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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 89 91
Rank change year-on-year +29 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,999 895 942
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 2.70% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 2.99% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 539 544
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -0.47% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 54 37
10th Percentile £16.05 £6.00 £23.60
25th Percentile £23.38 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £26.21 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.06% -50.08% -19.11%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £23.15 £46.25
% change year-on-year +58.57% -49.95% -28.98%

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 45,351 29,931 33,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.42% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,028 18,763 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,659 1,891
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.10 £74.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +87.06% -43.03% +3.13%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +22 1,653 £550 +2.33% 1,046
UK excluding London +39 1,040 £525 +2.44% 739
London +26 693 £600 +9.09% 372
Work from Home +29 576 £550 - 547
South East +5 267 £525 +1.94% 183
North of England +51 248 £500 +2.56% 177
Midlands +36 208 £525 -4.55% 203
North West +32 144 £525 +7.36% 89
West Midlands +12 122 £540 +2.86% 124
South West +8 112 £550 -12.14% 60
East of England +17 92 £575 - 63
Yorkshire +18 84 £475 +18.01% 67
East Midlands +28 78 £525 -12.50% 79
Scotland +18 65 £500 - 39
Northern Ireland +24 28 £450 +28.57% 14
Wales - 21 £500 - 12
North East -24 20 £500 -6.98% 22
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 31 (1.55%) 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%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.20%) Apache
5 4 (0.20%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.15%) CMS
6 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.15%) ThingWorx
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.10%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.050%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.050%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 96 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.050%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 303 (15.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 150 (7.50%) Oracle ERP
3 66 (3.30%) SAP ERP
4 61 (3.05%) NetSuite
5 57 (2.85%) Oracle Payables
6 52 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
7 44 (2.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 38 (1.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 27 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
10 25 (1.25%) Oracle Financials
11 22 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
12 18 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite
12 18 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
13 16 (0.80%) SAP MDG
13 16 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
14 14 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
15 11 (0.55%) Workday HCM
16 10 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
16 10 (0.50%) SAP FI
16 10 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 221 (11.06%) Azure
2 192 (9.60%) Dynamics 365
2 192 (9.60%) Power Platform
3 155 (7.75%) OCI
4 120 (6.00%) SaaS
5 71 (3.55%) AWS
6 56 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (2.10%) PaaS
8 36 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
9 34 (1.70%) Boomi
10 29 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.45%) PowerApps
11 28 (1.40%) GitHub
12 27 (1.35%) GCP
12 27 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 15 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.35%) HTTP
1 7 (0.35%) Network Security
2 5 (0.25%) SSL
3 4 (0.20%) Firewall
3 4 (0.20%) FTP
4 3 (0.15%) 5G
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%) MQTT
6 1 (0.050%) SMS
6 1 (0.050%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.050%) VPN
6 1 (0.050%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (7.05%) Power BI
2 73 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (3.00%) Oracle Reports
4 34 (1.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 32 (1.60%) Data Lake
6 28 (1.40%) SQL Server
7 26 (1.30%) Oracle ODI
8 24 (1.20%) Tableau
9 18 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 17 (0.85%) Metadata
11 13 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (0.40%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.35%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.35%) SAP HANA
14 7 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
15 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 82 (4.10%) JIRA
2 35 (1.75%) Git
3 21 (1.05%) Hudson
4 13 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.55%) Postman
6 9 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.30%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.20%) Selenium
8 4 (0.20%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.15%) GitLab
9 3 (0.15%) LSMW
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.050%) JDeveloper
11 1 (0.050%) MLflow
11 1 (0.050%) TestRail
General
1 1,034 (51.73%) Finance
2 506 (25.31%) Social Skills
3 244 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (10.26%) Manufacturing
5 169 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 107 (5.35%) Retail
7 81 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (2.95%) General Ledger
10 57 (2.85%) Legal
11 52 (2.60%) Local Government
12 49 (2.45%) Billing
13 47 (2.35%) Law
14 41 (2.05%) Banking
15 38 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
