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 16 March 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 179 170
Rank change year-on-year -47 -9 +61
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Consultant 517 457 618
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.55% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.66% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 188 274
10th Percentile £426 £425 £430
25th Percentile £485 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% +3.45%
75th Percentile £700 £670 £673
90th Percentile £725 £723 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £552 £538 £583
% change year-on-year +2.60% -7.72% +0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 14
10th Percentile £59.98 £79.60 £52.90
25th Percentile £62.75 - £60.88
Median hourly rate £80.50 £86.00 £62.40
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +37.83% -4.50%
75th Percentile £85.81 - £63.29
90th Percentile £87.13 £102.10 £81.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £84.50 £86.00 £61.79
% change year-on-year -1.74% +39.18% -4.46%

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 39,618 27,480 41,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.95% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,739 17,860 27,103
10th Percentile £313 £297 £272
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,468 883 2,495
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.25 £12.95
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.03 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £32.81 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -0.26% -22.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £75.85 £77.44 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -20.36%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -54 369 £605 +4.13% 115
Work from Home -12 231 £578 +5.09% 85
UK excluding London -27 207 £552 +2.60% 106
London -51 127 £665 +8.13% 27
North of England -34 78 £703 +30.58% 14
North West -25 64 £705 +31.04% 7
Midlands -49 50 £425 -19.81% 25
South East -26 48 £490 -4.85% 44
West Midlands -42 40 £425 -24.44% 14
East of England -27 21 £520 -5.45% 13
South West -16 13 £577 -11.23% 3
Yorkshire -47 12 £538 - 5
East Midlands -35 9 £450 -13.46% 10
Wales -8 2 - - 4
North East -12 2 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £538 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 March 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.

1 517 (100.00%) SAP
2 290 (56.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 119 (23.02%) Security Cleared
4 99 (19.15%) SC Cleared
5 83 (16.05%) Workshop Facilitation
6 74 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 72 (13.93%) Migration
8 67 (12.96%) ABAP
9 62 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (11.99%) SAP FI
10 55 (10.64%) User Acceptance Testing
11 54 (10.44%) ERP
12 53 (10.25%) Logistics
13 51 (9.86%) SAP Fiori
14 49 (9.48%) SAP MM
15 46 (8.90%) Time Management
16 45 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 44 (8.51%) SuccessFactors
18 43 (8.32%) Data Migration
18 43 (8.32%) SAP HANA
19 42 (8.12%) BPSS Clearance
20 40 (7.74%) Validation
21 39 (7.54%) Ariba
22 38 (7.35%) SAP PP
23 36 (6.96%) SAP TM
24 35 (6.77%) SAP HCM
25 34 (6.58%) SAP CO
26 33 (6.38%) SAP PSCD
27 32 (6.19%) SAP FI/CO
28 31 (6.00%) Project Management

