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 17 April 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
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,393 1,966 2,637
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.20% 6.70% 6.01%
As % of the Vendors category 12.18% 14.17% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 1,021 1,371
10th Percentile £358 £361 £350
25th Percentile £463 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% - -
75th Percentile £673 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £765 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 58 124
10th Percentile £17.78 £20.99 £13.02
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.56 £15.40
Median hourly rate £31.13 £57.50 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -45.87% +133.27% -45.22%
75th Percentile £57.25 £70.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.40 £86.00 £69.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +122.22% -50.00%

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 19,655 13,873 18,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.72% 47.26% 42.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,586 8,729 11,642
10th Percentile £313 £290 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.92% -1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £630
90th Percentile £700 £711 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 529 1,074
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.00 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.72 £18.51 £14.36
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +24.44% -46.84%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £56.43
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £24.66 £21.37
% change year-on-year +7.46% +15.40% -44.49%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -13 1,877 £561 +2.05% 581
UK excluding London -8 1,105 £525 -2.42% 450
Work from Home +3 785 £575 - 281
London -17 742 £600 - 167
South East -11 281 £575 +4.55% 147
North of England -24 273 £550 +4.76% 124
Midlands -6 250 £500 -7.66% 93
North West -17 179 £550 +3.77% 60
East of England +5 168 £505 -12.93% 41
West Midlands -9 162 £475 -19.15% 43
Yorkshire -7 87 £575 +50.82% 59
East Midlands +5 83 £588 +17.50% 50
South West -36 81 £618 +26.67% 35
Wales +20 37 £550 -24.14% 6
Scotland +11 24 £450 -25.00% 4
North East -37 6 £338 -18.67% 11
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +1 3 £500 +77.94% 7

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 33 (1.38%) Confluence
2 28 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.79%) NetWeaver
4 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.42%) CMS
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) SAP EP
8 5 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.21%) MTS
9 4 (0.17%) Apache
10 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.084%) JBoss
12 1 (0.042%) OpenStack
Applications
1 124 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.42%) CATIA
8 6 (0.25%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.21%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.042%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.042%) Sketch
11 1 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 893 (37.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (4.47%) SAP FI
3 67 (2.80%) SAP CO
3 67 (2.80%) SAP MM
4 64 (2.67%) SAP ERP
5 63 (2.63%) SAP FI/CO
6 61 (2.55%) SAP EWM
7 57 (2.38%) SAP PP
8 44 (1.84%) SAP PM
9 43 (1.80%) SAP Payroll
10 41 (1.71%) SAP HCM
11 38 (1.59%) SAP SD
12 37 (1.55%) SAP PSCD
13 31 (1.30%) SAP MDG
14 28 (1.17%) SAP IBP
14 28 (1.17%) SAP QM
15 26 (1.09%) SAP Travel Management
16 23 (0.96%) SAP BRIM
16 23 (0.96%) SAP HR
17 22 (0.92%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 208 (8.69%) SuccessFactors
2 204 (8.52%) Azure
3 97 (4.05%) Power Platform
4 89 (3.72%) AWS
5 73 (3.05%) SaaS
6 38 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (1.50%) GCP
8 34 (1.42%) Entra ID
9 30 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (0.88%) OCI
11 20 (0.84%) Boomi
11 20 (0.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 17 (0.71%) GitHub
13 16 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (0.67%) Snowflake
14 15 (0.63%) Power Automate
15 14 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (0.59%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.50%) Network Security
2 8 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (0.33%) Firewall
2 8 (0.33%) Skype
2 8 (0.33%) VPN
3 7 (0.29%) WAN
3 7 (0.29%) Wireless
4 6 (0.25%) LAN
5 5 (0.21%) FTP
5 5 (0.21%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.21%) RFID
5 5 (0.21%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.17%) BGP
6 4 (0.17%) DNS
6 4 (0.17%) OSPF
7 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 2 (0.084%) DHCP
8 2 (0.084%) Junos
8 2 (0.084%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.084%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (3.80%) Power BI
2 79 (3.30%) SAP HANA
3 34 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (1.30%) SAP BW
5 29 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.96%) Metadata
7 21 (0.88%) SAP Data Services
8 19 (0.79%) Tableau
9 18 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (0.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 8 (0.33%) GIS
14 7 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
16 5 (0.21%) MaxDB
16 5 (0.21%) MySQL
16 5 (0.21%) Relational Database
16 5 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 99 (4.14%) JIRA
2 17 (0.71%) Git
3 16 (0.67%) Hudson
4 9 (0.38%) LSMW
5 7 (0.29%) GitLab
5 7 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.29%) Toad
6 5 (0.21%) Postman
6 5 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.17%) JMeter
7 4 (0.17%) Selenium
8 3 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.13%) JUnit
8 3 (0.13%) Storybook
9 2 (0.084%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.084%) TestRail
9 2 (0.084%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (0.042%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.042%) Spock
10 1 (0.042%) Zephyr
General
1 798 (33.35%) Finance
2 726 (30.34%) Social Skills
3 343 (14.33%) Manufacturing
4 301 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
5 253 (10.57%) Public Sector
6 119 (4.97%) Marketing
6 119 (4.97%) Telecoms
7 97 (4.05%) Electronics
