SAP Consultant Contract Job Trends

SAP Consultant
UK

The median SAP Consultant daily rate in the UK is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 178 175
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 +84
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Consultant 535 481 588
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.51% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.63% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 205 226
10th Percentile £465 £429 £438
25th Percentile £512 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £688 £670 £650
90th Percentile £722 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £578 £540 £556
% change year-on-year +6.94% -2.92% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 10
10th Percentile £51.65 £61.65 £60.03
25th Percentile £62.75 £71.62 £61.04
Median hourly rate £70.50 £86.00 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +36.19% -8.82%
75th Percentile £84.63 - £63.29
90th Percentile £90.50 £110.15 £87.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.25 £79.62 £62.40
% change year-on-year -1.72% +27.61% -0.96%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 33,987 29,559 39,694
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 92.78% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,524 18,135 26,394
10th Percentile £300 £288 £280
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,986 889 1,685
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.61 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.22 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.21% -29.96% +53.85%

SAP Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SAP Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SAP Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAP Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAP Consultant job vacancies in the UK

SAP Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Consultant over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Consultant in the UK

SAP Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAP Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAP Consultant job vacancies in the UK

SAP Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP Consultant over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP Consultant in the UK

SAP Consultant
Top 16 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 Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 16 January 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 -27 392 £600 +9.09% 27
Work from Home -7 234 £573 +4.47% 10
UK excluding London -22 208 £578 +6.94% 18
London +1 142 £600 +6.67% 15
North of England -21 77 £675 +21.35% 6
North West +7 66 £703 +30.09% 2
South East -17 62 £525 +1.94% 8
Midlands -69 30 £520 -1.89% 2
East of England -9 27 £545 -3.11%
West Midlands -41 26 £525 -2.78% 2
South West -1 14 £600 +33.33% 1
Yorkshire -45 9 £575 +2.22% 4
East Midlands -45 3 £510 -1.92%
North East -17 2 - -
Wales -2 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £538 -

SAP Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 January 2026, SAP Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SAP Consultant in the job title.

1 535 (100.00%) SAP
2 293 (54.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 164 (30.65%) Security Cleared
4 135 (25.23%) SC Cleared
5 83 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (14.02%) Workshop Facilitation
7 74 (13.83%) Migration
8 72 (13.46%) ABAP
9 70 (13.08%) Logistics
10 66 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (11.96%) SAP Fiori
12 57 (10.65%) SAP FI
13 55 (10.28%) ERP
13 55 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 52 (9.72%) Data Migration
15 49 (9.16%) Validation
16 48 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
17 46 (8.60%) SAP HCM
18 45 (8.41%) Ariba
18 45 (8.41%) SAP EWM
18 45 (8.41%) SAP MM
19 42 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
19 42 (7.85%) SAP PP
20 41 (7.66%) Production Planning
20 41 (7.66%) Translating Business Requirements
21 38 (7.10%) SAP HANA
22 37 (6.92%) SAP CO
23 35 (6.54%) Analytics
23 35 (6.54%) Time Management
24 34 (6.36%) SAP FI/CO

SAP Consultant Skill Set
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 4 (0.75%) NetWeaver
2 2 (0.37%) MTS
2 2 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.19%) Confluence
3 1 (0.19%) LiveCycle
3 1 (0.19%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 293 (54.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (10.65%) SAP FI
3 46 (8.60%) SAP HCM
4 45 (8.41%) SAP EWM
4 45 (8.41%) SAP MM
5 42 (7.85%) SAP PP
6 37 (6.92%) SAP CO
7 34 (6.36%) SAP FI/CO
8 30 (5.61%) SAP Payroll
8 30 (5.61%) SAP WM
9 23 (4.30%) SAP PSCD
10 21 (3.93%) SAP QM
10 21 (3.93%) SAP SD
11 18 (3.36%) SAP Travel Management
11 18 (3.36%) SAP VC
12 17 (3.18%) SAP PS
13 16 (2.99%) SAP HR
13 16 (2.99%) SAP Hybris
14 15 (2.80%) SAP BRIM
15 13 (2.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 32 (5.98%) SuccessFactors
2 16 (2.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 9 (1.68%) Azure
4 4 (0.75%) Power Platform
4 4 (0.75%) SaaS
5 3 (0.56%) AWS
5 3 (0.56%) GCP
6 2 (0.37%) iPaaS
6 2 (0.37%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.37%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.19%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.19%) OCI
7 1 (0.19%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (0.19%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.19%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.10%) SAP HANA
2 16 (2.99%) SAP BW
3 11 (2.06%) SAP Data Services
4 8 (1.50%) Metadata
5 4 (0.75%) Power BI
6 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.37%) DB2
8 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.19%) MaxDB
8 1 (0.19%) MySQL
8 1 (0.19%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (2.06%) JIRA
2 5 (0.93%) LSMW
3 3 (0.56%) Git
4 2 (0.37%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 174 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 106 (19.81%) Finance
3 79 (14.77%) Manufacturing
4 48 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.61%) Billing
7 28 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 19 (3.55%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.62%) Retail
11 9 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.31%) Automotive
13 6 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.12%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.75%) Banking
14 4 (0.75%) Dutch Language
14 4 (0.75%) German Language
15 3 (0.56%) French Language
16 2 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.96%) SAP Fiori
2 28 (5.23%) SAP TM
3 25 (4.67%) Web Services
4 20 (3.74%) BAPI
4 20 (3.74%) SAP PI
5 15 (2.80%) SAP Basis
6 12 (2.24%) IDoc
6 12 (2.24%) SOAP
7 10 (1.87%) XML
8 9 (1.68%) EDI
9 8 (1.50%) SAP ALE
10 6 (1.12%) Middleware
10 6 (1.12%) SAP Business Workflow
11 5 (0.93%) REST
12 4 (0.75%) SAPUI5
13 2 (0.37%) JSON
14 1 (0.19%) HTML
14 1 (0.19%) J2EE
14 1 (0.19%) Spring
14 1 (0.19%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (2.43%) Replication
4 12 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.68%) Life Science
6 7 (1.31%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.75%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 4 (0.75%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.56%) FMCG
8 3 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.56%) Tandem
9 2 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.37%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.19%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.19%) LIMS
10 1 (0.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.75%) Linux
2 2 (0.37%) Unix
2 2 (0.37%) VMS
2 2 (0.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 75 (14.02%) Workshop Facilitation
3 74 (13.83%) Migration
4 70 (13.08%) Logistics
5 66 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (10.28%) ERP
6 55 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 52 (9.72%) Data Migration
8 49 (9.16%) Validation
9 48 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
10 41 (7.66%) Production Planning
10 41 (7.66%) Translating Business Requirements
11 35 (6.54%) Analytics
11 35 (6.54%) Time Management
12 31 (5.79%) Requirements Gathering
13 29 (5.42%) Mentoring
14 28 (5.23%) Process Improvement
15 27 (5.05%) Knowledge Transfer
16 23 (4.30%) Agile
17 22 (4.11%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (13.46%) ABAP
2 17 (3.18%) JavaScript
3 14 (2.62%) Groovy
4 5 (0.93%) Java
5 4 (0.75%) SQL
6 2 (0.37%) Python
Qualifications
1 164 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 135 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (4.86%) SAP Certification
5 24 (4.49%) Degree
6 13 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.87%) ACCA
7 10 (1.87%) CIMA
8 5 (0.93%) CCA
9 3 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.37%) AAT
10 2 (0.37%) CISA
10 2 (0.37%) CISM
10 2 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.68%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.50%) QA
3 6 (1.12%) GDPR
3 6 (1.12%) GRC
3 6 (1.12%) GxP
4 4 (0.75%) IFRS
5 3 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (0.56%) GMP
5 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.19%) Docker
1 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 535 (100.00%) SAP
2 45 (8.41%) Ariba
3 15 (2.80%) Adobe
4 10 (1.87%) OpenText
5 9 (1.68%) Oracle
5 9 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.12%) Workday
7 5 (0.93%) Microsoft
8 4 (0.75%) Computacenter
8 4 (0.75%) Sage
9 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.37%) Concur
10 2 (0.37%) Google
10 2 (0.37%) IFS
11 1 (0.19%) Databricks
11 1 (0.19%) LabVantage
11 1 (0.19%) RightFax