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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 90 97
Rank change year-on-year +32 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,991 875 993
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.76% 2.69% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 2.98% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 529 590
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £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 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +4.48% +0.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 52 43
10th Percentile £17.75 £6.70 £17.60
25th Percentile £28.20 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.86 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.80% -40.32% -30.66%
75th Percentile £58.75 £74.06 £66.94
90th Percentile £67.68 £81.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £26.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +109.84% -34.48% -38.58%

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 45,026 29,407 35,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.11% 90.34% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,974 18,494 23,016
10th Percentile £325 £300 £301
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,654 1,554 2,302
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.37 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.20
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.30% -4.51%

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 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 18 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 18 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 +29 1,644 £550 +2.33% 590
UK excluding London +48 1,029 £525 +4.48% 467
London +19 690 £575 +4.55% 179
Work from Home +43 590 £550 - 301
South East +8 257 £525 -0.24% 108
North of England +44 241 £500 +5.26% 124
Midlands +38 199 £525 - 135
North West +29 143 £525 +9.09% 64
South West +12 125 £538 +4.88% 41
West Midlands +14 121 £540 +2.86% 71
East of England +24 99 £575 - 40
Yorkshire +14 78 £458 +12.96% 46
East Midlands +23 72 £525 - 64
Scotland +14 59 £500 -0.99% 16
Northern Ireland +26 31 £450 +28.57% 1
Wales - 23 £488 - 11
North East -18 20 £500 -6.98% 17
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 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.85%) Confluence
4 5 (0.25%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.25%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Apache
5 4 (0.20%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) CMS
6 3 (0.15%) 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%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.10%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.050%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.050%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.050%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 86 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.10%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.15%) PTC Creo
9 2 (0.10%) Windchill
10 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 307 (15.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 147 (7.38%) Oracle ERP
3 66 (3.31%) SAP ERP
4 57 (2.86%) NetSuite
5 54 (2.71%) Oracle Payables
6 49 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
7 41 (2.06%) Oracle Receivables
8 39 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 33 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
10 21 (1.05%) Oracle Financials
11 19 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
12 18 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite
13 17 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
13 17 (0.85%) SAP MDG
14 14 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
14 14 (0.70%) Unit4 Business World
15 10 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
15 10 (0.50%) SAP SD
15 10 (0.50%) Teamcenter
16 9 (0.45%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 250 (12.56%) Azure
2 193 (9.69%) Power Platform
3 186 (9.34%) Dynamics 365
4 143 (7.18%) OCI
5 118 (5.93%) SaaS
6 74 (3.72%) AWS
7 59 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (2.16%) PaaS
9 36 (1.81%) Boomi
10 35 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
11 30 (1.51%) PowerApps
12 29 (1.46%) Power Automate
13 28 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (1.36%) GCP
14 27 (1.36%) GitHub
15 24 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
16 22 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.35%) Network Security
2 6 (0.30%) HTTP
3 4 (0.20%) FTP
4 3 (0.15%) 5G
4 3 (0.15%) Firewall
4 3 (0.15%) SSL
5 2 (0.10%) Intranet
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) RFID
5 2 (0.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.050%) DHCP
6 1 (0.050%) DMZ
6 1 (0.050%) DNS
6 1 (0.050%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.050%) Modbus
6 1 (0.050%) SMS
6 1 (0.050%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.050%) VoIP
6 1 (0.050%) VPN
6 1 (0.050%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (7.13%) Power BI
2 69 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.91%) Oracle Reports
4 32 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.31%) Oracle ODI
6 24 (1.21%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.05%) Tableau
8 18 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (0.85%) Metadata
10 12 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
10 12 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.40%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.35%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 80 (4.02%) JIRA
2 37 (1.86%) Git
3 20 (1.00%) Hudson
4 13 (0.65%) Postman
5 11 (0.55%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.30%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.25%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 4 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.15%) GitLab
10 3 (0.15%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.15%) LSMW
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.050%) JDeveloper
11 1 (0.050%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.050%) TestRail
General
1 1,021 (51.28%) Finance
2 502 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 248 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (10.10%) Manufacturing
5 160 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 103 (5.17%) Retail
7 74 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (3.21%) Legal
9 60 (3.01%) General Ledger
10 58 (2.91%) Local Government
11 57 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.66%) Billing
13 48 (2.41%) Law
14 43 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
15 38 (1.91%) Banking
16 31 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 30 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
18 27 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
19 19 (0.95%) Aerospace
20 18 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 347 (17.43%) Lead
2 317 (15.92%) Architect
3 252 (12.66%) Consultant
4 241 (12.10%) Analyst
5 174 (8.74%) Senior
6 159 (7.99%) Project Manager
7 154 (7.73%) Solutions Architect
8 115 (5.78%) Business Analyst
9 109 (5.47%) Developer
10 83 (4.17%) ERP Manager
11 66 (3.31%) Accountant
12 62 (3.11%) Oracle Consultant
13 58 (2.91%) Financial Analyst
14 51 (2.56%) Systems Accountant
15 50 (2.51%) Senior Manager
16 49 (2.46%) Implementation Consultant
17 47 (2.36%) SAP Consultant
18 46 (2.31%) Finance Manager
18 46 (2.31%) SAP Manager
19 42 (2.11%) ERP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (9.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 107 (5.37%) Middleware
2 107 (5.37%) REST
3 59 (2.96%) SOAP
4 46 (2.31%) JSON
5 40 (2.01%) XML
6 37 (1.86%) Web Services
7 30 (1.51%) .NET
8 20 (1.00%) EDI
8 20 (1.00%) OAuth
9 17 (0.85%) Node.js
9 17 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
10 16 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
11 13 (0.65%) HTML
11 13 (0.65%) XSLT
12 12 (0.60%) OAuth2
13 11 (0.55%) CSS
14 10 (0.50%) PySpark
14 10 (0.50%) React
15 9 (0.45%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.12%) Legacy Systems
2 73 (3.67%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 52 (2.61%) Management Information System
5 42 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 35 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (1.76%) Public Cloud
7 34 (1.71%) FMCG
8 31 (1.56%) Cloud Native
9 24 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (0.90%) AI Agents
10 18 (0.90%) IoT
11 15 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (0.75%) Life Science
12 14 (0.70%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.60%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.60%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.36%) Windows
2 7 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.25%) Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Android
4 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.050%) AIX
5 1 (0.050%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.050%) Unix
5 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (25.57%) Migration
2 491 (24.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 359 (18.03%) Data Migration
4 333 (16.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 313 (15.72%) User Acceptance Testing
6 267 (13.41%) Agile
7 261 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 253 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
9 215 (10.80%) Validation
10 211 (10.60%) Change Management
11 203 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
12 183 (9.19%) CRM
13 181 (9.09%) Data Modelling
14 171 (8.59%) Analytics
15 165 (8.29%) Project Management
15 165 (8.29%) Roadmaps
16 144 (7.23%) Procure-to-Pay
17 141 (7.08%) Process Improvement
18 133 (6.68%) Project Delivery
19 132 (6.63%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 184 (9.24%) SQL
2 72 (3.62%) Python
3 39 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 37 (1.86%) Java
5 33 (1.66%) PL/SQL
6 32 (1.61%) C#
7 20 (1.00%) Ruby
8 18 (0.90%) Apex Code
8 18 (0.90%) X++
9 16 (0.80%) ABAP
10 13 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.60%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.30%) Groovy
14 5 (0.25%) SOQL
14 5 (0.25%) SOSL
14 5 (0.25%) VBA
15 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.15%) C++
16 3 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 209 (10.50%) Security Cleared
2 150 (7.53%) SC Cleared
3 115 (5.78%) Degree
4 80 (4.02%) CIMA
5 78 (3.92%) ACCA
6 38 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 38 (1.91%) PMP
7 31 (1.56%) PMI Certification
8 19 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.55%) SAP Certification
12 9 (0.45%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.30%) CISM
14 6 (0.30%) CISSP
14 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.25%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.02%) GDPR
3 73 (3.67%) QA
4 52 (2.61%) PMO
5 33 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.41%) IFRS
7 20 (1.00%) GAAP
8 15 (0.75%) GMP
9 13 (0.65%) SLA
10 12 (0.60%) GxP
10 12 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.45%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) NCSC
12 7 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.25%) NIST
14 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.35%) Docker
3 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.050%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (0.75%) Terraform
2 13 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.50%) HP ALM
4 6 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.25%) Grafana
5 5 (0.25%) Kibana
6 4 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.15%) MOM
8 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.10%) SCCM
9 1 (0.050%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.050%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 619 (31.09%) SAP
2 549 (27.57%) Oracle
3 349 (17.53%) Microsoft
4 84 (4.22%) IFS
5 80 (4.02%) Workday
6 79 (3.97%) Salesforce
7 61 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.61%) Siemens
9 45 (2.26%) Ariba
10 43 (2.16%) Infor
11 39 (1.96%) Databricks
12 37 (1.86%) Sage
13 36 (1.81%) MuleSoft
14 18 (0.90%) Concur
14 18 (0.90%) JD Edwards
15 14 (0.70%) Google
16 12 (0.60%) Epicor
17 11 (0.55%) Informatica
18 10 (0.50%) HP
19 9 (0.45%) Foundry