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 25 June 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
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,541 1,947 2,587
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.99% 6.47% 5.94%
As % of the Vendors category 12.21% 13.61% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 969 1,304
10th Percentile £360 £381 £395
25th Percentile £456 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £654 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £761 £814
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £554
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.68% +0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 85 140
10th Percentile £16.72 £17.75 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.75 £16.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £50.00 £27.19
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +83.89% -39.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.63 £85.60 £65.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.38 £48.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -37.69% +95.00% -44.44%

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 20,809 14,306 18,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.89% 47.50% 42.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,041 8,801 11,540
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 662 1,168
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.15%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £22.58
% change year-on-year +39.13% +1.86% -39.79%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 2,023 £560 -2.61% 395
UK excluding London -6 1,248 £525 -4.55% 287
Work from Home -2 792 £550 -5.46% 161
London -23 751 £600 - 160
South East -10 319 £540 +0.56% 93
Midlands +6 318 £533 -2.43% 65
North of England -10 305 £500 -5.66% 78
North West -5 198 £485 -8.49% 39
West Midlands -1 194 £508 -7.68% 46
East of England 0 164 £505 -15.66% 24
East Midlands +21 114 £575 +15.00% 19
Yorkshire +4 101 £525 +32.49% 33
South West -42 77 £550 +10.00% 16
Scotland +4 36 £533 -11.17% 10
Wales +12 34 £550 +21.41% 9
North East -41 6 £500 -6.54% 7
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -1 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 35 (1.38%) Confluence
2 30 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.91%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.51%) CMS
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 5 (0.20%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.079%) Apache
10 2 (0.079%) JBoss
10 2 (0.079%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.039%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.039%) Camunda
11 1 (0.039%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.039%) SAS
Applications
1 133 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.39%) CATIA
8 5 (0.20%) PTC Creo
9 4 (0.16%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.039%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,024 (40.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 108 (4.25%) SAP FI
3 67 (2.64%) SAP ERP
4 64 (2.52%) SAP CO
5 61 (2.40%) SAP FI/CO
6 60 (2.36%) SAP MM
7 57 (2.24%) SAP SD
8 53 (2.09%) SAP EWM
8 53 (2.09%) SAP PSCD
9 48 (1.89%) SAP BRIM
10 39 (1.53%) SAP PM
11 37 (1.46%) SAP IBP
12 35 (1.38%) SAP GRC
12 35 (1.38%) SAP PP
13 33 (1.30%) SAP MDG
14 31 (1.22%) SAP Payroll
15 30 (1.18%) SAP FI-CA
15 30 (1.18%) SAP HCM
16 26 (1.02%) SAP Travel Management
17 25 (0.98%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 235 (9.25%) SuccessFactors
2 219 (8.62%) Azure
3 127 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 78 (3.07%) AWS
5 74 (2.91%) SaaS
6 53 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.50%) Entra ID
8 37 (1.46%) Boomi
9 29 (1.14%) GCP
10 22 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (0.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 20 (0.79%) Power Automate
13 19 (0.75%) Snowflake
14 17 (0.67%) OCI
15 15 (0.59%) PowerApps
16 14 (0.55%) GitHub
16 14 (0.55%) Smartsheet
17 13 (0.51%) PaaS
18 12 (0.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.39%) Network Security
2 6 (0.24%) Firewall
3 5 (0.20%) VPN
3 5 (0.20%) WAN
4 3 (0.12%) RFID
4 3 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.079%) BGP
5 2 (0.079%) DNS
5 2 (0.079%) HTTP
5 2 (0.079%) LAN
5 2 (0.079%) OSPF
6 1 (0.039%) FTP
6 1 (0.039%) Internet
6 1 (0.039%) Intranet
6 1 (0.039%) MQTT
6 1 (0.039%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.039%) SSL
6 1 (0.039%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.039%) Wireless
6 1 (0.039%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (4.64%) Power BI
2 90 (3.54%) SAP HANA
3 45 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (1.57%) SQL Server
5 39 (1.53%) SAP BW
6 37 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
7 29 (1.14%) Tableau
8 25 (0.98%) SAP Data Services
9 21 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.55%) Data Lake
12 11 (0.43%) Relational Database
12 11 (0.43%) Sybase ASE
13 10 (0.39%) MaxDB
13 10 (0.39%) Metadata
14 9 (0.35%) GIS
15 7 (0.28%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.24%) NoSQL
17 5 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 5 (0.20%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 104 (4.09%) JIRA
2 24 (0.94%) Hudson
3 18 (0.71%) Git
4 7 (0.28%) Postman
5 6 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.24%) LSMW
6 4 (0.16%) JMeter
6 4 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.12%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.079%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.079%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.079%) Maven
8 2 (0.079%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.079%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.079%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.079%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.039%) Spock
9 1 (0.039%) TestDirector
General
1 832 (32.74%) Finance
2 684 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 272 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (10.51%) Manufacturing
5 171 (6.73%) Public Sector
6 105 (4.13%) Billing
7 88 (3.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 88 (3.46%) Retail
