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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 102 100
Rank change year-on-year +44 -2 0
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,961 826 1,004
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 2.56% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 2.82% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 503 602
10th Percentile £350 £326 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 47 41
10th Percentile £17.75 £10.20 £17.00
25th Percentile £27.23 £15.63 £28.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -18.75% -38.15%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.13 £83.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £26.86 £40.00
% change year-on-year +109.46% -32.86% -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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +30 1,633 £550 +2.33% 721
UK excluding London +51 1,025 £525 +3.96% 551
London +23 681 £575 +4.55% 239
Work from Home +51 579 £550 - 378
South East +8 254 £525 -2.33% 137
North of England +50 237 £500 +11.11% 142
Midlands +35 202 £525 - 140
North West +48 137 £525 +16.67% 78
South West +19 126 £525 +10.53% 50
West Midlands +17 126 £540 +2.86% 74
East of England +27 101 £575 - 51
Yorkshire +10 81 £500 +24.22% 50
East Midlands +26 71 £515 -1.90% 66
Scotland +20 57 £500 -0.99% 16
Northern Ireland +30 29 £475 +26.67% 12
Wales - 24 £500 - 19
North East -18 19 £500 -6.98% 16
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 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 18 (0.92%) Confluence
2 18 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (0.25%) NetWeaver
3 5 (0.25%) SAS
4 4 (0.20%) Apache
4 4 (0.20%) SAP EP
4 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.10%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.10%) CMS
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.10%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.051%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.051%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.25%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 304 (15.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 145 (7.39%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (3.47%) SAP ERP
4 55 (2.80%) NetSuite
5 53 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
6 51 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
7 40 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 39 (1.99%) Oracle Receivables
9 30 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
10 22 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
11 18 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
12 17 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
12 17 (0.87%) SAP MDG
13 16 (0.82%) Infor CloudSuite
14 15 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
15 12 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 12 (0.61%) Teamcenter
16 11 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
16 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
17 10 (0.51%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 252 (12.85%) Azure
2 181 (9.23%) Power Platform
3 177 (9.03%) Dynamics 365
4 143 (7.29%) OCI
5 115 (5.86%) SaaS
6 74 (3.77%) AWS
7 61 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (2.29%) PaaS
9 35 (1.78%) Boomi
10 30 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
11 27 (1.38%) GitHub
11 27 (1.38%) PowerApps
12 26 (1.33%) GCP
12 26 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (1.33%) Power Automate
13 25 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (0.82%) Serverless
17 15 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.36%) Network Security
2 5 (0.25%) HTTP
3 4 (0.20%) FTP
4 3 (0.15%) 5G
4 3 (0.15%) Firewall
5 2 (0.10%) Intranet
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) RFID
5 2 (0.10%) SSL
5 2 (0.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.051%) DHCP
6 1 (0.051%) DMZ
6 1 (0.051%) DNS
6 1 (0.051%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.051%) Modbus
6 1 (0.051%) SMS
6 1 (0.051%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.051%) VoIP
6 1 (0.051%) VPN
6 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.04%) Power BI
2 64 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
4 32 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.33%) Oracle ODI
6 25 (1.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 22 (1.12%) SQL Server
8 19 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (0.97%) Tableau
9 17 (0.87%) Metadata
10 11 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
11 10 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.36%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.36%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.36%) SAP HANA
13 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.31%) GIS
14 6 (0.31%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 83 (4.23%) JIRA
2 37 (1.89%) Git
3 20 (1.02%) Hudson
4 18 (0.92%) Postman
5 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.31%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.31%) Selenium
6 6 (0.31%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.15%) LSMW
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.10%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.10%) GitLab
8 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.051%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.051%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.051%) TestRail
General
1 1,006 (51.30%) Finance
2 494 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 246 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (10.20%) Manufacturing
5 154 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 100 (5.10%) Retail
