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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 78 91
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 0
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,914 1,054 942
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.48% 3.20% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 3.54% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 634 511
10th Percentile £370 £337 £363
25th Percentile £463 £457 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £511
% change year-on-year - +2.69% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 43 36
10th Percentile £13.98 £6.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £13.82 £28.00
Median hourly rate £23.18 £17.00 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +36.35% -51.92% -58.28%
75th Percentile £30.22 £30.25 £66.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £73.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £15.66 £41.43
% change year-on-year +48.02% -62.20% -36.38%

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 46,512 29,792 32,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.69% 90.47% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,938 18,529 19,417
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,382 1,881 1,250
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.54 £65.14 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.83%

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ERP in the UK

ERP
Top 17 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 13 October 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 +4 1,593 £550 - 1,553
UK excluding London +20 1,007 £525 - 887
London -3 627 £600 +4.35% 745
Work from Home -2 541 £550 +2.33% 675
North of England +49 275 £525 +2.44% 229
Midlands +21 232 £525 - 160
South East -18 231 £525 +1.94% 195
North West +15 156 £525 +2.44% 108
West Midlands +15 138 £525 - 98
Yorkshire +43 100 £450 -14.29% 79
East of England -3 97 £500 -7.62% 81
East Midlands +13 84 £525 - 62
South West -30 82 £575 -4.17% 83
Scotland -11 54 £525 +5.00% 95
Wales +3 22 £475 +46.15% 14
Northern Ireland +16 19 £450 +28.57% 47
North East -25 19 £538 +19.44% 46

