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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 82 94
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +5
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,976 987 918
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.63% 3.01% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 3.33% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 584 506
10th Percentile £374 £337 £363
25th Percentile £463 £456 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.94% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 45 34
10th Percentile £14.00 £6.00 £19.33
25th Percentile £17.06 £14.65 £28.00
Median hourly rate £26.22 £17.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.83% -65.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £40.31 £58.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £73.88 £79.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.35 £15.66 £47.50
% change year-on-year +55.46% -67.03% -25.20%

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 46,106 29,609 32,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,135 18,363 20,196
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 2,994 1,772 1,501
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £22.60 £43.00
% change year-on-year +85.18% -47.44% +7.50%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +9 1,621 £550 - 1,703
UK excluding London +28 1,035 £525 - 1,189
London +4 665 £600 +9.09% 738
Work from Home +16 559 £550 - 897
North of England +60 271 £525 +5.00% 271
South East -2 265 £519 +0.73% 286
Midlands +22 215 £525 -4.55% 232
North West +34 153 £525 +5.00% 149
West Midlands +18 122 £525 - 136
Yorkshire +39 96 £500 +10.50% 90
East Midlands +22 84 £525 -12.50% 96
East of England -5 84 £510 -9.82% 120
South West -36 83 £525 -12.50% 129
Scotland +6 75 £525 +5.00% 103
Northern Ireland +20 25 £450 +28.57% 57
North East -27 22 £500 +11.11% 38
Wales +2 19 £488 +50.00% 14
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 36 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.86%) Confluence
4 8 (0.40%) CMS
4 8 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (0.35%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.25%) SAS
7 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.20%) NetWeaver
7 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
7 4 (0.20%) WebLogic Portal
8 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.15%) SAP EP
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.051%) EPiServer
Applications
1 105 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.25%) Windchill
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 284 (14.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 149 (7.54%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.39%) Oracle Payables
3 67 (3.39%) SAP ERP
4 65 (3.29%) NetSuite
5 52 (2.63%) Oracle Receivables
6 43 (2.18%) Oracle EBS
7 42 (2.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 31 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
9 26 (1.32%) Oracle General Ledger
10 23 (1.16%) Oracle Financials
11 19 (0.96%) Oracle Assets
11 19 (0.96%) SAP MDG
12 15 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
12 15 (0.76%) Infor CloudSuite
12 15 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (0.71%) Workday HCM
14 13 (0.66%) SAP FI
14 13 (0.66%) SAP MM
15 12 (0.61%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 205 (10.37%) Azure
2 203 (10.27%) Dynamics 365
3 196 (9.92%) Power Platform
4 145 (7.34%) OCI
5 125 (6.33%) SaaS
6 82 (4.15%) AWS
7 64 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (2.02%) GCP
9 37 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (1.87%) PaaS
9 37 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
10 30 (1.52%) Power Automate
11 29 (1.47%) Boomi
12 26 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (1.32%) PowerApps
13 25 (1.27%) GitHub
14 21 (1.06%) Entra ID
15 18 (0.91%) Serverless
16 16 (0.81%) Snowflake
16 16 (0.81%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.51%) HTTP
2 7 (0.35%) Network Security
3 6 (0.30%) FTP
4 5 (0.25%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
5 3 (0.15%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) Intranet
6 2 (0.10%) LAN
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
6 2 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.051%) DHCP
7 1 (0.051%) DMZ
7 1 (0.051%) DNS
7 1 (0.051%) MQTT
7 1 (0.051%) RFID
7 1 (0.051%) SMTP
7 1 (0.051%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.051%) VPN
7 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (7.03%) Power BI
2 58 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
4 31 (1.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 25 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.16%) Tableau
7 20 (1.01%) Oracle ODI
8 19 (0.96%) Metadata
9 13 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.40%) Power Query
11 8 (0.40%) SAP HANA
11 8 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 93 (4.71%) JIRA
2 33 (1.67%) Git
3 17 (0.86%) Hudson
4 14 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (0.66%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
6 6 (0.30%) Postman
6 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.30%) Zephyr
7 4 (0.20%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.20%) Flyway
8 3 (0.15%) GitLab
8 3 (0.15%) LSMW
8 3 (0.15%) MLflow
8 3 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.10%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.051%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.051%) TestRail
General
1 1,016 (51.42%) Finance
2 560 (28.34%) Social Skills
3 254 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (10.58%) Manufacturing
5 174 (8.81%) Public Sector
6 100 (5.06%) Retail
7 80 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
8 68 (3.44%) General Ledger
9 59 (2.99%) Billing
10 52 (2.63%) Legal
10 52 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
12 48 (2.43%) Banking
13 47 (2.38%) Law
14 39 (1.97%) Local Government
15 33 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 28 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
18 22 (1.11%) Aerospace
19 20 (1.01%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 363 (18.37%) Lead
2 321 (16.24%) Architect
3 258 (13.06%) Analyst
4 240 (12.15%) Consultant
5 152 (7.69%) Senior
6 144 (7.29%) Solutions Architect
7 135 (6.83%) Project Manager
8 120 (6.07%) Business Analyst
9 106 (5.36%) Developer
10 91 (4.61%) Oracle Consultant
11 63 (3.19%) ERP Manager
12 57 (2.88%) Functional Consultant
13 56 (2.83%) Accountant
14 53 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
15 46 (2.33%) Administrator
16 45 (2.28%) Data Analyst
17 44 (2.23%) Lead Architect
18 43 (2.18%) SAP Consultant
18 43 (2.18%) SAP Manager
19 42 (2.13%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (11.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 124 (6.28%) REST
3 106 (5.36%) Middleware
4 76 (3.85%) SOAP
5 44 (2.23%) XML
6 42 (2.13%) JSON
7 39 (1.97%) Web Services
8 31 (1.57%) .NET
9 24 (1.21%) OAuth
10 21 (1.06%) EDI
11 20 (1.01%) OAuth2
12 18 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
12 18 (0.91%) Terraform
13 16 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
14 14 (0.71%) XSLT
15 11 (0.56%) CSS
15 11 (0.56%) HTML
15 11 (0.56%) PySpark
16 10 (0.51%) Node.js
16 10 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
2 71 (3.59%) Data Structures
3 66 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 65 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 46 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 37 (1.87%) FMCG
8 34 (1.72%) Cloud Native
9 32 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.06%) Life Science
13 18 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.81%) Operational Technology
15 15 (0.76%) AI Agents
15 15 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (0.76%) Low-Code
16 12 (0.61%) CMDB
16 12 (0.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
16 12 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.32%) Windows
2 11 (0.56%) Linux
3 10 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.30%) Unix
5 2 (0.10%) Android
5 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
5 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.051%) AIX
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (28.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 500 (25.30%) Migration
3 376 (19.03%) Data Migration
4 320 (16.19%) User Acceptance Testing
5 314 (15.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 285 (14.42%) Agile
7 284 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 275 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
9 214 (10.83%) Validation
10 195 (9.87%) Change Management
11 191 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
11 191 (9.67%) CRM
12 187 (9.46%) Roadmaps
13 186 (9.41%) Process Improvement
14 176 (8.91%) Data Modelling
15 173 (8.76%) Analytics
16 154 (7.79%) Translating Business Requirements
17 148 (7.49%) Workshop Facilitation
18 144 (7.29%) Project Delivery
19 140 (7.09%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 188 (9.51%) SQL
2 65 (3.29%) Python
3 35 (1.77%) JavaScript
4 34 (1.72%) PL/SQL
5 33 (1.67%) Java
6 31 (1.57%) C#
7 20 (1.01%) X++
8 18 (0.91%) Apex Code
8 18 (0.91%) Ruby
9 15 (0.76%) ABAP
10 14 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.40%) Groovy
13 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.25%) SOQL
14 5 (0.25%) SOSL
15 4 (0.20%) VBA
16 3 (0.15%) C++
16 3 (0.15%) PHP
16 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 244 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 178 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.28%) Degree
4 69 (3.49%) ACCA
5 63 (3.19%) CIMA
6 54 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 38 (1.92%) PMP
8 34 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 24 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.40%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.40%) CISM
14 8 (0.40%) CISSP
14 8 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.35%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.30%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (8.55%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.74%) QA
3 65 (3.29%) GDPR
4 55 (2.78%) PMO
5 30 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.27%) IFRS
7 22 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.01%) GRC
9 17 (0.86%) GAAP
10 14 (0.71%) NCSC
11 12 (0.61%) GMP
12 11 (0.56%) GxP
13 8 (0.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 7 (0.35%) NIST
14 7 (0.35%) SLA
15 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.40%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.051%) Firmware
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.25%) Grafana
3 5 (0.25%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.20%) Kibana
4 4 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.10%) SCCM
6 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.051%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.051%) MOM
Vendors
1 613 (31.02%) SAP
2 563 (28.49%) Oracle
3 379 (19.18%) Microsoft
4 92 (4.66%) Salesforce
5 78 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 72 (3.64%) Workday
7 68 (3.44%) IFS
8 44 (2.23%) Ariba
9 34 (1.72%) Infor
10 31 (1.57%) Sage
11 30 (1.52%) Databricks
12 25 (1.27%) MuleSoft
13 23 (1.16%) Google
14 21 (1.06%) JD Edwards
15 17 (0.86%) Concur
15 17 (0.86%) SYSPRO
16 16 (0.81%) Siemens
17 10 (0.51%) Adobe
17 10 (0.51%) Epicor
17 10 (0.51%) IBM