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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 465 565
Rank change year-on-year -52 +100 +155
Contract jobs citing SAP ERP 51 95 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.76% 3.45% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 57 44
10th Percentile £350 £400 £363
25th Percentile £513 £475 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -6.09% -7.26%
75th Percentile £738 £625 £728
90th Percentile £815 £638 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £589 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.83% +4.35% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.04
Median hourly rate - £35.36 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year - -42.77% -
75th Percentile - - £80.02
90th Percentile - - £90.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.36 £61.79
% change year-on-year - -42.77% -

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 2,898 2,756 3,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 7.35% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,654 1,470 2,051
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £665 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +2.38% -1.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 85
10th Percentile £13.40 £30.00 £28.25
25th Percentile £24.49 £35.18 £49.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -24.77% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.63 £61.60 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.90 £68.00 £90.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.16 £41.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.29% -26.54% +41.23%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 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 -36 39 £660 +22.22% 25
Work from Home +13 21 £660 +10.00% 10
UK excluding London -35 21 £589 -1.83% 16
London -9 15 £675 +29.81% 10
Midlands -23 8 £634 +17.36% 1
South East +16 7 £350 -37.22% 10
North of England -28 6 £670 +34.00% 3
East Midlands -8 4 £825 +37.50% 1
North West -21 4 £695 +39.00% 1
West Midlands -26 4 £515 -4.63%
Yorkshire -26 2 £670 +34.00% 2
East of England - 1 £675 - 2
Wales - 1 £325 -

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 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.96%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (41.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (3.92%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (3.92%) Primavera
3 2 (3.92%) SAP PLM
3 2 (3.92%) Teamcenter
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.96%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.80%) SaaS
2 4 (7.84%) Azure
2 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.84%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (3.92%) Azure API Management
3 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.96%) AWS
4 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.96%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Power BI
1 4 (7.84%) SAP BW
2 2 (3.92%) GIS
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) EDMS
3 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.96%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (47.06%) Finance
2 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
3 12 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 10 (19.61%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.84%) General Ledger
5 4 (7.84%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (7.84%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Local Government
7 2 (3.92%) Billing
8 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.96%) Automotive
8 1 (1.96%) French Language
8 1 (1.96%) German Language
8 1 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (1.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Architect
1 9 (17.65%) SAP Manager
2 7 (13.73%) Consultant
2 7 (13.73%) Project Manager
2 7 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (11.76%) Programme Manager
3 6 (11.76%) SAP Architect
3 6 (11.76%) SAP Programme Manager
4 5 (9.80%) SAP Consultant
4 5 (9.80%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Accountant
5 4 (7.84%) Developer
5 4 (7.84%) ERP Manager
5 4 (7.84%) SAP BW Consultant
5 4 (7.84%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Systems Accountant
6 3 (5.88%) ERP Architect
6 3 (5.88%) ERP Project Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Lead
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) jQuery
1 3 (5.88%) XML
1 3 (5.88%) XSL
2 2 (3.92%) Middleware
2 2 (3.92%) Web Services
3 1 (1.96%) Kafka
3 1 (1.96%) REST
3 1 (1.96%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) Life Science
4 1 (1.96%) LIMS
4 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
1 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) ERP
2 10 (19.61%) CRM
2 10 (19.61%) Programme Governance
3 9 (17.65%) Project Management
3 9 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (15.69%) Agile
4 8 (15.69%) Migration
5 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (11.76%) Analytics
6 6 (11.76%) Change Management
6 6 (11.76%) Data Migration
6 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.80%) Risk Management
7 5 (9.80%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (7.84%) Data Modelling
8 4 (7.84%) Logistics
8 4 (7.84%) Matrix Organization
8 4 (7.84%) Revenue Management
8 4 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (7.84%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) SQL
2 4 (7.84%) ABAP
2 4 (7.84%) Java
3 3 (5.88%) C#
3 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.96%) Groovy
4 1 (1.96%) Python
4 1 (1.96%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) Degree
3 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) CCA
5 3 (5.88%) PMI Certification
5 3 (5.88%) PMP
6 2 (3.92%) ACCA
6 2 (3.92%) CIMA
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (3.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.92%) PMO
4 1 (1.96%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) SAP
2 11 (21.57%) Oracle
3 6 (11.76%) Ariba
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.92%) Concur
5 2 (3.92%) ESRI
6 1 (1.96%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) HP
6 1 (1.96%) LabVantage
6 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.96%) Siemens