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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 78 95
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 +5
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,913 1,027 947
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.52% 3.13% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 3.45% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 627 506
10th Percentile £363 £329 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £536
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.23% -2.50%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £518
% change year-on-year - +1.45% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 45 35
10th Percentile £13.99 £6.00 £20.35
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.65 £28.00
Median hourly rate £23.18 £17.35 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% -63.48% -25.20%
75th Percentile £35.00 £32.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £79.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £15.66 £51.25
% change year-on-year +48.02% -69.44% -20.31%

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 45,850 29,737 32,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.62% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,722 18,491 19,844
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,854 1,372
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.00 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +9 1,582 £550 - 2,038
UK excluding London +22 999 £525 - 1,334
London -2 636 £600 +5.49% 811
Work from Home +10 540 £550 +4.76% 848
North of England +55 273 £525 +2.44% 303
South East -7 242 £500 -2.91% 353
Midlands +26 223 £525 -4.55% 282
North West +15 150 £525 +2.44% 144
West Midlands +18 130 £525 - 164
Yorkshire +40 104 £463 -11.90% 115
East of England -7 87 £507 -11.05% 113
East Midlands +16 84 £525 -12.50% 116
South West -39 76 £563 -6.25% 101
Scotland -9 62 £525 +5.00% 76
Northern Ireland +16 20 £450 +28.57% 87
Wales +3 20 £475 +46.15% 34
North East -22 19 £513 +13.89% 49
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 39 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
3 18 (0.94%) Confluence
4 9 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.42%) CMS
6 5 (0.26%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.26%) SAS
6 5 (0.26%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.21%) WebLogic Portal
8 3 (0.16%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.16%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.10%) SAP EP
9 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.052%) Mendix
Applications
1 107 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.68%) Windchill
7 11 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 274 (14.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 143 (7.48%) Oracle ERP
3 66 (3.45%) SAP ERP
4 65 (3.40%) Oracle Payables
5 58 (3.03%) NetSuite
6 51 (2.67%) Oracle Receivables
7 41 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
8 38 (1.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 36 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
10 28 (1.46%) Oracle General Ledger
11 26 (1.36%) Oracle Financials
12 23 (1.20%) SAP MDG
13 19 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
14 17 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
15 15 (0.78%) Teamcenter
15 15 (0.78%) Workday HCM
16 13 (0.68%) Infor CloudSuite
16 13 (0.68%) SAP FI
16 13 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
17 12 (0.63%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 219 (11.45%) Azure
2 179 (9.36%) Dynamics 365
3 171 (8.94%) Power Platform
4 128 (6.69%) OCI
5 122 (6.38%) SaaS
6 72 (3.76%) AWS
7 70 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (2.09%) GCP
10 35 (1.83%) Power Automate
11 31 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
12 27 (1.41%) Boomi
12 27 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 26 (1.36%) PaaS
13 26 (1.36%) PowerApps
14 23 (1.20%) Entra ID
15 20 (1.05%) GitHub
16 18 (0.94%) Serverless
17 16 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
18 15 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.63%) HTTP
2 7 (0.37%) Network Security
3 6 (0.31%) FTP
4 5 (0.26%) SSL
5 3 (0.16%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) DMZ
6 2 (0.10%) MQTT
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
7 1 (0.052%) 5G
7 1 (0.052%) DNS
7 1 (0.052%) Intranet
7 1 (0.052%) LAN
7 1 (0.052%) RFID
7 1 (0.052%) SMTP
7 1 (0.052%) VPN
7 1 (0.052%) WAN
7 1 (0.052%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.85%) Power BI
2 60 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
4 25 (1.31%) Data Lake
4 25 (1.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 23 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 22 (1.15%) Tableau
7 16 (0.84%) Metadata
8 14 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 13 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.68%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.58%) Oracle ODI
11 10 (0.52%) SAP HANA
12 8 (0.42%) Power Query
13 7 (0.37%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.31%) GIS
14 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 109 (5.70%) JIRA
2 31 (1.62%) Git
3 13 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (0.68%) Visual Studio
4 10 (0.52%) Hudson
5 9 (0.47%) Postman
6 7 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.37%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.21%) Flyway
9 3 (0.16%) MLflow
10 2 (0.10%) GitLab
10 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
10 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.052%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.052%) eggPlant
General
1 961 (50.24%) Finance
2 565 (29.53%) Social Skills
3 252 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (12.81%) Manufacturing
