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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 103 97
Rank change year-on-year +44 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,890 773 998
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 2.56% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 2.81% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 469 608
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £458 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 39 39
10th Percentile £17.74 £14.75 £15.50
25th Percentile £27.90 £19.33 £27.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +90.89% -44.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.35 £85.00 £69.10
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 43,249 27,546 37,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 91.07% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,953 17,432 23,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,594 1,315 2,564
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.71 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +17.65%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 1,581 £550 +2.33% 601
UK excluding London +55 991 £525 +5.00% 510
London +33 665 £575 +4.55% 185
Work from Home +52 569 £550 - 298
South East +9 252 £525 -2.33% 141
North of England +49 216 £500 +11.11% 117
Midlands +31 199 £525 - 117
South West +28 125 £525 +13.51% 64
North West +35 124 £500 +11.11% 69
West Midlands +18 124 £540 +5.37% 70
East of England +22 96 £575 +4.55% 39
Yorkshire +5 75 £500 +25.00% 39
East Midlands +29 71 £525 - 47
Scotland +18 57 £500 -0.99% 19
Wales - 26 £525 - 22
Northern Ireland +25 25 £475 +18.75% 8
North East -19 17 £500 -6.98% 12
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 29 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.90%) Confluence
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.26%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.26%) SAS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.16%) 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%) CMS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.053%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.053%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 84 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.26%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.11%) Windchill
9 1 (0.053%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 294 (15.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 140 (7.41%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (3.60%) SAP ERP
4 54 (2.86%) NetSuite
5 53 (2.80%) Oracle Payables
6 45 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
7 42 (2.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 35 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
9 28 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
10 21 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 18 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
11 18 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
11 18 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
12 15 (0.79%) SAP MDG
13 14 (0.74%) Infor CloudSuite
13 14 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
14 13 (0.69%) Unit4 Business World
15 12 (0.63%) Teamcenter
16 10 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
17 9 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 240 (12.70%) Azure
2 173 (9.15%) Dynamics 365
2 173 (9.15%) Power Platform
3 142 (7.51%) OCI
4 111 (5.87%) SaaS
5 68 (3.60%) AWS
6 57 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.49%) PaaS
8 32 (1.69%) Boomi
9 29 (1.53%) Power Automate
9 29 (1.53%) PowerApps
10 27 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
11 24 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
11 24 (1.27%) GitHub
12 22 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (1.11%) GCP
14 17 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (0.90%) IaaS
15 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
16 15 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.32%) Network Security
2 4 (0.21%) FTP
3 3 (0.16%) 5G
3 3 (0.16%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 2 (0.11%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) LAN
4 2 (0.11%) RFID
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
5 1 (0.053%) DHCP
5 1 (0.053%) DMZ
5 1 (0.053%) DNS
5 1 (0.053%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.053%) Modbus
5 1 (0.053%) SMS
5 1 (0.053%) SSL
5 1 (0.053%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.053%) VoIP
5 1 (0.053%) VPN
5 1 (0.053%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (7.04%) Power BI
2 59 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (2.96%) Oracle Reports
4 29 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.38%) Oracle ODI
6 23 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 21 (1.11%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (0.85%) Tableau
9 14 (0.74%) Metadata
10 11 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
11 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.37%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
14 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
14 6 (0.32%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.26%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (4.39%) JIRA
2 33 (1.75%) Git
3 20 (1.06%) Hudson
4 17 (0.90%) Postman
5 10 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.32%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
6 6 (0.32%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.16%) LSMW
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.053%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.053%) Gradle
9 1 (0.053%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.053%) TestRail
General
1 983 (52.01%) Finance
