SAP BPC Contract Job Trends

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SAP BPC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 509 587
Rank change year-on-year -90 +78 +107
Contract jobs citing SAP BPC 9 19 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.062% 0.030%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.29% 0.78% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile £625 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £725 £663 £688
90th Percentile £755 £678 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £500 £555
% change year-on-year +50.00% -9.91% +23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

SAP BPC falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,143 2,446 3,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.58% 7.97% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,778 1,344 1,992
10th Percentile £359 £380 £388
25th Percentile £450 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £671
90th Percentile £745 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 56 116
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.27 £15.84
25th Percentile £33.75 £35.00 £22.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +26.32% +27.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £80.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £86.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -5.83% +26.32% +27.35%

SAP BPC
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP BPC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SAP BPC job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP BPC
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP BPC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP BPC

SAP BPC
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP BPC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP BPC

SAP BPC
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP BPC within the UK over the 6 months to 26 February 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 -96 9 £650 +8.33% 2
London -23 7 £650 +4.00%
UK excluding London -82 2 £750 +50.00% 2
North West -30 1 - - 1
West Midlands -51 1 £750 +11.11% 1
Midlands -53 1 £750 +11.11% 1
North of England -63 1 - - 1

SAP BPC
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 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (22.22%) SAP FS
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (11.11%) SAP CO
3 1 (11.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SAP BW
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (33.33%) SAP HANA
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 2 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Business Finance Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) ERP Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) ERP Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Implementation Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Management Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) pytest
2 2 (22.22%) SAPUI5
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (11.11%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) FMCG
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Analytics
1 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Data Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Planning and Forecasting
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
1 1 (11.11%) IFRS
1 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (11.11%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (33.33%) Databricks
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Anaplan
4 1 (11.11%) Concur
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Tagetik
4 1 (11.11%) Workday