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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 104 98
Rank change year-on-year +47 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,887 771 995
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.72% 2.57% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 2.83% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 470 601
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 36 39
10th Percentile £17.74 £14.75 £14.03
25th Percentile £27.90 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +90.89% -44.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £68.35 £85.00 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £68.75 £31.50
% change year-on-year -16.36% +118.25% -50.46%

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 43,108 27,270 37,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.01% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,889 17,271 23,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,584 1,289 2,614
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +37 1,586 £550 +2.33% 626
UK excluding London +51 992 £525 +5.00% 534
London +28 668 £560 +1.82% 201
Work from Home +62 566 £550 - 321
South East +5 249 £525 -2.33% 145
North of England +43 221 £500 +11.11% 109
Midlands +36 197 £525 - 123
South West +28 126 £525 +13.51% 65
North West +37 124 £500 +6.67% 64
West Midlands +14 122 £540 +5.37% 75
East of England +25 97 £575 - 44
Yorkshire +5 80 £550 +37.50% 40
East Midlands +23 71 £525 - 47
Scotland +16 58 £500 -0.99% 18
Wales - 25 £525 - 24
Northern Ireland +22 24 £475 +18.75% 23
North East -23 17 £500 -6.98% 8
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 25 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
3 16 (0.85%) Confluence
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.26%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.26%) SAS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.11%) CMS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.053%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.053%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 83 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.58%) 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
1 294 (15.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 139 (7.37%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.55%) SAP ERP
4 54 (2.86%) NetSuite
4 54 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
5 43 (2.28%) Oracle EBS
6 41 (2.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 35 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
8 29 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
9 21 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 18 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
10 18 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
11 17 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
12 15 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (0.74%) Infor CloudSuite
13 14 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
13 14 (0.74%) SAP MDG
14 12 (0.64%) Teamcenter
15 10 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
16 9 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 242 (12.82%) Azure
2 175 (9.27%) Dynamics 365
3 172 (9.11%) Power Platform
4 142 (7.53%) OCI
5 109 (5.78%) SaaS
6 68 (3.60%) AWS
7 56 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.33%) PaaS
9 31 (1.64%) Boomi
9 31 (1.64%) Power Automate
10 30 (1.59%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
12 24 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (1.17%) GitHub
14 21 (1.11%) GCP
15 18 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (0.85%) IaaS
18 15 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.26%) Network Security
2 4 (0.21%) FTP
3 3 (0.16%) 5G
3 3 (0.16%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) 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%) MQTT
5 1 (0.053%) SMS
5 1 (0.053%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.053%) VoIP
5 1 (0.053%) VPN
5 1 (0.053%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (7.05%) Power BI
2 59 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
4 29 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.38%) Oracle ODI
6 23 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 20 (1.06%) SQL Server
7 20 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (0.85%) Tableau
9 14 (0.74%) Metadata
10 10 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
11 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.37%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.32%) SAP HANA
14 6 (0.32%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.26%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.26%) SAP Data Services
15 5 (0.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (4.35%) JIRA
2 31 (1.64%) Git
3 20 (1.06%) Hudson
4 17 (0.90%) 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%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 2 (0.11%) Gradle
8 2 (0.11%) LSMW
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.053%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.053%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.053%) TestRail
General
1 980 (51.93%) Finance
