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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 102 97
Rank change year-on-year +47 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,950 809 998
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.75% 2.54% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 2.80% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 490 599
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £463 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £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 123 45 37
10th Percentile £17.75 £13.70 £16.70
25th Percentile £27.15 £16.92 £28.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% -18.75% -38.15%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £65.75 £84.00 £69.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £38.75 £35.36
% change year-on-year +48.39% +9.59% -45.33%

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 44,261 28,859 36,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.68% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,507 18,191 23,560
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,650 1,433 2,509
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.50 £16.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.04% -34.86% +8.82%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +34 1,625 £550 +2.33% 814
UK excluding London +53 1,017 £525 +3.96% 622
London +27 682 £575 +4.55% 275
Work from Home +51 578 £550 - 540
South East +6 253 £525 -2.33% 155
North of England +55 229 £500 +11.11% 159
Midlands +41 202 £525 - 145
North West +43 132 £500 +11.11% 88
South West +26 127 £525 +10.53% 60
West Midlands +20 126 £540 +2.86% 81
East of England +19 101 £575 - 49
Yorkshire +10 79 £500 +24.22% 58
East Midlands +25 71 £515 -1.90% 64
Scotland +12 56 £500 -0.99% 26
Northern Ireland +29 29 £475 +26.67% 23
Wales - 25 £513 - 21
North East -24 18 £500 -6.98% 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 31 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 19 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
3 18 (0.92%) 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 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.10%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.10%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.051%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.051%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 83 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.26%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.10%) Windchill
9 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 301 (15.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 145 (7.44%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.44%) SAP ERP
4 55 (2.82%) NetSuite
5 53 (2.72%) Oracle Payables
6 48 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
7 41 (2.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 39 (2.00%) Oracle Receivables
9 29 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
10 22 (1.13%) Oracle Financials
11 19 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
12 17 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
12 17 (0.87%) SAP MDG
13 16 (0.82%) Infor CloudSuite
14 15 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
15 14 (0.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
16 12 (0.62%) Teamcenter
17 11 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
17 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
18 10 (0.51%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 249 (12.77%) Azure
2 182 (9.33%) Power Platform
3 178 (9.13%) Dynamics 365
4 144 (7.38%) OCI
5 113 (5.79%) SaaS
6 71 (3.64%) AWS
7 61 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.26%) PaaS
9 35 (1.79%) Boomi
10 30 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
11 28 (1.44%) PowerApps
12 27 (1.38%) Power Automate
13 26 (1.33%) GCP
13 26 (1.33%) GitHub
14 25 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
14 25 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (0.82%) Serverless
18 15 (0.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.36%) Network Security
2 5 (0.26%) HTTP
3 4 (0.21%) FTP
4 3 (0.15%) 5G
4 3 (0.15%) Firewall
5 2 (0.10%) Intranet
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) RFID
5 2 (0.10%) SSL
5 2 (0.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.051%) DHCP
6 1 (0.051%) DMZ
6 1 (0.051%) DNS
6 1 (0.051%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.051%) Modbus
6 1 (0.051%) SMS
6 1 (0.051%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.051%) VoIP
6 1 (0.051%) VPN
6 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.08%) Power BI
2 65 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
4 32 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.33%) Oracle ODI
6 25 (1.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 22 (1.13%) SQL Server
8 19 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (0.97%) Tableau
9 15 (0.77%) Metadata
10 11 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
11 10 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.36%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.36%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.31%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.31%) SAP Data Services
14 6 (0.31%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 83 (4.26%) JIRA
2 36 (1.85%) Git
3 20 (1.03%) Hudson
4 18 (0.92%) Postman
5 10 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.31%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.31%) Selenium
6 6 (0.31%) SoapUI
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.15%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.15%) LSMW
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.10%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.10%) GitLab
9 2 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.051%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.051%) JDeveloper
