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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 83 87
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,344 881 1,079
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.44% 2.83% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 3.17% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 489 692
10th Percentile £350 £359 £363
25th Percentile £455 £430 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +3.29%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £721 £778 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.61% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 13 33
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.85 £13.29
25th Percentile £21.75 £16.92 £37.50
Median hourly rate £51.02 £56.50 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -9.70% -8.56% +12.35%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.75 £86.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £84.00 £90.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.02 £16.92 £40.62
% change year-on-year +201.54% -58.34% +30.39%

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 33,986 27,793 39,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.08% 89.38% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,549 16,924 25,862
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,070 859 2,130
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.20% -9.97% +11.43%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +16 1,157 £550 +4.27% 683
UK excluding London +11 673 £525 +5.00% 524
London +26 511 £575 +4.55% 226
Work from Home +28 471 £525 -4.55% 336
North of England -10 157 £550 +15.79% 134
South East +10 151 £550 +5.26% 170
Midlands -25 123 £525 -2.33% 115
South West +6 108 £519 +4.80% 48
North West +21 98 £500 +2.25% 82
West Midlands -28 81 £550 +4.76% 78
East of England +7 77 £525 -2.33% 49
Yorkshire -34 54 £595 +48.75% 41
East Midlands -19 41 £525 -12.21% 37
Scotland +26 35 £525 +13.51% 13
Wales +19 20 £438 -39.66% 6
Northern Ireland +9 10 £475 +18.75% 2
North East -21 5 £500 +5.26% 13
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 22 (1.64%) Confluence
2 20 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
2 20 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.45%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.37%) CMS
6 4 (0.30%) Documentum
6 4 (0.30%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.22%) Apache
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.22%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.074%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.074%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.074%) Camunda
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.074%) SAS
Applications
1 73 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (2.31%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.37%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.30%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) InVision
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.15%) Sketch
9 2 (0.15%) Windchill
10 1 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.074%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 192 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 78 (5.80%) Oracle ERP
3 58 (4.32%) SAP ERP
4 53 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 47 (3.50%) Oracle Payables
6 45 (3.35%) Oracle EBS
7 35 (2.60%) NetSuite
7 35 (2.60%) Oracle Receivables
8 25 (1.86%) Oracle General Ledger
9 23 (1.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 20 (1.49%) Oracle Assets
11 18 (1.34%) Shopify
12 16 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
12 16 (1.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 16 (1.19%) SAP EWM
13 15 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
13 15 (1.12%) Workday HCM
14 14 (1.04%) SAP WM
15 13 (0.97%) SAP PP
16 11 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 189 (14.06%) Azure
2 144 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
3 143 (10.64%) OCI
4 101 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 92 (6.85%) SaaS
6 41 (3.05%) AWS
6 41 (3.05%) PaaS
7 35 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.23%) Power Automate
9 28 (2.08%) PowerApps
10 24 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
11 22 (1.64%) Lucidchart
11 22 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (1.56%) Boomi
12 21 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (1.19%) GCP
14 16 (1.19%) IaaS
14 16 (1.19%) Tricentis Tosca
15 15 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.15%) LAN
3 1 (0.074%) DKIM
3 1 (0.074%) DMARC
3 1 (0.074%) Network Security
3 1 (0.074%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (5.28%) Power BI
2 48 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
3 45 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 27 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 22 (1.64%) Oracle Database
7 14 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 14 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.67%) SAP HANA
10 8 (0.60%) Power Query
11 7 (0.52%) Tableau
12 6 (0.45%) GIS
12 6 (0.45%) Metadata
12 6 (0.45%) Oracle ODI
13 5 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (0.30%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 70 (5.21%) JIRA
2 31 (2.31%) Postman
3 12 (0.89%) GitLab
4 11 (0.82%) Git
5 7 (0.52%) SoapUI
6 6 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.45%) Selenium
7 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.30%) Hudson
9 2 (0.15%) Gradle
9 2 (0.15%) LSMW
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.15%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.15%) TestRail
9 2 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.074%) CircleCI
General
1 653 (48.59%) Finance
2 491 (36.53%) Social Skills
3 174 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 118 (8.78%) Manufacturing
6 55 (4.09%) Local Government
7 46 (3.42%) General Ledger
