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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 94 94
Rank change year-on-year +32 0 +28
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,668 788 1,023
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.63% 2.69% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 2.97% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 462 648
10th Percentile £363 £358 £357
25th Percentile £463 £440 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 20 29
10th Percentile £17.74 £47.29 £13.05
25th Percentile £30.00 £65.94 £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £41.23
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +75.84% -34.03%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £60.08 £87.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -20.69% +130.16% -51.29%

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 39,056 26,574 37,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.71% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,707 17,203 24,522
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,310 1,024 2,401
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.83
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +31.90% -12.29% -8.47%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +31 1,389 £550 +2.33% 707
UK excluding London +35 831 £525 +5.00% 559
London +38 610 £550 - 199
Work from Home +44 546 £540 +2.37% 359
South East +8 204 £525 -4.55% 152
North of England +33 197 £550 +25.71% 142
Midlands -16 141 £540 +8.00% 128
South West +18 121 £525 +10.53% 57
North West +38 117 £500 +2.41% 77
West Midlands -19 92 £565 +13.00% 78
East of England 0 86 £550 -8.33% 56
Yorkshire -9 68 £595 +48.75% 54
Scotland +27 48 £519 +3.75% 24
East Midlands -10 48 £500 +5.26% 50
Wales +7 23 £475 -34.48% 5
Northern Ireland +13 16 £475 +18.75% 8
North East -16 12 £500 +11.11% 13
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 15 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
2 14 (0.84%) Confluence
2 14 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 13 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.30%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.30%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.24%) Apache
6 4 (0.24%) CMS
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.18%) Documentum
7 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.060%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 77 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.30%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.060%) InVision
9 1 (0.060%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 254 (15.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (6.59%) Oracle ERP
3 64 (3.84%) Oracle EBS
3 64 (3.84%) SAP ERP
4 48 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 42 (2.52%) Oracle Payables
6 34 (2.04%) NetSuite
7 30 (1.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 27 (1.62%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (1.08%) Shopify
10 17 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 15 (0.90%) Oracle EBS R12
12 15 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
13 13 (0.78%) SAP FI
13 13 (0.78%) SAP PP
13 13 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
13 13 (0.78%) Workday HCM
14 12 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
15 11 (0.66%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 213 (12.77%) Azure
2 183 (10.97%) Dynamics 365
3 157 (9.41%) OCI
4 136 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 93 (5.58%) SaaS
6 61 (3.66%) AWS
7 50 (3.00%) PaaS
8 40 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (1.80%) Boomi
10 26 (1.56%) Power Automate
10 26 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
11 25 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 21 (1.26%) GCP
13 19 (1.14%) IaaS
14 18 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
18 13 (0.78%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.18%) FTP
1 3 (0.18%) LAN
2 2 (0.12%) 5G
2 2 (0.12%) Firewall
3 1 (0.060%) DHCP
3 1 (0.060%) DNS
3 1 (0.060%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.060%) HTTP
3 1 (0.060%) Intranet
3 1 (0.060%) Modbus
3 1 (0.060%) RFID
3 1 (0.060%) SMS
3 1 (0.060%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.060%) VoIP
3 1 (0.060%) VPN
3 1 (0.060%) WAN
3 1 (0.060%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (6.53%) Power BI
2 68 (4.08%) Oracle Reports
3 54 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.68%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 23 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 22 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
7 19 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.66%) Metadata
8 11 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.54%) Tableau
10 8 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.48%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.42%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.36%) GIS
13 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.30%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.24%) Power Query
14 4 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 88 (5.28%) JIRA
2 29 (1.74%) Postman
3 22 (1.32%) Git
4 17 (1.02%) Hudson
5 10 (0.60%) SoapUI
6 9 (0.54%) GitLab
7 7 (0.42%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.42%) Selenium
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.30%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.18%) LSMW
11 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.12%) Gradle
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.12%) TestRail
