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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 101 99
Rank change year-on-year +41 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,906 782 1,001
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.70% 2.50% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 2.75% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 474 604
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 42 38
10th Percentile £17.75 £14.75 £16.03
25th Percentile £27.15 £17.03 £28.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £37.68
Median % change year-on-year - +52.60% -40.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £65.75 £84.75 £69.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £35.36
% change year-on-year -14.81% +90.89% -44.39%

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 43,799 28,390 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.78% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,227 17,909 23,638
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,638 1,396 2,532
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.21 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +8.91%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +37 1,594 £550 +2.33% 823
UK excluding London +51 996 £525 +3.96% 644
London +33 668 £575 +4.55% 281
Work from Home +53 566 £550 - 437
South East +5 250 £525 -2.33% 152
North of England +51 225 £500 +11.11% 157
Midlands +39 200 £525 - 145
North West +42 131 £500 +11.11% 99
West Midlands +23 125 £540 +2.86% 82
South West +30 121 £525 +12.00% 65
East of England +22 98 £575 +2.22% 52
Yorkshire +4 77 £500 +24.22% 45
East Midlands +24 71 £515 -1.90% 63
Scotland +20 55 £500 -0.99% 39
Northern Ireland +27 27 £475 +18.75% 27
Wales - 25 £513 - 21
North East -25 17 £500 -6.98% 15
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 31 (1.63%) SharePoint
2 18 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.89%) Confluence
4 5 (0.26%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.26%) SAS
5 4 (0.21%) Apache
5 4 (0.21%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.10%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.10%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.052%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.052%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.26%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 295 (15.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 142 (7.45%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.52%) SAP ERP
4 55 (2.89%) NetSuite
5 50 (2.62%) Oracle Payables
6 46 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
7 40 (2.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 36 (1.89%) Oracle Receivables
9 29 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
10 21 (1.10%) Oracle Financials
11 18 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
12 17 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
13 16 (0.84%) SAP MDG
14 15 (0.79%) Infor CloudSuite
14 15 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
15 14 (0.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
16 12 (0.63%) Teamcenter
17 11 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
18 10 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
18 10 (0.52%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 242 (12.70%) Azure
2 178 (9.34%) Power Platform
3 173 (9.08%) Dynamics 365
4 140 (7.35%) OCI
5 110 (5.77%) SaaS
6 68 (3.57%) AWS
7 60 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.31%) PaaS
9 33 (1.73%) Boomi
10 28 (1.47%) PowerApps
10 28 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
11 27 (1.42%) Power Automate
12 25 (1.31%) GitHub
13 24 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 24 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
14 23 (1.21%) GCP
15 18 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.37%) Network Security
2 4 (0.21%) FTP
2 4 (0.21%) HTTP
3 3 (0.16%) 5G
3 3 (0.16%) Firewall
4 2 (0.10%) Intranet
4 2 (0.10%) LAN
4 2 (0.10%) RFID
4 2 (0.10%) WAN
5 1 (0.052%) DHCP
5 1 (0.052%) DMZ
5 1 (0.052%) DNS
5 1 (0.052%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.052%) Modbus
5 1 (0.052%) SMS
5 1 (0.052%) SSL
5 1 (0.052%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.052%) VoIP
5 1 (0.052%) VPN
5 1 (0.052%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (7.08%) Power BI
2 62 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
4 31 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.36%) Oracle ODI
6 25 (1.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 20 (1.05%) SQL Server
8 19 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (0.94%) Tableau
10 15 (0.79%) Metadata
11 11 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
12 9 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.37%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.37%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.31%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.31%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.31%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.31%) SAP Data Services
14 6 (0.31%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 83 (4.35%) JIRA
2 34 (1.78%) Git
3 20 (1.05%) Hudson
4 18 (0.94%) Postman
5 10 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.31%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.31%) Selenium
6 6 (0.31%) SoapUI
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.16%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.16%) LSMW
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.10%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.10%) GitLab
10 1 (0.052%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.052%) JDeveloper
