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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 94 95
Rank change year-on-year +32 +1 +26
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,676 788 1,023
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.64% 2.68% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 2.96% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 466 648
10th Percentile £363 £358 £357
25th Percentile £463 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £639 £675 £650
90th Percentile £731 £771 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 21 29
10th Percentile £17.69 £50.00 £13.05
25th Percentile £28.29 £66.25 £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 39,116 26,622 37,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.70% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,735 17,238 24,535
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,028 2,411
10th Percentile £14.98 £14.96 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £33.07
% change year-on-year +39.13% -13.05% -7.64%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +33 1,398 £550 +2.33% 714
UK excluding London +37 837 £525 +5.00% 586
London +31 612 £550 - 184
Work from Home +45 546 £540 +2.86% 336
South East +10 209 £525 -4.55% 155
North of England +30 196 £550 +25.71% 147
Midlands -19 142 £540 +8.00% 135
South West +21 121 £525 +10.53% 61
North West +40 116 £500 +2.41% 79
West Midlands -18 93 £565 +13.00% 79
East of England +7 87 £563 -6.25% 54
Yorkshire -9 68 £595 +48.75% 58
Scotland +23 48 £519 +2.72% 28
East Midlands -9 48 £500 +5.26% 56
Wales +12 23 £475 -34.48% 6
Northern Ireland +16 16 £475 +18.75% 11
North East -17 12 £500 +11.11% 12
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 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
2 14 (0.84%) Confluence
2 14 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 14 (0.84%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
4 5 (0.30%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.30%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.24%) Apache
5 4 (0.24%) CMS
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.18%) Documentum
6 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.060%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.060%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 76 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.07%) 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
1 255 (15.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (6.62%) Oracle ERP
3 64 (3.82%) Oracle EBS
3 64 (3.82%) SAP ERP
4 48 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
5 42 (2.51%) Oracle Payables
6 36 (2.15%) NetSuite
7 30 (1.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 27 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (1.07%) Shopify
10 17 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 15 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
12 15 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
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
14 12 (0.72%) SAP FI
15 11 (0.66%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 212 (12.65%) Azure
2 185 (11.04%) Dynamics 365
3 155 (9.25%) OCI
4 138 (8.23%) Power Platform
5 94 (5.61%) SaaS
6 62 (3.70%) AWS
7 50 (2.98%) PaaS
8 40 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (1.73%) Boomi
10 27 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 26 (1.55%) PowerApps
11 26 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
12 25 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (1.25%) GCP
14 19 (1.13%) IaaS
15 18 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
18 14 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
19 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
2 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 1 (0.060%) DHCP
3 1 (0.060%) DNS
3 1 (0.060%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.060%) HTTP
3 1 (0.060%) Modbus
3 1 (0.060%) MQTT
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 (6.50%) Power BI
2 68 (4.06%) Oracle Reports
3 54 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 23 (1.37%) Oracle ODI
5 23 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.66%) Metadata
7 11 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.54%) Tableau
9 8 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.48%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.36%) GIS
10 6 (0.36%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.30%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 88 (5.25%) JIRA
2 27 (1.61%) Postman
3 22 (1.31%) Git
4 17 (1.01%) 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
10 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) LSMW
11 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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
1 883 (52.68%) Finance
2 500 (29.83%) Social Skills
3 238 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (8.77%) Manufacturing
5 131 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 78 (4.65%) Retail
7 63 (3.76%) Legal
8 60 (3.58%) Local Government
9 57 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
11 46 (2.74%) General Ledger
12 45 (2.68%) Law
12 45 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 38 (2.27%) Banking
14 26 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.49%) Billing
16 24 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.19%) Marketing
17 20 (1.19%) Military
18 17 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 280 (16.71%) Lead
2 235 (14.02%) Architect
3 233 (13.90%) Consultant
4 190 (11.34%) Analyst
5 159 (9.49%) Project Manager
6 144 (8.59%) Senior
7 116 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
8 105 (6.26%) Business Analyst
9 86 (5.13%) Developer
10 74 (4.42%) ERP Manager
11 56 (3.34%) Accountant
12 53 (3.16%) SAP Consultant
13 51 (3.04%) Implementation Consultant
13 51 (3.04%) SAP Manager
14 47 (2.80%) Senior Manager
15 46 (2.74%) Financial Analyst
16 44 (2.63%) Oracle Consultant
17 38 (2.27%) Systems Accountant
18 37 (2.21%) Transformation Manager
19 35 (2.09%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (11.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 85 (5.07%) REST
3 69 (4.12%) Middleware
4 57 (3.40%) SOAP
5 49 (2.92%) XML
6 44 (2.63%) JSON
7 40 (2.39%) Web Services
8 23 (1.37%) OAuth
9 22 (1.31%) XSLT
10 20 (1.19%) .NET
11 15 (0.89%) JWT
11 15 (0.89%) 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 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
2 58 (3.46%) Data Structures
3 48 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 40 (2.39%) Product Ownership
5 32 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 31 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 21 (1.25%) IoT
10 18 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (0.89%) FMCG
12 13 (0.78%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (0.60%) Life Science
13 10 (0.60%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.54%) SCADA
15 8 (0.48%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.89%) Windows
2 6 (0.36%) Linux
3 3 (0.18%) Unix
4 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (26.73%) Migration
2 350 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 292 (17.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 288 (17.18%) Data Migration
5 255 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
6 248 (14.80%) User Acceptance Testing
7 238 (14.20%) Agile
8 193 (11.52%) Change Management
9 189 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 186 (11.10%) Validation
11 180 (10.74%) Project Management
12 165 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
13 153 (9.13%) CRM
14 131 (7.82%) Data Modelling
15 128 (7.64%) Procure-to-Pay
16 123 (7.34%) Roadmaps
17 116 (6.92%) Project Delivery
18 107 (6.38%) Analytics
18 107 (6.38%) DevOps
19 98 (5.85%) Order to Cash
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.59%) SQL
2 47 (2.80%) Python
3 41 (2.45%) PL/SQL
4 31 (1.85%) Java
5 28 (1.67%) C#
6 17 (1.01%) 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 6 (0.36%) X++
13 5 (0.30%) Korn
13 5 (0.30%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.30%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.30%) VBA
14 4 (0.24%) Perl
15 3 (0.18%) C++
15 3 (0.18%) SOQL
15 3 (0.18%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 198 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 146 (8.71%) SC Cleared
3 135 (8.05%) Degree
4 102 (6.09%) CIMA
5 91 (5.43%) ACCA
6 48 (2.86%) PMP
7 41 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
11 13 (0.78%) SAP Certification
12 11 (0.66%) DV Cleared
13 10 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.54%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.42%) APMP
15 7 (0.42%) OCA
16 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 85 (5.07%) QA
3 68 (4.06%) GDPR
4 53 (3.16%) PMO
5 26 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.13%) IFRS
7 17 (1.01%) GAAP
8 15 (0.89%) 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%) MOM
4 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
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
1 512 (30.55%) SAP
2 477 (28.46%) Oracle
3 275 (16.41%) Microsoft
4 91 (5.43%) Workday
5 61 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 60 (3.58%) IFS
7 52 (3.10%) Siemens
8 41 (2.45%) Databricks
9 39 (2.33%) Ariba
10 38 (2.27%) ServiceNow
11 34 (2.03%) Sage
12 31 (1.85%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.19%) Infor
14 16 (0.95%) Informatica
15 9 (0.54%) Foundry
15 9 (0.54%) Google
15 9 (0.54%) HP
15 9 (0.54%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.42%) Talend
17 6 (0.36%) Adobe