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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 82 93
Rank change year-on-year +20 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,968 998 927
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.60% 3.02% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.34% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 593 508
10th Percentile £372 £326 £363
25th Percentile £463 £456 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £536
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.23% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 46 36
10th Percentile £14.00 £6.00 £21.38
25th Percentile £16.78 £14.67 £28.00
Median hourly rate £25.13 £17.60 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +42.82% -61.96% -26.59%
75th Percentile £40.00 £52.25 £66.25
90th Percentile £67.68 £78.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £16.29 £47.50
% change year-on-year +48.50% -65.71% -25.20%

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 46,202 29,871 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.47% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,118 18,549 20,447
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,059 1,786 1,512
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.71
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.09
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.37% +8.72%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +10 1,617 £550 - 1,317
UK excluding London +26 1,033 £525 - 927
London +3 659 £590 +7.27% 498
Work from Home +18 554 £550 - 564
North of England +60 274 £525 +5.00% 212
South East +1 263 £525 +1.94% 261
Midlands +25 220 £525 -4.55% 204
North West +37 152 £525 +5.00% 100
West Midlands +21 123 £525 - 121
Yorkshire +34 100 £500 +10.50% 82
East Midlands +25 88 £525 -12.50% 83
South West -36 83 £525 -12.50% 87
East of England -12 80 £509 -9.91% 107
Scotland +16 75 £525 +5.00% 45
Northern Ireland +17 22 £450 +28.57% 19
North East -27 22 £500 +11.11% 36
Wales +4 19 £488 +50.00% 15
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 36 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.17%) Oracle Workflow
3 16 (0.81%) Confluence
4 9 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.41%) CMS
6 7 (0.36%) NetWeaver
6 7 (0.36%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.25%) SAS
8 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.20%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
8 4 (0.20%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 108 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.25%) Windchill
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 281 (14.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 149 (7.57%) Oracle ERP
3 69 (3.51%) SAP ERP
4 68 (3.46%) Oracle Payables
5 64 (3.25%) NetSuite
6 52 (2.64%) Oracle Receivables
7 42 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
7 42 (2.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 31 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
9 27 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
10 23 (1.17%) Oracle Financials
11 19 (0.97%) Oracle Assets
11 19 (0.97%) SAP MDG
12 15 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
12 15 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (0.71%) Workday HCM
14 13 (0.66%) Infor CloudSuite
14 13 (0.66%) SAP FI
14 13 (0.66%) SAP MM
15 12 (0.61%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 205 (10.42%) Azure
2 199 (10.11%) Dynamics 365
3 195 (9.91%) Power Platform
4 143 (7.27%) OCI
5 127 (6.45%) SaaS
6 81 (4.12%) AWS
7 65 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (1.98%) GCP
9 38 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (1.83%) PaaS
10 36 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
11 30 (1.52%) Power Automate
12 29 (1.47%) Boomi
13 26 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 26 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 24 (1.22%) GitHub
15 21 (1.07%) Entra ID
16 18 (0.91%) Serverless
17 16 (0.81%) Snowflake
17 16 (0.81%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.46%) HTTP
2 7 (0.36%) Network Security
3 6 (0.30%) FTP
4 5 (0.25%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
6 2 (0.10%) DMZ
6 2 (0.10%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) Intranet
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
7 1 (0.051%) LAN
7 1 (0.051%) MQTT
7 1 (0.051%) RFID
7 1 (0.051%) SMTP
7 1 (0.051%) WAN
7 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.01%) Power BI
2 58 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
4 31 (1.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 25 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.17%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.17%) Tableau
7 20 (1.02%) Oracle ODI
8 19 (0.97%) Metadata
9 13 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 12 (0.61%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.46%) Power Query
12 8 (0.41%) SAP HANA
12 8 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 94 (4.78%) JIRA
2 33 (1.68%) Git
3 16 (0.81%) Hudson
4 13 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.36%) Zephyr
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
6 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.25%) Postman
8 4 (0.20%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.20%) Flyway
9 3 (0.15%) LSMW
9 3 (0.15%) MLflow
9 3 (0.15%) Selenium
10 2 (0.10%) GitLab
10 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.051%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.051%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.051%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.051%) TestRail
General
1 1,003 (50.97%) Finance
2 563 (28.61%) Social Skills
3 254 (12.91%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (10.72%) Manufacturing
5 174 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 101 (5.13%) Retail
