SAP Data Services Contract Job Trends

SAP Data Services (SAP BODS, SAP DS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SAP Data Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 506 578
Rank change year-on-year -47 +72 +168
Contract jobs citing SAP Data Services 29 37 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.10% 0.066%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.46% 0.58% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 19
10th Percentile £371 £508 £473
25th Percentile £446 £563 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £634 £608 £620
90th Percentile £678 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £582 £588
% change year-on-year -1.20% -0.94% +11.90%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SAP Data Services falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,318 6,430 7,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.41% 18.01% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 4,251 5,359
10th Percentile £326 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 86 144
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.25 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £21.57
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%
75th Percentile £67.13 £55.25 £64.65
90th Percentile £83.95 £65.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +79.49% -40.45% +2.99%

SAP Data Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP Data Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SAP Data Services job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP Data Services
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP Data Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP Data Services

SAP Data Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Data Services over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Data Services in the UK

SAP Data Services
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP Data Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP Data Services

SAP Data Services
Top 8 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 Data Services within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
Work from Home +3 18 £538 -9.05%
England -52 18 £591 +1.90% 3
UK excluding London -41 13 £575 -1.20% 3
South East -16 9 £591 +1.50% 1
London -15 5 £625 +8.32% 1
North West -13 3 £465 +16.25% 1
North of England -38 3 £465 +16.25% 1
East of England - 1 £575 -

SAP Data Services
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 3 (10.34%) NetWeaver
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (75.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (24.14%) SAP MDG
3 3 (10.34%) SAP MDG-F
3 3 (10.34%) SAP MDG-M
3 3 (10.34%) SAP MDG-S
3 3 (10.34%) SAP PP
4 2 (6.90%) SAP ERP
5 1 (3.45%) SAP FI
5 1 (3.45%) SAP MM
5 1 (3.45%) SAP PS
5 1 (3.45%) SAP SCM
5 1 (3.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) dbt
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.45%) SaaS
2 1 (3.45%) Smartsheet
2 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (13.79%) SAP BW
2 4 (13.79%) SAP HANA
3 2 (6.90%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) Metadata
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau Desktop
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau Server
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) Flink
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
4 1 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) LSMW
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Consultant
2 12 (41.38%) SAP Consultant
3 9 (31.03%) Lead
4 8 (27.59%) Data Consultant
5 6 (20.69%) Migration Consultant
5 6 (20.69%) SAP Data Consultant
5 6 (20.69%) SAP Migration Consultant
6 5 (17.24%) Data Migration Consultant
6 5 (17.24%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
7 3 (10.34%) Lead Consultant
8 2 (6.90%) Administrator
8 2 (6.90%) Analytics Consultant
8 2 (6.90%) Cloud Consultant
8 2 (6.90%) Data Migration Expert
8 2 (6.90%) Data Migration Lead
8 2 (6.90%) SAP Administrator
8 2 (6.90%) SAP Data Migration Lead
9 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 1 (3.45%) SAP Basis Consultant
9 1 (3.45%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Web Services
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Basis
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Migration
2 15 (51.72%) Validation
3 12 (41.38%) Data Migration
4 9 (31.03%) Data Cleansing
5 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
5 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (24.14%) Data Validation
7 6 (20.69%) Data Governance
7 6 (20.69%) ETL
8 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (13.79%) Agile
9 4 (13.79%) Analytics
9 4 (13.79%) Workshop Facilitation
10 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (10.34%) High Availability
10 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
10 3 (10.34%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) Java
3 3 (10.34%) ABAP
3 3 (10.34%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) GxP
2 2 (6.90%) PMO
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Ariba
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft