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 6 May 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
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,453 1,992 2,563
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.15% 6.79% 5.94%
As % of the Vendors category 12.35% 14.34% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 1,020 1,284
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £570 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £671 £669 £688
90th Percentile £757 £765 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £541 £530
% change year-on-year -0.74% +2.17% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 58 128
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.99 £13.04
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.56 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +123.30% -42.78%
75th Percentile £57.44 £70.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.07 £86.00 £63.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -42.00% +102.84% -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 19,865 13,894 18,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.72% 47.39% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,636 8,704 11,362
10th Percentile £313 £288 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 570 1,095
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.10 £14.48
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.09% +17.56% -48.57%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.65 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -45.64%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 1,931 £573 +1.37% 682
UK excluding London -8 1,148 £538 -0.74% 517
Work from Home +1 810 £560 -3.61% 269
London -14 754 £600 - 203
South East -9 298 £575 +4.55% 169
North of England -16 283 £550 +3.77% 118
Midlands -2 272 £525 -3.05% 115
North West -13 183 £500 -5.66% 58
West Midlands -7 173 £500 -14.53% 70
East of England +1 164 £508 -12.50% 54
Yorkshire -2 95 £575 +48.39% 53
East Midlands +10 93 £600 +20.00% 45
South West -36 78 £608 +21.50% 34
Wales +8 31 £550 +19.70% 10
Scotland +8 27 £450 -25.00% 14
North East -35 4 £500 -3.85% 14
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland 0 3 £500 +77.94% 12

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 (1.43%) Confluence
2 28 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.86%) NetWeaver
4 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.45%) CMS
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 6 (0.24%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.082%) Apache
10 2 (0.082%) JBoss
11 1 (0.041%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.041%) Camunda
11 1 (0.041%) Mendix
11 1 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 128 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.41%) CATIA
8 6 (0.24%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.20%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.041%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.041%) Sketch
11 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 930 (37.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 104 (4.24%) SAP FI
3 69 (2.81%) SAP CO
4 65 (2.65%) SAP FI/CO
5 64 (2.61%) SAP ERP
6 58 (2.36%) SAP MM
7 56 (2.28%) SAP EWM
8 53 (2.16%) SAP PP
9 49 (2.00%) SAP PSCD
10 48 (1.96%) SAP SD
11 44 (1.79%) SAP HCM
12 40 (1.63%) SAP BRIM
13 39 (1.59%) SAP Payroll
13 39 (1.59%) SAP PM
14 36 (1.47%) SAP MDG
15 33 (1.35%) SAP IBP
16 30 (1.22%) SAP QM
17 28 (1.14%) SAP Travel Management
18 24 (0.98%) SAP EHS
19 23 (0.94%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 214 (8.72%) Azure
2 213 (8.68%) SuccessFactors
3 115 (4.69%) Power Platform
4 87 (3.55%) AWS
5 77 (3.14%) SaaS
6 46 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.55%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.30%) GCP
9 30 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.10%) Boomi
11 26 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (0.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 17 (0.69%) OCI
14 16 (0.65%) Snowflake
15 14 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (0.57%) BigCommerce
15 14 (0.57%) PaaS
15 14 (0.57%) Smartsheet
16 13 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.49%) Network Security
2 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 7 (0.29%) VPN
3 7 (0.29%) WAN
4 5 (0.20%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.16%) BGP
5 4 (0.16%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (0.16%) FTP
5 4 (0.16%) LAN
5 4 (0.16%) OSPF
5 4 (0.16%) RFID
5 4 (0.16%) Skype
6 3 (0.12%) DNS
6 3 (0.12%) Internet
7 2 (0.082%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.082%) Junos
7 2 (0.082%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.041%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.041%) MQTT
8 1 (0.041%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.36%) Power BI
2 82 (3.34%) SAP HANA
3 44 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (1.39%) SAP BW
5 31 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 26 (1.06%) Tableau
7 23 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
8 20 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 19 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
10 18 (0.73%) Metadata
11 17 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 7 (0.29%) GIS
15 6 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.24%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.24%) Sybase ASE
16 5 (0.20%) Delta Lake
16 5 (0.20%) MaxDB
16 5 (0.20%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 108 (4.40%) JIRA
2 20 (0.82%) Git
2 20 (0.82%) Hudson
3 8 (0.33%) LSMW
3 8 (0.33%) Postman
4 7 (0.29%) GitLab
5 5 (0.20%) Selenium
6 4 (0.16%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.16%) JMeter
6 4 (0.16%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.082%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.082%) TestRail
8 2 (0.082%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.041%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.041%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.041%) Subversion
9 1 (0.041%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.041%) Toad
General
1 778 (31.72%) Finance
2 718 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 302 (12.31%) Manufacturing
4 299 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
