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 3 March 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
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,291 2,004 2,734
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.49% 6.71% 6.14%
As % of the Vendors category 12.36% 14.40% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,023 1,384
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 53 120
10th Percentile £16.54 £19.65 £13.05
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £47.50 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.47% +62.39% -35.00%
75th Percentile £56.00 £70.00 £60.06
90th Percentile £77.65 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £36.63 £26.03
% change year-on-year -34.96% +40.72% -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 18,543 13,917 19,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.45% 46.61% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,886 8,519 12,055
10th Percentile £306 £284 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.47%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 434 985
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.62 £12.74
25th Percentile £18.21 £21.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +18.81% -27.86%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £81.98 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £27.43 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.48% +9.70% -23.08%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 1,802 £560 +1.82% 718
UK excluding London -14 1,005 £530 -1.85% 562
Work from Home -3 787 £560 -2.61% 301
London -10 737 £575 -4.17% 178
North of England -15 302 £598 +13.90% 131
South East -9 235 £550 - 136
Midlands -14 207 £490 -9.31% 149
North West -11 201 £623 +15.71% 77
East of England +1 159 £505 -12.17% 67
West Midlands -18 135 £488 -14.10% 77
Yorkshire -1 90 £595 +58.67% 50
South West -39 77 £625 +20.67% 53
East Midlands -5 69 £500 -3.85% 71
Wales +7 21 £370 -38.42% 18
Scotland +7 21 £450 -18.18% 14
North East -24 10 £175 -51.72% 5
Northern Ireland 0 3 £513 - 5
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 25 (1.09%) Confluence
2 22 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.92%) NetWeaver
4 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.35%) CMS
6 6 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) MTS
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.087%) Apache
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.087%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.044%) Documentum
10 1 (0.044%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 106 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.83%) 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%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 898 (39.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (4.80%) SAP FI
3 77 (3.36%) SAP CO
4 73 (3.19%) SAP MM
5 70 (3.06%) SAP FI/CO
6 62 (2.71%) SAP ERP
6 62 (2.71%) SAP PP
7 54 (2.36%) SAP EWM
8 51 (2.23%) 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 (1.40%) SAP Travel Management
14 31 (1.35%) SAP HR
14 31 (1.35%) SAP MDG
15 30 (1.31%) SAP SD
16 26 (1.13%) SAP BRIM
16 26 (1.13%) SAP VC
17 22 (0.96%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 195 (8.51%) Azure
2 164 (7.16%) SuccessFactors
3 88 (3.84%) AWS
4 81 (3.54%) Power Platform
5 59 (2.58%) SaaS
6 51 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (2.18%) GCP
8 34 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.31%) Entra ID
10 27 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 21 (0.92%) OCI
13 18 (0.79%) Boomi
14 17 (0.74%) Power Automate
14 17 (0.74%) Snowflake
15 14 (0.61%) GitHub
16 11 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (0.48%) Tricentis Tosca
17 10 (0.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.00%) Wireless
2 11 (0.48%) Network Security
3 9 (0.39%) VPN
4 8 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.35%) HTTPS
4 8 (0.35%) Skype
5 7 (0.31%) Firewall
5 7 (0.31%) LAN
5 7 (0.31%) WAN
6 5 (0.22%) BGP
6 5 (0.22%) FTP
6 5 (0.22%) OSPF
6 5 (0.22%) RFID
6 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.17%) DNS
7 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) Junos
9 2 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.087%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (3.84%) SAP HANA
2 78 (3.40%) Power BI
3 31 (1.35%) SAP BW
4 29 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.87%) Data Lake
5 20 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
5 20 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 18 (0.79%) Metadata
7 15 (0.65%) Tableau
8 14 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
9 13 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.44%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 9 (0.39%) GIS
13 8 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.26%) MySQL
14 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
15 5 (0.22%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.22%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 85 (3.71%) 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%) Hudson
6 7 (0.31%) Toad
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%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.087%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.044%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.044%) Zephyr
General
1 805 (35.14%) Finance
2 734 (32.04%) Social Skills
3 379 (16.54%) Manufacturing
4 312 (13.62%) Public Sector
5 268 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
6 177 (7.73%) Telecoms
7 170 (7.42%) Marketing
8 147 (6.42%) Electronics
9 107 (4.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 69 (3.01%) Billing
11 60 (2.62%) Retail
12 59 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
13 57 (2.49%) Banking
13 57 (2.49%) Legal
14 56 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
15 46 (2.01%) Aerospace
16 42 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
17 41 (1.79%) Local Government
18 34 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
19 31 (1.35%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 648 (28.28%) Consultant
2 527 (23.00%) SAP Consultant
3 268 (11.70%) Lead
4 234 (10.21%) Architect
5 193 (8.42%) Analyst
6 169 (7.38%) Project Manager
7 162 (7.07%) SAP Manager
8 144 (6.29%) Senior
9 131 (5.72%) SAP Architect
10 122 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
11 113 (4.93%) Developer
12 96 (4.19%) Business Analyst
13 87 (3.80%) SAP Project Manager
14 80 (3.49%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 77 (3.36%) Functional Consultant
16 72 (3.14%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 67 (2.92%) Administrator
17 67 (2.92%) SAP Developer
18 59 (2.58%) Management Consultant
18 59 (2.58%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (6.59%) SAP Fiori
2 57 (2.49%) Middleware
3 47 (2.05%) SAPUI5
4 46 (2.01%) Web Services
5 42 (1.83%) SAP Basis
5 42 (1.83%) XML
6 41 (1.79%) SAP TM
7 40 (1.75%) SOAP
8 39 (1.70%) BAPI
9 38 (1.66%) REST
10 30 (1.31%) SAP PI
11 23 (1.00%) HTML
12 22 (0.96%) IDoc
13 21 (0.92%) CSS
14 19 (0.83%) EDI
14 19 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
15 14 (0.61%) SAP ALE
16 13 (0.57%) JSON
16 13 (0.57%) SailPoint
17 12 (0.52%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 80 (3.49%) Onboarding
2 67 (2.92%) Public Cloud
3 62 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 33 (1.44%) FMCG
5 33 (1.44%) Product Ownership
6 29 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 27 (1.18%) Life Science
9 25 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.09%) Taxonomies
10 21 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (0.92%) Replication
11 20 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 18 (0.79%) Virtual Team
13 17 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.70%) Mobile App
15 14 (0.61%) Cloud Native
16 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
1 445 (19.42%) ERP
2 425 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 414 (18.07%) Migration
4 271 (11.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 269 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
6 242 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
7 217 (9.47%) Agile
8 214 (9.34%) Data Migration
9 204 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 203 (8.86%) Logistics
11 199 (8.69%) Project Management
12 191 (8.34%) Workshop Facilitation
13 182 (7.94%) User Acceptance Testing
14 168 (7.33%) Programme Management
15 167 (7.29%) Change Management
16 165 (7.20%) Analytics
17 150 (6.55%) Digital Marketing
18 148 (6.46%) Validation
19 147 (6.42%) Roadmaps
20 134 (5.85%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (6.11%) ABAP
2 107 (4.67%) SQL
3 47 (2.05%) JavaScript
4 46 (2.01%) Python
5 41 (1.79%) Java
6 18 (0.79%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.61%) Groovy
8 13 (0.57%) C#
9 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.17%) C++
10 4 (0.17%) Go
10 4 (0.17%) VBA
11 3 (0.13%) R
11 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.087%) Bash
12 2 (0.087%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.087%) VB
12 2 (0.087%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.087%) XPath
Qualifications
1 453 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 363 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 165 (7.20%) Degree
4 105 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 53 (2.31%) PMP
6 50 (2.18%) SAP Certification
7 45 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 40 (1.75%) 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%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 7 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 87 (3.80%) QA
3 69 (3.01%) PMO
4 42 (1.83%) GDPR
5 35 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 30 (1.31%) SLA
7 21 (0.92%) 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%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 31 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.48%) Docker
3 5 (0.22%) 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 24 (1.05%) 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%) Argo
6 1 (0.044%) Autotask
6 1 (0.044%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.044%) Packer
6 1 (0.044%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 201 (8.77%) Ariba
2 198 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 179 (7.81%) Oracle
4 81 (3.54%) Salesforce
5 76 (3.32%) Workday
6 75 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.92%) Cisco
8 37 (1.62%) Dell
9 36 (1.57%) Adobe
10 35 (1.53%) HP
11 33 (1.44%) Sage
12 29 (1.27%) Informatica
13 24 (1.05%) Databricks
14 23 (1.00%) Apple
15 22 (0.96%) IBM
16 21 (0.92%) Google
17 18 (0.79%) Okta
18 16 (0.70%) MuleSoft
18 16 (0.70%) OpenText
19 14 (0.61%) Siemens