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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 98 93
Rank change year-on-year +41 -5 +22
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,798 761 999
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.74% 2.61% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 2.87% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 468 627
10th Percentile £358 £359 £363
25th Percentile £460 £430 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.46% -
75th Percentile £638 £658 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 23 29
10th Percentile £17.69 £52.75 £13.05
25th Percentile £31.25 £65.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +81.25% -38.15%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.13 £87.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £35.75
% change year-on-year -20.69% +102.80% -44.72%

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 40,526 26,506 36,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.38% 90.99% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,448 17,044 23,613
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,394 1,081 2,430
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.20 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.41 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +49.60% -21.13% +0.06%
75th Percentile £67.49 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year +76.96% -32.19% +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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +37 1,512 £548 +3.30% 659
UK excluding London +41 917 £525 +3.96% 485
London +38 647 £550 - 212
Work from Home +55 561 £540 -1.82% 458
South East +5 237 £550 +1.15% 130
North of England +36 207 £525 +18.31% 128
Midlands +7 168 £525 +5.00% 106
South West +22 122 £525 +5.00% 47
North West +36 111 £500 +2.25% 61
East of England +14 99 £575 -2.13% 48
West Midlands -12 99 £540 +8.00% 60
Yorkshire +4 84 £590 +47.50% 50
East Midlands +12 65 £525 +10.53% 44
Scotland +15 47 £525 +3.65% 21
Wales +14 26 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland +15 15 £475 +18.75% 11
North East -21 12 £500 +7.82% 18
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 19 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.89%) Confluence
2 16 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
3 14 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.33%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.28%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.28%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.22%) Apache
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
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 (0.056%) Documentum
9 1 (0.056%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.056%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 87 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.17%) MS Visio
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 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 288 (16.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 124 (6.90%) Oracle ERP
3 63 (3.50%) SAP ERP
4 60 (3.34%) Oracle EBS
5 44 (2.45%) Oracle Payables
6 42 (2.34%) NetSuite
7 40 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
8 33 (1.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 31 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (0.95%) Shopify
11 16 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 16 (0.89%) Unit4 Business World
12 15 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
13 14 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
13 14 (0.78%) Workday HCM
14 12 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.67%) SAP FI
14 12 (0.67%) SAP MDG
14 12 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 221 (12.29%) Azure
2 197 (10.96%) Dynamics 365
3 156 (8.68%) OCI
4 148 (8.23%) Power Platform
5 96 (5.34%) SaaS
6 66 (3.67%) AWS
7 52 (2.89%) PaaS
8 51 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.84%) Boomi
10 28 (1.56%) Power Automate
10 28 (1.56%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
12 24 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (1.11%) GCP
14 19 (1.06%) IaaS
15 17 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 15 (0.83%) GitHub
16 15 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
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%) Intranet
3 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 1 (0.056%) DHCP
4 1 (0.056%) DMZ
4 1 (0.056%) DNS
4 1 (0.056%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.056%) HTTP
4 1 (0.056%) Modbus
4 1 (0.056%) MQTT
4 1 (0.056%) RFID
4 1 (0.056%) SMS
4 1 (0.056%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.056%) VoIP
4 1 (0.056%) VPN
4 1 (0.056%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.056%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (6.01%) Power BI
2 61 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
3 53 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.56%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.28%) Oracle ODI
6 21 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 12 (0.67%) Metadata
9 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.61%) Tableau
10 9 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.39%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.33%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.33%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (0.22%) GIS
14 4 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (5.62%) JIRA
2 30 (1.67%) Git
2 30 (1.67%) Postman
3 21 (1.17%) Hudson
4 10 (0.56%) SoapUI
4 10 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.39%) Selenium
6 5 (0.28%) GitLab
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.22%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.11%) Gradle
9 2 (0.11%) LSMW
10 1 (0.056%) ERwin
10 1 (0.056%) JMeter
