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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 92 97
Rank change year-on-year +31 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,986 918 915
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 2.79% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 3.08% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 549 520
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% - -3.64%
75th Percentile £639 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £518 £500
% change year-on-year +1.45% +3.45% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 52 37
10th Percentile £15.36 £6.00 £18.80
25th Percentile £19.48 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.95 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.14% -49.58% -26.81%
75th Percentile £58.75 £71.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.35 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £17.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year +86.51% -61.28% -30.90%

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 45,250 29,801 33,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.48% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,843 18,616 21,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,819 1,703 1,838
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.31 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +13.33%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +20 1,638 £550 +0.69% 1,645
UK excluding London +36 1,042 £525 +1.45% 1,151
London +14 681 £600 +9.09% 685
Work from Home +34 570 £550 - 824
South East +4 273 £525 +1.94% 289
North of England +64 264 £505 +1.00% 287
Midlands +35 209 £525 - 237
North West +40 150 £525 +5.00% 154
West Midlands +16 118 £535 +1.90% 130
South West -3 98 £525 -16.13% 105
Yorkshire +29 93 £500 +24.22% 99
East Midlands +29 82 £525 -12.50% 107
East of England +2 82 £575 - 86
Scotland +16 70 £500 - 104
Northern Ireland +27 28 £450 +28.57% 43
North East -26 21 £500 -6.98% 38
Wales - 20 £488 - 21
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 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.86%) Confluence
4 5 (0.25%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.20%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) CMS
6 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.10%) Apache
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.050%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.050%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.050%) Mendix
Applications
1 99 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
7 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 290 (14.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 155 (7.80%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (3.42%) SAP ERP
4 63 (3.17%) Oracle Payables
5 61 (3.07%) NetSuite
6 51 (2.57%) Oracle EBS
7 48 (2.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 39 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 27 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
10 24 (1.21%) Oracle Financials
11 23 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
12 18 (0.91%) Infor CloudSuite
12 18 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
13 16 (0.81%) SAP MDG
13 16 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
14 13 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
14 13 (0.65%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.55%) SAP FI
16 10 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
16 10 (0.50%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 210 (10.57%) Azure
2 194 (9.77%) Dynamics 365
3 191 (9.62%) Power Platform
4 158 (7.96%) OCI
5 117 (5.89%) SaaS
6 75 (3.78%) AWS
7 58 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (2.01%) PaaS
9 35 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
10 33 (1.66%) Boomi
10 33 (1.66%) GCP
11 31 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (1.46%) Power Automate
13 27 (1.36%) GitHub
14 26 (1.31%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 15 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (0.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.35%) HTTP
1 7 (0.35%) Network Security
2 5 (0.25%) FTP
2 5 (0.25%) SSL
3 4 (0.20%) Firewall
4 3 (0.15%) 5G
5 2 (0.10%) Intranet
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.050%) DHCP
6 1 (0.050%) DMZ
6 1 (0.050%) DNS
6 1 (0.050%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.050%) Modbus
6 1 (0.050%) MQTT
6 1 (0.050%) RFID
6 1 (0.050%) SMS
6 1 (0.050%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.050%) VPN
6 1 (0.050%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (6.90%) Power BI
2 70 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
4 35 (1.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 27 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 26 (1.31%) Oracle ODI
6 26 (1.31%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.16%) Tableau
8 17 (0.86%) Metadata
9 16 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
10 13 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.35%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
12 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (4.38%) JIRA
2 34 (1.71%) Git
3 20 (1.01%) Hudson
4 13 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.45%) Postman
7 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 4 (0.20%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.15%) GitLab
10 3 (0.15%) LSMW
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
12 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.050%) JDeveloper
12 1 (0.050%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.050%) PowerDesigner
General
1 1,029 (51.81%) Finance
