SAP HANA Contract Job Trends

SAP HANA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SAP HANA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 425 472
Rank change year-on-year -102 +47 +112
Contract jobs citing SAP HANA 82 92 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.26% 1.62% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 58
10th Percentile £455 £425 £409
25th Percentile £600 £480 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +38.00% -13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £716 £600 £650
90th Percentile £798 £664 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £703 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +40.50% -10.71% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £60.61 £33.59 -
25th Percentile £62.75 £54.59 -
Median hourly rate £80.50 £68.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.09% - -
75th Percentile £86.00 £71.88 -
90th Percentile £86.82 £75.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £84.16 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +24.68% - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

SAP HANA falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,529 5,677 7,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.45% 18.44% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,490 3,766 5,186
10th Percentile £337 £353 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 88 176
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.95
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.07 £21.48
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.97% -9.87% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.79 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.20 £71.13 £77.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £30.11 £40.25
% change year-on-year +82.20% -25.20% -29.21%

SAP HANA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAP HANA job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP HANA
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SAP HANA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP HANA over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP HANA in the UK

SAP HANA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SAP HANA
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP HANA over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP HANA in the UK

SAP HANA
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 HANA within the UK over the 6 months to 11 February 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 -74 60 £703 +40.50% 14
UK excluding London -76 34 £703 +40.50% 13
Work from Home -27 27 £713 +42.50% 12
London -39 22 £713 +43.22% 4
North of England -57 16 £705 +41.00% 3
North West -26 14 £705 +41.00% 3
South East -31 9 £700 -
Midlands -62 5 £675 +14.21% 5
East of England -20 3 £568 +26.17% 1
West Midlands -48 3 £675 - 4
Yorkshire -56 2 £575 -
South West -26 1 - -
East Midlands -30 1 - - 1

SAP HANA
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 6 (7.32%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.22%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.22%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 41 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (8.54%) SAP Payroll
3 6 (7.32%) SAP HCM
4 4 (4.88%) SAP EWM
4 4 (4.88%) SAP GRC
5 3 (3.66%) SAP BPC
5 3 (3.66%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (2.44%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (2.44%) SAP FI
6 2 (2.44%) SAP FS
6 2 (2.44%) SAP MDG
7 1 (1.22%) NetSuite
7 1 (1.22%) Sage X3
7 1 (1.22%) SAP CO
7 1 (1.22%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (1.22%) SAP HR
7 1 (1.22%) SAP MM
7 1 (1.22%) SAP PS
7 1 (1.22%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.41%) Azure
2 6 (7.32%) AWS
2 6 (7.32%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.10%) GCP
4 3 (3.66%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (2.44%) GitHub
6 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) FTP
2 1 (1.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.29%) SAP BW
2 6 (7.32%) Power BI
3 3 (3.66%) DB2
3 3 (3.66%) Metadata
4 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (1.22%) MaxDB
5 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Git
2 5 (6.10%) GitLab
3 3 (3.66%) JIRA
4 1 (1.22%) JUnit
4 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.07%) Finance
4 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Retail
8 2 (2.44%) Aviation
9 1 (1.22%) Billing
9 1 (1.22%) Danish Language
9 1 (1.22%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Local Government
9 1 (1.22%) Norwegian Language
9 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (52.44%) Consultant
2 37 (45.12%) SAP Consultant
3 19 (23.17%) Developer
4 16 (19.51%) SAP Developer
5 12 (14.63%) ABAP Developer
6 9 (10.98%) ABAP Consultant
7 7 (8.54%) Development Consultant
7 7 (8.54%) Functional Consultant
7 7 (8.54%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 6 (7.32%) Senior
9 5 (6.10%) Architect
9 5 (6.10%) Lead
9 5 (6.10%) SAP Technical Consultant
9 5 (6.10%) Technical Consultant
10 4 (4.88%) SAP Architect
10 4 (4.88%) SAP EWM Consultant
11 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.66%) SAP Basis Consultant
11 3 (3.66%) SAPUI5 Developer
11 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (36.59%) SAP Fiori
2 20 (24.39%) Web Services
3 17 (20.73%) BAPI
4 13 (15.85%) SAPUI5
5 9 (10.98%) REST
6 6 (7.32%) SAP Basis
7 5 (6.10%) SAP Smart Forms
8 4 (4.88%) IDoc
9 3 (3.66%) Apache Avro
9 3 (3.66%) Kafka
9 3 (3.66%) Node.js
10 2 (2.44%) OpenUI5
10 2 (2.44%) RESTful
11 1 (1.22%) Akka
11 1 (1.22%) Flask
11 1 (1.22%) NumPy
11 1 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (1.22%) Pandas
11 1 (1.22%) React
11 1 (1.22%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.88%) Clustering
1 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.66%) Life Science
2 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.44%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.44%) FMCG
3 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Linux
2 5 (6.10%) Windows
3 4 (4.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.44%) SUSE
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.95%) Performance Tuning
2 15 (18.29%) Analytics
3 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (14.63%) Data Modelling
5 11 (13.41%) Process Improvement
5 11 (13.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (10.98%) Data Integration
6 9 (10.98%) ERP
7 8 (9.76%) Migration
7 8 (9.76%) Project Management
7 8 (9.76%) SAP Implementation
8 7 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (8.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (8.54%) Time Management
9 6 (7.32%) Agile
9 6 (7.32%) Integration Testing
9 6 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (7.32%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.78%) ABAP
2 5 (6.10%) Java
2 5 (6.10%) SQL
3 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.44%) Python
5 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (30.49%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.54%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.88%) Degree
5 2 (2.44%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.22%) CISM
6 1 (1.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) GRC
2 3 (3.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (3.66%) SLA
3 2 (2.44%) GDPR
3 2 (2.44%) GxP
3 2 (2.44%) QA
4 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (2.44%) Linux-HA
1 2 (2.44%) Pacemaker
2 1 (1.22%) Grafana
2 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 82 (100.00%) SAP
2 13 (15.85%) Adobe
3 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.44%) Informatica
4 2 (2.44%) OpenText
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle
4 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.22%) Ariba
5 1 (1.22%) BT
5 1 (1.22%) Concur
5 1 (1.22%) Databricks
5 1 (1.22%) Google
5 1 (1.22%) HP
5 1 (1.22%) IFS
5 1 (1.22%) Infor
5 1 (1.22%) Sage
5 1 (1.22%) Workday