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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 92 91
Rank change year-on-year +33 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,989 889 962
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 2.71% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 3.00% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 535 564
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £642 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £507 £501
% change year-on-year +3.65% +1.20% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 54 40
10th Percentile £17.75 £6.00 £25.40
25th Percentile £25.54 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.21 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.61% -47.58% -22.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £73.13 £69.16
90th Percentile £65.75 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.63 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +50.53% -41.18% -34.29%

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 44,902 29,618 34,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.94% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,592 22,057
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,679 1,619 2,026
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.39 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.06% -41.25% -

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +27 1,644 £550 +2.33% 755
UK excluding London +42 1,031 £525 +3.65% 576
London +19 690 £600 +9.09% 241
Work from Home +37 581 £550 - 331
South East +2 262 £525 +1.94% 149
North of England +54 248 £500 +5.26% 148
Midlands +41 202 £525 - 160
North West +37 145 £525 +7.53% 73
West Midlands +16 119 £544 +3.57% 94
South West +13 117 £538 -13.31% 46
East of England +12 94 £575 - 46
Yorkshire +19 83 £454 +12.04% 59
East Midlands +25 75 £525 -12.50% 66
Scotland +7 62 £500 - 22
Northern Ireland +21 30 £450 +28.57% 7
Wales - 21 £500 - 8
North East -26 20 £500 -6.98% 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 30 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 19 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
3 16 (0.80%) Confluence
4 5 (0.25%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.25%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Apache
5 4 (0.20%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.15%) CMS
6 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.10%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.10%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.050%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.050%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.050%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.050%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 91 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.050%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 304 (15.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 147 (7.39%) Oracle ERP
3 64 (3.22%) SAP ERP
4 60 (3.02%) NetSuite
5 56 (2.82%) Oracle Payables
6 52 (2.61%) Oracle EBS
7 44 (2.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 37 (1.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 28 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
10 23 (1.16%) Oracle Financials
11 21 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
12 18 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite
12 18 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
13 16 (0.80%) SAP MDG
14 15 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
14 15 (0.75%) Unit4 Business World
15 11 (0.55%) Workday HCM
16 10 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
16 10 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
16 10 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 230 (11.56%) Azure
2 193 (9.70%) Dynamics 365
2 193 (9.70%) Power Platform
3 153 (7.69%) OCI
4 122 (6.13%) SaaS
5 72 (3.62%) AWS
6 59 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (2.16%) PaaS
8 36 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
9 35 (1.76%) Boomi
10 29 (1.46%) PowerApps
11 28 (1.41%) Power Automate
12 27 (1.36%) GCP
12 27 (1.36%) GitHub
13 26 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
14 23 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 15 (0.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.35%) HTTP
1 7 (0.35%) Network Security
2 5 (0.25%) SSL
3 4 (0.20%) Firewall
3 4 (0.20%) FTP
4 3 (0.15%) 5G
5 2 (0.10%) Intranet
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) RFID
5 2 (0.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.050%) DHCP
6 1 (0.050%) DMZ
6 1 (0.050%) DNS
6 1 (0.050%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.050%) Modbus
6 1 (0.050%) SMS
6 1 (0.050%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.050%) VoIP
6 1 (0.050%) VPN
6 1 (0.050%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (7.04%) Power BI
2 74 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
4 32 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 28 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 28 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 26 (1.31%) Oracle ODI
7 24 (1.21%) Tableau
8 18 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (0.85%) Metadata
10 14 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 12 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (0.40%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.35%) SAP HANA
13 7 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 80 (4.02%) JIRA
2 38 (1.91%) Git
3 20 (1.01%) Hudson
4 13 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.55%) Postman
6 7 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.30%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.20%) Selenium
8 4 (0.20%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.15%) GitLab
9 3 (0.15%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.15%) LSMW
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.050%) JDeveloper
10 1 (0.050%) MLflow
10 1 (0.050%) TestRail
General
1 1,027 (51.63%) Finance
2 499 (25.09%) Social Skills
