SAP Consultant Contract Job Trends

SAP Consultant
UK

The median SAP Consultant daily rate in the UK is £578, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 172 165
Rank change year-on-year -21 -7 +80
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Consultant 555 516 713
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.51% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 1.63% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 243 276
10th Percentile £463 £434 £450
25th Percentile £513 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £688 £671 £650
90th Percentile £723 £750 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £51.65 £58.32 £61.04
25th Percentile £62.75 £63.31 £62.51
Median hourly rate £70.50 £73.25 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +15.73% -8.61%
75th Percentile £84.63 £100.56 £67.75
90th Percentile £90.50 £115.97 £84.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.25 £64.12 £63.29
% change year-on-year +22.03% +1.32% +0.46%

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 33,289 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,068 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

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 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP Consultant 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 December 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 -18 411 £580 +0.87% 50
Work from Home +2 239 £566 +2.95% 20
UK excluding London -31 225 £600 +4.35% 30
London +5 143 £555 +5.71% 31
North of England -3 86 £675 +20.00% 5
North West +23 76 £693 +25.25% 1
South East -38 66 £525 -9.95% 18
Midlands -60 34 £575 +6.48% 8
West Midlands -31 29 £575 +6.48% 6
East of England -12 28 £525 +16.67%
South West +8 14 £600 +14.56%
Yorkshire -35 8 £575 +2.22% 4
East Midlands -38 4 £545 +2.83% 2
North East -10 2 £575 -4.17%
Scotland - 1 £538 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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.

1 555 (100.00%) SAP
2 296 (53.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 173 (31.17%) Security Cleared
4 142 (25.59%) SC Cleared
5 81 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (13.69%) Logistics
7 74 (13.33%) ABAP
8 73 (13.15%) Workshop Facilitation
9 71 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (12.61%) SAP Fiori
11 64 (11.53%) Migration
12 56 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 55 (9.91%) SAP FI
14 49 (8.83%) SAP HCM
14 49 (8.83%) SAP MM
15 48 (8.65%) Data Migration
16 47 (8.47%) Ariba
17 46 (8.29%) BPSS Clearance
17 46 (8.29%) ERP
18 44 (7.93%) Production Planning
18 44 (7.93%) Validation
19 43 (7.75%) User Acceptance Testing
20 42 (7.57%) SAP PP
20 42 (7.57%) Translating Business Requirements
21 41 (7.39%) SAP EWM
22 40 (7.21%) Analytics
23 39 (7.03%) SuccessFactors
24 38 (6.85%) Time Management
25 36 (6.49%) SAP HANA
26 35 (6.31%) SAP 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 (0.72%) NetWeaver
2 2 (0.36%) MTS
2 2 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.18%) Confluence
3 1 (0.18%) LiveCycle
3 1 (0.18%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 296 (53.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 55 (9.91%) SAP FI
3 49 (8.83%) SAP HCM
3 49 (8.83%) SAP MM
4 42 (7.57%) SAP PP
5 41 (7.39%) SAP EWM
6 35 (6.31%) SAP CO
7 32 (5.77%) SAP FI/CO
8 31 (5.59%) SAP Payroll
9 30 (5.41%) SAP WM
10 27 (4.86%) SAP QM
11 22 (3.96%) SAP PSCD
12 21 (3.78%) SAP SD
13 20 (3.60%) SAP VC
14 18 (3.24%) SAP HR
15 17 (3.06%) SAP PS
16 15 (2.70%) SAP Hybris
17 14 (2.52%) SAP BRIM
18 13 (2.34%) SAP FI-CA
19 12 (2.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 39 (7.03%) SuccessFactors
2 15 (2.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 10 (1.80%) Azure
4 6 (1.08%) Power Platform
5 5 (0.90%) SaaS
6 4 (0.72%) GCP
7 3 (0.54%) AWS
7 3 (0.54%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.54%) WhatsApp
8 2 (0.36%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.18%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.18%) IaaS
9 1 (0.18%) OCI
9 1 (0.18%) PaaS
9 1 (0.18%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.18%) SAP Fieldglass
9 1 (0.18%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) HTTP
1 1 (0.18%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.49%) SAP HANA
2 16 (2.88%) SAP BW
3 11 (1.98%) SAP Data Services
4 9 (1.62%) Metadata
5 6 (1.08%) Power BI
6 4 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.72%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.36%) DB2
8 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.18%) Lumira
8 1 (0.18%) MaxDB
8 1 (0.18%) MySQL
8 1 (0.18%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (1.62%) JIRA
2 5 (0.90%) LSMW
3 3 (0.54%) Git
4 2 (0.36%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 172 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 105 (18.92%) Finance
3 82 (14.77%) Manufacturing
4 47 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 40 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 28 (5.05%) Billing
7 28 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.24%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.34%) Retail
10 8 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.26%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.08%) Automotive
12 6 (1.08%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.72%) Banking
13 4 (0.72%) German Language
13 4 (0.72%) Legal
14 3 (0.54%) Law
15 2 (0.36%) Dutch Language
15 2 (0.36%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.61%) SAP Fiori
2 22 (3.96%) BAPI
3 21 (3.78%) Web Services
4 20 (3.60%) SAP PI
4 20 (3.60%) SAP TM
5 17 (3.06%) SAP Basis
6 13 (2.34%) IDoc
7 12 (2.16%) SOAP
8 11 (1.98%) XML
9 10 (1.80%) EDI
10 9 (1.62%) SAP ALE
11 6 (1.08%) Middleware
11 6 (1.08%) SAP Business Workflow
12 5 (0.90%) REST
13 4 (0.72%) JSON
13 4 (0.72%) SAPUI5
14 2 (0.36%) HTML
14 2 (0.36%) HTML5
14 2 (0.36%) SAP Core Interface
15 1 (0.18%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (2.52%) Onboarding
3 13 (2.34%) Replication
4 9 (1.62%) Life Science
5 7 (1.26%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.26%) Private Cloud
6 4 (0.72%) LIMS
6 4 (0.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 4 (0.72%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.54%) FMCG
7 3 (0.54%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.54%) Tandem
8 2 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.36%) PACS
8 2 (0.36%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.18%) Clustering
9 1 (0.18%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.90%) Linux
2 3 (0.54%) Unix
2 3 (0.54%) VMS
2 3 (0.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 76 (13.69%) Logistics
3 73 (13.15%) Workshop Facilitation
4 71 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (11.53%) Migration
6 56 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 48 (8.65%) Data Migration
8 46 (8.29%) ERP
9 44 (7.93%) Production Planning
9 44 (7.93%) Validation
10 43 (7.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 42 (7.57%) Translating Business Requirements
12 40 (7.21%) Analytics
13 38 (6.85%) Time Management
14 32 (5.77%) Knowledge Transfer
15 29 (5.23%) Mentoring
16 28 (5.05%) Process Improvement
16 28 (5.05%) Requirements Gathering
17 27 (4.86%) Quality Management
18 26 (4.68%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.33%) ABAP
2 18 (3.24%) JavaScript
3 14 (2.52%) Groovy
4 5 (0.90%) Java
5 4 (0.72%) SQL
6 2 (0.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 173 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 142 (25.59%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (5.05%) SAP Certification
5 26 (4.68%) Degree
6 13 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.62%) ACCA
7 9 (1.62%) CIMA
8 5 (0.90%) CCA
9 4 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.36%) CISA
10 2 (0.36%) CISM
10 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.44%) QA
2 7 (1.26%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.26%) GRC
3 6 (1.08%) GxP
4 5 (0.90%) GDPR
5 4 (0.72%) IFRS
5 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (0.54%) GMP
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.18%) Docker
1 1 (0.18%) IAG
1 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 555 (100.00%) SAP
2 47 (8.47%) Ariba
3 12 (2.16%) Adobe
4 11 (1.98%) OpenText
5 10 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.62%) Oracle
7 6 (1.08%) Microsoft
7 6 (1.08%) Workday
8 5 (0.90%) Concur
9 4 (0.72%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.54%) Google
11 2 (0.36%) IFS
11 2 (0.36%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.36%) TOWER Software
12 1 (0.18%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.18%) Databricks
12 1 (0.18%) LabVantage
12 1 (0.18%) RightFax