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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 80 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,938 1,014 949
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.53% 3.07% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 3.39% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 613 510
10th Percentile £363 £326 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 45 35
10th Percentile £14.00 £6.00 £20.35
25th Percentile £17.06 £14.65 £28.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.35 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.37% -63.48% -25.20%
75th Percentile £35.00 £32.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £58.48 £79.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £15.66 £51.25
% change year-on-year +48.02% -69.44% -20.31%

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 46,295 29,870 32,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,040 18,573 20,019
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,185 1,844 1,407
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +7 1,591 £550 - 2,272
UK excluding London +27 1,018 £525 - 1,498
London -5 638 £600 +8.11% 947
Work from Home +14 547 £550 +4.76% 979
North of England +69 273 £525 +5.00% 324
South East -7 249 £519 +0.73% 385
Midlands +23 223 £525 -4.55% 321
North West +24 150 £525 +5.00% 160
West Midlands +23 129 £525 -4.55% 191
Yorkshire +39 104 £463 -11.90% 116
East of England -15 86 £509 -9.91% 128
East Midlands +19 85 £525 -12.50% 128
South West -38 79 £550 -8.33% 118
Scotland +1 71 £525 +5.00% 95
Northern Ireland +17 21 £450 +28.57% 105
Wales +5 19 £475 +46.15% 38
North East -27 19 £513 +13.89% 53
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 38 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.19%) Oracle Workflow
3 18 (0.93%) Confluence
4 9 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.41%) CMS
6 6 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.26%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.26%) SAS
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.21%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
9 3 (0.15%) ThingWorx
10 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.10%) SAP EP
10 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.052%) Mendix
Applications
1 107 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.67%) Windchill
7 11 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 280 (14.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 147 (7.59%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (3.51%) SAP ERP
4 66 (3.41%) Oracle Payables
5 60 (3.10%) NetSuite
6 51 (2.63%) Oracle Receivables
7 39 (2.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 38 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
9 36 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
10 28 (1.44%) Oracle General Ledger
11 25 (1.29%) Oracle Financials
12 23 (1.19%) SAP MDG
13 19 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
14 17 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
15 15 (0.77%) Workday HCM
16 14 (0.72%) Teamcenter
17 13 (0.67%) SAP FI
17 13 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
18 12 (0.62%) SAP HR
18 12 (0.62%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 217 (11.20%) Azure
2 181 (9.34%) Dynamics 365
3 176 (9.08%) Power Platform
4 136 (7.02%) OCI
5 123 (6.35%) SaaS
6 72 (3.72%) AWS
7 69 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (2.12%) GCP
9 40 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (1.81%) Power Automate
11 33 (1.70%) SuccessFactors
12 29 (1.50%) Boomi
13 28 (1.44%) PaaS
14 27 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
15 26 (1.34%) PowerApps
16 22 (1.14%) Entra ID
17 19 (0.98%) GitHub
18 18 (0.93%) Serverless
19 16 (0.83%) Tricentis Tosca
20 15 (0.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.62%) HTTP
2 7 (0.36%) Network Security
3 6 (0.31%) FTP
4 5 (0.26%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) DMZ
6 2 (0.10%) MQTT
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
7 1 (0.052%) 5G
7 1 (0.052%) DNS
7 1 (0.052%) Intranet
7 1 (0.052%) LAN
7 1 (0.052%) RFID
7 1 (0.052%) SMTP
7 1 (0.052%) VPN
7 1 (0.052%) WAN
7 1 (0.052%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (6.04%) Power BI
2 61 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
4 28 (1.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 24 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.19%) Tableau
7 17 (0.88%) Metadata
8 14 (0.72%) Oracle ODI
9 13 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.67%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.57%) SAP HANA
11 8 (0.41%) Power Query
12 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 106 (5.47%) JIRA
2 29 (1.50%) Git
3 13 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (0.67%) Visual Studio
4 11 (0.57%) Hudson
5 9 (0.46%) Postman
6 7 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.21%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.21%) Flyway
9 3 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.10%) GitLab
10 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
10 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.052%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.052%) eggPlant
General
1 974 (50.26%) Finance
2 567 (29.26%) Social Skills
3 252 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (12.38%) Manufacturing
5 168 (8.67%) Public Sector
6 106 (5.47%) Retail
7 81 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
8 72 (3.72%) General Ledger
