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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 100 94
Rank change year-on-year +42 -6 +16
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,804 740 998
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 2.59% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 2.84% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 458 621
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £507 £500
% change year-on-year +3.65% +1.30% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 22 30
10th Percentile £17.70 £25.61 £13.05
25th Percentile £26.86 £66.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £73.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% +84.38% -36.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £87.25 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -19.30% +78.13% -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 40,998 26,034 36,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 91.02% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,676 16,714 23,582
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,064 2,485
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £74.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.35 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +76.32% -32.93% +7.14%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +38 1,528 £539 -0.23% 755
UK excluding London +43 925 £525 +3.65% 545
London +35 659 £550 -4.35% 278
Work from Home +57 540 £550 - 372
South East +7 232 £560 +4.19% 142
North of England +38 208 £500 +5.26% 142
Midlands +21 178 £525 +5.00% 112
South West +29 124 £525 +5.00% 67
North West +35 110 £500 +2.25% 78
West Midlands +3 105 £525 +5.00% 56
East of England +13 98 £575 -4.17% 37
Yorkshire +4 84 £550 +37.50% 53
East Midlands +14 69 £525 +10.53% 55
Scotland +16 47 £525 +3.65% 34
Wales +13 25 £475 - 9
Northern Ireland +17 17 £475 +18.75% 16
North East -15 14 £500 -9.09% 13
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 21 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 17 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
3 16 (0.89%) Confluence
4 14 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.33%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.22%) Apache
6 4 (0.22%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (0.22%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.17%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.055%) Documentum
9 1 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.055%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 90 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 22 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.28%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 282 (15.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 123 (6.82%) Oracle ERP
3 59 (3.27%) SAP ERP
4 55 (3.05%) Oracle EBS
5 46 (2.55%) NetSuite
5 46 (2.55%) Oracle Payables
6 39 (2.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 32 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
7 32 (1.77%) Oracle Receivables
8 20 (1.11%) Oracle Assets
9 18 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 17 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
10 17 (0.94%) Shopify
11 16 (0.89%) Unit4 Business World
12 15 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
13 13 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.67%) Teamcenter
14 12 (0.67%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.61%) SAP FI
15 11 (0.61%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 223 (12.36%) Azure
2 192 (10.64%) Dynamics 365
3 153 (8.48%) OCI
4 146 (8.09%) Power Platform
5 90 (4.99%) SaaS
6 64 (3.55%) AWS
7 53 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.61%) PaaS
9 31 (1.72%) Boomi
9 31 (1.72%) Power Automate
9 31 (1.72%) PowerApps
10 25 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 24 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
12 17 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
12 17 (0.94%) GCP
12 17 (0.94%) IaaS
12 17 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (0.89%) GitHub
13 16 (0.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 15 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.22%) FTP
1 4 (0.22%) LAN
2 3 (0.17%) 5G
2 3 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
3 2 (0.11%) Intranet
3 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 1 (0.055%) DHCP
4 1 (0.055%) DMZ
4 1 (0.055%) DNS
4 1 (0.055%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.055%) Modbus
4 1 (0.055%) MQTT
4 1 (0.055%) RFID
4 1 (0.055%) SMS
4 1 (0.055%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.055%) VoIP
4 1 (0.055%) VPN
4 1 (0.055%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.055%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.76%) Power BI
2 58 (3.22%) Oracle Reports
3 48 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (1.39%) Oracle ODI
5 23 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 20 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 20 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (1.05%) SQL Server
8 12 (0.67%) Metadata
9 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.55%) Tableau
11 9 (0.50%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.33%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
14 5 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.28%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
16 3 (0.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 100 (5.54%) JIRA
2 29 (1.61%) Git
2 29 (1.61%) Postman
3 21 (1.16%) Hudson
4 11 (0.61%) SoapUI
4 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.39%) Selenium
6 5 (0.28%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) GitLab
8 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.11%) Gradle
10 1 (0.055%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.055%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.055%) TestRail
10 1 (0.055%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 925 (51.27%) Finance
2 488 (27.05%) Social Skills
3 235 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (9.37%) Manufacturing
5 121 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 86 (4.77%) Retail
7 65 (3.60%) Legal
8 57 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (2.83%) Local Government
10 50 (2.77%) General Ledger
11 49 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 46 (2.55%) Law
13 36 (2.00%) Banking
14 35 (1.94%) Billing
15 32 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.16%) Military
16 21 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 296 (16.41%) Lead
2 262 (14.52%) Architect
3 239 (13.25%) Consultant
4 211 (11.70%) Analyst
5 179 (9.92%) Project Manager
6 152 (8.43%) Senior
7 130 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
8 105 (5.82%) Business Analyst
9 91 (5.04%) Developer
10 86 (4.77%) ERP Manager
11 61 (3.38%) Accountant
12 52 (2.88%) Financial Analyst
12 52 (2.88%) Oracle Consultant
13 51 (2.83%) Implementation Consultant
13 51 (2.83%) SAP Consultant
13 51 (2.83%) Senior Manager
14 46 (2.55%) Systems Accountant
15 45 (2.49%) SAP Manager
16 43 (2.38%) Programme Manager
17 40 (2.22%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (11.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 102 (5.65%) REST
3 86 (4.77%) Middleware
4 61 (3.38%) SOAP
5 50 (2.77%) JSON
6 48 (2.66%) XML
7 34 (1.88%) Web Services
8 24 (1.33%) OAuth
9 22 (1.22%) .NET
9 22 (1.22%) XSLT
10 16 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (0.83%) JWT
11 15 (0.83%) Node.js
11 15 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
12 14 (0.78%) EDI
13 11 (0.61%) HTML
14 10 (0.55%) PySpark
14 10 (0.55%) RESTful
15 8 (0.44%) OpenAPI
15 8 (0.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
2 58 (3.22%) Data Structures
3 43 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 40 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 29 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.39%) FMCG
8 22 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (0.89%) AI Agents
10 16 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (0.78%) IoT
12 13 (0.72%) Life Science
13 11 (0.61%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.50%) SCADA
16 8 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.22%) Windows
2 5 (0.28%) Linux
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.055%) Android
5 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.055%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (25.78%) Migration
2 389 (21.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 302 (16.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 301 (16.69%) Data Migration
5 269 (14.91%) User Acceptance Testing
6 260 (14.41%) Agile
7 242 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
8 214 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 198 (10.98%) Validation
10 195 (10.81%) Change Management
11 184 (10.20%) Project Management
12 155 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
13 147 (8.15%) CRM
14 145 (8.04%) Data Modelling
15 142 (7.87%) Procure-to-Pay
16 133 (7.37%) Roadmaps
17 114 (6.32%) Analytics
17 114 (6.32%) Translating Business Requirements
18 111 (6.15%) Decision-Making
18 111 (6.15%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 148 (8.20%) SQL
2 51 (2.83%) Python
3 37 (2.05%) PL/SQL
4 33 (1.83%) Java
5 32 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.66%) C#
7 18 (1.00%) Apex Code
8 15 (0.83%) Ruby
8 15 (0.83%) X++
9 10 (0.55%) ABAP
10 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.28%) SOQL
13 5 (0.28%) SOSL
14 4 (0.22%) Perl
14 4 (0.22%) VBA
15 3 (0.17%) C++
15 3 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 194 (10.75%) Security Cleared
2 144 (7.98%) SC Cleared
3 132 (7.32%) Degree
4 103 (5.71%) CIMA
5 95 (5.27%) ACCA
6 44 (2.44%) PMP
7 37 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 16 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 13 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.50%) SAP Certification
12 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.39%) APMP
13 7 (0.39%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.22%) APMG
16 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 75 (4.16%) QA
3 69 (3.82%) GDPR
4 46 (2.55%) PMO
5 31 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.39%) IFRS
7 19 (1.05%) GAAP
8 18 (1.00%) SLA
9 10 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.55%) GxP
10 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.39%) GMP
12 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.28%) NCSC
13 5 (0.28%) NIST
14 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.22%) GRC
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (0.55%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.50%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.28%) Terraform
4 4 (0.22%) Kibana
4 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.17%) Control-M
5 3 (0.17%) Grafana
5 3 (0.17%) MOM
5 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.055%) SCCM
Vendors
1 556 (30.82%) SAP
2 509 (28.22%) Oracle
3 295 (16.35%) Microsoft
4 92 (5.10%) Workday
5 77 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 73 (4.05%) IFS
7 56 (3.10%) Siemens
8 52 (2.88%) ServiceNow
9 39 (2.16%) Databricks
10 36 (2.00%) MuleSoft
11 33 (1.83%) Ariba
12 29 (1.61%) Infor
12 29 (1.61%) Sage
13 16 (0.89%) Informatica
14 12 (0.67%) Epicor
15 9 (0.50%) HP
15 9 (0.50%) JD Edwards
16 8 (0.44%) Foundry
16 8 (0.44%) Google
17 7 (0.39%) Talend