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

 6 months to
18 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 89 88
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 +32
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,501 817 1,073
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.47% 2.79% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 3.08% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 464 689
10th Percentile £360 £363 £350
25th Percentile £460 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% +1.80%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 18 40
10th Percentile £18.42 £17.22 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.38 £65.00 £28.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £86.50
90th Percentile £58.90 £78.75 £90.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +75.00% -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 37,207 26,505 38,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 90.41% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,564 17,019 25,049
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £744 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,206 924 2,336
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.99 £16.05
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.08% +0.44% -10.00%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +22 1,274 £550 +2.33% 730
UK excluding London +28 734 £525 +5.00% 605
London +24 567 £575 +4.55% 209
Work from Home +32 513 £550 - 348
North of England +27 177 £550 +15.79% 131
South East -3 170 £550 - 201
Midlands -15 132 £525 +5.00% 120
North West +35 113 £500 +2.25% 71
South West +14 113 £525 +13.26% 60
West Midlands -13 92 £565 +13.00% 71
East of England +5 81 £550 - 54
Yorkshire -19 57 £595 +37.97% 49
East Midlands -25 39 £500 +5.26% 48
Scotland +17 27 £536 +10.00% 32
Wales +15 23 £475 -34.48% 7
Northern Ireland +12 15 £475 +18.75% 4
North East -17 7 £500 - 14
Channel Islands - 1 - - 7

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 19 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.07%) Confluence
3 14 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
4 13 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.53%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.27%) Apache
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.20%) Documentum
7 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.13%) CMS
8 2 (0.13%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.13%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.067%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.067%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.067%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 63 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 23 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.33%) PTC Creo
6 5 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.27%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.067%) InVision
9 1 (0.067%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 222 (14.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 94 (6.26%) Oracle ERP
3 62 (4.13%) Oracle EBS
4 55 (3.66%) SAP ERP
5 51 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 46 (3.06%) Oracle Payables
7 32 (2.13%) NetSuite
8 31 (2.07%) Oracle Receivables
9 24 (1.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 18 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
10 18 (1.20%) Shopify
11 17 (1.13%) Oracle Assets
12 16 (1.07%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 16 (1.07%) Workday HCM
13 13 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
13 13 (0.87%) SAP PP
14 12 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
15 10 (0.67%) SAP FI
15 10 (0.67%) SAP MM
15 10 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 212 (14.12%) Azure
2 173 (11.53%) Dynamics 365
3 150 (9.99%) OCI
4 112 (7.46%) Power Platform
5 93 (6.20%) SaaS
6 54 (3.60%) AWS
7 46 (3.06%) PaaS
8 40 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (2.00%) Boomi
9 30 (2.00%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.93%) PowerApps
11 24 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
13 21 (1.40%) GCP
14 18 (1.20%) IaaS
15 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
18 14 (0.93%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.20%) LAN
2 2 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.067%) DHCP
3 1 (0.067%) DKIM
3 1 (0.067%) DMARC
3 1 (0.067%) DNS
3 1 (0.067%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.067%) HTTP
3 1 (0.067%) Intranet
3 1 (0.067%) Modbus
3 1 (0.067%) Network Security
3 1 (0.067%) RFID
3 1 (0.067%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.067%) VoIP
3 1 (0.067%) VPN
3 1 (0.067%) WAN
3 1 (0.067%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (5.53%) Power BI
2 58 (3.86%) Oracle Reports
3 54 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (1.93%) Data Lake
5 21 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (1.00%) Oracle ODI
7 15 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 13 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.53%) GIS
10 8 (0.53%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.47%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.47%) Tableau
12 5 (0.33%) Metadata
13 4 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.20%) Oracle BI EE
14 3 (0.20%) Oracle Database 11g
14 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 72 (4.80%) JIRA
2 29 (1.93%) Postman
3 21 (1.40%) Git
4 11 (0.73%) Hudson
5 10 (0.67%) SoapUI
6 8 (0.53%) GitLab
7 7 (0.47%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.40%) Selenium
9 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.13%) Gradle
11 2 (0.13%) LSMW
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.13%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.13%) TestRail
11 2 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
12 1 (0.067%) QADirector
General
1 764 (50.90%) Finance
2 486 (32.38%) Social Skills
