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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 77 94
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,945 1,077 937
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.52% 3.24% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.58% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 650 508
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £455 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £511
% change year-on-year - +2.69% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 44 36
10th Percentile £13.96 £6.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.23 £28.00
Median hourly rate £23.18 £17.17 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -51.44% -58.40%
75th Percentile £30.22 £29.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £58.80 £73.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £16.29 £41.43
% change year-on-year +42.30% -60.68% -36.38%

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 46,911 30,121 32,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.54% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,189 18,721 19,488
10th Percentile £325 £296 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
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 3,476 1,911 1,239
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.07% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 £22.27 £40.00
% change year-on-year +67.26% -44.34% -8.88%

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 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 16 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 16 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 +3 1,603 £550 - 1,465
UK excluding London +21 1,029 £525 - 885
London -9 632 £600 +4.35% 673
Work from Home -2 542 £550 +4.76% 687
North of England +51 283 £525 +2.44% 222
Midlands +22 232 £525 - 171
South East -19 227 £531 +3.11% 187
North West +23 159 £525 +2.44% 98
West Midlands +25 143 £525 -4.55% 98
Yorkshire +41 101 £450 -14.29% 79
East of England -3 96 £500 -7.62% 79
South West -34 81 £575 -4.17% 83
East Midlands +14 79 £525 - 73
Scotland +7 74 £513 +2.50% 94
North East -19 23 £550 +2.33% 49
Wales +5 21 £450 +38.46% 15
Northern Ireland +16 19 £450 +28.57% 49

