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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 93 93
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 +20
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,763 785 1,021
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 2.70% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 2.97% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 490 642
10th Percentile £360 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £731 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £507 £500
% change year-on-year +3.65% +1.30% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 22 28
10th Percentile £17.69 £51.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £30.00 £65.31 £16.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +78.13% -38.15%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £55.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £86.25 £65.00
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 40,077 26,470 37,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.96% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,204 17,026 23,967
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +1.77% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,075 2,431
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.88% -27.07% +7.14%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 1,477 £548 +1.86% 630
UK excluding London +42 891 £525 +3.65% 483
London +37 639 £550 - 186
Work from Home +49 564 £540 -0.69% 326
South East +8 233 £550 - 134
North of England +39 200 £538 +17.81% 134
Midlands -4 153 £525 +5.00% 100
South West +20 122 £525 +5.00% 43
North West +31 109 £500 +2.25% 67
East of England +11 98 £575 -2.13% 48
West Midlands -15 95 £540 +5.37% 55
Yorkshire +8 79 £593 +48.13% 55
East Midlands +7 57 £515 +8.42% 45
Scotland +10 47 £500 -1.14% 17
Wales +14 25 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland +19 17 £475 +18.75% 11
North East -17 12 £500 +11.11% 13
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 18 (1.02%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
3 15 (0.85%) Confluence
4 14 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.34%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.28%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.28%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.23%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.17%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.057%) Documentum
10 1 (0.057%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.057%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 85 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 21 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.28%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 285 (16.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 119 (6.75%) Oracle ERP
3 63 (3.57%) SAP ERP
4 58 (3.29%) Oracle EBS
5 44 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
6 40 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 40 (2.27%) NetSuite
7 32 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 30 (1.70%) Oracle Receivables
9 17 (0.96%) Shopify
10 16 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
10 16 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 15 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
12 14 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
12 14 (0.79%) Workday HCM
13 13 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
13 13 (0.74%) SAP FI
14 12 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.68%) SAP MDG
15 10 (0.57%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 213 (12.08%) Azure
2 194 (11.00%) Dynamics 365
3 154 (8.74%) OCI
4 147 (8.34%) Power Platform
5 95 (5.39%) SaaS
6 65 (3.69%) AWS
7 52 (2.95%) PaaS
8 48 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.82%) Boomi
10 29 (1.64%) Power Automate
11 28 (1.59%) PowerApps
12 27 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
13 21 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (1.08%) GCP
14 19 (1.08%) IaaS
15 18 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 16 (0.91%) GitHub
18 15 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 13 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.23%) FTP
1 4 (0.23%) LAN
2 3 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.11%) 5G
3 2 (0.11%) Intranet
3 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 1 (0.057%) DHCP
4 1 (0.057%) DMZ
4 1 (0.057%) DNS
4 1 (0.057%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.057%) HTTP
4 1 (0.057%) Modbus
4 1 (0.057%) MQTT
4 1 (0.057%) RFID
4 1 (0.057%) SMS
4 1 (0.057%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.057%) VoIP
4 1 (0.057%) VPN
4 1 (0.057%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.057%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (6.24%) Power BI
2 60 (3.40%) Oracle Reports
3 55 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.30%) Oracle ODI
6 21 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (1.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 14 (0.79%) Metadata
9 11 (0.62%) Tableau
10 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.40%) SAP HANA
14 6 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.34%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
16 4 (0.23%) GIS
16 4 (0.23%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 100 (5.67%) JIRA
2 31 (1.76%) Git
3 30 (1.70%) Postman
4 20 (1.13%) Hudson
5 10 (0.57%) SoapUI
6 8 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.40%) GitLab
7 7 (0.40%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.40%) Selenium
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.23%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) LSMW
10 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.11%) TestRail
