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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 80 94
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,947 1,003 932
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.59% 3.05% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.36% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 604 507
10th Percentile £369 £327 £363
25th Percentile £463 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 46 35
10th Percentile £13.99 £6.00 £20.35
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.67 £28.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £17.42 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.62% -63.32% -24.00%
75th Percentile £40.00 £32.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £78.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £16.29 £51.25
% change year-on-year +47.33% -68.21% -18.65%

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 45,839 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.46% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £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 3,070 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +83.63% -47.37% +5.81%

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 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 16 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 16 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 +10 1,602 £550 - 2,716
UK excluding London +27 1,027 £525 - 1,790
London -6 648 £600 +8.60% 1,155
Work from Home +13 546 £550 - 1,269
North of England +60 275 £525 +5.00% 434
South East -2 258 £525 +1.94% 444
Midlands +29 219 £525 -4.55% 324
North West +33 151 £525 +5.00% 240
West Midlands +11 123 £525 - 193
Yorkshire +33 103 £500 +10.50% 138
East Midlands +26 87 £525 -12.50% 131
East of England -10 83 £509 -9.51% 192
South West -38 81 £525 -12.50% 156
Scotland +7 74 £525 +5.00% 159
Northern Ireland +18 21 £450 +28.57% 74
North East -21 21 £500 +11.11% 63
Wales +8 20 £475 +46.15% 35
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 35 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.87%) Confluence
4 9 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.41%) CMS
5 8 (0.41%) NetWeaver
6 6 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.26%) SAP EP
7 5 (0.26%) SAS
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.21%) ThingWorx
8 4 (0.21%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.051%) EPiServer
Applications
1 107 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.41%) Windchill
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 278 (14.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 148 (7.60%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (3.49%) SAP ERP
4 67 (3.44%) Oracle Payables
5 62 (3.18%) NetSuite
6 50 (2.57%) Oracle Receivables
7 42 (2.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 41 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
9 33 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
10 27 (1.39%) Oracle General Ledger
11 24 (1.23%) Oracle Financials
12 20 (1.03%) SAP MDG
13 18 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
14 15 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
14 15 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
15 14 (0.72%) Workday HCM
16 13 (0.67%) SAP FI
17 12 (0.62%) Infor CloudSuite
17 12 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
17 12 (0.62%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 205 (10.53%) Azure
2 190 (9.76%) Dynamics 365
3 189 (9.71%) Power Platform
4 142 (7.29%) OCI
5 127 (6.52%) SaaS
6 78 (4.01%) AWS
7 64 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.00%) GCP
9 38 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
11 33 (1.69%) PaaS
11 33 (1.69%) Power Automate
12 28 (1.44%) Boomi
13 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
13 26 (1.34%) PowerApps
14 22 (1.13%) GitHub
15 21 (1.08%) Entra ID
16 18 (0.92%) Serverless
17 16 (0.82%) Snowflake
17 16 (0.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.46%) HTTP
2 7 (0.36%) Network Security
3 6 (0.31%) FTP
4 5 (0.26%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
6 2 (0.10%) DMZ
6 2 (0.10%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
7 1 (0.051%) Intranet
7 1 (0.051%) LAN
7 1 (0.051%) MQTT
7 1 (0.051%) RFID
7 1 (0.051%) SMTP
7 1 (0.051%) WAN
7 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (6.73%) Power BI
2 59 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
4 30 (1.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 25 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.18%) Tableau
7 18 (0.92%) Metadata
8 16 (0.82%) Oracle ODI
9 13 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 12 (0.62%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.51%) Power Query
12 8 (0.41%) SAP HANA
13 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 98 (5.03%) JIRA
2 29 (1.49%) Git
3 13 (0.67%) Hudson
3 13 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (0.67%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.31%) Zephyr
5 5 (0.26%) Postman
6 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.21%) Flyway
7 3 (0.15%) LSMW
7 3 (0.15%) MLflow
8 2 (0.10%) GitLab
8 2 (0.10%) Selenium
8 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.051%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.051%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.051%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.051%) SoapUI
General
1 990 (50.85%) Finance
2 563 (28.92%) Social Skills
3 252 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (11.20%) Manufacturing
5 172 (8.83%) Public Sector
6 100 (5.14%) Retail
7 84 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (3.54%) General Ledger
9 61 (3.13%) Billing
10 57 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (2.41%) Legal
12 45 (2.31%) Banking
13 37 (1.90%) Law
13 37 (1.90%) Local Government
14 31 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
18 21 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 343 (17.62%) Lead
2 314 (16.13%) Architect
3 255 (13.10%) Analyst
4 233 (11.97%) Consultant
5 147 (7.55%) Senior
6 146 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 134 (6.88%) Project Manager
8 120 (6.16%) Business Analyst
9 101 (5.19%) Developer
10 91 (4.67%) Oracle Consultant
11 59 (3.03%) ERP Manager
12 58 (2.98%) Functional Consultant
13 53 (2.72%) Accountant
14 51 (2.62%) Administrator
14 51 (2.62%) Financial Analyst
15 45 (2.31%) Data Analyst
16 44 (2.26%) SAP Manager
17 42 (2.16%) Programme Manager
18 41 (2.11%) ERP Architect
19 40 (2.05%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (11.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 117 (6.01%) REST
3 108 (5.55%) Middleware
4 75 (3.85%) SOAP
5 46 (2.36%) XML
6 41 (2.11%) JSON
6 41 (2.11%) Web Services
7 31 (1.59%) .NET
8 23 (1.18%) OAuth
9 22 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
10 21 (1.08%) EDI
10 21 (1.08%) OAuth2
11 16 (0.82%) Terraform
12 14 (0.72%) XSLT
13 13 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
14 11 (0.56%) CSS
14 11 (0.56%) HTML
15 10 (0.51%) Node.js
15 10 (0.51%) RESTful
16 9 (0.46%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 97 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
2 69 (3.54%) Data Structures
3 68 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
3 68 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.18%) Management Information System
5 48 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 37 (1.90%) FMCG
7 31 (1.59%) Cloud Native
7 31 (1.59%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.18%) Life Science
10 21 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (0.77%) AI Agents
12 15 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (0.77%) Low-Code
12 15 (0.77%) Operational Technology
13 12 (0.62%) CMDB
13 12 (0.62%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 12 (0.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.34%) Windows
2 11 (0.56%) Linux
3 9 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 2 (0.10%) Android
5 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
5 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.051%) AIX
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (29.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 482 (24.76%) Migration
3 360 (18.49%) Data Migration
4 302 (15.51%) User Acceptance Testing
5 300 (15.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 283 (14.54%) Agile
7 278 (14.28%) Problem-Solving
8 272 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 213 (10.94%) Validation
10 192 (9.86%) CRM
11 191 (9.81%) Change Management
12 188 (9.66%) Roadmaps
13 186 (9.55%) Process Improvement
14 182 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
15 173 (8.89%) Analytics
15 173 (8.89%) Data Modelling
16 148 (7.60%) Translating Business Requirements
17 146 (7.50%) Project Delivery
17 146 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
18 133 (6.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 189 (9.71%) SQL
2 64 (3.29%) Python
3 37 (1.90%) Java
4 34 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 31 (1.59%) C#
6 30 (1.54%) PL/SQL
7 20 (1.03%) X++
8 19 (0.98%) ABAP
9 16 (0.82%) Ruby
10 15 (0.77%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.46%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.41%) Groovy
14 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.21%) PHP
15 4 (0.21%) VBA
16 3 (0.15%) C++
16 3 (0.15%) Rust
16 3 (0.15%) SOQL
16 3 (0.15%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 250 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 187 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.57%) Degree
4 68 (3.49%) ACCA
5 62 (3.18%) CIMA
6 53 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.16%) PMP
8 38 (1.95%) PMI Certification
9 25 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.46%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.41%) CISM
14 8 (0.41%) CISSP
14 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.36%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (8.83%) Data Quality
2 69 (3.54%) QA
3 61 (3.13%) GDPR
4 52 (2.67%) PMO
5 28 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.28%) IFRS
7 22 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.03%) GRC
9 17 (0.87%) GAAP
10 14 (0.72%) NCSC
11 13 (0.67%) GMP
12 12 (0.62%) GxP
13 9 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 8 (0.41%) NIST
14 8 (0.41%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
17 5 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 17 (0.87%) 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 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.31%) 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 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.10%) SCCM
6 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.051%) MOM
Vendors
1 622 (31.95%) SAP
2 559 (28.71%) Oracle
3 371 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 90 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 78 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 74 (3.80%) Workday
7 58 (2.98%) IFS
8 43 (2.21%) Ariba
9 32 (1.64%) Infor
10 31 (1.59%) Sage
11 27 (1.39%) Databricks
12 26 (1.34%) JD Edwards
13 23 (1.18%) MuleSoft
14 22 (1.13%) Google
15 17 (0.87%) Siemens
16 16 (0.82%) Concur
16 16 (0.82%) SYSPRO
17 11 (0.56%) IBM
18 10 (0.51%) Adobe
18 10 (0.51%) Epicor