SAP S/4HANA Architect Contracts

SAP S/4HANA Architect
UK

The median SAP S/4HANA Architect daily rate in the UK is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 557 695
Rank change year-on-year +56 +138 +138
Contract jobs requiring an SAP S/4HANA Architect 19 25 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.057% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.062% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 16
10th Percentile £543 £650 £613
25th Percentile £600 £656 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £750 £775
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -3.23% +14.81%
75th Percentile £738 £875 £822
90th Percentile £783 £960 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £700 £775
% change year-on-year -12.50% -9.68% -13.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

SAP S/4HANA Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SAP S/4HANA Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP S/4HANA Architect in the UK

SAP S/4HANA Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP S/4HANA Architect.

Daily rate trend for SAP S/4HANA Architect in the UK

SAP S/4HANA Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP S/4HANA Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP S/4HANA Architect in the UK

SAP S/4HANA Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP S/4HANA Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +54 11 £625 -12.28% 6
Work from Home +41 11 £725 -7.20% 4
London +36 6 £775 -8.82% 1
UK excluding London +61 4 £613 -12.50% 4
East of England +29 2 £638 -8.93%
North of England +19 2 £600 - 2
North West +18 2 £600 - 2
South East +46 1 £625 - 2

SAP S/4HANA Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SAP S/4HANA Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SAP S/4HANA Architect in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (84.21%) SAP
3 6 (31.58%) Finance
4 4 (21.05%) Life Science
4 4 (21.05%) TOGAF
4 4 (21.05%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
4 4 (21.05%) Migration
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) ERP
5 3 (15.79%) Ariba
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
5 3 (15.79%) FMCG
6 2 (10.53%) Azure
6 2 (10.53%) Banking
6 2 (10.53%) Data Management
6 2 (10.53%) Use Case
6 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (10.53%) SAP HANA
6 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
6 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid

SAP S/4HANA Architect Skill Set
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 1 (5.26%) MTS
Business Applications
1 19 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.26%) SAP ERP
2 1 (5.26%) SAP FSCM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
2 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) SAP BW
2 1 (5.26%) SAP Data Services
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
2 4 (21.05%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) BAPI
1 1 (5.26%) IDoc
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) OpenID
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
1 1 (5.26%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (5.26%) SAP PI
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
1 1 (5.26%) XML
1 1 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Life Science
2 3 (15.79%) FMCG
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) EPoS
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Migration
1 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (21.05%) TOGAF
2 3 (15.79%) Agile
2 3 (15.79%) Analytics
2 3 (15.79%) ERP
3 2 (10.53%) Data Management
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
3 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (10.53%) Use Case
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.26%) Data Architecture
4 1 (5.26%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.26%) Logistics
4 1 (5.26%) Ontologies
4 1 (5.26%) PLM
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) ABAP
1 1 (5.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CISM
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) SAP
2 3 (15.79%) Ariba
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow