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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 95 95
Rank change year-on-year +30 0 +25
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,635 786 1,034
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.61% 2.69% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 2.97% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 456 654
10th Percentile £363 £358 £356
25th Percentile £463 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -1.38% -0.91%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £775 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 20 35
10th Percentile £18.27 £47.29 £13.54
25th Percentile £27.14 £65.94 £23.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +31.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £78.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £87.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +81.25% -38.15%

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 38,742 26,466 38,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 90.55% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,554 17,183 24,720
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,285 983 2,350
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £31.52 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -4.48% -11.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -12.87%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +32 1,372 £550 +2.33% 750
UK excluding London +36 805 £525 +5.00% 619
London +30 616 £550 - 210
Work from Home +40 538 £550 +3.19% 347
South East +5 193 £550 - 200
North of England +27 190 £550 +25.71% 135
Midlands -18 138 £540 +8.00% 113
South West +24 119 £525 +10.53% 64
North West +34 114 £500 +2.41% 65
West Midlands -14 91 £565 +13.00% 79
East of England +1 85 £550 -6.38% 69
Yorkshire -12 65 £595 +48.75% 59
Scotland +31 46 £525 +5.00% 29
East Midlands -13 46 £500 +5.26% 34
Wales +6 21 £500 -31.03% 10
Northern Ireland +10 16 £475 +18.75% 11
North East -13 11 £500 +11.11% 15
Channel Islands - 3 - - 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 16 (0.98%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 14 (0.86%) Confluence
4 13 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (0.55%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.31%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.31%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.24%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.18%) Documentum
8 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.12%) CMS
9 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.061%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 74 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.31%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.24%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) Windchill
10 1 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.061%) InVision
10 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 243 (14.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (6.73%) Oracle ERP
3 66 (4.04%) Oracle EBS
4 64 (3.91%) SAP ERP
5 53 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
6 46 (2.81%) Oracle Payables
7 33 (2.02%) NetSuite
8 31 (1.90%) Oracle Receivables
9 29 (1.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 18 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
10 18 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
10 18 (1.10%) Shopify
11 16 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 15 (0.92%) Oracle EBS R12
13 14 (0.86%) Unit4 Business World
14 13 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
14 13 (0.80%) SAP FI
14 13 (0.80%) SAP PP
14 13 (0.80%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 211 (12.91%) Azure
2 194 (11.87%) Dynamics 365
3 158 (9.66%) OCI
4 134 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 91 (5.57%) SaaS
6 62 (3.79%) AWS
7 50 (3.06%) PaaS
8 43 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (1.83%) Power Automate
10 29 (1.77%) Boomi
11 27 (1.65%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
12 23 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (1.35%) GCP
14 18 (1.10%) IaaS
15 17 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
17 15 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
18 14 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (0.86%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.18%) LAN
2 2 (0.12%) 5G
2 2 (0.12%) Firewall
2 2 (0.12%) FTP
3 1 (0.061%) DHCP
3 1 (0.061%) DNS
3 1 (0.061%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.061%) HTTP
3 1 (0.061%) Intranet
3 1 (0.061%) Modbus
3 1 (0.061%) RFID
3 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.061%) VoIP
3 1 (0.061%) VPN
3 1 (0.061%) WAN
3 1 (0.061%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (6.54%) Power BI
2 67 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
3 56 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.47%) Oracle ODI
6 23 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 21 (1.28%) SQL Server
8 17 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.67%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.61%) Metadata
12 8 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.49%) GIS
12 8 (0.49%) SAP HANA
13 7 (0.43%) Tableau
14 6 (0.37%) Relational Database
15 5 (0.31%) Power Query
15 5 (0.31%) Star Schema
16 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 84 (5.14%) JIRA
2 29 (1.77%) Postman
3 23 (1.41%) Git
4 17 (1.04%) Hudson
5 10 (0.61%) SoapUI
6 8 (0.49%) GitLab
7 7 (0.43%) Selenium
8 6 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) LSMW
12 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.12%) Gradle
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.12%) TestRail
12 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
13 1 (0.061%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 859 (52.54%) Finance
