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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 102 97
Rank change year-on-year +42 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,901 773 1,003
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.70% 2.51% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 2.77% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,087 470 610
10th Percentile £350 £362 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £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 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 40 38
10th Percentile £17.75 £14.58 £16.03
25th Percentile £27.08 £17.24 £28.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.75 £37.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +55.92% -40.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £66.38 £85.00 £69.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £35.36
% change year-on-year -14.81% +90.89% -44.39%

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 43,674 27,949 36,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 90.88% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,163 17,650 23,450
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,623 1,373 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.86 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +39 1,588 £550 +2.33% 657
UK excluding London +51 998 £525 +3.96% 556
London +25 663 £575 +4.55% 216
Work from Home +49 568 £550 - 331
South East +6 252 £525 -2.33% 140
North of England +48 223 £500 +11.11% 129
Midlands +37 202 £525 - 124
West Midlands +29 126 £540 +2.86% 69
North West +42 125 £500 +11.11% 83
South West +27 122 £525 +13.51% 55
East of England +23 96 £575 +4.55% 45
Yorkshire +7 80 £500 +25.00% 34
East Midlands +25 72 £525 - 55
Scotland +22 56 £500 -0.99% 26
Northern Ireland +25 27 £475 +18.75% 24
Wales - 25 £525 - 27
North East -19 18 £500 -6.98% 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 30 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.89%) Confluence
4 5 (0.26%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.26%) SAS
5 4 (0.21%) Apache
5 4 (0.21%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.053%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.053%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 83 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.26%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.11%) Windchill
9 1 (0.053%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 291 (15.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 144 (7.57%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.52%) SAP ERP
4 55 (2.89%) NetSuite
5 52 (2.74%) Oracle Payables
6 46 (2.42%) Oracle EBS
7 39 (2.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 34 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
9 29 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
10 20 (1.05%) Oracle Financials
11 19 (1.00%) Oracle Assets
12 18 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
13 17 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 15 (0.79%) Infor CloudSuite
14 15 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
14 15 (0.79%) SAP MDG
15 13 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
16 12 (0.63%) Teamcenter
17 10 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
18 9 (0.47%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 240 (12.62%) Azure
2 176 (9.26%) Power Platform
3 174 (9.15%) Dynamics 365
4 139 (7.31%) OCI
5 111 (5.84%) SaaS
6 69 (3.63%) AWS
7 58 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.31%) PaaS
9 32 (1.68%) Boomi
10 28 (1.47%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.42%) Power Automate
11 27 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
12 25 (1.32%) GitHub
13 24 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 23 (1.21%) GCP
14 23 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.32%) Network Security
2 4 (0.21%) FTP
3 3 (0.16%) 5G
3 3 (0.16%) Firewall
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.11%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) LAN
4 2 (0.11%) RFID
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
5 1 (0.053%) DHCP
5 1 (0.053%) DMZ
5 1 (0.053%) DNS
5 1 (0.053%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.053%) Modbus
5 1 (0.053%) SMS
5 1 (0.053%) SSL
5 1 (0.053%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.053%) VoIP
5 1 (0.053%) VPN
5 1 (0.053%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (7.05%) Power BI
2 62 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (2.89%) Oracle Reports
4 29 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.37%) Oracle ODI
6 23 (1.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 20 (1.05%) SQL Server
8 19 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (0.95%) Tableau
10 14 (0.74%) Metadata
11 11 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
12 9 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.37%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.37%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.32%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
14 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
15 5 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 81 (4.26%) JIRA
2 33 (1.74%) Git
3 20 (1.05%) Hudson
4 17 (0.89%) Postman
5 10 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.32%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
6 6 (0.32%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.16%) LSMW
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) GitLab
9 1 (0.053%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.053%) Gradle
9 1 (0.053%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.053%) TestRail
General
1 980 (51.55%) Finance
2 477 (25.09%) Social Skills
3 245 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (9.99%) Manufacturing
