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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 85 94
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,275 911 1,049
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.46% 2.73% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.10% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 757 495 637
10th Percentile £350 £359 £375
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.09% +3.95%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 17 34
10th Percentile £6.00 £15.25 £24.33
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.92 £55.50
Median hourly rate £22.85 £56.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.56% -33.53% +172.87%
75th Percentile £44.94 £73.75 £88.75
90th Percentile £52.21 £75.00 £93.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.65 £67.50 £62.65
% change year-on-year -67.93% +7.75% +178.42%

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 32,495 29,409 38,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.07% 88.28% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,479 17,921 25,423
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,043 952 1,523
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £51.65 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.72 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.41% -31.60% +43.91%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +13 1,102 £550 +4.76% 2,428
UK excluding London +5 648 £525 +3.96% 2,211
London +26 487 £575 +5.50% 384
Work from Home +22 415 £525 -4.55% 1,054
South East +37 166 £515 +3.00% 599
North of England -19 140 £550 +10.00% 472
Midlands -31 116 £525 -2.33% 422
North West +22 94 £506 +0.75% 228
South West +5 92 £538 +7.50% 238
East of England +5 73 £541 +8.25% 346
West Midlands -30 73 £563 +7.14% 235
Scotland +29 46 £500 +9.59% 88
East Midlands -14 43 £525 -12.50% 165
Yorkshire -41 42 £593 +39.41% 214
Wales +10 13 £400 -38.46% 49
Northern Ireland - 10 £350 - 30
North East -15 4 £500 - 33
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 28 (2.20%) Confluence
2 21 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 14 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.47%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.39%) CMS
7 4 (0.31%) Documentum
7 4 (0.31%) NetWeaver
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.24%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.16%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.078%) Camunda
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.078%) SAS
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 79 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.98%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (2.27%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.39%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) InVision
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.16%) Sketch
8 2 (0.16%) Windchill
9 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.078%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.078%) Notion
Business Applications
1 178 (13.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (7.53%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (5.33%) SAP ERP
4 48 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 46 (3.61%) Oracle EBS
6 41 (3.22%) NetSuite
7 37 (2.90%) Oracle Payables
8 29 (2.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 26 (2.04%) Oracle General Ledger
10 18 (1.41%) SAP EWM
11 17 (1.33%) Oracle Assets
12 16 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
12 16 (1.25%) Shopify
12 16 (1.25%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (1.10%) Oracle SCM
13 14 (1.10%) SAP PP
13 14 (1.10%) SAP WM
14 13 (1.02%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
16 10 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 151 (11.84%) Azure
2 142 (11.14%) OCI
3 134 (10.51%) Dynamics 365
4 107 (8.39%) Power Platform
5 90 (7.06%) SaaS
6 36 (2.82%) PaaS
7 35 (2.75%) AWS
8 26 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.73%) Power Automate
10 20 (1.57%) Lucidchart
10 20 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (1.57%) PowerApps
10 20 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
11 18 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 17 (1.33%) Boomi
13 15 (1.18%) Tricentis Tosca
14 14 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (1.10%) GCP
15 13 (1.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.16%) LAN
3 1 (0.078%) DKIM
3 1 (0.078%) DMARC
3 1 (0.078%) Internet
3 1 (0.078%) Network Security
3 1 (0.078%) SAN
3 1 (0.078%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (6.59%) Power BI
2 55 (4.31%) Oracle Reports
3 35 (2.75%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (2.20%) Oracle Database
6 23 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 16 (1.25%) SAP HANA
8 11 (0.86%) Power Query
8 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (0.86%) Tableau
9 8 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.63%) SAP BW
10 6 (0.47%) Oracle ODI
11 5 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.39%) GIS
11 5 (0.39%) Metadata
11 5 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.24%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 70 (5.49%) JIRA
2 24 (1.88%) Postman
3 13 (1.02%) GitLab
4 9 (0.71%) Git
5 8 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.47%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.39%) SoapUI
8 4 (0.31%) Selenium
8 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.24%) Hudson
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.24%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.16%) LSMW
10 2 (0.16%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.16%) TestRail
10 2 (0.16%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.078%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.078%) MLflow
General
1 610 (47.84%) Finance
2 473 (37.10%) Social Skills
3 155 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 126 (9.88%) Manufacturing
6 50 (3.92%) Retail
7 49 (3.84%) Local Government
8 45 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 43 (3.37%) General Ledger
11 40 (3.14%) Legal
12 38 (2.98%) Banking
13 34 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (2.04%) Billing
16 24 (1.88%) Marketing
17 16 (1.25%) Aerospace
18 13 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 13 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 171 (13.41%) Consultant
2 158 (12.39%) Analyst
3 140 (10.98%) Architect
4 139 (10.90%) Lead
5 128 (10.04%) Project Manager
6 85 (6.67%) Senior
7 78 (6.12%) Business Analyst
8 68 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
9 65 (5.10%) Developer
10 49 (3.84%) SAP Consultant
11 45 (3.53%) SAP Manager
12 43 (3.37%) ERP Manager
13 33 (2.59%) Oracle Consultant
14 32 (2.51%) Functional Consultant
15 29 (2.27%) ERP Analyst
16 28 (2.20%) Programme Manager
17 27 (2.12%) Accountant
17 27 (2.12%) Oracle Developer
18 25 (1.96%) ERP Project Manager
18 25 (1.96%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (14.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 72 (5.65%) REST
3 50 (3.92%) SOAP
4 40 (3.14%) XML
5 39 (3.06%) Web Services
6 38 (2.98%) JSON
6 38 (2.98%) Middleware
7 22 (1.73%) OAuth
8 21 (1.65%) XSLT
9 17 (1.33%) .NET
10 14 (1.10%) EDI
11 10 (0.78%) JWT
11 10 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.63%) HTML
13 7 (0.55%) ADO
14 5 (0.39%) CSS
15 4 (0.31%) BAPI
15 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (0.31%) RESTful
16 3 (0.24%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
2 39 (3.06%) Management Information System
3 38 (2.98%) Data Structures
4 35 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 22 (1.73%) Public Cloud
7 18 (1.41%) Life Science
8 16 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 12 (0.94%) IoT
12 11 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.78%) FMCG
14 9 (0.71%) AS400
14 9 (0.71%) Synthetic Data
15 8 (0.63%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.63%) SCADA
16 7 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.63%) Windows
2 5 (0.39%) Unix
3 4 (0.31%) Linux
4 2 (0.16%) Android
4 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.078%) AIX
5 1 (0.078%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.078%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (22.12%) Migration
2 232 (18.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 229 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
4 222 (17.41%) Agile
5 215 (16.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 171 (13.41%) Data Migration
7 146 (11.45%) CRM
8 129 (10.12%) Project Management
8 129 (10.12%) User Acceptance Testing
9 124 (9.73%) Change Management
10 117 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
10 117 (9.18%) Project Delivery
11 111 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (8.16%) Roadmaps
13 96 (7.53%) Validation
14 86 (6.75%) Workshop Facilitation
15 82 (6.43%) DevOps
16 77 (6.04%) Analytics
17 73 (5.73%) Logistics
18 67 (5.25%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (12.08%) SQL
2 41 (3.22%) PL/SQL
3 23 (1.80%) C#
4 21 (1.65%) Python
5 19 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.41%) Java
7 10 (0.78%) VBA
8 8 (0.63%) ABAP
8 8 (0.63%) Groovy
9 6 (0.47%) X++
10 5 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.39%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.24%) PHP
11 3 (0.24%) R
11 3 (0.24%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.24%) XPath
12 2 (0.16%) C++
12 2 (0.16%) Korn
12 2 (0.16%) Perl
12 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 174 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 167 (13.10%) Degree
3 137 (10.75%) SC Cleared
4 49 (3.84%) CIMA
5 46 (3.61%) ACCA
6 36 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 35 (2.75%) PMP
8 24 (1.88%) SAP Certification
9 23 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.80%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
11 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 10 (0.78%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.78%) OCA
14 7 (0.55%) APMP
15 5 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 5 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (5.49%) QA
2 56 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.69%) GDPR
4 42 (3.29%) PMO
5 32 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (1.10%) IFRS
7 13 (1.02%) GxP
7 13 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.86%) GAAP
8 11 (0.86%) NIST
9 10 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.78%) ITGC
10 8 (0.63%) COBIT
11 7 (0.55%) SOX 404
12 6 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
13 5 (0.39%) SLA
14 4 (0.31%) GMP
14 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.31%) IFRS 9
14 4 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 8 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.31%) Docker
3 2 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.078%) Firmware
4 1 (0.078%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (0.55%) Terraform
2 5 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.31%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Identity Management
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.078%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.078%) Control-M
5 1 (0.078%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.078%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 449 (35.22%) Oracle
2 389 (30.51%) SAP
3 193 (15.14%) Microsoft
4 71 (5.57%) Workday
5 67 (5.25%) Salesforce
6 32 (2.51%) IFS
7 21 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.41%) Ariba
9 17 (1.33%) Databricks
9 17 (1.33%) Sage
10 16 (1.25%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.63%) Adobe
12 7 (0.55%) Hyperion
12 7 (0.55%) OpenText
13 5 (0.39%) Anaplan
13 5 (0.39%) IBM
13 5 (0.39%) Infor
13 5 (0.39%) Informatica
13 5 (0.39%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.31%) Murex