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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 97 98
Rank change year-on-year +38 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,866 780 992
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 2.63% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 2.89% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 477 602
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £460 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £543 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 34 37
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.28 £13.78
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.73 £26.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £68.75 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +94.43% -43.42%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.38 £85.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £33.43
% change year-on-year -17.86% +109.39% -47.43%

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 42,679 27,009 37,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,607 17,137 23,609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,567 1,242 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +32 1,563 £550 +2.09% 1,038
UK excluding London +52 978 £525 +3.96% 997
London +32 661 £560 +0.90% 270
Work from Home +57 564 £550 - 777
South East +3 243 £538 - 250
North of England +45 223 £500 +5.26% 205
Midlands +29 190 £525 +5.00% 183
South West +38 125 £525 +13.51% 93
North West +36 119 £500 +2.25% 105
West Midlands +12 118 £540 +8.00% 100
East of England +20 94 £575 - 100
Yorkshire +7 87 £550 +37.50% 71
East Midlands +17 68 £525 +5.00% 83
Scotland +17 59 £500 -1.28% 74
Wales - 27 £525 - 47
Northern Ireland +23 22 £475 +18.75% 69
North East -21 17 £500 -8.05% 32
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 23 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
3 16 (0.86%) Confluence
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.27%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.27%) SAS
6 4 (0.21%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.11%) CMS
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.054%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.054%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.27%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 288 (15.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 135 (7.23%) Oracle ERP
3 64 (3.43%) SAP ERP
4 54 (2.89%) Oracle Payables
5 53 (2.84%) NetSuite
6 44 (2.36%) Oracle EBS
7 41 (2.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 35 (1.88%) Oracle Receivables
9 30 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
10 21 (1.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 18 (0.96%) Oracle Assets
12 17 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
12 17 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
12 17 (0.91%) Unit4 Business World
13 14 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
14 13 (0.70%) Infor CloudSuite
15 12 (0.64%) SAP MDG
15 12 (0.64%) Teamcenter
16 10 (0.54%) Oracle 11i
17 9 (0.48%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 237 (12.70%) Azure
2 173 (9.27%) Dynamics 365
3 162 (8.68%) Power Platform
4 143 (7.66%) OCI
5 106 (5.68%) SaaS
6 66 (3.54%) AWS
7 55 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (2.30%) PaaS
9 32 (1.71%) Boomi
10 30 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 29 (1.55%) PowerApps
12 27 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
13 24 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
14 21 (1.13%) GitHub
15 20 (1.07%) GCP
16 18 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (0.80%) IaaS
18 15 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.27%) Network Security
2 4 (0.21%) FTP
3 3 (0.16%) 5G
3 3 (0.16%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) HTTP
4 2 (0.11%) Intranet
4 2 (0.11%) LAN
4 2 (0.11%) RFID
4 2 (0.11%) WAN
5 1 (0.054%) DHCP
5 1 (0.054%) DMZ
5 1 (0.054%) DNS
5 1 (0.054%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.054%) Modbus
5 1 (0.054%) MQTT
5 1 (0.054%) SMS
5 1 (0.054%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.054%) VoIP
5 1 (0.054%) VPN
5 1 (0.054%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.65%) Power BI
2 57 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
3 28 (1.50%) Data Lake
4 26 (1.39%) Oracle ODI
5 23 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 20 (1.07%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.70%) Tableau
8 12 (0.64%) Metadata
9 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
10 8 (0.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.38%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.32%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.32%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.21%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 82 (4.39%) JIRA
2 31 (1.66%) Git
3 20 (1.07%) Hudson
4 17 (0.91%) Postman
5 10 (0.54%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.32%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.32%) Selenium
6 6 (0.32%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) GitLab
8 2 (0.11%) Gradle
8 2 (0.11%) LSMW
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.054%) ERwin
9 1 (0.054%) JDeveloper
9 1 (0.054%) PowerDesigner
General
1 974 (52.20%) Finance
2 468 (25.08%) Social Skills
3 239 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (9.70%) Manufacturing
5 138 (7.40%) Public Sector
6 93 (4.98%) Retail
7 63 (3.38%) Legal