10 1 (0.056%) PowerDesigner
General
1 914 (50.83%) Finance
2 498 (27.70%) Social Skills
3 239 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (9.29%) Manufacturing
5 125 (6.95%) Public Sector
6 85 (4.73%) Retail
7 68 (3.78%) Legal
8 59 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (2.78%) Local Government
11 49 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 47 (2.61%) General Ledger
13 46 (2.56%) Law
14 36 (2.00%) Banking
15 32 (1.78%) Billing
16 30 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (1.17%) Military
17 21 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (0.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 294 (16.35%) Lead
2 262 (14.57%) Architect
3 236 (13.13%) Consultant
4 215 (11.96%) Analyst
5 181 (10.07%) Project Manager
6 158 (8.79%) Senior
7 125 (6.95%) Solutions Architect
8 109 (6.06%) Business Analyst
9 92 (5.12%) Developer
10 84 (4.67%) ERP Manager
11 60 (3.34%) Accountant
12 54 (3.00%) SAP Consultant
13 51 (2.84%) Financial Analyst
13 51 (2.84%) Implementation Consultant
13 51 (2.84%) Senior Manager
14 50 (2.78%) Oracle Consultant
15 47 (2.61%) SAP Manager
16 44 (2.45%) Programme Manager
16 44 (2.45%) Systems Accountant
17 40 (2.22%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (11.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 102 (5.67%) REST
3 84 (4.67%) Middleware
4 61 (3.39%) SOAP
5 50 (2.78%) JSON
6 46 (2.56%) XML
7 35 (1.95%) Web Services
8 24 (1.33%) OAuth
9 21 (1.17%) XSLT
10 20 (1.11%) .NET
11 18 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
12 15 (0.83%) JWT
12 15 (0.83%) Node.js
13 14 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
14 13 (0.72%) EDI
15 10 (0.56%) HTML
15 10 (0.56%) PySpark
16 9 (0.50%) RESTful
17 8 (0.44%) Kafka
17 8 (0.44%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.51%) Legacy Systems
2 61 (3.39%) Data Structures
3 43 (2.39%) Management Information System
3 43 (2.39%) Public Cloud
4 42 (2.34%) Product Ownership
5 30 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 30 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 24 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (1.28%) FMCG
8 17 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (0.95%) IoT
9 15 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (0.78%) AI Agents
10 14 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (0.72%) Life Science
12 12 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (0.67%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.56%) SCADA
14 9 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.17%) Windows
2 6 (0.33%) Linux
3 3 (0.17%) Unix
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.056%) Android
4 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (26.08%) Migration
2 392 (21.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 303 (16.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 299 (16.63%) Data Migration
5 269 (14.96%) Agile
6 266 (14.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 243 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
8 207 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 197 (10.96%) Change Management
10 192 (10.68%) Project Management
11 191 (10.62%) Validation
12 162 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
13 158 (8.79%) CRM
14 143 (7.95%) Data Modelling
15 137 (7.62%) Procure-to-Pay
16 133 (7.40%) Roadmaps
17 116 (6.45%) Analytics
18 114 (6.34%) Project Delivery
19 113 (6.28%) DevOps
19 113 (6.28%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 146 (8.12%) SQL
2 48 (2.67%) Python
3 37 (2.06%) PL/SQL
4 32 (1.78%) Java
5 30 (1.67%) C#
6 28 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.89%) Apex Code
8 14 (0.78%) Ruby
9 13 (0.72%) X++
10 12 (0.67%) ABAP
11 8 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.28%) SOQL
13 5 (0.28%) SOSL
13 5 (0.28%) VBA
14 4 (0.22%) Perl
15 3 (0.17%) C++
15 3 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 205 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 155 (8.62%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.51%) Degree
4 100 (5.56%) CIMA
5 91 (5.06%) ACCA
6 50 (2.78%) PMP
7 43 (2.39%) PMI Certification
8 17 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.83%) DV Cleared
11 13 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
12 12 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.61%) SAP Certification
14 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.44%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.39%) APMP
16 7 (0.39%) Azure Certification
17 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 4 (0.22%) APMG
18 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 78 (4.34%) QA
3 71 (3.95%) GDPR
4 51 (2.84%) PMO
5 29 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.06%) IFRS
7 17 (0.95%) GAAP
7 17 (0.95%) SLA
8 12 (0.67%) GxP
9 9 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.39%) GMP
11 6 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.33%) NIST
11 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.28%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) GRC
14 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.28%) Docker
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (0.50%) HP ALM
1 9 (0.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.28%) Terraform
3 3 (0.17%) Control-M
3 3 (0.17%) Kibana
3 3 (0.17%) MOM
3 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.11%) Grafana
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 565 (31.42%) SAP
2 502 (27.92%) Oracle
3 294 (16.35%) Microsoft
4 94 (5.23%) Workday
5 73 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 71 (3.95%) IFS
7 56 (3.11%) Siemens
8 51 (2.84%) ServiceNow
9 38 (2.11%) Databricks
10 37 (2.06%) Ariba
11 36 (2.00%) MuleSoft
12 32 (1.78%) Sage
13 30 (1.67%) Infor
14 16 (0.89%) Informatica
15 10 (0.56%) Google
16 9 (0.50%) HP
16 9 (0.50%) JD Edwards
17 8 (0.44%) Epicor
17 8 (0.44%) Foundry
18 7 (0.39%) Talend