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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 91 93
Rank change year-on-year +32 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,772 793 1,020
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 2.71% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 2.98% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 492 640
10th Percentile £360 £363 £363
25th Percentile £458 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -1.15% -0.91%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £777 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +1.15% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 22 27
10th Percentile £17.69 £51.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £30.00 £65.31 £16.25
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 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £86.25 £62.75
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 40,275 26,638 37,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.95% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,293 17,157 24,168
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £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 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,413 1,083 2,449
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.75 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.94 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.37% -25.49% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +33 1,485 £548 +1.86% 706
UK excluding London +37 899 £525 +3.81% 554
London +32 642 £550 - 196
Work from Home +44 562 £538 -2.27% 363
South East +18 233 £550 - 160
North of England +44 206 £525 +15.07% 143
Midlands -10 150 £525 +5.00% 108
South West +22 124 £525 +5.00% 48
North West +35 115 £500 +2.25% 72
East of England +9 98 £575 -2.13% 65
West Midlands -15 95 £540 +5.37% 60
Yorkshire +7 79 £593 +48.13% 58
East Midlands -2 54 £505 +6.32% 48
Scotland +20 50 £513 +1.33% 18
Wales +9 25 £475 - 6
Northern Ireland +17 17 £475 +18.75% 14
North East -17 12 £500 +11.11% 14
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 (0.90%) Confluence
2 16 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 14 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.34%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.28%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.28%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.23%) Apache
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.17%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.056%) Documentum
9 1 (0.056%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.056%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 87 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 21 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.28%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.17%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 285 (16.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 117 (6.60%) Oracle ERP
3 63 (3.56%) SAP ERP
4 58 (3.27%) Oracle EBS
5 42 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 42 (2.37%) Oracle Payables
6 39 (2.20%) NetSuite
7 31 (1.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 29 (1.64%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (1.02%) Shopify
10 16 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
10 16 (0.90%) 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 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
13 13 (0.73%) SAP FI
14 12 (0.68%) SAP MDG
15 11 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
15 11 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 214 (12.08%) Azure
2 197 (11.12%) Dynamics 365
3 153 (8.63%) OCI
4 148 (8.35%) Power Platform
5 95 (5.36%) SaaS
6 65 (3.67%) AWS
7 52 (2.93%) PaaS
8 48 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.86%) Boomi
10 28 (1.58%) Power Automate
11 27 (1.52%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
12 20 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (1.07%) GCP
13 19 (1.07%) IaaS
14 18 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (0.85%) GitHub
15 15 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
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 (0.056%) DHCP
4 1 (0.056%) DMZ
4 1 (0.056%) DNS
4 1 (0.056%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.056%) HTTP
4 1 (0.056%) Modbus
4 1 (0.056%) MQTT
4 1 (0.056%) RFID
4 1 (0.056%) SMS
4 1 (0.056%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.056%) VoIP
4 1 (0.056%) VPN
4 1 (0.056%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.056%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (6.32%) Power BI
2 60 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
3 55 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.58%) 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%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.56%) Tableau
11 9 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.40%) SAP HANA
14 6 (0.34%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
15 5 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
16 4 (0.23%) GIS
16 4 (0.23%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 102 (5.76%) JIRA
2 31 (1.75%) Git
3 30 (1.69%) Postman
4 20 (1.13%) Hudson
5 10 (0.56%) SoapUI
6 7 (0.40%) GitLab
