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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 94 94
Rank change year-on-year +31 0 +26
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,687 792 1,022
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.65% 2.69% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 2.96% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 958 474 652
10th Percentile £363 £358 £357
25th Percentile £463 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £640 £675 £650
90th Percentile £733 £766 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 21 31
10th Percentile £17.69 £50.00 £13.05
25th Percentile £25.38 £66.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +61.11% -28.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £60.68 £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 39,257 26,715 37,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.87% 90.74% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,800 17,298 24,377
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,340 1,040 2,418
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.75 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -3.59%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.53% -17.50% -2.78%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +33 1,409 £550 +3.77% 769
UK excluding London +36 841 £525 +5.00% 618
London +35 619 £550 - 209
Work from Home +49 546 £550 +4.76% 390
South East +9 210 £525 -4.55% 165
North of England +38 198 £538 +19.44% 158
Midlands -15 143 £540 +8.00% 139
South West +20 122 £525 +10.53% 61
North West +38 118 £500 +2.25% 85
West Midlands -21 94 £565 +13.00% 75
East of England +4 86 £575 -4.17% 58
Yorkshire -9 68 £595 +48.75% 62
Scotland +19 48 £519 +2.72% 26
East Midlands -7 48 £500 +5.26% 64
Wales +13 23 £475 -34.48% 8
Northern Ireland +16 16 £475 +18.75% 15
North East -16 12 £500 +11.11% 13
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 15 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
1 15 (0.89%) SharePoint
2 14 (0.83%) Confluence
2 14 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
4 5 (0.30%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.30%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.24%) Apache
5 4 (0.24%) CMS
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.18%) Documentum
6 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.059%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.059%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 77 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.30%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.18%) Windchill
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.059%) InVision
9 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 255 (15.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 113 (6.70%) Oracle ERP
3 65 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
4 64 (3.79%) SAP ERP
5 48 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
6 42 (2.49%) Oracle Payables
7 39 (2.31%) NetSuite
8 30 (1.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 27 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
10 18 (1.07%) Shopify
11 17 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
12 16 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 15 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
13 15 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
14 13 (0.77%) SAP PP
14 13 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
14 13 (0.77%) Workday HCM
15 12 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
15 12 (0.71%) SAP FI
16 11 (0.65%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 212 (12.57%) Azure
2 187 (11.08%) Dynamics 365
3 155 (9.19%) OCI
4 139 (8.24%) Power Platform
5 95 (5.63%) SaaS
6 60 (3.56%) AWS
7 50 (2.96%) PaaS
8 41 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (1.72%) Boomi
10 27 (1.60%) Power Automate
11 26 (1.54%) PowerApps
11 26 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
12 25 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (1.24%) GCP
14 19 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (1.13%) IaaS
15 18 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (0.83%) Tricentis Tosca
18 13 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.18%) FTP
1 3 (0.18%) LAN
2 2 (0.12%) 5G
2 2 (0.12%) Firewall
2 2 (0.12%) Intranet
3 1 (0.059%) DHCP
3 1 (0.059%) DNS
3 1 (0.059%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.059%) HTTP
3 1 (0.059%) Modbus
3 1 (0.059%) MQTT
3 1 (0.059%) RFID
3 1 (0.059%) SMS
3 1 (0.059%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.059%) VoIP
3 1 (0.059%) VPN
3 1 (0.059%) WAN
3 1 (0.059%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (6.46%) Power BI
2 67 (3.97%) Oracle Reports
3 56 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 23 (1.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 23 (1.36%) Oracle ODI
5 23 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (0.71%) Metadata
8 11 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.47%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.47%) Tableau
10 6 (0.36%) GIS
10 6 (0.36%) SAP HANA
10 6 (0.36%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.30%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 89 (5.28%) JIRA
2 27 (1.60%) Postman
3 22 (1.30%) Git
4 18 (1.07%) Hudson
5 10 (0.59%) SoapUI
6 9 (0.53%) GitLab
7 7 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.41%) Selenium
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.30%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) LSMW