5 167 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 103 (5.38%) Retail
7 79 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (3.82%) General Ledger
9 71 (3.71%) Billing
10 60 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.40%) Banking
12 44 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
13 40 (2.09%) Legal
14 36 (1.88%) Local Government
15 30 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 26 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
18 23 (1.20%) Aerospace
19 22 (1.15%) Marketing
20 21 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 310 (16.20%) Lead
2 287 (15.00%) Architect
3 241 (12.60%) Analyst
4 227 (11.87%) Consultant
5 149 (7.79%) Senior
6 139 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
7 130 (6.80%) Project Manager
8 118 (6.17%) Business Analyst
9 95 (4.97%) Developer
10 85 (4.44%) Oracle Consultant
11 61 (3.19%) Administrator
12 60 (3.14%) ERP Manager
13 59 (3.08%) Functional Consultant
14 57 (2.98%) Accountant
15 47 (2.46%) Financial Analyst
16 45 (2.35%) Data Analyst
17 39 (2.04%) Finance Manager
18 38 (1.99%) Programme Manager
18 38 (1.99%) SAP Consultant
18 38 (1.99%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (11.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 126 (6.59%) REST
3 108 (5.65%) Middleware
4 81 (4.23%) SOAP
5 50 (2.61%) XML
6 45 (2.35%) JSON
7 43 (2.25%) Web Services
8 30 (1.57%) .NET
9 27 (1.41%) OAuth
10 25 (1.31%) OAuth2
11 21 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
12 20 (1.05%) EDI
13 17 (0.89%) Terraform
14 14 (0.73%) XSLT
15 13 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
16 11 (0.58%) IDoc
16 11 (0.58%) Node.js
16 11 (0.58%) OpenAPI
16 11 (0.58%) RESTful
16 11 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 95 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 69 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 64 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 62 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 54 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 36 (1.88%) FMCG
8 29 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (1.36%) Cloud Native
11 24 (1.25%) Life Science
12 17 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (0.89%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.84%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
15 14 (0.73%) Operational Technology
16 13 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
17 12 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
17 12 (0.63%) Manufacturing Execution System
17 12 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.41%) Windows
2 11 (0.58%) Linux
3 9 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 3 (0.16%) Android
5 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.052%) AIX
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (31.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 461 (24.10%) Migration
3 341 (17.83%) Data Migration
4 287 (15.00%) Agile
5 284 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
6 277 (14.48%) User Acceptance Testing
7 264 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 248 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 207 (10.82%) Validation
10 194 (10.14%) Process Improvement
11 189 (9.88%) CRM
11 189 (9.88%) Roadmaps
12 188 (9.83%) Change Management
13 171 (8.94%) Analytics
14 160 (8.36%) Data Modelling
15 159 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
16 147 (7.68%) Workshop Facilitation
17 145 (7.58%) Project Delivery
18 133 (6.95%) DevOps
19 130 (6.80%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 191 (9.98%) SQL
2 58 (3.03%) Python
3 35 (1.83%) JavaScript
4 30 (1.57%) C#
5 28 (1.46%) Java
6 25 (1.31%) PL/SQL
7 21 (1.10%) X++
8 18 (0.94%) ABAP
9 13 (0.68%) Apex Code
10 12 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.42%) Groovy
12 8 (0.42%) Ruby
13 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.21%) PHP
15 3 (0.16%) C++
15 3 (0.16%) Rust
15 3 (0.16%) SOQL
15 3 (0.16%) SOSL
16 2 (0.10%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 250 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 188 (9.83%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.64%) Degree
4 73 (3.82%) ACCA
5 68 (3.55%) CIMA
6 53 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.14%) PMP
8 38 (1.99%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.73%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.47%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.42%) SAP Certification
15 7 (0.37%) CISM
15 7 (0.37%) CISSP
15 7 (0.37%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.31%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 69 (3.61%) QA
3 57 (2.98%) GDPR
4 47 (2.46%) PMO
5 27 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 24 (1.25%) IFRS
7 21 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (0.99%) GRC
9 17 (0.89%) GAAP
10 14 (0.73%) NCSC
11 13 (0.68%) GMP
12 12 (0.63%) GxP
13 10 (0.52%) SLA
14 9 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 8 (0.42%) NIST
16 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 6 (0.31%) Accessibility
17 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 18 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.42%) Docker
3 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.052%) Firmware
5 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.21%) Kibana
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.052%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.052%) MOM
Vendors
1 628 (32.83%) SAP
2 532 (27.81%) Oracle
3 364 (19.03%) Microsoft
4 91 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 81 (4.23%) Workday
6 79 (4.13%) ServiceNow
7 57 (2.98%) IFS
8 46 (2.40%) Ariba
9 36 (1.88%) Infor
10 33 (1.73%) Sage
11 30 (1.57%) JD Edwards
12 27 (1.41%) Databricks
13 23 (1.20%) MuleSoft
14 21 (1.10%) Google
14 21 (1.10%) Siemens
15 16 (0.84%) IBM
15 16 (0.84%) SYSPRO
16 15 (0.78%) Concur
16 15 (0.78%) PTC
17 12 (0.63%) Dell