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

 6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 91 98
Rank change year-on-year +29 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,987 917 916
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 2.78% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 3.08% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 552 523
10th Percentile £363 £326 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £762
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 52 37
10th Percentile £15.36 £6.00 £18.80
25th Percentile £19.36 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.61 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.69% -46.09% -26.81%
75th Percentile £58.75 £71.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £66.38 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.75 £19.40 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.97% -56.89% -30.90%

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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +17 1,638 £550 - 1,189
UK excluding London +41 1,042 £525 +0.96% 792
London +17 683 £600 +9.09% 454
Work from Home +30 565 £550 - 500
South East +1 272 £525 +1.94% 230
North of England +60 257 £500 - 193
Midlands +31 208 £525 -4.55% 195
North West +41 147 £525 +5.00% 96
West Midlands +9 119 £540 +2.86% 115
South West 0 100 £538 -14.14% 65
Yorkshire +25 89 £475 +18.01% 74
East of England +2 87 £575 - 72
East Midlands +31 81 £525 -12.50% 80
Scotland +12 70 £500 - 32
Northern Ireland +27 28 £450 +28.57% 7
North East -26 21 £500 -6.98% 25
Wales - 21 £488 - 16
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 33 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.86%) Confluence
4 5 (0.25%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.20%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) CMS
6 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.10%) Apache
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.050%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.050%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 99 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.10%) Windchill
8 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 292 (14.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 155 (7.80%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.37%) SAP ERP
4 60 (3.02%) NetSuite
5 58 (2.92%) Oracle Payables
6 49 (2.47%) Oracle EBS
7 45 (2.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 39 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 26 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
10 24 (1.21%) Oracle Financials
11 22 (1.11%) Oracle General Ledger
12 18 (0.91%) Infor CloudSuite
13 17 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
14 16 (0.81%) SAP MDG
14 16 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
15 13 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
16 12 (0.60%) Workday HCM
17 11 (0.55%) SAP FI
18 10 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
18 10 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 210 (10.57%) Azure
2 195 (9.81%) Dynamics 365
3 190 (9.56%) Power Platform
4 161 (8.10%) OCI
5 116 (5.84%) SaaS
6 72 (3.62%) AWS
7 56 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (2.11%) PaaS
9 35 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
10 34 (1.71%) Boomi
11 30 (1.51%) GCP
12 29 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (1.46%) Power Automate
13 27 (1.36%) GitHub
14 26 (1.31%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 15 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (0.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.35%) HTTP
1 7 (0.35%) Network Security
2 5 (0.25%) FTP
2 5 (0.25%) SSL
3 4 (0.20%) Firewall
4 3 (0.15%) 5G
5 2 (0.10%) Intranet
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.050%) DHCP
6 1 (0.050%) DMZ
6 1 (0.050%) DNS
6 1 (0.050%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.050%) Modbus
6 1 (0.050%) MQTT
6 1 (0.050%) RFID
6 1 (0.050%) SMS
6 1 (0.050%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.050%) VPN
6 1 (0.050%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (6.84%) Power BI
2 70 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
4 34 (1.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 28 (1.41%) Data Lake
6 26 (1.31%) Oracle ODI
6 26 (1.31%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.16%) Tableau
8 17 (0.86%) Metadata
9 16 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
10 13 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.35%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
12 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 85 (4.28%) JIRA
2 34 (1.71%) Git
3 20 (1.01%) Hudson
4 13 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.45%) Postman
7 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 4 (0.20%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.15%) GitLab
10 3 (0.15%) LSMW
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
12 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.050%) JDeveloper
12 1 (0.050%) MLflow
12 1 (0.050%) TestRail
General
1 1,030 (51.84%) Finance
2 519 (26.12%) Social Skills
3 249 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (10.52%) Manufacturing
5 171 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 108 (5.44%) Retail
7 81 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (3.12%) General Ledger
9 59 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (2.82%) Legal
11 49 (2.47%) Billing
11 49 (2.47%) Law