10 1 (0.052%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.052%) TestRail
General
1 981 (51.47%) Finance
2 477 (25.03%) Social Skills
3 241 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (10.07%) Manufacturing
5 147 (7.71%) Public Sector
6 97 (5.09%) Retail
7 65 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (3.25%) Legal
9 57 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 55 (2.89%) Local Government
11 54 (2.83%) General Ledger
12 50 (2.62%) Billing
13 48 (2.52%) Law
14 43 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
15 37 (1.94%) Banking
16 30 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.94%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 327 (17.16%) Lead
2 295 (15.48%) Architect
3 252 (13.22%) Consultant
4 224 (11.75%) Analyst
5 165 (8.66%) Project Manager
6 159 (8.34%) Senior
7 144 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
8 107 (5.61%) Business Analyst
9 97 (5.09%) Developer
10 85 (4.46%) ERP Manager
11 67 (3.52%) Accountant
12 62 (3.25%) Oracle Consultant
13 52 (2.73%) Implementation Consultant
14 51 (2.68%) Senior Manager
14 51 (2.68%) Systems Accountant
15 50 (2.62%) Finance Manager
16 49 (2.57%) Financial Analyst
17 48 (2.52%) SAP Consultant
18 45 (2.36%) SAP Manager
19 41 (2.15%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (9.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 102 (5.35%) REST
3 95 (4.98%) Middleware
4 58 (3.04%) SOAP
5 47 (2.47%) JSON
6 40 (2.10%) XML
7 32 (1.68%) Web Services
8 27 (1.42%) .NET
9 19 (1.00%) OAuth
10 17 (0.89%) EDI
10 17 (0.89%) Node.js
11 16 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
12 14 (0.73%) XSLT
13 13 (0.68%) HTML
14 11 (0.58%) CSS
14 11 (0.58%) JWT
15 10 (0.52%) PySpark
15 10 (0.52%) React
16 9 (0.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
2 62 (3.25%) Data Structures
3 51 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 37 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 36 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 33 (1.73%) FMCG
8 29 (1.52%) Cloud Native
8 29 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (0.94%) IoT
12 16 (0.84%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.68%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.63%) Life Science
15 11 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (0.52%) Operational Technology
17 9 (0.47%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.21%) Windows
2 5 (0.26%) Linux
2 5 (0.26%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.10%) Unix
4 1 (0.052%) AIX
4 1 (0.052%) Android
4 1 (0.052%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.052%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (25.71%) Migration
2 450 (23.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 339 (17.79%) Data Migration
4 314 (16.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 290 (15.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 254 (13.33%) Agile
7 252 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 247 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
9 206 (10.81%) Validation
10 202 (10.60%) Change Management
11 191 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
12 169 (8.87%) CRM
12 169 (8.87%) Data Modelling
13 165 (8.66%) Project Management
14 153 (8.03%) Roadmaps
15 151 (7.92%) Analytics
16 142 (7.45%) Procure-to-Pay
17 124 (6.51%) DevOps
17 124 (6.51%) Translating Business Requirements
18 123 (6.45%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 172 (9.02%) SQL
2 68 (3.57%) Python
3 37 (1.94%) JavaScript
4 34 (1.78%) Java
5 32 (1.68%) PL/SQL
6 27 (1.42%) C#
7 19 (1.00%) Ruby
8 18 (0.94%) Apex Code
9 15 (0.79%) ABAP
9 15 (0.79%) X++
10 12 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.26%) SOQL
13 5 (0.26%) SOSL
13 5 (0.26%) VBA
14 4 (0.21%) Groovy
14 4 (0.21%) Korn
14 4 (0.21%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 196 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 141 (7.40%) SC Cleared
3 107 (5.61%) Degree
4 90 (4.72%) CIMA
5 86 (4.51%) ACCA
6 39 (2.05%) PMP
7 31 (1.63%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 18 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.58%) SAP Certification
13 8 (0.42%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.31%) CISM
15 6 (0.31%) CISSP
15 6 (0.31%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.21%) CCAB
16 4 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.14%) GDPR
3 73 (3.83%) QA
4 47 (2.47%) PMO
5 32 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.31%) IFRS
7 19 (1.00%) GAAP
8 16 (0.84%) SLA
9 12 (0.63%) GMP
9 12 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.52%) GxP
11 9 (0.47%) NCSC
12 8 (0.42%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.37%) GRC
13 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.26%) NIST
15 4 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.052%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (0.68%) Terraform
2 11 (0.58%) HP ALM
2 11 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.31%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.26%) Grafana
4 5 (0.26%) Kibana
5 3 (0.16%) MOM
5 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.052%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.052%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.052%) SCCM
Vendors
1 599 (31.43%) SAP
2 523 (27.44%) Oracle
3 324 (17.00%) Microsoft
4 84 (4.41%) IFS
5 80 (4.20%) Workday
6 79 (4.14%) Salesforce
7 60 (3.15%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.89%) Siemens
9 42 (2.20%) Ariba
10 39 (2.05%) Databricks
11 38 (1.99%) Infor
12 36 (1.89%) Sage
13 35 (1.84%) MuleSoft
14 16 (0.84%) Concur
14 16 (0.84%) JD Edwards
15 13 (0.68%) Google
16 12 (0.63%) Epicor
17 11 (0.58%) HP
17 11 (0.58%) Informatica
18 8 (0.42%) Dell