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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 78 90
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,900 1,043 952
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.48% 3.18% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 3.51% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 634 514
10th Percentile £363 £331 £363
25th Percentile £463 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £648 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £518
% change year-on-year - +1.45% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 42 36
10th Percentile £13.99 £6.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.12 £13.41 £28.00
Median hourly rate £23.18 £16.96 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -52.04% -58.15%
75th Percentile £33.45 £31.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £73.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £15.58 £41.43
% change year-on-year +48.78% -62.39% -38.85%

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 46,176 29,707 32,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.53% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,774 18,450 19,527
10th Percentile £325 £297 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,315 1,863 1,324
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%
75th Percentile £65.41 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £65.00 £74.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +73.52% -47.49% -

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 6 October 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 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ERP in the UK

ERP
Top 17 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 6 October 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 +6 1,582 £550 - 2,500
UK excluding London +19 1,001 £525 - 1,600
London -8 624 £600 +4.80% 1,038
Work from Home -3 533 £550 +4.76% 1,015
North of England +50 274 £525 +3.70% 367
South East -15 239 £500 -2.91% 408
Midlands +23 226 £525 - 308
North West +23 153 £525 +2.44% 175
West Midlands +16 136 £525 - 191
Yorkshire +44 102 £450 -10.00% 138
East of England -5 94 £500 -9.09% 149
East Midlands +17 80 £525 -4.55% 117
South West -35 78 £563 -6.25% 170
Scotland -6 56 £525 +5.00% 84
Wales +2 20 £475 +46.15% 48
Northern Ireland +18 19 £450 +28.57% 88
North East -21 19 £525 +16.67% 59

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 40 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
3 19 (1.00%) Confluence
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.42%) CMS
6 5 (0.26%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.26%) SAS
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.21%) WebLogic Portal
8 3 (0.16%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.16%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.11%) SAP EP
9 2 (0.11%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.053%) EPiServer
Applications
1 109 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.68%) Windchill
7 12 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.053%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.053%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 267 (14.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 142 (7.47%) Oracle ERP
3 66 (3.47%) Oracle Payables
4 64 (3.37%) SAP ERP
5 58 (3.05%) NetSuite
6 55 (2.89%) Oracle Receivables
7 45 (2.37%) Oracle EBS
8 37 (1.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 34 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
10 33 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
11 29 (1.53%) Oracle Financials
12 23 (1.21%) Oracle Assets
12 23 (1.21%) SAP MDG
13 17 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
13 17 (0.89%) Workday HCM
14 16 (0.84%) SAP MM
14 16 (0.84%) Teamcenter
15 14 (0.74%) SAP FI
16 13 (0.68%) Infor CloudSuite
17 12 (0.63%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 219 (11.53%) Azure
2 172 (9.05%) Dynamics 365
3 163 (8.58%) Power Platform
4 123 (6.47%) OCI
5 122 (6.42%) SaaS
6 71 (3.74%) AWS
6 71 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (2.16%) GCP
9 35 (1.84%) Power Automate
10 30 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
11 27 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.37%) PowerApps
13 25 (1.32%) Boomi
14 24 (1.26%) PaaS
15 23 (1.21%) Entra ID
16 21 (1.11%) GitHub
17 16 (0.84%) Serverless
18 15 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
19 14 (0.74%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.63%) HTTP
2 9 (0.47%) Network Security
3 5 (0.26%) SSL
4 4 (0.21%) FTP
5 3 (0.16%) Firewall
6 2 (0.11%) DMZ
6 2 (0.11%) DNS
6 2 (0.11%) MQTT
6 2 (0.11%) SMS
6 2 (0.11%) VPN
7 1 (0.053%) 5G
7 1 (0.053%) Intranet
7 1 (0.053%) LAN
7 1 (0.053%) RFID
7 1 (0.053%) SMTP
7 1 (0.053%) WAN
7 1 (0.053%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.47%) Power BI
2 58 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
4 24 (1.26%) SQL Server
5 22 (1.16%) Data Lake
5 22 (1.16%) Tableau
6 21 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 15 (0.79%) Metadata
7 15 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
8 13 (0.68%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.53%) SAP HANA
10 8 (0.42%) Power Query
11 7 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.37%) Oracle ODI
11 7 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.32%) GIS
12 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 106 (5.58%) JIRA
2 32 (1.68%) Git
3 13 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (0.68%) Visual Studio
4 9 (0.47%) Postman
5 8 (0.42%) Hudson
6 7 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.32%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.21%) Flyway
9 3 (0.16%) MLflow
10 2 (0.11%) GitLab
10 2 (0.11%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.11%) LSMW
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.11%) TestRail
11 1 (0.053%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.053%) Selenium
General
1 944 (49.68%) Finance
2 578 (30.42%) Social Skills
3 264 (13.89%) Manufacturing
4 246 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 105 (5.53%) Retail
7 81 (4.26%) General Ledger
7 81 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
8 76 (4.00%) Billing
9 69 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
10 48 (2.53%) Banking
11 44 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
12 39 (2.05%) Local Government
13 38 (2.00%) Legal
14 29 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.42%) Aerospace
15 27 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.16%) Marketing
16 22 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 309 (16.26%) Lead
2 285 (15.00%) Architect
3 227 (11.95%) Consultant
4 224 (11.79%) Analyst
5 141 (7.42%) Senior
6 139 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
7 124 (6.53%) Project Manager
8 115 (6.05%) Business Analyst
9 95 (5.00%) Developer
10 84 (4.42%) Oracle Consultant
11 68 (3.58%) Administrator
12 60 (3.16%) ERP Manager
13 59 (3.11%) Accountant
14 57 (3.00%) Functional Consultant
15 42 (2.21%) Data Analyst
15 42 (2.21%) Financial Analyst
16 41 (2.16%) Finance Manager
17 39 (2.05%) SAP Manager
18 38 (2.00%) Programme Manager
18 38 (2.00%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (11.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 130 (6.84%) REST
3 113 (5.95%) Middleware
4 78 (4.11%) SOAP
5 51 (2.68%) XML
6 45 (2.37%) JSON
6 45 (2.37%) Web Services
7 31 (1.63%) .NET
8 30 (1.58%) OAuth
9 25 (1.32%) OAuth2
10 22 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
11 21 (1.11%) EDI
12 18 (0.95%) Terraform
13 14 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (0.74%) XSLT
14 12 (0.63%) CSS
14 12 (0.63%) HTML
14 12 (0.63%) IDoc
14 12 (0.63%) Node.js
15 11 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 89 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
2 68 (3.58%) Product Ownership
3 67 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
4 65 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 60 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 59 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 38 (2.00%) FMCG
8 31 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.37%) Cloud Native
9 26 (1.37%) Life Science
9 26 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.05%) AI Agents
11 17 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (0.89%) Low-Code
12 16 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (0.74%) Manufacturing Execution System
14 13 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (0.68%) Operational Technology
15 12 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.47%) Windows
2 11 (0.58%) Linux
3 9 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.32%) Unix
5 4 (0.21%) Android
5 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.053%) AIX
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 603 (31.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 453 (23.84%) Migration
3 339 (17.84%) Data Migration
4 287 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
5 276 (14.53%) Agile
6 270 (14.21%) User Acceptance Testing
7 254 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 245 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 208 (10.95%) Validation
10 197 (10.37%) Process Improvement
11 186 (9.79%) Roadmaps
12 183 (9.63%) CRM
13 181 (9.53%) Change Management
14 168 (8.84%) Analytics
15 155 (8.16%) Data Modelling
16 148 (7.79%) Project Delivery
17 147 (7.74%) Workshop Facilitation
18 146 (7.68%) Business Intelligence
19 131 (6.89%) Decision-Making
19 131 (6.89%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 186 (9.79%) SQL
2 59 (3.11%) Python
3 37 (1.95%) JavaScript
4 31 (1.63%) C#
5 28 (1.47%) Java
6 23 (1.21%) PL/SQL
7 21 (1.11%) X++
8 19 (1.00%) ABAP
9 14 (0.74%) Apex Code
10 11 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.42%) Groovy
12 8 (0.42%) Ruby
13 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.21%) C++
14 4 (0.21%) PHP
15 3 (0.16%) Rust
15 3 (0.16%) SOQL
15 3 (0.16%) SOSL
16 2 (0.11%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 259 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 193 (10.16%) SC Cleared
3 122 (6.42%) Degree
4 74 (3.89%) ACCA
5 69 (3.63%) CIMA
6 54 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.05%) PMP
8 38 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.47%) APMG
13 9 (0.47%) SAP Certification
14 8 (0.42%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.42%) CISSP
14 8 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.37%) CISM
15 7 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 65 (3.42%) QA
3 55 (2.89%) GDPR
4 52 (2.74%) PMO
5 25 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 24 (1.26%) IFRS
7 22 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.00%) GRC
9 17 (0.89%) GAAP
10 16 (0.84%) NCSC
11 13 (0.68%) GMP
12 12 (0.63%) GxP
13 10 (0.53%) SLA
14 9 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 7 (0.37%) Accessibility
15 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 7 (0.37%) NIST
16 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.42%) Docker
3 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.11%) IAG
5 1 (0.053%) Firmware
5 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.21%) Kibana
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (0.21%) SCCM
5 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.053%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.053%) MOM
6 1 (0.053%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 625 (32.89%) SAP
2 531 (27.95%) Oracle
3 370 (19.47%) Microsoft
4 89 (4.68%) Salesforce
5 82 (4.32%) Workday
6 79 (4.16%) ServiceNow
7 55 (2.89%) IFS
8 50 (2.63%) Ariba
9 36 (1.89%) Infor
10 35 (1.84%) Sage
11 30 (1.58%) JD Edwards
12 25 (1.32%) Databricks
13 23 (1.21%) MuleSoft
14 21 (1.11%) Google
14 21 (1.11%) Siemens
15 17 (0.89%) IBM
16 16 (0.84%) Concur
16 16 (0.84%) SYSPRO
17 15 (0.79%) PTC
18 12 (0.63%) Dell