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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 102 98
Rank change year-on-year +45 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,884 772 996
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 2.58% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 2.83% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 470 601
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 36 39
10th Percentile £17.74 £14.75 £14.03
25th Percentile £27.90 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +90.89% -44.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £68.35 £85.00 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £68.75 £31.50
% change year-on-year -16.36% +118.25% -50.46%

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 43,060 27,252 37,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.87% 91.01% 84.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,847 17,268 23,692
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,578 1,280 2,621
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.01 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.65%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +36 1,584 £550 +2.33% 570
UK excluding London +53 989 £525 +5.00% 500
London +26 668 £560 +1.82% 171
Work from Home +57 567 £550 - 288
South East +6 250 £525 -2.33% 140
North of England +43 220 £500 +11.11% 104
Midlands +31 196 £525 - 111
South West +29 126 £525 +13.51% 65
North West +38 123 £500 +6.67% 66
West Midlands +14 121 £535 +4.39% 66
East of England +26 96 £575 - 41
Yorkshire +3 80 £550 +37.50% 34
East Midlands +23 71 £525 - 44
Scotland +23 57 £500 -0.99% 14
Wales - 25 £525 - 24
Northern Ireland +20 24 £475 +18.75% 21
North East -26 17 £500 -6.98% 7
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 26 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
3 16 (0.85%) Confluence
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.27%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.27%) SAS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.11%) CMS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.053%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.053%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.27%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.11%) Windchill
9 1 (0.053%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 292 (15.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 138 (7.32%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.56%) SAP ERP
4 54 (2.87%) Oracle Payables
5 53 (2.81%) NetSuite
6 44 (2.34%) Oracle EBS
7 41 (2.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 35 (1.86%) Oracle Receivables
9 29 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
10 21 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 18 (0.96%) Oracle Assets
11 18 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
12 16 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
13 15 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
14 14 (0.74%) Infor CloudSuite
14 14 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
15 13 (0.69%) SAP MDG
16 12 (0.64%) Teamcenter
17 10 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
18 9 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 242 (12.85%) Azure
2 176 (9.34%) Dynamics 365
3 169 (8.97%) Power Platform
4 142 (7.54%) OCI
5 109 (5.79%) SaaS
6 68 (3.61%) AWS
7 57 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.34%) PaaS
9 31 (1.65%) Boomi
9 31 (1.65%) Power Automate
10 30 (1.59%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
12 24 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (1.17%) GitHub
14 21 (1.11%) GCP
15 18 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (0.85%) IaaS
18 15 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.27%) Network Security
2 4 (0.21%) FTP
3 3 (0.16%) 5G
3 3 (0.16%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 2 (0.11%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) LAN
4 2 (0.11%) RFID
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
5 1 (0.053%) DHCP
5 1 (0.053%) DMZ
5 1 (0.053%) DNS
5 1 (0.053%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.053%) Modbus
5 1 (0.053%) MQTT
5 1 (0.053%) SMS
5 1 (0.053%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.053%) VoIP
5 1 (0.053%) VPN
5 1 (0.053%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (6.90%) Power BI
2 58 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
4 28 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.38%) Oracle ODI
6 23 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 20 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (1.01%) SQL Server
9 15 (0.80%) Tableau
10 14 (0.74%) Metadata
11 10 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
12 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.37%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
15 6 (0.32%) Star Schema
16 5 (0.27%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.27%) SAP Data Services
16 5 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (4.41%) JIRA
2 31 (1.65%) Git
3 20 (1.06%) Hudson
4 17 (0.90%) Postman
5 10 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.32%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
6 6 (0.32%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 2 (0.11%) Gradle
8 2 (0.11%) LSMW
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.053%) ERwin
9 1 (0.053%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.053%) PowerDesigner
General
1 980 (52.02%) Finance
2 478 (25.37%) Social Skills
3 240 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (9.71%) Manufacturing
5 140 (7.43%) Public Sector
