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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 80 93
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 +10
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,953 1,008 943
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.56% 3.06% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.38% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,124 604 510
10th Percentile £363 £331 £363
25th Percentile £463 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 46 35
10th Percentile £14.00 £6.00 £20.35
25th Percentile £17.06 £14.67 £28.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.42 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.75% -63.32% -25.20%
75th Percentile £35.00 £32.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £58.48 £78.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £16.29 £51.25
% change year-on-year +42.30% -68.21% -20.31%

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 46,342 29,835 32,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.50% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,074 18,533 19,873
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,192 1,836 1,405
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.32 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +9 1,603 £550 - 2,403
UK excluding London +29 1,028 £525 - 1,557
London +3 643 £600 +8.60% 992
Work from Home +8 554 £550 +2.33% 1,002
North of England +53 275 £525 +3.70% 349
South East -3 252 £525 +3.45% 404
Midlands +25 222 £525 -4.55% 330
North West +25 151 £525 +3.70% 176
West Midlands +19 128 £525 -4.55% 193
Yorkshire +44 104 £463 -11.90% 123
East of England -10 88 £509 -9.91% 154
East Midlands +15 85 £525 -12.50% 135
South West -32 81 £525 -12.50% 131
Scotland +2 72 £525 +5.00% 104
Northern Ireland +18 21 £450 +28.57% 62
Wales +8 20 £475 +46.15% 40
North East -27 20 £513 +13.89% 56
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 38 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
3 18 (0.92%) Confluence
4 9 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.41%) CMS
6 6 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.26%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.26%) SAS
7 5 (0.26%) ThingWorx
8 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.20%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.10%) SAP EP
10 2 (0.10%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.051%) Mendix
Applications
1 108 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.77%) Windchill
7 12 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 281 (14.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 149 (7.63%) Oracle ERP
3 69 (3.53%) SAP ERP
4 66 (3.38%) Oracle Payables
5 61 (3.12%) NetSuite
6 51 (2.61%) Oracle Receivables
7 39 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
7 39 (2.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 36 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
9 28 (1.43%) Oracle General Ledger
10 25 (1.28%) Oracle Financials
11 23 (1.18%) SAP MDG
12 19 (0.97%) Oracle Assets
13 17 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
14 16 (0.82%) Teamcenter
15 15 (0.77%) Workday HCM
16 13 (0.67%) SAP FI
16 13 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
17 12 (0.61%) SAP HR
17 12 (0.61%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 218 (11.16%) Azure
2 182 (9.32%) Dynamics 365
3 176 (9.01%) Power Platform
4 137 (7.01%) OCI
5 125 (6.40%) SaaS
6 74 (3.79%) AWS
7 70 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (2.10%) GCP
9 40 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
10 34 (1.74%) Power Automate
11 33 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
12 30 (1.54%) PaaS
13 29 (1.48%) Boomi
14 27 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
15 25 (1.28%) PowerApps
16 22 (1.13%) Entra ID
17 21 (1.08%) GitHub
18 18 (0.92%) Serverless
19 16 (0.82%) Tricentis Tosca
20 14 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.61%) HTTP
2 7 (0.36%) Network Security
3 6 (0.31%) FTP
4 5 (0.26%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) 5G
5 3 (0.15%) Firewall
6 2 (0.10%) DMZ
6 2 (0.10%) MQTT
6 2 (0.10%) SMS
7 1 (0.051%) DNS
7 1 (0.051%) Intranet
7 1 (0.051%) LAN
7 1 (0.051%) RFID
7 1 (0.051%) SMTP
7 1 (0.051%) VPN
7 1 (0.051%) WAN
7 1 (0.051%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (6.04%) Power BI
2 61 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
4 28 (1.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 24 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.18%) Tableau
7 17 (0.87%) Metadata
8 16 (0.82%) Oracle ODI
9 13 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.67%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.56%) SAP HANA
11 8 (0.41%) Power Query
12 7 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.36%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 109 (5.58%) JIRA
2 31 (1.59%) Git
3 13 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (0.67%) Visual Studio
4 11 (0.56%) Hudson
5 9 (0.46%) Postman
6 7 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.36%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.20%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.20%) Flyway
9 3 (0.15%) MLflow
10 2 (0.10%) GitLab
10 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.10%) LSMW
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
10 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.051%) eggPlant
11 1 (0.051%) SoapUI
General
1 983 (50.33%) Finance
2 571 (29.24%) Social Skills
3 256 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (12.34%) Manufacturing
5 168 (8.60%) Public Sector
6 106 (5.43%) Retail
7 82 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
8 72 (3.69%) General Ledger
9 66 (3.38%) Billing
