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 11 August 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
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,702 2,093 2,496
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.06% 6.36% 6.41%
As % of the Vendors category 12.19% 13.45% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,348 1,042 1,281
10th Percentile £361 £363 £393
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £574 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -0.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 109 87
10th Percentile £16.57 £16.18 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.47 £20.40 £22.38
Median hourly rate £31.86 £27.40 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +16.29% -22.51% -26.72%
75th Percentile £59.19 £50.00 £60.60
90th Percentile £86.00 £70.00 £66.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -31.42% -26.67%

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 22,171 15,556 17,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.51% 47.24% 43.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,699 9,514 10,605
10th Percentile £313 £280 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,153 794 841
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.46 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.33 £17.13 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -30.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.44 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.54 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £21.39 £28.00
% change year-on-year +49.60% -23.61% -19.42%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -14 2,142 £575 +1.05% 957
UK excluding London -4 1,375 £550 - 584
Work from Home -6 812 £550 -4.35% 413
London -32 757 £600 +2.56% 394
South East -10 376 £550 +4.76% 181
Midlands +12 365 £550 - 129
North of England -4 339 £550 - 151
North West -2 232 £550 - 95
West Midlands +2 227 £500 -7.66% 79
East of England -8 144 £544 -6.25% 62
East Midlands +36 129 £625 +1.96% 49
Yorkshire +5 100 £525 - 51
South West -33 79 £550 +4.76% 34
Wales +10 40 £550 +77.28% 13
Scotland -8 39 £529 -0.42% 20
North East -46 6 £500 -8.26% 7
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +3 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 38 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.37%) Confluence
3 22 (0.81%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.48%) CMS
5 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.15%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) Apache
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.11%) JBoss
8 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.074%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.074%) SAS
9 2 (0.074%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.037%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.037%) Camunda
Applications
1 134 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) CATIA
7 7 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.037%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,053 (38.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 125 (4.63%) SAP FI
3 76 (2.81%) SAP CO
4 72 (2.66%) SAP FI/CO
5 67 (2.48%) SAP ERP
6 62 (2.29%) SAP SD
7 60 (2.22%) SAP MM
8 53 (1.96%) SAP PSCD
9 49 (1.81%) SAP EWM
10 46 (1.70%) SAP BRIM
11 45 (1.67%) SAP Payroll
12 43 (1.59%) SAP GRC
12 43 (1.59%) SAP IBP
13 42 (1.55%) SAP PP
14 35 (1.30%) SAP PM
15 34 (1.26%) SAP HCM
16 33 (1.22%) SAP MDG
17 32 (1.18%) SAP FI-CA
17 32 (1.18%) SAP HR
17 32 (1.18%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 283 (10.47%) SuccessFactors
2 226 (8.36%) Azure
3 142 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 92 (3.40%) AWS
5 68 (2.52%) SaaS
6 60 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (1.48%) Entra ID
7 40 (1.48%) GCP
8 37 (1.37%) Boomi
9 28 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (0.89%) Snowflake
12 19 (0.70%) GitHub
12 19 (0.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 18 (0.67%) Power Automate
14 16 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (0.56%) Smartsheet
16 12 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.26%) Network Security
2 5 (0.19%) Firewall
3 4 (0.15%) Intranet
4 3 (0.11%) HTTP
4 3 (0.11%) VPN
5 2 (0.074%) Broadband
5 2 (0.074%) LAN
5 2 (0.074%) SSL
5 2 (0.074%) WAN
6 1 (0.037%) DNS
6 1 (0.037%) FTP
6 1 (0.037%) Internet
6 1 (0.037%) MQTT
6 1 (0.037%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.037%) Wireless
6 1 (0.037%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (4.63%) Power BI
2 94 (3.48%) SAP HANA
3 52 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (1.92%) SAP BW
4 42 (1.55%) Tableau
5 41 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
5 41 (1.52%) SQL Server
6 28 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
7 17 (0.63%) Data Lake
8 16 (0.59%) Metadata
8 16 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (0.44%) GIS
10 12 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
11 11 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.41%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.37%) MaxDB
12 10 (0.37%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.26%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 109 (4.03%) JIRA
2 24 (0.89%) Hudson
3 20 (0.74%) Git
4 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.26%) Postman
5 6 (0.22%) LSMW
5 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.19%) Toad
7 4 (0.15%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.11%) GitLab
8 3 (0.11%) JMeter
9 2 (0.074%) eggPlant
9 2 (0.074%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.074%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.074%) Maven
9 2 (0.074%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.074%) Selenium
10 1 (0.037%) Spock
10 1 (0.037%) TestRail
General
1 838 (31.01%) Finance
2 684 (25.31%) Social Skills
3 307 (11.36%) Manufacturing
4 279 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 150 (5.55%) Public Sector
