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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 84 96
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,947 948 899
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.63% 2.93% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 3.24% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 562 503
10th Percentile £370 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £451 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £644
90th Percentile £738 £736 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 45 35
10th Percentile £13.99 £6.00 £20.15
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.65 £28.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £17.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% -63.16% -24.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £79.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.72 £15.66 £46.25
% change year-on-year +57.85% -66.14% -27.17%

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 45,398 29,222 32,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,158 20,413
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% -3.67%
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 2,911 1,744 1,558
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +12.13%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 1,602 £550 - 1,788
UK excluding London +30 1,017 £525 - 1,300
London +2 663 £600 +8.60% 746
Work from Home +19 548 £550 - 951
North of England +55 269 £525 +5.00% 294
South East -2 263 £519 +0.73% 293
Midlands +33 207 £525 -4.55% 237
North West +41 152 £525 +5.00% 168
West Midlands +16 117 £525 - 134
Yorkshire +30 96 £500 +10.50% 88
East of England -3 82 £510 -8.61% 136
East Midlands +22 81 £525 -12.50% 103
South West -30 81 £525 -13.93% 151
Scotland +11 74 £525 +5.00% 122
Northern Ireland +21 24 £450 +28.57% 74
North East -19 21 £500 +11.11% 41
Wales +4 19 £488 +50.00% 14
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 36 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.87%) Confluence
4 7 (0.36%) CMS
5 6 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.26%) SAS
6 5 (0.26%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.21%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.21%) NetWeaver
7 4 (0.21%) ThingWorx
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.15%) SAP EP
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
9 2 (0.10%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 101 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.87%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.26%) 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
1 280 (14.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 151 (7.76%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.44%) Oracle Payables
4 65 (3.34%) NetSuite
4 65 (3.34%) SAP ERP
5 52 (2.67%) Oracle Receivables
6 42 (2.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 41 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
8 31 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
9 26 (1.34%) Oracle General Ledger
10 23 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
11 19 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
11 19 (0.98%) SAP MDG
12 15 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
12 15 (0.77%) Infor CloudSuite
12 15 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (0.72%) Workday HCM
14 13 (0.67%) SAP FI
14 13 (0.67%) SAP MM
15 12 (0.62%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 201 (10.32%) Azure
1 201 (10.32%) Dynamics 365
2 195 (10.02%) Power Platform
3 144 (7.40%) OCI
4 121 (6.21%) SaaS
5 79 (4.06%) AWS
6 63 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (2.00%) GCP
8 37 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
9 36 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (1.85%) PaaS
10 30 (1.54%) Power Automate
11 29 (1.49%) Boomi
12 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.34%) PowerApps
13 25 (1.28%) GitHub
14 21 (1.08%) Entra ID
15 16 (0.82%) Serverless
15 16 (0.82%) Tricentis Tosca
16 15 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.51%) HTTP
2 7 (0.36%) Network Security
3 6 (0.31%) FTP
4 5 (0.26%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
5 3 (0.15%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) Intranet
6 2 (0.10%) LAN
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
6 2 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.051%) DHCP
7 1 (0.051%) DMZ
7 1 (0.051%) DNS
7 1 (0.051%) MQTT
7 1 (0.051%) RFID
7 1 (0.051%) SMTP
7 1 (0.051%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.051%) VPN
7 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.09%) Power BI
2 58 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.31%) Oracle Reports
4 31 (1.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 25 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.18%) Tableau
7 22 (1.13%) Oracle ODI
8 19 (0.98%) Metadata
9 13 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.41%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.36%) Power Query
11 7 (0.36%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 90 (4.62%) JIRA
2 31 (1.59%) Git
3 17 (0.87%) Hudson
4 14 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.31%) Postman
6 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.31%) Zephyr
7 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.15%) GitLab
8 3 (0.15%) LSMW
8 3 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.10%) Flyway
9 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.10%) MLflow
9 2 (0.10%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.051%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.051%) Eclipse
General
1 1,007 (51.72%) Finance
