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 27 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
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,200 2,044 2,788
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.78% 6.57% 6.28%
As % of the Vendors category 12.63% 14.30% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 990 1,436
10th Percentile £350 £357 £357
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £675 £656 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £540 £528
% change year-on-year - +2.37% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 37 110
10th Percentile £16.54 £18.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% -37.78%
75th Percentile £56.17 £64.10 £59.62
90th Percentile £77.73 £86.00 £84.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -20.58% +21.70% -45.22%

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 17,418 14,293 19,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.75% 45.97% 43.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,223 8,434 12,280
10th Percentile £300 £281 £250
25th Percentile £411 £409 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 819 422 865
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -14.37% +6.17%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £71.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.80% -16.67% +20.00%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -9 1,745 £573 +4.18% 487
UK excluding London -12 968 £540 - 410
Work from Home 0 739 £573 +4.09% 293
London -6 728 £590 +2.57% 155
North of England -13 291 £598 +12.30% 74
South East -8 245 £545 -0.91% 162
North West -9 201 £624 +13.41% 39
Midlands -17 174 £512 -5.19% 65
East of England +1 135 £505 -12.17% 66
West Midlands -14 114 £515 -4.63% 45
South West -34 86 £550 +3.77% 30
Yorkshire +2 79 £565 +36.97% 27
East Midlands -13 56 £488 -6.25% 19
Scotland +10 30 £450 +0.56% 8
Wales +4 20 £370 -45.26% 17
North East -26 10 £175 -53.33% 9
Northern Ireland -1 5 £115 - 6
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 22 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 17 (0.77%) Confluence
2 17 (0.77%) NetWeaver
3 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.23%) MTS
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.18%) CMS
7 3 (0.14%) Apache
7 3 (0.14%) MS Project Server
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.091%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.091%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.091%) LiveCycle
8 2 (0.091%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.091%) SAP EP
Applications
1 92 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.18%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.045%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.045%) Sketch
10 1 (0.045%) Trello
10 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 844 (38.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 104 (4.73%) SAP FI
3 77 (3.50%) SAP CO
4 73 (3.32%) SAP EWM
5 70 (3.18%) SAP FI/CO
6 68 (3.09%) SAP MM
7 64 (2.91%) SAP PP
8 63 (2.86%) SAP ERP
9 54 (2.45%) SAP Payroll
10 50 (2.27%) SAP HCM
11 39 (1.77%) SAP HR
11 39 (1.77%) SAP PM
12 38 (1.73%) SAP WM
13 33 (1.50%) SAP QM
14 31 (1.41%) SAP MDG
15 30 (1.36%) SAP PSCD
16 28 (1.27%) SAP EHS
17 26 (1.18%) SAP Travel Management
18 25 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
18 25 (1.14%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 172 (7.82%) Azure
2 137 (6.23%) SuccessFactors
3 87 (3.95%) Power Platform
4 78 (3.55%) AWS
5 56 (2.55%) SaaS
6 53 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
7 43 (1.95%) GCP
8 41 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.09%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 22 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (0.95%) OCI
12 21 (0.95%) Snowflake
13 18 (0.82%) Power Automate
14 13 (0.59%) GitHub
15 12 (0.55%) Boomi
16 11 (0.50%) Tricentis Tosca
17 10 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (0.45%) PaaS
18 8 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.05%) Wireless
2 17 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 10 (0.45%) VPN
4 8 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.36%) LAN
4 8 (0.36%) Skype
4 8 (0.36%) WAN
5 7 (0.32%) Firewall
5 7 (0.32%) Network Security
6 5 (0.23%) BGP
6 5 (0.23%) DNS
6 5 (0.23%) OSPF
6 5 (0.23%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.18%) FTP
7 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.14%) DHCP
8 3 (0.14%) Internet
8 3 (0.14%) Junos
8 3 (0.14%) RFID
9 2 (0.091%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (3.86%) SAP HANA
2 83 (3.77%) Power BI
3 45 (2.05%) SAP BW
4 32 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (1.32%) SAP Data Services
6 25 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 24 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 17 (0.77%) Metadata
9 15 (0.68%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 15 (0.68%) Tableau
10 14 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
11 10 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (0.41%) GIS
12 9 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.36%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.32%) Power Query
15 6 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.27%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.27%) MySQL
16 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 78 (3.55%) JIRA
2 15 (0.68%) Git
3 10 (0.45%) LSMW
4 8 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.32%) GitLab
5 7 (0.32%) Toad
6 6 (0.27%) Postman
7 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.18%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.18%) JUnit
7 4 (0.18%) Selenium
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.14%) Storybook
8 3 (0.14%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.091%) Hudson
9 2 (0.091%) JMeter
9 2 (0.091%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.091%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.045%) Bitbucket
General
1 798 (36.27%) Finance
