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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 80 94
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,967 1,003 932
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.60% 3.05% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.36% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 604 507
10th Percentile £370 £327 £363
25th Percentile £463 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 46 35
10th Percentile £13.99 £6.00 £20.35
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.67 £28.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £17.42 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.62% -63.32% -24.00%
75th Percentile £40.00 £32.75 £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% -18.65%

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 46,183 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,080 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £404 £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 £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,092 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.42 £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 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.31% -47.37% +5.81%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +8 1,617 £550 - 2,703
UK excluding London +25 1,032 £525 - 1,778
London -4 656 £600 +8.60% 1,150
Work from Home +17 553 £550 - 1,256
North of England +59 277 £525 +5.00% 436
South East -3 258 £525 +1.94% 443
Midlands +25 221 £525 -4.55% 320
North West +37 153 £525 +5.00% 245
West Midlands +12 125 £525 - 190
Yorkshire +32 103 £500 +10.50% 135
East Midlands +27 87 £525 -12.50% 130
East of England -16 84 £509 -9.51% 188
South West -33 81 £525 -12.50% 155
Scotland +5 74 £525 +5.00% 159
Northern Ireland +17 21 £450 +28.57% 71
North East -23 21 £500 +11.11% 63
Wales +6 20 £475 +46.15% 34
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 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.17%) Oracle Workflow
3 18 (0.92%) Confluence
4 9 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.41%) CMS
5 8 (0.41%) NetWeaver
6 6 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EP
7 5 (0.25%) SAS
8 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
8 4 (0.20%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.051%) EPiServer
Applications
1 107 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.61%) Windchill
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 284 (14.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 149 (7.57%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (3.46%) SAP ERP
4 67 (3.41%) Oracle Payables
5 62 (3.15%) NetSuite
6 50 (2.54%) Oracle Receivables
7 42 (2.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 41 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
9 34 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
10 27 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
11 24 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
11 24 (1.22%) SAP MDG
12 18 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
13 15 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
13 15 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
14 14 (0.71%) Teamcenter
14 14 (0.71%) Workday HCM
15 13 (0.66%) SAP FI
16 12 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
16 12 (0.61%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 210 (10.68%) Azure
2 191 (9.71%) Dynamics 365
2 191 (9.71%) Power Platform
3 144 (7.32%) OCI
4 127 (6.46%) SaaS
5 79 (4.02%) AWS
6 67 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (1.98%) GCP
7 39 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (1.78%) SuccessFactors
9 34 (1.73%) Power Automate
10 33 (1.68%) PaaS
11 30 (1.53%) Boomi
12 27 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
13 26 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 22 (1.12%) GitHub
15 21 (1.07%) Entra ID
16 18 (0.92%) Serverless
17 16 (0.81%) Snowflake
17 16 (0.81%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.56%) HTTP
2 7 (0.36%) Network Security
3 6 (0.31%) FTP
4 5 (0.25%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
6 2 (0.10%) DMZ
6 2 (0.10%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
7 1 (0.051%) Intranet
7 1 (0.051%) LAN
7 1 (0.051%) MQTT
7 1 (0.051%) RFID
7 1 (0.051%) SMTP
7 1 (0.051%) WAN
7 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (6.71%) Power BI
2 61 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
4 30 (1.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 25 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.17%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.17%) Tableau
7 18 (0.92%) Metadata
8 16 (0.81%) Oracle ODI
9 13 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.66%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.51%) Power Query
11 8 (0.41%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 103 (5.24%) JIRA
2 31 (1.58%) Git
3 13 (0.66%) Hudson
3 13 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (0.66%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.36%) Postman
4 7 (0.36%) Zephyr
5 6 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.20%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.20%) 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 (0.051%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.051%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.051%) JDeveloper
General
1 995 (50.58%) Finance
2 571 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 256 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (11.49%) Manufacturing
