SAP Basis Contracts

SAP Basis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SAP Basis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP Basis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 541 671
Rank change year-on-year +48 +130 +124
Contract jobs citing SAP Basis 27 41 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.094% 0.079%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% 0.46% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 27
10th Percentile - £325 £464
25th Percentile £425 £400 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -23.40% +9.81%
75th Percentile £603 £475 £656
90th Percentile £791 £550 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +2.78% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £61.60 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SAP Basis falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

SAP Basis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAP Basis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP Basis in the UK

SAP Basis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SAP Basis in the UK

SAP Basis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Basis over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Basis in the UK

SAP Basis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP Basis in the UK

SAP Basis
Top 7 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +39 16 £450 - 13
Work from Home +39 13 £675 +50.00% 14
UK excluding London +51 11 £463 +2.78% 11
South East +39 5 £525 +16.67% 8
East of England +28 5 £450 +28.57%
London +33 4 £450 - 3
South West +45 1 - -

SAP Basis
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 9 (33.33%) NetWeaver
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (48.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (22.22%) SAP IBP
3 2 (7.41%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) AWS
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) SAP Fieldglass
3 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) SAP HANA
2 6 (22.22%) SAP BW
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.41%) IDMS
4 2 (7.41%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Consultant
1 17 (62.96%) SAP Consultant
2 15 (55.56%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Implementation Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) SAP Architect
4 3 (11.11%) SAP Implementation Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) SAP Manager
4 3 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) SAP Technical Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.41%) SAP Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Client Services Manager
6 1 (3.70%) SAP Basis Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) SAP Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.70%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Life Science
1 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Blog
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Migration
3 7 (25.93%) SAP Security
4 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 6 (22.22%) Problem Management
5 3 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Waterfall
6 2 (7.41%) Agile
6 2 (7.41%) High Availability
6 2 (7.41%) ITSM
6 2 (7.41%) Network Planning
6 2 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (7.41%) Service Delivery
6 2 (7.41%) Service Management
6 2 (7.41%) Software Testing
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) ABAP
1 3 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (3.70%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) SAP
2 4 (14.81%) Ariba
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Sybase