2 476 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 239 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (9.75%) Manufacturing
5 140 (7.42%) Public Sector
6 94 (4.98%) Retail
7 63 (3.34%) Legal
8 60 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (2.97%) General Ledger
10 53 (2.81%) Local Government
11 47 (2.49%) Law
12 46 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 44 (2.33%) Billing
14 39 (2.07%) Banking
15 30 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
16 27 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 25 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.90%) Aerospace
19 16 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 331 (17.54%) Lead
2 276 (14.63%) Architect
3 250 (13.25%) Consultant
4 213 (11.29%) Analyst
5 173 (9.17%) Project Manager
6 156 (8.27%) Senior
7 135 (7.15%) Solutions Architect
8 97 (5.14%) Business Analyst
9 93 (4.93%) ERP Manager
10 92 (4.88%) Developer
11 70 (3.71%) Accountant
12 57 (3.02%) Oracle Consultant
13 52 (2.76%) Finance Manager
13 52 (2.76%) Implementation Consultant
13 52 (2.76%) Systems Accountant
14 50 (2.65%) SAP Consultant
15 49 (2.60%) Senior Manager
16 48 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
17 43 (2.28%) ERP Project Manager
18 42 (2.23%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (10.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 99 (5.25%) REST
3 91 (4.82%) Middleware
4 55 (2.91%) SOAP
5 45 (2.38%) JSON
6 42 (2.23%) XML
7 29 (1.54%) Web Services
8 25 (1.32%) .NET
9 17 (0.90%) EDI
9 17 (0.90%) OAuth
10 16 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (0.85%) Node.js
10 16 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
11 14 (0.74%) XSLT
12 13 (0.69%) HTML
13 11 (0.58%) CSS
13 11 (0.58%) JWT
14 10 (0.53%) PySpark
15 9 (0.48%) Ajax
15 9 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
2 58 (3.07%) Data Structures
3 48 (2.54%) Management Information System
4 47 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 36 (1.91%) Public Cloud
6 33 (1.75%) FMCG
7 32 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 30 (1.59%) Cloud Native
9 23 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (0.95%) IoT
13 16 (0.85%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.64%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
16 11 (0.58%) Life Science
17 9 (0.48%) Operational Technology
18 8 (0.42%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.17%) Windows
2 7 (0.37%) 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
1 492 (26.07%) Migration
2 434 (23.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 335 (17.75%) Data Migration
4 303 (16.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 282 (14.94%) User Acceptance Testing
6 250 (13.25%) Agile
7 249 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
8 243 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 208 (11.02%) Validation
10 204 (10.81%) Change Management
11 187 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
12 182 (9.64%) Project Management
13 162 (8.59%) Data Modelling
14 156 (8.27%) CRM
15 150 (7.95%) Roadmaps
16 140 (7.42%) Analytics
17 139 (7.37%) Procure-to-Pay
18 122 (6.47%) Translating Business Requirements
19 120 (6.36%) Process Improvement
20 119 (6.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 167 (8.85%) SQL
2 65 (3.44%) Python
3 36 (1.91%) JavaScript
4 34 (1.80%) Java
5 33 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 25 (1.32%) C#
7 18 (0.95%) Apex Code
8 17 (0.90%) Ruby
9 15 (0.79%) X++
10 14 (0.74%) ABAP
11 11 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 10 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.26%) SOQL
14 5 (0.26%) SOSL
14 5 (0.26%) VBA
15 4 (0.21%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.16%) C++
16 3 (0.16%) Groovy
16 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 191 (10.12%) Security Cleared
2 140 (7.42%) SC Cleared
3 110 (5.83%) Degree
4 102 (5.41%) CIMA
5 96 (5.09%) ACCA
6 40 (2.12%) PMP
7 33 (1.75%) PMI Certification
8 29 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 16 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.48%) SAP Certification
13 8 (0.42%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.32%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.26%) CFA
17 4 (0.21%) CCAB
17 4 (0.21%) CISM
17 4 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.97%) GDPR
3 69 (3.66%) QA
4 45 (2.38%) PMO
5 31 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.32%) IFRS
7 19 (1.01%) GAAP
7 19 (1.01%) SLA
8 11 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.42%) GMP
10 8 (0.42%) GxP
10 8 (0.42%) NCSC
11 6 (0.32%) GRC
11 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.21%) NIST
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (0.64%) 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%) Control-M
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
1 588 (31.16%) SAP
2 519 (27.50%) Oracle
3 316 (16.75%) Microsoft
4 86 (4.56%) Workday
5 82 (4.35%) IFS
6 79 (4.19%) Salesforce
7 58 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.91%) Siemens
9 41 (2.17%) Databricks
10 37 (1.96%) Ariba
10 37 (1.96%) Sage
11 36 (1.91%) Infor
12 33 (1.75%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.79%) JD Edwards
14 14 (0.74%) Concur
14 14 (0.74%) Informatica
15 13 (0.69%) Google
16 12 (0.64%) Epicor
17 11 (0.58%) HP
18 8 (0.42%) Foundry