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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 99 97
Rank change year-on-year +42 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,815 740 998
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 2.59% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 2.85% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 460 620
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £507 £500
% change year-on-year +3.65% +1.30% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 24 30
10th Percentile £17.71 £19.02 £13.05
25th Percentile £25.98 £65.63 £17.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £73.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% +84.38% -36.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £86.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -19.30% +78.13% -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 41,181 26,010 36,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 91.03% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,765 16,696 23,578
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,066 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.92 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +39 1,535 £538 -0.46% 771
UK excluding London +42 932 £525 +3.65% 543
London +39 661 £550 -3.51% 291
Work from Home +55 544 £550 - 371
South East +12 233 £560 +4.19% 145
North of England +39 213 £500 +5.26% 147
Midlands +18 180 £525 +5.00% 117
South West +32 124 £525 +5.00% 62
North West +32 113 £500 +2.25% 84
West Midlands +5 107 £525 +5.00% 58
East of England +17 97 £575 -4.17% 35
Yorkshire +8 86 £550 +37.50% 52
East Midlands +15 69 £525 +10.53% 58
Scotland +17 47 £525 +3.65% 26
Wales +8 25 £475 - 8
Northern Ireland +17 17 £475 +18.75% 15
North East -17 14 £500 -9.09% 13
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 23 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 17 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
3 16 (0.88%) Confluence
4 13 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.33%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.22%) Apache
6 4 (0.22%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (0.22%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.17%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.055%) Documentum
9 1 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.055%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 91 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 22 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
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 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 288 (15.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 124 (6.83%) Oracle ERP
3 60 (3.31%) SAP ERP
4 54 (2.98%) Oracle EBS
5 46 (2.53%) NetSuite
6 44 (2.42%) Oracle Payables
7 39 (2.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 32 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
9 31 (1.71%) Oracle Receivables
10 19 (1.05%) Oracle Assets
11 18 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 16 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
12 16 (0.88%) Unit4 Business World
13 15 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
13 15 (0.83%) Shopify
14 12 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.66%) Teamcenter
14 12 (0.66%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.61%) SAP FI
15 11 (0.61%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 225 (12.40%) Azure
2 190 (10.47%) Dynamics 365
3 152 (8.37%) OCI
4 148 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 92 (5.07%) SaaS
6 64 (3.53%) AWS
7 53 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.59%) PaaS
9 33 (1.82%) PowerApps
10 32 (1.76%) Power Automate
11 31 (1.71%) Boomi
12 25 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
12 25 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (0.94%) GCP
13 17 (0.94%) IaaS
13 17 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 16 (0.88%) GitHub
14 16 (0.88%) 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%) HTTP
3 2 (0.11%) Intranet
3 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 1 (0.055%) DHCP
4 1 (0.055%) DMZ
4 1 (0.055%) DNS
4 1 (0.055%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.055%) Modbus
4 1 (0.055%) MQTT
4 1 (0.055%) RFID
4 1 (0.055%) SMS
4 1 (0.055%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.055%) VoIP
4 1 (0.055%) VPN
4 1 (0.055%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.055%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.84%) Power BI
2 57 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
3 49 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (1.38%) Oracle ODI
5 23 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 20 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 20 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (0.66%) Metadata
8 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (0.61%) Tableau
9 10 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.28%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 100 (5.51%) JIRA
2 29 (1.60%) Git
2 29 (1.60%) Postman
3 21 (1.16%) Hudson
4 11 (0.61%) SoapUI
4 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.39%) Selenium
6 5 (0.28%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.28%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) GitLab
8 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.11%) Gradle
9 2 (0.11%) LSMW
10 1 (0.055%) ERwin
10 1 (0.055%) JMeter
10 1 (0.055%) PowerDesigner
General
1 928 (51.13%) Finance
2 495 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 235 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (9.42%) Manufacturing