12 1 (0.057%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 906 (51.39%) Finance
2 496 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 244 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (9.08%) Manufacturing
5 126 (7.15%) Public Sector
6 82 (4.65%) Retail
7 68 (3.86%) Legal
8 62 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.84%) Local Government
11 49 (2.78%) General Ledger
12 48 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 46 (2.61%) Law
14 37 (2.10%) Banking
15 31 (1.76%) Billing
16 29 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
17 23 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.19%) Military
19 18 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 16 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 291 (16.51%) Lead
2 253 (14.35%) Architect
3 230 (13.05%) Consultant
4 212 (12.02%) Analyst
5 174 (9.87%) Project Manager
6 159 (9.02%) Senior
7 118 (6.69%) Solutions Architect
8 108 (6.13%) Business Analyst
9 91 (5.16%) Developer
10 79 (4.48%) ERP Manager
11 59 (3.35%) Accountant
12 52 (2.95%) SAP Consultant
12 52 (2.95%) Senior Manager
13 51 (2.89%) Financial Analyst
14 50 (2.84%) Implementation Consultant
15 49 (2.78%) Oracle Consultant
16 48 (2.72%) SAP Manager
17 43 (2.44%) Programme Manager
18 42 (2.38%) Systems Accountant
19 38 (2.16%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (11.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 99 (5.62%) REST
3 78 (4.42%) Middleware
4 59 (3.35%) SOAP
5 49 (2.78%) JSON
6 44 (2.50%) XML
7 34 (1.93%) Web Services
8 24 (1.36%) OAuth
9 20 (1.13%) XSLT
10 17 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
11 15 (0.85%) .NET
11 15 (0.85%) JWT
11 15 (0.85%) Node.js
12 14 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (0.74%) EDI
14 11 (0.62%) PySpark
15 9 (0.51%) RESTful
16 8 (0.45%) Kafka
16 8 (0.45%) OAuth2
16 8 (0.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
2 61 (3.46%) Data Structures
3 43 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 41 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 39 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 29 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 29 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.13%) FMCG
10 18 (1.02%) IoT
11 16 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.74%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.74%) Life Science
14 12 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.57%) SCADA
15 10 (0.57%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (0.96%) Windows
2 6 (0.34%) Linux
3 3 (0.17%) Unix
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (26.38%) Migration
2 381 (21.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 296 (16.79%) Data Migration
3 296 (16.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 264 (14.97%) Agile
5 260 (14.75%) User Acceptance Testing
6 244 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
7 206 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 191 (10.83%) Change Management
8 191 (10.83%) Validation
9 187 (10.61%) Project Management
10 165 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
11 155 (8.79%) CRM
12 141 (8.00%) Data Modelling
13 137 (7.77%) Procure-to-Pay
14 130 (7.37%) Roadmaps
15 117 (6.64%) Project Delivery
16 115 (6.52%) Analytics
17 111 (6.30%) DevOps
18 108 (6.13%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 145 (8.22%) SQL
2 49 (2.78%) Python
3 39 (2.21%) PL/SQL
4 33 (1.87%) Java
5 28 (1.59%) C#
6 23 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.91%) Apex Code
8 14 (0.79%) Ruby
9 11 (0.62%) ABAP
9 11 (0.62%) X++
10 9 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.28%) SOQL
13 5 (0.28%) SOSL
13 5 (0.28%) VBA
14 4 (0.23%) Perl
15 3 (0.17%) C++
15 3 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 200 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 151 (8.56%) SC Cleared
3 129 (7.32%) Degree
4 102 (5.79%) CIMA
5 93 (5.28%) ACCA
6 47 (2.67%) PMP
7 39 (2.21%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 15 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (0.68%) SAP Certification
12 11 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.51%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.40%) APMP
14 7 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.34%) Azure Certification
16 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.28%) OCA
16 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.54%) QA
3 75 (4.25%) GDPR
4 51 (2.89%) PMO
5 29 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.08%) IFRS
7 17 (0.96%) GAAP
8 15 (0.85%) SLA
9 13 (0.74%) GxP
10 10 (0.57%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.40%) GMP
13 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.34%) NIST
13 6 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.28%) NCSC
15 4 (0.23%) GRC
16 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.28%) Docker
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (0.51%) HP ALM
1 9 (0.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.34%) Terraform
3 3 (0.17%) Control-M
3 3 (0.17%) Kibana
3 3 (0.17%) MOM
3 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.11%) Grafana
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.057%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.057%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 551 (31.25%) SAP
2 488 (27.68%) Oracle
3 283 (16.05%) Microsoft
4 91 (5.16%) Workday
5 70 (3.97%) IFS
6 69 (3.91%) Salesforce
7 53 (3.01%) Siemens
8 46 (2.61%) ServiceNow
9 40 (2.27%) Databricks
10 37 (2.10%) Ariba
11 35 (1.99%) MuleSoft
12 32 (1.82%) Sage
13 30 (1.70%) Infor
14 15 (0.85%) Informatica
15 9 (0.51%) Google
15 9 (0.51%) HP
15 9 (0.51%) JD Edwards
16 8 (0.45%) Foundry
17 7 (0.40%) Dell
17 7 (0.40%) Talend