SAP Architect Contracts

SAP Architect
UK

The median SAP Architect daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 521 706
Rank change year-on-year +61 +185 -142
Contract jobs requiring an SAP Architect 122 192 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.32% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.34% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 103 82
10th Percentile £500 £538 £550
25th Percentile £550 £600 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £678 £676
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +0.30% +13.14%
75th Percentile £694 £800 £790
90th Percentile £784 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £678 £650
% change year-on-year -5.97% +4.31% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £76.53
25th Percentile - £72.50 £78.81
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £82.75
Median % change year-on-year - -9.37% +10.33%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £86.81
90th Percentile - - £89.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

SAP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP Architect in the UK

SAP Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP Architect.

Daily rate trend for SAP Architect in the UK

SAP Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP Architect over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAP Architect in the UK

SAP Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP Architect.

Hourly rate trend for SAP Architect in the UK

SAP Architect
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 75 £645 -4.87% 33
Work from Home +74 59 £575 -15.19% 15
UK excluding London +20 35 £638 -5.97% 7
London +74 32 £650 -7.14% 17
East of England - 10 £675 -
South West - 8 £638 -
North of England +36 5 £575 -24.59% 4
Midlands +24 5 £525 -17.65%
South East -24 5 £625 -7.82% 3
West Midlands +26 4 £488 -25.00%
North West +21 3 - - 3
Yorkshire +20 2 £575 -30.30%
Wales +15 2 - -
East Midlands +8 2 £600 +4.35%

SAP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, SAP 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 Architect in the job title.

1 122 (100.00%) SAP
2 83 (68.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 31 (25.41%) Security Cleared
4 30 (24.59%) Social Skills
4 30 (24.59%) Finance
5 27 (22.13%) SC Cleared
6 24 (19.67%) Roadmaps
7 23 (18.85%) ERP
8 20 (16.39%) Ariba
9 17 (13.93%) Logistics
10 16 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (13.11%) SAP HANA
11 14 (11.48%) Manufacturing
12 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (9.02%) SAP SD
14 10 (8.20%) Migration
14 10 (8.20%) SAP ERP
14 10 (8.20%) Strategic Roadmap
15 9 (7.38%) Cloud Native
15 9 (7.38%) SAP Implementation
15 9 (7.38%) Agile
16 8 (6.56%) SAP Certification
16 8 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
17 7 (5.74%) SuccessFactors
17 7 (5.74%) Workshop Facilitation
17 7 (5.74%) Project Management
17 7 (5.74%) SAP FI
17 7 (5.74%) SAP MM
17 7 (5.74%) SAP CO

SAP 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 2 (1.64%) NetWeaver
2 1 (0.82%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.82%) CMS
2 1 (0.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 83 (68.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (9.02%) SAP SD
3 10 (8.20%) SAP ERP
4 7 (5.74%) SAP CO
4 7 (5.74%) SAP FI
4 7 (5.74%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (5.74%) SAP MM
5 6 (4.92%) SAP EWM
6 5 (4.10%) SAP BPC
7 3 (2.46%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 3 (2.46%) SAP HCM
7 3 (2.46%) SAP MDG
7 3 (2.46%) SAP PP
8 2 (1.64%) SAP HR
8 2 (1.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (1.64%) SAP PS
8 2 (1.64%) SAP QM
8 2 (1.64%) SAP Travel Management
9 1 (0.82%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.82%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.74%) SuccessFactors
2 6 (4.92%) Azure
3 3 (2.46%) AWS
3 3 (2.46%) SaaS
4 2 (1.64%) GCP
4 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.64%) SAP Fieldglass
5 1 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.82%) IaaS
5 1 (0.82%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.11%) SAP HANA
2 4 (3.28%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.46%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.82%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.82%) Power BI
4 1 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Eclipse
1 1 (0.82%) ER Studio
1 1 (0.82%) JIRA
General
1 30 (24.59%) Finance
1 30 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.48%) Manufacturing
3 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.10%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (3.28%) French Language
5 4 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Retail
6 3 (2.46%) Back Office
6 3 (2.46%) Billing
6 3 (2.46%) Marketing
6 3 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.64%) Publishing
7 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.82%) Electronics
8 1 (0.82%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.82%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.10%) SAP TM
2 2 (1.64%) Middleware
2 2 (1.64%) Node.js
2 2 (1.64%) REST
2 2 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.64%) Web Services
3 1 (0.82%) Ajax
3 1 (0.82%) IDoc
3 1 (0.82%) J2EE
3 1 (0.82%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.82%) SAP PI
3 1 (0.82%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.82%) SOAP
3 1 (0.82%) Spring
3 1 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.38%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.46%) FMCG
3 3 (2.46%) IoT
3 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.64%) Blog
4 2 (1.64%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.82%) LIMS
5 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.64%) VMS
2 1 (0.82%) Linux
2 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (19.67%) Roadmaps
2 23 (18.85%) ERP
3 17 (13.93%) Logistics
4 16 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (8.20%) Migration
6 10 (8.20%) Strategic Roadmap
7 9 (7.38%) Agile
7 9 (7.38%) SAP Implementation
8 7 (5.74%) Data Integration
8 7 (5.74%) Project Management
8 7 (5.74%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (4.92%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (4.92%) GAP Analysis
9 6 (4.92%) Knowledge Transfer
9 6 (4.92%) Scrum
9 6 (4.92%) Waterfall
10 5 (4.10%) Data Modelling
10 5 (4.10%) Integration Patterns
10 5 (4.10%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.10%) ABAP
2 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.82%) Bash
3 1 (0.82%) Go
3 1 (0.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.56%) SAP Certification
4 6 (4.92%) Degree
5 4 (3.28%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.82%) ACCA
8 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.82%) CAPM
8 1 (0.82%) CIMA
8 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.64%) QA
2 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.82%) GDPR
2 1 (0.82%) GRC
2 1 (0.82%) GxP
2 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 122 (100.00%) SAP
2 20 (16.39%) Ariba
3 2 (1.64%) Concur
3 2 (1.64%) OpenText
4 1 (0.82%) Anaplan
4 1 (0.82%) Google
4 1 (0.82%) Hyperion
4 1 (0.82%) LabWare
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle
4 1 (0.82%) Remedy
4 1 (0.82%) Splunk