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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 89 96
Rank change year-on-year +28 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing ERP 2,004 933 910
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 2.82% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 3.12% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 555 518
10th Percentile £363 £328 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £518 £500
% change year-on-year +1.45% +3.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 52 37
10th Percentile £15.36 £6.00 £16.70
25th Percentile £19.12 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.95 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.14% -46.78% -30.66%
75th Percentile £58.44 £71.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.38 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £17.43 £35.36
% change year-on-year +86.51% -50.72% -45.70%

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 45,559 29,946 33,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.50% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,021 18,667 21,209
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
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 2,840 1,725 1,823
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.25
Median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £81.32 £68.00 £74.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +18 1,654 £550 - 1,220
UK excluding London +39 1,046 £525 +1.45% 837
London +14 693 £600 +8.60% 453
Work from Home +30 569 £550 - 498
South East -3 274 £525 +1.94% 237
North of England +62 268 £518 +4.02% 200
Midlands +36 206 £525 - 205
North West +44 154 £525 +5.00% 91
West Midlands +5 116 £528 +0.48% 119
South West -15 95 £525 -16.13% 84
Yorkshire +27 93 £500 +24.22% 82
East of England +2 85 £510 -11.30% 71
East Midlands +27 81 £525 -12.50% 86
Scotland +15 71 £500 - 32
Northern Ireland +27 28 £450 +28.57% 15
North East -24 21 £500 -6.98% 30
Wales - 21 £488 - 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 33 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.85%) Confluence
4 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.25%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.20%) CMS
5 4 (0.20%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.100%) Apache
7 2 (0.100%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.100%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.050%) Mendix
8 1 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 98 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.20%) Windchill
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 288 (14.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 159 (7.93%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.34%) SAP ERP
4 65 (3.24%) Oracle Payables
5 63 (3.14%) NetSuite
6 52 (2.59%) Oracle EBS
7 50 (2.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 41 (2.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 28 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
10 24 (1.20%) Oracle Financials
10 24 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
11 18 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite
11 18 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
11 18 (0.90%) SAP MDG
12 16 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
13 14 (0.70%) Workday HCM
14 11 (0.55%) SAP FI
15 10 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
15 10 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 211 (10.53%) Azure
2 198 (9.88%) Dynamics 365
3 193 (9.63%) Power Platform
4 162 (8.08%) OCI
5 119 (5.94%) SaaS
6 79 (3.94%) AWS
7 59 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (2.00%) PaaS
9 37 (1.85%) GCP
10 36 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
11 34 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (1.65%) Boomi
13 31 (1.55%) Power Automate
14 28 (1.40%) PowerApps
15 27 (1.35%) GitHub
16 24 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
17 17 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 16 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.35%) HTTP
1 7 (0.35%) Network Security
2 6 (0.30%) FTP
3 5 (0.25%) SSL
4 4 (0.20%) Firewall
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
6 2 (0.100%) Intranet
6 2 (0.100%) LAN
6 2 (0.100%) WAN
7 1 (0.050%) DHCP
7 1 (0.050%) DMZ
7 1 (0.050%) DNS
7 1 (0.050%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.050%) Modbus
7 1 (0.050%) MQTT
7 1 (0.050%) RFID
7 1 (0.050%) SMS
7 1 (0.050%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.050%) VPN
7 1 (0.050%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (6.89%) Power BI
2 70 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.89%) Oracle Reports
4 36 (1.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.30%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.30%) Oracle ODI
5 26 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.15%) Tableau
7 17 (0.85%) Metadata
8 16 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.40%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.35%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
12 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
12 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 88 (4.39%) JIRA
2 34 (1.70%) Git
3 19 (0.95%) Hudson
4 13 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.45%) Postman
7 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 4 (0.20%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.15%) GitLab
10 3 (0.15%) LSMW
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.100%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.100%) MLflow
12 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.050%) JDeveloper
12 1 (0.050%) TestRail
General
1 1,045 (52.15%) Finance
2 542 (27.05%) Social Skills
3 251 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (10.58%) Manufacturing
5 172 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 109 (5.44%) Retail
7 84 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (3.24%) General Ledger
9 60 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 54 (2.69%) Billing
10 54 (2.69%) Legal
11 49 (2.45%) Law
12 44 (2.20%) Local Government
13 43 (2.15%) Banking
14 40 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 35 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
17 31 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (1.10%) Aerospace
19 20 (1.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 372 (18.56%) Lead
2 317 (15.82%) Architect
3 256 (12.77%) Analyst
4 242 (12.08%) Consultant
5 162 (8.08%) Senior
6 149 (7.44%) Project Manager
7 148 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
8 121 (6.04%) Business Analyst
9 111 (5.54%) Developer
10 85 (4.24%) Oracle Consultant
11 74 (3.69%) ERP Manager
12 60 (2.99%) Financial Analyst
13 58 (2.89%) Accountant
14 46 (2.30%) Programme Manager
15 45 (2.25%) Functional Consultant
16 43 (2.15%) Data Analyst
17 42 (2.10%) Finance Manager
17 42 (2.10%) SAP Manager
17 42 (2.10%) Systems Accountant
18 41 (2.05%) ERP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (11.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 118 (5.89%) REST
3 101 (5.04%) Middleware
4 71 (3.54%) SOAP
5 45 (2.25%) JSON
6 44 (2.20%) XML
7 35 (1.75%) Web Services
8 28 (1.40%) .NET
9 25 (1.25%) OAuth
10 21 (1.05%) EDI
11 19 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
11 19 (0.95%) OAuth2
12 16 (0.80%) XSLT
13 14 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
14 12 (0.60%) Node.js
14 12 (0.60%) PySpark
15 11 (0.55%) CSS
15 11 (0.55%) HTML
16 10 (0.50%) JWT
16 10 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
2 77 (3.84%) Data Structures
3 58 (2.89%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
4 54 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 42 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 36 (1.80%) FMCG
6 36 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 32 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 26 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (0.90%) Life Science
12 17 (0.85%) AI Agents
13 15 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.70%) Low-Code
14 14 (0.70%) Operational Technology
15 13 (0.65%) IoT
16 12 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.30%) Windows
2 7 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.30%) Linux
4 2 (0.100%) Android
4 2 (0.100%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.100%) OpenVMS
4 2 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.100%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.050%) AIX
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.050%) Unix
5 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (26.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 508 (25.35%) Migration
3 378 (18.86%) Data Migration
4 330 (16.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 323 (16.12%) User Acceptance Testing
6 283 (14.12%) Agile
7 272 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 257 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 211 (10.53%) Change Management
10 207 (10.33%) Validation
11 199 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
12 187 (9.33%) Data Modelling
13 183 (9.13%) Analytics
14 181 (9.03%) CRM
15 174 (8.68%) Roadmaps
16 168 (8.38%) Process Improvement
17 147 (7.34%) Translating Business Requirements
18 145 (7.24%) Project Management
19 141 (7.04%) Project Delivery
20 138 (6.89%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 182 (9.08%) SQL
2 66 (3.29%) Python
3 35 (1.75%) Java
3 35 (1.75%) PL/SQL
4 34 (1.70%) JavaScript
5 27 (1.35%) C#
6 21 (1.05%) Apex Code
7 20 (1.00%) Ruby
7 20 (1.00%) X++
8 14 (0.70%) ABAP
8 14 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.40%) Groovy
11 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.30%) SOQL
12 6 (0.30%) SOSL
13 5 (0.25%) VBA
14 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.15%) C++
15 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 233 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 163 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.34%) Degree
4 73 (3.64%) ACCA
5 70 (3.49%) CIMA
6 54 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.00%) PMP
8 34 (1.70%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.40%) SAP Certification
14 7 (0.35%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.30%) CISM
15 6 (0.30%) CISSP
15 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 72 (3.59%) QA
3 69 (3.44%) GDPR
4 55 (2.74%) PMO
5 34 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.25%) IFRS
7 17 (0.85%) GAAP
8 16 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.70%) GMP
10 13 (0.65%) GRC
11 11 (0.55%) GxP
12 10 (0.50%) NCSC
13 9 (0.45%) SLA
14 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 5 (0.25%) NIST
16 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 15 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.45%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.050%) Firmware
4 1 (0.050%) IAG
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (0.90%) Terraform
2 14 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.45%) HP ALM
4 5 (0.25%) Grafana
4 5 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.20%) Kibana
6 3 (0.15%) MOM
7 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.100%) SCCM
8 1 (0.050%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.050%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 606 (30.24%) SAP
2 592 (29.54%) Oracle
3 371 (18.51%) Microsoft
4 85 (4.24%) Salesforce
5 80 (3.99%) IFS
6 78 (3.89%) Workday
7 77 (3.84%) ServiceNow
8 41 (2.05%) Infor
9 39 (1.95%) Ariba
10 36 (1.80%) Databricks
11 32 (1.60%) MuleSoft
11 32 (1.60%) Sage
12 24 (1.20%) Siemens
13 22 (1.10%) JD Edwards
14 21 (1.05%) Google
15 17 (0.85%) Concur
16 13 (0.65%) SYSPRO
17 12 (0.60%) Epicor
18 9 (0.45%) Baan
18 9 (0.45%) HP