SAP Retail Contract Job Trends

SAP for Retail (IS-Retail)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SAP Retail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 514 581
Rank change year-on-year -120 +67 +86
Contract jobs citing SAP Retail 9 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.034% 0.042%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.26% 0.41% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £654 £440 -
25th Percentile £716 £511 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £820 £523 £300
Median % change year-on-year +56.94% +74.17% -62.50%
75th Percentile £879 £629 -
90th Percentile £914 £670 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £300
% change year-on-year - - -60.00%

All Business Application Skills
UK

SAP Retail 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 3,492 2,449 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.03% 8.37% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,972 1,377 1,841
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -2.23% +2.29% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 58 123
10th Percentile £24.76 £19.49 £14.71
25th Percentile £34.01 £32.85 £21.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £71.91 £74.38 £57.33
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.00 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -23.81%

SAP Retail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAP Retail job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP Retail
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SAP Retail
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Retail over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Retail in the UK

SAP Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SAP Retail
Top 5 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 Retail within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 -122 9 £820 +32.47% 2
London -72 7 £775 +25.20% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

SAP Retail
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 4 (44.44%) SAP MDG
1 4 (44.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (11.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (11.11%) SAP CAR
2 1 (11.11%) SAP CRM
2 1 (11.11%) SAP FI-AP
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
2 1 (11.11%) SAP MM
2 1 (11.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) RFID
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (100.00%) Retail
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) Functional Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) SAP Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) SAP Functional Consultant
2 3 (33.33%) SAP Retail Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Master Data Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Data Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Financial Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Master Data Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) IDoc
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Dependency Management
2 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Kanban
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) OpenText
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle