SAP PM Contract Job Trends

SAP Plant Maintenance (PM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SAP PM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 538 604
Rank change year-on-year -11 +66 +190
Contract jobs citing SAP PM 19 21 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.055% 0.095%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.66% 0.74% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 23
10th Percentile £630 £313 £528
25th Percentile £638 £530 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £670 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +11.67% +2.39%
75th Percentile £700 £671 £713
90th Percentile £715 £686 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £680 £600
% change year-on-year -0.74% +13.33% +1.18%

All Business Application Skills
UK

SAP PM 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 2,867 2,826 3,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 7.34% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,632 1,526 1,981
10th Percentile £360 £351 £358
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £775 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +0.47% +2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 80 68
10th Percentile £14.17 £24.95 £22.06
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.27 £46.75
Median hourly rate £36.48 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £64.06
90th Percentile £77.00 £66.15 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.48 £45.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +5.50% -20.34% +61.40%

SAP PM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP PM in the UK

SAP PM
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SAP PM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SAP PM
Top 9 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 PM within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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 +24 18 £650 -3.70% 7
UK excluding London +6 15 £675 -0.74% 8
Midlands - 11 £700 - 2
West Midlands - 11 £700 - 2
Work from Home +25 5 - - 4
London +22 3 £650 - 1
South East - 3 - - 4
North of England -15 1 £650 -4.41%
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -

SAP PM
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (31.58%) SAP HR
2 4 (21.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (5.26%) SAP MDG
3 1 (5.26%) SAP MM
3 1 (5.26%) SAP MRS
3 1 (5.26%) SAP PP
3 1 (5.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (31.58%) Collibra
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (26.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (31.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (31.58%) Delta Lake
2 6 (31.58%) GIS
3 5 (26.32%) Oracle Database
4 3 (15.79%) Power BI
5 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.26%) Data Hub
6 1 (5.26%) SAP BW
6 1 (5.26%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (5.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) LSMW
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.26%) Aviation
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Salesforce Architect
3 6 (31.58%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (21.05%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Data Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (15.79%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (15.79%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 2 (10.53%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) SAP Manager
6 2 (10.53%) SAP PM Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) SAP Project Manager
7 1 (5.26%) ABAP Consultant
7 1 (5.26%) SAP PP Consultant
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Lightning Web Components
1 7 (36.84%) Visualforce
2 6 (31.58%) Kafka
2 6 (31.58%) SAP PI
3 4 (21.05%) GraphQL
4 2 (10.53%) BAPI
4 2 (10.53%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
5 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) IoT
2 6 (31.58%) SCADA
3 5 (26.32%) Product Ownership
4 4 (21.05%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Migration
2 12 (63.16%) Data Migration
2 12 (63.16%) ETL
3 10 (52.63%) Agile
3 10 (52.63%) Data Modelling
4 8 (42.11%) Scrum
5 7 (36.84%) Data Governance
6 6 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (31.58%) Data Mapping
6 6 (31.58%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (31.58%) Validation
7 5 (26.32%) Analytics
7 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (26.32%) Machine Learning
7 5 (26.32%) Use Case
8 4 (21.05%) DevOps
8 4 (21.05%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (21.05%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Apex Code
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Bicep
4 2 (10.53%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (26.32%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.26%) PMO
4 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) SAP
2 7 (36.84%) Salesforce
3 6 (31.58%) Databricks
3 6 (31.58%) Informatica
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
4 5 (26.32%) Oracle