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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 97 90
Rank change year-on-year +39 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,771 779 1,021
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 2.67% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 2.93% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,000 485 644
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £457 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -1.38% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £732 £765 £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 110 23 29
10th Percentile £17.69 £52.75 £13.05
25th Percentile £30.00 £65.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +81.25% -38.15%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £87.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +81.25% -38.15%

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 40,059 26,552 37,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.94% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,139 17,089 23,891
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +2.93% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,402 1,086 2,440
10th Percentile £14.97 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +37 1,494 £548 +1.86% 646
UK excluding London +40 899 £525 +3.81% 492
London +40 643 £550 - 187
Work from Home +45 557 £540 -1.82% 308
South East +14 235 £550 - 136
North of England +31 203 £525 +16.67% 129
Midlands +7 160 £525 +5.00% 109
South West +20 122 £525 +5.00% 44
North West +34 111 £500 +2.25% 63
East of England +14 98 £575 -2.13% 51
West Midlands -14 97 £533 +6.50% 56
Yorkshire +4 80 £593 +48.13% 51
East Midlands +5 60 £515 +8.42% 51
Scotland +15 45 £513 +1.18% 14
Wales +13 25 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland +18 15 £475 +18.75% 15
North East -19 12 £500 +11.11% 16
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 19 (1.07%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 15 (0.85%) Confluence
4 14 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.34%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.28%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.28%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.23%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.17%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.056%) Documentum
10 1 (0.056%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.056%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 86 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.28%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 287 (16.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 121 (6.83%) Oracle ERP
3 60 (3.39%) SAP ERP
4 58 (3.27%) Oracle EBS
5 44 (2.48%) Oracle Payables
6 40 (2.26%) NetSuite
7 39 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
8 33 (1.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 31 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (0.96%) Shopify
11 16 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 15 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
13 14 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
13 14 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (0.79%) Workday HCM
14 12 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.68%) SAP FI
15 11 (0.62%) SAP MDG
15 11 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 213 (12.03%) Azure
2 192 (10.84%) Dynamics 365
3 154 (8.70%) OCI
4 145 (8.19%) Power Platform
5 97 (5.48%) SaaS
6 65 (3.67%) AWS
7 52 (2.94%) PaaS
8 50 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.81%) Boomi
10 28 (1.58%) Power Automate
11 27 (1.52%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
12 22 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.07%) GCP
13 19 (1.07%) IaaS
14 18 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 15 (0.85%) GitHub
16 15 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 13 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
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
1 108 (6.10%) Power BI
2 60 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
3 54 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (1.52%) 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 13 (0.73%) Metadata
9 11 (0.62%) Tableau
10 9 (0.51%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.40%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.34%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.23%) GIS
15 4 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 100 (5.65%) JIRA
2 31 (1.75%) Git
3 30 (1.69%) Postman
4 20 (1.13%) Hudson
5 10 (0.56%) SoapUI
6 8 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.40%) GitLab
7 7 (0.40%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.40%) Selenium
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.23%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) LSMW
12 1 (0.056%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.056%) TestRail
12 1 (0.056%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 908 (51.27%) Finance
2 487 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 239 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (9.32%) Manufacturing
5 126 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 83 (4.69%) Retail
7 68 (3.84%) Legal
8 61 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
9 50 (2.82%) Local Government
10 49 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 47 (2.65%) General Ledger
12 46 (2.60%) Law
13 36 (2.03%) Banking
14 31 (1.75%) Billing
15 29 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.19%) Military
18 18 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 17 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 294 (16.60%) Lead
2 253 (14.29%) Architect
3 233 (13.16%) Consultant
4 208 (11.74%) Analyst
5 176 (9.94%) Project Manager
6 159 (8.98%) Senior
7 118 (6.66%) Solutions Architect
8 105 (5.93%) Business Analyst
9 91 (5.14%) Developer
10 83 (4.69%) ERP Manager
11 59 (3.33%) Accountant
12 54 (3.05%) SAP Consultant
13 51 (2.88%) Senior Manager
14 50 (2.82%) Financial Analyst
14 50 (2.82%) Implementation Consultant
15 49 (2.77%) Oracle Consultant
15 49 (2.77%) SAP Manager
16 44 (2.48%) Programme Manager
17 43 (2.43%) Systems Accountant
18 38 (2.15%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (11.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 99 (5.59%) REST
3 79 (4.46%) Middleware
4 59 (3.33%) SOAP
5 49 (2.77%) JSON
6 44 (2.48%) XML
7 34 (1.92%) Web Services
8 24 (1.36%) OAuth
9 21 (1.19%) XSLT
10 17 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
11 16 (0.90%) .NET
12 15 (0.85%) JWT
12 15 (0.85%) Node.js
13 14 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
14 13 (0.73%) EDI
15 11 (0.62%) PySpark
16 9 (0.51%) HTML
16 9 (0.51%) RESTful
17 8 (0.45%) Kafka
17 8 (0.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
2 61 (3.44%) Data Structures
3 43 (2.43%) Management Information System
4 41 (2.32%) Public Cloud
5 39 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 29 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 29 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 24 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.30%) FMCG
9 22 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.02%) IoT
11 16 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.73%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.73%) Life Science
15 12 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (0.56%) SCADA
16 10 (0.56%) Virtual Team
17 9 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.07%) Windows
2 6 (0.34%) Linux
3 3 (0.17%) Unix
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (25.92%) Migration
2 380 (21.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 298 (16.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 292 (16.49%) Data Migration
5 265 (14.96%) Agile
6 261 (14.74%) User Acceptance Testing
7 242 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
8 208 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 194 (10.95%) Change Management
10 190 (10.73%) Project Management
11 189 (10.67%) Validation
12 163 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
13 155 (8.75%) CRM
14 140 (7.91%) Data Modelling
15 138 (7.79%) Procure-to-Pay
16 130 (7.34%) Roadmaps
17 116 (6.55%) Analytics
18 115 (6.49%) Project Delivery
19 113 (6.38%) DevOps
20 109 (6.15%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 146 (8.24%) SQL
2 49 (2.77%) Python
3 39 (2.20%) PL/SQL
4 32 (1.81%) Java
5 28 (1.58%) C#
6 25 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.90%) Apex Code
8 14 (0.79%) Ruby
9 11 (0.62%) ABAP
9 11 (0.62%) X++
10 9 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.28%) SOQL
12 5 (0.28%) SOSL
12 5 (0.28%) VBA
13 4 (0.23%) Perl
14 3 (0.17%) C++
14 3 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 201 (11.35%) Security Cleared
2 151 (8.53%) SC Cleared
3 128 (7.23%) Degree
4 101 (5.70%) CIMA
5 92 (5.19%) ACCA
6 49 (2.77%) PMP
7 41 (2.32%) PMI Certification
8 18 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 15 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.62%) SAP Certification
12 9 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.45%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.40%) APMP
15 6 (0.34%) Azure Certification
16 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.28%) OCA
16 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.87%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.52%) QA
3 74 (4.18%) GDPR
4 51 (2.88%) PMO
5 29 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.07%) 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
13 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
13 6 (0.34%) NIST
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 7 (0.40%) 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
1 556 (31.39%) SAP
2 492 (27.78%) Oracle
3 283 (15.98%) Microsoft
4 92 (5.19%) Workday
5 71 (4.01%) IFS
5 71 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 54 (3.05%) Siemens
7 46 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 39 (2.20%) Databricks
9 37 (2.09%) Ariba
10 35 (1.98%) MuleSoft
11 31 (1.75%) Sage
12 30 (1.69%) Infor
13 15 (0.85%) Informatica
14 9 (0.51%) Google
14 9 (0.51%) HP
14 9 (0.51%) JD Edwards
15 8 (0.45%) Foundry
16 7 (0.40%) Dell
16 7 (0.40%) Talend