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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 80 92
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,941 987 928
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.59% 3.02% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.34% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 588 511
10th Percentile £370 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £456 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 46 35
10th Percentile £14.02 £6.00 £20.35
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.67 £28.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £17.60 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.24% -62.96% -24.60%
75th Percentile £40.00 £52.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £78.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £16.29 £51.25
% change year-on-year +47.33% -68.21% -19.29%

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 45,698 29,594 32,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.53% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,784 18,388 20,318
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £726 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,048 1,782 1,485
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.95 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +7.50%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +10 1,595 £550 - 2,159
UK excluding London +30 1,025 £525 - 1,443
London +1 643 £600 +9.09% 942
Work from Home +12 546 £550 - 1,133
North of England +52 272 £525 +5.00% 351
South East -1 260 £525 +1.94% 353
Midlands +27 218 £525 -4.55% 263
North West +27 151 £525 +5.00% 193
West Midlands +18 122 £525 - 140
Yorkshire +41 100 £500 +10.50% 112
East Midlands +21 87 £525 -12.50% 122
East of England -13 82 £509 -8.70% 154
South West -33 82 £525 -12.50% 136
Scotland +8 74 £525 +5.00% 131
Northern Ireland +18 21 £450 +28.57% 61
North East -21 21 £500 +11.11% 53
Wales +6 19 £488 +50.00% 17
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 35 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
3 16 (0.82%) Confluence
4 9 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.41%) CMS
6 7 (0.36%) NetWeaver
7 6 (0.31%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.26%) SAS
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.21%) SAP EP
9 4 (0.21%) ThingWorx
9 4 (0.21%) WebLogic Portal
10 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
12 1 (0.052%) EPiServer
Applications
1 108 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Windchill
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 279 (14.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 149 (7.68%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (3.50%) SAP ERP
4 67 (3.45%) Oracle Payables
5 63 (3.25%) NetSuite
6 50 (2.58%) Oracle Receivables
7 42 (2.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 41 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
9 31 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
10 27 (1.39%) Oracle General Ledger
11 23 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
12 19 (0.98%) SAP MDG
13 18 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
14 15 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
14 15 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
15 14 (0.72%) Workday HCM
16 13 (0.67%) SAP FI
17 12 (0.62%) Infor CloudSuite
17 12 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
17 12 (0.62%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 204 (10.51%) Azure
2 192 (9.89%) Dynamics 365
3 191 (9.84%) Power Platform
4 141 (7.26%) OCI
5 127 (6.54%) SaaS
6 78 (4.02%) AWS
7 64 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.01%) GCP
9 38 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
11 33 (1.70%) PaaS
12 30 (1.55%) Power Automate
13 28 (1.44%) Boomi
14 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
14 26 (1.34%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.13%) GitHub
16 21 (1.08%) Entra ID
17 18 (0.93%) Serverless
18 16 (0.82%) Snowflake
18 16 (0.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.46%) HTTP
2 7 (0.36%) Network Security
3 6 (0.31%) FTP
4 5 (0.26%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
6 2 (0.10%) DMZ
6 2 (0.10%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
7 1 (0.052%) Intranet
7 1 (0.052%) LAN
7 1 (0.052%) MQTT
7 1 (0.052%) RFID
7 1 (0.052%) SMTP
7 1 (0.052%) WAN
7 1 (0.052%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (6.90%) Power BI
2 56 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
4 30 (1.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 25 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.18%) Tableau
7 18 (0.93%) Metadata
7 18 (0.93%) Oracle ODI
8 13 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
8 13 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.62%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.52%) Power Query
11 8 (0.41%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 97 (5.00%) JIRA
2 29 (1.49%) Git
3 14 (0.72%) Hudson
4 13 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (0.31%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.26%) Postman
7 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.21%) Flyway
8 3 (0.15%) LSMW
8 3 (0.15%) MLflow
9 2 (0.10%) GitLab
9 2 (0.10%) Selenium
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.052%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.052%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.052%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.052%) TestRail
General
1 987 (50.85%) Finance
2 557 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 249 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (10.97%) Manufacturing
5 172 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 98 (5.05%) Retail
7 80 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (3.50%) General Ledger
9 58 (2.99%) Billing
10 56 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.52%) Legal
12 45 (2.32%) Banking
13 41 (2.11%) Law
14 38 (1.96%) Local Government
15 32 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 28 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
18 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
19 21 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 349 (17.98%) Lead
2 315 (16.23%) Architect
3 254 (13.09%) Analyst
4 234 (12.06%) Consultant
5 148 (7.62%) Senior
6 145 (7.47%) Solutions Architect
7 133 (6.85%) Project Manager
8 118 (6.08%) Business Analyst
9 99 (5.10%) Developer
10 91 (4.69%) Oracle Consultant
11 60 (3.09%) ERP Manager
12 56 (2.89%) Functional Consultant
13 54 (2.78%) Accountant
14 51 (2.63%) Financial Analyst
15 49 (2.52%) Administrator
16 45 (2.32%) Data Analyst
17 44 (2.27%) SAP Manager
18 43 (2.22%) Programme Manager
19 42 (2.16%) ERP Architect
20 40 (2.06%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (11.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 117 (6.03%) REST
3 103 (5.31%) Middleware
4 72 (3.71%) SOAP
5 44 (2.27%) XML
6 41 (2.11%) JSON
7 38 (1.96%) Web Services
8 31 (1.60%) .NET
9 23 (1.18%) OAuth
10 21 (1.08%) EDI
10 21 (1.08%) OAuth2
10 21 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
11 16 (0.82%) Terraform
12 14 (0.72%) XSLT
13 13 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
14 11 (0.57%) CSS
14 11 (0.57%) HTML
15 10 (0.52%) Node.js
15 10 (0.52%) RESTful
16 9 (0.46%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 68 (3.50%) Data Structures
3 67 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 63 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 63 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 46 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 37 (1.91%) FMCG
7 31 (1.60%) Cloud Native
7 31 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 26 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.18%) Life Science
10 21 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (0.77%) AI Agents
12 15 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (0.77%) Low-Code
12 15 (0.77%) Operational Technology
13 12 (0.62%) CMDB
13 12 (0.62%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 12 (0.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.34%) Windows
2 11 (0.57%) Linux
3 9 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 2 (0.10%) Android
5 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
5 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.052%) AIX
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (29.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 488 (25.14%) Migration
3 365 (18.80%) Data Migration
4 306 (15.77%) User Acceptance Testing
5 299 (15.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 279 (14.37%) Agile
7 276 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
8 275 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 210 (10.82%) Validation
10 189 (9.74%) Change Management
10 189 (9.74%) CRM
11 188 (9.69%) Process Improvement
12 184 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
12 184 (9.48%) Roadmaps
13 170 (8.76%) Analytics
14 169 (8.71%) Data Modelling
15 151 (7.78%) Translating Business Requirements
16 145 (7.47%) Project Delivery
16 145 (7.47%) Workshop Facilitation
17 133 (6.85%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 186 (9.58%) SQL
2 63 (3.25%) Python
3 34 (1.75%) Java
3 34 (1.75%) JavaScript
4 31 (1.60%) C#
4 31 (1.60%) PL/SQL
5 20 (1.03%) X++
6 18 (0.93%) ABAP
7 16 (0.82%) Ruby
8 15 (0.77%) Apex Code
9 14 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.41%) Groovy
12 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.21%) PHP
13 4 (0.21%) VBA
14 3 (0.15%) C++
14 3 (0.15%) Rust
14 3 (0.15%) SOQL
14 3 (0.15%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 245 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 182 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.39%) Degree
4 67 (3.45%) ACCA
5 61 (3.14%) CIMA
6 53 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.01%) PMP
8 35 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 25 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.41%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.41%) CISM
13 8 (0.41%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.36%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.31%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 69 (3.55%) QA
3 62 (3.19%) GDPR
4 53 (2.73%) PMO
5 29 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.29%) IFRS
7 22 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.03%) GRC
9 17 (0.88%) GAAP
10 14 (0.72%) NCSC
11 13 (0.67%) GMP
12 12 (0.62%) GxP
13 9 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 8 (0.41%) NIST
14 8 (0.41%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
17 5 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 17 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.36%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.052%) Firmware
5 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.21%) Kibana
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.10%) SCCM
6 1 (0.052%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.052%) MOM
Vendors
1 619 (31.89%) SAP
2 557 (28.70%) Oracle
3 370 (19.06%) Microsoft
4 89 (4.59%) Salesforce
5 78 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 73 (3.76%) Workday
7 60 (3.09%) IFS
8 41 (2.11%) Ariba
9 32 (1.65%) Infor
10 30 (1.55%) Sage
11 27 (1.39%) Databricks
12 26 (1.34%) JD Edwards
13 23 (1.18%) MuleSoft
14 22 (1.13%) Google
15 17 (0.88%) SYSPRO
16 16 (0.82%) Concur
16 16 (0.82%) Siemens
17 10 (0.52%) Adobe
17 10 (0.52%) Epicor
17 10 (0.52%) IBM