5 218 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 93 (3.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 84 (3.42%) Billing
8 81 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 75 (3.06%) Marketing
9 75 (3.06%) Retail
10 70 (2.85%) Legal
11 67 (2.73%) Banking
12 58 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
13 56 (2.28%) Electronics
14 53 (2.16%) Aerospace
14 53 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
15 51 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
16 45 (1.83%) General Ledger
17 35 (1.43%) Local Government
18 26 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 595 (24.26%) Consultant
2 512 (20.87%) SAP Consultant
3 323 (13.17%) Lead
4 312 (12.72%) Architect
5 253 (10.31%) Analyst
6 196 (7.99%) Senior
7 177 (7.22%) Project Manager
7 177 (7.22%) SAP Architect
8 176 (7.17%) SAP Manager
9 151 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
10 120 (4.89%) Business Analyst
11 117 (4.77%) Developer
12 94 (3.83%) SAP Solutions Architect
13 88 (3.59%) SAP Project Manager
14 80 (3.26%) Functional Consultant
15 78 (3.18%) Administrator
16 75 (3.06%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 70 (2.85%) SAP Developer
18 64 (2.61%) SAP Analyst
19 56 (2.28%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (4.24%) SAP Fiori
2 69 (2.81%) Middleware
3 52 (2.12%) REST
3 52 (2.12%) SAP Basis
4 44 (1.79%) SAPUI5
5 37 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
5 37 (1.51%) SOAP
6 32 (1.30%) BAPI
7 30 (1.22%) XML
8 29 (1.18%) SAP TM
9 27 (1.10%) IDoc
10 23 (0.94%) Web Services
11 20 (0.82%) SAP PI
12 19 (0.77%) EDI
12 19 (0.77%) OAuth
13 18 (0.73%) JSON
14 14 (0.57%) SAP ALE
15 13 (0.53%) CSS
15 13 (0.53%) SAML
15 13 (0.53%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (3.47%) Public Cloud
2 83 (3.38%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (2.41%) Data Structures
5 47 (1.92%) FMCG
5 47 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 38 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 38 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 35 (1.43%) Replication
8 30 (1.22%) Cloud Native
8 30 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 30 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.18%) Taxonomies
10 27 (1.10%) Life Science
11 26 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.65%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.57%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.57%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.14%) Windows
2 24 (0.98%) Linux
3 9 (0.37%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.24%) Unix
5 6 (0.24%) VMS
6 4 (0.16%) Android
6 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.082%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.041%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (22.58%) ERP
2 478 (19.49%) Migration
3 464 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 297 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
5 280 (11.41%) Data Migration
6 258 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 254 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 244 (9.95%) Agile
9 217 (8.85%) User Acceptance Testing
10 202 (8.23%) Workshop Facilitation
11 200 (8.15%) Project Management
12 195 (7.95%) Validation
13 186 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
14 176 (7.17%) Analytics
15 174 (7.09%) Change Management
16 172 (7.01%) Logistics
17 164 (6.69%) Data Modelling
18 141 (5.75%) Roadmaps
19 139 (5.67%) Project Delivery
20 126 (5.14%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 115 (4.69%) SQL
2 106 (4.32%) ABAP
3 48 (1.96%) Python
4 33 (1.35%) Java
5 27 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 15 (0.61%) PowerShell
7 8 (0.33%) C#
7 8 (0.33%) Groovy
8 6 (0.24%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.16%) C
9 4 (0.16%) Go
9 4 (0.16%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.12%) Bicep
10 3 (0.12%) C++
10 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.12%) VB
10 3 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 390 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 309 (12.60%) SC Cleared
3 152 (6.20%) Degree
4 118 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 47 (1.92%) ACCA
7 45 (1.83%) PMP
8 44 (1.79%) CIMA
9 43 (1.75%) PMI Certification
10 38 (1.55%) SAP Certification
11 30 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.57%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.45%) CISSP
14 10 (0.41%) HNC
15 9 (0.37%) CISM
15 9 (0.37%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.37%) NVQ Level 4
16 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 103 (4.20%) QA
3 90 (3.67%) PMO
4 58 (2.36%) GDPR
5 49 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 29 (1.18%) GRC
7 22 (0.90%) SLA
8 16 (0.65%) GxP
9 13 (0.53%) IFRS
10 11 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.41%) NIST
12 9 (0.37%) GAAP
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.33%) GMP
14 7 (0.29%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.20%) Basel III
15 5 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.20%) NCSC
15 5 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 26 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.41%) IAG
3 8 (0.33%) Docker
4 6 (0.24%) Corosync
5 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.041%) Varnish
5 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.53%) Terraform
3 10 (0.41%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (0.24%) HP ALM
5 6 (0.24%) Pacemaker
6 3 (0.12%) Ansible
6 3 (0.12%) Control-M
7 2 (0.082%) Grafana
7 2 (0.082%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.082%) WSUS
8 1 (0.041%) Argo
8 1 (0.041%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.041%) MOM
8 1 (0.041%) Packer
8 1 (0.041%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.041%) SCCM
8 1 (0.041%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 234 (9.54%) Ariba
2 216 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 192 (7.83%) Oracle
4 98 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 81 (3.30%) Workday
6 74 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.51%) Informatica
8 35 (1.43%) Sage
9 34 (1.39%) Adobe
10 28 (1.14%) Databricks
11 25 (1.02%) MuleSoft
12 23 (0.94%) IBM
13 20 (0.82%) Okta
14 18 (0.73%) Dell
15 17 (0.69%) Concur
16 16 (0.65%) Siemens
17 15 (0.61%) Infor
18 14 (0.57%) Sitecore
19 13 (0.53%) IFS
20 12 (0.49%) OpenText