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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 94 95
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 +25
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,633 786 1,032
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.61% 2.69% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 2.97% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 456 654
10th Percentile £363 £358 £356
25th Percentile £463 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £645 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £775 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 20 34
10th Percentile £18.27 £47.29 £13.42
25th Percentile £28.86 £65.94 £21.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +34.88% -14.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 £69.72
90th Percentile £60.00 £87.50 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +81.25% -38.15%

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 38,628 26,479 37,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.41% 90.55% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,477 17,189 24,572
10th Percentile £314 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,295 988 2,354
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.99 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.73 £70.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.55 £30.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year +18.50% -6.59% -13.90%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +31 1,369 £550 +2.33% 750
UK excluding London +33 807 £525 +5.00% 619
London +32 611 £550 - 210
Work from Home +44 537 £550 +3.19% 347
South East +6 196 £550 - 200
North of England +26 191 £550 +25.71% 135
Midlands -17 137 £540 +8.00% 113
South West +30 120 £525 +10.53% 64
North West +36 115 £500 +2.41% 65
West Midlands -13 91 £565 +13.00% 79
East of England +1 83 £563 -4.26% 69
Yorkshire -10 65 £595 +48.75% 59
Scotland +29 46 £525 +5.00% 29
East Midlands -12 45 £500 +5.26% 34
Wales +7 21 £500 -31.03% 10
Northern Ireland +10 16 £475 +18.75% 11
North East -14 11 £500 +11.11% 15
Channel Islands - 3 - - 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 16 (0.98%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 14 (0.86%) Confluence
4 13 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (0.55%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.31%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.31%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.24%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.18%) Documentum
8 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.12%) CMS
9 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.061%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 74 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.31%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.24%) Trello
8 3 (0.18%) Windchill
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.061%) InVision
9 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 243 (14.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (6.74%) Oracle ERP
3 66 (4.04%) Oracle EBS
4 64 (3.92%) SAP ERP
5 53 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
6 45 (2.76%) Oracle Payables
7 33 (2.02%) NetSuite
8 30 (1.84%) Oracle Receivables
9 29 (1.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 18 (1.10%) Shopify
11 17 (1.04%) Oracle Assets
11 17 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
12 16 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 15 (0.92%) Oracle EBS R12
14 14 (0.86%) Unit4 Business World
15 13 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
15 13 (0.80%) SAP FI
15 13 (0.80%) SAP PP
15 13 (0.80%) Workday HCM
16 11 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 210 (12.86%) Azure
2 193 (11.82%) Dynamics 365
3 159 (9.74%) OCI
4 132 (8.08%) Power Platform
5 91 (5.57%) SaaS
6 62 (3.80%) AWS
7 50 (3.06%) PaaS
8 42 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (1.84%) Boomi
9 30 (1.84%) Power Automate
10 26 (1.59%) PowerApps
10 26 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
11 23 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 22 (1.35%) GCP
13 18 (1.10%) IaaS
14 17 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
16 15 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (0.86%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.18%) LAN
2 2 (0.12%) 5G
2 2 (0.12%) Firewall
2 2 (0.12%) FTP
3 1 (0.061%) DHCP
3 1 (0.061%) DNS
3 1 (0.061%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.061%) HTTP
3 1 (0.061%) Intranet
3 1 (0.061%) Modbus
3 1 (0.061%) RFID
3 1 (0.061%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.061%) VoIP
3 1 (0.061%) VPN
3 1 (0.061%) WAN
3 1 (0.061%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (6.49%) Power BI
2 65 (3.98%) Oracle Reports
3 56 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (1.78%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.47%) Oracle ODI
6 23 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 21 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 17 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.67%) Metadata
10 11 (0.67%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.49%) GIS
11 8 (0.49%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.43%) Tableau
13 6 (0.37%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.31%) Power Query
14 5 (0.31%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (5.21%) JIRA
2 29 (1.78%) Postman
3 23 (1.41%) Git
4 17 (1.04%) Hudson
5 10 (0.61%) SoapUI
6 8 (0.49%) GitLab
7 7 (0.43%) Selenium
8 6 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) LSMW
12 2 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.12%) Gradle
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.12%) TestRail
12 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
13 1 (0.061%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 855 (52.36%) Finance
2 491 (30.07%) Social Skills
3 222 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (8.27%) Manufacturing
4 135 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 73 (4.47%) Retail
6 59 (3.61%) Legal
6 59 (3.61%) Local Government
7 54 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 45 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 43 (2.63%) Law
11 41 (2.51%) Banking
12 40 (2.45%) General Ledger
13 25 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.47%) Billing
14 24 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.41%) Marketing
16 20 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 257 (15.74%) Lead
2 242 (14.82%) Consultant
3 236 (14.45%) Architect
4 185 (11.33%) Analyst
5 156 (9.55%) Project Manager
6 143 (8.76%) Senior
7 117 (7.16%) Solutions Architect
8 104 (6.37%) Business Analyst
9 78 (4.78%) Developer
10 71 (4.35%) ERP Manager
11 53 (3.25%) SAP Consultant
12 52 (3.18%) SAP Manager
13 51 (3.12%) Implementation Consultant
14 49 (3.00%) Accountant
15 45 (2.76%) Senior Manager
16 44 (2.69%) Financial Analyst
16 44 (2.69%) Oracle Consultant
17 37 (2.27%) Test Manager
18 35 (2.14%) Lead Architect
18 35 (2.14%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (11.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 89 (5.45%) REST
3 72 (4.41%) Middleware
4 63 (3.86%) SOAP
5 49 (3.00%) XML
6 45 (2.76%) JSON
7 40 (2.45%) Web Services
8 24 (1.47%) OAuth
9 22 (1.35%) XSLT
10 20 (1.22%) .NET
11 16 (0.98%) JWT
12 15 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
13 12 (0.73%) PySpark
14 10 (0.61%) EDI
15 8 (0.49%) Kafka
15 8 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
15 8 (0.49%) Node.js
16 7 (0.43%) ADO
16 7 (0.43%) SAPUI5
17 6 (0.37%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
2 55 (3.37%) Data Structures
3 44 (2.69%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 31 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 23 (1.41%) Cloud Native
7 23 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.16%) IoT
9 17 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (0.98%) FMCG
11 14 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.55%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.49%) Life Science
15 8 (0.49%) LIMS
15 8 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.86%) Windows
2 6 (0.37%) Linux
3 3 (0.18%) Unix
4 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (26.64%) Migration
2 322 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 283 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 277 (16.96%) Data Migration
5 241 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
6 234 (14.33%) Agile
7 231 (14.15%) User Acceptance Testing
8 183 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 181 (11.08%) Change Management
10 177 (10.84%) Project Management
11 172 (10.53%) Validation
12 161 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
12 161 (9.86%) CRM
13 121 (7.41%) Data Modelling
14 116 (7.10%) Procure-to-Pay
14 116 (7.10%) Roadmaps
15 115 (7.04%) Project Delivery
16 113 (6.92%) DevOps
17 103 (6.31%) Analytics
18 100 (6.12%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 145 (8.88%) SQL
2 47 (2.88%) Python
3 43 (2.63%) PL/SQL
4 30 (1.84%) Java
5 28 (1.71%) C#
6 18 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.73%) Ruby
8 10 (0.61%) ABAP
8 10 (0.61%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.37%) VBA
12 5 (0.31%) Korn
12 5 (0.31%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.24%) Perl
13 4 (0.24%) X++
14 3 (0.18%) C++
14 3 (0.18%) SOQL
14 3 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 200 (12.25%) Security Cleared
2 148 (9.06%) SC Cleared
3 134 (8.21%) Degree
4 92 (5.63%) CIMA
5 81 (4.96%) ACCA
6 47 (2.88%) PMP
7 40 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
11 13 (0.80%) SAP Certification
12 10 (0.61%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.55%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.43%) APMP
14 7 (0.43%) OCA
15 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.31%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.39%) Data Quality
2 82 (5.02%) QA
3 66 (4.04%) GDPR
4 55 (3.37%) PMO
5 30 (1.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.16%) IFRS
7 17 (1.04%) GAAP
8 15 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.86%) SLA
10 12 (0.73%) NIST
11 10 (0.61%) GxP
11 10 (0.61%) ITGC
12 9 (0.55%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.49%) COBIT
14 7 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.43%) GMP
14 7 (0.43%) SOX 404
15 6 (0.37%) IFRS 17
15 6 (0.37%) NCSC
16 5 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.061%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (0.55%) HP ALM
2 6 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.31%) Terraform
4 3 (0.18%) Control-M
4 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (0.12%) MOM
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.061%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.061%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.061%) Kibana
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.061%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 493 (30.19%) SAP
2 473 (28.97%) Oracle
3 274 (16.78%) Microsoft
4 89 (5.45%) Workday
5 63 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 56 (3.43%) IFS
7 51 (3.12%) Siemens
8 37 (2.27%) Databricks
9 36 (2.20%) Ariba
10 34 (2.08%) Sage
11 33 (2.02%) ServiceNow
12 31 (1.90%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.04%) Infor
14 16 (0.98%) Informatica
15 9 (0.55%) Foundry
15 9 (0.55%) HP
15 9 (0.55%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.43%) Adobe
16 7 (0.43%) Google
16 7 (0.43%) Talend