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 4 July 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
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,585 2,028 2,609
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.01% 6.43% 6.01%
As % of the Vendors category 12.20% 13.52% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,293 998 1,326
10th Percentile £360 £371 £397
25th Percentile £459 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £652 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -3.67% -5.22% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 102 137
10th Percentile £16.72 £16.96 £13.84
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £18.58
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.75 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.56% +31.25% -37.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.15 £84.25 £65.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.38 £31.76 £26.03
% change year-on-year -4.36% +22.01% -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 21,187 14,995 18,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.05% 47.53% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,195 9,196 11,597
10th Percentile £313 £281 £273
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £501 £514
Median % change year-on-year +0.14% -2.63% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,094 709 1,147
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.08 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +2.03% -39.14%
75th Percentile £62.94 £53.50 £59.98
90th Percentile £80.08 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.00
% change year-on-year +43.61% -5.71% -25.70%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 2,052 £563 -1.40% 555
UK excluding London -7 1,278 £525 -3.67% 364
Work from Home -3 810 £550 -5.34% 294
London -23 748 £600 - 242
Midlands +7 337 £525 -3.05% 87
South East -7 333 £540 +0.56% 103
North of England -13 305 £525 -0.94% 94
West Midlands -2 209 £500 -7.66% 56
North West -9 198 £513 -3.30% 62
East of England 0 168 £505 -14.23% 25
East Midlands +24 118 £588 +15.20% 31
Yorkshire 0 103 £525 +5.00% 24
South West -34 77 £600 +14.29% 19
Scotland -1 34 £533 -11.17% 26
Wales +7 33 £550 +77.28% 10
North East -43 4 £500 -6.54% 9
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -1 2 £488 +73.49% 8

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 36 (1.39%) Confluence
2 29 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.89%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.50%) CMS
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 5 (0.19%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.077%) Apache
10 2 (0.077%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.077%) JBoss
10 2 (0.077%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.077%) SAS
11 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.039%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.039%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.039%) LiveCycle
11 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 126 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.39%) CATIA
8 5 (0.19%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.12%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.039%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,036 (40.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (4.29%) SAP FI
3 67 (2.59%) SAP ERP
4 66 (2.55%) SAP MM
4 66 (2.55%) SAP SD
5 63 (2.44%) SAP CO
6 61 (2.36%) SAP PSCD
7 58 (2.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 51 (1.97%) SAP EWM
9 49 (1.90%) SAP BRIM
10 40 (1.55%) SAP IBP
10 40 (1.55%) SAP PM
11 37 (1.43%) SAP PP
12 36 (1.39%) SAP GRC
12 36 (1.39%) SAP Payroll
13 32 (1.24%) SAP FI-CA
14 31 (1.20%) SAP HCM
14 31 (1.20%) SAP MDG
15 30 (1.16%) SAP QM
16 24 (0.93%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 240 (9.28%) SuccessFactors
2 224 (8.67%) Azure
3 130 (5.03%) Power Platform
4 84 (3.25%) AWS
5 74 (2.86%) SaaS
6 59 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (1.51%) Entra ID
8 38 (1.47%) Boomi
9 32 (1.24%) GCP
10 24 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (0.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 20 (0.77%) Power Automate
13 20 (0.77%) Snowflake
14 19 (0.74%) GitHub
15 15 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (0.58%) PowerApps
15 15 (0.58%) Smartsheet
16 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
17 11 (0.43%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.39%) Network Security
2 7 (0.27%) Firewall
3 5 (0.19%) VPN
3 5 (0.19%) WAN
4 3 (0.12%) DNS
4 3 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.077%) BGP
5 2 (0.077%) HTTP
5 2 (0.077%) LAN
5 2 (0.077%) OSPF
5 2 (0.077%) RFID
6 1 (0.039%) FTP
6 1 (0.039%) Internet
6 1 (0.039%) Intranet
6 1 (0.039%) MQTT
6 1 (0.039%) SSL
6 1 (0.039%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.039%) Wireless
6 1 (0.039%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (4.56%) Power BI
2 92 (3.56%) SAP HANA
3 42 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
5 40 (1.55%) SAP BW
6 39 (1.51%) SQL Server
7 35 (1.35%) Tableau
8 29 (1.12%) SAP Data Services
9 19 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (0.43%) Relational Database
11 11 (0.43%) Sybase ASE
12 10 (0.39%) GIS
12 10 (0.39%) MaxDB
12 10 (0.39%) Metadata
13 8 (0.31%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.27%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.23%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 101 (3.91%) JIRA
2 24 (0.93%) Hudson
3 21 (0.81%) Git
4 8 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.31%) Postman
5 6 (0.23%) LSMW
6 4 (0.15%) JMeter
6 4 (0.15%) Selenium
7 3 (0.12%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.077%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.077%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.077%) Maven
8 2 (0.077%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.077%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.077%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.077%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.039%) Subversion
9 1 (0.039%) TestDirector
General
1 825 (31.91%) Finance
2 689 (26.65%) Social Skills
3 276 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (10.60%) Manufacturing
5 171 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 111 (4.29%) Billing
7 91 (3.52%) Retail
8 87 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 86 (3.33%) Legal
10 60 (2.32%) Aerospace
10 60 (2.32%) Banking
11 50 (1.93%) General Ledger
12 47 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (1.78%) Local Government
14 45 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (1.28%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (0.97%) Law
18 23 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 20 (0.77%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 633 (24.49%) Consultant
2 547 (21.16%) SAP Consultant
3 342 (13.23%) Architect
4 316 (12.22%) Lead
5 294 (11.37%) Analyst
6 226 (8.74%) Senior
7 181 (7.00%) SAP Architect
8 175 (6.77%) Project Manager
9 174 (6.73%) SAP Manager
10 164 (6.34%) Solutions Architect
11 129 (4.99%) Business Analyst
12 109 (4.22%) Developer
13 88 (3.40%) Functional Consultant
13 88 (3.40%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 85 (3.29%) SAP Analyst
15 83 (3.21%) SAP Functional Consultant
15 83 (3.21%) SAP Project Manager
16 78 (3.02%) Administrator
17 65 (2.51%) Senior Manager
18 56 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (4.76%) SAP Fiori
2 100 (3.87%) Middleware
3 69 (2.67%) REST
4 51 (1.97%) SAP Basis
5 49 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
6 48 (1.86%) SOAP
7 43 (1.66%) BAPI
8 38 (1.47%) IDoc
9 36 (1.39%) SAPUI5
10 29 (1.12%) XML
11 28 (1.08%) JSON
12 26 (1.01%) SAP PI
13 24 (0.93%) EDI
14 23 (0.89%) SAP TM
14 23 (0.89%) Web Services
15 21 (0.81%) OAuth
16 15 (0.58%) SAP ALE
17 13 (0.50%) JDBC
17 13 (0.50%) Node.js
18 12 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (3.71%) Public Cloud
2 79 (3.06%) Onboarding
3 71 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 68 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 54 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 51 (1.97%) FMCG
7 44 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 32 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 25 (0.97%) Life Science
11 25 (0.97%) Replication
12 23 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (0.77%) Taxonomies
16 18 (0.70%) Virtual Team
17 16 (0.62%) AI Agents
18 15 (0.58%) SCADA
19 14 (0.54%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.55%) Linux
2 31 (1.20%) Windows
3 19 (0.74%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) VMS
5 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.31%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 2 (0.077%) AIX
8 2 (0.077%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (23.21%) ERP
2 527 (20.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 480 (18.57%) Migration
4 337 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 293 (11.33%) Data Migration
6 285 (11.03%) User Acceptance Testing
7 273 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 264 (10.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 254 (9.83%) Agile
10 245 (9.48%) Validation
11 214 (8.28%) Workshop Facilitation
12 207 (8.01%) Analytics
13 195 (7.54%) Logistics
14 189 (7.31%) Project Management
15 170 (6.58%) Change Management
16 150 (5.80%) Decision-Making
17 148 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
18 147 (5.69%) Data Modelling
19 137 (5.30%) Roadmaps
20 131 (5.07%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 124 (4.80%) SQL
2 111 (4.29%) ABAP
3 53 (2.05%) Python
4 38 (1.47%) Java
5 18 (0.70%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.54%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.31%) C#
8 6 (0.23%) Bash
8 6 (0.23%) Bicep
8 6 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.19%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.15%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.15%) C
10 4 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.15%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.15%) VB
11 3 (0.12%) C++
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.077%) VBA
Qualifications
1 365 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 291 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 143 (5.53%) Degree
4 117 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (1.70%) ACCA
6 43 (1.66%) CIMA
7 41 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.55%) PMP
9 39 (1.51%) PMI Certification
10 32 (1.24%) SAP Certification
11 17 (0.66%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.62%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.43%) HNC
14 11 (0.43%) NVQ Level 4
15 9 (0.35%) CISSP
16 8 (0.31%) CISM
16 8 (0.31%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 6 (0.23%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 98 (3.79%) PMO
3 95 (3.68%) QA
4 61 (2.36%) GDPR
5 54 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 38 (1.47%) GRC
7 17 (0.66%) IFRS
8 16 (0.62%) SLA
9 12 (0.46%) GxP
10 11 (0.43%) GMP
11 8 (0.31%) GAAP
11 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.31%) NCSC
12 7 (0.27%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.23%) NIST
14 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.19%) ITGC
15 4 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 25 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.50%) IAG
3 7 (0.27%) Docker
4 6 (0.23%) Corosync
5 1 (0.039%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (0.66%) Terraform
3 12 (0.46%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.27%) Pacemaker
5 6 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.15%) Ansible
7 3 (0.12%) Grafana
8 2 (0.077%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.077%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.039%) MOM
9 1 (0.039%) Packer
9 1 (0.039%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.039%) WSUS
Vendors
1 255 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 250 (9.67%) Ariba
3 233 (9.01%) Oracle
4 95 (3.68%) Salesforce
5 86 (3.33%) Workday
6 75 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 38 (1.47%) MuleSoft
8 37 (1.43%) Informatica
9 36 (1.39%) Databricks
10 34 (1.32%) Adobe
11 31 (1.20%) Concur
11 31 (1.20%) Sage
12 26 (1.01%) IBM
13 22 (0.85%) Siemens
14 20 (0.77%) IFS
15 17 (0.66%) Infor
16 16 (0.62%) Dell
16 16 (0.62%) Google
16 16 (0.62%) Red Hat
17 13 (0.50%) OpenText