7 80 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (3.51%) General Ledger
9 59 (3.00%) Billing
10 55 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
12 48 (2.44%) Legal
13 47 (2.39%) Banking
14 45 (2.29%) Law
15 38 (1.93%) Local Government
16 33 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
17 30 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 28 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
19 22 (1.12%) Aerospace
20 21 (1.07%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 355 (18.04%) Lead
2 320 (16.26%) Architect
3 257 (13.06%) Analyst
4 240 (12.20%) Consultant
5 150 (7.62%) Senior
6 143 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
7 134 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 119 (6.05%) Business Analyst
9 103 (5.23%) Developer
10 91 (4.62%) Oracle Consultant
11 61 (3.10%) ERP Manager
12 56 (2.85%) Functional Consultant
13 55 (2.79%) Accountant
14 51 (2.59%) Financial Analyst
15 47 (2.39%) Administrator
16 45 (2.29%) Data Analyst
17 43 (2.18%) Programme Manager
17 43 (2.18%) SAP Manager
18 42 (2.13%) Lead Architect
18 42 (2.13%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (11.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 121 (6.15%) REST
3 104 (5.28%) Middleware
4 75 (3.81%) SOAP
5 44 (2.24%) XML
6 41 (2.08%) JSON
7 39 (1.98%) Web Services
8 31 (1.58%) .NET
9 23 (1.17%) OAuth
10 21 (1.07%) EDI
10 21 (1.07%) OAuth2
10 21 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
11 16 (0.81%) Terraform
12 15 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (0.71%) XSLT
14 11 (0.56%) CSS
14 11 (0.56%) HTML
15 10 (0.51%) Node.js
15 10 (0.51%) RESTful
16 9 (0.46%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
2 71 (3.61%) Data Structures
3 67 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
4 66 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 64 (3.25%) Product Ownership
6 46 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 37 (1.88%) FMCG
8 33 (1.68%) Cloud Native
9 31 (1.58%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
11 23 (1.17%) Life Science
12 16 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.81%) Operational Technology
13 15 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 15 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.76%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.61%) CMDB
14 12 (0.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
14 12 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.32%) Windows
2 11 (0.56%) Linux
3 9 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.30%) Unix
5 2 (0.10%) Android
5 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
5 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.051%) AIX
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (29.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 496 (25.20%) Migration
3 371 (18.85%) Data Migration
4 317 (16.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 309 (15.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 285 (14.48%) Agile
7 279 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 278 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
9 215 (10.92%) Validation
10 192 (9.76%) Change Management
11 191 (9.71%) CRM
12 190 (9.65%) Process Improvement
13 189 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
14 188 (9.55%) Roadmaps
15 173 (8.79%) Analytics
15 173 (8.79%) Data Modelling
16 154 (7.83%) Translating Business Requirements
17 146 (7.42%) Workshop Facilitation
18 144 (7.32%) Project Delivery
19 137 (6.96%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 189 (9.60%) SQL
2 64 (3.25%) Python
3 36 (1.83%) Java
4 34 (1.73%) JavaScript
5 33 (1.68%) PL/SQL
6 31 (1.58%) C#
7 20 (1.02%) X++
8 18 (0.91%) ABAP
8 18 (0.91%) Ruby
9 17 (0.86%) Apex Code
10 14 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.41%) Groovy
13 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.25%) SOQL
14 5 (0.25%) SOSL
15 4 (0.20%) VBA
16 3 (0.15%) C++
16 3 (0.15%) PHP
16 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 246 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 181 (9.20%) SC Cleared
3 125 (6.35%) Degree
4 68 (3.46%) ACCA
5 62 (3.15%) CIMA
6 54 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.03%) PMP
8 36 (1.83%) PMI Certification
9 24 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.41%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.41%) CISM
15 8 (0.41%) CISSP
16 7 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (0.36%) SAP Certification
17 6 (0.30%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 73 (3.71%) QA
3 62 (3.15%) GDPR
4 54 (2.74%) PMO
5 29 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.27%) IFRS
7 22 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.02%) GRC
9 17 (0.86%) GAAP
10 14 (0.71%) NCSC
11 13 (0.66%) GMP
12 12 (0.61%) GxP
13 9 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 8 (0.41%) NIST
14 8 (0.41%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
17 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 17 (0.86%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.36%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.051%) Firmware
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.25%) Grafana
3 5 (0.25%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.20%) Kibana
4 4 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.10%) SCCM
6 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.051%) MOM
Vendors
1 615 (31.25%) SAP
2 564 (28.66%) Oracle
3 378 (19.21%) Microsoft
4 91 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 78 (3.96%) ServiceNow
6 70 (3.56%) Workday
7 64 (3.25%) IFS
8 43 (2.18%) Ariba
9 33 (1.68%) Infor
10 30 (1.52%) Sage
11 28 (1.42%) Databricks
12 25 (1.27%) JD Edwards
12 25 (1.27%) MuleSoft
13 22 (1.12%) Google
14 17 (0.86%) Concur
14 17 (0.86%) SYSPRO
15 16 (0.81%) Siemens
16 10 (0.51%) Adobe
16 10 (0.51%) Epicor
16 10 (0.51%) IBM