10 1 (0.051%) PowerDesigner
General
1 1,006 (51.59%) Finance
2 492 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 246 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (10.10%) Manufacturing
5 150 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 98 (5.03%) Retail
7 65 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (3.18%) Legal
9 57 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (2.87%) Local Government
11 55 (2.82%) General Ledger
12 51 (2.62%) Billing
13 48 (2.46%) Law
14 45 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
15 39 (2.00%) Banking
16 30 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.92%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 339 (17.38%) Lead
2 300 (15.38%) Architect
3 256 (13.13%) Consultant
4 229 (11.74%) Analyst
5 168 (8.62%) Senior
6 167 (8.56%) Project Manager
7 148 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
8 111 (5.69%) Business Analyst
9 101 (5.18%) Developer
10 86 (4.41%) ERP Manager
11 68 (3.49%) Accountant
12 63 (3.23%) Oracle Consultant
13 52 (2.67%) Implementation Consultant
13 52 (2.67%) Senior Manager
13 52 (2.67%) Systems Accountant
14 51 (2.62%) Financial Analyst
15 48 (2.46%) Finance Manager
15 48 (2.46%) SAP Consultant
16 45 (2.31%) SAP Manager
17 43 (2.21%) ERP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (9.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 107 (5.49%) REST
3 99 (5.08%) Middleware
4 61 (3.13%) SOAP
5 49 (2.51%) JSON
6 43 (2.21%) XML
7 35 (1.79%) Web Services
8 29 (1.49%) .NET
9 20 (1.03%) OAuth
10 18 (0.92%) EDI
11 17 (0.87%) Node.js
12 16 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
12 16 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
13 14 (0.72%) XSLT
14 13 (0.67%) HTML
15 11 (0.56%) CSS
15 11 (0.56%) JWT
16 10 (0.51%) OAuth2
16 10 (0.51%) PySpark
16 10 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
2 64 (3.28%) Data Structures
3 51 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.51%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 36 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 34 (1.74%) FMCG
8 33 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 24 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 18 (0.92%) IoT
13 15 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (0.72%) Life Science
14 14 (0.72%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
17 11 (0.56%) Operational Technology
18 10 (0.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.28%) Windows
2 6 (0.31%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.26%) Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.051%) AIX
5 1 (0.051%) Android
5 1 (0.051%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.051%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (25.59%) Migration
2 462 (23.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 347 (17.79%) Data Migration
4 319 (16.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 298 (15.28%) User Acceptance Testing
6 258 (13.23%) Agile
7 255 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 255 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
8 210 (10.77%) Validation
9 207 (10.62%) Change Management
10 195 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
11 174 (8.92%) CRM
12 173 (8.87%) Data Modelling
13 170 (8.72%) Project Management
14 159 (8.15%) Analytics
15 157 (8.05%) Roadmaps
16 143 (7.33%) Procure-to-Pay
17 128 (6.56%) DevOps
18 125 (6.41%) Process Improvement
18 125 (6.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 177 (9.08%) SQL
2 70 (3.59%) Python
3 38 (1.95%) JavaScript
4 36 (1.85%) Java
5 32 (1.64%) PL/SQL
6 29 (1.49%) C#
7 19 (0.97%) Ruby
8 18 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 15 (0.77%) ABAP
9 15 (0.77%) X++
10 12 (0.62%) TypeScript
11 11 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.26%) Groovy
13 5 (0.26%) SOQL
13 5 (0.26%) SOSL
13 5 (0.26%) VBA
14 4 (0.21%) Korn
14 4 (0.21%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 201 (10.31%) Security Cleared
2 144 (7.38%) SC Cleared
3 114 (5.85%) Degree
4 90 (4.62%) CIMA
5 86 (4.41%) ACCA
6 40 (2.05%) PMP
7 32 (1.64%) PMI Certification
8 31 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.56%) SAP Certification
13 9 (0.46%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.31%) CISM
15 6 (0.31%) CISSP
15 6 (0.31%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.21%) CCAB
16 4 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 80 (4.10%) GDPR
3 75 (3.85%) QA
4 49 (2.51%) PMO
5 33 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 26 (1.33%) IFRS
7 20 (1.03%) GAAP
8 16 (0.82%) SLA
9 14 (0.72%) GMP
10 12 (0.62%) GxP
10 12 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.46%) NCSC
12 8 (0.41%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.36%) GRC
13 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.26%) NIST
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 10 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.36%) Docker
3 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.051%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (0.77%) Terraform
2 13 (0.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.56%) HP ALM
4 6 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.26%) Grafana
5 5 (0.26%) Kibana
6 3 (0.15%) MOM
6 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.051%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.051%) SCCM
Vendors
1 612 (31.38%) SAP
2 537 (27.54%) Oracle
3 333 (17.08%) Microsoft
4 84 (4.31%) IFS
5 82 (4.21%) Workday
6 80 (4.10%) Salesforce
7 61 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.82%) Siemens
9 44 (2.26%) Ariba
10 40 (2.05%) Infor
11 39 (2.00%) Databricks
12 36 (1.85%) MuleSoft
12 36 (1.85%) Sage
13 18 (0.92%) JD Edwards
14 17 (0.87%) Concur
15 14 (0.72%) Google
16 12 (0.62%) Epicor
17 11 (0.56%) HP
17 11 (0.56%) Informatica
18 9 (0.46%) Foundry