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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 98 97
Rank change year-on-year +38 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,965 857 1,002
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.73% 2.64% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 2.92% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 519 597
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +4.48% +0.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 51 43
10th Percentile £17.75 £6.00 £17.60
25th Percentile £28.20 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £27.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -38.89% -30.42%
75th Percentile £58.75 £74.38 £66.94
90th Percentile £67.68 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £26.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +114.61% -34.48% -38.37%

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 44,779 29,366 36,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.09% 90.39% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,449 23,259
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,648 1,547 2,431
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.22 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.88% -36.15% -3.74%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +29 1,625 £550 +2.33% 628
UK excluding London +47 1,024 £525 +4.48% 504
London +26 677 £575 +4.55% 189
Work from Home +41 581 £550 - 323
South East +3 255 £525 +1.94% 115
North of England +50 238 £500 +6.67% 131
Midlands +41 200 £525 - 144
North West +36 140 £525 +9.09% 66
South West +21 125 £538 +7.50% 50
West Midlands +19 122 £540 +2.86% 77
East of England +23 99 £575 - 34
Yorkshire +6 78 £458 +12.96% 51
East Midlands +25 72 £525 - 67
Scotland +14 59 £500 -0.99% 17
Northern Ireland +26 30 £463 +32.14% 9
Wales - 23 £488 - 13
North East -23 20 £500 -6.98% 16
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 30 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.87%) Confluence
4 5 (0.25%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.25%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Apache
5 4 (0.20%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) CMS
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%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.10%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.051%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.051%) FactoryTalk
8 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.051%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.15%) PTC Creo
9 2 (0.10%) Windchill
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 304 (15.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 145 (7.38%) Oracle ERP
3 67 (3.41%) SAP ERP
4 56 (2.85%) NetSuite
5 53 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
6 50 (2.54%) Oracle EBS
7 40 (2.04%) Oracle Receivables
8 38 (1.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 31 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
10 22 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
11 20 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
12 18 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
13 17 (0.87%) Infor CloudSuite
13 17 (0.87%) SAP MDG
14 15 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
15 11 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
16 10 (0.51%) Oracle 11i
16 10 (0.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
16 10 (0.51%) SAP SD
16 10 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 248 (12.62%) Azure
2 187 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 176 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
4 143 (7.28%) OCI
5 116 (5.90%) SaaS
6 74 (3.77%) AWS
7 59 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.24%) PaaS
9 36 (1.83%) Boomi
10 33 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
11 28 (1.42%) PowerApps
12 27 (1.37%) GCP
12 27 (1.37%) GitHub
12 27 (1.37%) Power Automate
13 26 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.36%) Network Security
2 6 (0.31%) HTTP
3 4 (0.20%) FTP
4 3 (0.15%) 5G
4 3 (0.15%) Firewall
4 3 (0.15%) SSL
5 2 (0.10%) Intranet
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) RFID
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
1 140 (7.12%) Power BI
2 67 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.95%) Oracle Reports
4 32 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
6 24 (1.22%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.07%) Tableau
8 18 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (0.87%) Metadata
10 12 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
10 12 (0.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.41%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.36%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.31%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.31%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 80 (4.07%) JIRA
2 37 (1.88%) Git
3 20 (1.02%) Hudson
4 13 (0.66%) Postman
5 10 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.31%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.25%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 4 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.15%) GitLab
10 3 (0.15%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.15%) LSMW
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.051%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.051%) JDeveloper
11 1 (0.051%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.051%) TestRail
General
1 1,004 (51.09%) Finance
2 493 (25.09%) Social Skills
3 247 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (10.18%) Manufacturing
5 157 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 101 (5.14%) Retail
7 70 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (3.21%) Legal
9 58 (2.95%) Local Government
10 57 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
10 57 (2.90%) General Ledger
11 52 (2.65%) Billing
12 48 (2.44%) Law
13 43 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
14 37 (1.88%) Banking
15 31 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 30 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (0.97%) Aerospace
19 18 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 344 (17.51%) Lead
2 314 (15.98%) Architect
3 250 (12.72%) Consultant
4 236 (12.01%) Analyst
5 173 (8.80%) Senior
6 157 (7.99%) Project Manager
7 152 (7.74%) Solutions Architect
8 113 (5.75%) Business Analyst
9 105 (5.34%) Developer
10 84 (4.27%) ERP Manager
11 66 (3.36%) Accountant
12 63 (3.21%) Oracle Consultant
13 55 (2.80%) Financial Analyst
14 52 (2.65%) Systems Accountant
15 50 (2.54%) Implementation Consultant
15 50 (2.54%) Senior Manager
16 46 (2.34%) Finance Manager
16 46 (2.34%) SAP Consultant
16 46 (2.34%) SAP Manager
17 42 (2.14%) ERP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (9.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 105 (5.34%) Middleware
2 105 (5.34%) REST
3 58 (2.95%) SOAP
4 46 (2.34%) JSON
5 40 (2.04%) XML
6 37 (1.88%) Web Services
7 30 (1.53%) .NET
8 20 (1.02%) OAuth
9 19 (0.97%) EDI
10 17 (0.87%) Node.js
10 17 (0.87%) SAP Fiori
11 16 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (0.66%) HTML
12 13 (0.66%) XSLT
13 12 (0.61%) OAuth2
14 11 (0.56%) CSS
15 10 (0.51%) PySpark
15 10 (0.51%) React
16 9 (0.46%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (3.56%) Data Structures
3 57 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 50 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 41 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 35 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (1.78%) Public Cloud
7 34 (1.73%) FMCG
8 31 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 24 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 18 (0.92%) IoT
11 15 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (0.76%) Life Science
12 14 (0.71%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.61%) Operational Technology
14 12 (0.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.22%) Windows
2 7 (0.36%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.25%) Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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%) Unix
5 1 (0.051%) VMS
5 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (25.70%) Migration
2 482 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 353 (17.96%) Data Migration
4 324 (16.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 308 (15.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 260 (13.23%) Agile
7 256 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 252 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 216 (10.99%) Validation
10 203 (10.33%) Change Management
11 201 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
12 180 (9.16%) CRM
12 180 (9.16%) Data Modelling
13 168 (8.55%) Analytics
14 161 (8.19%) Roadmaps
15 159 (8.09%) Project Management
16 142 (7.23%) Procure-to-Pay
17 139 (7.07%) Process Improvement
18 130 (6.62%) Translating Business Requirements
19 128 (6.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 181 (9.21%) SQL
2 72 (3.66%) Python
3 39 (1.98%) JavaScript
4 37 (1.88%) Java
5 31 (1.58%) PL/SQL
6 30 (1.53%) C#
7 20 (1.02%) Ruby
8 18 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.81%) ABAP
9 16 (0.81%) X++
10 13 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.61%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.31%) Groovy
14 5 (0.25%) SOQL
14 5 (0.25%) SOSL
14 5 (0.25%) VBA
15 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.15%) C++
16 3 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 202 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 145 (7.38%) SC Cleared
3 111 (5.65%) Degree
4 80 (4.07%) CIMA
5 78 (3.97%) ACCA
6 35 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 35 (1.78%) PMP
7 28 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 19 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 17 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.56%) SAP Certification
11 9 (0.46%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.31%) CISM
13 6 (0.31%) CISSP
13 6 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.25%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.02%) GDPR
3 74 (3.77%) QA
4 49 (2.49%) PMO
5 33 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 26 (1.32%) IFRS
7 19 (0.97%) GAAP
8 15 (0.76%) GMP
9 14 (0.71%) SLA
10 12 (0.61%) GxP
10 12 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.46%) GRC
11 9 (0.46%) NCSC
12 8 (0.41%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.25%) NIST
15 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
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 (0.76%) Terraform
2 13 (0.66%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.51%) HP ALM
4 6 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.25%) Grafana
5 5 (0.25%) 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
1 611 (31.09%) SAP
2 544 (27.68%) Oracle
3 337 (17.15%) Microsoft
4 84 (4.27%) IFS
5 78 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 76 (3.87%) Workday
7 60 (3.05%) ServiceNow
8 53 (2.70%) Siemens
9 45 (2.29%) Ariba
10 42 (2.14%) Infor
11 39 (1.98%) Databricks
12 36 (1.83%) MuleSoft
12 36 (1.83%) Sage
13 18 (0.92%) Concur
13 18 (0.92%) JD Edwards
14 14 (0.71%) Google
15 12 (0.61%) Epicor
16 11 (0.56%) Informatica
17 10 (0.51%) HP
18 9 (0.46%) Foundry