5 142 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 95 (5.00%) Retail
7 64 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (3.26%) Legal
9 57 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (2.95%) General Ledger
11 53 (2.79%) Local Government
12 48 (2.52%) Billing
13 47 (2.47%) Law
14 45 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
15 36 (1.89%) Banking
16 30 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.95%) Telecoms
20 17 (0.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 326 (17.15%) Lead
2 288 (15.15%) Architect
3 251 (13.20%) Consultant
4 223 (11.73%) Analyst
5 168 (8.84%) Project Manager
6 159 (8.36%) Senior
7 141 (7.42%) Solutions Architect
8 106 (5.58%) Business Analyst
9 96 (5.05%) Developer
10 88 (4.63%) ERP Manager
11 68 (3.58%) Accountant
12 60 (3.16%) Oracle Consultant
13 52 (2.74%) Implementation Consultant
14 51 (2.68%) Senior Manager
14 51 (2.68%) Systems Accountant
15 50 (2.63%) Finance Manager
16 49 (2.58%) SAP Consultant
17 47 (2.47%) Financial Analyst
18 42 (2.21%) ERP Project Manager
18 42 (2.21%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (10.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 99 (5.21%) REST
3 90 (4.73%) Middleware
4 56 (2.95%) SOAP
5 46 (2.42%) JSON
6 40 (2.10%) XML
7 31 (1.63%) Web Services
8 26 (1.37%) .NET
9 18 (0.95%) OAuth
10 17 (0.89%) EDI
11 16 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (0.84%) Node.js
11 16 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
12 14 (0.74%) XSLT
13 13 (0.68%) HTML
14 11 (0.58%) CSS
14 11 (0.58%) JWT
15 10 (0.53%) PySpark
16 9 (0.47%) Ajax
16 9 (0.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.42%) Legacy Systems
2 61 (3.21%) Data Structures
3 50 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 46 (2.42%) Management Information System
5 36 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 35 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 33 (1.74%) FMCG
8 30 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 29 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
11 20 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (0.95%) IoT
13 16 (0.84%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.68%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (0.63%) Life Science
16 11 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (0.47%) Low-Code
17 9 (0.47%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.16%) Windows
2 5 (0.26%) Linux
3 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.053%) AIX
5 1 (0.053%) Android
5 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.053%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.053%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (26.09%) Migration
2 440 (23.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 342 (17.99%) Data Migration
4 310 (16.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 283 (14.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 250 (13.15%) Agile
6 250 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
7 249 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 202 (10.63%) Validation
9 200 (10.52%) Change Management
10 187 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
11 172 (9.05%) Project Management
12 169 (8.89%) Data Modelling
13 165 (8.68%) CRM
14 150 (7.89%) Roadmaps
15 148 (7.79%) Analytics
16 139 (7.31%) Procure-to-Pay
17 124 (6.52%) Process Improvement
17 124 (6.52%) Translating Business Requirements
18 123 (6.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 171 (9.00%) SQL
2 68 (3.58%) Python
3 37 (1.95%) JavaScript
4 35 (1.84%) Java
5 32 (1.68%) PL/SQL
6 26 (1.37%) C#
7 19 (1.00%) Ruby
8 18 (0.95%) Apex Code
9 15 (0.79%) ABAP
9 15 (0.79%) X++
10 11 (0.58%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.26%) SOQL
13 5 (0.26%) SOSL
13 5 (0.26%) VBA
14 4 (0.21%) Groovy
14 4 (0.21%) Korn
14 4 (0.21%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 195 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 143 (7.52%) SC Cleared
3 110 (5.79%) Degree
4 96 (5.05%) CIMA
5 91 (4.79%) ACCA
6 39 (2.05%) PMP
7 31 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 31 (1.63%) PMI Certification
8 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 16 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.58%) SAP Certification
12 8 (0.42%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.32%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.21%) CCAB
14 4 (0.21%) CISM
14 4 (0.21%) CISSP
14 4 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 77 (4.05%) GDPR
3 68 (3.58%) QA
4 45 (2.37%) PMO
5 31 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 24 (1.26%) IFRS
7 19 (1.00%) GAAP
7 19 (1.00%) SLA
8 11 (0.58%) GMP
9 10 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.47%) GxP
11 8 (0.42%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.42%) NCSC
12 7 (0.37%) GRC
13 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.21%) NIST
16 3 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
17 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (0.68%) Terraform
2 11 (0.58%) HP ALM
2 11 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.32%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.26%) Grafana
4 5 (0.26%) Kibana
5 3 (0.16%) MOM
5 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.053%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.053%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.053%) SCCM
Vendors
1 591 (31.09%) SAP
2 525 (27.62%) Oracle
3 323 (16.99%) Microsoft
4 85 (4.47%) IFS
5 79 (4.16%) Salesforce
5 79 (4.16%) Workday
6 57 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 55 (2.89%) Siemens
8 43 (2.26%) Ariba
9 38 (2.00%) Databricks
9 38 (2.00%) Infor
10 37 (1.95%) Sage
11 34 (1.79%) MuleSoft
12 16 (0.84%) Concur
12 16 (0.84%) JD Edwards
13 13 (0.68%) Google
14 12 (0.63%) Epicor
15 11 (0.58%) HP
15 11 (0.58%) Informatica
16 8 (0.42%) Foundry