16 36 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 35 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
18 30 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
19 21 (1.05%) Marketing
20 19 (0.95%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 364 (18.21%) Lead
2 321 (16.06%) Architect
3 249 (12.46%) Consultant
4 243 (12.16%) Analyst
5 166 (8.30%) Senior
6 158 (7.90%) Solutions Architect
7 152 (7.60%) Project Manager
8 117 (5.85%) Developer
9 113 (5.65%) Business Analyst
10 76 (3.80%) ERP Manager
10 76 (3.80%) Oracle Consultant
11 63 (3.15%) Accountant
12 58 (2.90%) Financial Analyst
13 47 (2.35%) Systems Accountant
14 46 (2.30%) SAP Manager
15 44 (2.20%) Programme Manager
15 44 (2.20%) Senior Manager
16 42 (2.10%) Data Analyst
16 42 (2.10%) ERP Project Manager
16 42 (2.10%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (10.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 112 (5.60%) REST
3 105 (5.25%) Middleware
4 64 (3.20%) SOAP
5 42 (2.10%) JSON
6 40 (2.00%) XML
7 34 (1.70%) Web Services
8 29 (1.45%) .NET
9 21 (1.05%) OAuth
10 20 (1.00%) EDI
11 17 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
12 16 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
13 15 (0.75%) OAuth2
14 13 (0.65%) XSLT
15 12 (0.60%) HTML
15 12 (0.60%) Node.js
16 11 (0.55%) CSS
16 11 (0.55%) PySpark
17 10 (0.50%) RESTful
18 9 (0.45%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.35%) Legacy Systems
2 78 (3.90%) Data Structures
3 57 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 52 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 42 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.70%) Public Cloud
8 33 (1.65%) FMCG
9 32 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 25 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (0.90%) IoT
12 16 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 16 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.80%) Life Science
13 15 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.65%) Operational Technology
14 13 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.30%) Windows
2 7 (0.35%) Linux
2 7 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.10%) Android
3 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.050%) AIX
4 1 (0.050%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.050%) Unix
4 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (25.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 511 (25.56%) Migration
3 375 (18.76%) Data Migration
4 327 (16.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 317 (15.86%) User Acceptance Testing
6 273 (13.66%) Agile
7 267 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 250 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
9 210 (10.51%) Business Intelligence
10 208 (10.41%) Validation
11 207 (10.36%) Change Management
12 188 (9.40%) Analytics
13 186 (9.30%) Data Modelling
14 174 (8.70%) CRM
15 171 (8.55%) Roadmaps
16 157 (7.85%) Process Improvement
17 154 (7.70%) Project Management
18 143 (7.15%) Translating Business Requirements
19 138 (6.90%) Procure-to-Pay
20 137 (6.85%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 184 (9.20%) SQL
2 67 (3.35%) Python
3 36 (1.80%) JavaScript
4 35 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 34 (1.70%) Java
6 26 (1.30%) C#
7 20 (1.00%) Ruby
7 20 (1.00%) X++
8 19 (0.95%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.80%) ABAP
10 14 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.40%) Groovy
13 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.25%) SOQL
14 5 (0.25%) SOSL
14 5 (0.25%) VBA
15 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.15%) Korn
16 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 227 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 161 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 118 (5.90%) Degree
4 77 (3.85%) ACCA
5 76 (3.80%) CIMA
6 51 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 38 (1.90%) PMP
8 32 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 19 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.45%) SAP Certification
13 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.35%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.25%) CISM
16 5 (0.25%) CISSP
16 5 (0.25%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.70%) GDPR
3 69 (3.45%) QA
4 54 (2.70%) PMO
5 36 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.40%) IFRS
7 20 (1.00%) GAAP
8 15 (0.75%) GMP
9 12 (0.60%) GxP
9 12 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.60%) SLA
10 11 (0.55%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.40%) NCSC
13 7 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 5 (0.25%) NIST
15 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 4 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 12 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.050%) Firmware
3 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.050%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (0.80%) Terraform
2 13 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.40%) HP ALM
4 6 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.25%) Grafana
5 5 (0.25%) Kibana
5 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.15%) MOM
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.10%) SCCM
8 1 (0.050%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.050%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 609 (30.47%) SAP
2 567 (28.36%) Oracle
3 354 (17.71%) Microsoft
4 84 (4.20%) IFS
5 81 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 81 (4.05%) Workday
6 66 (3.30%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.15%) Ariba
8 41 (2.05%) Infor
9 39 (1.95%) Databricks
10 37 (1.85%) MuleSoft
10 37 (1.85%) Siemens
11 35 (1.75%) Sage
12 18 (0.90%) JD Edwards
13 17 (0.85%) Concur
14 14 (0.70%) Google
15 12 (0.60%) Epicor
15 12 (0.60%) SYSPRO
16 11 (0.55%) Informatica
17 9 (0.45%) Baan