6 7 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.40%) Selenium
6 7 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.28%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.17%) LSMW
9 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.11%) Gradle
10 2 (0.11%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.11%) TestRail
10 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 906 (51.13%) Finance
2 500 (28.22%) Social Skills
3 248 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (9.26%) Manufacturing
5 127 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 85 (4.80%) Retail
7 70 (3.95%) Legal
8 62 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.88%) Local Government
11 48 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 47 (2.65%) General Ledger
13 46 (2.60%) Law
14 37 (2.09%) Banking
15 30 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.64%) Billing
17 25 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.19%) Military
19 18 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 17 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 292 (16.48%) Lead
2 253 (14.28%) Architect
3 233 (13.15%) Consultant
4 215 (12.13%) Analyst
5 174 (9.82%) Project Manager
6 161 (9.09%) Senior
7 117 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
8 110 (6.21%) Business Analyst
9 90 (5.08%) Developer
10 81 (4.57%) ERP Manager
11 59 (3.33%) Accountant
12 54 (3.05%) SAP Consultant
13 52 (2.93%) Senior Manager
14 51 (2.88%) Financial Analyst
14 51 (2.88%) SAP Manager
15 50 (2.82%) Implementation Consultant
16 48 (2.71%) Oracle Consultant
17 42 (2.37%) Programme Manager
17 42 (2.37%) Systems Accountant
18 40 (2.26%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (11.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 100 (5.64%) REST
3 79 (4.46%) Middleware
4 60 (3.39%) SOAP
5 49 (2.77%) JSON
6 44 (2.48%) XML
7 34 (1.92%) Web Services
8 24 (1.35%) OAuth
9 20 (1.13%) XSLT
10 17 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
11 15 (0.85%) .NET
11 15 (0.85%) JWT
12 14 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (0.73%) EDI
13 13 (0.73%) Node.js
14 11 (0.62%) PySpark
15 8 (0.45%) Kafka
15 8 (0.45%) OAuth2
15 8 (0.45%) OpenAPI
15 8 (0.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.47%) Legacy Systems
2 61 (3.44%) Data Structures
3 43 (2.43%) Management Information System
4 40 (2.26%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 29 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 28 (1.58%) Cloud Native
7 25 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.19%) FMCG
10 19 (1.07%) IoT
11 17 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (0.73%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.68%) Life Science
15 10 (0.56%) SCADA
15 10 (0.56%) 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
1 467 (26.35%) Migration
2 386 (21.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 299 (16.87%) Data Migration
4 298 (16.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 267 (15.07%) Agile
6 261 (14.73%) User Acceptance Testing
7 249 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
8 208 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 192 (10.84%) Change Management
9 192 (10.84%) Validation
10 186 (10.50%) Project Management
11 167 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
12 158 (8.92%) CRM
13 143 (8.07%) Data Modelling
14 137 (7.73%) Procure-to-Pay
15 132 (7.45%) Roadmaps
16 118 (6.66%) Analytics
16 118 (6.66%) Project Delivery
17 112 (6.32%) DevOps
18 108 (6.09%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 145 (8.18%) SQL
2 49 (2.77%) Python
3 39 (2.20%) PL/SQL
4 33 (1.86%) Java
5 27 (1.52%) C#
6 24 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.90%) Apex Code
8 14 (0.79%) Ruby
9 11 (0.62%) ABAP
10 10 (0.56%) X++
11 9 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.40%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
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
1 201 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 152 (8.58%) SC Cleared
3 131 (7.39%) Degree
4 104 (5.87%) CIMA
5 95 (5.36%) ACCA
6 47 (2.65%) PMP
7 39 (2.20%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.79%) DV Cleared
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
15 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.28%) OCA
16 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 84 (4.74%) QA
3 76 (4.29%) GDPR
4 52 (2.93%) PMO
5 28 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.02%) IFRS
7 17 (0.96%) GAAP
8 15 (0.85%) SLA
9 12 (0.68%) GxP
10 10 (0.56%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.40%) GMP
12 7 (0.40%) NIST
13 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
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 (0.056%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 557 (31.43%) SAP
2 486 (27.43%) Oracle
3 287 (16.20%) Microsoft
4 93 (5.25%) Workday
5 70 (3.95%) IFS
5 70 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 54 (3.05%) Siemens
7 47 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 41 (2.31%) Databricks
9 38 (2.14%) Ariba
10 36 (2.03%) MuleSoft
11 32 (1.81%) Sage
12 29 (1.64%) Infor
13 15 (0.85%) Informatica
14 9 (0.51%) Google
14 9 (0.51%) HP
15 8 (0.45%) Foundry
16 7 (0.40%) Dell
16 7 (0.40%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.40%) Talend