SAP Consultant Contract Job Trends

SAP Consultant
UK

The median SAP Consultant daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 166 153
Rank change year-on-year -19 -13 +99
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Consultant 563 552 750
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 1.55% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 1.67% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 258 289
10th Percentile £455 £434 £450
25th Percentile £510 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £688 £669 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £582 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% +10.86% -9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £46.38 £55.83 £61.04
25th Percentile £59.88 £59.99 £62.51
Median hourly rate £70.50 £71.62 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +13.17% -6.93%
75th Percentile £83.94 £84.34 £67.75
90th Percentile £89.38 £106.88 £84.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.50 £65.77 £63.29
% change year-on-year +7.19% +3.92% -4.83%

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 32,727 33,118 42,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.81% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,756 20,117 28,647
10th Percentile £284 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £724 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,905 1,179 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.32 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.63 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +44.26%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -28 416 £580 +0.87% 43
Work from Home +20 244 £555 -3.48% 30
UK excluding London -48 223 £600 +3.09% 35
London +13 149 £555 +5.71% 14
North of England +4 89 £675 +12.50% 3
North West +28 80 £703 +17.08% 2
South East -45 62 £525 -9.95% 18
Midlands -56 35 £575 - 6
East of England -9 29 £525 +16.67%
West Midlands -33 26 £575 +6.48% 2
South West +2 9 £600 -5.91% 7
East Midlands -40 8 £545 -5.22% 4
Yorkshire -30 7 £600 +6.67% 1
North East -9 2 £575 -4.17%
Scotland - 1 £538 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 563 (100.00%) SAP
2 313 (55.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 170 (30.20%) Security Cleared
4 137 (24.33%) SC Cleared
5 79 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 77 (13.68%) Logistics
7 76 (13.50%) SAP Fiori
8 74 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (12.79%) ABAP
10 70 (12.43%) Workshop Facilitation
11 66 (11.72%) Migration
12 55 (9.77%) SAP FI
13 50 (8.88%) Data Migration
14 49 (8.70%) SAP MM
14 49 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 48 (8.53%) SAP HCM
16 47 (8.35%) Analytics
17 46 (8.17%) ERP
17 46 (8.17%) Validation
18 45 (7.99%) SuccessFactors
18 45 (7.99%) User Acceptance Testing
19 44 (7.82%) Ariba
19 44 (7.82%) BPSS Clearance
20 42 (7.46%) Production Planning
21 41 (7.28%) SAP EWM
22 40 (7.10%) SAP HANA
22 40 (7.10%) Translating Business Requirements
23 38 (6.75%) SAP CO
24 37 (6.57%) SAP PP
25 35 (6.22%) SAP FI/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 (0.71%) 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 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 313 (55.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 55 (9.77%) SAP FI
3 49 (8.70%) SAP MM
4 48 (8.53%) SAP HCM
5 41 (7.28%) SAP EWM
6 38 (6.75%) SAP CO
7 37 (6.57%) SAP PP
8 35 (6.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 32 (5.68%) SAP Payroll
10 31 (5.51%) SAP WM
11 24 (4.26%) SAP QM
12 23 (4.09%) SAP SD
13 22 (3.91%) SAP VC
14 20 (3.55%) SAP HR
14 20 (3.55%) SAP PSCD
15 18 (3.20%) SAP PS
16 16 (2.84%) SAP MDG
17 14 (2.49%) SAP Hybris
18 13 (2.31%) SAP BRIM
19 11 (1.95%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 45 (7.99%) SuccessFactors
2 14 (2.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 12 (2.13%) Azure
4 6 (1.07%) Power Platform
4 6 (1.07%) SaaS
5 4 (0.71%) GCP
6 3 (0.53%) AWS
6 3 (0.53%) Snowflake
6 3 (0.53%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.36%) iPaaS
7 2 (0.36%) SAP Fieldglass
8 1 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.18%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.18%) IaaS
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.18%) OCI
8 1 (0.18%) PaaS
8 1 (0.18%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.18%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) HTTP