2 749 (34.05%) Social Skills
3 408 (18.55%) Manufacturing
4 339 (15.41%) Public Sector
5 246 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
6 218 (9.91%) Telecoms
7 210 (9.55%) Marketing
8 188 (8.55%) Electronics
9 104 (4.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 60 (2.73%) Billing
11 59 (2.68%) Retail
12 58 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
13 57 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
14 51 (2.32%) Banking
15 48 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
16 45 (2.05%) Legal
17 40 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
18 37 (1.68%) Local Government
19 34 (1.55%) Aerospace
20 31 (1.41%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 655 (29.77%) Consultant
2 522 (23.73%) SAP Consultant
3 250 (11.36%) Lead
4 215 (9.77%) Architect
5 174 (7.91%) Analyst
6 144 (6.55%) Project Manager
7 127 (5.77%) Developer
7 127 (5.77%) SAP Manager
8 121 (5.50%) Senior
9 120 (5.45%) SAP Architect
10 103 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
11 91 (4.14%) Business Analyst
12 74 (3.36%) Management Consultant
13 71 (3.23%) SAP Project Manager
14 70 (3.18%) Functional Consultant
15 69 (3.14%) SAP Developer
16 64 (2.91%) SAP Functional Consultant
16 64 (2.91%) SAP Solutions Architect
17 52 (2.36%) SAP Analyst
18 45 (2.05%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (7.36%) SAP Fiori
2 53 (2.41%) Web Services
3 51 (2.32%) XML
4 48 (2.18%) SAPUI5
5 47 (2.14%) SOAP
6 45 (2.05%) REST
7 43 (1.95%) Middleware
8 40 (1.82%) SAP TM
9 37 (1.68%) BAPI
9 37 (1.68%) SAP PI
10 35 (1.59%) SAP Basis
11 25 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
12 24 (1.09%) HTML
13 23 (1.05%) JSON
14 22 (1.00%) CSS
15 18 (0.82%) IDoc
16 17 (0.77%) JMS
17 16 (0.73%) SailPoint
18 15 (0.68%) EDI
19 14 (0.64%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 72 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
2 70 (3.18%) Onboarding
3 53 (2.41%) Public Cloud
4 41 (1.86%) Data Structures
5 37 (1.68%) FMCG
6 34 (1.55%) Life Science
7 33 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 32 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.00%) Management Information System
13 20 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (0.91%) Replication
14 16 (0.73%) Mobile App
14 16 (0.73%) NHS
14 16 (0.73%) Taxonomies
15 14 (0.64%) Cloud Native
16 13 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.27%) Windows
2 32 (1.45%) Mac OS
3 31 (1.41%) Android
4 18 (0.82%) Linux
4 18 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.18%) VMS
8 3 (0.14%) Unix
9 2 (0.091%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.091%) SUSE
10 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (18.45%) ERP
2 385 (17.50%) Migration
3 381 (17.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 284 (12.91%) Business Intelligence
5 275 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 270 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 228 (10.36%) Agile
8 212 (9.64%) Logistics
9 204 (9.27%) Data Migration
10 203 (9.23%) Programme Management
11 187 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 187 (8.50%) Digital Marketing
12 175 (7.95%) Workshop Facilitation
13 173 (7.86%) Analytics
14 169 (7.68%) User Acceptance Testing
15 164 (7.45%) Project Management
16 140 (6.36%) Change Management
17 134 (6.09%) Validation
18 133 (6.05%) Project Delivery
18 133 (6.05%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 139 (6.32%) ABAP
2 111 (5.05%) SQL
3 53 (2.41%) JavaScript
4 51 (2.32%) Python
5 50 (2.27%) Java
6 21 (0.95%) PowerShell
7 15 (0.68%) C#
8 14 (0.64%) Groovy
9 10 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.27%) C++
12 4 (0.18%) 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%) C
Qualifications
1 493 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 406 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 162 (7.36%) Degree
4 98 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 57 (2.59%) SAP Certification
6 48 (2.18%) PMP
7 44 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 41 (1.86%) PMI Certification
10 30 (1.36%) ACCA
11 29 (1.32%) CIMA
12 22 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.36%) CCA
15 8 (0.36%) CISSP
15 8 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 7 (0.32%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.32%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.55%) QA
3 54 (2.45%) PMO
4 42 (1.91%) GDPR
5 31 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.14%) SLA
7 18 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.77%) GRC
9 16 (0.73%) GxP
10 12 (0.55%) NIST
11 11 (0.50%) IFRS
12 10 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.41%) GMP
14 8 (0.36%) COBIT
14 8 (0.36%) GAAP
15 7 (0.32%) ITGC
15 7 (0.32%) SOX 404
16 6 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.27%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.41%) Docker
3 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.045%) IAG
4 1 (0.045%) Varnish
4 1 (0.045%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.27%) Terraform
4 3 (0.14%) Control-M
4 3 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
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%) Linux-HA
5 2 (0.091%) Pacemaker
5 2 (0.091%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.091%) SCCM
6 1 (0.045%) FreeIPA
6 1 (0.045%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.045%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.045%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.045%) SCOM
Vendors
1 179 (8.14%) Oracle
2 178 (8.09%) Ariba
3 177 (8.05%) Microsoft
4 84 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 82 (3.73%) Workday
6 65 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 44 (2.00%) Cisco
8 38 (1.73%) Adobe
9 33 (1.50%) Dell
10 32 (1.45%) HP
11 24 (1.09%) Apple
12 22 (1.00%) Databricks
13 21 (0.95%) IBM
14 20 (0.91%) OpenText
14 20 (0.91%) Sage
14 20 (0.91%) webMethods
15 19 (0.86%) Google
15 19 (0.86%) Informatica
16 15 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.68%) Siemens