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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 85 92
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,292 872 999
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.48% 2.74% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.09% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 757 479 612
10th Percentile £352 £359 £375
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 11 28
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.50 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.75 £15.99 £50.85
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.59 £84.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.18% -63.91% +172.07%
75th Percentile £51.02 £46.13 £86.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £91.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £16.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.45% -70.00% +144.44%

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 32,585 28,260 37,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.84% 88.76% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,582 17,185 24,531
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 898 1,578
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.56 £18.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £55.89 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.76% -29.73% +46.88%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +15 1,116 £550 +2.80% 725
UK excluding London +6 662 £525 +0.48% 692
London +29 489 £575 +6.24% 126
Work from Home +27 430 £525 -4.55% 409
South East +25 162 £525 +1.20% 226
North of England -2 153 £563 +12.50% 122
Midlands -21 121 £525 -2.33% 98
North West +21 97 £500 -0.50% 48
South West -5 90 £525 +5.00% 92
West Midlands -26 75 £563 +7.14% 57
East of England +6 73 £529 +3.17% 105
Yorkshire -29 51 £595 +43.37% 52
Scotland +33 47 £500 +9.59% 23
East Midlands -16 46 £525 -12.50% 41
Wales +12 16 £475 -34.48% 30
Northern Ireland - 8 £425 - 13
North East -18 5 £500 - 26
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 27 (2.09%) Confluence
2 21 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
4 19 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.46%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.39%) CMS
7 4 (0.31%) Documentum
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.23%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.15%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) Camunda
10 1 (0.077%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.077%) SAS
Applications
1 77 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (2.40%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) InVision
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.15%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.15%) Sketch
8 2 (0.15%) Windchill
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.077%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.077%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 189 (14.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 91 (7.04%) Oracle ERP
3 65 (5.03%) SAP ERP
4 50 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 45 (3.48%) Oracle Payables
6 42 (3.25%) Oracle EBS
7 38 (2.94%) NetSuite
8 33 (2.55%) Oracle Receivables
9 28 (2.17%) Oracle General Ledger
10 20 (1.55%) Oracle Assets
11 18 (1.39%) Unit4 Business World
12 17 (1.32%) SAP EWM
12 17 (1.32%) Shopify
13 15 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
13 15 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 15 (1.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 15 (1.16%) Workday HCM
14 14 (1.08%) SAP PP
14 14 (1.08%) SAP WM
15 9 (0.70%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 156 (12.07%) Azure
2 146 (11.30%) OCI
3 142 (10.99%) Dynamics 365
4 103 (7.97%) Power Platform
5 91 (7.04%) SaaS
6 38 (2.94%) PaaS
7 34 (2.63%) AWS
8 28 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.86%) Power Automate
10 22 (1.70%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.63%) Lucidchart
12 19 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
13 18 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (1.32%) Boomi
14 17 (1.32%) Tricentis Tosca
15 14 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (1.01%) Entra ID
16 13 (1.01%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.15%) LAN
3 1 (0.077%) DKIM
3 1 (0.077%) DMARC
3 1 (0.077%) Network Security
3 1 (0.077%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.04%) Power BI
2 53 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
3 38 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 25 (1.93%) Oracle Database
6 22 (1.70%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 13 (1.01%) SAP HANA
8 13 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.77%) Power Query
10 8 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.62%) SAP BW
10 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.62%) Tableau
11 6 (0.46%) GIS
11 6 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
12 5 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.39%) Metadata
12 5 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
13 3 (0.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (5.57%) JIRA
2 26 (2.01%) Postman
3 13 (1.01%) GitLab
4 8 (0.62%) Git
5 7 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.46%) Selenium
7 5 (0.39%) SoapUI
7 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.23%) Hudson
9 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.15%) Gradle
10 2 (0.15%) LSMW
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.15%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.15%) TestRail
10 2 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
10 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.077%) QADirector
General
1 633 (48.99%) Finance
2 491 (38.00%) Social Skills
3 164 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 123 (9.52%) Manufacturing
6 50 (3.87%) Local Government
7 46 (3.56%) General Ledger
8 45 (3.48%) Banking
8 45 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 44 (3.41%) Retail
10 41 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 34 (2.63%) Legal
12 33 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.86%) Marketing
16 21 (1.63%) Billing
17 12 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.93%) Law
18 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 183 (14.16%) Consultant
2 156 (12.07%) Lead
3 155 (12.00%) Analyst
4 146 (11.30%) Project Manager
5 136 (10.53%) Architect
6 90 (6.97%) Senior
7 80 (6.19%) Business Analyst
8 68 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 63 (4.88%) Developer
10 54 (4.18%) SAP Consultant
11 49 (3.79%) ERP Manager
12 47 (3.64%) SAP Manager
13 33 (2.55%) ERP Analyst
14 32 (2.48%) Accountant
14 32 (2.48%) Functional Consultant
15 30 (2.32%) Oracle Consultant
16 29 (2.24%) Programme Manager
17 28 (2.17%) SAP Project Manager
18 27 (2.09%) ERP Project Manager
18 27 (2.09%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (15.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 77 (5.96%) REST
3 53 (4.10%) SOAP
4 48 (3.72%) XML
5 42 (3.25%) Middleware
6 39 (3.02%) JSON
7 37 (2.86%) Web Services
8 22 (1.70%) OAuth
9 21 (1.63%) XSLT
10 17 (1.32%) .NET
11 16 (1.24%) EDI
12 10 (0.77%) JWT
12 10 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
13 9 (0.70%) ADO
14 8 (0.62%) HTML
15 5 (0.39%) CSS
15 5 (0.39%) RESTful
16 4 (0.31%) Kafka
16 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Graph
16 4 (0.31%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 78 (6.04%) Legacy Systems
2 39 (3.02%) Data Structures
3 36 (2.79%) Management Information System
4 35 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (1.70%) Product Ownership
5 22 (1.70%) Public Cloud
6 17 (1.32%) Life Science
7 16 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.01%) FMCG
10 12 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 12 (0.93%) IoT
10 12 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 11 (0.85%) SCADA
12 10 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.70%) Mobile App
13 9 (0.70%) Synthetic Data
14 7 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.54%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.85%) Windows
2 5 (0.39%) Linux
3 4 (0.31%) Unix
4 2 (0.15%) Android
4 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.077%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.077%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (22.68%) Migration
2 239 (18.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 236 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
4 227 (17.57%) Agile
5 222 (17.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 178 (13.78%) Data Migration
7 149 (11.53%) Project Management
8 148 (11.46%) CRM
9 133 (10.29%) User Acceptance Testing
10 130 (10.06%) Change Management
11 124 (9.60%) Project Delivery
12 112 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
14 104 (8.05%) Validation
15 99 (7.66%) Roadmaps
16 96 (7.43%) Workshop Facilitation
17 82 (6.35%) DevOps
18 81 (6.27%) Analytics
19 67 (5.19%) Decision-Making
19 67 (5.19%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 144 (11.15%) SQL
2 39 (3.02%) PL/SQL
3 24 (1.86%) C#
4 20 (1.55%) Python
5 19 (1.47%) Java
5 19 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.77%) VBA
7 8 (0.62%) ABAP
7 8 (0.62%) Groovy
8 6 (0.46%) X++
9 5 (0.39%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.23%) Korn
11 3 (0.23%) R
11 3 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.23%) XPath
12 2 (0.15%) C++
12 2 (0.15%) Perl
12 2 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 172 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 169 (13.08%) Degree
3 133 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 64 (4.95%) CIMA
5 58 (4.49%) ACCA
6 41 (3.17%) PMI Certification
6 41 (3.17%) PMP
7 24 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.70%) SAP Certification
9 16 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 11 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 10 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.77%) OCA
13 7 (0.54%) APMP
14 6 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.65%) QA
2 58 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 49 (3.79%) GDPR
4 44 (3.41%) PMO
5 33 (2.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (1.08%) GAAP
6 14 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.01%) GxP
7 13 (1.01%) IFRS
8 11 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.85%) NIST
9 10 (0.77%) ITGC
10 9 (0.70%) SLA
11 8 (0.62%) COBIT
12 7 (0.54%) SOX 404
13 6 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.39%) IFRS 17
14 5 (0.39%) IFRS 9
14 5 (0.39%) NCSC
15 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.31%) Docker
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.077%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (0.54%) Terraform
2 5 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.31%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.23%) Control-M
5 2 (0.15%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Identity Management
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.077%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.077%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 438 (33.90%) Oracle
2 401 (31.04%) SAP
3 200 (15.48%) Microsoft
4 85 (6.58%) Workday
5 62 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.24%) IFS
7 23 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.47%) Ariba
8 19 (1.47%) Sage
9 18 (1.39%) Databricks
10 15 (1.16%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.62%) Adobe
12 7 (0.54%) Informatica
13 6 (0.46%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.46%) OpenText
14 5 (0.39%) Anaplan
14 5 (0.39%) Hyperion
14 5 (0.39%) Infor
14 5 (0.39%) Siemens
15 4 (0.31%) IBM