2 478 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 243 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (9.95%) Manufacturing
5 140 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 94 (4.97%) Retail
7 64 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (3.33%) Legal
9 57 (3.02%) General Ledger
10 55 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
11 53 (2.80%) Local Government
12 47 (2.49%) Law
13 46 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 44 (2.33%) Billing
15 39 (2.06%) Banking
16 29 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 25 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (0.90%) Aerospace
19 17 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 329 (17.41%) Lead
2 281 (14.87%) Architect
3 251 (13.28%) Consultant
4 216 (11.43%) Analyst
5 171 (9.05%) Project Manager
6 157 (8.31%) Senior
7 136 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
8 100 (5.29%) Business Analyst
9 93 (4.92%) Developer
10 90 (4.76%) ERP Manager
11 71 (3.76%) Accountant
12 57 (3.02%) Oracle Consultant
13 53 (2.80%) Systems Accountant
14 52 (2.75%) Finance Manager
14 52 (2.75%) Implementation Consultant
15 51 (2.70%) SAP Consultant
16 50 (2.65%) Senior Manager
17 47 (2.49%) Financial Analyst
18 43 (2.28%) ERP Project Manager
19 42 (2.22%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (10.42%) Oracle Fusion
2 99 (5.24%) REST
3 91 (4.81%) Middleware
4 56 (2.96%) SOAP
5 46 (2.43%) JSON
6 43 (2.28%) XML
7 30 (1.59%) Web Services
8 25 (1.32%) .NET
9 19 (1.01%) EDI
10 18 (0.95%) OAuth
11 16 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (0.85%) Node.js
11 16 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
12 14 (0.74%) XSLT
13 13 (0.69%) HTML
14 11 (0.58%) CSS
14 11 (0.58%) JWT
15 10 (0.53%) PySpark
16 9 (0.48%) Ajax
16 9 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 59 (3.12%) Data Structures
3 48 (2.54%) Management Information System
4 47 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 36 (1.90%) Public Cloud
6 34 (1.80%) FMCG
6 34 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 30 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 25 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (0.95%) IoT
12 16 (0.85%) AI Agents
13 14 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.69%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.58%) Life Science
16 9 (0.48%) Operational Technology
17 8 (0.42%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.16%) Windows
2 7 (0.37%) Linux
3 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.053%) AIX
5 1 (0.053%) Android
5 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.053%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.053%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (26.30%) Migration
2 441 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 341 (18.04%) Data Migration
4 307 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 282 (14.92%) User Acceptance Testing
6 250 (13.23%) Agile
6 250 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
7 247 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 206 (10.90%) Validation
9 203 (10.74%) Change Management
10 187 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
11 179 (9.47%) Project Management
12 165 (8.73%) Data Modelling
13 159 (8.41%) CRM
14 149 (7.88%) Roadmaps
15 143 (7.57%) Analytics
16 142 (7.51%) Procure-to-Pay
17 124 (6.56%) Translating Business Requirements
18 122 (6.46%) Process Improvement
19 119 (6.30%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 168 (8.89%) SQL
2 67 (3.54%) Python
3 37 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 35 (1.85%) Java
5 33 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 25 (1.32%) C#
7 19 (1.01%) Ruby
8 18 (0.95%) Apex Code
9 15 (0.79%) ABAP
9 15 (0.79%) X++
10 11 (0.58%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.53%) 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%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.16%) C++
15 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 192 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 141 (7.46%) SC Cleared
3 109 (5.77%) Degree
4 101 (5.34%) CIMA
5 95 (5.03%) ACCA
6 41 (2.17%) PMP
7 34 (1.80%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 17 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.53%) SAP Certification
12 8 (0.42%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.32%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.21%) CCAB
14 4 (0.21%) CISM
14 4 (0.21%) CISSP
14 4 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 77 (4.07%) GDPR
3 68 (3.60%) QA
4 46 (2.43%) PMO
5 33 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.32%) IFRS
7 20 (1.06%) GAAP
8 19 (1.01%) SLA
9 11 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.48%) GMP
10 9 (0.48%) NCSC
11 8 (0.42%) GxP
12 7 (0.37%) GRC
13 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.21%) NIST
16 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
16 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (0.63%) Terraform
2 11 (0.58%) HP ALM
2 11 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.32%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.26%) Grafana
4 5 (0.26%) Kibana
5 3 (0.16%) Control-M
5 3 (0.16%) MOM
5 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.053%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.053%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.053%) SCCM
Vendors
1 593 (31.38%) SAP
2 521 (27.57%) Oracle
3 320 (16.93%) Microsoft
4 85 (4.50%) Workday
5 83 (4.39%) IFS
6 78 (4.13%) Salesforce
7 59 (3.12%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.91%) Siemens
9 39 (2.06%) Ariba
9 39 (2.06%) Databricks
10 37 (1.96%) Infor
10 37 (1.96%) Sage
11 33 (1.75%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.79%) Concur
12 15 (0.79%) JD Edwards
13 14 (0.74%) Informatica
14 13 (0.69%) Google
15 12 (0.63%) Epicor
16 11 (0.58%) HP
17 8 (0.42%) Foundry