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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 88 99
Rank change year-on-year +27 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,997 928 898
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 2.82% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 3.12% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 554 512
10th Percentile £363 £327 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +1.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +2.95% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 52 37
10th Percentile £15.36 £6.00 £16.70
25th Percentile £19.00 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.95 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.14% -46.78% -30.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.05 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.90 £17.43 £35.36
% change year-on-year +83.07% -50.72% -45.70%

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 45,374 29,740 33,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.47% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,514 21,188
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,725 1,782
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.17
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +19.72%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +15 1,646 £550 - 817
UK excluding London +39 1,049 £525 +1.94% 711
London +12 683 £600 +8.60% 181
Work from Home +34 565 £550 - 315
South East -1 277 £525 +1.94% 205
North of England +64 270 £510 +2.51% 168
Midlands +35 206 £525 - 178
North West +39 157 £525 +5.00% 77
West Midlands +13 115 £525 - 101
Yorkshire +23 92 £500 +24.22% 67
South West -13 91 £538 -14.14% 71
East of England 0 86 £510 -11.39% 66
East Midlands +25 82 £525 -12.50% 77
Scotland +17 72 £513 +2.50% 21
Northern Ireland +27 28 £450 +28.57% 10
North East -23 21 £500 -6.98% 27
Wales - 21 £488 - 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 33 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.85%) Confluence
4 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.25%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.20%) CMS
5 4 (0.20%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.10%) Apache
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.050%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.050%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 100 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
6 4 (0.20%) Windchill
7 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 289 (14.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 158 (7.91%) Oracle ERP
3 69 (3.46%) SAP ERP
4 66 (3.30%) Oracle Payables
5 62 (3.10%) NetSuite
6 51 (2.55%) Oracle EBS
7 50 (2.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 41 (2.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 28 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
10 25 (1.25%) Oracle General Ledger
11 24 (1.20%) Oracle Financials
12 18 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
12 18 (0.90%) SAP MDG
13 17 (0.85%) Infor CloudSuite
14 15 (0.75%) Unit4 Business World
15 14 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
15 14 (0.70%) Workday HCM
16 11 (0.55%) SAP FI
17 10 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
17 10 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 206 (10.32%) Azure
2 195 (9.76%) Dynamics 365
3 193 (9.66%) Power Platform
4 161 (8.06%) OCI
5 117 (5.86%) SaaS
6 79 (3.96%) AWS
7 59 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (1.90%) PaaS
9 37 (1.85%) GCP
10 36 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
11 34 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
12 32 (1.60%) Boomi
13 31 (1.55%) Power Automate
14 27 (1.35%) GitHub
14 27 (1.35%) PowerApps
15 24 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 16 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.40%) HTTP
2 7 (0.35%) Network Security
3 6 (0.30%) FTP
4 5 (0.25%) SSL
5 4 (0.20%) Firewall
6 3 (0.15%) 5G
7 2 (0.10%) Intranet
7 2 (0.10%) LAN
7 2 (0.10%) WAN
8 1 (0.050%) DHCP
8 1 (0.050%) DMZ
8 1 (0.050%) DNS
8 1 (0.050%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.050%) Modbus
8 1 (0.050%) MQTT
8 1 (0.050%) RFID
8 1 (0.050%) SMS
8 1 (0.050%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.050%) VPN
8 1 (0.050%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (6.91%) Power BI
2 68 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (2.85%) Oracle Reports
4 37 (1.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.30%) Oracle ODI
5 26 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 25 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 23 (1.15%) Tableau
8 17 (0.85%) Metadata
9 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
10 13 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.45%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.35%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 88 (4.41%) JIRA
2 34 (1.70%) Git
3 20 (1.00%) Hudson
4 13 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.35%) Postman
6 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 3 (0.15%) GitLab
9 3 (0.15%) LSMW
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.10%) MLflow
10 2 (0.10%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.050%) JDeveloper
11 1 (0.050%) TestRail
General
1 1,039 (52.03%) Finance
2 542 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 252 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (10.52%) Manufacturing
5 170 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 110 (5.51%) Retail
7 83 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (3.25%) General Ledger