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 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (0.39%) MTS
1 2 (0.39%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 290 (56.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (11.99%) SAP FI
3 49 (9.48%) SAP MM
4 38 (7.35%) SAP PP
5 35 (6.77%) SAP HCM
6 34 (6.58%) SAP CO
7 33 (6.38%) SAP PSCD
8 32 (6.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 31 (6.00%) SAP EWM
10 30 (5.80%) SAP Travel Management
11 25 (4.84%) SAP Payroll
12 22 (4.26%) SAP BRIM
12 22 (4.26%) SAP FI-CA
12 22 (4.26%) SAP SD
13 18 (3.48%) SAP QM
13 18 (3.48%) SAP VC
14 16 (3.09%) SAP Hybris
15 13 (2.51%) SAP PM
16 12 (2.32%) SAP MDG
17 11 (2.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 44 (8.51%) SuccessFactors
2 17 (3.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 9 (1.74%) Azure
4 4 (0.77%) AWS
5 2 (0.39%) GCP
5 2 (0.39%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.39%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.19%) Boomi
6 1 (0.19%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.19%) OCI
6 1 (0.19%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (0.19%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) FTP
1 1 (0.19%) Network Security
1 1 (0.19%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.32%) SAP HANA
2 8 (1.55%) SAP BW
3 6 (1.16%) Metadata
4 2 (0.39%) Power BI
5 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.19%) DB2
5 1 (0.19%) MaxDB
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.35%) JIRA
2 4 (0.77%) LSMW
3 3 (0.58%) Hudson
4 2 (0.39%) Git
4 2 (0.39%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 161 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 104 (20.12%) Finance
3 68 (13.15%) Manufacturing
4 49 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 47 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (7.93%) Billing
7 17 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.51%) Retail
9 12 (2.32%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.74%) Banking
11 8 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.35%) German Language
13 6 (1.16%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.16%) Automotive
13 6 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.77%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.77%) Legal
15 3 (0.58%) French Language
15 3 (0.58%) Law
15 3 (0.58%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.86%) SAP Fiori
2 36 (6.96%) SAP TM
3 29 (5.61%) BAPI
4 24 (4.64%) Web Services
5 17 (3.29%) SAP PI
6 15 (2.90%) IDoc
7 14 (2.71%) SAP Basis
8 10 (1.93%) SOAP
9 9 (1.74%) EDI
9 9 (1.74%) XML
10 8 (1.55%) SAP ALE
11 6 (1.16%) SAP Business Workflow
12 5 (0.97%) Middleware
13 4 (0.77%) SAPUI5
14 3 (0.58%) OLE
15 2 (0.39%) REST
16 1 (0.19%) JDBC
16 1 (0.19%) JMS
16 1 (0.19%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
1 15 (2.90%) Replication
2 10 (1.93%) Onboarding
3 9 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (1.35%) Public Cloud
5 5 (0.97%) Life Science
6 4 (0.77%) Data Structures
6 4 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.58%) FMCG
7 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (0.58%) Tandem
7 3 (0.58%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.39%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.19%) IoT
9 1 (0.19%) LIMS
9 1 (0.19%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.97%) VMS
2 4 (0.77%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (16.05%) Workshop Facilitation
2 74 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 72 (13.93%) Migration
4 62 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (10.64%) User Acceptance Testing
6 54 (10.44%) ERP
7 53 (10.25%) Logistics
8 46 (8.90%) Time Management
9 45 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 43 (8.32%) Data Migration
11 40 (7.74%) Validation
12 31 (6.00%) Project Management
12 31 (6.00%) Translating Business Requirements
13 30 (5.80%) Production Planning
14 28 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (5.42%) GAP Analysis
15 27 (5.22%) Knowledge Transfer
16 26 (5.03%) Inventory Management
16 26 (5.03%) Requirements Gathering
17 25 (4.84%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 67 (12.96%) ABAP
2 14 (2.71%) Groovy
2 14 (2.71%) JavaScript
3 3 (0.58%) SQL
4 2 (0.39%) Java
5 1 (0.19%) ActionScript
5 1 (0.19%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 119 (23.02%) Security Cleared
2 99 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (2.71%) SAP Certification
5 7 (1.35%) Degree
5 7 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.39%) AAT
6 2 (0.39%) ACCA
6 2 (0.39%) CIMA
7 1 (0.19%) CCA
7 1 (0.19%) CISM
7 1 (0.19%) CISSP
7 1 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.29%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.16%) GRC
3 5 (0.97%) GDPR
3 5 (0.97%) QA
4 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.39%) IFRS
4 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.39%) PMO
4 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.19%) GxP
5 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) IAG
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 517 (100.00%) SAP
2 39 (7.54%) Ariba
3 14 (2.71%) Adobe
4 13 (2.51%) Sage
5 9 (1.74%) OpenText
6 8 (1.55%) Microsoft
6 8 (1.55%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.77%) Computacenter
8 3 (0.58%) Concur
8 3 (0.58%) Oracle
9 2 (0.39%) IFS
9 2 (0.39%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.39%) Workday
10 1 (0.19%) Databricks
10 1 (0.19%) Dell
10 1 (0.19%) Google
10 1 (0.19%) LabVantage
10 1 (0.19%) Planon
10 1 (0.19%) SEEBURGER