9 67 (3.46%) Billing
10 58 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.48%) Banking
12 46 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 43 (2.22%) Legal
14 36 (1.86%) Local Government
15 30 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 25 (1.29%) Law
19 23 (1.19%) Aerospace
20 21 (1.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 327 (16.87%) Lead
2 291 (15.02%) Architect
3 244 (12.59%) Analyst
4 238 (12.28%) Consultant
5 147 (7.59%) Senior
6 140 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
7 132 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 119 (6.14%) Business Analyst
9 98 (5.06%) Developer
10 92 (4.75%) Oracle Consultant
11 61 (3.15%) ERP Manager
12 59 (3.04%) Functional Consultant
13 56 (2.89%) Accountant
14 55 (2.84%) Administrator
15 49 (2.53%) Financial Analyst
16 43 (2.22%) Data Analyst
17 42 (2.17%) SAP Consultant
18 39 (2.01%) Programme Manager
19 38 (1.96%) Finance Manager
19 38 (1.96%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (11.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 127 (6.55%) REST
3 107 (5.52%) Middleware
4 80 (4.13%) SOAP
5 50 (2.58%) XML
6 47 (2.43%) JSON
7 43 (2.22%) Web Services
8 30 (1.55%) .NET
9 27 (1.39%) OAuth
10 25 (1.29%) OAuth2
11 23 (1.19%) SAP Fiori
12 21 (1.08%) EDI
13 17 (0.88%) Terraform
14 14 (0.72%) XSLT
15 13 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
16 12 (0.62%) IDoc
17 11 (0.57%) CSS
17 11 (0.57%) HTML
17 11 (0.57%) Node.js
17 11 (0.57%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 95 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
3 69 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 62 (3.20%) Management Information System
6 55 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 36 (1.86%) FMCG
8 29 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.39%) Cloud Native
10 26 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.24%) Life Science
12 16 (0.83%) AI Agents
12 16 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.83%) Low-Code
13 15 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.77%) Operational Technology
14 13 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (0.62%) CMDB
15 12 (0.62%) Manufacturing Execution System
15 12 (0.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.39%) Windows
2 11 (0.57%) Linux
3 9 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 3 (0.15%) Android
5 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.052%) AIX
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (30.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 468 (24.15%) Migration
3 349 (18.01%) Data Migration
4 287 (14.81%) Agile
4 287 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
5 286 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
6 272 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 259 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (10.68%) Validation
9 194 (10.01%) CRM
9 194 (10.01%) Process Improvement
10 190 (9.80%) Change Management
10 190 (9.80%) Roadmaps
11 171 (8.82%) Analytics
12 166 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
13 163 (8.41%) Data Modelling
14 150 (7.74%) Workshop Facilitation
15 144 (7.43%) Project Delivery
16 135 (6.97%) Requirements Gathering
17 132 (6.81%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 191 (9.86%) SQL
2 56 (2.89%) Python
3 35 (1.81%) JavaScript
4 30 (1.55%) C#
5 28 (1.44%) Java
6 27 (1.39%) PL/SQL
7 21 (1.08%) X++
8 18 (0.93%) ABAP
9 13 (0.67%) Apex Code
10 12 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.41%) Groovy
12 8 (0.41%) Ruby
13 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.21%) PHP
15 3 (0.15%) C++
15 3 (0.15%) Rust
15 3 (0.15%) SOQL
15 3 (0.15%) SOSL
16 2 (0.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 249 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 185 (9.55%) SC Cleared
3 129 (6.66%) Degree
4 72 (3.72%) ACCA
5 67 (3.46%) CIMA
6 54 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.17%) PMP
8 38 (1.96%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.46%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.41%) CISM
14 8 (0.41%) CISSP
14 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.36%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.31%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.13%) Data Quality
2 71 (3.66%) QA
3 61 (3.15%) GDPR
4 49 (2.53%) PMO
5 27 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.29%) IFRS
7 21 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.03%) GRC
9 17 (0.88%) GAAP
10 14 (0.72%) NCSC
11 13 (0.67%) GMP
12 12 (0.62%) GxP
13 9 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 9 (0.46%) SLA
14 8 (0.41%) NIST
15 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 6 (0.31%) Accessibility
16 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.41%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.052%) Firmware
5 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (0.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.21%) Kibana
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.15%) SCCM
6 1 (0.052%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.052%) MOM
Vendors
1 633 (32.66%) SAP
2 542 (27.97%) Oracle
3 364 (18.78%) Microsoft
4 90 (4.64%) Salesforce
5 81 (4.18%) Workday
6 78 (4.02%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.04%) IFS
8 45 (2.32%) Ariba
9 35 (1.81%) Infor
10 32 (1.65%) Sage
11 28 (1.44%) JD Edwards
12 27 (1.39%) Databricks
13 24 (1.24%) MuleSoft
14 22 (1.14%) Google
15 21 (1.08%) Siemens
16 16 (0.83%) Concur
16 16 (0.83%) IBM
16 16 (0.83%) SYSPRO
17 15 (0.77%) PTC
18 12 (0.62%) Dell