6 113 (4.18%) Retail
7 106 (3.92%) Billing
8 84 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 82 (3.03%) Legal
10 78 (2.89%) Aerospace
11 60 (2.22%) Banking
12 58 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
14 51 (1.89%) General Ledger
15 35 (1.30%) Local Government
16 32 (1.18%) Automotive
17 30 (1.11%) Aviation
17 30 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
18 29 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 644 (23.83%) Consultant
2 558 (20.65%) SAP Consultant
3 342 (12.66%) Architect
4 315 (11.66%) Analyst
5 314 (11.62%) Lead
6 256 (9.47%) Senior
7 196 (7.25%) SAP Manager
8 179 (6.62%) SAP Architect
9 172 (6.37%) Project Manager
10 167 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
11 135 (5.00%) Business Analyst
12 111 (4.11%) Developer
13 105 (3.89%) SAP Analyst
14 88 (3.26%) SAP Project Manager
15 87 (3.22%) SAP Solutions Architect
16 85 (3.15%) Administrator
16 85 (3.15%) Functional Consultant
17 78 (2.89%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 66 (2.44%) Senior Consultant
19 61 (2.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (4.22%) SAP Fiori
2 91 (3.37%) Middleware
3 72 (2.66%) REST
4 56 (2.07%) SOAP
5 54 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 51 (1.89%) SAP Basis
7 38 (1.41%) BAPI
8 37 (1.37%) XML
9 35 (1.30%) IDoc
10 32 (1.18%) SAP PI
11 30 (1.11%) JSON
12 26 (0.96%) SAPUI5
13 25 (0.93%) EDI
14 24 (0.89%) Web Services
15 22 (0.81%) OAuth
16 17 (0.63%) Node.js
17 15 (0.56%) SAP ALE
18 14 (0.52%) JDBC
19 13 (0.48%) React
19 13 (0.48%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 86 (3.18%) Data Structures
1 86 (3.18%) Onboarding
2 85 (3.15%) Public Cloud
3 77 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
4 64 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (2.04%) FMCG
7 53 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 37 (1.37%) Life Science
10 33 (1.22%) Cloud Native
11 27 (1.00%) Replication
12 23 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (0.70%) AI Agents
16 18 (0.67%) Operational Technology
17 16 (0.59%) SCADA
18 15 (0.56%) Virtual Team
19 14 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.67%) Linux
2 36 (1.33%) Windows
3 21 (0.78%) Unix
4 9 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.33%) VMS
5 8 (0.30%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.074%) AIX
8 2 (0.074%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 604 (22.35%) ERP
3 489 (18.10%) Migration
4 351 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
5 310 (11.47%) User Acceptance Testing
6 308 (11.40%) Data Migration
7 293 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 274 (10.14%) Agile
9 272 (10.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 256 (9.47%) Validation
11 220 (8.14%) Workshop Facilitation
12 217 (8.03%) Analytics
13 207 (7.66%) Logistics
14 173 (6.40%) Project Management
15 167 (6.18%) Change Management
16 165 (6.11%) Roadmaps
17 159 (5.88%) Data Modelling
18 156 (5.77%) Business Intelligence
19 153 (5.66%) Decision-Making
20 149 (5.51%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 139 (5.14%) SQL
2 109 (4.03%) ABAP
3 64 (2.37%) Python
4 44 (1.63%) Java
5 20 (0.74%) PowerShell
6 19 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.26%) Bicep
7 7 (0.26%) C#
8 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.22%) Bash
9 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.19%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.15%) C++
10 4 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.11%) BeanShell
11 3 (0.11%) C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.11%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 432 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 331 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 133 (4.92%) Degree
4 118 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 57 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 37 (1.37%) ACCA
7 36 (1.33%) CIMA
8 33 (1.22%) PMP
9 32 (1.18%) PMI Certification
10 25 (0.93%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.44%) HNC
13 12 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.44%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
15 8 (0.30%) CISSP
15 8 (0.30%) ISEB
15 8 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.52%) PMO
3 92 (3.40%) QA
4 62 (2.29%) GDPR
5 59 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 46 (1.70%) GRC
7 17 (0.63%) IFRS
8 11 (0.41%) GxP
9 10 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.37%) SLA
10 8 (0.30%) GMP
10 8 (0.30%) NIST
11 7 (0.26%) GAAP
11 7 (0.26%) ITGC
12 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.22%) NCSC
13 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.074%) NIST 800
System Software
1 28 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.59%) IAG
3 8 (0.30%) Docker
4 6 (0.22%) Corosync
5 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (0.63%) Terraform
2 15 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
4 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 3 (0.11%) Grafana
5 3 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.074%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.074%) MOM
7 1 (0.037%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.037%) Control-M
7 1 (0.037%) Packer
7 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.037%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.037%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.037%) WSUS
Vendors
1 257 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 254 (9.40%) Ariba
3 251 (9.29%) Oracle
4 104 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 90 (3.33%) Workday
6 75 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 39 (1.44%) Databricks
9 38 (1.41%) Informatica
10 37 (1.37%) Concur
11 29 (1.07%) Adobe
12 28 (1.04%) IBM
13 23 (0.85%) Google
14 18 (0.67%) IFS
14 18 (0.67%) Sage
15 17 (0.63%) Infor
15 17 (0.63%) Red Hat
16 16 (0.59%) Siemens
17 14 (0.52%) Dell
17 14 (0.52%) OpenText