8 89 (3.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 68 (2.84%) Banking
10 67 (2.80%) Legal
10 67 (2.80%) Retail
11 56 (2.34%) Billing
12 53 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 51 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
15 48 (2.01%) Aerospace
16 42 (1.76%) General Ledger
17 40 (1.67%) Local Government
18 28 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 598 (24.99%) Consultant
2 511 (21.35%) SAP Consultant
3 308 (12.87%) Lead
4 283 (11.83%) Architect
5 227 (9.49%) Analyst
6 184 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 181 (7.56%) SAP Manager
8 176 (7.35%) Senior
9 163 (6.81%) SAP Architect
10 141 (5.89%) Solutions Architect
11 125 (5.22%) Developer
12 104 (4.35%) Business Analyst
13 95 (3.97%) SAP Project Manager
14 91 (3.80%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 77 (3.22%) Administrator
15 77 (3.22%) SAP Developer
16 70 (2.93%) Functional Consultant
17 68 (2.84%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 61 (2.55%) SAP Analyst
19 55 (2.30%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (4.60%) SAP Fiori
2 62 (2.59%) Middleware
3 57 (2.38%) SAP Basis
4 46 (1.92%) SAPUI5
5 41 (1.71%) REST
5 41 (1.71%) XML
6 37 (1.55%) SOAP
7 33 (1.38%) Web Services
8 28 (1.17%) BAPI
8 28 (1.17%) SAP TM
9 24 (1.00%) IDoc
9 24 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 24 (1.00%) SAP PI
10 21 (0.88%) CSS
10 21 (0.88%) HTML
11 14 (0.59%) EDI
11 14 (0.59%) JSON
12 13 (0.54%) SAP ALE
13 12 (0.50%) OAuth
13 12 (0.50%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (3.43%) Onboarding
2 81 (3.38%) Public Cloud
3 71 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 43 (1.80%) FMCG
5 43 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 36 (1.50%) Replication
7 35 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 29 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.21%) Taxonomies
9 28 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.04%) Cloud Native
10 25 (1.04%) Life Science
11 21 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.67%) Mobile App
13 15 (0.63%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.59%) AI Agents
15 13 (0.54%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.59%) Windows
2 23 (0.96%) Linux
3 15 (0.63%) Android
3 15 (0.63%) Mac OS
4 14 (0.59%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.25%) Unix
6 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.21%) VMS
7 4 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.084%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.042%) SUSE
10 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (21.40%) ERP
2 454 (18.97%) Migration
3 444 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 280 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
5 272 (11.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 260 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 255 (10.66%) Data Migration
8 232 (9.69%) Agile
9 208 (8.69%) Business Intelligence
10 206 (8.61%) Project Management
11 194 (8.11%) User Acceptance Testing
12 188 (7.86%) Validation
13 184 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
14 178 (7.44%) Change Management
15 176 (7.35%) Logistics
16 161 (6.73%) Analytics
17 152 (6.35%) Data Modelling
18 147 (6.14%) Roadmaps
19 138 (5.77%) Project Delivery
20 128 (5.35%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (5.31%) ABAP
2 109 (4.55%) SQL
3 46 (1.92%) Python
4 38 (1.59%) Java
5 36 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.59%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.38%) C#
8 8 (0.33%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.29%) Groovy
10 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.17%) C
11 4 (0.17%) Go
12 3 (0.13%) Bicep
12 3 (0.13%) C++
12 3 (0.13%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.13%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.13%) R
12 3 (0.13%) VB
12 3 (0.13%) VBA
13 2 (0.084%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 408 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 319 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 158 (6.60%) Degree
4 119 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 55 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 52 (2.17%) PMP
7 45 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 42 (1.76%) SAP Certification
9 40 (1.67%) ACCA
10 39 (1.63%) CIMA
11 31 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.50%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.42%) HNC
16 8 (0.33%) CISSP
16 8 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.29%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.47%) Data Quality
2 102 (4.26%) QA
3 82 (3.43%) PMO
4 46 (1.92%) GDPR
5 42 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 26 (1.09%) SLA
7 23 (0.96%) GRC
8 15 (0.63%) GxP
9 12 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.46%) IFRS
11 10 (0.42%) NIST
12 9 (0.38%) GAAP
13 8 (0.33%) GMP
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.21%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.21%) Basel III
15 5 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.21%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.42%) IAG
3 7 (0.29%) Docker
4 4 (0.17%) Corosync
5 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.042%) Varnish
5 1 (0.042%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (0.50%) Terraform
3 9 (0.38%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.29%) HP ALM
5 5 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (0.17%) Ansible
6 4 (0.17%) Pacemaker
7 3 (0.13%) Control-M
8 2 (0.084%) Grafana
8 2 (0.084%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.084%) vRealize
8 2 (0.084%) WSUS
9 1 (0.042%) Argo
9 1 (0.042%) CEMLI
9 1 (0.042%) MOM
9 1 (0.042%) Packer
9 1 (0.042%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.042%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.042%) SCCM
Vendors
1 241 (10.07%) Ariba
2 209 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 188 (7.86%) Oracle
4 83 (3.47%) Salesforce
5 78 (3.26%) Workday
6 73 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 38 (1.59%) Adobe
7 38 (1.59%) Informatica
8 35 (1.46%) Sage
9 28 (1.17%) Databricks
9 28 (1.17%) IBM
10 24 (1.00%) Cisco
11 20 (0.84%) Dell
11 20 (0.84%) HP
11 20 (0.84%) Okta
12 17 (0.71%) MuleSoft
12 17 (0.71%) OpenText
13 16 (0.67%) Concur
14 15 (0.63%) Siemens
15 12 (0.50%) Google