5 172 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 100 (5.08%) Retail
7 85 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (3.51%) General Ledger
9 61 (3.10%) Billing
10 57 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (2.39%) Legal
12 46 (2.34%) Banking
13 37 (1.88%) Law
13 37 (1.88%) Local Government
14 31 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (1.17%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.07%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 347 (17.64%) Lead
2 317 (16.12%) Architect
3 255 (12.96%) Analyst
4 236 (12.00%) Consultant
5 147 (7.47%) Senior
5 147 (7.47%) Solutions Architect
6 136 (6.91%) Project Manager
7 120 (6.10%) Business Analyst
8 104 (5.29%) Developer
9 92 (4.68%) Oracle Consultant
10 59 (3.00%) ERP Manager
10 59 (3.00%) Functional Consultant
11 54 (2.75%) Accountant
12 51 (2.59%) Administrator
12 51 (2.59%) Financial Analyst
13 45 (2.29%) Data Analyst
14 44 (2.24%) SAP Manager
15 42 (2.14%) Programme Manager
16 41 (2.08%) ERP Architect
16 41 (2.08%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (11.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 123 (6.25%) REST
3 110 (5.59%) Middleware
4 79 (4.02%) SOAP
5 48 (2.44%) XML
6 44 (2.24%) JSON
7 42 (2.14%) Web Services
8 31 (1.58%) .NET
9 26 (1.32%) OAuth
10 24 (1.22%) OAuth2
11 22 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
12 21 (1.07%) EDI
13 16 (0.81%) Terraform
14 14 (0.71%) XSLT
15 13 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
16 11 (0.56%) CSS
16 11 (0.56%) HTML
16 11 (0.56%) Node.js
17 10 (0.51%) IDoc
17 10 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 98 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (3.56%) Data Structures
3 69 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
3 69 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 49 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 37 (1.88%) FMCG
7 31 (1.58%) Cloud Native
7 31 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 29 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.17%) Life Science
10 21 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.81%) AI Agents
12 16 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 15 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.76%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.61%) CMDB
14 12 (0.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
14 12 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.37%) Windows
2 11 (0.56%) Linux
3 9 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 3 (0.15%) Android
5 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.051%) AIX
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (29.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 485 (24.66%) Migration
3 363 (18.45%) Data Migration
4 304 (15.46%) User Acceptance Testing
5 301 (15.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 289 (14.69%) Agile
7 281 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 274 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 215 (10.93%) Validation
10 195 (9.91%) Change Management
10 195 (9.91%) CRM
11 192 (9.76%) Roadmaps
12 186 (9.46%) Process Improvement
13 183 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
14 176 (8.95%) Data Modelling
15 174 (8.85%) Analytics
16 149 (7.57%) Translating Business Requirements
17 148 (7.52%) Project Delivery
18 146 (7.42%) Workshop Facilitation
19 133 (6.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 194 (9.86%) SQL
2 65 (3.30%) Python
3 38 (1.93%) Java
4 34 (1.73%) JavaScript
5 31 (1.58%) C#
6 30 (1.53%) PL/SQL
7 20 (1.02%) X++
8 19 (0.97%) ABAP
9 16 (0.81%) Ruby
10 15 (0.76%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.41%) Groovy
14 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.20%) PHP
15 4 (0.20%) VBA
16 3 (0.15%) C++
16 3 (0.15%) Rust
16 3 (0.15%) SOQL
16 3 (0.15%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 255 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 190 (9.66%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.61%) Degree
4 69 (3.51%) ACCA
5 63 (3.20%) CIMA
6 53 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 43 (2.19%) PMP
8 39 (1.98%) PMI Certification
9 29 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.46%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.41%) CISM
14 8 (0.41%) CISSP
14 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.56%) QA
3 61 (3.10%) GDPR
4 52 (2.64%) PMO
5 28 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.27%) IFRS
7 22 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.02%) GRC
9 17 (0.86%) GAAP
10 14 (0.71%) NCSC
11 13 (0.66%) GMP
12 12 (0.61%) 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 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 18 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.41%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.051%) Firmware
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.25%) Grafana
3 5 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.20%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.20%) Kibana
4 4 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.15%) SCCM
6 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.051%) MOM
Vendors
1 632 (32.13%) SAP
2 562 (28.57%) Oracle
3 375 (19.06%) Microsoft
4 90 (4.58%) Salesforce
5 80 (4.07%) ServiceNow
6 74 (3.76%) Workday
7 59 (3.00%) IFS
8 46 (2.34%) Ariba
9 32 (1.63%) Infor
10 31 (1.58%) Sage
11 27 (1.37%) Databricks
12 26 (1.32%) JD Edwards
13 25 (1.27%) MuleSoft
14 22 (1.12%) Google
15 21 (1.07%) Siemens
16 16 (0.81%) Concur
16 16 (0.81%) IBM
16 16 (0.81%) SYSPRO
17 14 (0.71%) PTC
18 10 (0.51%) Adobe