10 59 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (2.41%) Banking
12 46 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
13 44 (2.25%) Legal
14 37 (1.89%) Local Government
15 30 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (1.38%) Law
17 27 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
18 25 (1.28%) Aerospace
19 21 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 328 (16.79%) Lead
2 297 (15.21%) Architect
3 246 (12.60%) Analyst
4 242 (12.39%) Consultant
5 146 (7.48%) Senior
6 142 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
7 133 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 121 (6.20%) Business Analyst
9 101 (5.17%) Developer
10 93 (4.76%) Oracle Consultant
11 60 (3.07%) ERP Manager
12 59 (3.02%) Functional Consultant
13 57 (2.92%) Administrator
14 56 (2.87%) Accountant
15 49 (2.51%) Financial Analyst
16 43 (2.20%) Data Analyst
17 42 (2.15%) SAP Consultant
18 39 (2.00%) Programme Manager
18 39 (2.00%) SAP Manager
19 38 (1.95%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (10.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 129 (6.61%) REST
3 107 (5.48%) Middleware
4 82 (4.20%) SOAP
5 50 (2.56%) XML
6 47 (2.41%) JSON
7 43 (2.20%) Web Services
8 30 (1.54%) .NET
9 27 (1.38%) OAuth
10 25 (1.28%) OAuth2
11 23 (1.18%) SAP Fiori
12 21 (1.08%) EDI
13 17 (0.87%) Terraform
14 14 (0.72%) XSLT
15 13 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
16 12 (0.61%) IDoc
17 11 (0.56%) CSS
17 11 (0.56%) HTML
17 11 (0.56%) Node.js
17 11 (0.56%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 95 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
3 69 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 62 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 55 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 35 (1.79%) FMCG
8 29 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 29 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 26 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.18%) Life Science
11 16 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 16 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (0.82%) Low-Code
12 15 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.77%) Operational Technology
13 12 (0.61%) CMDB
13 12 (0.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 12 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.38%) Windows
2 11 (0.56%) Linux
3 9 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 3 (0.15%) Android
5 3 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
6 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.051%) AIX
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (30.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 473 (24.22%) Migration
3 351 (17.97%) Data Migration
4 292 (14.95%) User Acceptance Testing
5 290 (14.85%) Agile
6 286 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
7 280 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 262 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 210 (10.75%) Validation
10 194 (9.93%) CRM
10 194 (9.93%) Process Improvement
11 191 (9.78%) Roadmaps
12 190 (9.73%) Change Management
13 173 (8.86%) Analytics
14 167 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
15 165 (8.45%) Data Modelling
16 149 (7.63%) Workshop Facilitation
17 144 (7.37%) Project Delivery
18 136 (6.96%) Requirements Gathering
19 135 (6.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 191 (9.78%) SQL
2 58 (2.97%) Python
3 35 (1.79%) JavaScript
4 30 (1.54%) C#
4 30 (1.54%) Java
5 27 (1.38%) PL/SQL
6 21 (1.08%) X++
7 18 (0.92%) ABAP
8 15 (0.77%) Apex Code
9 12 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.51%) Ruby
10 10 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.41%) Groovy
12 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.20%) PHP
14 3 (0.15%) C++
14 3 (0.15%) Rust
14 3 (0.15%) SOQL
14 3 (0.15%) SOSL
15 2 (0.10%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 250 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 186 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.66%) Degree
4 72 (3.69%) ACCA
5 67 (3.43%) CIMA
6 54 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 43 (2.20%) PMP
8 39 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.46%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.41%) CISM
14 8 (0.41%) CISSP
14 8 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.36%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.31%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 71 (3.64%) QA
3 61 (3.12%) GDPR
4 48 (2.46%) PMO
5 27 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.28%) IFRS
7 21 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.02%) GRC
9 17 (0.87%) GAAP
10 14 (0.72%) NCSC
11 13 (0.67%) GMP
12 12 (0.61%) GxP
13 9 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 9 (0.46%) SLA
14 8 (0.41%) NIST
15 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 6 (0.31%) Accessibility
16 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.41%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.051%) Firmware
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.26%) Grafana
3 5 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.20%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.20%) Kibana
4 4 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.15%) SCCM
6 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.051%) MOM
Vendors
1 637 (32.62%) SAP
2 547 (28.01%) Oracle
3 368 (18.84%) Microsoft
4 92 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 80 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 80 (4.10%) Workday
6 60 (3.07%) IFS
7 45 (2.30%) Ariba
8 35 (1.79%) Infor
9 33 (1.69%) Sage
10 28 (1.43%) JD Edwards
11 27 (1.38%) Databricks
12 24 (1.23%) MuleSoft
13 23 (1.18%) Siemens
14 22 (1.13%) Google
15 17 (0.87%) PTC
16 16 (0.82%) Concur
16 16 (0.82%) IBM
16 16 (0.82%) SYSPRO
17 12 (0.61%) Dell