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 28 February 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
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,295 2,053 2,762
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.51% 6.71% 6.21%
As % of the Vendors category 12.37% 14.40% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 1,039 1,400
10th Percentile £358 £362 £358
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% - -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.31% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 54 120
10th Percentile £16.49 £19.69 £13.05
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £48.75 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -50.77% +66.67% -35.00%
75th Percentile £56.52 £70.00 £60.06
90th Percentile £77.58 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £41.50 £26.03
% change year-on-year -42.59% +59.43% -42.16%

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 18,550 14,255 19,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.54% 46.58% 43.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,906 8,669 12,082
10th Percentile £305 £284 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.90%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 433 960
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% +11.81% -25.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.73
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £27.24 £25.75
% change year-on-year -16.92% +5.78% -17.14%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 1,801 £560 +1.82% 382
UK excluding London -15 996 £528 -2.31% 316
Work from Home -2 792 £560 -2.61% 184
London -11 744 £575 -4.17% 142
North of England -15 300 £597 +12.55% 68
South East -9 235 £550 - 113
North West -9 200 £619 +15.01% 44
Midlands -14 199 £483 -10.65% 77
East of England 0 157 £505 -12.17% 36
West Midlands -16 132 £492 -13.30% 49
Yorkshire -3 89 £595 +58.67% 23
South West -38 80 £625 +21.84% 20
East Midlands -5 64 £475 -9.09% 28
Wales +6 21 £370 -38.42% 7
Scotland +3 21 £450 -18.18% 4
North East -26 10 £175 -53.33% 1
Northern Ireland -3 3 £513 -
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 (1.13%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.09%) Confluence
3 21 (0.92%) NetWeaver
4 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.35%) CMS
6 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.22%) MTS
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.13%) Apache
9 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.087%) LiveCycle
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.087%) SAP EP
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 109 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.26%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.22%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.044%) Sketch
10 1 (0.044%) Trello
10 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 899 (39.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (4.79%) SAP FI
3 77 (3.36%) SAP CO
4 72 (3.14%) SAP MM
5 70 (3.05%) SAP FI/CO
6 62 (2.70%) SAP ERP
6 62 (2.70%) SAP PP
7 56 (2.44%) SAP EWM
8 51 (2.22%) SAP Payroll
9 49 (2.14%) SAP HCM
10 42 (1.83%) SAP PM
11 35 (1.53%) SAP PSCD
12 33 (1.44%) SAP QM
13 32 (1.39%) SAP Travel Management
14 31 (1.35%) SAP HR
15 30 (1.31%) SAP MDG
15 30 (1.31%) SAP SD
16 26 (1.13%) SAP BRIM
16 26 (1.13%) SAP VC
17 24 (1.05%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 196 (8.54%) Azure
2 159 (6.93%) SuccessFactors
3 88 (3.83%) AWS
4 85 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 59 (2.57%) SaaS
6 53 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (2.18%) GCP
8 35 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.26%) Entra ID
10 27 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 21 (0.92%) OCI
13 20 (0.87%) Power Automate
14 18 (0.78%) Boomi
15 17 (0.74%) Snowflake
16 14 (0.61%) GitHub
17 11 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
17 11 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (0.48%) Tricentis Tosca
18 10 (0.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.00%) Wireless
2 9 (0.39%) HTTPS
2 9 (0.39%) VPN
3 8 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (0.35%) Network Security
3 8 (0.35%) Skype
4 7 (0.31%) Firewall
4 7 (0.31%) LAN
4 7 (0.31%) WAN
5 5 (0.22%) BGP
5 5 (0.22%) FTP
5 5 (0.22%) OSPF
5 5 (0.22%) RFID
5 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.17%) DNS
6 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.13%) Internet
7 3 (0.13%) Junos
8 2 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.087%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (3.92%) SAP HANA
2 82 (3.57%) Power BI
3 32 (1.39%) SAP BW
4 29 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (0.96%) SQL Server
6 21 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 21 (0.92%) SAP Data Services
7 18 (0.78%) Metadata
8 14 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
8 14 (0.61%) Tableau
9 13 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 11 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.39%) GIS
12 8 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.26%) MySQL
14 6 (0.26%) Power Query
15 5 (0.22%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 89 (3.88%) JIRA
2 16 (0.70%) Git
3 10 (0.44%) LSMW
4 9 (0.39%) GitLab
5 8 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.31%) Toad
7 6 (0.26%) Hudson
7 6 (0.26%) Postman
8 4 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.17%) JUnit
8 4 (0.17%) Selenium
8 4 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.13%) JMeter
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.13%) Storybook
9 3 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
10 2 (0.087%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.087%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.087%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.044%) PowerDesigner
General
1 802 (34.95%) Finance
2 739 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 383 (16.69%) Manufacturing
4 308 (13.42%) Public Sector
5 268 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
6 179 (7.80%) Telecoms
7 172 (7.49%) Marketing
8 149 (6.49%) Electronics
9 105 (4.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 68 (2.96%) Billing
11 61 (2.66%) Retail
12 60 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
