SAP Consultant Contract Job Trends

SAP Consultant
UK

The median SAP Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 171 166
Rank change year-on-year -65 -5 +37
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Consultant 524 502 634
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.69% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.83% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 207 314
10th Percentile £413 £450 £425
25th Percentile £470 £510 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £673 £663 £688
90th Percentile £731 £722 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £537 £600
% change year-on-year -2.14% -10.58% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 15
10th Percentile £83.15 £49.78 £52.90
25th Percentile £86.06 £63.44 £57.25
Median hourly rate £87.50 £78.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% +26.62% -4.75%
75th Percentile £88.75 £86.00 -
90th Percentile £88.88 - £68.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.25 £86.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -0.87% +39.61% -4.75%

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 46,545 27,461 40,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.26% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,281 17,668 26,127
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,104 1,179 2,967
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.97 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.79 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.56% -26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 18 June 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
Top 15 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 18 June 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 -80 370 £570 -1.72% 109
Work from Home -20 243 £575 - 56
UK excluding London -60 220 £525 -2.14% 60
London -61 131 £655 +6.50% 49
South East -30 78 £490 -6.67% 17
Midlands -23 68 £463 -11.06% 19
West Midlands -17 51 £427 -20.56% 16
North of England -81 48 £538 -0.28% 15
North West -39 38 £625 +7.76% 7
Wales -2 15 £550 - 1
East Midlands -22 14 £625 +25.00% 3
South West -20 10 £525 - 3
Yorkshire -63 8 £500 - 7
East of England -40 6 £604 +5.27%
North East -41 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 June 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.

1 524 (100.00%) SAP
2 250 (47.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 93 (17.75%) Security Cleared
4 87 (16.60%) Migration
5 80 (15.27%) SC Cleared
6 76 (14.50%) Workshop Facilitation
7 67 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (11.83%) User Acceptance Testing
10 60 (11.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 58 (11.07%) Data Migration
11 58 (11.07%) SuccessFactors
12 55 (10.50%) SAP FI
13 52 (9.92%) Ariba
13 52 (9.92%) ERP
13 52 (9.92%) Logistics
14 51 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (9.16%) SAP PSCD
16 44 (8.40%) Validation
17 43 (8.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 38 (7.25%) SAP MM
19 35 (6.68%) SAP BRIM
19 35 (6.68%) SAP HANA
20 33 (6.30%) ABAP
21 30 (5.73%) SAP EWM
22 28 (5.34%) SAP FI-CA
22 28 (5.34%) SAP Fiori
22 28 (5.34%) SAP SD
22 28 (5.34%) SAP TM
22 28 (5.34%) SAP Travel Management

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 3 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.38%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 250 (47.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 55 (10.50%) SAP FI
3 48 (9.16%) SAP PSCD
4 38 (7.25%) SAP MM
5 35 (6.68%) SAP BRIM
6 30 (5.73%) SAP EWM
7 28 (5.34%) SAP FI-CA
7 28 (5.34%) SAP SD
7 28 (5.34%) SAP Travel Management
8 26 (4.96%) SAP CO
9 25 (4.77%) SAP FI/CO
10 23 (4.39%) SAP PP
11 22 (4.20%) SAP IBP
12 17 (3.24%) SAP PM
13 15 (2.86%) SAP HCM
14 13 (2.48%) SAP QM
15 12 (2.29%) SAP Hybris
16 11 (2.10%) SAP ERP
16 11 (2.10%) SAP HR
17 10 (1.91%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 58 (11.07%) SuccessFactors
2 14 (2.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 6 (1.15%) Power Platform
4 5 (0.95%) Azure
5 4 (0.76%) AWS
6 3 (0.57%) Boomi
6 3 (0.57%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.38%) GCP
8 1 (0.19%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) FTP
1 1 (0.19%) Network Security
1 1 (0.19%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.68%) SAP HANA
2 17 (3.24%) SAP BW
3 10 (1.91%) BusinessObjects
3 10 (1.91%) SAP Data Services
4 6 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.15%) Power BI
5 5 (0.95%) Tableau
6 1 (0.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (1.72%) JIRA
2 8 (1.53%) Hudson
3 1 (0.19%) LSMW
General
1 140 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 107 (20.42%) Finance
3 55 (10.50%) Billing
4 49 (9.35%) Manufacturing
5 45 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 41 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (3.63%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (2.48%) General Ledger
10 12 (2.29%) Banking
11 9 (1.72%) Legal
12 8 (1.53%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.53%) Automotive
12 8 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.53%) Retail
13 5 (0.95%) German Language
14 4 (0.76%) Local Government
15 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.34%) SAP Fiori
1 28 (5.34%) SAP TM
2 27 (5.15%) BAPI
3 15 (2.86%) SAP Basis
4 10 (1.91%) IDoc
5 8 (1.53%) Web Services
6 7 (1.34%) EDI
7 6 (1.15%) SAP Core Interface
7 6 (1.15%) XML
8 4 (0.76%) Middleware
8 4 (0.76%) OLE
8 4 (0.76%) SAP ALE
9 3 (0.57%) SOAP
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.38%) REST
10 2 (0.38%) SAPUI5
10 2 (0.38%) XSLT
11 1 (0.19%) JMS
11 1 (0.19%) JSON
11 1 (0.19%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (2.29%) Replication
3 11 (2.10%) Public Cloud
4 10 (1.91%) Algorithms
4 10 (1.91%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.72%) FMCG
6 8 (1.53%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.53%) Life Science
7 6 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.57%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.38%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.19%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 1 (0.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.34%) VMS
2 5 (0.95%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) AIX
3 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (16.60%) Migration
2 76 (14.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 67 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (11.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 58 (11.07%) Data Migration
7 52 (9.92%) ERP
7 52 (9.92%) Logistics
8 51 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (8.40%) Validation
10 43 (8.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (5.15%) GAP Analysis
11 27 (5.15%) Order to Cash
12 26 (4.96%) Project Management
12 26 (4.96%) System Integration Testing
13 23 (4.39%) Change Management
13 23 (4.39%) Project Delivery
13 23 (4.39%) Revenue Management
13 23 (4.39%) Translating Business Requirements
14 22 (4.20%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (6.30%) ABAP
2 11 (2.10%) SQL
3 7 (1.34%) Python
4 1 (0.19%) ActionScript
4 1 (0.19%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (0.19%) Groovy
4 1 (0.19%) Java
4 1 (0.19%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 93 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 80 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 60 (11.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (1.91%) SAP Certification
5 7 (1.34%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (0.57%) CCA
7 2 (0.38%) AAT
7 2 (0.38%) ACCA
7 2 (0.38%) CIMA
7 2 (0.38%) Degree
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.19%) CISM
8 1 (0.19%) CISSP
8 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.39%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.72%) GRC
3 7 (1.34%) GxP
4 4 (0.76%) GDPR
4 4 (0.76%) PMO
5 2 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.38%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.38%) NCSC
5 2 (0.38%) QA
5 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (0.95%) IAG
2 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 524 (100.00%) SAP
2 52 (9.92%) Ariba
3 13 (2.48%) Sage
4 11 (2.10%) Microsoft
5 7 (1.34%) Adobe
5 7 (1.34%) OpenText
6 5 (0.95%) Oracle
7 2 (0.38%) Concur
7 2 (0.38%) Databricks
7 2 (0.38%) Dell
7 2 (0.38%) DocuSign
7 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.38%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.19%) Conga
8 1 (0.19%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.19%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.19%) Planon
8 1 (0.19%) SEEBURGER