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 18 June 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
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,510 1,958 2,559
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.98% 6.58% 5.83%
As % of the Vendors category 12.21% 13.82% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 974 1,262
10th Percentile £360 £380 £382
25th Percentile £460 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £687
90th Percentile £750 £751 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 80 142
10th Percentile £16.72 £18.20 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.85 £16.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £50.49 £26.35
Median % change year-on-year -35.63% +91.66% -41.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £54.06
90th Percentile £85.20 £86.00 £65.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.38 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -39.25% +102.84% -45.22%

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 20,549 14,166 18,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.77% 47.59% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,890 8,715 11,489
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,053 653 1,156
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.87 £12.19
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% +5.23% -44.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £58.90
90th Percentile £80.04 £69.47 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.13% +2.22% -43.75%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 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 -12 2,000 £560 -2.61% 588
UK excluding London -8 1,228 £525 -3.67% 410
Work from Home -1 787 £550 -5.40% 248
London -22 752 £600 - 239
South East -9 313 £540 +0.56% 133
Midlands +1 307 £545 -0.14% 84
North of England -11 302 £500 -5.66% 120
North West -4 197 £475 -10.38% 68
West Midlands -6 183 £513 -6.82% 62
East of England +1 164 £505 -15.83% 28
East Midlands +20 114 £588 +17.50% 22
Yorkshire 0 99 £525 +32.49% 45
South West -27 76 £543 +3.33% 22
Scotland +5 36 £533 -11.17% 12
Wales +10 35 £550 +21.41% 10
North East -43 6 £500 -5.66% 9
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -1 2 £488 +73.49% 11

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 32 (1.27%) Confluence
2 29 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.92%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.52%) CMS
5 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 5 (0.20%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.080%) Apache
10 2 (0.080%) JBoss
10 2 (0.080%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.040%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.040%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.040%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.040%) SAS
Applications
1 129 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.40%) CATIA
8 5 (0.20%) PTC Creo
8 5 (0.20%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.040%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,008 (40.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (4.26%) SAP FI
3 66 (2.63%) SAP ERP
4 65 (2.59%) SAP CO
5 63 (2.51%) SAP FI/CO
6 59 (2.35%) SAP MM
7 55 (2.19%) SAP SD
8 53 (2.11%) SAP EWM
9 52 (2.07%) SAP PSCD
10 48 (1.91%) SAP BRIM
11 40 (1.59%) SAP PM
12 37 (1.47%) SAP IBP
13 34 (1.35%) SAP GRC
14 31 (1.24%) SAP PP
15 30 (1.20%) SAP HCM
15 30 (1.20%) SAP Payroll
15 30 (1.20%) SAP Travel Management
16 29 (1.16%) SAP FI-CA
16 29 (1.16%) SAP MDG
17 24 (0.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 233 (9.28%) SuccessFactors
2 216 (8.61%) Azure
3 119 (4.74%) Power Platform
4 80 (3.19%) AWS
5 74 (2.95%) SaaS
6 50 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (1.55%) Entra ID
8 37 (1.47%) Boomi
9 27 (1.08%) GCP
10 21 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (0.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 20 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (0.76%) Power Automate
12 19 (0.76%) Snowflake
13 17 (0.68%) OCI
14 14 (0.56%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.56%) Smartsheet
15 13 (0.52%) GitHub
15 13 (0.52%) PaaS
16 12 (0.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.40%) Network Security
2 7 (0.28%) Firewall
3 6 (0.24%) VPN
3 6 (0.24%) WAN
4 4 (0.16%) RFID
5 3 (0.12%) LAN
5 3 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.080%) BGP
6 2 (0.080%) DNS
6 2 (0.080%) HTTP
6 2 (0.080%) OSPF
6 2 (0.080%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.040%) DHCP
7 1 (0.040%) FTP
7 1 (0.040%) Internet
7 1 (0.040%) Intranet
7 1 (0.040%) MQTT
7 1 (0.040%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.040%) Wireless
7 1 (0.040%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (4.46%) Power BI
2 91 (3.63%) SAP HANA
3 45 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (1.55%) SQL Server
5 36 (1.43%) SAP BW
6 34 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
7 28 (1.12%) Tableau
8 22 (0.88%) SAP Data Services
9 20 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.56%) Metadata
12 11 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
13 10 (0.40%) GIS
13 10 (0.40%) MaxDB
13 10 (0.40%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.28%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.24%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.24%) Semantic Layer
16 5 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 97 (3.86%) JIRA
2 24 (0.96%) Hudson
3 18 (0.72%) Git
4 7 (0.28%) Postman
5 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.20%) LSMW
6 4 (0.16%) JMeter
6 4 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.12%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.080%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.080%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.080%) Maven
8 2 (0.080%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.080%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.080%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.080%) Toad
9 1 (0.040%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.040%) Subversion
9 1 (0.040%) TestDirector
General
1 821 (32.71%) Finance
2 686 (27.33%) Social Skills
3 273 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (10.16%) Manufacturing
5 170 (6.77%) Public Sector
6 103 (4.10%) Billing
7 87 (3.47%) Legal
7 87 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
8 84 (3.35%) Retail
9 66 (2.63%) Banking
10 58 (2.31%) Aerospace
11 55 (2.19%) General Ledger
12 48 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (1.75%) Local Government
15 41 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
16 37 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.04%) Law
18 24 (0.96%) Marketing
19 22 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 608 (24.22%) Consultant
2 524 (20.88%) SAP Consultant
3 324 (12.91%) Lead
4 320 (12.75%) Architect
5 278 (11.08%) Analyst
6 215 (8.57%) Senior
7 177 (7.05%) Project Manager
8 170 (6.77%) SAP Architect
9 166 (6.61%) SAP Manager
10 157 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
11 127 (5.06%) Business Analyst
12 98 (3.90%) Developer
13 86 (3.43%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 83 (3.31%) Functional Consultant
15 81 (3.23%) SAP Project Manager
16 78 (3.11%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 77 (3.07%) Administrator
18 71 (2.83%) SAP Analyst
19 63 (2.51%) Senior Manager
20 59 (2.35%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (4.26%) SAP Fiori
2 90 (3.59%) Middleware
3 55 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
3 55 (2.19%) REST
4 53 (2.11%) SAP Basis
5 38 (1.51%) BAPI
6 35 (1.39%) SOAP
7 32 (1.27%) XML
8 30 (1.20%) SAP TM
9 29 (1.16%) SAPUI5
10 28 (1.12%) IDoc
11 27 (1.08%) JSON
12 25 (1.00%) EDI
13 24 (0.96%) Web Services
14 21 (0.84%) OAuth
15 15 (0.60%) SAP PI
16 13 (0.52%) SAML
17 12 (0.48%) Node.js
17 12 (0.48%) SAP ALE
18 11 (0.44%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (3.71%) Public Cloud
2 82 (3.27%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (2.39%) Data Structures
5 51 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 47 (1.87%) FMCG
7 40 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 34 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 26 (1.04%) Replication
12 24 (0.96%) Life Science
12 24 (0.96%) Taxonomies
13 23 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.64%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.56%) AI Agents
17 12 (0.48%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.55%) Linux
2 32 (1.27%) Windows
3 13 (0.52%) Unix
4 8 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.32%) VMS
5 5 (0.20%) SUSE
6 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 2 (0.080%) AIX
8 2 (0.080%) Android
8 2 (0.080%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (23.15%) ERP
2 490 (19.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 460 (18.33%) Migration
4 311 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
5 286 (11.39%) Data Migration
6 278 (11.08%) User Acceptance Testing
7 255 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 254 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 234 (9.32%) Agile
9 234 (9.32%) Validation
10 205 (8.17%) Workshop Facilitation
11 194 (7.73%) Analytics
12 187 (7.45%) Project Management
13 181 (7.21%) Logistics
14 173 (6.89%) Change Management
15 153 (6.10%) Data Modelling
16 142 (5.66%) Business Intelligence
16 142 (5.66%) Decision-Making
17 130 (5.18%) Roadmaps
18 126 (5.02%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 125 (4.98%) SQL
2 90 (3.59%) ABAP
3 50 (1.99%) Python
4 29 (1.16%) Java
5 18 (0.72%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.28%) C#
7 7 (0.28%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.20%) Bash
9 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.16%) C
9 4 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.16%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.16%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.16%) VB
10 3 (0.12%) Bicep
10 3 (0.12%) C++
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.080%) VBA
Qualifications
1 349 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 274 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 139 (5.54%) Degree
4 117 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (2.03%) ACCA
6 50 (1.99%) CIMA
7 41 (1.63%) PMP
8 40 (1.59%) PMI Certification
9 38 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 31 (1.24%) SAP Certification
11 15 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.60%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.44%) HNC
13 11 (0.44%) NVQ Level 4
14 10 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.36%) CISSP
16 8 (0.32%) CISM
17 7 (0.28%) CCA
17 7 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 98 (3.90%) PMO
3 91 (3.63%) QA
4 57 (2.27%) GDPR
4 57 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 36 (1.43%) GRC
6 18 (0.72%) IFRS
7 17 (0.68%) SLA
8 14 (0.56%) GxP
9 12 (0.48%) GAAP
10 10 (0.40%) GMP
11 9 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.32%) NCSC
13 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 6 (0.24%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.24%) NIST
15 5 (0.20%) Basel III
15 5 (0.20%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.20%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 24 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.44%) IAG
3 7 (0.28%) Docker
4 6 (0.24%) Corosync
5 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.52%) Terraform
3 10 (0.40%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (0.28%) Pacemaker
6 6 (0.24%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.16%) Ansible
8 3 (0.12%) Control-M
8 3 (0.12%) Grafana
9 2 (0.080%) CEMLI
9 2 (0.080%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.080%) WSUS
10 1 (0.040%) MOM
10 1 (0.040%) Packer
10 1 (0.040%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.040%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 237 (9.44%) Ariba
3 235 (9.36%) Oracle
4 102 (4.06%) Salesforce
5 92 (3.67%) Workday
6 73 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 39 (1.55%) Informatica
8 35 (1.39%) MuleSoft
8 35 (1.39%) Sage
9 34 (1.35%) Adobe
10 29 (1.16%) Databricks
11 28 (1.12%) Concur
12 25 (1.00%) IBM
13 21 (0.84%) IFS
13 21 (0.84%) Siemens
14 18 (0.72%) Infor
15 17 (0.68%) Google
16 16 (0.64%) Dell
17 15 (0.60%) Okta
18 13 (0.52%) Red Hat