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 30 September 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
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,757 2,156 2,519
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.02% 6.57% 6.70%
As % of the Vendors category 12.05% 13.80% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,087 1,175
10th Percentile £360 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £746 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 119 67
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.40 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.41 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.63 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -49.71% +28.57%
75th Percentile £44.25 £41.61 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.80 £65.70 £66.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £22.32 £35.36
% change year-on-year +8.40% -36.89% +17.87%

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 22,886 15,627 16,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.70% 47.59% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,922 9,629 9,875
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £613 £625
90th Percentile £708 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,332 809 623
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.74 £14.69
25th Percentile £16.38 £17.75 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.65 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -22.62% -24.42%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.72 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.06% -29.00% -29.41%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 2,169 £565 -1.74% 1,922
UK excluding London -2 1,408 £550 - 1,263
Work from Home -12 785 £550 -1.79% 775
London -32 750 £600 +3.14% 704
South East +1 391 £540 +5.06% 348
Midlands +4 345 £550 +1.57% 240
North of England -17 344 £550 -8.33% 321
North West -8 243 £550 -11.82% 171
West Midlands +1 213 £525 -2.78% 137
East of England -6 160 £566 -2.41% 122
East Midlands +20 125 £575 -0.86% 103
Yorkshire -6 94 £500 -4.76% 117
South West -38 80 £550 -2.22% 94
Wales +15 51 £550 +123.35% 52
Scotland -8 48 £533 +25.41% 60
North East -43 6 £303 -44.42% 35
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 31

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 34 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 26 (0.94%) Confluence
3 19 (0.69%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.18%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.15%) Apache
8 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.15%) SugarCRM
9 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.073%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.073%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.073%) SAS
10 2 (0.073%) ThingWorx
11 1 (0.036%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 149 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) Windchill
7 5 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) CATIA
9 1 (0.036%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.036%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1,068 (38.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 133 (4.82%) SAP FI
3 85 (3.08%) SAP CO
4 77 (2.79%) SAP Payroll
5 76 (2.76%) SAP FI/CO
6 67 (2.43%) SAP ERP
6 67 (2.43%) SAP SD
7 66 (2.39%) SAP HCM
8 63 (2.29%) SAP HR
9 57 (2.07%) SAP MM
10 53 (1.92%) SAP PSCD
11 51 (1.85%) SAP GRC
12 49 (1.78%) SAP BRIM
13 48 (1.74%) SAP PP
14 45 (1.63%) SAP MDG
15 41 (1.49%) SAP PM
16 38 (1.38%) SAP EWM
17 34 (1.23%) SAP QM
18 31 (1.12%) SAP FI-CA
19 28 (1.02%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 267 (9.68%) SuccessFactors
2 220 (7.98%) Azure
3 133 (4.82%) Power Platform
4 100 (3.63%) AWS
5 60 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (2.18%) SaaS
6 55 (1.99%) GCP
7 35 (1.27%) Boomi
8 30 (1.09%) Entra ID
8 30 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (0.98%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (0.76%) Snowflake
12 18 (0.65%) GitHub
12 18 (0.65%) Tricentis Tosca
13 16 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (0.54%) Power Automate
14 15 (0.54%) Smartsheet
15 14 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.22%) HTTP
1 6 (0.22%) Intranet
2 5 (0.18%) Broadband
3 3 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.073%) Firewall
4 2 (0.073%) Internet
4 2 (0.073%) LAN
4 2 (0.073%) Network Security
4 2 (0.073%) SSL
4 2 (0.073%) WAN
5 1 (0.036%) DNS
5 1 (0.036%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.036%) MQTT
5 1 (0.036%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.036%) Wireless
5 1 (0.036%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (4.13%) Power BI
2 88 (3.19%) SAP HANA
3 57 (2.07%) SAP BW
4 47 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
6 39 (1.41%) Tableau
7 30 (1.09%) SQL Server
8 21 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
9 20 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 17 (0.62%) Metadata
12 14 (0.51%) GIS
13 12 (0.44%) Power Query
14 11 (0.40%) Oracle Database
15 10 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.36%) Relational Database
16 9 (0.33%) Delta Lake
17 6 (0.22%) NoSQL
17 6 (0.22%) Qlik Sense
17 6 (0.22%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 120 (4.35%) JIRA
2 21 (0.76%) Git
3 17 (0.62%) Hudson
4 15 (0.54%) Postman
5 11 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.29%) eggPlant
7 7 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.25%) SoapUI
7 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.18%) JMeter
9 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.18%) Selenium
9 5 (0.18%) Toad
10 4 (0.15%) LSMW
11 3 (0.11%) SOAtest
12 2 (0.073%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.073%) Maven
12 2 (0.073%) Rational Functional Tester
12 2 (0.073%) SilkTest
General
1 885 (32.10%) Finance
2 743 (26.95%) Social Skills
3 388 (14.07%) Manufacturing
4 290 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
5 144 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 138 (5.01%) Retail
7 119 (4.32%) Billing
8 81 (2.94%) Legal
9 78 (2.83%) Aerospace