7 67 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (3.16%) Legal
9 58 (2.96%) Local Government
10 56 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
11 54 (2.75%) General Ledger
12 52 (2.65%) Billing
13 48 (2.45%) Law
14 44 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
15 37 (1.89%) Banking
16 30 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.92%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 339 (17.29%) Lead
2 305 (15.55%) Architect
3 254 (12.95%) Consultant
4 235 (11.98%) Analyst
5 172 (8.77%) Senior
6 166 (8.47%) Project Manager
7 149 (7.60%) Solutions Architect
8 115 (5.86%) Business Analyst
9 100 (5.10%) Developer
10 86 (4.39%) ERP Manager
11 67 (3.42%) Accountant
12 63 (3.21%) Oracle Consultant
13 54 (2.75%) Financial Analyst
14 52 (2.65%) Implementation Consultant
14 52 (2.65%) Senior Manager
14 52 (2.65%) Systems Accountant
15 47 (2.40%) Finance Manager
15 47 (2.40%) SAP Consultant
15 47 (2.40%) SAP Manager
16 43 (2.19%) ERP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (9.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 108 (5.51%) REST
3 98 (5.00%) Middleware
4 61 (3.11%) SOAP
5 49 (2.50%) JSON
6 42 (2.14%) XML
7 35 (1.78%) Web Services
8 29 (1.48%) .NET
9 21 (1.07%) OAuth
10 17 (0.87%) EDI
10 17 (0.87%) Node.js
11 16 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
12 14 (0.71%) XSLT
13 13 (0.66%) HTML
14 11 (0.56%) CSS
14 11 (0.56%) JWT
14 11 (0.56%) OAuth2
15 10 (0.51%) PySpark
15 10 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 104 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
2 65 (3.31%) Data Structures
3 54 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 50 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 39 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 36 (1.84%) Public Cloud
7 34 (1.73%) FMCG
8 33 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (1.58%) Cloud Native
10 24 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 18 (0.92%) IoT
13 15 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.76%) Life Science
14 14 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
17 11 (0.56%) Operational Technology
17 11 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.27%) Windows
2 6 (0.31%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.25%) Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.051%) AIX
5 1 (0.051%) Android
5 1 (0.051%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.051%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (25.60%) Migration
2 472 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 348 (17.75%) Data Migration
4 323 (16.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 301 (15.35%) User Acceptance Testing
6 258 (13.16%) Agile
6 258 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 255 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
8 211 (10.76%) Validation
9 208 (10.61%) Change Management
10 196 (9.99%) Business Intelligence
11 177 (9.03%) CRM
11 177 (9.03%) Data Modelling
12 169 (8.62%) Project Management
13 161 (8.21%) Analytics
14 156 (7.96%) Roadmaps
15 143 (7.29%) Procure-to-Pay
16 129 (6.58%) Project Delivery
17 128 (6.53%) DevOps
17 128 (6.53%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 178 (9.08%) SQL
2 71 (3.62%) Python
3 38 (1.94%) JavaScript
4 37 (1.89%) Java
5 33 (1.68%) PL/SQL
6 28 (1.43%) C#
7 20 (1.02%) Ruby
8 18 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 15 (0.76%) ABAP
9 15 (0.76%) X++
10 12 (0.61%) TypeScript
11 11 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.25%) Groovy
13 5 (0.25%) SOQL
13 5 (0.25%) SOSL
13 5 (0.25%) VBA
14 4 (0.20%) Korn
14 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 200 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 143 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 112 (5.71%) Degree
4 85 (4.33%) CIMA
5 82 (4.18%) ACCA
6 40 (2.04%) PMP
7 32 (1.63%) PMI Certification
8 31 (1.58%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.56%) SAP Certification
13 9 (0.46%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.31%) CISM
15 6 (0.31%) CISSP
15 6 (0.31%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.20%) CCAB
16 4 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (6.88%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.08%) GDPR
3 76 (3.88%) QA
4 49 (2.50%) PMO
5 33 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 26 (1.33%) IFRS
7 19 (0.97%) GAAP
8 16 (0.82%) SLA
9 14 (0.71%) GMP
10 12 (0.61%) GxP
10 12 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.46%) NCSC
12 8 (0.41%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.36%) GRC
13 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.25%) NIST
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 10 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.36%) Docker
3 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.051%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (0.76%) Terraform
2 13 (0.66%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.56%) HP ALM
4 6 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.25%) Grafana
5 5 (0.25%) Kibana
6 3 (0.15%) MOM
6 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.051%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.051%) SCCM
Vendors
1 614 (31.31%) SAP
2 542 (27.64%) Oracle
3 334 (17.03%) Microsoft
4 84 (4.28%) IFS
5 81 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 79 (4.03%) Workday
7 61 (3.11%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.80%) Siemens
9 45 (2.29%) Ariba
10 40 (2.04%) Infor
11 39 (1.99%) Databricks
12 36 (1.84%) MuleSoft
13 35 (1.78%) Sage
14 18 (0.92%) JD Edwards
15 17 (0.87%) Concur
16 14 (0.71%) Google
17 12 (0.61%) Epicor
18 11 (0.56%) HP
18 11 (0.56%) Informatica
19 9 (0.46%) Foundry