SAP Engineer Contracts

SAP Engineer
UK

The median SAP Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 578 701
Rank change year-on-year +80 +123 +129
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Engineer 22 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.009% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.010% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 16
10th Percentile £427 - £513
25th Percentile £450 - £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 - £588
90th Percentile £679 - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £558 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

SAP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SAP Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP Engineer in the UK

SAP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP Engineer.

Daily rate trend for SAP Engineer in the UK

SAP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Engineer in the UK

SAP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for SAP Engineer in the UK

SAP Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +67 14 £600 - 19
Work from Home +53 13 £575 - 19
UK excluding London +70 8 £558 - 13
London +41 5 £605 - 9
East of England - 4 £650 - 1
South West +46 1 £465 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £400 - 8
Midlands - 1 - -
South East - 1 £450 - 5

SAP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SAP Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SAP Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) SAP
2 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 6 (27.27%) ABAP
4 6 (27.27%) Finance
5 5 (22.73%) ERP
5 5 (22.73%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Banking
5 5 (22.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (22.73%) User Stories
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (18.18%) SAP EWM
6 4 (18.18%) Degree
6 4 (18.18%) Ariba
6 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
7 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.64%) Automotive
7 3 (13.64%) Project Management
7 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
7 3 (13.64%) Python
7 3 (13.64%) SAP ERP
7 3 (13.64%) Data Management
7 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) SAP GTS
7 3 (13.64%) Terraform
7 3 (13.64%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree

SAP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (18.18%) SAP EWM
3 3 (13.64%) SAP ERP
3 3 (13.64%) SAP GTS
4 2 (9.09%) SAP MM
5 1 (4.55%) SAP BPC
5 1 (4.55%) SAP CAR
5 1 (4.55%) SAP HCM
5 1 (4.55%) SAP PM
5 1 (4.55%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
1 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
1 2 (9.09%) SAP Fieldglass
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
1 2 (9.09%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) IDMS
2 1 (4.55%) OLTP
2 1 (4.55%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Automotive
6 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
6 2 (9.09%) Retail
7 1 (4.55%) Billing
7 1 (4.55%) Danish Language
7 1 (4.55%) General Ledger
7 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.55%) Node.js
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Basis
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (4.55%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) SUSE
1 2 (9.09%) VMS
2 1 (4.55%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) Agile
2 5 (22.73%) ERP
2 5 (22.73%) User Stories
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
4 3 (13.64%) Data Management
4 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.64%) Project Management
4 3 (13.64%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) AOP
5 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 2 (9.09%) Epics
5 2 (9.09%) GitOps
5 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (9.09%) WFM
5 2 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) ABAP
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Argo
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) SAP
2 4 (18.18%) Ariba
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) HP