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 12 January 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
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,195 2,104 2,730
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.06% 6.68% 6.36%
As % of the Vendors category 13.10% 14.59% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,024 1,383
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% - -
75th Percentile £675 £664 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -0.28% +2.67% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 34 88
10th Percentile £16.43 £18.20 £13.85
25th Percentile £19.16 £20.91 £22.06
Median hourly rate £23.83 £28.25 £47.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% -40.68% +5.83%
75th Percentile £46.86 £55.00 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.13 £82.66 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £27.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -13.64% -34.52% -6.67%

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 16,759 14,424 19,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.24% 45.77% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,764 8,535 12,034
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £411 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 793 422 684
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.60 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -38.06% +60.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £24.83 £44.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -44.20% +80.27%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -8 1,725 £560 +1.82% 549
UK excluding London -8 960 £538 -0.28% 499
Work from Home +1 733 £568 +0.44% 276
London -7 725 £575 - 147
North of England -14 287 £595 +11.16% 91
South East -5 250 £537 -6.61% 191
North West -7 201 £623 +13.18% 36
Midlands -20 153 £515 -4.63% 75
East of England +5 137 £505 +0.30% 78
West Midlands -15 109 £515 -4.72% 34
South West -31 89 £552 +4.15% 42
Yorkshire +6 75 £565 +36.14% 46
East Midlands -19 42 £525 -0.94% 40
Scotland +5 34 £450 +0.56% 13
Wales +8 21 £325 -51.85% 21
North East -18 10 £175 -57.83% 12
Northern Ireland 0 6 £115 - 10
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 24 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.05%) Confluence
3 18 (0.82%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.23%) MTS
7 4 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.14%) Apache
8 3 (0.14%) CMS
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.091%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.091%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.091%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.091%) SAP EP
9 2 (0.091%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 93 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.18%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.091%) Sketch
9 2 (0.091%) Windchill
10 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.046%) InVision
10 1 (0.046%) Simulink
10 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 805 (36.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 102 (4.65%) SAP FI
3 77 (3.51%) SAP CO
4 73 (3.33%) SAP EWM
5 70 (3.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 65 (2.96%) SAP MM
7 64 (2.92%) SAP ERP
7 64 (2.92%) SAP PP
8 58 (2.64%) SAP HCM
8 58 (2.64%) SAP Payroll
9 42 (1.91%) SAP HR
10 37 (1.69%) SAP WM
11 36 (1.64%) SAP QM
12 33 (1.50%) SAP PM
13 31 (1.41%) SAP MDG
14 28 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
15 27 (1.23%) SAP SD
16 26 (1.18%) SAP EHS
16 26 (1.18%) SAP VC
17 25 (1.14%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 162 (7.38%) Azure
2 146 (6.65%) SuccessFactors
3 95 (4.33%) Power Platform
4 77 (3.51%) AWS
5 56 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (2.46%) SaaS
7 44 (2.00%) GCP
8 40 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 22 (1.00%) Entra ID
11 21 (0.96%) Snowflake
12 20 (0.91%) OCI
13 18 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (0.73%) Power Automate
15 13 (0.59%) GitHub
16 11 (0.50%) Boomi
17 10 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (0.46%) PaaS
18 9 (0.41%) Tricentis Tosca
19 8 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.09%) Wireless
2 17 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 10 (0.46%) LAN
4 9 (0.41%) VPN
5 8 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (0.36%) Firewall
5 8 (0.36%) Skype
6 6 (0.27%) WAN
7 4 (0.18%) DHCP
7 4 (0.18%) DNS
7 4 (0.18%) FTP
7 4 (0.18%) Network Security
7 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.14%) BGP
8 3 (0.14%) Junos
8 3 (0.14%) OSPF
8 3 (0.14%) RFID
8 3 (0.14%) VLAN
9 2 (0.091%) Internet
9 2 (0.091%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.37%) SAP HANA
2 91 (4.15%) Power BI
3 49 (2.23%) SAP BW
4 32 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (1.28%) SAP Data Services
6 27 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 23 (1.05%) SQL Server
8 18 (0.82%) Metadata
9 15 (0.68%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 13 (0.59%) Tableau
11 12 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
12 10 (0.46%) GIS
12 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.32%) MySQL
14 7 (0.32%) Power Query
14 7 (0.32%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.27%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 85 (3.87%) JIRA
2 17 (0.77%) Git
3 10 (0.46%) LSMW
4 8 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.32%) GitLab
6 6 (0.27%) Toad
7 4 (0.18%) JUnit
7 4 (0.18%) Postman
8 3 (0.14%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.14%) Storybook
8 3 (0.14%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.091%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.091%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.091%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.091%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.091%) Selenium
9 2 (0.091%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.091%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.046%) Hudson
General
1 774 (35.26%) Finance
2 741 (33.76%) Social Skills
3 427 (19.45%) Manufacturing
4 336 (15.31%) Public Sector
5 237 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
6 221 (10.07%) Telecoms
7 218 (9.93%) Marketing
8 198 (9.02%) Electronics
9 115 (5.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 62 (2.82%) Retail
11 56 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.41%) Billing
12 53 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
13 51 (2.32%) Banking
13 51 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (2.10%) Legal
15 41 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
16 36 (1.64%) Aerospace
17 31 (1.41%) Local Government
18 26 (1.18%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 657 (29.93%) Consultant
2 532 (24.24%) SAP Consultant
3 220 (10.02%) Lead
4 201 (9.16%) Architect
5 184 (8.38%) Analyst
6 147 (6.70%) Project Manager
7 126 (5.74%) SAP Manager
8 123 (5.60%) Developer
9 119 (5.42%) Senior
10 111 (5.06%) SAP Architect
11 92 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
12 88 (4.01%) Business Analyst
13 72 (3.28%) Functional Consultant
13 72 (3.28%) SAP Project Manager
14 66 (3.01%) SAP Functional Consultant
15 65 (2.96%) Management Consultant
15 65 (2.96%) SAP Developer
16 58 (2.64%) SAP Analyst
17 57 (2.60%) SAP Solutions Architect
18 49 (2.23%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (7.15%) SAP Fiori
2 54 (2.46%) Web Services
3 52 (2.37%) XML
4 47 (2.14%) SOAP
5 43 (1.96%) SAPUI5
6 42 (1.91%) REST
7 39 (1.78%) SAP PI
8 38 (1.73%) Middleware
9 37 (1.69%) SAP Basis
10 35 (1.59%) BAPI
11 32 (1.46%) SAP TM
12 26 (1.18%) HTML
13 25 (1.14%) JSON
14 24 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
15 22 (1.00%) CSS
16 19 (0.87%) IDoc
17 17 (0.77%) JMS
18 16 (0.73%) EDI
19 15 (0.68%) SailPoint
20 14 (0.64%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 70 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
2 64 (2.92%) Onboarding
3 39 (1.78%) Data Structures
3 39 (1.78%) Life Science
4 38 (1.73%) Public Cloud
5 36 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.55%) Data Centre
6 34 (1.55%) FMCG
7 32 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 21 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (0.91%) Replication
12 19 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (0.73%) NHS
14 15 (0.68%) Mobile App
14 15 (0.68%) Private Cloud
14 15 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
15 14 (0.64%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.19%) Windows
2 32 (1.46%) Android
2 32 (1.46%) Mac OS
3 19 (0.87%) Linux
3 19 (0.87%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (0.18%) Unix
6 4 (0.18%) VMS
7 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.091%) SUSE
9 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (17.81%) Migration
2 385 (17.54%) ERP
2 385 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 292 (13.30%) Business Intelligence
4 281 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
5 258 (11.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 244 (11.12%) Agile
7 215 (9.79%) Programme Management
8 211 (9.61%) Data Migration
9 206 (9.38%) Logistics
10 195 (8.88%) Digital Marketing
11 190 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 166 (7.56%) Project Management
13 163 (7.43%) Analytics
14 160 (7.29%) Workshop Facilitation
15 154 (7.02%) User Acceptance Testing
16 140 (6.38%) Change Management
17 137 (6.24%) Roadmaps
18 136 (6.20%) Project Delivery
19 131 (5.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 147 (6.70%) ABAP
2 108 (4.92%) SQL
3 56 (2.55%) JavaScript
4 53 (2.41%) Java
5 52 (2.37%) Python
6 20 (0.91%) PowerShell
7 16 (0.73%) C#
8 14 (0.64%) Groovy
9 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.27%) C++
11 5 (0.23%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.18%) Go
12 4 (0.18%) R
12 4 (0.18%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.14%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.14%) COBOL
13 3 (0.14%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.14%) VBA
14 2 (0.091%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 517 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 423 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 159 (7.24%) Degree
4 96 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 56 (2.55%) SAP Certification
6 48 (2.19%) PMP
7 47 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 45 (2.05%) PMI Certification
9 41 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.41%) ACCA
11 30 (1.37%) CIMA
12 23 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.46%) CISSP
15 10 (0.46%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.41%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.36%) CCA
18 7 (0.32%) CISM
18 7 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.46%) QA
3 51 (2.32%) PMO
4 41 (1.87%) GDPR
5 34 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 21 (0.96%) GRC
6 21 (0.96%) GxP
7 20 (0.91%) SLA
8 19 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.55%) IFRS
9 12 (0.55%) NIST
10 10 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.41%) COBIT
11 9 (0.41%) GMP
12 7 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.32%) GAAP
12 7 (0.32%) ITGC
12 7 (0.32%) SOX 404
13 6 (0.27%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.46%) Docker
3 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.046%) Firmware
4 1 (0.046%) IAG
4 1 (0.046%) Varnish
4 1 (0.046%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (0.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.18%) Terraform
4 3 (0.14%) Control-M
4 3 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.14%) vRealize
5 2 (0.091%) Ansible
5 2 (0.091%) Grafana
5 2 (0.091%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.091%) Linux-HA
5 2 (0.091%) Pacemaker
5 2 (0.091%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.091%) SCCM
6 1 (0.046%) Argo
6 1 (0.046%) Autotask
6 1 (0.046%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.046%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.046%) SCOM
Vendors
1 182 (8.29%) Oracle
2 177 (8.06%) Ariba
3 174 (7.93%) Microsoft
4 88 (4.01%) Salesforce
5 81 (3.69%) Workday
6 67 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 45 (2.05%) Cisco
8 37 (1.69%) Adobe
9 32 (1.46%) Dell
10 30 (1.37%) HP
11 24 (1.09%) Apple
12 22 (1.00%) OpenText
13 21 (0.96%) Databricks
13 21 (0.96%) IBM
14 20 (0.91%) Google
14 20 (0.91%) webMethods
15 18 (0.82%) Informatica
16 17 (0.77%) MuleSoft
17 14 (0.64%) Sage
18 13 (0.59%) Concur