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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 91 89
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,166 927 1,170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 2.54% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 2.94% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 487 727
10th Percentile £350 £361 £388
25th Percentile £463 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +3.29%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 28 31
10th Percentile £6.00 £16.09 £50.00
25th Percentile £14.75 £28.00 £61.04
Median hourly rate £21.65 £35.18 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -58.61% +148.45%
75th Percentile £32.75 £71.88 £89.50
90th Percentile £51.02 £75.00 £93.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £35.36 £66.44
% change year-on-year -39.20% -46.78% +232.19%

All Process and 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 32,116 31,513 40,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 86.36% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,100 18,975 27,383
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,121 1,108 1,576
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.17 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.17 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -25.84% +50.29%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +10 1,011 £550 +2.80% 1,221
UK excluding London -1 584 £525 +5.00% 830
London +24 450 £575 +4.55% 467
Work from Home +23 380 £525 -4.55% 650
South East +34 170 £515 +3.00% 292
Midlands -25 111 £550 +4.76% 148
North of England -37 102 £525 +5.00% 193
South West -3 86 £600 +20.00% 76
North West +5 80 £513 +2.50% 108
East of England +14 67 £550 +15.79% 66
West Midlands -42 67 £575 +9.52% 88
East Midlands -7 44 £525 -12.50% 59
Scotland +19 42 £500 +8.11% 42
Yorkshire -61 19 £550 +29.41% 69
Northern Ireland -1 10 £350 - 15
Wales +6 5 £325 -50.00% 13
North East -12 3 £500 -12.66% 17
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 25 (2.14%) Confluence
2 19 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
4 10 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.43%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.34%) CMS
7 3 (0.26%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.26%) Documentum
7 3 (0.26%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.086%) Apache
9 1 (0.086%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.086%) Camunda
9 1 (0.086%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.086%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.086%) SAS
Applications
1 70 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (2.40%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.34%) Trello
7 2 (0.17%) InVision
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.17%) Sketch
7 2 (0.17%) Windchill
8 1 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.086%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.086%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.086%) Notion
Business Applications
1 160 (13.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 87 (7.46%) Oracle ERP
3 66 (5.66%) SAP ERP
4 40 (3.43%) Oracle EBS
5 39 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 37 (3.17%) NetSuite
6 37 (3.17%) Oracle Payables
7 27 (2.32%) Oracle General Ledger
8 24 (2.06%) Oracle Assets
8 24 (2.06%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (1.63%) Oracle EBS R12
10 18 (1.54%) SAP EWM
11 16 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 14 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
12 14 (1.20%) Oracle SCM
12 14 (1.20%) Unit4 Business World
13 13 (1.11%) SAP PP
13 13 (1.11%) SAP WM
14 10 (0.86%) Primavera
15 9 (0.77%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 145 (12.44%) Azure
2 117 (10.03%) OCI
3 104 (8.92%) Dynamics 365
4 101 (8.66%) SaaS
5 100 (8.58%) Power Platform
6 32 (2.74%) AWS
7 29 (2.49%) PaaS
8 22 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (1.72%) Lucidchart
10 19 (1.63%) PowerApps
11 17 (1.46%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.20%) Boomi
13 14 (1.20%) Entra ID
13 14 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
14 13 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (0.86%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.086%) DKIM
2 1 (0.086%) DMARC
2 1 (0.086%) Internet
2 1 (0.086%) LAN
2 1 (0.086%) Network Security
2 1 (0.086%) SAN
2 1 (0.086%) VPN
2 1 (0.086%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.78%) Power BI
2 55 (4.72%) Oracle Reports
3 38 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 27 (2.32%) Oracle Database
5 25 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 17 (1.46%) SAP HANA
8 16 (1.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 10 (0.86%) Power Query
9 10 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.77%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.77%) Tableau
11 8 (0.69%) SAP BW
12 6 (0.51%) GIS
12 6 (0.51%) Metadata
12 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
14 3 (0.26%) Oracle Database 11g
14 3 (0.26%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 51 (4.37%) JIRA
2 12 (1.03%) Postman
3 10 (0.86%) GitLab
4 9 (0.77%) Git
5 5 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.17%) Hudson
7 2 (0.17%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.17%) LSMW
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.17%) Selenium
7 2 (0.17%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.086%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.086%) MLflow
8 1 (0.086%) QADirector
8 1 (0.086%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.086%) TestRail
8 1 (0.086%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 569 (48.80%) Finance
2 419 (35.93%) Social Skills
3 158 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (11.66%) Manufacturing
5 120 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.77%) Retail
7 43 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (3.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 42 (3.60%) Local Government