2 494 (30.21%) Social Skills
3 227 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (8.26%) Manufacturing
5 133 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 73 (4.46%) Retail
7 60 (3.67%) Legal
7 60 (3.67%) Local Government
8 55 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
10 46 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 43 (2.63%) Law
12 42 (2.57%) General Ledger
13 41 (2.51%) Banking
14 25 (1.53%) Billing
14 25 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 24 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.41%) Marketing
17 20 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 257 (15.72%) Lead
2 243 (14.86%) Consultant
3 233 (14.25%) Architect
4 187 (11.44%) Analyst
5 156 (9.54%) Project Manager
6 141 (8.62%) Senior
7 114 (6.97%) Solutions Architect
8 105 (6.42%) Business Analyst
9 78 (4.77%) Developer
10 71 (4.34%) ERP Manager
11 54 (3.30%) SAP Consultant
12 52 (3.18%) SAP Manager
13 51 (3.12%) Implementation Consultant
14 49 (3.00%) Accountant
15 45 (2.75%) Financial Analyst
16 43 (2.63%) Oracle Consultant
16 43 (2.63%) Senior Manager
17 37 (2.26%) Test Manager
18 36 (2.20%) Systems Accountant
19 35 (2.14%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (11.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 89 (5.44%) REST
3 71 (4.34%) Middleware
4 63 (3.85%) SOAP
5 49 (3.00%) XML
6 45 (2.75%) JSON
7 40 (2.45%) Web Services
8 24 (1.47%) OAuth
9 22 (1.35%) XSLT
10 20 (1.22%) .NET
11 16 (0.98%) JWT
12 15 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
13 12 (0.73%) PySpark
14 10 (0.61%) EDI
15 8 (0.49%) ADO
15 8 (0.49%) Kafka
15 8 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
15 8 (0.49%) Node.js
16 7 (0.43%) SAPUI5
17 6 (0.37%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.57%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (3.36%) Data Structures
3 45 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.32%) Product Ownership
5 31 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 23 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 22 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.16%) IoT
10 17 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (0.92%) FMCG
12 14 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (0.80%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.55%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.49%) Life Science
16 8 (0.49%) PMI
16 8 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.86%) Windows
2 6 (0.37%) Linux
3 3 (0.18%) Unix
4 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (26.61%) Migration
2 323 (19.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 288 (17.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 277 (16.94%) Data Migration
5 247 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
6 234 (14.31%) Agile
7 233 (14.25%) User Acceptance Testing
8 182 (11.13%) Change Management
8 182 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 178 (10.89%) Project Management
10 173 (10.58%) Validation
11 162 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
12 160 (9.79%) CRM
13 122 (7.46%) Data Modelling
14 117 (7.16%) Procure-to-Pay
15 116 (7.09%) Roadmaps
16 114 (6.97%) DevOps
16 114 (6.97%) Project Delivery
17 105 (6.42%) Analytics
18 101 (6.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.81%) SQL
2 47 (2.87%) Python
3 43 (2.63%) PL/SQL
4 30 (1.83%) Java
5 28 (1.71%) C#
6 18 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.73%) Ruby
8 10 (0.61%) ABAP
8 10 (0.61%) Apex Code
9 7 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.37%) VBA
11 5 (0.31%) Korn
11 5 (0.31%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.24%) Perl
12 4 (0.24%) X++
13 3 (0.18%) C++
13 3 (0.18%) SOQL
13 3 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 198 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 146 (8.93%) SC Cleared
3 135 (8.26%) Degree
4 94 (5.75%) CIMA
5 82 (5.02%) ACCA
6 47 (2.87%) PMP
7 40 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
11 13 (0.80%) SAP Certification
12 10 (0.61%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.55%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.43%) APMP
14 7 (0.43%) OCA
15 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.31%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 84 (5.14%) QA
3 65 (3.98%) GDPR
4 56 (3.43%) PMO
5 30 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.16%) IFRS
7 17 (1.04%) GAAP
8 15 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.86%) SLA
10 12 (0.73%) NIST
11 10 (0.61%) GxP
11 10 (0.61%) ITGC
12 9 (0.55%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.49%) COBIT
14 7 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.43%) GMP
14 7 (0.43%) SOX 404
15 6 (0.37%) IFRS 17
15 6 (0.37%) NCSC
16 5 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 5 (0.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.061%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (0.55%) HP ALM
2 6 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.31%) Terraform
4 3 (0.18%) Control-M
4 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.12%) MOM
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.061%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.061%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.061%) Kibana
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.061%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 491 (30.03%) SAP
2 472 (28.87%) Oracle
3 276 (16.88%) Microsoft
4 88 (5.38%) Workday
5 63 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 56 (3.43%) IFS
7 51 (3.12%) Siemens
8 37 (2.26%) Databricks
9 36 (2.20%) Ariba
10 34 (2.08%) Sage
11 32 (1.96%) ServiceNow
12 31 (1.90%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.04%) Infor
14 16 (0.98%) Informatica
15 9 (0.55%) Foundry
15 9 (0.55%) HP
15 9 (0.55%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.43%) Adobe
16 7 (0.43%) Google
16 7 (0.43%) Talend