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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 93 95
Rank change year-on-year +30 +2 +27
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,644 787 1,032
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.61% 2.69% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 2.97% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 457 654
10th Percentile £363 £358 £356
25th Percentile £463 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £645 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £775 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 20 34
10th Percentile £18.27 £47.29 £13.42
25th Percentile £29.43 £65.94 £21.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +34.88% -14.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £69.72
90th Percentile £60.00 £87.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +81.25% -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 38,955 26,496 37,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 90.55% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,674 17,197 24,574
10th Percentile £314 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,314 992 2,359
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.02 £19.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.48 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.87 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.55% -7.69% -11.69%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +32 1,379 £550 +2.33% 750
UK excluding London +35 814 £525 +5.00% 619
London +32 614 £550 - 210
Work from Home +47 538 £550 +3.19% 347
South East +6 201 £543 -1.36% 200
North of England +27 191 £550 +25.71% 135
Midlands -21 137 £540 +8.00% 113
South West +24 122 £525 +10.53% 64
North West +41 115 £500 +2.41% 65
West Midlands -16 91 £565 +13.00% 79
East of England -2 83 £563 -4.26% 69
Yorkshire -11 65 £595 +48.75% 59
Scotland +29 46 £525 +5.00% 29
East Midlands -11 45 £500 +5.26% 34
Wales +11 21 £500 -31.03% 10
Northern Ireland +9 16 £475 +18.75% 11
North East -15 11 £500 +11.11% 15
Channel Islands - 3 - - 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 16 (0.97%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
3 14 (0.85%) Confluence
4 13 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (0.55%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.30%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.30%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.24%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.18%) Documentum
8 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.12%) CMS
9 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.061%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 74 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.30%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.24%) Trello
8 3 (0.18%) Windchill
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.061%) InVision
9 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 245 (14.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (6.75%) Oracle ERP
3 66 (4.01%) Oracle EBS
4 64 (3.89%) SAP ERP
5 53 (3.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 45 (2.74%) Oracle Payables
7 33 (2.01%) NetSuite
8 30 (1.82%) Oracle Receivables
9 29 (1.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 18 (1.09%) Shopify
11 17 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
11 17 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
12 16 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 15 (0.91%) Oracle EBS R12
14 14 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
15 13 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
15 13 (0.79%) SAP FI
15 13 (0.79%) SAP PP
15 13 (0.79%) Workday HCM
16 11 (0.67%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 212 (12.90%) Azure
2 194 (11.80%) Dynamics 365
3 160 (9.73%) OCI
4 135 (8.21%) Power Platform
5 91 (5.54%) SaaS
6 62 (3.77%) AWS
7 50 (3.04%) PaaS
8 42 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (1.89%) Boomi
10 30 (1.82%) Power Automate
11 26 (1.58%) PowerApps
11 26 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
12 23 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (1.34%) GCP
14 18 (1.09%) IaaS
15 17 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
17 15 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
18 14 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (0.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.18%) LAN
2 2 (0.12%) 5G
2 2 (0.12%) Firewall
2 2 (0.12%) FTP
3 1 (0.061%) DHCP
3 1 (0.061%) DNS
3 1 (0.061%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.061%) HTTP
3 1 (0.061%) Intranet
3 1 (0.061%) Modbus
3 1 (0.061%) RFID
3 1 (0.061%) SMS
3 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.061%) VoIP
3 1 (0.061%) VPN
3 1 (0.061%) WAN
3 1 (0.061%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (6.57%) Power BI
2 65 (3.95%) Oracle Reports
3 56 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (1.76%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.46%) Oracle ODI
6 23 (1.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 22 (1.34%) SQL Server
8 17 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.67%) Metadata
10 11 (0.67%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.49%) GIS
11 8 (0.49%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.43%) Tableau
13 6 (0.36%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.30%) Power Query
14 5 (0.30%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (5.17%) JIRA
2 29 (1.76%) Postman
3 23 (1.40%) Git
4 17 (1.03%) Hudson
5 10 (0.61%) SoapUI
6 8 (0.49%) GitLab
7 7 (0.43%) Selenium
8 6 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.30%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) LSMW
12 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.12%) Gradle