8 87 (3.42%) Legal
9 65 (2.56%) Banking
10 58 (2.28%) Aerospace
11 57 (2.24%) General Ledger
12 48 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
14 45 (1.77%) Local Government
15 35 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
15 35 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.02%) Law
17 22 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 613 (24.12%) Consultant
2 528 (20.78%) SAP Consultant
3 328 (12.91%) Lead
4 324 (12.75%) Architect
5 292 (11.49%) Analyst
6 221 (8.70%) Senior
7 176 (6.93%) Project Manager
8 175 (6.89%) SAP Architect
9 168 (6.61%) SAP Manager
10 155 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
11 128 (5.04%) Business Analyst
12 102 (4.01%) Developer
13 86 (3.38%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 84 (3.31%) Functional Consultant
15 81 (3.19%) SAP Project Manager
16 79 (3.11%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 78 (3.07%) SAP Analyst
18 75 (2.95%) Administrator
19 66 (2.60%) Senior Manager
20 56 (2.20%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (4.45%) SAP Fiori
2 94 (3.70%) Middleware
3 57 (2.24%) REST
4 56 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 53 (2.09%) SAP Basis
6 39 (1.53%) BAPI
6 39 (1.53%) SOAP
7 34 (1.34%) XML
8 33 (1.30%) SAPUI5
9 31 (1.22%) IDoc
10 27 (1.06%) JSON
11 26 (1.02%) EDI
11 26 (1.02%) SAP TM
12 24 (0.94%) Web Services
13 21 (0.83%) OAuth
14 19 (0.75%) SAP PI
15 13 (0.51%) SAML
15 13 (0.51%) SAP ALE
16 12 (0.47%) Node.js
17 10 (0.39%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 96 (3.78%) Public Cloud
2 80 (3.15%) Onboarding
3 77 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (2.48%) Data Structures
5 52 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 50 (1.97%) FMCG
7 42 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 29 (1.14%) Cloud Native
11 25 (0.98%) Replication
12 24 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (0.91%) Life Science
14 22 (0.87%) Taxonomies
15 21 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (0.63%) Virtual Team
17 14 (0.55%) SCADA
18 13 (0.51%) AI Agents
18 13 (0.51%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.65%) Linux
2 32 (1.26%) Windows
3 13 (0.51%) Unix
4 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.31%) SUSE
4 8 (0.31%) VMS
5 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.12%) Solaris
7 2 (0.079%) AIX
7 2 (0.079%) Android
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (23.34%) ERP
2 510 (20.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 470 (18.50%) Migration
4 320 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
5 292 (11.49%) Data Migration
6 276 (10.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 261 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 259 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 247 (9.72%) Agile
10 241 (9.48%) Validation
11 213 (8.38%) Workshop Facilitation
12 200 (7.87%) Analytics
13 194 (7.63%) Project Management
14 188 (7.40%) Logistics
15 171 (6.73%) Change Management
16 150 (5.90%) Business Intelligence
17 147 (5.79%) Data Modelling
18 142 (5.59%) Decision-Making
19 134 (5.27%) Roadmaps
20 127 (5.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 126 (4.96%) SQL
2 96 (3.78%) ABAP
3 49 (1.93%) Python
4 30 (1.18%) Java
5 18 (0.71%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.28%) C#
7 7 (0.28%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.20%) Bash
9 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.16%) C
9 4 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.16%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.16%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.16%) VB
10 3 (0.12%) Bicep
10 3 (0.12%) C++
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.079%) VBA
Qualifications
1 350 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 277 (10.90%) SC Cleared
3 141 (5.55%) Degree
4 116 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (1.97%) ACCA
6 49 (1.93%) CIMA
7 42 (1.65%) PMP
8 40 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 39 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 31 (1.22%) SAP Certification
11 15 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.59%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.43%) HNC
13 11 (0.43%) NVQ Level 4
14 9 (0.35%) CISSP
14 9 (0.35%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.31%) CISM
16 7 (0.28%) CCA
16 7 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.78%) PMO
3 91 (3.58%) QA
4 58 (2.28%) GDPR
4 58 (2.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 36 (1.42%) GRC
6 18 (0.71%) IFRS
7 15 (0.59%) SLA
8 13 (0.51%) GxP
9 12 (0.47%) GAAP
10 11 (0.43%) GMP
11 9 (0.35%) NCSC
12 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.28%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 6 (0.24%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.24%) NIST
15 5 (0.20%) Basel III
15 5 (0.20%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.20%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 24 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.47%) IAG
3 7 (0.28%) Docker
4 6 (0.24%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 22 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.51%) Terraform
3 10 (0.39%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.28%) Pacemaker
5 6 (0.24%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.16%) Ansible
7 3 (0.12%) Control-M
7 3 (0.12%) Grafana
8 2 (0.079%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.079%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.079%) WSUS
9 1 (0.039%) MOM
9 1 (0.039%) Packer
9 1 (0.039%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 249 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 241 (9.48%) Ariba
3 238 (9.37%) Oracle
4 97 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 92 (3.62%) Workday
6 72 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.46%) Informatica
8 35 (1.38%) MuleSoft
9 33 (1.30%) Adobe
9 33 (1.30%) Sage
10 32 (1.26%) Databricks
11 29 (1.14%) Concur
12 28 (1.10%) IBM
13 23 (0.91%) Siemens
14 20 (0.79%) IFS
15 17 (0.67%) Infor
16 16 (0.63%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.59%) Dell
17 15 (0.59%) Google
18 13 (0.51%) Okta