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

 6 months to
25 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 100 95
Rank change year-on-year +43 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,800 746 998
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 2.59% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 2.85% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 460 620
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +1.15% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 22 30
10th Percentile £17.70 £25.61 £13.05
25th Percentile £26.86 £66.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £73.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% +84.38% -36.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £87.25 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -19.30% +78.13% -38.15%

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 40,852 26,213 36,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.38% 91.03% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,586 16,831 23,574
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,418 1,066 2,483
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +73.72% -33.82% +8.57%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +40 1,522 £539 -0.23% 756
UK excluding London +42 917 £525 +3.81% 569
London +42 659 £550 -4.35% 264
Work from Home +62 543 £550 - 376
South East +7 232 £560 +4.19% 141
North of England +35 206 £500 +5.26% 147
Midlands +22 176 £525 +5.00% 119
South West +28 122 £525 +5.00% 65
North West +27 109 £500 +2.25% 81
West Midlands +1 103 £525 +5.00% 58
East of England +13 98 £575 -4.17% 44
Yorkshire -2 83 £550 +37.50% 54
East Midlands +20 69 £525 +10.53% 59
Scotland +17 46 £531 +4.89% 33
Wales +14 25 £475 - 7
Northern Ireland +16 16 £475 +18.75% 28
North East -18 14 £500 -9.09% 15
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 20 (1.11%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.89%) Confluence
2 16 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
3 14 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.33%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.22%) Apache
5 4 (0.22%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
5 4 (0.22%) SAP EP
6 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.056%) Documentum
8 1 (0.056%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.056%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 89 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 22 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.28%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 280 (15.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 123 (6.83%) Oracle ERP
3 60 (3.33%) SAP ERP
4 55 (3.06%) Oracle EBS
5 45 (2.50%) NetSuite
5 45 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
6 38 (2.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 32 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
8 31 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (1.00%) Oracle Assets
10 17 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 17 (0.94%) Shopify
11 16 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
11 16 (0.89%) Unit4 Business World
12 15 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
13 13 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.67%) Teamcenter
14 12 (0.67%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.61%) SAP FI
15 11 (0.61%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 222 (12.33%) Azure
2 192 (10.67%) Dynamics 365
3 153 (8.50%) OCI
4 146 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 91 (5.06%) SaaS
6 65 (3.61%) AWS
7 53 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.61%) PaaS
9 31 (1.72%) Boomi
10 30 (1.67%) Power Automate
10 30 (1.67%) PowerApps
11 25 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 24 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (0.94%) GCP
13 17 (0.94%) IaaS
13 17 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (0.89%) GitHub
14 16 (0.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 15 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.22%) FTP
1 4 (0.22%) LAN
2 3 (0.17%) 5G
2 3 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.11%) HTTP
3 2 (0.11%) Intranet
3 2 (0.11%) WAN
4 1 (0.056%) DHCP
4 1 (0.056%) DMZ
4 1 (0.056%) DNS
4 1 (0.056%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.056%) Modbus
4 1 (0.056%) MQTT
4 1 (0.056%) RFID
4 1 (0.056%) SMS
4 1 (0.056%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.056%) VoIP
4 1 (0.056%) VPN
4 1 (0.056%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.056%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.78%) Power BI
2 58 (3.22%) Oracle Reports
3 52 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (1.44%) Data Lake
5 25 (1.39%) Oracle ODI
6 20 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 20 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (1.06%) SQL Server
8 12 (0.67%) Metadata
9 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.61%) Tableau
10 9 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.33%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.33%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.28%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 100 (5.56%) JIRA
2 29 (1.61%) Git
2 29 (1.61%) Postman
3 21 (1.17%) Hudson
4 11 (0.61%) SoapUI
4 11 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.39%) Selenium
6 5 (0.28%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (0.22%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.17%) GitLab
8 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.11%) Gradle