8 45 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (3.27%) Retail
10 43 (3.20%) Banking
11 40 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
12 38 (2.83%) Legal
13 34 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (1.86%) Marketing
17 21 (1.56%) Billing
18 16 (1.19%) Military
19 13 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 12 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 206 (15.33%) Consultant
2 162 (12.05%) Lead
3 154 (11.46%) Analyst
4 147 (10.94%) Architect
5 136 (10.12%) Project Manager
6 104 (7.74%) Senior
7 91 (6.77%) Business Analyst
8 78 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
9 71 (5.28%) Developer
10 60 (4.46%) SAP Consultant
11 54 (4.02%) ERP Manager
12 48 (3.57%) SAP Manager
13 39 (2.90%) Accountant
14 33 (2.46%) Functional Consultant
14 33 (2.46%) Programme Manager
14 33 (2.46%) Senior Manager
15 31 (2.31%) Oracle Consultant
16 30 (2.23%) ERP Analyst
16 30 (2.23%) Systems Accountant
17 29 (2.16%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (14.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 84 (6.25%) REST
3 60 (4.46%) SOAP
4 52 (3.87%) XML
5 49 (3.65%) JSON
6 48 (3.57%) Middleware
7 45 (3.35%) Web Services
8 25 (1.86%) OAuth
9 24 (1.79%) XSLT
10 19 (1.41%) .NET
11 13 (0.97%) EDI
11 13 (0.97%) JWT
12 11 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
13 10 (0.74%) ADO
14 8 (0.60%) HTML
15 7 (0.52%) Node.js
16 6 (0.45%) RESTful
17 5 (0.37%) CSS
17 5 (0.37%) Kafka
18 4 (0.30%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 79 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 42 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 39 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (1.93%) Product Ownership
6 25 (1.86%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.26%) IoT
9 16 (1.19%) FMCG
10 14 (1.04%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.04%) Cloud Native
11 13 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (0.89%) Life Science
12 12 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.67%) Mobile App
14 9 (0.67%) SCADA
14 9 (0.67%) Synthetic Data
15 8 (0.60%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.12%) Windows
2 7 (0.52%) Linux
3 3 (0.22%) Unix
4 2 (0.15%) Android
4 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.074%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (23.66%) Migration
2 254 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 249 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
4 227 (16.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 224 (16.67%) Agile
6 189 (14.06%) Data Migration
7 161 (11.98%) CRM
8 155 (11.53%) User Acceptance Testing
9 148 (11.01%) Project Management
10 142 (10.57%) Change Management
11 119 (8.85%) Validation
12 112 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 110 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
14 108 (8.04%) Roadmaps
15 96 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
16 89 (6.62%) DevOps
17 83 (6.18%) Analytics
18 70 (5.21%) Decision-Making
19 68 (5.06%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 140 (10.42%) SQL
2 40 (2.98%) PL/SQL
3 31 (2.31%) C#
4 30 (2.23%) Python
5 25 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.56%) Java
7 8 (0.60%) Groovy
7 8 (0.60%) VBA
8 6 (0.45%) ABAP
8 6 (0.45%) X++
9 5 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.30%) Korn
10 4 (0.30%) Perl
10 4 (0.30%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.30%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.22%) C++
11 3 (0.22%) PHP
11 3 (0.22%) R
11 3 (0.22%) XPath
Qualifications
1 177 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 167 (12.43%) Degree
3 139 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 75 (5.58%) CIMA
5 66 (4.91%) ACCA
6 40 (2.98%) PMP
7 38 (2.83%) PMI Certification
8 27 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.86%) SAP Certification
11 15 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
12 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.97%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (0.82%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.74%) OCA
17 7 (0.52%) APMP
17 7 (0.52%) AWS Certification
17 7 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 6 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.65%) QA
2 68 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 55 (4.09%) GDPR
4 51 (3.79%) PMO
5 30 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.12%) GAAP
6 15 (1.12%) IFRS
7 14 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.82%) GxP
10 10 (0.74%) ITGC
10 10 (0.74%) NIST
11 9 (0.67%) SLA
12 8 (0.60%) COBIT
13 7 (0.52%) SOX 404
14 6 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.45%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.45%) IFRS 17
14 6 (0.45%) NCSC
15 5 (0.37%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 7 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.22%) Docker
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.074%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.37%) Kubernetes
1 5 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (0.37%) Terraform
2 3 (0.22%) Control-M
2 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.15%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle Identity Management
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.074%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.074%) Kibana
4 1 (0.074%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 425 (31.62%) Oracle
2 410 (30.51%) SAP
3 224 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 84 (6.25%) Workday
5 66 (4.91%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.16%) IFS
6 29 (2.16%) Siemens
7 27 (2.01%) Sage
8 25 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 21 (1.56%) Ariba
10 19 (1.41%) Databricks
11 14 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.74%) Informatica
14 8 (0.60%) Adobe
15 7 (0.52%) Foundry
16 6 (0.45%) Google
16 6 (0.45%) Infor
17 4 (0.30%) IBM
17 4 (0.30%) OpenText