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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 87 89
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,314 861 1,042
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.45% 2.77% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 3.11% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 470 659
10th Percentile £350 £358 £373
25th Percentile £458 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +3.29%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 11 29
10th Percentile £17.17 £14.50 £13.05
25th Percentile £20.70 £15.99 £38.39
Median hourly rate £41.86 £30.59 £84.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.83% -63.80% +227.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.13 £86.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £90.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.93 £16.50 £48.12
% change year-on-year +117.74% -65.71% +113.84%

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 33,264 27,700 38,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.09% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,060 16,780 25,534
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,011 875 1,974
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.72% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.80% -18.85% +44.23%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 January 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 1,140 £550 +3.19% 797
UK excluding London +10 667 £525 +0.48% 734
London +34 504 £575 +5.50% 169
Work from Home +27 445 £525 -4.55% 457
South East +16 160 £535 +2.39% 245
North of England -6 155 £575 +21.05% 146
Midlands -23 123 £538 - 109
North West +19 98 £500 - 65
South West +3 96 £525 +5.00% 84
West Midlands -21 80 £573 +7.86% 59
East of England +11 75 £525 +1.20% 106
Yorkshire -25 52 £595 +48.75% 58
East Midlands -19 42 £525 -12.50% 50
Scotland +33 40 £506 +2.53% 20
Wales +13 18 £438 -39.66% 32
Northern Ireland - 7 £450 - 14
North East -22 5 £500 - 27
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 24 (1.83%) Confluence
2 21 (1.60%) Oracle Workflow
3 20 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.46%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.38%) CMS
7 4 (0.30%) Documentum
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.15%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.15%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.076%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.076%) Apache
10 1 (0.076%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.076%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.076%) Camunda
10 1 (0.076%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.076%) SAS
Applications
1 75 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (2.36%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.30%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.30%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) InVision
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.15%) Sketch
8 2 (0.15%) Windchill
9 1 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.076%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 189 (14.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 90 (6.85%) Oracle ERP
3 63 (4.79%) SAP ERP
4 52 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
5 48 (3.65%) Oracle Payables
6 43 (3.27%) Oracle EBS
7 39 (2.97%) NetSuite
8 34 (2.59%) Oracle Receivables
9 28 (2.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 22 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
11 20 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 18 (1.37%) Shopify
12 18 (1.37%) Unit4 Business World
13 17 (1.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 16 (1.22%) Oracle Cash Management
14 16 (1.22%) SAP EWM
15 14 (1.07%) SAP WM
15 14 (1.07%) Workday HCM
16 13 (0.99%) SAP PP
17 10 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 173 (13.17%) Azure
2 148 (11.26%) OCI
3 144 (10.96%) Dynamics 365
4 100 (7.61%) Power Platform
5 89 (6.77%) SaaS
6 42 (3.20%) PaaS
7 38 (2.89%) AWS
8 30 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (2.05%) Power Automate
10 25 (1.90%) PowerApps
11 22 (1.67%) Lucidchart
11 22 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
13 19 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.45%) Boomi
14 17 (1.29%) Tricentis Tosca
15 15 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (1.07%) GCP
16 14 (1.07%) IaaS
17 13 (0.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.15%) LAN
3 1 (0.076%) DKIM
3 1 (0.076%) DMARC
3 1 (0.076%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (5.56%) Power BI
2 49 (3.73%) Oracle Reports
3 38 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (2.51%) SQL Server
5 23 (1.75%) Oracle Database
6 21 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 13 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.76%) Power Query
10 9 (0.68%) SAP HANA
11 8 (0.61%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.61%) Tableau
12 7 (0.53%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.46%) GIS
13 6 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
14 5 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.38%) Metadata
14 5 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
15 3 (0.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 71 (5.40%) JIRA
2 29 (2.21%) Postman
3 13 (0.99%) GitLab
4 7 (0.53%) Git
4 7 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.46%) Selenium
5 6 (0.46%) SoapUI
6 5 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.23%) Hudson
8 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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%) TestRail
9 2 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.15%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.076%) QADirector
General
1 655 (49.85%) Finance
2 497 (37.82%) Social Skills
3 170 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 112 (8.52%) Manufacturing
6 52 (3.96%) Local Government
7 51 (3.88%) General Ledger