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 41 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
3 19 (0.98%) Confluence
4 9 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (0.36%) CMS
5 7 (0.36%) OpenEdge
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 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.15%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.10%) SAP EP
9 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 112 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.67%) Windchill
7 10 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.15%) PTC Creo
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 263 (13.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 147 (7.56%) Oracle ERP
3 70 (3.60%) Oracle Payables
4 64 (3.29%) SAP ERP
5 58 (2.98%) NetSuite
6 57 (2.93%) Oracle Receivables
7 48 (2.47%) Oracle EBS
8 41 (2.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 39 (2.01%) Oracle General Ledger
10 35 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
11 32 (1.65%) Oracle Financials
12 28 (1.44%) Oracle Assets
13 23 (1.18%) SAP MDG
14 21 (1.08%) Teamcenter
15 17 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
15 17 (0.87%) Workday HCM
16 16 (0.82%) SAP FI
16 16 (0.82%) SAP MM
17 13 (0.67%) Infor CloudSuite
18 12 (0.62%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 222 (11.41%) Azure
2 176 (9.05%) Dynamics 365
3 165 (8.48%) Power Platform
4 126 (6.48%) OCI
5 123 (6.32%) SaaS
6 73 (3.75%) AWS
7 72 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (2.11%) GCP
10 35 (1.80%) Power Automate
11 29 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
12 28 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
13 27 (1.39%) PaaS
14 26 (1.34%) PowerApps
15 25 (1.29%) Boomi
16 21 (1.08%) Entra ID
17 20 (1.03%) GitHub
18 15 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (0.77%) Serverless
19 14 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.62%) HTTP
2 10 (0.51%) Network Security
3 5 (0.26%) SSL
4 3 (0.15%) Firewall
4 3 (0.15%) FTP
5 2 (0.10%) DMZ
5 2 (0.10%) DNS
5 2 (0.10%) MQTT
5 2 (0.10%) VPN
6 1 (0.051%) 5G
6 1 (0.051%) Intranet
6 1 (0.051%) LAN
6 1 (0.051%) RFID
6 1 (0.051%) SMS
6 1 (0.051%) SMTP
6 1 (0.051%) WAN
6 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.45%) Power BI
2 65 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
4 30 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 24 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 21 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 21 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.08%) Tableau
7 15 (0.77%) Metadata
8 13 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
8 13 (0.67%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.51%) SAP HANA
10 9 (0.46%) Power Query
11 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.31%) GIS
12 6 (0.31%) Oracle ODI
12 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 103 (5.30%) JIRA
2 33 (1.70%) Git
3 13 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (0.67%) Visual Studio
4 10 (0.51%) Postman
5 8 (0.41%) Hudson
6 7 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.31%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.21%) Flyway
9 3 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.10%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.10%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
10 2 (0.10%) TestRail
11 1 (0.051%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.051%) Jenkins
General
1 968 (49.77%) Finance
2 607 (31.21%) Social Skills
3 276 (14.19%) Manufacturing
4 237 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
5 180 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 103 (5.30%) Retail
7 91 (4.68%) General Ledger
8 83 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
9 76 (3.91%) Billing
10 74 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (2.67%) Banking
12 41 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 41 (2.11%) Legal
13 37 (1.90%) Local Government
14 32 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 30 (1.54%) Aerospace
16 29 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 23 (1.18%) Marketing
19 21 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 308 (15.84%) Lead
2 302 (15.53%) Architect
3 235 (12.08%) Consultant
4 230 (11.83%) Analyst
5 143 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
6 136 (6.99%) Senior
7 129 (6.63%) Project Manager
8 121 (6.22%) Business Analyst
9 88 (4.52%) Developer
10 86 (4.42%) Oracle Consultant
11 72 (3.70%) Administrator
12 66 (3.39%) ERP Manager
13 58 (2.98%) Accountant
13 58 (2.98%) Functional Consultant
14 44 (2.26%) ERP Architect
15 43 (2.21%) Financial Analyst
16 42 (2.16%) Data Analyst
17 41 (2.11%) Finance Manager
17 41 (2.11%) Programme Manager
18 38 (1.95%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (12.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 128 (6.58%) REST
3 123 (6.32%) Middleware
4 78 (4.01%) SOAP
5 51 (2.62%) Web Services
6 50 (2.57%) XML
7 44 (2.26%) JSON
8 31 (1.59%) .NET
9 30 (1.54%) OAuth
10 25 (1.29%) OAuth2
11 21 (1.08%) EDI
11 21 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
12 18 (0.93%) Terraform
13 14 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
14 13 (0.67%) XSLT
15 12 (0.62%) IDoc
15 12 (0.62%) Node.js
15 12 (0.62%) RESTful
16 11 (0.57%) OpenAPI
16 11 (0.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
2 73 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
3 71 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.29%) Data Structures
5 63 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 57 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 39 (2.01%) FMCG
8 26 (1.34%) Life Science
8 26 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 25 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.23%) Cloud Native
11 23 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 19 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (0.93%) Low-Code
14 16 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (0.77%) Operational Technology
16 14 (0.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
17 13 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (0.67%) SCADA
18 11 (0.57%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.59%) Windows
2 11 (0.57%) Linux
3 9 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 5 (0.26%) Android
5 5 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.051%) AIX
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (32.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 470 (24.16%) Migration
3 354 (18.20%) Data Migration
4 289 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
5 283 (14.55%) Agile
6 280 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
7 266 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 248 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 218 (11.21%) Validation
10 195 (10.03%) Process Improvement
11 191 (9.82%) Roadmaps
12 189 (9.72%) CRM
13 185 (9.51%) Change Management
14 176 (9.05%) Analytics
15 162 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
16 159 (8.17%) Project Delivery
17 150 (7.71%) Data Modelling
18 148 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
19 137 (7.04%) Requirements Gathering
20 136 (6.99%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 191 (9.82%) SQL
2 60 (3.08%) Python
3 36 (1.85%) JavaScript
4 33 (1.70%) C#
5 29 (1.49%) Java
6 23 (1.18%) PL/SQL
7 20 (1.03%) X++
8 18 (0.93%) ABAP
9 14 (0.72%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.41%) Groovy
11 8 (0.41%) Ruby
12 7 (0.36%) OpenEdge ABL
13 6 (0.31%) Progress 4GL
13 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.26%) C++
15 4 (0.21%) PHP
16 3 (0.15%) SOQL
16 3 (0.15%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 264 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 197 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.22%) Degree
4 76 (3.91%) ACCA
5 72 (3.70%) CIMA
6 54 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.06%) PMP
8 39 (2.01%) PMI Certification
9 38 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.57%) APMG
12 11 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.46%) CISSP
13 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.46%) SAP Certification
14 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.36%) CCAB
15 7 (0.36%) CISM
15 7 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 65 (3.34%) QA
3 55 (2.83%) PMO
4 51 (2.62%) GDPR
5 24 (1.23%) IFRS
5 24 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (0.98%) GRC
7 17 (0.87%) NCSC
8 16 (0.82%) GAAP
9 14 (0.72%) GMP
10 12 (0.62%) GxP
10 12 (0.62%) SLA
11 10 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 9 (0.46%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 6 (0.31%) NIST
16 5 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 16 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.36%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.051%) Firmware
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.26%) SCCM
4 4 (0.21%) Kibana
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.051%) MOM
6 1 (0.051%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 635 (32.65%) SAP
2 540 (27.76%) Oracle
3 385 (19.79%) Microsoft
4 93 (4.78%) Salesforce
5 84 (4.32%) Workday
6 77 (3.96%) ServiceNow
7 63 (3.24%) IFS
8 51 (2.62%) Ariba
9 38 (1.95%) Sage
10 35 (1.80%) Infor
11 31 (1.59%) JD Edwards
12 26 (1.34%) Siemens
13 23 (1.18%) MuleSoft
14 21 (1.08%) Databricks
15 19 (0.98%) Google
16 18 (0.93%) Concur
16 18 (0.93%) IBM
17 16 (0.82%) SYSPRO
18 15 (0.77%) PTC
19 12 (0.62%) Dell