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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 81 99
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 -1
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,953 937 904
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.64% 2.88% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.19% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 560 512
10th Percentile £370 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.94% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £511
% change year-on-year - +2.69% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 45 36
10th Percentile £14.82 £6.00 £18.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.65 £28.00
Median hourly rate £27.30 £17.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +56.00% -62.16% -27.17%
75th Percentile £43.50 £58.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £74.50 £79.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £15.66 £45.00
% change year-on-year +62.07% -65.20% -29.78%

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 45,329 29,411 32,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.42% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,714 18,306 20,733
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
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 2,913 1,754 1,602
10th Percentile £14.07 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.30 £18.79
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +11 1,610 £550 - 1,788
UK excluding London +28 1,017 £525 - 1,315
London +8 673 £600 +9.09% 739
Work from Home +22 543 £550 - 961
North of England +65 270 £525 +5.00% 306
South East -3 264 £525 +1.94% 302
Midlands +31 208 £525 -4.55% 240
North West +38 154 £525 +5.00% 176
West Midlands +15 118 £525 - 135
Yorkshire +33 96 £500 +10.50% 85
East of England -2 83 £509 -9.91% 135
East Midlands +24 81 £525 -12.50% 105
South West -28 78 £525 -12.50% 144
Scotland +10 74 £525 +5.00% 122
Northern Ireland +21 24 £450 +28.57% 75
North East -29 20 £500 +1.27% 48
Wales +2 18 £488 +50.00% 15
Channel Islands - 2 - - 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 35 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
3 18 (0.92%) Confluence
4 7 (0.36%) CMS
5 5 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.26%) SAS
6 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.20%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.10%) Apache
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.051%) EPiServer
Applications
1 102 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.26%) Windchill
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 284 (14.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 154 (7.89%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.43%) Oracle Payables
4 66 (3.38%) SAP ERP
5 65 (3.33%) NetSuite
6 52 (2.66%) Oracle Receivables
7 43 (2.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 40 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
9 32 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
10 26 (1.33%) Oracle General Ledger
11 23 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
12 19 (0.97%) Oracle Assets
12 19 (0.97%) SAP MDG
13 15 (0.77%) Infor CloudSuite
13 15 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
14 14 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
14 14 (0.72%) Workday HCM
15 13 (0.67%) SAP FI
15 13 (0.67%) SAP MM
16 12 (0.61%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 201 (10.29%) Dynamics 365
2 200 (10.24%) Azure
3 195 (9.98%) Power Platform
4 144 (7.37%) OCI
5 119 (6.09%) SaaS
6 80 (4.10%) AWS
7 62 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.00%) GCP
9 36 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (1.84%) PaaS
9 36 (1.84%) SuccessFactors
10 31 (1.59%) Power Automate
11 29 (1.48%) Boomi
12 27 (1.38%) PowerApps
13 26 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
14 25 (1.28%) GitHub
15 20 (1.02%) Entra ID
16 17 (0.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 16 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (0.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.51%) HTTP
2 7 (0.36%) Network Security
3 6 (0.31%) FTP
4 5 (0.26%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
5 3 (0.15%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) Intranet
6 2 (0.10%) LAN
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
6 2 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.051%) DHCP
7 1 (0.051%) DMZ
7 1 (0.051%) DNS
7 1 (0.051%) MQTT
7 1 (0.051%) RFID
7 1 (0.051%) SMTP
7 1 (0.051%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.051%) VPN
7 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (7.01%) Power BI
2 60 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
4 33 (1.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.18%) Tableau
7 22 (1.13%) Data Lake
7 22 (1.13%) Oracle ODI
8 19 (0.97%) Metadata
9 13 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.36%) Power Query
12 7 (0.36%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.31%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (4.66%) JIRA
2 31 (1.59%) Git
3 17 (0.87%) Hudson
4 15 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.31%) Postman
6 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.31%) Zephyr
7 4 (0.20%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.15%) GitLab
8 3 (0.15%) LSMW
8 3 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.10%) MLflow
9 2 (0.10%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.051%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.051%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.051%) TestRail
General
1 1,008 (51.61%) Finance
2 550 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 243 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (10.45%) Manufacturing
5 170 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 101 (5.17%) Retail
7 81 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (3.48%) General Ledger
9 56 (2.87%) Billing
10 51 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.56%) Legal
12 48 (2.46%) Law
13 47 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 46 (2.36%) Banking
15 39 (2.00%) Local Government
16 34 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
17 32 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 28 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (1.08%) Aerospace
20 19 (0.97%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 362 (18.54%) Lead
2 320 (16.39%) Architect
3 260 (13.31%) Analyst
4 236 (12.08%) Consultant
5 149 (7.63%) Senior
6 144 (7.37%) Solutions Architect
7 130 (6.66%) Project Manager
8 121 (6.20%) Business Analyst
9 107 (5.48%) Developer
10 89 (4.56%) Oracle Consultant
11 62 (3.17%) ERP Manager
12 56 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
13 55 (2.82%) Accountant
13 55 (2.82%) Functional Consultant
14 49 (2.51%) Data Analyst
15 43 (2.20%) Lead Architect
15 43 (2.20%) Programme Manager
16 42 (2.15%) SAP Manager
17 41 (2.10%) Administrator
17 41 (2.10%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (11.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 122 (6.25%) REST
3 104 (5.33%) Middleware
4 74 (3.79%) SOAP
5 44 (2.25%) XML
6 42 (2.15%) JSON
7 35 (1.79%) Web Services
8 32 (1.64%) .NET
9 24 (1.23%) OAuth
10 21 (1.08%) EDI
11 20 (1.02%) OAuth2
12 19 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
13 18 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
13 18 (0.92%) Terraform
14 14 (0.72%) XSLT
15 11 (0.56%) CSS
15 11 (0.56%) HTML
15 11 (0.56%) Node.js
16 10 (0.51%) RESTful
17 9 (0.46%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
2 72 (3.69%) Data Structures
3 62 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
4 61 (3.12%) Management Information System
5 44 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 37 (1.89%) FMCG
7 33 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.64%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.08%) Life Science
12 16 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.82%) Operational Technology
13 15 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.77%) Low-Code
14 14 (0.72%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
15 12 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.33%) Windows
2 10 (0.51%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.36%) Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Android
4 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
4 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Unix
4 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.051%) AIX
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (28.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 496 (25.40%) Migration
3 373 (19.10%) Data Migration
4 323 (16.54%) User Acceptance Testing
5 315 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 281 (14.39%) Agile
7 275 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 259 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
9 210 (10.75%) Validation
10 196 (10.04%) Change Management
11 190 (9.73%) Business Intelligence
11 190 (9.73%) CRM
12 183 (9.37%) Roadmaps
13 179 (9.17%) Process Improvement
14 178 (9.11%) Data Modelling
15 172 (8.81%) Analytics
16 154 (7.89%) Translating Business Requirements
17 143 (7.32%) Workshop Facilitation
18 141 (7.22%) Procure-to-Pay
19 135 (6.91%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 182 (9.32%) SQL
2 63 (3.23%) Python
3 35 (1.79%) JavaScript
4 34 (1.74%) Java
5 33 (1.69%) PL/SQL
6 32 (1.64%) C#
7 21 (1.08%) Apex Code
8 20 (1.02%) X++
9 18 (0.92%) Ruby
10 15 (0.77%) ABAP
11 13 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.41%) Groovy
14 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.26%) SOQL
15 5 (0.26%) SOSL
16 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.20%) VBA
17 3 (0.15%) C++
17 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 233 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 166 (8.50%) SC Cleared
3 125 (6.40%) Degree
4 68 (3.48%) ACCA
5 62 (3.17%) CIMA
6 55 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 37 (1.89%) PMP
8 33 (1.69%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.41%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.41%) CISM
14 8 (0.41%) CISSP
15 7 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.31%) IIBA
16 6 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (8.50%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.79%) QA
3 65 (3.33%) GDPR
4 53 (2.71%) PMO
5 31 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 24 (1.23%) IFRS
7 20 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (0.97%) GRC
9 16 (0.82%) GAAP
10 13 (0.67%) NCSC
11 12 (0.61%) GMP
12 11 (0.56%) GxP
13 8 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.31%) NIST
15 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.31%) SLA
16 5 (0.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.46%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.051%) Firmware
4 1 (0.051%) IAG
4 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (0.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.20%) Kibana
5 3 (0.15%) MOM
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.10%) SCCM
7 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.051%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 605 (30.98%) SAP
2 557 (28.52%) Oracle
3 373 (19.10%) Microsoft
4 92 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 79 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 70 (3.58%) Workday
7 67 (3.43%) IFS
8 43 (2.20%) Ariba
9 34 (1.74%) Infor
10 31 (1.59%) Databricks
10 31 (1.59%) Sage
11 28 (1.43%) MuleSoft
12 23 (1.18%) Google
13 18 (0.92%) JD Edwards
14 17 (0.87%) Concur
15 16 (0.82%) Siemens
15 16 (0.82%) SYSPRO
16 10 (0.51%) Adobe
16 10 (0.51%) Epicor
16 10 (0.51%) IBM