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.12%) TestRail
12 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
13 1 (0.061%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 859 (52.25%) Finance
2 492 (29.93%) Social Skills
3 225 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (8.27%) Manufacturing
5 135 (8.21%) Public Sector
6 74 (4.50%) Retail
7 59 (3.59%) Legal
7 59 (3.59%) Local Government
8 56 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 43 (2.62%) Law
12 41 (2.49%) Banking
13 40 (2.43%) General Ledger
14 25 (1.52%) Billing
14 25 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 24 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.40%) Marketing
17 20 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 259 (15.75%) Lead
2 243 (14.78%) Consultant
3 237 (14.42%) Architect
4 189 (11.50%) Analyst
5 156 (9.49%) Project Manager
6 144 (8.76%) Senior
7 118 (7.18%) Solutions Architect
8 105 (6.39%) Business Analyst
9 79 (4.81%) Developer
10 71 (4.32%) ERP Manager
11 54 (3.28%) SAP Consultant
12 52 (3.16%) SAP Manager
13 51 (3.10%) Implementation Consultant
14 49 (2.98%) Accountant
15 45 (2.74%) Financial Analyst
15 45 (2.74%) Senior Manager
16 44 (2.68%) Oracle Consultant
17 37 (2.25%) Test Manager
18 35 (2.13%) Lead Architect
18 35 (2.13%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (11.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 90 (5.47%) REST
3 73 (4.44%) Middleware
4 63 (3.83%) SOAP
5 49 (2.98%) XML
6 45 (2.74%) JSON
7 41 (2.49%) Web Services
8 24 (1.46%) OAuth
9 22 (1.34%) XSLT
10 21 (1.28%) .NET
11 16 (0.97%) JWT
12 15 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
13 12 (0.73%) PySpark
14 11 (0.67%) EDI
15 8 (0.49%) Kafka
15 8 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
15 8 (0.49%) Node.js
16 7 (0.43%) ADO
16 7 (0.43%) SAPUI5
17 6 (0.36%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (3.35%) Data Structures
3 44 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 31 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 23 (1.40%) Cloud Native
7 23 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.22%) IoT
9 17 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (0.97%) FMCG
11 14 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (0.79%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.55%) Life Science
14 9 (0.55%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.49%) LIMS
15 8 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.85%) Windows
2 6 (0.36%) Linux
3 3 (0.18%) Unix
4 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (26.64%) Migration
2 324 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 283 (17.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 279 (16.97%) Data Migration
5 243 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
6 234 (14.23%) Agile
7 233 (14.17%) User Acceptance Testing
8 184 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 182 (11.07%) Change Management
10 178 (10.83%) Project Management
11 173 (10.52%) Validation
12 164 (9.98%) Business Intelligence
13 161 (9.79%) CRM
14 124 (7.54%) Data Modelling
15 117 (7.12%) Procure-to-Pay
16 116 (7.06%) Project Delivery
16 116 (7.06%) Roadmaps
17 114 (6.93%) DevOps
18 103 (6.27%) Analytics
19 100 (6.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 147 (8.94%) SQL
2 47 (2.86%) Python
3 43 (2.62%) PL/SQL
4 30 (1.82%) Java
5 28 (1.70%) C#
6 18 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.73%) Ruby
8 10 (0.61%) ABAP
8 10 (0.61%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.36%) VBA
12 5 (0.30%) Korn
12 5 (0.30%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.30%) X++
13 4 (0.24%) Perl
14 3 (0.18%) C++
14 3 (0.18%) SOQL
14 3 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 202 (12.29%) Security Cleared
2 148 (9.00%) SC Cleared
3 135 (8.21%) Degree
4 93 (5.66%) CIMA
5 82 (4.99%) ACCA
6 47 (2.86%) PMP
7 40 (2.43%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
12 13 (0.79%) SAP Certification
13 10 (0.61%) DV Cleared
13 10 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.55%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.43%) APMP
15 7 (0.43%) OCA
16 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.30%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.35%) Data Quality
2 82 (4.99%) QA
3 67 (4.08%) GDPR
4 55 (3.35%) PMO
5 30 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.16%) IFRS
7 17 (1.03%) GAAP
8 15 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.85%) SLA
10 12 (0.73%) NIST
11 10 (0.61%) GxP
11 10 (0.61%) ITGC
12 9 (0.55%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.49%) COBIT
14 7 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.43%) GMP
14 7 (0.43%) SOX 404
15 6 (0.36%) IFRS 17
15 6 (0.36%) NCSC
16 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.061%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (0.55%) HP ALM
2 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.30%) Terraform
4 3 (0.18%) Control-M
4 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.12%) MOM
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.061%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.061%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.061%) Kibana
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.061%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 495 (30.11%) SAP
2 475 (28.89%) Oracle
3 275 (16.73%) Microsoft
4 89 (5.41%) Workday
5 63 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 57 (3.47%) IFS
7 51 (3.10%) Siemens
8 38 (2.31%) Databricks
9 36 (2.19%) Ariba
10 34 (2.07%) Sage
11 33 (2.01%) ServiceNow
12 32 (1.95%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.03%) Infor
14 16 (0.97%) Informatica
15 9 (0.55%) Foundry
15 9 (0.55%) HP
15 9 (0.55%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.43%) Adobe
16 7 (0.43%) Google
16 7 (0.43%) Talend