10 1 (0.056%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.056%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.056%) TestRail
10 1 (0.056%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 919 (51.06%) Finance
2 484 (26.89%) Social Skills
3 234 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (9.33%) Manufacturing
5 121 (6.72%) Public Sector
6 87 (4.83%) Retail
7 66 (3.67%) Legal
8 57 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.72%) Local Government
10 48 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 47 (2.61%) General Ledger
12 46 (2.56%) Law
13 36 (2.00%) Banking
14 35 (1.94%) Billing
15 32 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.17%) Military
16 21 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (0.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 291 (16.17%) Lead
2 264 (14.67%) Architect
3 239 (13.28%) Consultant
4 211 (11.72%) Analyst
5 179 (9.94%) Project Manager
6 152 (8.44%) Senior
7 130 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
8 106 (5.89%) Business Analyst
9 91 (5.06%) Developer
10 85 (4.72%) ERP Manager
11 61 (3.39%) Accountant
12 52 (2.89%) Financial Analyst
12 52 (2.89%) Oracle Consultant
13 51 (2.83%) Implementation Consultant
13 51 (2.83%) SAP Consultant
13 51 (2.83%) Senior Manager
14 46 (2.56%) Systems Accountant
15 45 (2.50%) SAP Manager
16 43 (2.39%) Programme Manager
17 40 (2.22%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (11.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 102 (5.67%) REST
3 86 (4.78%) Middleware
4 61 (3.39%) SOAP
5 50 (2.78%) JSON
6 48 (2.67%) XML
7 34 (1.89%) Web Services
8 24 (1.33%) OAuth
9 22 (1.22%) .NET
9 22 (1.22%) XSLT
10 16 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (0.83%) JWT
11 15 (0.83%) Node.js
11 15 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
12 14 (0.78%) EDI
13 11 (0.61%) HTML
14 10 (0.56%) PySpark
14 10 (0.56%) RESTful
15 8 (0.44%) OpenAPI
15 8 (0.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
2 58 (3.22%) Data Structures
3 43 (2.39%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.28%) Public Cloud
5 40 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 29 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.39%) FMCG
8 22 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (0.94%) IoT
11 16 (0.89%) AI Agents
12 15 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.67%) Life Science
15 11 (0.61%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (0.50%) SCADA
18 8 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.22%) Windows
2 5 (0.28%) Linux
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.056%) Android
5 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (25.72%) Migration
2 387 (21.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 303 (16.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 298 (16.56%) Data Migration
5 267 (14.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 263 (14.61%) Agile
7 243 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
8 211 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 195 (10.83%) Change Management
9 195 (10.83%) Validation
10 184 (10.22%) Project Management
11 158 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
12 150 (8.33%) CRM
13 145 (8.06%) Data Modelling
14 141 (7.83%) Procure-to-Pay
15 135 (7.50%) Roadmaps
16 116 (6.44%) Analytics
17 114 (6.33%) Decision-Making
17 114 (6.33%) Translating Business Requirements
18 111 (6.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 148 (8.22%) SQL
2 51 (2.83%) Python
3 37 (2.06%) PL/SQL
4 33 (1.83%) Java
5 32 (1.78%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.67%) C#
7 18 (1.00%) Apex Code
8 15 (0.83%) Ruby
8 15 (0.83%) X++
9 10 (0.56%) ABAP
10 9 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.28%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.28%) SOQL
13 5 (0.28%) SOSL
13 5 (0.28%) VBA
14 4 (0.22%) Perl
15 3 (0.17%) C++
15 3 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 197 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 147 (8.17%) SC Cleared
3 133 (7.39%) Degree
4 101 (5.61%) CIMA
5 93 (5.17%) ACCA
6 44 (2.44%) PMP
7 37 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 16 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (0.56%) SAP Certification
12 9 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.39%) APMP
13 7 (0.39%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 4 (0.22%) APMG
16 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 75 (4.17%) QA
3 69 (3.83%) GDPR
4 46 (2.56%) PMO
5 30 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 22 (1.22%) IFRS
7 18 (1.00%) GAAP
7 18 (1.00%) SLA
8 10 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.56%) GxP
9 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.39%) GMP
11 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.28%) NCSC
12 5 (0.28%) NIST
13 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.22%) GRC
14 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.50%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.28%) Terraform
4 4 (0.22%) Kibana
4 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.17%) Control-M
5 3 (0.17%) Grafana
5 3 (0.17%) MOM
5 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 553 (30.72%) SAP
2 504 (28.00%) Oracle
3 291 (16.17%) Microsoft
4 91 (5.06%) Workday
5 76 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 73 (4.06%) IFS
7 56 (3.11%) Siemens
8 52 (2.89%) ServiceNow
9 38 (2.11%) Databricks
10 36 (2.00%) MuleSoft
11 33 (1.83%) Ariba
12 30 (1.67%) Sage
13 29 (1.61%) Infor
14 16 (0.89%) Informatica
15 12 (0.67%) Epicor
16 9 (0.50%) HP
16 9 (0.50%) JD Edwards
17 8 (0.44%) Foundry
17 8 (0.44%) Google
18 7 (0.39%) Talend
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