11 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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
General
1 890 (52.76%) Finance
2 498 (29.52%) Social Skills
3 240 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 131 (7.77%) Public Sector
6 78 (4.62%) Retail
7 63 (3.73%) Legal
8 60 (3.56%) Local Government
9 58 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
11 46 (2.73%) General Ledger
11 46 (2.73%) Law
11 46 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 38 (2.25%) Banking
13 27 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (1.54%) Billing
15 24 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.19%) Military
17 19 (1.13%) Marketing
18 17 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 282 (16.72%) Lead
2 238 (14.11%) Architect
3 233 (13.81%) Consultant
4 189 (11.20%) Analyst
5 161 (9.54%) Project Manager
6 145 (8.60%) Senior
7 119 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
8 104 (6.16%) Business Analyst
9 86 (5.10%) Developer
10 76 (4.51%) ERP Manager
11 56 (3.32%) Accountant
12 53 (3.14%) SAP Consultant
13 51 (3.02%) Implementation Consultant
13 51 (3.02%) SAP Manager
14 48 (2.85%) Senior Manager
15 46 (2.73%) Financial Analyst
16 44 (2.61%) Oracle Consultant
17 38 (2.25%) Systems Accountant
18 37 (2.19%) Transformation Manager
19 35 (2.07%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (11.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 85 (5.04%) REST
3 71 (4.21%) Middleware
4 57 (3.38%) SOAP
5 49 (2.90%) XML
6 45 (2.67%) JSON
7 38 (2.25%) Web Services
8 23 (1.36%) OAuth
9 22 (1.30%) XSLT
10 19 (1.13%) .NET
11 15 (0.89%) JWT
11 15 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
12 11 (0.65%) EDI
12 11 (0.65%) PySpark
13 9 (0.53%) Node.js
14 8 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
15 7 (0.41%) ADO
15 7 (0.41%) Kafka
15 7 (0.41%) SAPUI5
16 6 (0.36%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (3.38%) Data Structures
3 48 (2.85%) Management Information System
4 40 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 32 (1.90%) Public Cloud
6 31 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.19%) IoT
10 18 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (0.95%) FMCG
12 15 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.77%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.59%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.53%) Life Science
16 9 (0.53%) SCADA
17 8 (0.47%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.89%) Windows
2 6 (0.36%) Linux
3 3 (0.18%) Unix
4 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (26.79%) Migration
2 352 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 293 (17.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 291 (17.25%) Data Migration
5 254 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
6 247 (14.64%) User Acceptance Testing
7 238 (14.11%) Agile
8 194 (11.50%) Change Management
9 190 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 186 (11.03%) Validation
11 180 (10.67%) Project Management
12 165 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
13 153 (9.07%) CRM
14 131 (7.77%) Data Modelling
15 129 (7.65%) Procure-to-Pay
16 125 (7.41%) Roadmaps
17 116 (6.88%) Project Delivery
18 108 (6.40%) Analytics
19 106 (6.28%) DevOps
20 100 (5.93%) Order to Cash
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.54%) SQL
2 47 (2.79%) Python
3 41 (2.43%) PL/SQL
4 31 (1.84%) Java
5 27 (1.60%) C#
6 18 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.71%) Ruby
8 11 (0.65%) ABAP
9 10 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.36%) X++
13 5 (0.30%) Korn
13 5 (0.30%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.30%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.30%) VBA
14 4 (0.24%) Perl
15 3 (0.18%) C++
15 3 (0.18%) SOQL
15 3 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 198 (11.74%) Security Cleared
2 146 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 133 (7.88%) Degree
4 102 (6.05%) CIMA
5 91 (5.39%) ACCA
6 48 (2.85%) PMP
7 41 (2.43%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
11 13 (0.77%) SAP Certification
12 11 (0.65%) DV Cleared
13 10 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.53%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.41%) APMP
15 7 (0.41%) OCA
16 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 84 (4.98%) QA
3 68 (4.03%) GDPR
4 52 (3.08%) PMO
5 26 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.13%) IFRS
7 17 (1.01%) GAAP
8 15 (0.89%) SLA
9 11 (0.65%) GxP
10 10 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.53%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.53%) NIST
12 7 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.41%) GMP
13 6 (0.36%) NCSC
14 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.30%) IFRS 17
14 5 (0.30%) ITGC
14 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (0.53%) HP ALM
2 6 (0.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.24%) Terraform
4 3 (0.18%) Control-M
4 3 (0.18%) MOM
4 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.059%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.059%) Kibana
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 515 (30.53%) SAP
2 478 (28.33%) Oracle
3 276 (16.36%) Microsoft
4 91 (5.39%) Workday
5 61 (3.62%) IFS
5 61 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 52 (3.08%) Siemens
7 41 (2.43%) Databricks
8 39 (2.31%) Ariba
9 38 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.02%) Sage
11 31 (1.84%) MuleSoft
12 20 (1.19%) Infor
13 16 (0.95%) Informatica
14 9 (0.53%) Foundry
14 9 (0.53%) Google
14 9 (0.53%) HP
14 9 (0.53%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.41%) Talend
16 6 (0.36%) Adobe