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 22 December 2025, 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
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,279 2,227 2,911
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.20% 6.59% 6.67%
As % of the Vendors category 13.14% 14.42% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 1,095 1,482
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £459 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £670 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 37 74
10th Percentile £16.04 £16.64 £19.83
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.38 £28.88
Median hourly rate £23.54 £29.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% -40.82% +8.89%
75th Percentile £41.25 £55.00 £64.76
90th Percentile £63.78 £70.75 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £28.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -19.89% -42.35% +8.89%

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 17,349 15,441 19,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.20% 45.72% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,036 9,192 12,506
10th Percentile £293 £285 £252
25th Percentile £408 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 458 655
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.58 £14.95
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% -39.52% +78.45%
75th Percentile £44.40 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £25.86 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.93% -43.63% +103.91%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 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 -7 1,774 £560 +1.82% 622
UK excluding London -5 1,015 £550 - 380
Work from Home +3 771 £565 +2.73% 304
London -11 723 £575 +4.55% 297
North of England -8 296 £600 +11.52% 81
South East -2 271 £536 -10.75% 152
North West -1 212 £625 +13.64% 37
Midlands -15 169 £515 -2.83% 70
East of England -1 139 £565 +12.61% 46
West Midlands -11 124 £515 -2.83% 39
South West -20 95 £600 +14.29% 30
Yorkshire 0 75 £565 +34.52% 41
East Midlands -21 43 £525 -0.47% 31
Scotland +7 37 £450 +0.28% 8
Wales +6 19 £170 -74.81% 3
North East -18 8 £175 -55.70% 4
Northern Ireland -4 6 £115 - 9
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 26 (1.14%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.05%) Confluence
3 22 (0.97%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) MTS
8 3 (0.13%) Apache
8 3 (0.13%) CMS
8 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.088%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.088%) SAP EP
9 2 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.044%) LiveCycle
10 1 (0.044%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.044%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 105 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.22%) Windchill
8 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.18%) Simulink
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.044%) InVision
11 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 818 (35.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 102 (4.48%) SAP FI
3 77 (3.38%) SAP CO
4 70 (3.07%) SAP EWM
5 69 (3.03%) SAP ERP
5 69 (3.03%) SAP FI/CO
5 69 (3.03%) SAP MM
6 65 (2.85%) SAP PP
7 63 (2.76%) SAP Payroll
8 59 (2.59%) SAP HCM
9 47 (2.06%) SAP HR
10 41 (1.80%) SAP QM
11 37 (1.62%) SAP WM
12 36 (1.58%) SAP PM
13 34 (1.49%) SAP MDG
14 30 (1.32%) SAP PS
15 29 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
15 29 (1.27%) SAP VC
16 27 (1.18%) SAP EHS
16 27 (1.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 167 (7.33%) Azure
2 159 (6.98%) SuccessFactors
3 101 (4.43%) Power Platform
4 79 (3.47%) AWS
5 59 (2.59%) SaaS
6 58 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (2.11%) GCP
8 44 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.01%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 23 (1.01%) Snowflake
10 20 (0.88%) Entra ID
11 18 (0.79%) Power Automate
12 12 (0.53%) GitHub
13 11 (0.48%) Boomi
13 11 (0.48%) OCI
14 10 (0.44%) Smartsheet
15 9 (0.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (0.39%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.05%) Wireless
2 17 (0.75%) HTTPS
3 10 (0.44%) LAN
4 9 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (0.39%) Firewall
5 8 (0.35%) Skype
6 7 (0.31%) VPN
7 6 (0.26%) WAN
8 5 (0.22%) Network Security
9 4 (0.18%) DHCP
9 4 (0.18%) DNS
9 4 (0.18%) FTP
9 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.13%) BGP
10 3 (0.13%) Junos
10 3 (0.13%) OSPF
10 3 (0.13%) VLAN
11 2 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
11 2 (0.088%) Internet
11 2 (0.088%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.34%) SAP HANA
2 97 (4.26%) Power BI
3 51 (2.24%) SAP BW
4 28 (1.23%) SAP Data Services
5 27 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 27 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (0.97%) SQL Server
7 17 (0.75%) Metadata
8 16 (0.70%) Tableau
9 14 (0.61%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 12 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
10 12 (0.53%) GIS
10 12 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.31%) MySQL
11 7 (0.31%) Power Query
11 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.26%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.26%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 89 (3.91%) JIRA
2 19 (0.83%) Git
3 10 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.44%) LSMW
4 7 (0.31%) GitLab
5 6 (0.26%) Toad
6 5 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
7 4 (0.18%) JUnit
7 4 (0.18%) Postman
8 3 (0.13%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.13%) Storybook
8 3 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.088%) Clang
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.088%) Selenium
9 2 (0.088%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.088%) Subversion
9 2 (0.088%) Zephyr
General
1 787 (34.53%) Finance
2 762 (33.44%) Social Skills
3 450 (19.75%) Manufacturing
4 344 (15.09%) Public Sector
5 241 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
6 237 (10.40%) Telecoms
7 232 (10.18%) Marketing
8 209 (9.17%) Electronics
9 125 (5.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 65 (2.85%) Retail
11 56 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.33%) Billing
13 52 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (2.06%) Legal
16 44 (1.93%) Aerospace
17 42 (1.84%) Banking
17 42 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
18 33 (1.45%) Local Government
19 19 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 682 (29.93%) Consultant
2 551 (24.18%) SAP Consultant
3 202 (8.86%) Architect
4 194 (8.51%) Lead
5 184 (8.07%) Analyst
6 146 (6.41%) Project Manager
7 130 (5.70%) Developer
8 127 (5.57%) SAP Manager
9 113 (4.96%) SAP Architect
10 111 (4.87%) Senior
11 87 (3.82%) Business Analyst
12 86 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 72 (3.16%) Functional Consultant
14 71 (3.12%) SAP Project Manager
15 67 (2.94%) SAP Developer
16 66 (2.90%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 65 (2.85%) SAP Analyst
18 64 (2.81%) Administrator
19 58 (2.54%) Management Consultant
20 56 (2.46%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.33%) SAP Fiori
2 52 (2.28%) Web Services
2 52 (2.28%) XML
3 49 (2.15%) SOAP
4 46 (2.02%) SAP PI
5 44 (1.93%) SAPUI5
6 43 (1.89%) REST
7 41 (1.80%) Middleware
8 37 (1.62%) BAPI
9 35 (1.54%) SAP Basis
10 30 (1.32%) JSON
11 27 (1.18%) HTML
12 25 (1.10%) SAP TM
13 24 (1.05%) CSS
14 20 (0.88%) IDoc
15 17 (0.75%) JMS
16 15 (0.66%) EDI
16 15 (0.66%) RESTful
16 15 (0.66%) SailPoint
17 14 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 67 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 58 (2.54%) Onboarding
3 42 (1.84%) Life Science
4 40 (1.76%) Product Ownership
5 39 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 39 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
6 38 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 37 (1.62%) Public Cloud
8 32 (1.40%) FMCG
9 29 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
11 21 (0.92%) Replication
11 21 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 19 (0.83%) Private Cloud
14 14 (0.61%) Mobile App
14 14 (0.61%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.53%) NHS
16 11 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.15%) Windows
2 33 (1.45%) Android
3 32 (1.40%) Mac OS
4 23 (1.01%) Linux
5 19 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.31%) Unix
6 7 (0.31%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.088%) SUSE
11 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (17.29%) Migration
2 391 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 385 (16.89%) ERP
4 310 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
5 309 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
6 271 (11.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 261 (11.45%) Agile
8 230 (10.09%) Programme Management
9 219 (9.61%) Logistics
10 212 (9.30%) Data Migration
11 204 (8.95%) Digital Marketing
12 193 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 177 (7.77%) Project Management
14 160 (7.02%) Analytics
14 160 (7.02%) Workshop Facilitation
15 157 (6.89%) Change Management
16 156 (6.85%) User Acceptance Testing
17 132 (5.79%) Project Delivery
18 131 (5.75%) Roadmaps
19 122 (5.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 150 (6.58%) ABAP
2 104 (4.56%) SQL
3 60 (2.63%) JavaScript
3 60 (2.63%) Python
4 58 (2.54%) Java
5 23 (1.01%) PowerShell
6 20 (0.88%) C#
7 15 (0.66%) Groovy
8 9 (0.39%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.35%) C++
10 7 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.18%) Bash
12 4 (0.18%) C
12 4 (0.18%) Go
12 4 (0.18%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.18%) R
12 4 (0.18%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.13%) COBOL
13 3 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 536 (23.52%) Security Cleared
2 437 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 172 (7.55%) Degree
4 100 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 63 (2.76%) SAP Certification
6 50 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.06%) PMP
8 45 (1.97%) PMI Certification
9 41 (1.80%) Master's Degree
10 32 (1.40%) ACCA
11 31 (1.36%) CIMA
12 26 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.57%) CISSP
15 11 (0.48%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 10 (0.44%) CISM
17 9 (0.39%) ISTQB
18 7 (0.31%) Azure Certification
18 7 (0.31%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.33%) QA
3 55 (2.41%) PMO
4 42 (1.84%) GDPR
5 30 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 23 (1.01%) GRC
6 23 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.01%) SLA
7 19 (0.83%) GxP
8 12 (0.53%) NIST
9 11 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.44%) IFRS
11 9 (0.39%) COBIT
12 8 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.35%) NCSC
13 7 (0.31%) ITGC
13 7 (0.31%) RMADS
13 7 (0.31%) SOX 404
14 6 (0.26%) GMP
14 6 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 32 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.57%) Docker
3 4 (0.18%) Firmware
4 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.088%) IAG
4 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.044%) Varnish
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.22%) Terraform
4 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.13%) vRealize
6 2 (0.088%) Ansible
6 2 (0.088%) Grafana
6 2 (0.088%) Linux-HA
6 2 (0.088%) Pacemaker
6 2 (0.088%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.088%) SCCM
7 1 (0.044%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.044%) FreeIPA
7 1 (0.044%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.044%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.044%) SCOM
Vendors
1 196 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 186 (8.16%) Ariba
3 181 (7.94%) Oracle
4 96 (4.21%) Salesforce
5 75 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 73 (3.20%) Workday
7 44 (1.93%) Cisco
8 35 (1.54%) HP
9 33 (1.45%) Adobe
9 33 (1.45%) Dell
10 25 (1.10%) Apple
11 23 (1.01%) Google
11 23 (1.01%) OpenText
12 22 (0.97%) Databricks
13 20 (0.88%) Concur
13 20 (0.88%) webMethods
14 19 (0.83%) IBM
14 19 (0.83%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.61%) Informatica
16 12 (0.53%) Software AG