8 61 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (2.89%) General Ledger
10 53 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 53 (2.84%) Local Government
11 47 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 46 (2.47%) Law
13 42 (2.25%) Billing
14 39 (2.09%) Banking
15 29 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.91%) Aerospace
19 16 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 323 (17.31%) Lead
2 274 (14.68%) Architect
3 247 (13.24%) Consultant
4 215 (11.52%) Analyst
5 175 (9.38%) Project Manager
6 151 (8.09%) Senior
7 135 (7.23%) Solutions Architect
8 102 (5.47%) Business Analyst
9 94 (5.04%) ERP Manager
10 91 (4.88%) Developer
11 69 (3.70%) Accountant
12 59 (3.16%) Oracle Consultant
13 52 (2.79%) Finance Manager
13 52 (2.79%) Implementation Consultant
13 52 (2.79%) Systems Accountant
14 50 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
14 50 (2.68%) SAP Consultant
15 49 (2.63%) Senior Manager
16 43 (2.30%) ERP Project Manager
16 43 (2.30%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (10.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 98 (5.25%) REST
3 92 (4.93%) Middleware
4 55 (2.95%) SOAP
5 45 (2.41%) JSON
6 42 (2.25%) XML
7 28 (1.50%) Web Services
8 24 (1.29%) .NET
9 17 (0.91%) OAuth
10 16 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
11 15 (0.80%) EDI
11 15 (0.80%) Node.js
12 14 (0.75%) XSLT
13 13 (0.70%) HTML
14 11 (0.59%) CSS
14 11 (0.59%) JWT
15 10 (0.54%) PySpark
16 9 (0.48%) Ajax
16 9 (0.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.73%) Legacy Systems
2 56 (3.00%) Data Structures
3 47 (2.52%) Management Information System
4 45 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 37 (1.98%) Public Cloud
6 32 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.66%) FMCG
8 30 (1.61%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 20 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (0.91%) IoT
13 16 (0.86%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.64%) Life Science
16 12 (0.64%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
18 8 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
18 8 (0.43%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.18%) Windows
2 7 (0.38%) Linux
3 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.054%) AIX
5 1 (0.054%) Android
5 1 (0.054%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.054%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.054%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (25.99%) Migration
2 427 (22.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 327 (17.52%) Data Migration
4 304 (16.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 279 (14.95%) User Acceptance Testing
6 250 (13.40%) Agile
7 246 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 206 (11.04%) Validation
10 203 (10.88%) Change Management
11 179 (9.59%) Project Management
12 178 (9.54%) Business Intelligence
13 160 (8.57%) Data Modelling
14 152 (8.15%) CRM
15 148 (7.93%) Roadmaps
16 141 (7.56%) Procure-to-Pay
17 131 (7.02%) Analytics
18 119 (6.38%) Process Improvement
18 119 (6.38%) Translating Business Requirements
19 114 (6.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 160 (8.57%) SQL
2 60 (3.22%) Python
3 37 (1.98%) JavaScript
4 33 (1.77%) Java
4 33 (1.77%) PL/SQL
5 26 (1.39%) C#
6 18 (0.96%) Apex Code
7 17 (0.91%) Ruby
8 14 (0.75%) X++
9 12 (0.64%) ABAP
10 10 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.27%) SOQL
12 5 (0.27%) SOSL
12 5 (0.27%) VBA
13 4 (0.21%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.16%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) Groovy
14 3 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 190 (10.18%) Security Cleared
2 138 (7.40%) SC Cleared
3 113 (6.06%) Degree
4 103 (5.52%) CIMA
5 97 (5.20%) ACCA
6 41 (2.20%) PMP
7 36 (1.93%) PMI Certification
8 28 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 15 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.48%) SAP Certification
13 8 (0.43%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.32%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.27%) CFA
17 4 (0.21%) CCAB
17 4 (0.21%) CISM
17 4 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 72 (3.86%) GDPR
2 72 (3.86%) QA
3 46 (2.47%) PMO
4 32 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 24 (1.29%) IFRS
6 18 (0.96%) GAAP
6 18 (0.96%) SLA
7 11 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.48%) NCSC
9 8 (0.43%) GxP
10 7 (0.38%) GMP
11 6 (0.32%) GRC
11 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.21%) NIST
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 10 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (0.59%) Kubernetes
1 11 (0.59%) Terraform
2 10 (0.54%) HP ALM
3 5 (0.27%) Kibana
3 5 (0.27%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.21%) Grafana
5 3 (0.16%) Control-M
5 3 (0.16%) MOM
5 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.054%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.054%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.054%) SCCM
Vendors
1 579 (31.03%) SAP
2 519 (27.81%) Oracle
3 305 (16.35%) Microsoft
4 86 (4.61%) Workday
5 83 (4.45%) IFS
6 78 (4.18%) Salesforce
7 59 (3.16%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.95%) Siemens
9 40 (2.14%) Databricks
10 38 (2.04%) Sage
11 36 (1.93%) Ariba
11 36 (1.93%) Infor
12 34 (1.82%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.75%) Informatica
14 13 (0.70%) JD Edwards
15 12 (0.64%) Concur
15 12 (0.64%) Epicor
15 12 (0.64%) Google
16 10 (0.54%) HP
17 8 (0.43%) Foundry