SAP Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends

SAP Solution Architect
UK

The median SAP Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 480 520
Rank change year-on-year -50 +40 +233
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Solutions Architect 52 63 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 35
10th Percentile £625 £525 £500
25th Percentile £656 £556 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £560
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +16.07% -20.00%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £675
90th Percentile £841 £800 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.55 - -
Median hourly rate £83.82 - -
75th Percentile £90.09 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.82 - -

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 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

SAP Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SAP Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SAP Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAP Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAP Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK

SAP Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Solutions Architect in the UK

SAP Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAP Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAP Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK

SAP Solutions Architect
Top 11 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 Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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 -38 40 £700 +7.69% 17
London -1 20 £700 -6.67% 10
UK excluding London -43 20 £700 +7.69% 9
Work from Home -13 8 £875 +34.62% 4
South East -12 6 - - 1
North of England -48 6 £663 +1.92% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £663 - 4
Midlands -29 5 £700 +27.27%
West Midlands -23 4 £700 -
South West - 3 £700 - 4
East Midlands - 1 - -

SAP Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, SAP Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SAP Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) SAP
2 42 (80.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (36.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (26.92%) Enterprise Architecture
5 12 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
6 11 (21.15%) Azure
6 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
7 10 (19.23%) Ariba
7 10 (19.23%) Migration
7 10 (19.23%) Roadmaps
7 10 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (13.46%) Business Strategy
8 7 (13.46%) Data Migration
8 7 (13.46%) SAP Certification
8 7 (13.46%) SAP EWM
8 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
8 7 (13.46%) TOGAF
9 6 (11.54%) Architecture Roadmap
9 6 (11.54%) AWS
9 6 (11.54%) SAP PM
9 6 (11.54%) SAP PP
9 6 (11.54%) SAP QM
9 6 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
10 5 (9.62%) Agile
10 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.62%) GAP Analysis
10 5 (9.62%) Integration Patterns
10 5 (9.62%) Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (9.62%) Requirements Gathering

SAP Solutions Architect Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 42 (80.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (13.46%) SAP EWM
3 6 (11.54%) SAP PM
3 6 (11.54%) SAP PP
3 6 (11.54%) SAP QM
4 5 (9.62%) SAP CO
5 4 (7.69%) SAP ERP
5 4 (7.69%) SAP FI
5 4 (7.69%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (5.77%) SAP Retail
6 3 (5.77%) SAP WM
7 2 (3.85%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (3.85%) SAP BRIM
7 2 (3.85%) SAP MDG
7 2 (3.85%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (1.92%) SAP BPC
8 1 (1.92%) SAP Business One
8 1 (1.92%) SAP CRM
8 1 (1.92%) SAP FS
8 1 (1.92%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.77%) SaaS
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub
5 1 (1.92%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) SAP BW
2 3 (5.77%) Power BI
3 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.85%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) GitLab
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 9 (17.31%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Retail
7 2 (3.85%) Banking
7 2 (3.85%) Billing
7 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.92%) Local Government
8 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (3.85%) BAPI
2 2 (3.85%) Middleware
2 2 (3.85%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.92%) IDoc
3 1 (1.92%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) Node.js
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) SAP XI
3 1 (1.92%) SAPUI5
3 1 (1.92%) SOAP
3 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) FMCG
2 4 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Life Science
4 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (26.92%) Enterprise Architecture
3 12 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 12 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
4 10 (19.23%) Migration
4 10 (19.23%) Roadmaps
4 10 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (13.46%) Business Strategy
5 7 (13.46%) Data Migration
5 7 (13.46%) TOGAF
6 6 (11.54%) Architecture Roadmap
6 6 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (9.62%) Agile
7 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (9.62%) GAP Analysis
7 5 (9.62%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (9.62%) Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (9.62%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (7.69%) EAM
8 4 (7.69%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) ABAP
2 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SAP Certification
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.85%) BC Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) GDPR
1 2 (3.85%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Ansible
1 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (100.00%) SAP
2 10 (19.23%) Ariba
3 4 (7.69%) Concur
3 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.77%) IBM
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.92%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.92%) Citrix
6 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.92%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.92%) Workday
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