SAP Consultant Contracts

SAP Consultant
UK

The median SAP Consultant daily rate in the UK is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 178 226
Rank change year-on-year +11 +48 +116
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Consultant 491 591 706
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.36% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 1.46% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 296 263
10th Percentile £450 £425 £450
25th Percentile £510 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £691 £675
90th Percentile £716 £785 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -7.41% +0.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 8
10th Percentile £67.38 - £60.70
25th Percentile £70.00 £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £86.00 £61.60 £69.84
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -11.80% -0.23%
75th Percentile - £62.47 £97.50
90th Percentile - £63.29 £98.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £86.00 £61.60 £64.68
% change year-on-year +39.61% -4.75% -

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

SAP Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP Consultant in the UK

SAP Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SAP Consultant in the UK

SAP Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Consultant over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Consultant in the UK

SAP Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP Consultant in the UK

SAP Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP Consultant over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP Consultant in the UK

SAP Consultant
Top 15 Contract 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 30 April 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 +10 354 £580 -0.37% 121
Work from Home +20 210 £578 -0.17% 119
UK excluding London +16 171 £537 -7.41% 62
London +11 143 £619 +4.03% 55
North of England +47 64 £538 +19.56% 15
North West +30 48 £538 +19.56% 13
South East -22 47 £537 -19.47% 20
Midlands +19 32 £523 -7.11% 17
East of England +31 19 £550 - 4
West Midlands +11 17 £593 +8.72% 16
East Midlands +11 9 £510 -15.00% 1
Yorkshire +10 9 - - 2
North East - 7 £530 -
South West +46 6 £525 +2.44% 1
Wales +7 3 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, SAP 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 491 (100.00%) SAP
2 235 (47.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 149 (30.35%) Social Skills
4 107 (21.79%) Finance
5 79 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (13.65%) Security Cleared
7 60 (12.22%) Migration
8 54 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
9 52 (10.59%) SAP PP
10 51 (10.39%) SAP FI
10 51 (10.39%) Ariba
11 49 (9.98%) SC Cleared
12 45 (9.16%) Data Migration
13 42 (8.55%) SAP CO
13 42 (8.55%) Manufacturing
14 41 (8.35%) ABAP
14 41 (8.35%) Logistics
15 38 (7.74%) SAP FI/CO
16 36 (7.33%) SAP Fiori
17 35 (7.13%) Workshop Facilitation
17 35 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (6.72%) SAP SD
19 32 (6.52%) Agile
20 31 (6.31%) Quality Management
20 31 (6.31%) SuccessFactors
21 29 (5.91%) SAP HANA
21 29 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
22 28 (5.70%) SAP Payroll
23 26 (5.30%) SAP HR
23 26 (5.30%) Procure-to-Pay

SAP 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 10 (2.04%) NetWeaver
2 5 (1.02%) MTS
3 2 (0.41%) Documentum
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.20%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 235 (47.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (10.59%) SAP PP
3 51 (10.39%) SAP FI
4 42 (8.55%) SAP CO
5 38 (7.74%) SAP FI/CO
6 33 (6.72%) SAP SD
7 28 (5.70%) SAP Payroll
8 26 (5.30%) SAP HR
9 23 (4.68%) SAP MM
10 22 (4.48%) SAP EWM
11 15 (3.05%) SAP MDG
12 13 (2.65%) SAP IBP
13 12 (2.44%) SAP GRC
13 12 (2.44%) SAP GTS
13 12 (2.44%) SAP PM
13 12 (2.44%) SAP PSCD
14 10 (2.04%) SAP HCM
15 9 (1.83%) SAP PS
15 9 (1.83%) SAP R/3
16 8 (1.63%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 31 (6.31%) SuccessFactors
2 11 (2.24%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 9 (1.83%) Azure
4 4 (0.81%) AWS
4 4 (0.81%) Power Platform
4 4 (0.81%) Snowflake
5 3 (0.61%) GCP
6 2 (0.41%) IBM Blueworks
6 2 (0.41%) SaaS
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.20%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.91%) SAP HANA
2 17 (3.46%) SAP BW
3 10 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (0.81%) Power BI
6 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.61%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.41%) MySQL
7 2 (0.41%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.20%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.20%) DTS
8 1 (0.20%) IDMS
8 1 (0.20%) Metadata
8 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.41%) LSMW
2 1 (0.20%) JIRA
General
1 149 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 107 (21.79%) Finance
3 54 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.55%) Manufacturing
5 24 (4.89%) Billing
6 23 (4.68%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.48%) Retail
8 19 (3.87%) Aerospace
9 16 (3.26%) Banking
10 15 (3.05%) General Ledger
11 14 (2.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (2.24%) Legal
13 10 (2.04%) French Language
13 10 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.83%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.43%) Law
16 6 (1.22%) Automotive
17 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 4 (0.81%) Polish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.33%) SAP Fiori
2 17 (3.46%) SAP Basis
3 11 (2.24%) SAP TM
4 7 (1.43%) EDI
5 5 (1.02%) IDoc
5 5 (1.02%) SAPUI5
6 4 (0.81%) BAPI
6 4 (0.81%) Middleware
6 4 (0.81%) SAP PI
7 2 (0.41%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.41%) SAP ALE
7 2 (0.41%) SAP Core Interface
8 1 (0.20%) .NET
8 1 (0.20%) Node.js
8 1 (0.20%) RESTful
8 1 (0.20%) SOAP
8 1 (0.20%) Web Dynpro
8 1 (0.20%) Web Services
8 1 (0.20%) XML
8 1 (0.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.67%) Management Information System
2 15 (3.05%) Life Science
3 12 (2.44%) Private Cloud
4 11 (2.24%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 6 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.02%) FMCG
8 5 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.02%) PACS
9 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.61%) LIMS
10 3 (0.61%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.41%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing Execution System
12 1 (0.20%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.43%) Linux
2 5 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (12.22%) Migration
3 45 (9.16%) Data Migration
4 41 (8.35%) Logistics
5 35 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (7.13%) Workshop Facilitation
6 32 (6.52%) Agile
7 31 (6.31%) Quality Management
8 26 (5.30%) Inventory Management
8 26 (5.30%) Procure-to-Pay
9 23 (4.68%) SAP Security
10 22 (4.48%) Analytics
11 21 (4.28%) Requirements Gathering
11 21 (4.28%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (4.07%) ERP
13 19 (3.87%) Project Management
14 18 (3.67%) Integration Testing
15 17 (3.46%) Accounts Payable
15 17 (3.46%) Use Case
15 17 (3.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.35%) ABAP
2 12 (2.44%) SQL
3 8 (1.63%) Java
4 4 (0.81%) Python
5 2 (0.41%) Groovy
5 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.98%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (3.26%) SAP Certification
5 13 (2.65%) Degree
6 6 (1.22%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.20%) ACCA
8 1 (0.20%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.20%) CCA
8 1 (0.20%) CIMA
8 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.05%) QA
2 14 (2.85%) IFRS
3 11 (2.24%) GRC
4 9 (1.83%) IFRS 9
5 8 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.61%) Basel III
7 3 (0.61%) GAAP
7 3 (0.61%) GDPR
8 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.20%) IAG
1 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 491 (100.00%) SAP
2 51 (10.39%) Ariba
3 12 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 7 (1.43%) OpenText
4 7 (1.43%) Oracle
5 5 (1.02%) Concur
5 5 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.81%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.41%) Progress
7 2 (0.41%) Sun
7 2 (0.41%) Sybase
8 1 (0.20%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.20%) Cognos
8 1 (0.20%) Databricks
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.20%) Informatica