5 121 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 87 (4.79%) Retail
7 65 (3.58%) Legal
8 56 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
9 50 (2.75%) Local Government
10 49 (2.70%) General Ledger
10 49 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 46 (2.53%) Law
12 37 (2.04%) Banking
13 36 (1.98%) Billing
14 32 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.16%) Military
15 21 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 301 (16.58%) Lead
2 261 (14.38%) Architect
3 243 (13.39%) Consultant
4 212 (11.68%) Analyst
5 179 (9.86%) Project Manager
6 151 (8.32%) Senior
7 130 (7.16%) Solutions Architect
8 105 (5.79%) Business Analyst
9 89 (4.90%) Developer
10 85 (4.68%) ERP Manager
11 62 (3.42%) Accountant
12 55 (3.03%) Oracle Consultant
13 52 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
14 51 (2.81%) Implementation Consultant
14 51 (2.81%) SAP Consultant
14 51 (2.81%) Senior Manager
15 46 (2.53%) SAP Manager
15 46 (2.53%) Systems Accountant
16 42 (2.31%) Programme Manager
17 40 (2.20%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (11.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 103 (5.67%) REST
3 84 (4.63%) Middleware
4 61 (3.36%) SOAP
5 50 (2.75%) JSON
6 48 (2.64%) XML
7 34 (1.87%) Web Services
8 24 (1.32%) OAuth
9 22 (1.21%) .NET
9 22 (1.21%) XSLT
10 16 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (0.83%) JWT
11 15 (0.83%) Node.js
11 15 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
12 13 (0.72%) EDI
13 11 (0.61%) HTML
14 10 (0.55%) PySpark
14 10 (0.55%) RESTful
15 8 (0.44%) OpenAPI
15 8 (0.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
2 58 (3.20%) Data Structures
3 43 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 40 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 29 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 26 (1.43%) FMCG
8 25 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (0.88%) AI Agents
12 15 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (0.77%) IoT
13 14 (0.77%) Life Science
14 11 (0.61%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.50%) SCADA
17 8 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.21%) Windows
2 6 (0.33%) Linux
3 4 (0.22%) Unix
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.055%) AIX
4 1 (0.055%) Android
4 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.055%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.055%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (25.62%) Migration
2 395 (21.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 305 (16.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 302 (16.64%) Data Migration
5 271 (14.93%) User Acceptance Testing
6 262 (14.44%) Agile
7 244 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
8 219 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 199 (10.96%) Validation
10 196 (10.80%) Change Management
11 186 (10.25%) Project Management
12 157 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
13 148 (8.15%) CRM
14 147 (8.10%) Data Modelling
15 143 (7.88%) Procure-to-Pay
16 136 (7.49%) Roadmaps
17 119 (6.56%) Analytics
18 113 (6.23%) Project Delivery
18 113 (6.23%) Translating Business Requirements
19 111 (6.12%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 152 (8.37%) SQL
2 54 (2.98%) Python
3 37 (2.04%) PL/SQL
4 33 (1.82%) Java
5 32 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.65%) C#
7 18 (0.99%) Apex Code
8 15 (0.83%) Ruby
8 15 (0.83%) X++
9 10 (0.55%) ABAP
10 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.28%) SOQL
12 5 (0.28%) SOSL
13 4 (0.22%) Perl
13 4 (0.22%) VBA
14 3 (0.17%) C++
14 3 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 194 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 143 (7.88%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.44%) Degree
4 103 (5.67%) CIMA
5 95 (5.23%) ACCA
6 44 (2.42%) PMP
7 37 (2.04%) PMI Certification
8 16 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 14 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.55%) SAP Certification
12 9 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.39%) APMP
13 7 (0.39%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.22%) APMG
16 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 73 (4.02%) QA
3 69 (3.80%) GDPR
4 47 (2.59%) PMO
5 31 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.38%) IFRS
7 19 (1.05%) GAAP
8 18 (0.99%) SLA
9 10 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.55%) GxP
10 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.39%) GMP
12 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.28%) NCSC
13 5 (0.28%) NIST
14 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.22%) GRC
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.33%) Docker
3 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (0.55%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.50%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.28%) Terraform
4 4 (0.22%) Kibana
4 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.17%) Control-M
5 3 (0.17%) Grafana
5 3 (0.17%) MOM
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.055%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.055%) SCCM
Vendors
1 565 (31.13%) SAP
2 511 (28.15%) Oracle
3 295 (16.25%) Microsoft
4 91 (5.01%) Workday
5 76 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 73 (4.02%) IFS
7 56 (3.09%) Siemens
8 52 (2.87%) ServiceNow
9 40 (2.20%) Databricks
10 36 (1.98%) Ariba
10 36 (1.98%) MuleSoft
11 29 (1.60%) Infor
11 29 (1.60%) Sage
12 16 (0.88%) Informatica
13 13 (0.72%) Epicor
14 9 (0.50%) HP
14 9 (0.50%) JD Edwards
15 8 (0.44%) Concur
15 8 (0.44%) Foundry
15 8 (0.44%) Google