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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 90 100
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,983 914 899
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.71% 2.78% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 3.08% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 548 514
10th Percentile £365 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £534 £528
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% +1.18% -4.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +2.95% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 50 37
10th Percentile £14.87 £6.00 £16.70
25th Percentile £18.14 £14.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.10 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -50.89% -30.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £75.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £17.14 £35.36
% change year-on-year +69.24% -51.54% -45.70%

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 45,331 29,700 33,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.46% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,838 18,524 21,130
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,836 1,729 1,767
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.14
Median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £67.99 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +17 1,631 £550 - 939
UK excluding London +35 1,040 £525 +1.94% 756
London +21 679 £600 +9.09% 256
Work from Home +27 560 £550 - 378
South East +1 273 £525 +1.94% 224
North of England +71 270 £500 +0.50% 169
Midlands +31 206 £525 - 181
North West +47 157 £525 +5.00% 79
West Midlands +9 116 £525 - 104
Yorkshire +33 92 £500 +24.22% 68
South West -12 87 £550 -11.72% 79
East of England +6 84 £510 -11.39% 76
East Midlands +28 81 £519 -13.54% 77
Scotland +14 73 £513 +2.50% 30
Northern Ireland +28 28 £450 +28.57% 4
North East -22 21 £500 -6.98% 25
Wales - 21 £488 - 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 33 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.86%) Confluence
4 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.25%) SAS
5 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.20%) CMS
5 4 (0.20%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.20%) ThingWorx
5 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.15%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.10%) Apache
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.050%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 100 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.20%) Windchill
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 289 (14.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 155 (7.82%) Oracle ERP
3 68 (3.43%) SAP ERP
4 66 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
5 62 (3.13%) NetSuite
6 51 (2.57%) Oracle EBS
7 50 (2.52%) Oracle Receivables
8 41 (2.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 30 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
10 25 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
11 24 (1.21%) Oracle Financials
12 18 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
12 18 (0.91%) SAP MDG
13 17 (0.86%) Infor CloudSuite
14 15 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
15 13 (0.66%) Workday HCM
16 12 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
16 12 (0.61%) SAP FI
16 12 (0.61%) SAP SD
17 11 (0.55%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 202 (10.19%) Azure
2 195 (9.83%) Dynamics 365
3 193 (9.73%) Power Platform
4 159 (8.02%) OCI
5 118 (5.95%) SaaS
6 80 (4.03%) AWS
7 59 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (1.97%) PaaS
9 38 (1.92%) GCP
10 36 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
11 35 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
12 31 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 28 (1.41%) Boomi
14 27 (1.36%) GitHub
14 27 (1.36%) PowerApps
15 24 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 16 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
17 16 (0.81%) Entra ID
18 15 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.40%) HTTP
2 7 (0.35%) Network Security
3 6 (0.30%) FTP
4 5 (0.25%) SSL
5 4 (0.20%) Firewall
6 3 (0.15%) 5G
7 2 (0.10%) Intranet
7 2 (0.10%) LAN
7 2 (0.10%) WAN
8 1 (0.050%) DHCP
8 1 (0.050%) DMZ
8 1 (0.050%) DNS
8 1 (0.050%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.050%) Modbus
8 1 (0.050%) MQTT
8 1 (0.050%) RFID
8 1 (0.050%) SMS
8 1 (0.050%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.050%) VPN
8 1 (0.050%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (7.01%) Power BI
2 68 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (2.72%) Oracle Reports
4 36 (1.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 26 (1.31%) Oracle ODI
5 26 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.21%) Data Lake
7 23 (1.16%) Tableau
8 17 (0.86%) Metadata
9 13 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 12 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.50%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.35%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.35%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.30%) Power Query
13 6 (0.30%) SAP Data Services
13 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 88 (4.44%) JIRA
2 34 (1.71%) Git
3 19 (0.96%) Hudson
4 13 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
4 13 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.35%) Postman
6 6 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 3 (0.15%) GitLab
9 3 (0.15%) LSMW
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.10%) MLflow
10 2 (0.10%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.050%) JDeveloper
11 1 (0.050%) TestRail
General
1 1,028 (51.84%) Finance
2 542 (27.33%) Social Skills
3 252 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (10.64%) Manufacturing
5 172 (8.67%) Public Sector
6 108 (5.45%) Retail
7 82 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (3.23%) General Ledger
9 59 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
10 54 (2.72%) Billing
11 52 (2.62%) Legal
12 50 (2.52%) Law
13 43 (2.17%) Banking
14 42 (2.12%) Local Government
14 42 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 33 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
17 32 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (1.06%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.96%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 374 (18.86%) Lead
2 317 (15.99%) Architect
3 255 (12.86%) Analyst
4 237 (11.95%) Consultant
5 157 (7.92%) Senior
6 144 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
7 142 (7.16%) Project Manager
8 119 (6.00%) Business Analyst
9 111 (5.60%) Developer
10 86 (4.34%) Oracle Consultant
11 75 (3.78%) ERP Manager
12 57 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
13 56 (2.82%) Accountant
14 46 (2.32%) Functional Consultant
14 46 (2.32%) Programme Manager
15 45 (2.27%) Data Analyst
16 42 (2.12%) ERP Project Manager
16 42 (2.12%) Lead Architect
17 41 (2.07%) Finance Manager
17 41 (2.07%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (11.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 118 (5.95%) REST
3 104 (5.24%) Middleware
4 71 (3.58%) SOAP
5 43 (2.17%) JSON
5 43 (2.17%) XML
6 34 (1.71%) Web Services
7 29 (1.46%) .NET
8 23 (1.16%) OAuth
9 21 (1.06%) EDI
10 19 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
10 19 (0.96%) OAuth2
11 18 (0.91%) Terraform
12 17 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
13 14 (0.71%) XSLT
14 11 (0.55%) CSS
14 11 (0.55%) HTML
14 11 (0.55%) Node.js
14 11 (0.55%) PySpark
15 10 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
2 73 (3.68%) Data Structures
3 58 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (2.77%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 36 (1.82%) FMCG
8 34 (1.71%) Public Cloud
9 32 (1.61%) Cloud Native
10 26 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (0.91%) Life Science
13 15 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 15 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.71%) Low-Code
14 14 (0.71%) Operational Technology
15 13 (0.66%) IoT
16 12 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.31%) Windows
2 8 (0.40%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.30%) Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Android
4 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.10%) OpenVMS
4 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.050%) AIX
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.050%) Unix
5 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (27.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 502 (25.32%) Migration
3 373 (18.81%) Data Migration
4 328 (16.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 324 (16.34%) User Acceptance Testing
6 282 (14.22%) Agile
7 278 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 253 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
9 212 (10.69%) Change Management
10 201 (10.14%) Validation
11 199 (10.04%) Business Intelligence
12 183 (9.23%) CRM
13 182 (9.18%) Analytics
13 182 (9.18%) Data Modelling
14 174 (8.77%) Roadmaps
15 172 (8.67%) Process Improvement
16 152 (7.67%) Translating Business Requirements
17 142 (7.16%) Project Delivery
18 141 (7.11%) Procure-to-Pay
18 141 (7.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 176 (8.88%) SQL
2 64 (3.23%) Python
3 36 (1.82%) Java
4 34 (1.71%) JavaScript
4 34 (1.71%) PL/SQL
5 28 (1.41%) C#
6 21 (1.06%) Apex Code
7 20 (1.01%) Ruby
7 20 (1.01%) X++
8 17 (0.86%) ABAP
9 14 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.40%) Groovy
12 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.30%) SOQL
13 6 (0.30%) SOSL
14 5 (0.25%) VBA
15 4 (0.20%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.15%) C++
16 3 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 234 (11.80%) Security Cleared
2 167 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.25%) Degree
4 71 (3.58%) ACCA
5 67 (3.38%) CIMA
6 54 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 39 (1.97%) PMP
8 35 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (0.40%) SAP Certification
13 7 (0.35%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.30%) APMG
14 6 (0.30%) CISM
14 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 69 (3.48%) GDPR
3 67 (3.38%) QA
4 56 (2.82%) PMO
5 34 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.26%) IFRS
7 18 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.86%) GAAP
9 13 (0.66%) GRC
10 12 (0.61%) GMP
10 12 (0.61%) NCSC
11 11 (0.55%) GxP
12 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.35%) SLA
13 6 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.30%) NIST
13 6 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 15 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.45%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.050%) Firmware
4 1 (0.050%) IAG
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (0.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.45%) HP ALM
3 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.25%) Grafana
4 5 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.20%) Kibana
6 3 (0.15%) MOM
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.10%) SCCM
8 1 (0.050%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.050%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 604 (30.46%) SAP
2 580 (29.25%) Oracle
3 368 (18.56%) Microsoft
4 88 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 77 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 76 (3.83%) IFS
7 74 (3.73%) Workday
8 39 (1.97%) Ariba
8 39 (1.97%) Infor
9 33 (1.66%) Databricks
10 30 (1.51%) Sage
11 28 (1.41%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.11%) JD Edwards
13 21 (1.06%) Google
14 19 (0.96%) Siemens
15 17 (0.86%) Concur
16 13 (0.66%) SYSPRO
17 11 (0.55%) Epicor
18 9 (0.45%) Baan
18 9 (0.45%) HP