2 550 (28.25%) Social Skills
3 246 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (10.37%) Manufacturing
5 172 (8.83%) Public Sector
6 100 (5.14%) Retail
7 80 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (3.49%) General Ledger
9 56 (2.88%) Billing
10 50 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.52%) Legal
12 48 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (2.36%) Banking
13 46 (2.36%) Law
14 39 (2.00%) Local Government
15 33 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 28 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
18 22 (1.13%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.98%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 358 (18.39%) Lead
2 320 (16.44%) Architect
3 253 (12.99%) Analyst
4 237 (12.17%) Consultant
5 149 (7.65%) Senior
6 143 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
7 134 (6.88%) Project Manager
8 118 (6.06%) Business Analyst
9 106 (5.44%) Developer
10 90 (4.62%) Oracle Consultant
11 63 (3.24%) ERP Manager
12 55 (2.82%) Accountant
12 55 (2.82%) Functional Consultant
13 53 (2.72%) Financial Analyst
14 45 (2.31%) Data Analyst
15 44 (2.26%) Lead Architect
16 43 (2.21%) Administrator
17 42 (2.16%) Programme Manager
17 42 (2.16%) SAP Consultant
17 42 (2.16%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (11.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 121 (6.21%) REST
3 106 (5.44%) Middleware
4 74 (3.80%) SOAP
5 44 (2.26%) XML
6 42 (2.16%) JSON
7 37 (1.90%) Web Services
8 31 (1.59%) .NET
9 24 (1.23%) OAuth
10 21 (1.08%) EDI
11 20 (1.03%) OAuth2
12 18 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
12 18 (0.92%) Terraform
13 16 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
14 14 (0.72%) XSLT
15 11 (0.56%) CSS
15 11 (0.56%) HTML
16 10 (0.51%) Node.js
16 10 (0.51%) RESTful
17 9 (0.46%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
2 71 (3.65%) Data Structures
3 64 (3.29%) Management Information System
4 63 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
4 63 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 37 (1.90%) FMCG
7 33 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.64%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.08%) Life Science
12 16 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.82%) Operational Technology
13 15 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.77%) Low-Code
14 14 (0.72%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.62%) CMDB
15 12 (0.62%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.34%) Windows
2 10 (0.51%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.46%) Linux
4 4 (0.21%) 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
1 566 (29.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 496 (25.48%) Migration
3 374 (19.21%) Data Migration
4 317 (16.28%) User Acceptance Testing
5 312 (16.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 279 (14.33%) Agile
7 276 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 264 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
9 210 (10.79%) Validation
10 194 (9.96%) Change Management
11 190 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
12 187 (9.60%) CRM
13 186 (9.55%) Roadmaps
14 180 (9.24%) Process Improvement
15 173 (8.89%) Analytics
15 173 (8.89%) Data Modelling
16 152 (7.81%) Translating Business Requirements
17 145 (7.45%) Workshop Facilitation
18 140 (7.19%) Project Delivery
19 139 (7.14%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 183 (9.40%) SQL
2 63 (3.24%) Python
3 35 (1.80%) JavaScript
4 33 (1.69%) Java
5 32 (1.64%) PL/SQL
6 31 (1.59%) C#
7 20 (1.03%) X++
8 18 (0.92%) Apex Code
8 18 (0.92%) Ruby
9 15 (0.77%) ABAP
10 14 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.41%) Groovy
13 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.26%) SOQL
14 5 (0.26%) SOSL
15 4 (0.21%) VBA
16 3 (0.15%) C++
16 3 (0.15%) Rust
17 2 (0.10%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 237 (12.17%) Security Cleared
2 171 (8.78%) SC Cleared
3 123 (6.32%) Degree
4 69 (3.54%) ACCA
5 63 (3.24%) CIMA
6 54 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 38 (1.95%) PMP
8 34 (1.75%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.41%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.41%) CISM
14 8 (0.41%) CISSP
15 7 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.36%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.31%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.80%) QA
3 63 (3.24%) GDPR
4 53 (2.72%) PMO
5 30 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.28%) IFRS
7 21 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.03%) GRC
9 17 (0.87%) GAAP
10 13 (0.67%) NCSC
11 12 (0.62%) GMP
12 11 (0.56%) GxP
13 8 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.31%) NIST
15 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.31%) SLA
16 5 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 18 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.41%) 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 12 (0.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.21%) Kibana
5 3 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.10%) SCCM
7 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.051%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.051%) MOM
Vendors
1 601 (30.87%) SAP
2 558 (28.66%) Oracle
3 373 (19.16%) Microsoft
4 89 (4.57%) Salesforce
5 78 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 70 (3.60%) Workday
7 67 (3.44%) IFS
8 43 (2.21%) Ariba
9 34 (1.75%) Infor
10 31 (1.59%) Sage
11 28 (1.44%) Databricks
12 25 (1.28%) MuleSoft
13 23 (1.18%) Google
14 19 (0.98%) JD Edwards
15 17 (0.87%) Concur
16 16 (0.82%) Siemens
16 16 (0.82%) SYSPRO
17 10 (0.51%) Adobe
17 10 (0.51%) Epicor
17 10 (0.51%) IBM