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 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,743 2,157 2,575
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.00% 6.54% 6.71%
As % of the Vendors category 12.00% 13.74% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,081 1,219
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 115 73
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.20 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.62 £27.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £22.63 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% -46.75% +28.79%
75th Percentile £44.63 £43.48 £59.95
90th Percentile £86.00 £66.60 £65.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £22.32 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -36.24% +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 22,864 15,696 17,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.67% 47.57% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,944 9,651 10,126
10th Percentile £310 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £615 £613 £625
90th Percentile £703 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,300 810 649
10th Percentile £13.98 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.79 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.97%
75th Percentile £59.19 £42.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.54 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.91% -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 25 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 25 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 25 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 2,149 £566 -1.57% 2,054
UK excluding London -3 1,393 £550 - 1,314
Work from Home -12 795 £550 -3.30% 849
London -34 742 £600 +2.56% 811
South East 0 390 £540 +4.96% 370
Midlands +4 341 £550 +1.57% 276
North of England -21 339 £550 -8.33% 324
North West -11 242 £550 -12.00% 171
West Midlands -1 210 £525 -2.78% 156
East of England -11 155 £566 -2.41% 116
East Midlands +25 124 £575 -6.20% 120
Yorkshire -6 91 £500 -4.76% 118
South West -36 83 £550 -4.35% 90
Wales +15 48 £550 +228.36% 47
Scotland -17 47 £533 +25.41% 69
North East -50 5 £400 -27.27% 36
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 29

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 (1.24%) SharePoint
2 26 (0.95%) Confluence
3 19 (0.69%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.18%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.15%) SugarCRM
9 3 (0.11%) Apache
9 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
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%) SAS
10 2 (0.073%) ThingWorx
11 1 (0.036%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.036%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 146 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) Windchill
7 5 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.15%) 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 1,072 (39.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 125 (4.56%) SAP FI
3 80 (2.92%) SAP CO
4 74 (2.70%) SAP Payroll
5 71 (2.59%) SAP FI/CO
6 68 (2.48%) SAP ERP
7 67 (2.44%) SAP SD
8 61 (2.22%) SAP HR
9 59 (2.15%) SAP HCM
10 58 (2.11%) SAP MM
11 52 (1.90%) SAP PSCD
12 51 (1.86%) SAP GRC
13 48 (1.75%) SAP PP
14 47 (1.71%) SAP BRIM
15 44 (1.60%) SAP MDG
16 41 (1.49%) SAP EWM
17 40 (1.46%) SAP PM
18 37 (1.35%) SAP IBP
19 34 (1.24%) SAP QM
20 28 (1.02%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 265 (9.66%) SuccessFactors
2 220 (8.02%) Azure
3 137 (4.99%) Power Platform
4 105 (3.83%) AWS
5 62 (2.26%) SaaS
6 58 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (2.08%) GCP
8 35 (1.28%) Boomi
9 30 (1.09%) Entra ID
10 29 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (0.73%) Snowflake
14 17 (0.62%) GitHub
14 17 (0.62%) Smartsheet
14 17 (0.62%) Tricentis Tosca
15 15 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (0.55%) Power Automate
16 13 (0.47%) 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
1 119 (4.34%) Power BI
2 92 (3.35%) SAP HANA
3 57 (2.08%) SAP BW
4 47 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (1.49%) Tableau
6 40 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
7 30 (1.09%) SQL Server
8 21 (0.77%) SAP Data Services
9 19 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (0.66%) 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%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (0.22%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 117 (4.27%) JIRA
2 21 (0.77%) Git
3 16 (0.58%) Hudson
4 15 (0.55%) Postman
5 11 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.29%) eggPlant
7 7 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.26%) SoapUI
7 7 (0.26%) 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%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.073%) Maven
12 2 (0.073%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.073%) SilkTest
General
1 874 (31.86%) Finance
2 731 (26.65%) Social Skills
3 370 (13.49%) Manufacturing
4 287 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
5 138 (5.03%) Public Sector
5 138 (5.03%) Retail
6 113 (4.12%) Billing
7 84 (3.06%) Legal
8 73 (2.66%) Aerospace
9 70 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 67 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 64 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (1.97%) Banking
13 53 (1.93%) General Ledger
14 38 (1.39%) Automotive
15 34 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.09%) Aviation
18 24 (0.87%) Law
18 24 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 650 (23.70%) Consultant
2 548 (19.98%) SAP Consultant
3 349 (12.72%) Architect
4 325 (11.85%) Lead
5 306 (11.16%) Analyst
6 253 (9.22%) Senior
7 192 (7.00%) SAP Manager
8 179 (6.53%) SAP Architect
9 155 (5.65%) Project Manager
10 144 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
11 129 (4.70%) Business Analyst
12 108 (3.94%) SAP Analyst
13 100 (3.65%) Developer
14 96 (3.50%) Administrator
15 84 (3.06%) Functional Consultant
16 80 (2.92%) SAP Project Manager
17 74 (2.70%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 72 (2.62%) SAP Solutions Architect
19 63 (2.30%) Senior Consultant
19 63 (2.30%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (5.25%) SAP Fiori
2 101 (3.68%) Middleware
3 92 (3.35%) REST
4 75 (2.73%) SOAP
5 53 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
6 49 (1.79%) SAP Basis
6 49 (1.79%) SAPUI5
6 49 (1.79%) XML
7 40 (1.46%) SAP PI
8 38 (1.39%) Web Services
9 36 (1.31%) BAPI
10 32 (1.17%) JSON
11 31 (1.13%) IDoc
12 29 (1.06%) EDI
13 24 (0.87%) OAuth
14 20 (0.73%) Node.js
15 19 (0.69%) SAP ALE
16 18 (0.66%) Kafka
17 17 (0.62%) OAuth2
18 16 (0.58%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 97 (3.54%) Onboarding
2 82 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
3 78 (2.84%) Data Structures
4 72 (2.62%) Public Cloud
5 65 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 59 (2.15%) FMCG
7 57 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 57 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 48 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 41 (1.49%) Life Science
10 33 (1.20%) Cloud Native
11 30 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.02%) Replication
13 24 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (0.69%) AI Agents
14 19 (0.69%) Operational Technology
15 17 (0.62%) Private Cloud
16 16 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
17 13 (0.47%) Manufacturing Execution System
17 13 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.28%) Linux
2 29 (1.06%) Windows
3 20 (0.73%) Unix
4 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.29%) SUSE
5 7 (0.26%) VMS
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Android
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.073%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (25.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 633 (23.08%) ERP
3 479 (17.46%) Migration
4 362 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
5 353 (12.87%) User Acceptance Testing
6 297 (10.83%) Data Migration
7 267 (9.73%) Agile
8 263 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 251 (9.15%) Validation
10 248 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 239 (8.71%) Analytics
11 239 (8.71%) Logistics
12 205 (7.47%) Workshop Facilitation
13 182 (6.64%) Roadmaps
14 168 (6.12%) Process Improvement
15 166 (6.05%) System Integration Testing
16 165 (6.02%) Project Delivery
17 164 (5.98%) Decision-Making
18 160 (5.83%) Project Management
19 151 (5.50%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 142 (5.18%) SQL
2 129 (4.70%) ABAP
3 70 (2.55%) Python
4 52 (1.90%) Java
5 25 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.58%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.26%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
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%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.073%) Perl
12 2 (0.073%) VB
Qualifications
1 442 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 346 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 155 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 137 (4.99%) Degree
5 51 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 38 (1.39%) ACCA
7 37 (1.35%) PMP
8 36 (1.31%) CIMA
8 36 (1.31%) PMI Certification
9 21 (0.77%) SAP Certification
10 17 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (0.55%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.47%) HNC
14 11 (0.40%) ISEB
14 11 (0.40%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.33%) CIPD
17 8 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.26%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 88 (3.21%) PMO
3 77 (2.81%) QA
4 58 (2.11%) GDPR
5 52 (1.90%) GRC
6 41 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (0.62%) IFRS
8 15 (0.55%) GxP
9 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.40%) NIST
10 11 (0.40%) SLA
11 8 (0.29%) ITGC
12 6 (0.22%) GAAP
12 6 (0.22%) GMP
12 6 (0.22%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.22%) NCSC
13 5 (0.18%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
14 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 17 (0.62%) Active Directory
1 17 (0.62%) IAG
2 6 (0.22%) Corosync
3 5 (0.18%) Docker
4 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (0.55%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (0.26%) 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
1 289 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 266 (9.70%) Oracle
3 263 (9.59%) Ariba
4 112 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 104 (3.79%) Workday
6 79 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.60%) Databricks
8 43 (1.57%) Concur
9 42 (1.53%) MuleSoft
10 37 (1.35%) IBM
11 31 (1.13%) Siemens
12 30 (1.09%) Adobe
13 28 (1.02%) Google
14 23 (0.84%) Informatica
15 17 (0.62%) Red Hat
16 16 (0.58%) Infor
17 15 (0.55%) Dell
18 14 (0.51%) JD Edwards
18 14 (0.51%) Sage
19 13 (0.47%) IFS