3 247 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (10.06%) Manufacturing
5 168 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 106 (5.33%) Retail
7 78 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (3.02%) General Ledger
8 60 (3.02%) Legal
9 55 (2.77%) Local Government
10 50 (2.51%) Billing
11 48 (2.41%) Law
12 39 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
13 36 (1.81%) Banking
14 35 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 33 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.01%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 364 (18.30%) Lead
2 317 (15.94%) Architect
3 245 (12.32%) Consultant
4 237 (11.92%) Analyst
5 170 (8.55%) Senior
6 158 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
7 153 (7.69%) Project Manager
8 115 (5.78%) Developer
9 110 (5.53%) Business Analyst
10 80 (4.02%) ERP Manager
11 67 (3.37%) Oracle Consultant
12 63 (3.17%) Accountant
13 58 (2.92%) Financial Analyst
14 48 (2.41%) Systems Accountant
15 47 (2.36%) Programme Manager
15 47 (2.36%) SAP Manager
16 46 (2.31%) Senior Manager
17 43 (2.16%) Finance Manager
18 42 (2.11%) ERP Project Manager
18 42 (2.11%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (10.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 113 (5.68%) REST
3 107 (5.38%) Middleware
4 62 (3.12%) SOAP
5 46 (2.31%) JSON
6 40 (2.01%) XML
7 36 (1.81%) Web Services
8 28 (1.41%) .NET
9 22 (1.11%) OAuth
10 20 (1.01%) EDI
11 18 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
12 17 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
13 16 (0.80%) Node.js
14 15 (0.75%) OAuth2
14 15 (0.75%) XSLT
15 12 (0.60%) HTML
16 11 (0.55%) CSS
16 11 (0.55%) PySpark
17 10 (0.50%) RESTful
18 9 (0.45%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 77 (3.87%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.77%) Management Information System
5 41 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 38 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 33 (1.66%) FMCG
9 31 (1.56%) Cloud Native
10 25 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (0.85%) IoT
13 16 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.75%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.75%) Life Science
15 14 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.65%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.60%) Operational Technology
18 11 (0.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.31%) Windows
2 7 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.30%) Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Android
4 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.050%) AIX
5 1 (0.050%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.050%) Unix
5 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (25.74%) Migration
2 507 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 371 (18.65%) Data Migration
4 329 (16.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 314 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
6 268 (13.47%) Agile
7 263 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 250 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
9 212 (10.66%) Validation
10 211 (10.61%) Change Management
11 204 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
12 182 (9.15%) Data Modelling
13 179 (9.00%) Analytics
14 174 (8.75%) CRM
15 170 (8.55%) Roadmaps
16 156 (7.84%) Project Management
17 149 (7.49%) Process Improvement
18 139 (6.99%) Procure-to-Pay
18 139 (6.99%) Translating Business Requirements
19 135 (6.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 186 (9.35%) SQL
2 70 (3.52%) Python
3 37 (1.86%) JavaScript
4 35 (1.76%) PL/SQL
5 34 (1.71%) Java
6 30 (1.51%) C#
7 20 (1.01%) Apex Code
7 20 (1.01%) Ruby
7 20 (1.01%) X++
8 16 (0.80%) ABAP
9 14 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.40%) Groovy
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.25%) SOQL
13 5 (0.25%) SOSL
13 5 (0.25%) VBA
14 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.15%) Korn
16 2 (0.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 220 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 155 (7.79%) SC Cleared
3 117 (5.88%) Degree
4 76 (3.82%) ACCA
4 76 (3.82%) CIMA
5 49 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 39 (1.96%) PMP
7 32 (1.61%) PMI Certification
8 18 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.55%) SAP Certification
11 9 (0.45%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.30%) CISM
13 6 (0.30%) CISSP
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.25%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.82%) GDPR
3 72 (3.62%) QA
4 56 (2.82%) PMO
5 36 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.41%) IFRS
7 20 (1.01%) GAAP
8 15 (0.75%) GMP
9 13 (0.65%) SLA
10 12 (0.60%) GRC
10 12 (0.60%) GxP
11 11 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 9 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.40%) NCSC
14 7 (0.35%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 5 (0.25%) NIST
16 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 4 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 12 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.050%) Firmware
3 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.050%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (0.80%) Terraform
2 13 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.45%) HP ALM
4 6 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.25%) Grafana
5 5 (0.25%) Kibana
5 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.15%) MOM
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.10%) SCCM
8 1 (0.050%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.050%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 608 (30.57%) SAP
2 558 (28.05%) Oracle
3 352 (17.70%) Microsoft
4 83 (4.17%) IFS
5 80 (4.02%) Workday
6 79 (3.97%) Salesforce
7 64 (3.22%) ServiceNow
8 44 (2.21%) Ariba
9 42 (2.11%) Infor
10 40 (2.01%) Siemens
11 39 (1.96%) Databricks
12 36 (1.81%) MuleSoft
12 36 (1.81%) Sage
13 18 (0.90%) JD Edwards
14 17 (0.85%) Concur
15 14 (0.70%) Google
16 12 (0.60%) Epicor
17 11 (0.55%) Informatica
17 11 (0.55%) SYSPRO
18 9 (0.45%) Baan