12 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 873 (52.34%) Finance
2 497 (29.80%) Social Skills
3 238 (14.27%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.63%) Manufacturing
5 133 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 76 (4.56%) Retail
7 62 (3.72%) Legal
8 60 (3.60%) Local Government
9 57 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.70%) General Ledger
11 45 (2.70%) Law
11 45 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 38 (2.28%) Banking
13 26 (1.56%) Billing
14 25 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.20%) Marketing
15 20 (1.20%) Military
16 19 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 276 (16.55%) Lead
2 233 (13.97%) Architect
3 232 (13.91%) Consultant
4 190 (11.39%) Analyst
5 157 (9.41%) Project Manager
6 143 (8.57%) Senior
7 117 (7.01%) Solutions Architect
8 105 (6.29%) Business Analyst
9 85 (5.10%) Developer
10 75 (4.50%) ERP Manager
11 55 (3.30%) Accountant
12 53 (3.18%) SAP Consultant
13 51 (3.06%) Implementation Consultant
13 51 (3.06%) SAP Manager
14 46 (2.76%) Financial Analyst
14 46 (2.76%) Senior Manager
15 43 (2.58%) Oracle Consultant
16 38 (2.28%) Systems Accountant
17 37 (2.22%) Transformation Manager
18 36 (2.16%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (11.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 87 (5.22%) REST
3 70 (4.20%) Middleware
4 59 (3.54%) SOAP
5 50 (3.00%) XML
6 46 (2.76%) JSON
7 42 (2.52%) Web Services
8 24 (1.44%) OAuth
9 23 (1.38%) XSLT
10 20 (1.20%) .NET
11 16 (0.96%) JWT
11 16 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
12 11 (0.66%) EDI
12 11 (0.66%) PySpark
13 9 (0.54%) Node.js
14 8 (0.48%) Kafka
14 8 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
15 7 (0.42%) ADO
15 7 (0.42%) SAPUI5
16 6 (0.36%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (3.42%) Data Structures
3 46 (2.76%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.28%) Product Ownership
5 32 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 31 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.56%) Cloud Native
9 21 (1.26%) IoT
10 18 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (0.84%) FMCG
13 13 (0.78%) AI Agents
14 12 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.60%) Life Science
15 10 (0.60%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.48%) LIMS
16 8 (0.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.90%) Windows
2 6 (0.36%) Linux
3 3 (0.18%) Unix
4 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (26.80%) Migration
2 345 (20.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 287 (17.21%) Data Migration
3 287 (17.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 254 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
5 245 (14.69%) User Acceptance Testing
6 236 (14.15%) Agile
7 189 (11.33%) Change Management
8 186 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 184 (11.03%) Validation
10 179 (10.73%) Project Management
11 165 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
12 154 (9.23%) CRM
13 130 (7.79%) Data Modelling
14 124 (7.43%) Procure-to-Pay
15 118 (7.07%) Roadmaps
16 115 (6.89%) Project Delivery
17 110 (6.59%) DevOps
18 105 (6.29%) Analytics
19 97 (5.82%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.63%) SQL
2 47 (2.82%) Python
3 41 (2.46%) PL/SQL
4 31 (1.86%) Java
5 27 (1.62%) C#
6 17 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.72%) Ruby
8 11 (0.66%) ABAP
9 10 (0.60%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.30%) Korn
12 5 (0.30%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.30%) VBA
12 5 (0.30%) X++
13 4 (0.24%) Perl
14 3 (0.18%) C++
14 3 (0.18%) SOQL
14 3 (0.18%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 199 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 147 (8.81%) SC Cleared
3 135 (8.09%) Degree
4 101 (6.06%) CIMA
5 90 (5.40%) ACCA
6 47 (2.82%) PMP
7 40 (2.40%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
11 13 (0.78%) SAP Certification
12 10 (0.60%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.54%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.42%) APMP
14 7 (0.42%) OCA
15 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 84 (5.04%) QA
3 68 (4.08%) GDPR
4 53 (3.18%) PMO
5 27 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.14%) IFRS
7 17 (1.02%) GAAP
8 15 (0.90%) SLA
9 11 (0.66%) GxP
10 10 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.54%) NIST
12 7 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.42%) GMP
13 6 (0.36%) NCSC
14 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.30%) IFRS 17
14 5 (0.30%) ITGC
14 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.060%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (0.54%) HP ALM
2 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.24%) Terraform
4 3 (0.18%) Control-M
4 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.12%) MOM
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.060%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.060%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.060%) Kibana
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.060%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 509 (30.52%) SAP
2 475 (28.48%) Oracle
3 273 (16.37%) Microsoft
4 90 (5.40%) Workday
5 62 (3.72%) Salesforce
6 60 (3.60%) IFS
7 51 (3.06%) Siemens
8 41 (2.46%) Databricks
9 38 (2.28%) Ariba
9 38 (2.28%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.04%) Sage
11 32 (1.92%) MuleSoft
12 20 (1.20%) Infor
13 16 (0.96%) Informatica
14 9 (0.54%) Foundry
14 9 (0.54%) Google
14 9 (0.54%) HP
14 9 (0.54%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.42%) Talend
16 6 (0.36%) Concur