8 46 (3.50%) Banking
9 43 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (3.27%) Retail
10 41 (3.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 36 (2.74%) Legal
12 34 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.83%) Marketing
16 20 (1.52%) Billing
17 13 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.91%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 198 (15.07%) Consultant
2 159 (12.10%) Lead
3 153 (11.64%) Analyst
4 140 (10.65%) Project Manager
5 139 (10.58%) Architect
6 91 (6.93%) Senior
7 85 (6.47%) Business Analyst
8 71 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
9 65 (4.95%) Developer
10 59 (4.49%) SAP Consultant
11 52 (3.96%) ERP Manager
12 47 (3.58%) SAP Manager
13 36 (2.74%) Accountant
14 34 (2.59%) Functional Consultant
15 33 (2.51%) ERP Analyst
16 31 (2.36%) Oracle Consultant
17 30 (2.28%) Programme Manager
18 28 (2.13%) SAP Project Manager
19 27 (2.05%) Oracle Developer
19 27 (2.05%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (15.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 78 (5.94%) REST
3 56 (4.26%) SOAP
4 52 (3.96%) XML
5 44 (3.35%) Middleware
6 43 (3.27%) JSON
7 39 (2.97%) Web Services
8 24 (1.83%) OAuth
9 22 (1.67%) XSLT
10 18 (1.37%) .NET
11 15 (1.14%) EDI
12 12 (0.91%) JWT
13 10 (0.76%) ADO
13 10 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
14 8 (0.61%) HTML
15 5 (0.38%) CSS
15 5 (0.38%) Kafka
15 5 (0.38%) RESTful
16 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
16 4 (0.30%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
2 40 (3.04%) Data Structures
3 35 (2.66%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 24 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 19 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.14%) FMCG
8 14 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (1.07%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.07%) Life Science
9 13 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (0.99%) IoT
10 12 (0.91%) AI Agents
11 11 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.68%) Mobile App
12 9 (0.68%) SCADA
12 9 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.68%) Synthetic Data
13 8 (0.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.07%) Windows
2 5 (0.38%) Linux
3 4 (0.30%) Unix
4 2 (0.15%) Android
4 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.076%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.076%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (23.44%) Migration
2 252 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 242 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 228 (17.35%) Agile
5 227 (17.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 184 (14.00%) Data Migration
7 150 (11.42%) CRM
8 149 (11.34%) Project Management
9 142 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 141 (10.73%) Change Management
11 119 (9.06%) Project Delivery
12 112 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 109 (8.30%) Validation
14 105 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
15 102 (7.76%) Workshop Facilitation
16 100 (7.61%) Roadmaps
17 87 (6.62%) DevOps
18 77 (5.86%) Analytics
19 68 (5.18%) Risk Management
20 66 (5.02%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 140 (10.65%) SQL
2 38 (2.89%) PL/SQL
3 27 (2.05%) C#
4 24 (1.83%) Python
5 21 (1.60%) Java
5 21 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.76%) VBA
7 8 (0.61%) ABAP
8 7 (0.53%) Groovy
9 6 (0.46%) X++
10 5 (0.38%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.23%) C++
12 3 (0.23%) Korn
12 3 (0.23%) R
12 3 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.23%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.15%) Perl
13 2 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 176 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 169 (12.86%) Degree
3 138 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 71 (5.40%) CIMA
5 63 (4.79%) ACCA
6 41 (3.12%) PMP
7 40 (3.04%) PMI Certification
8 27 (2.05%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.67%) SAP Certification
11 16 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
12 15 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.84%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.76%) OCA
16 9 (0.68%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 7 (0.53%) APMP
19 6 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
20 5 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.71%) QA
2 62 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 54 (4.11%) GDPR
4 45 (3.42%) PMO
5 30 (2.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.14%) GAAP
6 15 (1.14%) IFRS
7 14 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.84%) SLA
9 10 (0.76%) GxP
9 10 (0.76%) ITGC
9 10 (0.76%) NIST
10 8 (0.61%) COBIT
11 7 (0.53%) SOX 404
12 6 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.46%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.46%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.46%) NCSC
13 5 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.23%) Docker
3 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.076%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (0.38%) Terraform
2 4 (0.30%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.23%) Control-M
4 2 (0.15%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle Identity Management
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.076%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.076%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 444 (33.79%) Oracle
2 406 (30.90%) SAP
3 217 (16.51%) Microsoft
4 85 (6.47%) Workday
5 66 (5.02%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.05%) IFS
7 25 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.75%) Sage
9 18 (1.37%) Databricks
10 17 (1.29%) Ariba
10 17 (1.29%) Siemens
11 16 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.68%) Adobe
13 7 (0.53%) Informatica
13 7 (0.53%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.38%) Anaplan
14 5 (0.38%) Hyperion
14 5 (0.38%) Infor
14 5 (0.38%) OpenText
15 4 (0.30%) Google