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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 176 156
Rank change year-on-year -65 -20 +35
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Consultant 547 499 684
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.58% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.72% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 211 357
10th Percentile £413 £450 £425
25th Percentile £470 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £656 £671 £688
90th Percentile £716 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £537 £598
% change year-on-year -2.23% -10.20% +13.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 17
10th Percentile £83.15 £49.78 £52.90
25th Percentile £86.06 £63.44 £56.65
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 - £70.00
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 47,708 29,033 40,392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.03% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,866 18,550 25,972
10th Percentile £325 £288 £287
25th Percentile £416 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,233 1,310 2,837
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.78 £12.87
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +62.26% -29.80% -12.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +1.01%

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 4 July 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 14 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 4 July 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 -65 385 £550 -5.17% 56
Work from Home -15 257 £550 -3.93% 44
UK excluding London -38 240 £525 -2.23% 44
London -69 128 £638 +4.08% 16
Midlands -9 84 £470 -8.96% 15
South East -25 83 £490 -7.63% 7
West Midlands -10 67 £463 -10.84% 13
North of England -85 51 £550 -8.33% 14
North West -39 43 £588 -5.24% 12
Wales -5 15 £550 - 6
East Midlands -16 14 £625 +22.55% 2
South West -28 10 £525 -
Yorkshire -58 8 £500 -14.89% 1
East of England -43 6 £604 +9.82%

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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.

1 547 (100.00%) SAP
2 246 (44.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 100 (18.28%) Security Cleared
4 88 (16.09%) SC Cleared
5 85 (15.54%) Migration
6 79 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 79 (14.44%) Workshop Facilitation
7 73 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (11.52%) SuccessFactors
8 63 (11.52%) User Acceptance Testing
9 60 (10.97%) SAP FI
10 59 (10.79%) Ariba
11 58 (10.60%) Data Migration
12 57 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (10.42%) SAP PSCD
13 55 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (9.69%) Logistics
15 48 (8.78%) ERP
16 46 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 43 (7.86%) ABAP
18 41 (7.50%) Validation
19 37 (6.76%) SAP HANA
19 37 (6.76%) SAP MM
20 36 (6.58%) SAP BRIM
20 36 (6.58%) SAP Fiori
21 33 (6.03%) Order to Cash
21 33 (6.03%) SAP SD
22 31 (5.67%) SAP FI-CA
23 28 (5.12%) BAPI
24 27 (4.94%) 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 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (0.37%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 246 (44.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (10.97%) SAP FI
3 57 (10.42%) SAP PSCD
4 37 (6.76%) SAP MM
5 36 (6.58%) SAP BRIM
6 33 (6.03%) SAP SD
7 31 (5.67%) SAP FI-CA
8 27 (4.94%) SAP CO
8 27 (4.94%) SAP EWM
9 25 (4.57%) SAP PP
10 23 (4.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 23 (4.20%) SAP IBP
11 20 (3.66%) SAP Travel Management
12 19 (3.47%) SAP QM
13 18 (3.29%) SAP HCM
13 18 (3.29%) SAP PM
14 13 (2.38%) SAP Payroll
15 12 (2.19%) SAP HR
15 12 (2.19%) SAP Hybris
16 11 (2.01%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 63 (11.52%) SuccessFactors
2 14 (2.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 9 (1.65%) Azure
4 6 (1.10%) AWS
4 6 (1.10%) Power Platform
5 5 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (0.73%) GCP
7 3 (0.55%) Boomi
7 3 (0.55%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.37%) GitHub
9 1 (0.18%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 1 (0.18%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) FTP
1 1 (0.18%) Network Security
1 1 (0.18%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.76%) SAP HANA
2 20 (3.66%) SAP BW
3 12 (2.19%) BusinessObjects
3 12 (2.19%) SAP Data Services
4 6 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.10%) Power BI
5 5 (0.91%) Tableau
6 1 (0.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (1.46%) Hudson
2 7 (1.28%) JIRA
3 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.37%) LSMW
General
1 144 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 114 (20.84%) Finance
3 63 (11.52%) Billing
4 52 (9.51%) Manufacturing
5 48 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 41 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (4.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 22 (4.02%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.93%) General Ledger
9 12 (2.19%) Banking
10 9 (1.65%) Legal
10 9 (1.65%) Retail
11 8 (1.46%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.28%) Automotive
13 5 (0.91%) German Language
14 4 (0.73%) Local Government
15 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.58%) SAP Fiori
2 28 (5.12%) BAPI
3 20 (3.66%) SAP TM
4 16 (2.93%) SAP Basis
5 15 (2.74%) IDoc
6 11 (2.01%) SOAP
7 10 (1.83%) REST
8 8 (1.46%) SAP PI
9 7 (1.28%) EDI
9 7 (1.28%) JDBC
10 6 (1.10%) SAP Core Interface
10 6 (1.10%) XML
11 5 (0.91%) Middleware
11 5 (0.91%) Web Services
12 4 (0.73%) OLE
12 4 (0.73%) SAP ALE
12 4 (0.73%) SAPUI5
13 2 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
13 2 (0.37%) XSLT
14 1 (0.18%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.56%) Public Cloud
2 12 (2.19%) Data Structures
2 12 (2.19%) FMCG
2 12 (2.19%) Replication
3 10 (1.83%) Algorithms
3 10 (1.83%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.65%) Life Science
5 6 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.37%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.18%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.18%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.18%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.18%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.28%) VMS
2 6 (1.10%) Unix
3 5 (0.91%) Linux
4 1 (0.18%) AIX
4 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (15.54%) Migration
2 79 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 79 (14.44%) Workshop Facilitation
3 73 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (11.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 58 (10.60%) Data Migration
6 55 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (9.69%) Logistics
8 48 (8.78%) ERP
9 46 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 41 (7.50%) Validation
11 33 (6.03%) Order to Cash
12 27 (4.94%) Translating Business Requirements
13 26 (4.75%) Revenue Management
14 25 (4.57%) Project Delivery
14 25 (4.57%) System Integration Testing
15 24 (4.39%) Process Improvement
15 24 (4.39%) Time Management
16 23 (4.20%) Agile
16 23 (4.20%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.86%) ABAP
2 11 (2.01%) SQL
3 7 (1.28%) Java
3 7 (1.28%) Python
4 1 (0.18%) ActionScript
4 1 (0.18%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (0.18%) Groovy
4 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 100 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 57 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (2.01%) SAP Certification
5 7 (1.28%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (0.73%) CCA
7 2 (0.37%) Degree
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) CISM
8 1 (0.18%) CISSP
8 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.83%) GRC
3 7 (1.28%) GxP
4 4 (0.73%) GDPR
4 4 (0.73%) PMO
5 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.37%) IFRS
6 2 (0.37%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.37%) NCSC
6 2 (0.37%) QA
7 1 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (1.10%) IAG
2 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 547 (100.00%) SAP
2 59 (10.79%) Ariba
3 18 (3.29%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.01%) Sage
5 8 (1.46%) OpenText
6 6 (1.10%) webMethods
7 5 (0.91%) Adobe
7 5 (0.91%) Oracle
8 3 (0.55%) Databricks
9 2 (0.37%) Concur
9 2 (0.37%) Dell
9 2 (0.37%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.18%) Conga
10 1 (0.18%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.18%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.18%) Palantir
10 1 (0.18%) Planon
10 1 (0.18%) SEEBURGER