13 58 (2.53%) Legal
14 56 (2.44%) Banking
14 56 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
15 48 (2.09%) Aerospace
16 42 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
17 41 (1.79%) Local Government
18 35 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (1.31%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 652 (28.41%) Consultant
2 531 (23.14%) SAP Consultant
3 268 (11.68%) Lead
4 229 (9.98%) Architect
5 189 (8.24%) Analyst
6 168 (7.32%) Project Manager
7 162 (7.06%) SAP Manager
8 144 (6.27%) Senior
9 127 (5.53%) SAP Architect
10 119 (5.19%) Developer
10 119 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
11 93 (4.05%) Business Analyst
12 86 (3.75%) SAP Project Manager
13 77 (3.36%) Functional Consultant
13 77 (3.36%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 73 (3.18%) SAP Functional Consultant
15 70 (3.05%) SAP Developer
16 69 (3.01%) Administrator
17 60 (2.61%) Management Consultant
18 57 (2.48%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (6.80%) SAP Fiori
2 56 (2.44%) Middleware
3 51 (2.22%) SAPUI5
4 46 (2.00%) Web Services
5 43 (1.87%) XML
6 42 (1.83%) REST
6 42 (1.83%) SAP Basis
7 41 (1.79%) SAP TM
7 41 (1.79%) SOAP
8 40 (1.74%) BAPI
9 31 (1.35%) SAP PI
10 24 (1.05%) HTML
11 22 (0.96%) CSS
11 22 (0.96%) IDoc
12 19 (0.83%) EDI
12 19 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (0.61%) JSON
14 13 (0.57%) SailPoint
15 12 (0.52%) .NET
15 12 (0.52%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 78 (3.40%) Onboarding
2 63 (2.75%) Public Cloud
3 62 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 34 (1.48%) Product Ownership
6 33 (1.44%) FMCG
7 31 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 28 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 27 (1.18%) Life Science
10 25 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.09%) Taxonomies
11 22 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (0.87%) Management Information System
13 20 (0.87%) Replication
14 18 (0.78%) Virtual Team
15 16 (0.70%) Mobile App
16 15 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
17 14 (0.61%) Cloud Native
18 12 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.96%) Windows
2 31 (1.35%) Android
2 31 (1.35%) Mac OS
3 21 (0.92%) Linux
4 15 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.22%) VMS
6 5 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.17%) Unix
8 2 (0.087%) SUSE
9 1 (0.044%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (19.35%) ERP
2 420 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 415 (18.08%) Migration
4 274 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
5 268 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 248 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
7 220 (9.59%) Agile
8 213 (9.28%) Data Migration
9 210 (9.15%) Logistics
10 207 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 198 (8.63%) Project Management
12 182 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
13 179 (7.80%) User Acceptance Testing
14 171 (7.45%) Programme Management
15 168 (7.32%) Change Management
16 164 (7.15%) Analytics
17 152 (6.62%) Digital Marketing
18 146 (6.36%) Roadmaps
19 144 (6.27%) Validation
20 135 (5.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 145 (6.32%) ABAP
2 108 (4.71%) SQL
3 49 (2.14%) JavaScript
4 47 (2.05%) Python
5 42 (1.83%) Java
6 18 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.61%) Groovy
8 13 (0.57%) C#
9 9 (0.39%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.35%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.17%) C++
11 4 (0.17%) Go
11 4 (0.17%) R
11 4 (0.17%) VBA
12 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.087%) Bash
13 2 (0.087%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.087%) VB
13 2 (0.087%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.087%) XPath
Qualifications
1 456 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 368 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 168 (7.32%) Degree
4 106 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 53 (2.31%) PMP
6 51 (2.22%) SAP Certification
7 45 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 40 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 39 (1.70%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.22%) ACCA
11 27 (1.18%) CIMA
12 21 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.35%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.35%) CISSP
15 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.31%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.31%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.70%) QA
3 71 (3.09%) PMO
4 42 (1.83%) GDPR
5 35 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 30 (1.31%) SLA
7 19 (0.83%) GRC
8 17 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.57%) GxP
9 13 (0.57%) NIST
10 10 (0.44%) IFRS
11 9 (0.39%) GAAP
11 9 (0.39%) GMP
12 8 (0.35%) COBIT
12 8 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.35%) ITGC
13 7 (0.31%) SOX 404
14 6 (0.26%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 27 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.48%) Docker
3 4 (0.17%) IAG
4 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.044%) Varnish
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (0.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.26%) HP ALM
3 6 (0.26%) Terraform
4 3 (0.13%) Control-M
4 3 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (0.13%) Grafana
5 2 (0.087%) Ansible
5 2 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.087%) Linux-HA
5 2 (0.087%) Pacemaker
5 2 (0.087%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.087%) vRealize
6 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.044%) Packer
6 1 (0.044%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.044%) SCCM
6 1 (0.044%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.044%) WSUS
Vendors
1 200 (8.71%) Ariba
1 200 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 182 (7.93%) Oracle
3 84 (3.66%) Salesforce
4 76 (3.31%) Workday
5 74 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 44 (1.92%) Cisco
7 37 (1.61%) Adobe
7 37 (1.61%) Dell
8 35 (1.53%) HP
9 32 (1.39%) Sage
10 28 (1.22%) Informatica
11 25 (1.09%) Databricks
12 23 (1.00%) Apple
13 22 (0.96%) Google
13 22 (0.96%) IBM
14 18 (0.78%) Okta
15 16 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 16 (0.70%) Siemens
16 15 (0.65%) OpenText