SAP ERP Contract Job Trends

SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SAP ERP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 471 529
Rank change year-on-year -52 +58 +122
Contract jobs citing SAP ERP 64 66 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.06% 2.73% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 45 26
10th Percentile £397 £363 £381
25th Percentile £500 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £731 £638 £634
90th Percentile £750 £686 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £13.05
75th Percentile - - £50.17
90th Percentile - - £62.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £13.05

All Business Application Skills
UK

SAP ERP falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,113 2,417 3,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.24% 7.62% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,797 1,277 1,901
10th Percentile £360 £375 £375
25th Percentile £454 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £668 £664 £675
90th Percentile £758 £764 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 54 109
10th Percentile £20.00 £22.27 £17.85
25th Percentile £33.75 £30.43 £27.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.18 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -16.04% +35.30%
75th Percentile £78.25 £76.64 £62.50
90th Percentile £90.09 £86.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £52.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +7.62% -2.33% +44.10%

SAP ERP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAP ERP job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP ERP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SAP ERP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP ERP over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP ERP in the UK

SAP ERP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SAP ERP
Top 13 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 ERP within the UK over the 6 months to 22 January 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 48 £650 +10.64% 18
UK excluding London -72 34 £550 -8.33% 17
Work from Home +5 29 £670 +11.67% 11
South East -23 15 £589 -12.74% 7
London -27 11 £675 +25.58% 5
Midlands -49 11 £515 -4.63% 5
North of England -58 8 £550 +10.00% 3
West Midlands -45 7 £515 -4.63% 3
Yorkshire -47 6 £595 +36.00% 1
East Midlands -21 4 £825 +37.50% 2
North West -30 2 £450 -10.00% 1
South West -21 1 - -
Wales - 1 £325 - 2

SAP ERP
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 (4.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) Apache
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.56%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 32 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (7.81%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (4.69%) SAP PP
4 2 (3.13%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (3.13%) Primavera
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (3.13%) SAP MDG
4 2 (3.13%) Temenos T24
5 1 (1.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.38%) Azure
2 4 (6.25%) AWS
2 4 (6.25%) SaaS
2 4 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.13%) Azure API Management
4 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) SAP BW
2 3 (4.69%) Power BI
3 2 (3.13%) GIS
3 2 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) EDMS
4 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) LSMW
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.56%) Postman
3 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 37 (57.81%) Social Skills
2 27 (42.19%) Finance
3 14 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (14.06%) Manufacturing
6 6 (9.38%) Local Government
7 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (6.25%) General Ledger
7 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.13%) Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) SAP Manager
2 10 (15.63%) Project Manager
3 8 (12.50%) Consultant
4 7 (10.94%) Architect
4 7 (10.94%) Designer
4 7 (10.94%) Lead
4 7 (10.94%) Senior
4 7 (10.94%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (10.94%) Solutions Designer
5 6 (9.38%) Programme Manager
5 6 (9.38%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (9.38%) SAP Programme Manager
6 5 (7.81%) Analyst
6 5 (7.81%) ERP Manager
6 5 (7.81%) ERP Project Manager
6 5 (7.81%) SAP Project Manager
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Manager
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (6.25%) Change Manager
7 4 (6.25%) SAP BW Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Web Services
2 2 (3.13%) jQuery
2 2 (3.13%) XML
2 2 (3.13%) XSL
3 1 (1.56%) ADO
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) Middleware
3 1 (1.56%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) FMCG
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
1 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) ERP
2 22 (34.38%) Migration
3 15 (23.44%) Workshop Facilitation
4 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (20.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (15.63%) CRM
6 10 (15.63%) Data Migration
6 10 (15.63%) Project Delivery
7 9 (14.06%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (14.06%) SAP Implementation
8 8 (12.50%) Change Management
8 8 (12.50%) Programme Governance
9 6 (9.38%) Validation
10 5 (7.81%) Agile
10 5 (7.81%) Analytics
10 5 (7.81%) Project Management
10 5 (7.81%) Risk Assessment
11 4 (6.25%) Accounts Payable
11 4 (6.25%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) SQL
2 4 (6.25%) ABAP
3 2 (3.13%) C#
3 2 (3.13%) Java
3 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.56%) Python
4 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Degree
2 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
3 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.81%) SAP Certification
5 4 (6.25%) CCA
6 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.25%) PMO
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) GxP
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) SAP
2 8 (12.50%) Sage
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.81%) Oracle
4 3 (4.69%) Ariba
5 2 (3.13%) ESRI
5 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.13%) Temenos
6 1 (1.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) Workday