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 15 October 2025, 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
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 28 28
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +25
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,131 2,509 3,001
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.42% 6.66% 6.29%
As % of the Vendors category 13.45% 14.94% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 1,182 1,542
10th Percentile £358 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +4.55% -0.90%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £561 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% +6.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 65 65
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.09 £27.72 £22.06
Median hourly rate £22.63 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £34.88 £61.60 £62.54
90th Percentile £65.25 £66.81 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £35.36 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.51% -5.71% -16.67%

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 15,844 16,790 21,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.72% 44.59% 44.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,772 9,878 13,825
10th Percentile £275 £286 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 811 580 673
10th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.85 £19.76
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -24.83% +83.61%
75th Percentile £38.42 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £31.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -31.29% -29.14% +113.41%

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 15 October 2025.

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 15 October 2025.

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 15 October 2025. 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 -6 1,638 £575 - 855
UK excluding London -7 889 £550 -2.00% 595
Work from Home +3 729 £565 -1.74% 532
London -9 709 £585 +1.74% 371
North of England -1 268 £610 +10.91% 130
South East -8 205 £515 -14.17% 301
North West +5 197 £625 +8.70% 101
Midlands -10 163 £525 -2.78% 65
East of England +6 123 £580 +16.00% 32
West Midlands -6 114 £525 +1.94% 49
South West -18 85 £550 -8.33% 39
Yorkshire +3 61 £525 +5.00% 22
East Midlands -16 45 £525 -8.70% 16
Scotland -4 37 £425 -20.93% 24
Wales -1 12 £168 -70.87% 8
North East -9 8 £363 -44.23% 10
Northern Ireland -4 7 £140 +33.33% 4
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 22 (1.03%) Confluence
1 22 (1.03%) SharePoint
2 21 (0.99%) NetWeaver
3 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.38%) Anypoint
5 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.19%) SAS
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.094%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.094%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.094%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.047%) Apache
10 1 (0.047%) CMS
10 1 (0.047%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.047%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.047%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.047%) SAP EP
Applications
1 97 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.23%) Simulink
7 5 (0.23%) Trello
7 5 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
9 2 (0.094%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.094%) InVision
9 2 (0.094%) Notion
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 811 (38.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 89 (4.18%) SAP FI
3 79 (3.71%) SAP CO
4 69 (3.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 64 (3.00%) SAP MM
6 58 (2.72%) SAP EWM
7 54 (2.53%) SAP HR
8 52 (2.44%) SAP ERP
9 46 (2.16%) SAP HCM
10 45 (2.11%) SAP PP
11 44 (2.06%) SAP MDG
12 36 (1.69%) SAP Payroll
12 36 (1.69%) SAP PS
13 33 (1.55%) SAP SD
14 32 (1.50%) SAP WM
15 29 (1.36%) SAP GTS
16 27 (1.27%) SAP IBP
17 26 (1.22%) SAP QM
18 21 (0.99%) SAP Oil and Gas
19 20 (0.94%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 146 (6.85%) Azure
2 129 (6.05%) SuccessFactors
3 98 (4.60%) Power Platform
4 76 (3.57%) AWS
5 53 (2.49%) SaaS
6 43 (2.02%) GCP
6 43 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (1.13%) Snowflake
9 22 (1.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 13 (0.61%) Entra ID
11 12 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (0.56%) GitHub
11 12 (0.56%) Power Automate
12 11 (0.52%) PaaS
13 10 (0.47%) iPaaS
13 10 (0.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 9 (0.42%) SAP Fieldglass
14 9 (0.42%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.80%) Wireless
2 13 (0.61%) Firewall
2 13 (0.61%) HTTPS
3 8 (0.38%) DNS
4 4 (0.19%) DHCP
4 4 (0.19%) LAN
4 4 (0.19%) PSTN
4 4 (0.19%) VoIP
5 3 (0.14%) DKIM
5 3 (0.14%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.14%) VPN
5 3 (0.14%) WAN
6 2 (0.094%) Intranet
6 2 (0.094%) RTP
6 2 (0.094%) VLAN
7 1 (0.047%) BGP
7 1 (0.047%) HTTP
7 1 (0.047%) Internet
7 1 (0.047%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.047%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (5.77%) SAP HANA
2 92 (4.32%) Power BI
3 54 (2.53%) SAP BW
4 30 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (1.31%) SAP Data Services
5 28 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 20 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
6 20 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 20 (0.94%) GIS
7 14 (0.66%) Oracle Database
7 14 (0.66%) Tableau
8 12 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
9 9 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.38%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 7 (0.33%) Delta Lake
11 7 (0.33%) Metadata
12 6 (0.28%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 82 (3.85%) JIRA
2 20 (0.94%) GitLab
3 18 (0.84%) Git
4 11 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.42%) LSMW
6 5 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
7 4 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.19%) Clang
7 4 (0.19%) GCC
7 4 (0.19%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.19%) Subversion
7 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.094%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.094%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.094%) Postman
10 1 (0.047%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.047%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 753 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 735 (34.49%) Finance
3 362 (16.99%) Manufacturing
4 267 (12.53%) Public Sector
5 212 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
6 195 (9.15%) Telecoms
7 184 (8.63%) Marketing
8 169 (7.93%) Electronics
9 152 (7.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 69 (3.24%) Retail
11 57 (2.67%) Banking
11 57 (2.67%) Billing
12 56 (2.63%) Legal
13 51 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (2.21%) Aerospace
15 46 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
16 43 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
17 40 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (1.22%) Automotive
18 26 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 672 (31.53%) Consultant
2 556 (26.09%) SAP Consultant
3 207 (9.71%) Architect
4 180 (8.45%) Analyst
5 176 (8.26%) Lead
6 132 (6.19%) Project Manager
7 126 (5.91%) SAP Architect
8 123 (5.77%) SAP Manager
9 120 (5.63%) Senior
10 91 (4.27%) Developer
11 84 (3.94%) Business Analyst
12 72 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
13 62 (2.91%) Functional Consultant
14 58 (2.72%) SAP Project Manager
15 57 (2.67%) Management Consultant
15 57 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
16 56 (2.63%) Administrator
17 55 (2.58%) SAP Analyst
17 55 (2.58%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 42 (1.97%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (6.52%) SAP Fiori
2 55 (2.58%) Web Services
3 47 (2.21%) REST
4 43 (2.02%) SAP PI
5 39 (1.83%) Middleware
5 39 (1.83%) SOAP
6 36 (1.69%) XML
7 33 (1.55%) BAPI
8 29 (1.36%) JSON
8 29 (1.36%) SAP Basis
9 26 (1.22%) EDI
10 25 (1.17%) IDoc
10 25 (1.17%) SAPUI5
11 24 (1.13%) SAP TM
12 18 (0.84%) .NET
13 16 (0.75%) HTML
13 16 (0.75%) Kafka
13 16 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.66%) SailPoint
15 13 (0.61%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 81 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (2.67%) Life Science
3 50 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 39 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 39 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 31 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 30 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.27%) FMCG
9 25 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.03%) Private Cloud
11 21 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
12 19 (0.89%) Cloud Native
12 19 (0.89%) Virtual Team
13 18 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (0.66%) SCADA
15 11 (0.52%) IoT
15 11 (0.52%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.16%) Linux
2 39 (1.83%) Windows
3 18 (0.84%) Android
4 17 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.56%) Unix
6 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.38%) VMS
8 7 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.28%) SUSE
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.094%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.094%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.094%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.094%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.094%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (17.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 361 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
3 346 (16.24%) Migration
4 320 (15.02%) ERP
5 264 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
6 252 (11.83%) Agile
7 233 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 217 (10.18%) Data Migration
9 208 (9.76%) Programme Management
10 197 (9.24%) Project Management
11 177 (8.31%) Logistics
12 175 (8.21%) Analytics
13 162 (7.60%) Digital Marketing
14 158 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 151 (7.09%) Change Management
15 151 (7.09%) Project Delivery
16 143 (6.71%) User Acceptance Testing
16 143 (6.71%) Workshop Facilitation
17 120 (5.63%) Roadmaps
18 113 (5.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 123 (5.77%) SQL
2 109 (5.11%) ABAP
3 82 (3.85%) Python
4 50 (2.35%) Java
5 41 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 24 (1.13%) C#
8 22 (1.03%) Bash
9 15 (0.70%) C++
10 13 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 13 (0.61%) Groovy
11 10 (0.47%) C
11 10 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.38%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.23%) Bicep
14 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.19%) R
16 3 (0.14%) BeanShell
16 3 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 437 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 369 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 152 (7.13%) Degree
4 88 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 56 (2.63%) SAP Certification
6 48 (2.25%) PMI Certification
6 48 (2.25%) PMP
7 40 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (1.55%) ACCA
9 32 (1.50%) CIMA
10 31 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 30 (1.41%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.66%) CISSP
13 11 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 9 (0.42%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (0.42%) CISM
15 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.33%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.28%) CCA
17 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (3.52%) Data Quality
2 53 (2.49%) QA
3 50 (2.35%) PMO
4 38 (1.78%) GDPR
5 27 (1.27%) GxP
6 26 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.89%) SLA
8 18 (0.84%) IFRS
9 16 (0.75%) GRC
10 11 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.42%) RMADS
12 8 (0.38%) NCSC
12 8 (0.38%) NIST
13 7 (0.33%) APQC
13 7 (0.33%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.28%) GMP
14 6 (0.28%) IFRS 9
15 4 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 24 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.03%) Docker
3 6 (0.28%) Firmware
4 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.19%) vSphere
5 3 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.094%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.094%) XenApp
7 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.047%) IAG
7 1 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (1.55%) Terraform
2 26 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.03%) Ansible
4 8 (0.38%) Argo
5 6 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.14%) Consul
7 3 (0.14%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (0.14%) logstash
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.094%) Linux-HA
8 2 (0.094%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.094%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.094%) Pacemaker
8 2 (0.094%) Puppet
8 2 (0.094%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 197 (9.24%) Microsoft
2 183 (8.59%) Oracle
3 176 (8.26%) Ariba
4 114 (5.35%) Salesforce
5 78 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 66 (3.10%) Workday
7 33 (1.55%) Adobe
8 29 (1.36%) HP
9 28 (1.31%) Google
10 24 (1.13%) Cisco
11 22 (1.03%) Databricks
11 22 (1.03%) Dell
12 21 (0.99%) Apple
13 19 (0.89%) MuleSoft
14 18 (0.84%) Concur
15 14 (0.66%) OpenText
15 14 (0.66%) webMethods
16 13 (0.61%) Kronos
17 11 (0.52%) Informatica
18 10 (0.47%) IBM