9 59 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
10 54 (2.70%) Billing
11 53 (2.65%) Legal
12 50 (2.50%) Law
13 43 (2.15%) Banking
14 42 (2.10%) Local Government
14 42 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 34 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 32 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.05%) Aerospace
19 20 (1.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 374 (18.73%) Lead
2 314 (15.72%) Architect
3 254 (12.72%) Analyst
4 242 (12.12%) Consultant
5 159 (7.96%) Senior
6 147 (7.36%) Project Manager
7 145 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
8 120 (6.01%) Business Analyst
9 111 (5.56%) Developer
10 87 (4.36%) Oracle Consultant
11 74 (3.71%) ERP Manager
12 58 (2.90%) Financial Analyst
13 57 (2.85%) Accountant
14 46 (2.30%) Functional Consultant
14 46 (2.30%) Programme Manager
15 43 (2.15%) Data Analyst
15 43 (2.15%) Finance Manager
16 41 (2.05%) ERP Project Manager
16 41 (2.05%) Lead Architect
16 41 (2.05%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (11.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 117 (5.86%) REST
3 103 (5.16%) Middleware
4 70 (3.51%) SOAP
5 43 (2.15%) JSON
5 43 (2.15%) XML
6 34 (1.70%) Web Services
7 29 (1.45%) .NET
8 23 (1.15%) OAuth
9 21 (1.05%) EDI
10 19 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
10 19 (0.95%) OAuth2
11 15 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
12 14 (0.70%) XSLT
13 12 (0.60%) Node.js
14 11 (0.55%) CSS
14 11 (0.55%) HTML
14 11 (0.55%) PySpark
15 10 (0.50%) RESTful
16 9 (0.45%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 104 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
2 75 (3.76%) Data Structures
3 58 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 54 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 41 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 35 (1.75%) FMCG
7 34 (1.70%) Public Cloud
8 32 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 26 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (0.90%) Life Science
12 16 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 16 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.70%) Low-Code
13 14 (0.70%) Operational Technology
14 13 (0.65%) IoT
15 12 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.35%) Windows
2 8 (0.40%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.30%) Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Android
4 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
4 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.050%) AIX
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.050%) Unix
5 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 505 (25.29%) Migration
3 375 (18.78%) Data Migration
4 330 (16.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 322 (16.12%) User Acceptance Testing
6 282 (14.12%) Agile
7 278 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 255 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
9 211 (10.57%) Change Management
10 204 (10.22%) Validation
11 199 (9.96%) Business Intelligence
12 184 (9.21%) Data Modelling
13 182 (9.11%) Analytics
14 181 (9.06%) CRM
15 174 (8.71%) Roadmaps
16 169 (8.46%) Process Improvement
17 149 (7.46%) Translating Business Requirements
18 144 (7.21%) Project Management
19 142 (7.11%) Project Delivery
20 141 (7.06%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 179 (8.96%) SQL
2 64 (3.20%) Python
3 36 (1.80%) Java
4 35 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 34 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.40%) C#
7 21 (1.05%) Apex Code
8 20 (1.00%) Ruby
8 20 (1.00%) X++
9 16 (0.80%) ABAP
10 14 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.40%) Groovy
13 6 (0.30%) SOQL
13 6 (0.30%) SOSL
13 6 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.25%) VBA
15 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.15%) C++
16 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 235 (11.77%) Security Cleared
2 165 (8.26%) SC Cleared
3 126 (6.31%) Degree
4 73 (3.66%) ACCA
5 70 (3.51%) CIMA
6 54 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 39 (1.95%) PMP
8 35 (1.75%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (0.40%) SAP Certification
13 7 (0.35%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.30%) APMG
14 6 (0.30%) CISM
14 6 (0.30%) CISSP
14 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.51%) GDPR
2 70 (3.51%) QA
3 56 (2.80%) PMO
4 34 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 25 (1.25%) IFRS
6 17 (0.85%) GAAP
7 16 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.65%) GMP
8 13 (0.65%) GRC
9 11 (0.55%) GxP
10 10 (0.50%) NCSC
11 9 (0.45%) SLA
12 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 15 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.45%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.050%) Firmware
4 1 (0.050%) IAG
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (0.90%) Terraform
2 14 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.45%) HP ALM
4 5 (0.25%) Grafana
4 5 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.20%) Kibana
6 3 (0.15%) MOM
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.10%) SCCM
8 1 (0.050%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.050%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 607 (30.40%) SAP
2 587 (29.39%) Oracle
3 369 (18.48%) Microsoft
4 85 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 78 (3.91%) IFS
6 77 (3.86%) ServiceNow
7 75 (3.76%) Workday
8 40 (2.00%) Ariba
8 40 (2.00%) Infor
9 35 (1.75%) Databricks
10 31 (1.55%) MuleSoft
11 30 (1.50%) Sage
12 22 (1.10%) JD Edwards
12 22 (1.10%) Siemens
13 21 (1.05%) Google
14 17 (0.85%) Concur
15 13 (0.65%) SYSPRO
16 11 (0.55%) Epicor
17 9 (0.45%) Baan
17 9 (0.45%) HP