6 93 (4.94%) Retail
7 63 (3.34%) Legal
8 60 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (2.97%) General Ledger
10 53 (2.81%) Local Government
11 47 (2.49%) Law
12 46 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 44 (2.34%) Billing
14 39 (2.07%) Banking
15 30 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
16 27 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.90%) Aerospace
19 16 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 332 (17.62%) Lead
2 277 (14.70%) Architect
3 250 (13.27%) Consultant
4 211 (11.20%) Analyst
5 172 (9.13%) Project Manager
6 154 (8.17%) Senior
7 136 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
8 96 (5.10%) Business Analyst
9 93 (4.94%) ERP Manager
10 92 (4.88%) Developer
11 70 (3.72%) Accountant
12 57 (3.03%) Oracle Consultant
13 52 (2.76%) Finance Manager
13 52 (2.76%) Implementation Consultant
13 52 (2.76%) Systems Accountant
14 50 (2.65%) SAP Consultant
15 49 (2.60%) Senior Manager
16 48 (2.55%) Financial Analyst
17 43 (2.28%) ERP Project Manager
18 42 (2.23%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (10.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 99 (5.25%) REST
3 91 (4.83%) Middleware
4 55 (2.92%) SOAP
5 45 (2.39%) JSON
6 42 (2.23%) XML
7 29 (1.54%) Web Services
8 25 (1.33%) .NET
9 17 (0.90%) OAuth
10 16 (0.85%) EDI
10 16 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (0.85%) Node.js
10 16 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
11 14 (0.74%) XSLT
12 13 (0.69%) HTML
13 11 (0.58%) CSS
13 11 (0.58%) JWT
14 10 (0.53%) PySpark
15 9 (0.48%) Ajax
15 9 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 48 (2.55%) Management Information System
4 47 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 36 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 32 (1.70%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.65%) FMCG
8 30 (1.59%) Cloud Native
9 23 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (0.96%) IoT
13 16 (0.85%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.64%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
16 11 (0.58%) Life Science
17 8 (0.42%) Mobile App
17 8 (0.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.17%) Windows
2 7 (0.37%) Linux
3 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.053%) AIX
5 1 (0.053%) Android
5 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.053%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.053%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (25.96%) Migration
2 432 (22.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 333 (17.68%) Data Migration
4 304 (16.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 282 (14.97%) User Acceptance Testing
6 249 (13.22%) Agile
7 248 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
8 241 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 206 (10.93%) Validation
10 204 (10.83%) Change Management
11 184 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
12 180 (9.55%) Project Management
13 162 (8.60%) Data Modelling
14 155 (8.23%) CRM
15 148 (7.86%) Roadmaps
16 139 (7.38%) Procure-to-Pay
17 138 (7.32%) Analytics
18 122 (6.48%) Translating Business Requirements
19 120 (6.37%) Process Improvement
20 117 (6.21%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 164 (8.70%) SQL
2 65 (3.45%) Python
3 36 (1.91%) JavaScript
4 34 (1.80%) Java
5 33 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 25 (1.33%) C#
7 18 (0.96%) Apex Code
8 17 (0.90%) Ruby
9 15 (0.80%) X++
10 14 (0.74%) ABAP
11 11 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 10 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.27%) SOQL
14 5 (0.27%) SOSL
14 5 (0.27%) VBA
15 4 (0.21%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.16%) C++
16 3 (0.16%) Groovy
16 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 193 (10.24%) Security Cleared
2 140 (7.43%) SC Cleared
3 111 (5.89%) Degree
4 102 (5.41%) CIMA
5 96 (5.10%) ACCA
6 41 (2.18%) PMP
7 34 (1.80%) PMI Certification
8 29 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 16 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.48%) SAP Certification
13 8 (0.42%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.27%) CFA
16 4 (0.21%) CCAB
16 4 (0.21%) CISM
16 4 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 73 (3.87%) GDPR
3 71 (3.77%) QA
4 46 (2.44%) PMO
5 31 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 24 (1.27%) IFRS
7 19 (1.01%) SLA
8 18 (0.96%) GAAP
9 11 (0.58%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.42%) GxP
11 8 (0.42%) NCSC
12 7 (0.37%) GMP
13 6 (0.32%) GRC
13 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.21%) NIST
16 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
16 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (0.64%) Terraform
2 11 (0.58%) HP ALM
2 11 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.32%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.27%) Grafana
4 5 (0.27%) Kibana
5 3 (0.16%) Control-M
5 3 (0.16%) MOM
5 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.053%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.053%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.053%) SCCM
Vendors
1 583 (30.94%) SAP
2 518 (27.49%) Oracle
3 313 (16.61%) Microsoft
4 86 (4.56%) Workday
5 84 (4.46%) IFS
6 79 (4.19%) Salesforce
7 58 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.92%) Siemens
9 41 (2.18%) Databricks
10 37 (1.96%) Ariba
10 37 (1.96%) Sage
11 36 (1.91%) Infor
12 33 (1.75%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.80%) JD Edwards
14 14 (0.74%) Concur
14 14 (0.74%) Informatica
15 13 (0.69%) Google
16 12 (0.64%) Epicor
17 11 (0.58%) HP
18 8 (0.42%) Foundry