SAP IBP Contracts

SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SAP IBP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP IBP over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 576 664
Rank change year-on-year +84 +88 +155
Contract jobs citing SAP IBP 27 24 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.055% 0.082%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.12% 0.74% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 26
10th Percentile £416 - £494
25th Percentile £425 £325 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £635
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -29.13% +0.63%
75th Percentile £730 £475 £808
90th Percentile £760 - £811
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £811
% change year-on-year - -44.51% +28.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

SAP IBP 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 2,403 3,240 3,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.22% 7.43% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,893 2,192
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £527
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.38% +0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 110 56
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £21.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £21.25 £29.21
Median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £59.82 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £45.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -8.16% +108.29%

SAP IBP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAP IBP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP IBP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP IBP.

Daily rate trend for SAP IBP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP IBP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP IBP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP IBP.

Hourly rate trend for SAP IBP in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP IBP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +63 18 £450 - 17
Work from Home +51 16 £600 +33.33% 11
London +41 10 £600 +33.33% 8
UK excluding London +52 8 £450 - 7
South East +43 4 - - 3
East of England +33 4 £450 +28.57%

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Notion
1 2 (7.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (37.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.41%) SAP EWM
2 2 (7.41%) SAP PP
3 1 (3.70%) Demantra
3 1 (3.70%) SAP APO
3 1 (3.70%) SAP GTS
3 1 (3.70%) SAP MM
3 1 (3.70%) SAP SCM
3 1 (3.70%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) AWS
1 2 (7.41%) Azure
1 2 (7.41%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) SAP BW
2 6 (22.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Consultant
2 13 (48.15%) SAP Consultant
3 5 (18.52%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 4 (14.81%) Lead
4 4 (14.81%) Project Manager
4 4 (14.81%) SAP Manager
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) SAP Project Manager
6 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Product Lead
6 2 (7.41%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Senior SAP Project Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Supply Chain Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) SAP Basis
1 6 (22.22%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) e-Learning
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
1 6 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
1 6 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (22.22%) Problem Management
1 6 (22.22%) SAP Security
2 5 (18.52%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (18.52%) Project Management
3 4 (14.81%) Business Transformation
3 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (11.11%) Agile
4 3 (11.11%) Analytics
4 3 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (11.11%) Quality Management
5 2 (7.41%) Data Migration
5 2 (7.41%) Demand Management
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) ERP
5 2 (7.41%) Migration
5 2 (7.41%) Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (7.41%) Regression Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) ABAP
1 1 (3.70%) Bash
1 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) PMO
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (3.70%) Anaplan
2 1 (3.70%) Ariba
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Salesforce