2 525 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 246 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (10.57%) Manufacturing
5 172 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 108 (5.44%) Retail
7 83 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (3.22%) General Ledger
9 59 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (2.82%) Legal
11 52 (2.62%) Billing
12 48 (2.42%) Law
13 47 (2.37%) Local Government
14 42 (2.11%) Banking
15 40 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
16 37 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 36 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
18 30 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (1.11%) Aerospace
20 20 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 373 (18.78%) Lead
2 316 (15.91%) Architect
3 251 (12.64%) Analyst
4 235 (11.83%) Consultant
5 162 (8.16%) Senior
6 150 (7.55%) Project Manager
7 149 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 116 (5.84%) Business Analyst
9 109 (5.49%) Developer
10 80 (4.03%) Oracle Consultant
11 74 (3.73%) ERP Manager
12 59 (2.97%) Accountant
12 59 (2.97%) Financial Analyst
13 45 (2.27%) Programme Manager
14 43 (2.17%) Data Analyst
14 43 (2.17%) Systems Accountant
15 42 (2.11%) Finance Manager
15 42 (2.11%) Functional Consultant
15 42 (2.11%) SAP Manager
16 41 (2.06%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (11.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 113 (5.69%) REST
3 97 (4.88%) Middleware
4 67 (3.37%) SOAP
5 43 (2.17%) JSON
6 40 (2.01%) XML
7 33 (1.66%) Web Services
8 28 (1.41%) .NET
9 22 (1.11%) OAuth
10 21 (1.06%) EDI
11 19 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
12 16 (0.81%) OAuth2
13 14 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
13 14 (0.70%) XSLT
14 12 (0.60%) Node.js
15 11 (0.55%) CSS
15 11 (0.55%) HTML
15 11 (0.55%) PySpark
16 10 (0.50%) RESTful
17 9 (0.45%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
2 78 (3.93%) Data Structures
3 57 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 48 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 36 (1.81%) FMCG
7 36 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 31 (1.56%) Cloud Native
9 26 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (0.86%) Life Science
13 16 (0.81%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.70%) IoT
14 14 (0.70%) Operational Technology
15 13 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.65%) Low-Code
16 12 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.31%) Windows
2 7 (0.35%) 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
1 521 (26.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 500 (25.18%) Migration
3 370 (18.63%) Data Migration
4 327 (16.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 318 (16.01%) User Acceptance Testing
6 278 (14.00%) Agile
7 277 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 249 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
9 207 (10.42%) Change Management
10 205 (10.32%) Validation
11 197 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
12 186 (9.37%) Data Modelling
13 183 (9.21%) Analytics
14 176 (8.86%) CRM
15 175 (8.81%) Roadmaps
16 165 (8.31%) Process Improvement
17 145 (7.30%) Project Management
18 144 (7.25%) Translating Business Requirements
19 138 (6.95%) Project Delivery
20 137 (6.90%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 180 (9.06%) SQL
2 65 (3.27%) Python
3 35 (1.76%) PL/SQL
4 33 (1.66%) Java
4 33 (1.66%) JavaScript
5 26 (1.31%) C#
6 21 (1.06%) Apex Code
7 20 (1.01%) Ruby
7 20 (1.01%) X++
8 14 (0.70%) ABAP
8 14 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.40%) Groovy
9 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.30%) SOQL
11 6 (0.30%) SOSL
12 5 (0.25%) VBA
13 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.15%) C++
14 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 223 (11.23%) Security Cleared
2 154 (7.75%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.24%) Degree
4 74 (3.73%) ACCA
5 71 (3.58%) CIMA
6 54 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 38 (1.91%) PMP
8 32 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 19 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.35%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.30%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.30%) CISM
15 6 (0.30%) CISSP
15 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.25%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 72 (3.63%) GDPR
3 70 (3.52%) QA
4 50 (2.52%) PMO
5 36 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.26%) IFRS
7 17 (0.86%) GAAP
8 14 (0.70%) GMP
8 14 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.55%) GRC
9 11 (0.55%) GxP
10 9 (0.45%) NCSC
10 9 (0.45%) SLA
11 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.25%) NIST
13 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 14 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.45%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.050%) Firmware
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (0.86%) Terraform
2 14 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.45%) HP ALM
4 5 (0.25%) Grafana
4 5 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
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
1 604 (30.41%) SAP
2 583 (29.36%) Oracle
3 359 (18.08%) Microsoft
4 82 (4.13%) Salesforce
5 80 (4.03%) IFS
6 78 (3.93%) Workday
7 76 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 41 (2.06%) Infor
9 40 (2.01%) Ariba
10 35 (1.76%) Databricks
11 34 (1.71%) MuleSoft
12 32 (1.61%) Sage
13 27 (1.36%) Siemens
14 22 (1.11%) JD Edwards
15 18 (0.91%) Google
16 17 (0.86%) Concur
17 13 (0.65%) SYSPRO
18 12 (0.60%) Epicor
19 9 (0.45%) Baan
19 9 (0.45%) HP