1 1 (0.18%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.10%) SAP HANA
2 17 (3.02%) SAP BW
3 12 (2.13%) SAP Data Services
4 9 (1.60%) Metadata
5 6 (1.07%) Power BI
6 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.71%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.36%) DB2
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 (1.60%) JIRA
2 7 (1.24%) LSMW
3 3 (0.53%) Git
4 2 (0.36%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 168 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 109 (19.36%) Finance
3 83 (14.74%) Manufacturing
4 45 (7.99%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (6.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 29 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (4.97%) Billing
9 17 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.49%) Retail
11 9 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.42%) Automotive
12 8 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.07%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.71%) Banking
14 4 (0.71%) German Language
14 4 (0.71%) Legal
15 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Law
16 2 (0.36%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.50%) SAP Fiori
2 25 (4.44%) BAPI
3 21 (3.73%) Web Services
4 18 (3.20%) SAP Basis
4 18 (3.20%) SAP PI
5 17 (3.02%) SAP TM
6 15 (2.66%) IDoc
7 13 (2.31%) SOAP
8 12 (2.13%) EDI
8 12 (2.13%) SAP ALE
9 11 (1.95%) XML
10 7 (1.24%) REST
11 6 (1.07%) Middleware
11 6 (1.07%) SAP Business Workflow
12 4 (0.71%) JSON
12 4 (0.71%) SAPUI5
13 2 (0.36%) HTML
13 2 (0.36%) HTML5
13 2 (0.36%) SAP Core Interface
14 1 (0.18%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (2.66%) Onboarding
3 13 (2.31%) Replication
4 10 (1.78%) Life Science
5 8 (1.42%) Private Cloud
6 7 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.07%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.71%) LIMS
8 4 (0.71%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.71%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 3 (0.53%) FMCG
9 3 (0.53%) PACS
9 3 (0.53%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.53%) Tandem
10 2 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.36%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.18%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.18%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.07%) Linux
2 4 (0.71%) Windows
3 3 (0.53%) Unix
4 2 (0.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 77 (13.68%) Logistics
3 74 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (12.43%) Workshop Facilitation
5 66 (11.72%) Migration
6 50 (8.88%) Data Migration
7 49 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 47 (8.35%) Analytics
9 46 (8.17%) ERP
9 46 (8.17%) Validation
10 45 (7.99%) User Acceptance Testing
11 42 (7.46%) Production Planning
12 40 (7.10%) Translating Business Requirements
13 33 (5.86%) Time Management
14 31 (5.51%) Knowledge Transfer
14 31 (5.51%) Requirements Gathering
15 30 (5.33%) Process Improvement
16 28 (4.97%) Quality Management
17 27 (4.80%) Mentoring
18 25 (4.44%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 72 (12.79%) ABAP
2 17 (3.02%) JavaScript
3 13 (2.31%) Groovy
4 6 (1.07%) Java
5 4 (0.71%) SQL
6 2 (0.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 170 (30.20%) Security Cleared
2 137 (24.33%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (4.97%) Degree
5 27 (4.80%) SAP Certification
6 13 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.95%) ACCA
7 11 (1.95%) CIMA
8 5 (0.89%) CCA
9 4 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.36%) CISA
10 2 (0.36%) CISM
10 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.60%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.42%) QA
3 6 (1.07%) GRC
3 6 (1.07%) GxP
4 5 (0.89%) GDPR
5 4 (0.71%) IFRS
5 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (0.53%) GMP
7 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
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
Systems Management
1 1 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 563 (100.00%) SAP
2 44 (7.82%) Ariba
3 12 (2.13%) Adobe
4 11 (1.95%) OpenText
5 10 (1.78%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.60%) Oracle
7 8 (1.42%) Microsoft
8 7 (1.24%) Workday
9 5 (0.89%) Concur
10 4 (0.71%) Computacenter
11 3 (0.53%) Google
11 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.36%) IFS
12 2 (0.36%) TOWER Software
13 1 (0.18%) Alteryx
13 1 (0.18%) Databricks
13 1 (0.18%) HP
13 1 (0.18%) Kronos
13 1 (0.18%) RightFax