SAP Consultant Contract Job Trends

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 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 176 159
Rank change year-on-year -15 -17 +83
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Consultant 553 505 698
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.49% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.61% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 228 264
10th Percentile £463 £434 £450
25th Percentile £513 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +2.64% -5.17%
75th Percentile £688 £669 £650
90th Percentile £723 £750 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £567 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% +7.95% -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 33,803 31,437 40,517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 92.75% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,362 19,311 27,163
10th Percentile £294 £300 £283
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 980 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.86
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.03 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.20 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -26.67% +45.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +84.72%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -21 405 £580 +5.45% 322
Work from Home +1 241 £573 +4.09% 125
UK excluding London -16 216 £580 +2.34% 308
London +1 149 £575 +6.48% 37
North of England -17 79 £675 +21.35% 67
North West +4 70 £703 +30.09% 36
South East -33 64 £525 -0.57% 75
Midlands -62 33 £575 +6.48% 67
East of England -12 28 £525 -6.67% 49
West Midlands -32 28 £575 +6.48% 37
South West 0 14 £600 +33.33% 31
Yorkshire -34 9 £575 +2.22% 28
East Midlands -41 4 £545 +3.81% 26
Wales -5 1 - - 6
Scotland - 1 £538 - 10

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 553 (100.00%) SAP
2 302 (54.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 168 (30.38%) Security Cleared
4 139 (25.14%) SC Cleared
5 83 (15.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (13.56%) ABAP
7 73 (13.20%) Logistics
8 72 (13.02%) Workshop Facilitation
9 70 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (12.48%) Migration
10 69 (12.48%) SAP Fiori
11 57 (10.31%) SAP FI
12 56 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 49 (8.86%) Data Migration
13 49 (8.86%) SAP HCM
13 49 (8.86%) SAP MM
14 47 (8.50%) Ariba
14 47 (8.50%) ERP
15 46 (8.32%) Validation
16 44 (7.96%) Production Planning
17 43 (7.78%) BPSS Clearance
17 43 (7.78%) SAP EWM
17 43 (7.78%) User Acceptance Testing
18 42 (7.59%) SAP PP
19 41 (7.41%) Translating Business Requirements
20 38 (6.87%) Analytics
20 38 (6.87%) Time Management
21 37 (6.69%) SAP CO
22 36 (6.51%) SAP HANA
23 35 (6.33%) SuccessFactors

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%) Cloud Foundry
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
1 302 (54.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (10.31%) SAP FI
3 49 (8.86%) SAP HCM
3 49 (8.86%) SAP MM
4 43 (7.78%) SAP EWM
5 42 (7.59%) SAP PP
6 37 (6.69%) SAP CO
7 34 (6.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 31 (5.61%) SAP Payroll
9 30 (5.42%) SAP WM
10 27 (4.88%) SAP QM
11 22 (3.98%) SAP PSCD
11 22 (3.98%) SAP SD
12 21 (3.80%) SAP VC
13 18 (3.25%) SAP HR
13 18 (3.25%) SAP PS
14 15 (2.71%) SAP Hybris
14 15 (2.71%) SAP Travel Management
15 14 (2.53%) SAP BRIM
16 13 (2.35%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 35 (6.33%) SuccessFactors
2 15 (2.71%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 10 (1.81%) Azure
4 5 (0.90%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.72%) GCP
5 4 (0.72%) SaaS
6 3 (0.54%) AWS
6 3 (0.54%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.36%) iPaaS
7 2 (0.36%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.18%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.18%) IaaS
8 1 (0.18%) OCI
8 1 (0.18%) PaaS
8 1 (0.18%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.18%) SAP Fieldglass
8 1 (0.18%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) HTTP
1 1 (0.18%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.51%) SAP HANA
2 16 (2.89%) SAP BW
3 11 (1.99%) SAP Data Services
4 9 (1.63%) Metadata
5 5 (0.90%) Power BI
6 4 (0.72%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.36%) DB2
9 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.18%) Lumira
9 1 (0.18%) MaxDB
9 1 (0.18%) MySQL
9 1 (0.18%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (1.63%) JIRA
2 5 (0.90%) LSMW
3 3 (0.54%) Git
4 2 (0.36%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 181 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.81%) Finance
3 81 (14.65%) Manufacturing
4 47 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.24%) Billing
7 28 (5.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 28 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.25%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.35%) Retail
10 9 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.27%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.27%) Automotive
12 6 (1.08%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.72%) Banking
13 4 (0.72%) German Language
14 3 (0.54%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.54%) French Language
14 3 (0.54%) Law
14 3 (0.54%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (12.48%) SAP Fiori
2 25 (4.52%) SAP TM
3 22 (3.98%) Web Services
4 21 (3.80%) BAPI
5 20 (3.62%) SAP PI
6 16 (2.89%) SAP Basis
7 13 (2.35%) IDoc
8 12 (2.17%) SOAP
9 11 (1.99%) XML
10 10 (1.81%) EDI
11 8 (1.45%) SAP ALE
12 6 (1.08%) Middleware
12 6 (1.08%) SAP Business Workflow
13 5 (0.90%) REST
14 4 (0.72%) JSON
14 4 (0.72%) SAPUI5
15 2 (0.36%) HTML
15 2 (0.36%) HTML5
15 2 (0.36%) SAP Core Interface
16 1 (0.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (2.35%) Replication
3 12 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 9 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (1.63%) Life Science
5 7 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.27%) 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%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.18%) Reinsurance
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 83 (15.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 73 (13.20%) Logistics
3 72 (13.02%) Workshop Facilitation
4 70 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (12.48%) Migration
6 56 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 49 (8.86%) Data Migration
8 47 (8.50%) ERP
9 46 (8.32%) Validation
10 44 (7.96%) Production Planning
11 43 (7.78%) User Acceptance Testing
12 41 (7.41%) Translating Business Requirements
13 38 (6.87%) Analytics
13 38 (6.87%) Time Management
14 30 (5.42%) Knowledge Transfer
15 29 (5.24%) Mentoring
15 29 (5.24%) Requirements Gathering
16 28 (5.06%) Process Improvement
17 27 (4.88%) Quality Management
18 26 (4.70%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 75 (13.56%) ABAP
2 18 (3.25%) JavaScript
3 14 (2.53%) Groovy
4 5 (0.90%) Java
5 4 (0.72%) SQL
6 2 (0.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 168 (30.38%) Security Cleared
2 139 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (5.06%) SAP Certification
5 26 (4.70%) Degree
6 13 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.45%) ACCA
7 8 (1.45%) 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 (1.45%) Data Quality
1 8 (1.45%) QA
2 6 (1.08%) GRC
2 6 (1.08%) GxP
3 5 (0.90%) GDPR
4 4 (0.72%) IFRS
4 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (0.54%) GMP
6 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 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
1 553 (100.00%) SAP
2 47 (8.50%) Ariba
3 13 (2.35%) Adobe
4 11 (1.99%) OpenText
5 9 (1.63%) Oracle
5 9 (1.63%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.08%) Microsoft
6 6 (1.08%) Workday
7 5 (0.90%) Concur
8 4 (0.72%) Computacenter
9 3 (0.54%) Google
10 2 (0.36%) IFS
10 2 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.36%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.18%) Databricks
11 1 (0.18%) LabVantage
11 1 (0.18%) RightFax