9 38 (3.26%) General Ledger
9 38 (3.26%) Legal
10 36 (3.09%) Banking
11 33 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
13 29 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (2.23%) Billing
15 24 (2.06%) Marketing
16 20 (1.72%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 14 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 173 (14.84%) Consultant
2 158 (13.55%) Analyst
3 132 (11.32%) Lead
4 114 (9.78%) Project Manager
5 113 (9.69%) Architect
6 75 (6.43%) Senior
7 73 (6.26%) Business Analyst
8 65 (5.57%) Developer
9 49 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
10 46 (3.95%) SAP Consultant
11 39 (3.34%) ERP Manager
12 38 (3.26%) Oracle Consultant
13 37 (3.17%) SAP Manager
14 34 (2.92%) Functional Consultant
15 29 (2.49%) ERP Analyst
16 26 (2.23%) Administrator
17 25 (2.14%) ERP Project Manager
17 25 (2.14%) ERP Support
18 24 (2.06%) Accountant
18 24 (2.06%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (12.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 54 (4.63%) REST
3 37 (3.17%) SOAP
4 32 (2.74%) Web Services
5 29 (2.49%) Middleware
6 27 (2.32%) XML
7 24 (2.06%) JSON
8 20 (1.72%) .NET
9 14 (1.20%) EDI
10 13 (1.11%) OAuth
11 11 (0.94%) XSLT
12 9 (0.77%) HTML
13 7 (0.60%) CSS
14 6 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
15 4 (0.34%) .NET Framework
15 4 (0.34%) ADO
15 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
15 4 (0.34%) Node.js
15 4 (0.34%) SAP Basis
16 3 (0.26%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 65 (5.57%) Legacy Systems
2 45 (3.86%) Management Information System
3 33 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (2.49%) Data Structures
4 29 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.37%) Life Science
5 16 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 16 (1.37%) Virtual Team
6 13 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 13 (1.11%) FMCG
6 13 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.03%) AS400
8 11 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (0.69%) IoT
11 7 (0.60%) e-Learning
11 7 (0.60%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (0.60%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.69%) Windows
2 4 (0.34%) Unix
3 3 (0.26%) Linux
4 2 (0.17%) Android
4 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.086%) AIX
5 1 (0.086%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (23.41%) Migration
2 223 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
3 205 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 198 (16.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 194 (16.64%) Agile
6 188 (16.12%) Data Migration
7 136 (11.66%) CRM
8 124 (10.63%) Change Management
9 117 (10.03%) Project Management
9 117 (10.03%) User Acceptance Testing
10 116 (9.95%) Project Delivery
11 115 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
12 110 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 89 (7.63%) Roadmaps
14 88 (7.55%) Validation
15 78 (6.69%) Workshop Facilitation
16 69 (5.92%) Logistics
17 68 (5.83%) Analytics
17 68 (5.83%) DevOps
18 67 (5.75%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 157 (13.46%) SQL
2 35 (3.00%) PL/SQL
3 21 (1.80%) C#
3 21 (1.80%) JavaScript
4 17 (1.46%) Python
5 16 (1.37%) Java
6 8 (0.69%) Groovy
6 8 (0.69%) VBA
7 6 (0.51%) ABAP
7 6 (0.51%) X++
8 5 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.43%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.34%) PHP
10 3 (0.26%) R
10 3 (0.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.26%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.17%) Korn
11 2 (0.17%) XPath
12 1 (0.086%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.086%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 133 (11.41%) Degree
2 132 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 109 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 38 (3.26%) PMP
5 37 (3.17%) PMI Certification
6 36 (3.09%) CIMA
7 34 (2.92%) ACCA
8 24 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.89%) SAP Certification
10 21 (1.80%) Master's Degree
11 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
15 8 (0.69%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.60%) OCA
17 5 (0.43%) AWS Certification
17 5 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 4 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.15%) QA
2 47 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 41 (3.52%) GDPR
3 41 (3.52%) PMO
4 33 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.94%) NIST
5 11 (0.94%) SLA
6 10 (0.86%) GxP
7 8 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.69%) IFRS
7 8 (0.69%) ITGC
8 7 (0.60%) APQC
9 6 (0.51%) COBIT
9 6 (0.51%) SOX 404
10 5 (0.43%) GAAP
11 4 (0.34%) GMP
11 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.26%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 8 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.43%) Docker
3 1 (0.086%) Firmware
3 1 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.086%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (0.60%) Terraform
2 6 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.43%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.17%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.086%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.086%) Control-M
5 1 (0.086%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.086%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.086%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.086%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 413 (35.42%) Oracle
2 358 (30.70%) SAP
3 178 (15.27%) Microsoft
4 71 (6.09%) Salesforce
5 67 (5.75%) Workday
6 38 (3.26%) IFS
7 19 (1.63%) Ariba
8 17 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.37%) Sage
10 14 (1.20%) Databricks
11 12 (1.03%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.69%) PeopleSoft
13 7 (0.60%) Hyperion
13 7 (0.60%) OpenText
14 6 (0.51%) Adobe
15 5 (0.43%) Anaplan
16 4 (0.34%) Axway
16 4 (0.34%) IBM
16 4 (0.34%) JD Edwards
16 4 (0.34%) Murex