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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 89 89
Rank change year-on-year +26 0 +29
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,561 808 1,065
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.55% 2.78% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 3.07% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 471 675
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £461 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £645 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 19 40
10th Percentile £18.27 £17.26 £14.15
25th Percentile £26.55 £65.00 £28.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £86.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £77.50 £90.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +75.00% -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 37,733 26,318 38,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 90.56% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 17,091 24,889
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,221 949 2,344
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.19 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.52 £31.80
% change year-on-year -4.82% -0.88% -12.28%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +22 1,318 £550 +2.33% 750
UK excluding London +32 771 £525 +5.00% 619
London +25 583 £551 +0.18% 210
Work from Home +30 527 £550 - 347
South East +2 186 £550 - 200
North of England +30 182 £538 +17.81% 135
Midlands -15 136 £525 +5.00% 113
South West +16 115 £525 +13.26% 64
North West +37 113 £500 +2.41% 65
West Midlands -20 92 £565 +13.00% 79
East of England +3 84 £529 -6.00% 69
Yorkshire -10 60 £595 +48.75% 59
East Midlands -16 43 £500 +5.26% 34
Scotland +28 37 £519 +6.41% 29
Wales +9 22 £500 -31.03% 10
Northern Ireland +8 14 £475 +18.75% 11
North East -16 9 £500 - 15
Channel Islands - 1 - - 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 (1.22%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.02%) Confluence
3 14 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
4 13 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (0.45%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.32%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.32%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.26%) Apache
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.19%) Documentum
8 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.13%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.13%) CMS
9 2 (0.13%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 68 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 23 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.32%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 4 (0.26%) Windchill
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.064%) InVision
9 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 233 (14.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 98 (6.28%) Oracle ERP
3 66 (4.23%) Oracle EBS
4 62 (3.97%) SAP ERP
5 49 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 45 (2.88%) Oracle Payables
7 35 (2.24%) NetSuite
8 30 (1.92%) Oracle Receivables
9 27 (1.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 18 (1.15%) Oracle Assets
10 18 (1.15%) Shopify
11 17 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
12 16 (1.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 16 (1.02%) Workday HCM
13 15 (0.96%) Oracle EBS R12
14 13 (0.83%) SAP PP
15 12 (0.77%) Oracle Cash Management
15 12 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
16 11 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
16 11 (0.70%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 215 (13.77%) Azure
2 183 (11.72%) Dynamics 365
3 152 (9.74%) OCI
4 127 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 88 (5.64%) SaaS
6 61 (3.91%) AWS
7 47 (3.01%) PaaS
8 44 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (1.99%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.86%) PowerApps
11 25 (1.60%) Boomi
12 24 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
12 24 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
13 21 (1.35%) GCP
14 18 (1.15%) IaaS
15 17 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
16 15 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (0.90%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.19%) LAN
2 2 (0.13%) 5G
2 2 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.064%) DHCP
3 1 (0.064%) DNS
3 1 (0.064%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.064%) HTTP
3 1 (0.064%) Intranet
3 1 (0.064%) Modbus
3 1 (0.064%) Network Security
3 1 (0.064%) RFID
3 1 (0.064%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.064%) VoIP
3 1 (0.064%) VPN
3 1 (0.064%) WAN
3 1 (0.064%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (6.34%) Power BI
2 65 (4.16%) Oracle Reports
3 55 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (1.86%) Data Lake
5 21 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 18 (1.15%) Oracle ODI
8 16 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.70%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.58%) SAP HANA
12 8 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.51%) GIS
12 8 (0.51%) Tableau
13 7 (0.45%) Metadata
13 7 (0.45%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.32%) Power Query
15 4 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
16 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 75 (4.80%) JIRA
2 29 (1.86%) Postman
3 24 (1.54%) Git
4 14 (0.90%) Hudson
5 10 (0.64%) SoapUI
6 8 (0.51%) GitLab
7 7 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.38%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.38%) Selenium
9 5 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.19%) LSMW
12 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.13%) Gradle
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.13%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.13%) TestRail