3 204 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 125 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 65 (4.33%) Retail
7 62 (4.13%) Local Government
8 52 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (3.46%) Legal
9 45 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 41 (2.73%) General Ledger
11 40 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.53%) Banking
13 24 (1.60%) Marketing
14 23 (1.53%) Billing
14 23 (1.53%) Law
15 22 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
17 19 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 229 (15.26%) Consultant
2 206 (13.72%) Lead
3 192 (12.79%) Architect
4 162 (10.79%) Analyst
5 154 (10.26%) Project Manager
6 131 (8.73%) Senior
7 98 (6.53%) Business Analyst
7 98 (6.53%) Solutions Architect
8 75 (5.00%) Developer
9 64 (4.26%) ERP Manager
10 52 (3.46%) SAP Consultant
11 50 (3.33%) Implementation Consultant
12 48 (3.20%) SAP Manager
13 47 (3.13%) Accountant
14 40 (2.66%) Financial Analyst
15 39 (2.60%) Senior Manager
16 38 (2.53%) Systems Accountant
17 35 (2.33%) Test Manager
18 30 (2.00%) Finance Manager
18 30 (2.00%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (13.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 87 (5.80%) REST
3 61 (4.06%) Middleware
4 58 (3.86%) SOAP
5 49 (3.26%) XML
6 46 (3.06%) JSON
7 44 (2.93%) Web Services
8 24 (1.60%) OAuth
9 22 (1.47%) XSLT
10 20 (1.33%) .NET
11 15 (1.00%) JWT
12 12 (0.80%) PySpark
13 10 (0.67%) EDI
14 8 (0.53%) ADO
14 8 (0.53%) HTML
14 8 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
14 8 (0.53%) Node.js
14 8 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
15 6 (0.40%) Kafka
16 5 (0.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.86%) Legacy Systems
2 50 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 45 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.07%) Product Ownership
5 28 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 20 (1.33%) IoT
8 19 (1.27%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
11 14 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (0.93%) FMCG
12 12 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.60%) Life Science
14 9 (0.60%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.53%) LIMS
15 8 (0.53%) PMI
15 8 (0.53%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.13%) Windows
2 7 (0.47%) Linux
3 3 (0.20%) Unix
4 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (25.78%) Migration
2 293 (19.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 256 (17.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 243 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
5 239 (15.92%) Data Migration
6 224 (14.92%) Agile
7 193 (12.86%) User Acceptance Testing
8 172 (11.46%) Project Management
9 159 (10.59%) Change Management
10 153 (10.19%) Validation
11 149 (9.93%) CRM
12 141 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 130 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
14 113 (7.53%) Project Delivery
15 106 (7.06%) Roadmaps
16 105 (7.00%) DevOps
17 103 (6.86%) Data Modelling
18 97 (6.46%) Workshop Facilitation
19 96 (6.40%) Analytics
20 85 (5.66%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 128 (8.53%) SQL
2 41 (2.73%) Python
3 36 (2.40%) PL/SQL
4 27 (1.80%) C#
5 22 (1.47%) Java
5 22 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.53%) Apex Code
7 7 (0.47%) ABAP
8 6 (0.40%) Ruby
8 6 (0.40%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.40%) X++
9 5 (0.33%) Korn
10 4 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.27%) Perl
10 4 (0.27%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.27%) VBA
11 3 (0.20%) C++
11 3 (0.20%) PHP
11 3 (0.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 189 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 139 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 138 (9.19%) Degree
4 90 (6.00%) CIMA
5 77 (5.13%) ACCA
6 44 (2.93%) PMP
7 39 (2.60%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.93%) SAP Certification
11 13 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
12 12 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.67%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.60%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.47%) APMP
15 7 (0.47%) OCA
16 6 (0.40%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.26%) QA
2 76 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.00%) GDPR
4 53 (3.53%) PMO
5 29 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.20%) GAAP
6 18 (1.20%) IFRS
7 14 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.93%) SLA
8 11 (0.73%) NIST
9 10 (0.67%) GxP
9 10 (0.67%) ITGC
10 9 (0.60%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.53%) COBIT
11 8 (0.53%) GMP
12 7 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.47%) SOX 404
13 6 (0.40%) IFRS 17
13 6 (0.40%) NCSC
14 5 (0.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 6 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.27%) Docker
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.067%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (0.53%) HP ALM
2 7 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.40%) Terraform
4 3 (0.20%) Control-M
5 2 (0.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.13%) MOM
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.067%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.067%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.067%) Kibana
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.067%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 443 (29.51%) Oracle
2 441 (29.38%) SAP
3 256 (17.06%) Microsoft
4 92 (6.13%) Workday
5 58 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 51 (3.40%) IFS
7 49 (3.26%) Siemens
8 36 (2.40%) Databricks
9 34 (2.27%) Sage
10 29 (1.93%) Ariba
11 28 (1.87%) MuleSoft
11 28 (1.87%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.07%) Infor
12 16 (1.07%) Informatica
13 10 (0.67%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.60%) Foundry
15 8 (0.53%) HP
16 7 (0.47%) Adobe
17 6 (0.40%) Epicor
17 6 (0.40%) Talend
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