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 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 519 480
Rank change year-on-year -96 -39 +95
Contract jobs citing SAP ERP 68 39 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.76% 1.39% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 52
10th Percentile £446 £350 £444
25th Percentile £505 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £678 £688 £638
90th Percentile £850 £750 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £600 £601
% change year-on-year -11.46% -0.21% +4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £23.89 - -
25th Percentile £27.20 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.36
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £41.73 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.36

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 3,859 2,807 2,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.17% 8.56% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,160 1,605 1,617
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £458 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £660 £686
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 54 85
10th Percentile £17.01 £14.76 £23.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.25 £35.36
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% -21.16% -15.62%
75th Percentile £71.91 £62.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.80 £74.25 £65.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £44.24 £45.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -1.69% -20.34%

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 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP ERP over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP ERP in the UK

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 August 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 -93 52 £638 +6.25% 39
UK excluding London -91 30 £531 -11.46% 32
London -69 22 £675 +5.47% 14
Work from Home -50 18 £570 -9.60% 23
Midlands -39 12 £472 -8.37% 8
North of England -61 10 £550 -17.91% 2
North West -44 8 £534 -23.20% 2
East Midlands - 7 £650 - 4
West Midlands -44 5 £446 -13.35% 4
South East -70 4 £581 +66.07% 5
East of England -25 2 - - 8
Yorkshire -37 2 £550 -17.91%
South West - 2 £550 - 4

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 1 (1.47%) CMS
1 1 (1.47%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 33 (48.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (10.29%) iTrent
3 3 (4.41%) SAP FI
3 3 (4.41%) SAP HR
3 3 (4.41%) SAP PSCD
3 3 (4.41%) SAP SD
4 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.94%) SAP CO
4 2 (2.94%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (2.94%) SAP MRS
4 2 (2.94%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.47%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (1.47%) SAP EWM
5 1 (1.47%) SAP IBP
5 1 (1.47%) SAP MDG
5 1 (1.47%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (1.47%) SAP MII
5 1 (1.47%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (1.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.88%) Azure
1 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
1 4 (5.88%) SaaS
1 4 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (4.41%) AWS
3 2 (2.94%) WhatsApp
4 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.47%) Boomi
4 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.47%) GCP
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.71%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (5.88%) SAP BW
2 4 (5.88%) SAP Data Services
3 3 (4.41%) Power BI
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.47%) GIS
5 1 (1.47%) Looker
5 1 (1.47%) MySQL
5 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Hudson
2 1 (1.47%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) LSMW
General
1 28 (41.18%) Finance
2 23 (33.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Manufacturing
4 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.35%) Automotive
6 5 (7.35%) Legal
7 4 (5.88%) Billing
7 4 (5.88%) Local Government
8 3 (4.41%) General Ledger
8 3 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (4.41%) Retail
8 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.94%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.94%) Banking
9 2 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Consultant
2 15 (22.06%) Analyst
3 13 (19.12%) SAP Consultant
4 12 (17.65%) Architect
5 9 (13.24%) SAP Architect
6 8 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (10.29%) Business Analyst
7 7 (10.29%) ERP Architect
7 7 (10.29%) SAP Analyst
8 6 (8.82%) Lead
8 6 (8.82%) SAP Manager
8 6 (8.82%) SAP Solutions Architect
9 5 (7.35%) Senior
10 4 (5.88%) Data Migration Specialist
10 4 (5.88%) ERP Specialist
10 4 (5.88%) Logistics Analyst
10 4 (5.88%) Migration Specialist
10 4 (5.88%) SAP BusinessObjects Specialist
10 4 (5.88%) SAP Data Migration Specialist
10 4 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) Middleware
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
2 2 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (2.94%) XML
3 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.47%) IDoc
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) SAP ALE
3 1 (1.47%) SOAP
3 1 (1.47%) Web Services
3 1 (1.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.88%) FMCG
2 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.94%) IoT
4 2 (2.94%) Replication
5 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.47%) Life Science
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
1 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) ERP
2 25 (36.76%) Migration
3 20 (29.41%) Data Migration
3 20 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (22.06%) Logistics
5 10 (14.71%) Validation
6 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.76%) Analytics
7 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (10.29%) CRM
8 7 (10.29%) Data Cleansing
8 7 (10.29%) Data Extraction
9 6 (8.82%) Agile
9 6 (8.82%) GAP Analysis
9 6 (8.82%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (8.82%) Requirements Workshops
9 6 (8.82%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.82%) Test Automation
9 6 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.88%) ABAP
2 2 (2.94%) C#
2 2 (2.94%) Java
2 2 (2.94%) Python
2 2 (2.94%) SQL
3 1 (1.47%) C++
3 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.41%) CCA
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) HNC
4 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.47%) PMP
4 1 (1.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) PMO
2 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 68 (100.00%) SAP
2 9 (13.24%) Ariba
3 6 (8.82%) Oracle
4 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.41%) Concur
6 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.47%) Conga
7 1 (1.47%) ESRI
7 1 (1.47%) Infor
7 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.47%) Planon
7 1 (1.47%) Planview
7 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.47%) webMethods
7 1 (1.47%) Workday