12 2 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
13 1 (0.064%) MLflow
General
1 807 (51.70%) Finance
2 495 (31.71%) Social Skills
3 216 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 131 (8.39%) Manufacturing
6 69 (4.42%) Retail
7 61 (3.91%) Local Government
8 55 (3.52%) Legal
9 51 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
10 46 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 41 (2.63%) General Ledger
13 38 (2.43%) Banking
14 34 (2.18%) Law
15 25 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (1.47%) Marketing
18 21 (1.35%) Billing
19 18 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 17 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 234 (14.99%) Consultant
2 233 (14.93%) Lead
3 219 (14.03%) Architect
4 171 (10.95%) Analyst
5 152 (9.74%) Project Manager
6 134 (8.58%) Senior
7 107 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
8 101 (6.47%) Business Analyst
9 80 (5.12%) Developer
10 68 (4.36%) ERP Manager
11 54 (3.46%) SAP Consultant
12 52 (3.33%) SAP Manager
13 50 (3.20%) Implementation Consultant
14 48 (3.07%) Accountant
15 40 (2.56%) Financial Analyst
16 38 (2.43%) Senior Manager
17 37 (2.37%) Systems Accountant
18 35 (2.24%) Oracle Consultant
18 35 (2.24%) Test Manager
19 33 (2.11%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (12.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 87 (5.57%) REST
3 67 (4.29%) Middleware
4 60 (3.84%) SOAP
5 49 (3.14%) XML
6 44 (2.82%) JSON
6 44 (2.82%) Web Services
7 25 (1.60%) OAuth
8 22 (1.41%) XSLT
9 20 (1.28%) .NET
10 16 (1.02%) JWT
11 12 (0.77%) PySpark
11 12 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
12 10 (0.64%) EDI
13 8 (0.51%) ADO
13 8 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
13 8 (0.51%) Node.js
14 7 (0.45%) Kafka
14 7 (0.45%) SAPUI5
15 6 (0.38%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (3.52%) Data Structures
3 45 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 31 (1.99%) Product Ownership
5 28 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (1.60%) Public Cloud
7 23 (1.47%) Cloud Native
8 21 (1.35%) IoT
9 20 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.02%) FMCG
10 16 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (0.96%) AI Agents
11 15 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.58%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.51%) Life Science
16 8 (0.51%) LIMS
16 8 (0.51%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.02%) Windows
2 7 (0.45%) Linux
3 3 (0.19%) Unix
4 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (26.46%) Migration
2 302 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (17.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 261 (16.72%) Data Migration
5 248 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
6 223 (14.29%) Agile
7 210 (13.45%) User Acceptance Testing
8 178 (11.40%) Project Management
9 166 (10.63%) Validation
10 165 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 164 (10.51%) Change Management
12 152 (9.74%) CRM
13 150 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
14 114 (7.30%) Data Modelling
15 113 (7.24%) Project Delivery
16 112 (7.17%) DevOps
17 109 (6.98%) Roadmaps
18 105 (6.73%) Procure-to-Pay
19 98 (6.28%) Analytics
20 95 (6.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 136 (8.71%) SQL
2 48 (3.07%) Python
3 41 (2.63%) PL/SQL
4 30 (1.92%) Java
5 28 (1.79%) C#
6 19 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.77%) Ruby
8 10 (0.64%) ABAP
8 10 (0.64%) Apex Code
9 7 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.38%) VBA
10 6 (0.38%) X++
11 5 (0.32%) Korn
11 5 (0.32%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.26%) Perl
13 3 (0.19%) C++
13 3 (0.19%) PHP
13 3 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 201 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 147 (9.42%) SC Cleared
3 137 (8.78%) Degree
4 91 (5.83%) CIMA
5 79 (5.06%) ACCA
6 45 (2.88%) PMP
7 40 (2.56%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
11 14 (0.90%) SAP Certification
12 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.64%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.58%) DV Cleared
14 9 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.45%) APMP
15 7 (0.45%) OCA
16 6 (0.38%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 78 (5.00%) QA
3 59 (3.78%) GDPR
4 55 (3.52%) PMO
5 28 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.15%) GAAP
6 18 (1.15%) IFRS
7 15 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.90%) SLA
9 11 (0.70%) NIST
10 10 (0.64%) GxP
10 10 (0.64%) ITGC
11 9 (0.58%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.51%) COBIT
13 7 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.45%) GMP
13 7 (0.45%) SOX 404
14 6 (0.38%) IFRS 17
14 6 (0.38%) NCSC
15 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.26%) Docker
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.064%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (0.51%) HP ALM
2 6 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.32%) Terraform
4 3 (0.19%) Control-M
5 2 (0.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.13%) MOM
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.064%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.064%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.064%) Kibana
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.064%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 467 (29.92%) SAP
2 451 (28.89%) Oracle
3 268 (17.17%) Microsoft
4 87 (5.57%) Workday
5 60 (3.84%) Salesforce
6 52 (3.33%) IFS
7 51 (3.27%) Siemens
8 36 (2.31%) Databricks
9 34 (2.18%) Sage
10 32 (2.05%) Ariba
11 31 (1.99%) MuleSoft
12 29 (1.86%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.09%) Infor
14 16 (1.02%) Informatica
15 10 (0.64%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.58%) Foundry
17 8 (0.51%) Adobe
17 8 (0.51%) HP
18 6 (0.38%) Epicor
18 6 (0.38%) Google