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 41 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
3 19 (0.99%) Confluence
4 10 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.42%) CMS
6 5 (0.26%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.26%) SAS
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.21%) WebLogic Portal
8 3 (0.16%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.16%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.10%) SAP EP
9 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.052%) Ethereum
Applications
1 108 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.68%) Windchill
7 10 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.10%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 267 (13.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 142 (7.42%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.50%) Oracle Payables
4 65 (3.40%) SAP ERP
5 60 (3.13%) NetSuite
6 56 (2.93%) Oracle Receivables
7 47 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
8 37 (1.93%) Oracle General Ledger
8 37 (1.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 35 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
10 30 (1.57%) Oracle Financials
11 25 (1.31%) Oracle Assets
12 23 (1.20%) SAP MDG
13 20 (1.04%) Teamcenter
14 17 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
14 17 (0.89%) Workday HCM
15 16 (0.84%) SAP FI
15 16 (0.84%) SAP MM
16 13 (0.68%) Infor CloudSuite
17 12 (0.63%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 221 (11.55%) Azure
2 174 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 162 (8.46%) Power Platform
4 122 (6.37%) OCI
4 122 (6.37%) SaaS
5 73 (3.81%) AWS
6 72 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (2.14%) GCP
9 36 (1.88%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
11 28 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
12 27 (1.41%) PowerApps
13 25 (1.31%) PaaS
14 23 (1.20%) Boomi
15 22 (1.15%) Entra ID
16 20 (1.04%) GitHub
17 16 (0.84%) Serverless
18 15 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
18 15 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.63%) HTTP
2 10 (0.52%) Network Security
3 5 (0.26%) SSL
4 4 (0.21%) FTP
5 3 (0.16%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) DMZ
6 2 (0.10%) DNS
6 2 (0.10%) MQTT
6 2 (0.10%) VPN
7 1 (0.052%) 5G
7 1 (0.052%) Intranet
7 1 (0.052%) LAN
7 1 (0.052%) RFID
7 1 (0.052%) SMS
7 1 (0.052%) SMTP
7 1 (0.052%) WAN
7 1 (0.052%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (5.33%) Power BI
2 60 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
4 25 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 22 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 22 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 22 (1.15%) Tableau
6 17 (0.89%) Relational Database
7 15 (0.78%) Metadata
8 13 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
8 13 (0.68%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.52%) SAP HANA
10 9 (0.47%) Power Query
11 7 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.37%) Oracle ODI
11 7 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.31%) GIS
12 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 104 (5.43%) JIRA
2 33 (1.72%) Git
3 13 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (0.68%) Visual Studio
4 10 (0.52%) Postman
5 8 (0.42%) Hudson
6 7 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.31%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.21%) Flyway
9 3 (0.16%) MLflow
10 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.10%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
10 2 (0.10%) TestRail
11 1 (0.052%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.052%) JDeveloper
General
1 950 (49.63%) Finance
2 599 (31.30%) Social Skills
3 272 (14.21%) Manufacturing
4 240 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
5 176 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 107 (5.59%) Retail
7 88 (4.60%) General Ledger
8 82 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
9 76 (3.97%) Billing
10 71 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (2.61%) Banking
12 42 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
13 39 (2.04%) Legal
14 37 (1.93%) Local Government
15 32 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.52%) Aerospace
17 28 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 27 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (1.20%) Marketing
20 21 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 311 (16.25%) Lead
2 287 (14.99%) Architect
3 233 (12.17%) Consultant
4 226 (11.81%) Analyst
5 138 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
6 134 (7.00%) Senior
7 125 (6.53%) Project Manager
8 118 (6.17%) Business Analyst
9 92 (4.81%) Developer
10 88 (4.60%) Oracle Consultant
11 70 (3.66%) Administrator
12 62 (3.24%) ERP Manager
13 59 (3.08%) Accountant
14 58 (3.03%) Functional Consultant
15 42 (2.19%) Data Analyst
16 41 (2.14%) Finance Manager
16 41 (2.14%) Financial Analyst
16 41 (2.14%) Programme Manager
17 37 (1.93%) SAP Manager
17 37 (1.93%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (12.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 130 (6.79%) REST
3 113 (5.90%) Middleware
4 79 (4.13%) SOAP
5 51 (2.66%) XML
6 45 (2.35%) JSON
6 45 (2.35%) Web Services
7 31 (1.62%) .NET
8 30 (1.57%) OAuth
9 25 (1.31%) OAuth2
10 21 (1.10%) EDI
10 21 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
11 18 (0.94%) Terraform
12 14 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (0.73%) XSLT
13 12 (0.63%) CSS
13 12 (0.63%) HTML
13 12 (0.63%) IDoc
13 12 (0.63%) Node.js
14 11 (0.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
2 69 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
2 69 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 64 (3.34%) Data Structures
4 60 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 58 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.04%) FMCG
7 29 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 26 (1.36%) Life Science
8 26 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.31%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.04%) AI Agents
11 17 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (0.89%) Low-Code
12 16 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.78%) Operational Technology
14 14 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (0.73%) Manufacturing Execution System
15 13 (0.68%) SCADA
16 12 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.57%) Windows
2 11 (0.57%) Linux
3 9 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 5 (0.26%) Android
5 5 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.052%) AIX
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (32.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 457 (23.88%) Migration
3 344 (17.97%) Data Migration
4 286 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
5 281 (14.68%) Agile
6 274 (14.32%) User Acceptance Testing
7 258 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 246 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 214 (11.18%) Validation
10 196 (10.24%) Process Improvement
11 189 (9.87%) Roadmaps
12 187 (9.77%) CRM
13 180 (9.40%) Change Management
14 172 (8.99%) Analytics
15 155 (8.10%) Workshop Facilitation
16 150 (7.84%) Data Modelling
17 149 (7.78%) Project Delivery
18 145 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
19 135 (7.05%) Requirements Gathering
20 133 (6.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 184 (9.61%) SQL
2 60 (3.13%) Python
3 37 (1.93%) JavaScript
4 33 (1.72%) C#
5 30 (1.57%) Java
6 24 (1.25%) PL/SQL
7 20 (1.04%) X++
8 18 (0.94%) ABAP
9 14 (0.73%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.52%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.42%) Groovy
11 8 (0.42%) Ruby
12 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.26%) C++
14 4 (0.21%) PHP
15 3 (0.16%) Rust
15 3 (0.16%) SOQL
15 3 (0.16%) SOSL
16 2 (0.10%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 262 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 196 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 120 (6.27%) Degree
4 79 (4.13%) ACCA
5 75 (3.92%) CIMA
6 54 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.04%) PMP
8 38 (1.99%) PMI Certification
9 35 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.57%) APMG
13 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.47%) CISSP
14 9 (0.47%) SAP Certification
15 8 (0.42%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.37%) CISM
16 7 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 66 (3.45%) QA
3 53 (2.77%) PMO
4 52 (2.72%) GDPR
5 25 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 24 (1.25%) IFRS
6 24 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.99%) GRC
8 17 (0.89%) NCSC
9 16 (0.84%) GAAP
10 14 (0.73%) GMP
11 12 (0.63%) GxP
12 10 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 9 (0.47%) SLA
14 8 (0.42%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 7 (0.37%) NIST
16 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.37%) Docker
3 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.052%) Firmware
5 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.26%) SCCM
4 4 (0.21%) Kibana
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.052%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.052%) MOM
6 1 (0.052%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 628 (32.81%) SAP
2 530 (27.69%) Oracle
3 377 (19.70%) Microsoft
4 92 (4.81%) Salesforce
5 83 (4.34%) Workday
6 77 (4.02%) ServiceNow
7 57 (2.98%) IFS
8 50 (2.61%) Ariba
9 36 (1.88%) Infor
10 35 (1.83%) Sage
11 31 (1.62%) JD Edwards
12 25 (1.31%) Siemens
13 23 (1.20%) Databricks
13 23 (1.20%) MuleSoft
14 20 (1.04%) Google
15 18 (0.94%) Concur
15 18 (0.94%) IBM
16 16 (0.84%) SYSPRO
17 15 (0.78%) PTC
18 12 (0.63%) Dell