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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 89 92
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,225 947 1,127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.36% 2.63% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 3.01% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 505 688
10th Percentile £350 £359 £380
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +3.29%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £730 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 27 31
10th Percentile £6.00 £16.04 £55.00
25th Percentile £14.75 £28.00 £61.04
Median hourly rate £22.25 £35.36 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.08% -58.40% +172.87%
75th Percentile £30.69 £72.50 £89.50
90th Percentile £51.02 £75.00 £93.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £45.93 £65.13
% change year-on-year -53.19% -29.47% +169.61%

All Process and 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 32,432 31,463 40,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.97% 87.43% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,408 19,089 26,807
10th Percentile £300 £309 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 1,098 1,556
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.24 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +11 1,061 £550 +3.19% 1,391
UK excluding London +3 621 £525 +3.96% 1,333
London +25 469 £575 +4.55% 211
Work from Home +22 399 £525 -4.55% 602
South East +39 169 £515 +3.00% 380
North of England -30 119 £525 +5.00% 308
Midlands -27 117 £550 +4.76% 251
North West +15 92 £513 +2.50% 145
South West +3 92 £575 +11.45% 129
West Midlands -30 74 £575 +9.52% 151
East of England +18 70 £529 +7.91% 192
Scotland +24 44 £500 +8.11% 45
East Midlands -9 43 £525 -12.50% 87
Yorkshire -53 24 £550 +29.41% 145
Northern Ireland +4 10 £350 - 22
Wales +6 9 £395 -39.23% 31
North East -9 3 £500 +5.26% 21
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 (2.12%) Confluence
2 20 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
4 11 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.49%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.33%) CMS
6 4 (0.33%) Documentum
6 4 (0.33%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.24%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.16%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.082%) Apache
9 1 (0.082%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.082%) Camunda
9 1 (0.082%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.082%) SAS
Applications
1 78 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (2.37%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.41%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) InVision
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.16%) Sketch
8 2 (0.16%) Windchill
9 1 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.082%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.082%) Notion
Business Applications
1 165 (13.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 87 (7.10%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (5.47%) SAP ERP
4 45 (3.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 45 (3.67%) Oracle EBS
5 40 (3.27%) NetSuite
5 40 (3.27%) Oracle Payables
6 28 (2.29%) Oracle General Ledger
7 26 (2.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 22 (1.80%) Oracle Assets
9 18 (1.47%) SAP EWM
10 16 (1.31%) Oracle EBS R12
11 15 (1.22%) Oracle Cash Management
11 15 (1.22%) Unit4 Business World
12 14 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 14 (1.14%) Oracle SCM
13 13 (1.06%) SAP PP
13 13 (1.06%) SAP WM
14 11 (0.90%) Workday HCM
15 9 (0.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 150 (12.24%) Azure
2 121 (9.88%) OCI
3 115 (9.39%) Dynamics 365
4 101 (8.24%) Power Platform
5 99 (8.08%) SaaS
6 33 (2.69%) AWS
7 29 (2.37%) PaaS
8 24 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (1.63%) Lucidchart
10 20 (1.63%) PowerApps
10 20 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
11 18 (1.47%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
13 16 (1.31%) Boomi
14 15 (1.22%) Tricentis Tosca
15 14 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (1.06%) Entra ID
17 12 (0.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.082%) DKIM
2 1 (0.082%) DMARC
2 1 (0.082%) Internet
2 1 (0.082%) LAN
2 1 (0.082%) Network Security
2 1 (0.082%) SAN
2 1 (0.082%) VPN
2 1 (0.082%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.53%) Power BI
2 57 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
3 33 (2.69%) SQL Server
4 31 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (2.12%) Oracle Database
6 24 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.47%) SAP HANA
8 16 (1.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 11 (0.90%) Power Query
9 11 (0.90%) Tableau
10 10 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.65%) SAP BW
12 7 (0.57%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.49%) GIS
13 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.41%) Metadata
14 5 (0.41%) Oracle ODI
15 4 (0.33%) Oracle BI EE
16 3 (0.24%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 68 (5.55%) JIRA
2 15 (1.22%) Postman
3 13 (1.06%) GitLab
4 9 (0.73%) Git
5 6 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.33%) Selenium
7 3 (0.24%) Hudson
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.24%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.16%) LSMW
8 2 (0.16%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.16%) TestRail
9 1 (0.082%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.082%) MLflow
9 1 (0.082%) QADirector
9 1 (0.082%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 588 (48.00%) Finance
2 448 (36.57%) Social Skills
3 165 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (11.51%) Manufacturing
5 133 (10.86%) Public Sector
6 48 (3.92%) Local Government
7 46 (3.76%) Retail
8 45 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 43 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (3.27%) General Ledger
11 38 (3.10%) Legal
12 37 (3.02%) Banking
13 34 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (2.12%) Billing
17 23 (1.88%) Marketing
18 17 (1.39%) Telecoms
19 16 (1.31%) Aerospace
20 13 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 170 (13.88%) Consultant
2 161 (13.14%) Analyst
3 132 (10.78%) Lead
4 129 (10.53%) Architect
5 123 (10.04%) Project Manager
6 82 (6.69%) Senior
7 75 (6.12%) Business Analyst
8 60 (4.90%) Developer
9 58 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
10 46 (3.76%) SAP Consultant
11 40 (3.27%) SAP Manager
12 39 (3.18%) ERP Manager
13 34 (2.78%) Functional Consultant
13 34 (2.78%) Oracle Consultant
14 30 (2.45%) ERP Analyst
15 27 (2.20%) Oracle Developer
16 26 (2.12%) Administrator
16 26 (2.12%) ERP Project Manager
17 25 (2.04%) Accountant
17 25 (2.04%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (13.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 59 (4.82%) REST
3 39 (3.18%) SOAP
4 34 (2.78%) Web Services
5 33 (2.69%) Middleware
6 29 (2.37%) XML
7 27 (2.20%) JSON
8 16 (1.31%) .NET
8 16 (1.31%) EDI
9 13 (1.06%) OAuth
10 12 (0.98%) XSLT
11 9 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.65%) HTML
13 7 (0.57%) ADO
14 5 (0.41%) CSS
15 4 (0.33%) JWT
15 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (0.33%) SAP Basis
16 3 (0.24%) IDoc
16 3 (0.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 64 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
2 45 (3.67%) Management Information System
3 35 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 31 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 18 (1.47%) Life Science
7 17 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.22%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.06%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 12 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (0.98%) AS400
10 12 (0.98%) IoT
11 11 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (0.82%) FMCG
13 9 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.73%) Synthetic Data
14 8 (0.65%) e-Learning
14 8 (0.65%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.49%) Windows
2 5 (0.41%) Unix
3 2 (0.16%) Android
3 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.16%) Linux
4 1 (0.082%) AIX
4 1 (0.082%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (22.61%) Migration
2 227 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
3 223 (18.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 217 (17.71%) Agile
5 206 (16.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 184 (15.02%) Data Migration
7 152 (12.41%) CRM
8 123 (10.04%) Change Management
8 123 (10.04%) Project Management
8 123 (10.04%) User Acceptance Testing
9 121 (9.88%) Project Delivery
10 118 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
11 112 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (7.76%) Roadmaps
13 87 (7.10%) Validation
14 78 (6.37%) Workshop Facilitation
15 75 (6.12%) Analytics
15 75 (6.12%) DevOps
16 67 (5.47%) Data Management
16 67 (5.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 152 (12.41%) SQL
2 37 (3.02%) PL/SQL
3 21 (1.71%) Python
4 20 (1.63%) C#
5 19 (1.55%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.47%) Java
7 10 (0.82%) VBA
8 8 (0.65%) ABAP
8 8 (0.65%) Groovy
9 5 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.41%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.33%) X++
11 3 (0.24%) PHP
11 3 (0.24%) R
11 3 (0.24%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.24%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.24%) XPath
12 2 (0.16%) C++
12 2 (0.16%) Korn
12 2 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 151 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 150 (12.24%) Degree
3 125 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 40 (3.27%) CIMA
5 38 (3.10%) ACCA
6 35 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 35 (2.86%) PMP
7 24 (1.96%) SAP Certification
8 22 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
11 14 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.82%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.82%) OCA
15 9 (0.73%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.49%) APMP
17 5 (0.41%) AWS Certification
17 5 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.14%) QA
2 48 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.84%) PMO
4 43 (3.51%) GDPR
5 31 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (0.98%) GxP
7 11 (0.90%) IFRS
7 11 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.90%) NIST
8 9 (0.73%) ITGC
9 8 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.65%) GAAP
10 7 (0.57%) APQC
10 7 (0.57%) COBIT
10 7 (0.57%) SOX 404
11 6 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.49%) SLA
12 4 (0.33%) GMP
12 4 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.082%) Firmware
4 1 (0.082%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (0.57%) Terraform
2 5 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.16%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Identity Management
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.082%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.082%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 431 (35.18%) Oracle
2 376 (30.69%) SAP
3 184 (15.02%) Microsoft
4 75 (6.12%) Workday
5 74 (6.04%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.78%) IFS
7 22 (1.80%) Ariba
8 17 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.31%) Sage
10 15 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.14%) Databricks
12 7 (0.57%) Hyperion
12 7 (0.57%) OpenText
12 7 (0.57%) PeopleSoft
13 6 (0.49%) Adobe
14 5 (0.41%) Anaplan
14 5 (0.41%) Infor
15 4 (0.33%) Axway
15 4 (0.33%) Google
15 4 (0.33%) JD Edwards