 7 (0.41%) Kafka
17 7 (0.41%) SAPUI5
18 6 (0.35%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
2 60 (3.49%) Data Structures
3 50 (2.91%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 30 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.16%) IoT
10 19 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.05%) FMCG
12 15 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.76%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.58%) Life Science
15 10 (0.58%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.52%) SCADA
17 8 (0.47%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.87%) Windows
2 6 (0.35%) Linux
3 3 (0.17%) Unix
4 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (26.60%) Migration
2 362 (21.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 296 (17.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 292 (17.00%) Data Migration
5 254 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
6 251 (14.61%) User Acceptance Testing
7 249 (14.49%) Agile
8 196 (11.41%) Change Management
9 193 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (10.94%) Validation
11 179 (10.42%) Project Management
12 169 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
13 157 (9.14%) CRM
14 139 (8.09%) Data Modelling
15 128 (7.45%) Procure-to-Pay
16 126 (7.33%) Roadmaps
17 116 (6.75%) Project Delivery
18 112 (6.52%) Analytics
19 107 (6.23%) DevOps
20 101 (5.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 146 (8.50%) SQL
2 47 (2.74%) Python
3 40 (2.33%) PL/SQL
4 32 (1.86%) Java
5 29 (1.69%) C#
6 20 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.70%) Ruby
8 11 (0.64%) ABAP
8 11 (0.64%) Apex Code
9 10 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.47%) X++
11 7 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.29%) Korn
12 5 (0.29%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.29%) VBA
13 4 (0.23%) Perl
14 3 (0.17%) C++
14 3 (0.17%) SOQL
14 3 (0.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 205 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 151 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 136 (7.92%) Degree
4 102 (5.94%) CIMA
5 91 (5.30%) ACCA
6 47 (2.74%) PMP
7 40 (2.33%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
11 14 (0.81%) SAP Certification
12 12 (0.70%) DV Cleared
13 10 (0.58%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.52%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.41%) APMP
15 7 (0.41%) OCA
16 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 87 (5.06%) QA
3 71 (4.13%) GDPR
4 53 (3.08%) PMO
5 26 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.11%) IFRS
7 17 (0.99%) GAAP
8 15 (0.87%) SLA
9 12 (0.70%) GxP
10 9 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.41%) GMP
12 7 (0.41%) NIST
13 5 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
13 5 (0.29%) NCSC
13 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.17%) Docker
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (0.52%) HP ALM
2 6 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.23%) Terraform
4 3 (0.17%) Control-M
4 3 (0.17%) MOM
5 2 (0.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.058%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.058%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.058%) Kibana
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.058%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 534 (31.08%) SAP
2 483 (28.11%) Oracle
3 282 (16.41%) Microsoft
4 95 (5.53%) Workday
5 64 (3.73%) IFS
5 64 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 52 (3.03%) Siemens
7 41 (2.39%) Databricks
7 41 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 38 (2.21%) Ariba
9 36 (2.10%) Sage
10 33 (1.92%) MuleSoft
11 27 (1.57%) Infor
12 16 (0.93%) Informatica
13 9 (0.52%) Foundry
13 9 (0.52%) Google
13 9 (0.52%) HP
13 9 (0.52%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.41%) Talend
15 6 (0.35%) Anaplan