SAP Contract Job Trends

SAP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,615 2,052 2,612
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.01% 6.42% 6.06%
As % of the Vendors category 12.17% 13.50% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,309 1,003 1,334
10th Percentile £360 £379 £395
25th Percentile £456 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £652 £675 £688
90th Percentile £740 £750 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £548 £575
% change year-on-year -2.65% -4.78% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 107 134
10th Percentile £16.72 £16.92 £13.90
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £18.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% -37.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.25 £54.06
90th Percentile £85.15 £80.50 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £28.94 £26.02
% change year-on-year +3.66% +11.24% -42.19%

All Vendors
UK

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,481 15,195 18,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.17% 47.56% 43.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,367 9,316 11,552
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 719 1,147
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.23 £17.33 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.18
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.41% -22.00%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAP job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Top 18 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 8 July 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 -13 2,070 £563 -1.23% 555
UK excluding London -8 1,291 £533 -2.65% 359
Work from Home -2 817 £550 -5.34% 497
London -27 754 £600 - 230
Midlands +6 342 £525 -3.05% 84
South East -11 336 £540 +0.56% 102
North of England -16 308 £525 -0.94% 92
West Midlands -2 213 £500 -7.66% 50
North West -11 201 £525 -0.94% 64
East of England -1 169 £510 -14.64% 35
East Midlands +26 119 £600 +17.65% 34
Yorkshire +10 102 £525 +2.44% 22
South West -34 77 £600 +14.29% 24
Scotland -3 35 £533 -11.17% 9
Wales +6 33 £550 +77.28% 15
North East -45 4 £500 -6.54% 7
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +3 2 £488 +73.49% 6

