SAP Basis Consultant Contracts

SAP Basis Consultant
UK

The median SAP Basis Consultant daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 507 655
Rank change year-on-year -29 +148 +187
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Basis Consultant 20 55 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.14% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.15% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 33 9
10th Percentile - £325 £470
25th Percentile £425 £425 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -23.40% +8.80%
75th Percentile £624 £475 £606
90th Percentile £710 - £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £61.60 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,315 36,280 50,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.94% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,223 23,530 34,843
10th Percentile £281 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,498 2,061 1,518
10th Percentile £13.64 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £39.55
% change year-on-year -42.71% +11.00% +86.12%

SAP Basis Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SAP Basis Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP Basis Consultant in the UK

SAP Basis Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP Basis Consultant.

Daily rate trend for SAP Basis Consultant in the UK

SAP Basis Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Basis Consultant over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Basis Consultant in the UK

SAP Basis Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP Basis Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for SAP Basis Consultant in the UK

SAP Basis Consultant
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Basis Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 3 August 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 -17 16 £500 +11.11% 4
UK excluding London -29 12 £500 +11.11% 4
Work from Home +18 8 £665 +47.78%
South East 0 4 £522 +15.36%
East of England 0 4 £450 +12.50% 2
London 0 3 £450 -
North of England -9 2 £525 +16.67%
North West +1 1 £500 +11.11%
West Midlands - 1 £700 - 2
Midlands - 1 £700 - 2
North East - 1 £550 -
South West - 1 - -

SAP Basis Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, SAP Basis Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SAP Basis Consultant in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) SAP
2 19 (95.00%) SAP Basis
3 10 (50.00%) SAP HANA
4 9 (45.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) Linux
5 8 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (35.00%) SAP Fiori
6 7 (35.00%) SAP Security
6 7 (35.00%) NetWeaver
7 6 (30.00%) Unix
7 6 (30.00%) SAP BW
8 5 (25.00%) Azure
8 5 (25.00%) Problem Management
8 5 (25.00%) SAP IBP
8 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
9 4 (20.00%) Java
10 3 (15.00%) Oracle
10 3 (15.00%) Migration
10 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (15.00%) High Availability
10 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
11 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
11 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
11 2 (10.00%) Sybase IQ
11 2 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (10.00%) Change Management
11 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (10.00%) Test Management

SAP Basis Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 9 (45.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (25.00%) SAP IBP
3 1 (5.00%) SAP GRC
3 1 (5.00%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) IaaS
2 1 (5.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SAP HANA
2 6 (30.00%) SAP BW
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (10.00%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (95.00%) SAP Basis
2 7 (35.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (35.00%) SAP Security
4 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (15.00%) High Availability
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
6 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Test Management
7 1 (5.00%) AIOps
7 1 (5.00%) Database Migration
7 1 (5.00%) Due Diligence
7 1 (5.00%) Performance Management
7 1 (5.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) ABAP
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Ariba
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) Sybase
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Concur
4 1 (5.00%) Google