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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 89 101
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,981 915 901
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.70% 2.79% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 3.08% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 548 513
10th Percentile £370 £329 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +2.95% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 50 37
10th Percentile £14.86 £6.00 £16.70
25th Percentile £18.01 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.10 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -50.89% -30.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £17.14 £35.36
% change year-on-year +69.24% -51.54% -45.70%

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 45,356 29,667 33,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 90.51% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,834 18,495 21,131
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
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 2,855 1,741 1,763
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%
75th Percentile £67.94 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -42.17% +12.54%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +14 1,631 £550 +1.38% 822
UK excluding London +36 1,037 £525 +1.94% 704
London +18 682 £600 +9.09% 178
Work from Home +26 559 £550 - 316
South East 0 273 £525 +1.94% 203
North of England +65 272 £500 - 158
Midlands +36 204 £525 - 172
North West +44 158 £525 +5.00% 73
West Midlands +10 115 £525 - 102
Yorkshire +31 93 £500 +23.46% 61
South West -22 85 £538 -13.72% 76
East of England +5 83 £510 -11.39% 73
East Midlands +26 80 £525 -12.50% 70
Scotland +12 74 £525 +5.00% 27
Northern Ireland +24 28 £450 +28.57% 2
North East -20 21 £500 -6.98% 27
Wales - 20 £488 - 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 33 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.86%) Confluence
4 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.25%) CMS
4 5 (0.25%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.20%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.10%) Apache
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.050%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 100 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.20%) Windchill
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 289 (14.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 154 (7.77%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (3.43%) SAP ERP
4 66 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
5 63 (3.18%) NetSuite
6 50 (2.52%) Oracle EBS
6 50 (2.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 41 (2.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 31 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
9 25 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
10 24 (1.21%) Oracle Financials
11 19 (0.96%) SAP MDG
12 18 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
13 17 (0.86%) Infor CloudSuite
14 15 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
15 13 (0.66%) Workday HCM
16 12 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
16 12 (0.61%) SAP FI
16 12 (0.61%) SAP MM
16 12 (0.61%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 201 (10.15%) Azure
2 198 (9.99%) Dynamics 365
3 191 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 155 (7.82%) OCI
5 118 (5.96%) SaaS
6 80 (4.04%) AWS
7 60 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (1.97%) PaaS
9 38 (1.92%) GCP
10 37 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
11 35 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
12 31 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 29 (1.46%) Boomi
14 27 (1.36%) GitHub
14 27 (1.36%) PowerApps
15 24 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.86%) Entra ID
17 16 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
17 16 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.40%) HTTP
2 7 (0.35%) Network Security
3 6 (0.30%) FTP
4 5 (0.25%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
5 3 (0.15%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) Intranet
6 2 (0.10%) LAN
6 2 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.050%) DHCP
7 1 (0.050%) DMZ
7 1 (0.050%) DNS
7 1 (0.050%) MQTT
7 1 (0.050%) RFID
7 1 (0.050%) SMS
7 1 (0.050%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.050%) VPN
7 1 (0.050%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (6.92%) Power BI
2 68 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (2.73%) Oracle Reports
4 36 (1.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.31%) Oracle ODI
5 26 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.16%) Tableau
7 17 (0.86%) Metadata
8 13 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
8 13 (0.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.35%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.30%) Power Query
12 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
12 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (4.39%) JIRA
2 34 (1.72%) Git
3 19 (0.96%) Hudson
4 13 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.35%) Postman
6 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 3 (0.15%) GitLab
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 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.10%) MLflow
10 2 (0.10%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.050%) JDeveloper
11 1 (0.050%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,025 (51.74%) Finance
2 546 (27.56%) Social Skills
3 249 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (10.55%) Manufacturing
5 171 (8.63%) Public Sector
6 108 (5.45%) Retail
7 81 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (3.23%) General Ledger
9 57 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 55 (2.78%) Billing
11 53 (2.68%) Legal
12 50 (2.52%) Law
13 45 (2.27%) Banking
14 42 (2.12%) Local Government
15 41 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
16 36 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 33 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
18 32 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (1.06%) Aerospace
20 19 (0.96%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 374 (18.88%) Lead
2 318 (16.05%) Architect
3 254 (12.82%) Analyst
4 236 (11.91%) Consultant
5 157 (7.93%) Senior
6 144 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
7 141 (7.12%) Project Manager
8 118 (5.96%) Business Analyst
9 111 (5.60%) Developer
10 85 (4.29%) Oracle Consultant
11 72 (3.63%) ERP Manager
12 57 (2.88%) Financial Analyst
13 56 (2.83%) Accountant
14 47 (2.37%) Functional Consultant
15 46 (2.32%) Programme Manager
16 45 (2.27%) Data Analyst
17 44 (2.22%) Lead Architect
18 42 (2.12%) ERP Project Manager
18 42 (2.12%) SAP Consultant
19 41 (2.07%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (11.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 120 (6.06%) REST
3 105 (5.30%) Middleware
4 72 (3.63%) SOAP
5 43 (2.17%) JSON
5 43 (2.17%) XML
6 34 (1.72%) Web Services
7 30 (1.51%) .NET
8 24 (1.21%) OAuth
9 21 (1.06%) EDI
10 20 (1.01%) OAuth2
11 19 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
12 18 (0.91%) Terraform
13 17 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
14 14 (0.71%) XSLT
15 11 (0.56%) CSS
15 11 (0.56%) HTML
15 11 (0.56%) Node.js
15 11 (0.56%) PySpark
16 10 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 72 (3.63%) Data Structures
3 61 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 58 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 43 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 36 (1.82%) FMCG
8 34 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 33 (1.67%) Cloud Native
10 26 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (0.96%) Life Science
13 16 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.76%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.71%) Low-Code
16 13 (0.66%) Operational Technology
17 12 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (0.61%) IoT
18 11 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.31%) Windows
2 8 (0.40%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.30%) Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Android
4 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
4 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.050%) AIX
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.050%) Unix
5 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (27.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 504 (25.44%) Migration
3 377 (19.03%) Data Migration
4 325 (16.41%) User Acceptance Testing
5 324 (16.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 283 (14.29%) Agile
7 278 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 253 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
9 207 (10.45%) Change Management
10 202 (10.20%) Validation
11 197 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
12 183 (9.24%) CRM
12 183 (9.24%) Data Modelling
13 180 (9.09%) Analytics
14 176 (8.88%) Roadmaps
15 173 (8.73%) Process Improvement
16 152 (7.67%) Translating Business Requirements
17 143 (7.22%) Project Delivery
18 142 (7.17%) Procure-to-Pay
19 140 (7.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 177 (8.93%) SQL
2 65 (3.28%) Python
3 36 (1.82%) Java
4 35 (1.77%) JavaScript
5 33 (1.67%) PL/SQL
6 29 (1.46%) C#
7 21 (1.06%) Apex Code
8 20 (1.01%) Ruby
8 20 (1.01%) X++
9 16 (0.81%) ABAP
10 14 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.50%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.40%) Groovy
13 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.30%) SOQL
14 6 (0.30%) SOSL
15 5 (0.25%) VBA
16 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.15%) C++
17 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 234 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 167 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.26%) Degree
4 71 (3.58%) ACCA
5 67 (3.38%) CIMA
6 54 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 38 (1.92%) PMP
8 34 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.35%) SAP Certification
13 6 (0.30%) APMG
13 6 (0.30%) CISM
13 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 69 (3.48%) QA
3 68 (3.43%) GDPR
4 58 (2.93%) PMO
5 34 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.26%) IFRS
7 18 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.86%) GAAP
9 15 (0.76%) GRC
10 13 (0.66%) NCSC
11 12 (0.61%) GMP
12 11 (0.56%) GxP
13 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.35%) SLA
14 6 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.30%) NIST
14 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 16 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.45%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.050%) Firmware
4 1 (0.050%) IAG
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.45%) HP ALM
3 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.25%) Grafana
4 5 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.20%) Kibana
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
1 605 (30.54%) SAP
2 574 (28.98%) Oracle
3 367 (18.53%) Microsoft
4 87 (4.39%) Salesforce
5 77 (3.89%) ServiceNow
6 75 (3.79%) IFS
7 72 (3.63%) Workday
8 40 (2.02%) Ariba
9 39 (1.97%) Infor
10 32 (1.62%) Databricks
11 30 (1.51%) Sage
12 28 (1.41%) MuleSoft
13 21 (1.06%) Google
13 21 (1.06%) JD Edwards
14 17 (0.86%) Concur
14 17 (0.86%) Siemens
15 13 (0.66%) SYSPRO
16 11 (0.56%) Epicor
17 9 (0.45%) Baan
17 9 (0.45%) HP