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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 527 570
Rank change year-on-year -10 +43 +215
Contract jobs citing SAP PM 26 24 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.066% 0.13%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.87% 0.90% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 24
10th Percentile £465 £313 £513
25th Percentile £488 £557 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £671 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% +11.75% +2.39%
75th Percentile £626 £682 £713
90th Percentile £690 £698 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £680 £600
% change year-on-year -24.24% +13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £82.68
25th Percentile - - £83.31
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £86.75
90th Percentile - - £90.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 2,979 2,679 3,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 7.33% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 1,435 2,066
10th Percentile £357 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £660 £667 £668
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 66 86
10th Percentile £14.58 £27.70 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £40.49 £40.91 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% -27.58% +25.53%
75th Percentile £77.50 £61.60 £80.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £79.75 £90.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £40.33 £56.49
% change year-on-year +3.79% -28.62% +41.23%

SAP PM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAP PM job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP PM over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP PM in the UK

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 10 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 2 November 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 -3 20 £588 -13.60% 9
UK excluding London -10 19 £515 -24.24% 6
Midlands - 11 £700 -
West Midlands - 11 £700 -
Work from Home +3 8 £525 -12.50% 5
London +8 4 £525 -27.59% 5
South East - 4 - - 6
Wales - 3 £501 -
North of England -36 1 £650 -4.41%
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -

SAP PM
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) SAP HR
1 6 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.85%) SAP MM
2 1 (3.85%) SAP MRS
2 1 (3.85%) SAP PP
2 1 (3.85%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (23.08%) Collibra
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (19.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (23.08%) Delta Lake
2 6 (23.08%) GIS
3 5 (19.23%) Oracle Database
4 3 (11.54%) Power BI
5 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Salesforce Architect
3 6 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (15.38%) ABAP Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 4 (15.38%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) SAP Developer
4 4 (15.38%) SAP PM Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Data Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (11.54%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (11.54%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 3 (11.54%) SAP Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Lightning Web Components
1 7 (26.92%) Visualforce
2 6 (23.08%) Kafka
2 6 (23.08%) SAP PI
3 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 2 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (3.85%) BAPI
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
5 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) IoT
2 6 (23.08%) SCADA
3 5 (19.23%) Product Ownership
4 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) ETL
1 11 (42.31%) Migration
2 10 (38.46%) Agile
2 10 (38.46%) Data Migration
2 10 (38.46%) Data Modelling
3 8 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
3 8 (30.77%) Scrum
4 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (23.08%) AI
5 6 (23.08%) Asset Management
5 6 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 6 (23.08%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (23.08%) Validation
6 5 (19.23%) Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) Data Mapping
6 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Project Management
6 5 (19.23%) Use Case
7 4 (15.38%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Apex Code
2 6 (23.08%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (23.08%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) ABAP
4 3 (11.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
1 5 (19.23%) GDPR
2 3 (11.54%) QA
3 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) SAP
2 7 (26.92%) Salesforce
3 6 (23.08%) Databricks
3 6 (23.08%) Informatica
3 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 5 (19.23%) Oracle
5 4 (15.38%) Adobe
6 1 (3.85%) Ariba