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 26 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
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,543 1,960 2,581
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.00% 6.48% 5.94%
As % of the Vendors category 12.21% 13.65% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 977 1,306
10th Percentile £360 £379 £400
25th Percentile £456 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £654 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £760 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 89 137
10th Percentile £16.72 £17.43 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £23.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £27.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +71.36% -38.40%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.63 £85.20 £65.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.38 £37.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.54% +45.19% -42.22%

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 20,820 14,360 18,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.92% 47.48% 42.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,035 8,825 11,531
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -1.24%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,072 669 1,157
10th Percentile £15.58 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.71
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +4.01% -42.40%
75th Percentile £61.63 £53.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £22.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year +41.63% -1.99% -38.09%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 2,023 £560 -2.61% 395
UK excluding London -5 1,249 £525 -4.55% 288
Work from Home -1 796 £550 -5.46% 166
London -21 748 £600 - 159
South East -8 322 £540 +0.56% 92
Midlands +4 321 £525 -3.80% 71
North of England -10 301 £500 -5.66% 72
West Midlands -1 196 £503 -8.55% 48
North West -7 196 £495 -6.60% 39
East of England +1 164 £505 -15.66% 23
East Midlands +26 115 £575 +12.75% 23
Yorkshire +8 100 £525 +35.48% 28
South West -31 77 £550 +10.00% 18
Scotland +3 35 £533 -11.17% 10
Wales +10 34 £550 +21.41% 10
North East -38 5 £500 -6.54% 6
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +1 2 £488 +73.49% 2

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 (1.38%) Confluence
2 30 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.90%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.51%) CMS
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 5 (0.20%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.079%) Apache
10 2 (0.079%) JBoss
10 2 (0.079%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.079%) SAS
11 1 (0.039%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.039%) Camunda
11 1 (0.039%) OpenStack
Applications
1 133 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.39%) CATIA
7 5 (0.20%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.16%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.039%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,025 (40.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (4.17%) SAP FI
3 68 (2.67%) SAP ERP
4 62 (2.44%) SAP CO
5 60 (2.36%) SAP MM
6 59 (2.32%) SAP FI/CO
7 57 (2.24%) SAP SD
8 54 (2.12%) SAP PSCD
9 53 (2.08%) SAP EWM
10 48 (1.89%) SAP BRIM
11 40 (1.57%) SAP PM
12 37 (1.45%) SAP IBP
13 35 (1.38%) SAP GRC
13 35 (1.38%) SAP PP
14 33 (1.30%) SAP MDG
15 31 (1.22%) SAP Payroll
16 30 (1.18%) SAP FI-CA
17 29 (1.14%) SAP HCM
18 27 (1.06%) SAP QM
19 26 (1.02%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 236 (9.28%) SuccessFactors
2 218 (8.57%) Azure
3 126 (4.95%) Power Platform
4 79 (3.11%) AWS
5 73 (2.87%) SaaS
6 53 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (1.45%) Boomi
7 37 (1.45%) Entra ID
8 29 (1.14%) GCP
9 22 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (0.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 20 (0.79%) Power Automate
11 20 (0.79%) Snowflake
12 16 (0.63%) OCI
13 15 (0.59%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.55%) GitHub
14 14 (0.55%) Smartsheet
15 13 (0.51%) PaaS
16 12 (0.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.39%) Network Security
2 6 (0.24%) Firewall
3 5 (0.20%) VPN
3 5 (0.20%) WAN
4 3 (0.12%) RFID
4 3 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.079%) BGP
5 2 (0.079%) DNS
5 2 (0.079%) HTTP
5 2 (0.079%) LAN
5 2 (0.079%) OSPF
6 1 (0.039%) FTP
6 1 (0.039%) Internet
6 1 (0.039%) Intranet
6 1 (0.039%) MQTT
6 1 (0.039%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.039%) SSL
6 1 (0.039%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.039%) Wireless
6 1 (0.039%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.60%) Power BI
2 90 (3.54%) SAP HANA
3 44 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (1.57%) SAP BW
4 40 (1.57%) SQL Server
5 39 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
6 29 (1.14%) Tableau
7 27 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
8 21 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.55%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.43%) Relational Database
11 11 (0.43%) Sybase ASE
12 10 (0.39%) MaxDB
12 10 (0.39%) Metadata
13 9 (0.35%) GIS
14 7 (0.28%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.24%) NoSQL
16 5 (0.20%) Semantic Layer
16 5 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 104 (4.09%) JIRA
2 24 (0.94%) Hudson
3 18 (0.71%) Git
4 7 (0.28%) Postman
5 6 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.24%) LSMW
6 4 (0.16%) JMeter
6 4 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.12%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.079%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.079%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.079%) Maven
8 2 (0.079%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.079%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.079%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.079%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.039%) Spock
9 1 (0.039%) TestDirector
General
1 829 (32.60%) Finance
2 684 (26.90%) Social Skills
3 273 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (10.50%) Manufacturing
5 170 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 105 (4.13%) Billing
7 88 (3.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 88 (3.46%) Retail
8 87 (3.42%) Legal
9 63 (2.48%) Banking
10 58 (2.28%) Aerospace
11 55 (2.16%) General Ledger
12 48 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
14 45 (1.77%) Local Government
15 35 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
17 26 (1.02%) Law
18 22 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 21 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 616 (24.22%) Consultant
2 530 (20.84%) SAP Consultant
3 326 (12.82%) Architect
3 326 (12.82%) Lead
4 290 (11.40%) Analyst
5 220 (8.65%) Senior
6 176 (6.92%) Project Manager
6 176 (6.92%) SAP Architect
7 168 (6.61%) SAP Manager
8 155 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
9 127 (4.99%) Business Analyst
10 103 (4.05%) Developer
11 86 (3.38%) SAP Solutions Architect
12 84 (3.30%) Functional Consultant
13 81 (3.19%) SAP Project Manager
14 79 (3.11%) SAP Analyst
14 79 (3.11%) SAP Functional Consultant
15 76 (2.99%) Administrator
16 66 (2.60%) Senior Manager
17 55 (2.16%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (4.44%) SAP Fiori
2 94 (3.70%) Middleware
3 57 (2.24%) REST
4 55 (2.16%) Oracle Fusion
5 52 (2.04%) SAP Basis
6 39 (1.53%) BAPI
6 39 (1.53%) SOAP
7 34 (1.34%) XML
8 33 (1.30%) SAPUI5
9 31 (1.22%) IDoc
10 27 (1.06%) JSON
11 26 (1.02%) EDI
11 26 (1.02%) SAP TM
12 24 (0.94%) Web Services
13 21 (0.83%) OAuth
14 19 (0.75%) SAP PI
15 13 (0.51%) SAML
15 13 (0.51%) SAP ALE
16 12 (0.47%) Node.js
17 10 (0.39%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 96 (3.78%) Public Cloud
2 79 (3.11%) Onboarding
3 76 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (2.48%) Data Structures
5 52 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 50 (1.97%) FMCG
7 42 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 29 (1.14%) Cloud Native
11 25 (0.98%) Replication
12 24 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (0.90%) Life Science
14 21 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (0.83%) Taxonomies
15 16 (0.63%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.55%) SCADA
17 13 (0.51%) AI Agents
17 13 (0.51%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.65%) Linux
2 32 (1.26%) Windows
3 13 (0.51%) Unix
4 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.31%) SUSE
4 8 (0.31%) VMS
5 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.12%) Solaris
7 2 (0.079%) AIX
7 2 (0.079%) Android
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (23.32%) ERP
2 510 (20.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 469 (18.44%) Migration
4 322 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
5 292 (11.48%) Data Migration
6 276 (10.85%) User Acceptance Testing
7 262 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 262 (10.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 246 (9.67%) Agile
9 244 (9.59%) Validation
10 215 (8.45%) Workshop Facilitation
11 201 (7.90%) Analytics
12 194 (7.63%) Project Management
13 188 (7.39%) Logistics
14 172 (6.76%) Change Management
15 149 (5.86%) Data Modelling
16 148 (5.82%) Business Intelligence
17 144 (5.66%) Decision-Making
18 133 (5.23%) Roadmaps
19 127 (4.99%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 126 (4.95%) SQL
2 98 (3.85%) ABAP
3 49 (1.93%) Python
4 30 (1.18%) Java
5 18 (0.71%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.28%) C#
8 6 (0.24%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.20%) Bash
10 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.16%) C
10 4 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.16%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.16%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.16%) VB
11 3 (0.12%) Bicep
11 3 (0.12%) C++
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.079%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 353 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 279 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 142 (5.58%) Degree
4 117 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (1.93%) ACCA
6 48 (1.89%) CIMA
7 41 (1.61%) PMP
8 40 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.22%) SAP Certification
10 16 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.43%) HNC
13 11 (0.43%) NVQ Level 4
14 9 (0.35%) CISSP
14 9 (0.35%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.31%) CISM
16 7 (0.28%) CCA
16 7 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (5.47%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.78%) PMO
3 91 (3.58%) QA
4 59 (2.32%) GDPR
5 57 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (1.45%) GRC
7 17 (0.67%) IFRS
8 15 (0.59%) SLA
9 13 (0.51%) GxP
10 11 (0.43%) GAAP
10 11 (0.43%) GMP
11 9 (0.35%) NCSC
12 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.28%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 6 (0.24%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.24%) NIST
15 5 (0.20%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.20%) ITGC
16 4 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 24 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.47%) IAG
3 7 (0.28%) Docker
4 6 (0.24%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 21 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.51%) Terraform
3 10 (0.39%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.28%) Pacemaker
5 6 (0.24%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.16%) Ansible
7 3 (0.12%) Control-M
7 3 (0.12%) Grafana
8 2 (0.079%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.079%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.079%) WSUS
9 1 (0.039%) MOM
9 1 (0.039%) Packer
9 1 (0.039%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 249 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 243 (9.56%) Ariba
3 237 (9.32%) Oracle
4 97 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 92 (3.62%) Workday
6 72 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 38 (1.49%) Informatica
8 36 (1.42%) MuleSoft
9 33 (1.30%) Adobe
9 33 (1.30%) Sage
10 32 (1.26%) Databricks
11 29 (1.14%) Concur
12 28 (1.10%) IBM
13 23 (0.90%) Siemens
14 20 (0.79%) IFS
15 17 (0.67%) Infor
16 16 (0.63%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.59%) Dell
17 15 (0.59%) Google
18 12 (0.47%) OpenText