SAP Engineer Contract Job Trends

SAP Engineer
UK

The median SAP Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 534 594
Rank change year-on-year -43 +60 +216
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Engineer 9 15 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.042% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.045% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
10th Percentile £388 £420 £593
25th Percentile £406 £479 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £644
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -2.91% +17.85%
75th Percentile £475 £697 £673
90th Percentile £535 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £644
% change year-on-year -3.23% -27.77% +21.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.56
25th Percentile - - £23.32
Median hourly rate - - £25.54
75th Percentile - - £26.88
90th Percentile - - £27.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £25.54

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 33,203 33,385 41,795
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.79% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,069 20,333 28,157
10th Percentile £285 £300 £292
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 £723 £738 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,921 1,159 1,498
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.46 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.75 £19.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +44.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SAP Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SAP Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAP Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAP Engineer job vacancies in the UK

SAP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Engineer over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Engineer in the UK

SAP Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAP Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAP Engineer job vacancies in the UK

SAP Engineer
Top 9 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 -31 8 £450 -28.00% 10
UK excluding London -39 7 £450 -3.23% 9
Work from Home +3 6 £450 -23.40%
North of England -40 3 £450 +12.50%
North West - 3 £450 -
South West -5 2 £450 -3.23%
West Midlands - 2 £425 -
Midlands - 2 £425 -
London -10 1 £450 -35.71% 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, SAP Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) SAP
2 5 (55.56%) ERP
2 5 (55.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) ABAP
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Axway
4 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 3 (33.33%) Data Validation
4 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) ETL Development
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (33.33%) Power BI
4 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) SAP BW
4 3 (33.33%) SAP HANA
4 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) SQL

SAP Engineer 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 (22.22%) NetWeaver
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 5 (55.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
1 3 (33.33%) SAP BW
1 3 (33.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ERP
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 3 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) ETL Development
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Business Case
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) DMAIC
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) ABAP
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubeflow
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (33.33%) Axway
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft