SAP Consultant Contract Job Trends

SAP Consultant
UK

The median SAP Consultant daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 184 182
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +66
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Consultant 521 461 610
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.47% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.59% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 193 239
10th Percentile £469 £425 £438
25th Percentile £514 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% +0.86%
75th Percentile £700 £669 £664
90th Percentile £723 £731 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £540 £563
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.00% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 11
10th Percentile £51.65 £78.81 £52.90
25th Percentile £62.75 - £60.93
Median hourly rate £70.50 £86.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +36.51% -9.03%
75th Percentile £84.63 - £63.29
90th Percentile £90.50 £106.13 £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.25 £86.00 £61.79
% change year-on-year -9.01% +39.18% -1.92%

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 34,502 29,046 41,229
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.85% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,791 17,729 27,311
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 £478 £480 £495
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.03% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,057 865 2,093
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.95 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% -13.33% +8.49%
75th Percentile £61.18 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.26 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.70% -21.25% +33.33%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -18 385 £600 +9.09% 39
Work from Home +4 231 £600 +11.52% 11
UK excluding London -25 204 £600 +11.11% 20
London +13 140 £625 +8.70% 24
North of England -28 75 £680 +20.80% 6
North West -1 64 £703 +26.92% 2
South East -20 59 £525 +1.94% 7
Midlands -65 33 £515 -2.83% 6
East of England -3 27 £545 -3.11%
West Midlands -40 27 £515 -4.63% 4
South West -4 14 £600 +33.33%
Yorkshire -38 9 £575 +2.22% 4
East Midlands -42 5 £510 -1.92% 1
North East -18 2 - -
Wales -6 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £538 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 521 (100.00%) SAP
2 296 (56.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 155 (29.75%) Security Cleared
4 126 (24.18%) SC Cleared
5 77 (14.78%) Workshop Facilitation
6 76 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 71 (13.63%) Logistics
8 69 (13.24%) Migration
9 65 (12.48%) ABAP
9 65 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (12.28%) SAP Fiori
11 60 (11.52%) SAP FI
12 58 (11.13%) ERP
13 51 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 50 (9.60%) User Acceptance Testing
15 47 (9.02%) SAP EWM
16 46 (8.83%) SAP MM
17 44 (8.45%) Data Migration
18 43 (8.25%) Validation
19 41 (7.87%) Ariba
19 41 (7.87%) SAP PP
19 41 (7.87%) Translating Business Requirements
20 39 (7.49%) SAP HCM
21 38 (7.29%) BPSS Clearance
21 38 (7.29%) SAP CO
22 36 (6.91%) SAP HANA
22 36 (6.91%) SAP TM
23 35 (6.72%) Production Planning
23 35 (6.72%) SAP FI/CO
24 34 (6.53%) Analytics

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 (0.77%) NetWeaver
2 2 (0.38%) MTS
2 2 (0.38%) 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 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 296 (56.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (11.52%) SAP FI
3 47 (9.02%) SAP EWM
4 46 (8.83%) SAP MM
5 41 (7.87%) SAP PP
6 39 (7.49%) SAP HCM
7 38 (7.29%) SAP CO
8 35 (6.72%) SAP FI/CO
9 30 (5.76%) SAP WM
10 29 (5.57%) SAP Payroll
11 27 (5.18%) SAP PSCD
12 25 (4.80%) SAP Travel Management
13 20 (3.84%) SAP QM
14 18 (3.45%) SAP SD
15 17 (3.26%) SAP BRIM
15 17 (3.26%) SAP Hybris
15 17 (3.26%) SAP VC
16 15 (2.88%) SAP FI-CA
16 15 (2.88%) SAP PS
17 14 (2.69%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 31 (5.95%) SuccessFactors
2 17 (3.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 9 (1.73%) Azure
4 4 (0.77%) Power Platform
4 4 (0.77%) SaaS
5 2 (0.38%) AWS
5 2 (0.38%) GCP
5 2 (0.38%) Snowflake
5 2 (0.38%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.19%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.19%) OCI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Fieldglass
6 1 (0.19%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (0.19%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.91%) SAP HANA
2 16 (3.07%) SAP BW
3 10 (1.92%) SAP Data Services
4 7 (1.34%) Metadata
5 4 (0.77%) Power BI
6 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.38%) DB2
6 2 (0.38%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.19%) MaxDB
7 1 (0.19%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (2.11%) JIRA
2 5 (0.96%) LSMW
3 2 (0.38%) Git
3 2 (0.38%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (0.19%) Hudson
General
1 173 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 103 (19.77%) Finance
3 72 (13.82%) Manufacturing
4 53 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.53%) Billing
6 33 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (4.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 21 (4.03%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.50%) Retail
11 9 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.34%) Automotive
13 6 (1.15%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.15%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.96%) Banking
15 4 (0.77%) Dutch Language
15 4 (0.77%) German Language
16 3 (0.58%) French Language
16 3 (0.58%) Legal
17 2 (0.38%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (12.28%) SAP Fiori
2 36 (6.91%) SAP TM
3 24 (4.61%) Web Services
4 22 (4.22%) BAPI
5 19 (3.65%) SAP PI
6 14 (2.69%) SAP Basis
7 11 (2.11%) IDoc
7 11 (2.11%) SOAP
8 10 (1.92%) XML
9 9 (1.73%) EDI
10 8 (1.54%) SAP ALE
11 6 (1.15%) Middleware
11 6 (1.15%) SAP Business Workflow
12 4 (0.77%) REST
12 4 (0.77%) SAPUI5
13 2 (0.38%) JSON
14 1 (0.19%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (2.50%) Replication
4 12 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.73%) Life Science
6 7 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 5 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.77%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 3 (0.58%) FMCG
9 3 (0.58%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.58%) Tandem
10 2 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.38%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.38%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.19%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.19%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.19%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.77%) Linux
2 2 (0.38%) Unix
2 2 (0.38%) VMS
2 2 (0.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (14.78%) Workshop Facilitation
2 76 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 71 (13.63%) Logistics
4 69 (13.24%) Migration
5 65 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (11.13%) ERP
7 51 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 50 (9.60%) User Acceptance Testing
9 44 (8.45%) Data Migration
10 43 (8.25%) Validation
11 41 (7.87%) Translating Business Requirements
12 35 (6.72%) Production Planning
13 34 (6.53%) Analytics
13 34 (6.53%) Time Management
14 30 (5.76%) Process Improvement
15 29 (5.57%) Requirements Gathering
16 28 (5.37%) Mentoring
17 27 (5.18%) Knowledge Transfer
18 24 (4.61%) Scenario Testing
19 23 (4.41%) Revenue Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (12.48%) ABAP
2 15 (2.88%) JavaScript
3 14 (2.69%) Groovy
4 3 (0.58%) Java
4 3 (0.58%) SQL
5 1 (0.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 155 (29.75%) Security Cleared
2 126 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (4.80%) SAP Certification
5 22 (4.22%) Degree
6 12 (2.30%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.54%) ACCA
7 8 (1.54%) CIMA
8 5 (0.96%) CCA
9 2 (0.38%) AAT
9 2 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.19%) CISA
10 1 (0.19%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.34%) QA
3 5 (0.96%) GDPR
3 5 (0.96%) GxP
4 4 (0.77%) GRC
5 3 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (0.58%) GMP
5 3 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.19%) PMO
7 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 521 (100.00%) SAP
2 41 (7.87%) Ariba
3 15 (2.88%) Adobe
4 9 (1.73%) OpenText
5 8 (1.54%) Oracle
5 8 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.15%) Workday
7 5 (0.96%) Microsoft
7 5 (0.96%) Sage
8 4 (0.77%) Computacenter
9 2 (0.38%) Concur
9 2 (0.38%) Google
9 2 (0.38%) IFS
9 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.19%) Databricks
10 1 (0.19%) LabVantage
10 1 (0.19%) RightFax