SAP
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 35 (1.34%) Confluence
2 28 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.88%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.50%) CMS
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 5 (0.19%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.076%) Apache
10 2 (0.076%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.076%) JBoss
10 2 (0.076%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.076%) SAS
11 1 (0.038%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.038%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.038%) LiveCycle
11 1 (0.038%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.038%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 126 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.38%) CATIA
8 5 (0.19%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.11%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.038%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,049 (40.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 114 (4.36%) SAP FI
3 67 (2.56%) SAP ERP
4 66 (2.52%) SAP MM
4 66 (2.52%) SAP SD
5 65 (2.49%) SAP CO
6 62 (2.37%) SAP PSCD
7 60 (2.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 53 (2.03%) SAP EWM
9 49 (1.87%) SAP BRIM
10 40 (1.53%) SAP IBP
10 40 (1.53%) SAP PM
11 37 (1.41%) SAP Payroll
11 37 (1.41%) SAP PP
12 36 (1.38%) SAP GRC
13 33 (1.26%) SAP FI-CA
14 32 (1.22%) SAP HCM
14 32 (1.22%) SAP MDG
15 31 (1.19%) SAP QM
16 24 (0.92%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 244 (9.33%) SuccessFactors
2 226 (8.64%) Azure
3 131 (5.01%) Power Platform
4 85 (3.25%) AWS
5 74 (2.83%) SaaS
6 59 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.45%) Boomi
7 38 (1.45%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.22%) GCP
9 26 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (0.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 21 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (0.76%) Power Automate
12 20 (0.76%) Snowflake
13 18 (0.69%) GitHub
14 15 (0.57%) PowerApps
14 15 (0.57%) Smartsheet
15 14 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.38%) Network Security
2 7 (0.27%) Firewall
3 5 (0.19%) VPN
3 5 (0.19%) WAN
4 3 (0.11%) DNS
4 3 (0.11%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.076%) BGP
5 2 (0.076%) HTTP
5 2 (0.076%) LAN
5 2 (0.076%) OSPF
5 2 (0.076%) RFID
6 1 (0.038%) FTP
6 1 (0.038%) Internet
6 1 (0.038%) Intranet
6 1 (0.038%) MQTT
6 1 (0.038%) SSL
6 1 (0.038%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.038%) Wireless
6 1 (0.038%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (4.55%) Power BI
2 93 (3.56%) SAP HANA
3 42 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
5 40 (1.53%) SAP BW
5 40 (1.53%) SQL Server
6 36 (1.38%) Tableau
7 29 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
8 17 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 17 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (0.42%) GIS
10 11 (0.42%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.42%) Sybase ASE
11 10 (0.38%) MaxDB
11 10 (0.38%) Metadata
12 8 (0.31%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.27%) NoSQL
14 6 (0.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 100 (3.82%) JIRA
2 24 (0.92%) Hudson
3 21 (0.80%) Git
4 8 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.31%) Postman
5 6 (0.23%) LSMW
6 4 (0.15%) JMeter
6 4 (0.15%) Selenium
7 3 (0.11%) GitLab
7 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.076%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.076%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.076%) Maven
8 2 (0.076%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.076%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.076%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.076%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.076%) Toad
9 1 (0.038%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.038%) TestDirector
General
1 833 (31.85%) Finance
2 695 (26.58%) Social Skills
3 279 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (10.63%) Manufacturing
5 174 (6.65%) Public Sector
6 112 (4.28%) Billing
7 92 (3.52%) Retail
8 89 (3.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 86 (3.29%) Legal
10 63 (2.41%) Aerospace
11 59 (2.26%) Banking
12 50 (1.91%) General Ledger
13 47 (1.80%) Local Government
14 46 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
15 45 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 33 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
18 26 (0.99%) Law
19 23 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 21 (0.80%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 640 (24.47%) Consultant
2 555 (21.22%) SAP Consultant
3 341 (13.04%) Architect
4 319 (12.20%) Lead
5 303 (11.59%) Analyst
6 229 (8.76%) Senior
7 181 (6.92%) SAP Manager
8 180 (6.88%) SAP Architect
9 176 (6.73%) Project Manager
10 163 (6.23%) Solutions Architect
11 134 (5.12%) Business Analyst
12 112 (4.28%) Developer
13 91 (3.48%) SAP Analyst
14 89 (3.40%) Functional Consultant
15 87 (3.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
16 85 (3.25%) SAP Project Manager
17 84 (3.21%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 76 (2.91%) Administrator
19 65 (2.49%) Senior Manager
20 56 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (4.70%) SAP Fiori
2 99 (3.79%) Middleware
3 69 (2.64%) REST
4 51 (1.95%) SAP Basis
5 48 (1.84%) SOAP
6 46 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
7 43 (1.64%) BAPI
8 39 (1.49%) IDoc
9 35 (1.34%) SAPUI5
10 28 (1.07%) JSON
10 28 (1.07%) SAP PI
11 27 (1.03%) XML
12 25 (0.96%) SAP TM
13 23 (0.88%) EDI
13 23 (0.88%) Web Services
14 21 (0.80%) OAuth
15 15 (0.57%) Node.js
15 15 (0.57%) SAP ALE
16 13 (0.50%) JDBC
17 12 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (3.67%) Public Cloud
2 78 (2.98%) Onboarding
3 72 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 69 (2.64%) Data Structures
5 53 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 51 (1.95%) FMCG
7 46 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 32 (1.22%) Cloud Native
11 27 (1.03%) Life Science
12 25 (0.96%) Replication
13 23 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (0.73%) Taxonomies
16 18 (0.69%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.65%) AI Agents
18 16 (0.61%) SCADA
19 15 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.53%) Linux
2 32 (1.22%) Windows
3 19 (0.73%) Unix
4 9 (0.34%) VMS
5 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.31%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.076%) AIX
8 2 (0.076%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (23.40%) ERP
2 538 (20.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 487 (18.62%) Migration
4 341 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 298 (11.40%) Data Migration
6 294 (11.24%) User Acceptance Testing
7 272 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 268 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 255 (9.75%) Agile
10 246 (9.41%) Validation
11 214 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
12 208 (7.95%) Analytics
13 198 (7.57%) Logistics
14 193 (7.38%) Project Management
15 172 (6.58%) Change Management
16 153 (5.85%) Decision-Making
17 150 (5.74%) Business Intelligence
18 149 (5.70%) Data Modelling
19 139 (5.32%) Roadmaps
20 134 (5.12%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 124 (4.74%) SQL
2 112 (4.28%) ABAP
3 54 (2.07%) Python
4 38 (1.45%) Java
5 18 (0.69%) PowerShell
6 16 (0.61%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.31%) C#
8 6 (0.23%) Bash
8 6 (0.23%) Bicep
8 6 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.15%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.15%) C
10 4 (0.15%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.15%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.15%) VB
11 3 (0.11%) C++
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.076%) VBA
Qualifications
1 371 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 293 (11.20%) SC Cleared
3 147 (5.62%) Degree
4 117 (4.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (1.68%) ACCA
6 43 (1.64%) CIMA
7 42 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.49%) PMP
9 38 (1.45%) PMI Certification
10 32 (1.22%) SAP Certification
11 17 (0.65%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.42%) HNC
14 11 (0.42%) NVQ Level 4
15 9 (0.34%) CISSP
16 8 (0.31%) CISM
16 8 (0.31%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 6 (0.23%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 99 (3.79%) PMO
3 97 (3.71%) QA
4 62 (2.37%) GDPR
5 55 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (1.45%) GRC
7 17 (0.65%) IFRS
8 16 (0.61%) SLA
9 12 (0.46%) GxP
10 11 (0.42%) GMP
11 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.31%) NCSC
12 7 (0.27%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.27%) GAAP
13 6 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.23%) NIST
14 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.19%) ITGC
15 4 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 25 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.54%) IAG
3 7 (0.27%) Docker
4 6 (0.23%) Corosync
5 1 (0.038%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (0.65%) Terraform
3 12 (0.46%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.27%) Pacemaker
5 6 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.15%) Ansible
7 3 (0.11%) Grafana
8 2 (0.076%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.076%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.038%) MOM
9 1 (0.038%) Packer
9 1 (0.038%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.038%) WSUS
Vendors
1 260 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 253 (9.67%) Ariba
3 231 (8.83%) Oracle
4 96 (3.67%) Salesforce
5 84 (3.21%) Workday
6 75 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.53%) MuleSoft
8 37 (1.41%) Informatica
9 36 (1.38%) Databricks
10 34 (1.30%) Adobe
11 32 (1.22%) Concur
12 31 (1.19%) Sage
13 26 (0.99%) IBM
14 22 (0.84%) Siemens
15 20 (0.76%) IFS
16 17 (0.65%) Infor
17 16 (0.61%) Dell
17 16 (0.61%) Google
17 16 (0.61%) Red Hat
18 13 (0.50%) OpenText