10 71 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 70 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 67 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (1.92%) Banking
14 52 (1.89%) General Ledger
15 41 (1.49%) Automotive
16 36 (1.31%) Aviation
17 34 (1.23%) Telecoms
18 33 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
19 24 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
19 24 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 644 (23.36%) Consultant
2 538 (19.51%) SAP Consultant
3 355 (12.88%) Architect
4 323 (11.72%) Lead
5 311 (11.28%) Analyst
6 255 (9.25%) Senior
7 191 (6.93%) SAP Manager
8 180 (6.53%) SAP Architect
9 152 (5.51%) Project Manager
10 146 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
11 130 (4.72%) Business Analyst
12 114 (4.13%) SAP Analyst
13 109 (3.95%) Administrator
14 97 (3.52%) Developer
15 87 (3.16%) Functional Consultant
16 79 (2.87%) SAP Project Manager
17 77 (2.79%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 72 (2.61%) SAP Solutions Architect
19 64 (2.32%) Senior Consultant
20 62 (2.25%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (5.30%) SAP Fiori
2 109 (3.95%) Middleware
3 94 (3.41%) REST
4 76 (2.76%) SOAP
5 53 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 51 (1.85%) SAPUI5
7 48 (1.74%) XML
8 43 (1.56%) SAP Basis
9 40 (1.45%) SAP PI
10 38 (1.38%) Web Services
11 36 (1.31%) BAPI
12 33 (1.20%) JSON
13 30 (1.09%) IDoc
14 28 (1.02%) EDI
15 24 (0.87%) OAuth
16 20 (0.73%) Node.js
17 18 (0.65%) Kafka
17 18 (0.65%) SAP ALE
18 17 (0.62%) OAuth2
19 15 (0.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 99 (3.59%) Onboarding
2 87 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
3 77 (2.79%) Data Structures
4 75 (2.72%) Public Cloud
5 66 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
6 60 (2.18%) FMCG
7 58 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 56 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 44 (1.60%) Life Science
11 30 (1.09%) Cloud Native
11 30 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.02%) Replication
13 22 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (0.76%) Private Cloud
15 17 (0.62%) AI Agents
15 17 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (0.62%) Operational Technology
16 13 (0.47%) Manufacturing Execution System
16 13 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.27%) Linux
2 29 (1.05%) Windows
3 20 (0.73%) Unix
4 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.29%) SUSE
5 7 (0.25%) VMS
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Android
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.073%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (26.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 639 (23.18%) ERP
3 503 (18.24%) Migration
4 369 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
5 359 (13.02%) User Acceptance Testing
6 308 (11.17%) Data Migration
7 267 (9.68%) Agile
8 257 (9.32%) Validation
9 254 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 245 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 238 (8.63%) Analytics
11 238 (8.63%) Logistics
12 206 (7.47%) Workshop Facilitation
13 189 (6.86%) Roadmaps
14 173 (6.27%) Process Improvement
15 169 (6.13%) Project Delivery
16 168 (6.09%) System Integration Testing
17 166 (6.02%) Decision-Making
18 160 (5.80%) Project Management
19 155 (5.62%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (5.11%) SQL
2 132 (4.79%) ABAP
3 67 (2.43%) Python
4 51 (1.85%) Java
5 24 (0.87%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.58%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.22%) C#
9 5 (0.18%) Bash
9 5 (0.18%) BeanShell
9 5 (0.18%) Groovy
9 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
10 4 (0.15%) Bicep
10 4 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.15%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.073%) Perl
12 2 (0.073%) VB
Qualifications
1 444 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 345 (12.51%) SC Cleared
3 153 (5.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 135 (4.90%) Degree
5 50 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 42 (1.52%) ACCA
7 40 (1.45%) CIMA
8 38 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 38 (1.38%) PMP
9 22 (0.80%) SAP Certification
10 17 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 17 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (0.54%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.44%) HNC
13 11 (0.40%) ISEB
14 10 (0.36%) CIPD
14 10 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 10 (0.36%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.25%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 87 (3.16%) PMO
3 76 (2.76%) QA
4 59 (2.14%) GDPR
5 51 (1.85%) GRC
6 40 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (0.58%) IFRS
8 15 (0.54%) GxP
9 13 (0.47%) SLA
10 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.40%) NIST
12 8 (0.29%) ITGC
13 6 (0.22%) GAAP
13 6 (0.22%) GMP
13 6 (0.22%) NCSC
14 5 (0.18%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.18%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.11%) COSHH
15 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 17 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.58%) IAG
3 6 (0.22%) Corosync
4 5 (0.18%) Docker
5 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (0.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (0.25%) Pacemaker
3 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.15%) Control-M
5 3 (0.11%) Ansible
5 3 (0.11%) Grafana
6 2 (0.073%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.073%) MOM
7 1 (0.036%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.036%) QRadar
7 1 (0.036%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.036%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 300 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 273 (9.90%) Oracle
3 269 (9.76%) Ariba
4 111 (4.03%) Salesforce
5 108 (3.92%) Workday
6 78 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.63%) Concur
8 44 (1.60%) Databricks
9 42 (1.52%) MuleSoft
10 36 (1.31%) IBM
11 31 (1.12%) Siemens
12 29 (1.05%) Adobe
13 28 (1.02%) Google
14 23 (0.83%) Informatica
15 17 (0.62%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.54%) Dell
16 15 (0.54%) Infor
16 15 (0.54%) JD Edwards
16 15 (0.54%) Sage
17 13 (0.47%) OpenText