12 47 (2.37%) Local Government
13 43 (2.16%) Banking
14 40 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 37 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 31 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (1.16%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.96%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 366 (18.42%) Lead
2 317 (15.95%) Architect
3 251 (12.63%) Analyst
4 238 (11.98%) Consultant
5 163 (8.20%) Senior
6 153 (7.70%) Project Manager
7 151 (7.60%) Solutions Architect
8 116 (5.84%) Business Analyst
9 110 (5.54%) Developer
10 80 (4.03%) Oracle Consultant
11 72 (3.62%) ERP Manager
12 59 (2.97%) Accountant
12 59 (2.97%) Financial Analyst
13 45 (2.26%) Data Analyst
14 43 (2.16%) Programme Manager
14 43 (2.16%) Systems Accountant
15 42 (2.11%) ERP Architect
15 42 (2.11%) Functional Consultant
15 42 (2.11%) SAP Manager
16 41 (2.06%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (11.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 113 (5.69%) REST
3 100 (5.03%) Middleware
4 66 (3.32%) SOAP
5 43 (2.16%) JSON
6 40 (2.01%) XML
7 32 (1.61%) Web Services
8 29 (1.46%) .NET
9 22 (1.11%) OAuth
10 20 (1.01%) EDI
11 19 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
12 16 (0.81%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
14 14 (0.70%) XSLT
15 12 (0.60%) HTML
15 12 (0.60%) Node.js
16 11 (0.55%) CSS
16 11 (0.55%) PySpark
17 10 (0.50%) RESTful
18 9 (0.45%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 109 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
2 78 (3.93%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.77%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 35 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 34 (1.71%) FMCG
9 32 (1.61%) Cloud Native
10 26 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (0.86%) Life Science
13 16 (0.81%) AI Agents
13 16 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.75%) IoT
15 14 (0.70%) Operational Technology
16 13 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (0.60%) Low-Code
17 12 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.31%) Windows
2 7 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.30%) 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%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.050%) AIX
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.050%) Unix
5 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (25.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 503 (25.31%) Migration
3 371 (18.67%) Data Migration
4 326 (16.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 317 (15.95%) User Acceptance Testing
6 278 (13.99%) Agile
7 276 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 253 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 208 (10.47%) Change Management
10 207 (10.42%) Validation
11 197 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
12 191 (9.61%) Data Modelling
13 186 (9.36%) Analytics
14 174 (8.76%) CRM
15 170 (8.56%) Roadmaps
16 164 (8.25%) Process Improvement
17 147 (7.40%) Project Management
18 144 (7.25%) Translating Business Requirements
19 138 (6.95%) Procure-to-Pay
20 137 (6.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 180 (9.06%) SQL
2 65 (3.27%) Python
3 35 (1.76%) PL/SQL
4 34 (1.71%) Java
5 33 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.36%) C#
7 21 (1.06%) Apex Code
8 20 (1.01%) Ruby
8 20 (1.01%) X++
9 15 (0.75%) ABAP
10 14 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.40%) Groovy
11 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.30%) SOQL
13 6 (0.30%) SOSL
14 5 (0.25%) VBA
15 4 (0.20%) C++
15 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 226 (11.37%) Security Cleared
2 157 (7.90%) SC Cleared
3 123 (6.19%) Degree
4 76 (3.82%) ACCA
5 74 (3.72%) CIMA
6 54 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 38 (1.91%) PMP
8 32 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 19 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.35%) SAP Certification
14 6 (0.30%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 5 (0.25%) APMG
15 5 (0.25%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.72%) GDPR
3 69 (3.47%) QA
4 49 (2.47%) PMO
5 36 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 27 (1.36%) IFRS
7 19 (0.96%) GAAP
8 14 (0.70%) GMP
9 13 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.55%) GRC
10 11 (0.55%) GxP
11 10 (0.50%) SLA
12 9 (0.45%) NCSC
13 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.25%) NIST
15 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 13 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.050%) Firmware
3 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.050%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (0.86%) Terraform
2 14 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.40%) HP ALM
4 5 (0.25%) Grafana
4 5 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.20%) Kibana
6 3 (0.15%) MOM
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.10%) SCCM
8 1 (0.050%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.050%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 604 (30.40%) SAP
2 578 (29.09%) Oracle
3 354 (17.82%) Microsoft
4 83 (4.18%) IFS
5 81 (4.08%) Salesforce
6 79 (3.98%) Workday
7 71 (3.57%) ServiceNow
8 41 (2.06%) Ariba
8 41 (2.06%) Infor
9 37 (1.86%) Databricks
10 35 (1.76%) MuleSoft
11 33 (1.66%) Sage
12 29 (1.46%) Siemens
13 22 (1.11%) JD Edwards
14 17 (0.86%) Concur
15 15 (0.75%) Google
16 13 (0.65%) SYSPRO
17 12 (0.60%) Epicor
18 9 (0.45%) Baan
18 9 (0.45%) Informatica
1,357 ERP jobs Nationwide