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 5 August 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
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,675 2,081 2,494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.03% 6.32% 6.36%
As % of the Vendors category 12.14% 13.41% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 1,028 1,283
10th Percentile £360 £375 £389
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 112 88
10th Percentile £16.72 £16.27 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £20.33 £23.76
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.40 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -22.51% -27.84%
75th Percentile £60.75 £55.99 £61.34
90th Percentile £86.15 £70.00 £67.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.36% -31.42% -29.79%

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 22,028 15,518 17,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.41% 47.16% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,643 9,508 10,703
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,126 786 855
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.48 £13.57
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.13 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.97 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.05% -10.18% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £27.25
% change year-on-year +52.32% -18.11% -23.24%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -14 2,116 £575 +1.77% 979
UK excluding London -3 1,345 £550 - 601
Work from Home -5 825 £550 -4.35% 449
London -28 758 £600 +2.56% 409
South East -8 363 £550 +4.76% 186
Midlands +8 357 £545 -3.11% 150
North of England -7 327 £550 +0.92% 161
West Midlands +1 225 £500 -9.09% 90
North West -5 222 £550 +1.01% 116
East of England -4 151 £520 -10.34% 52
East Midlands +33 123 £600 -2.12% 60
Yorkshire +6 99 £525 - 40
South West -41 79 £575 +9.52% 24
Wales +10 38 £550 +77.28% 11
Scotland -4 38 £533 -11.17% 24
North East -44 5 £500 -8.26% 7
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +2 2 £488 +73.49% 3

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 37 (1.38%) Confluence
2 33 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 22 (0.82%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.45%) CMS
5 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.15%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) Apache
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.11%) JBoss
8 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.075%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.075%) SAS
9 2 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.075%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.037%) Mule
Applications
1 130 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) CATIA
7 9 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,053 (39.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 121 (4.52%) SAP FI
3 72 (2.69%) SAP CO
4 68 (2.54%) SAP FI/CO
4 68 (2.54%) SAP SD
5 66 (2.47%) SAP ERP
6 64 (2.39%) SAP MM
7 54 (2.02%) SAP PSCD
8 52 (1.94%) SAP EWM
9 47 (1.76%) SAP BRIM
10 45 (1.68%) SAP Payroll
11 43 (1.61%) SAP GRC
12 42 (1.57%) SAP IBP
13 40 (1.50%) SAP PP
14 35 (1.31%) SAP HCM
14 35 (1.31%) SAP MDG
15 34 (1.27%) SAP PM
16 33 (1.23%) SAP QM
17 32 (1.20%) SAP FI-CA
18 30 (1.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 277 (10.36%) SuccessFactors
2 222 (8.30%) Azure
3 144 (5.38%) Power Platform
4 90 (3.36%) AWS
5 69 (2.58%) SaaS
6 60 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (1.50%) Entra ID
8 38 (1.42%) GCP
9 37 (1.38%) Boomi
10 26 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (0.90%) Snowflake
13 19 (0.71%) GitHub
13 19 (0.71%) Power Automate
13 19 (0.71%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 15 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (0.56%) Smartsheet
15 12 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.26%) Network Security
2 5 (0.19%) Firewall
3 3 (0.11%) HTTP
3 3 (0.11%) Intranet
3 3 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.075%) Broadband
4 2 (0.075%) LAN
4 2 (0.075%) SSL
4 2 (0.075%) WAN
5 1 (0.037%) DNS
5 1 (0.037%) FTP
5 1 (0.037%) Internet
5 1 (0.037%) MQTT
5 1 (0.037%) RFID
5 1 (0.037%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.037%) Wireless
5 1 (0.037%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (4.79%) Power BI
2 96 (3.59%) SAP HANA
3 52 (1.94%) SAP BW
4 51 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
5 41 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 41 (1.53%) Tableau
6 28 (1.05%) SAP Data Services
7 18 (0.67%) Data Lake
8 16 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.56%) Metadata
9 15 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (0.45%) GIS
10 12 (0.45%) Sybase ASE
11 11 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.37%) MaxDB
12 10 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.37%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.26%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 109 (4.07%) JIRA
2 24 (0.90%) Hudson
3 21 (0.79%) Git
4 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.22%) LSMW
5 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.19%) Postman
6 5 (0.19%) Toad
7 3 (0.11%) GitLab
7 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.075%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.075%) Maven
8 2 (0.075%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.075%) Selenium
8 2 (0.075%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.037%) GCC
9 1 (0.037%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.037%) Spock
9 1 (0.037%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.037%) TestRail
General
1 835 (31.21%) Finance
2 680 (25.42%) Social Skills
3 290 (10.84%) Manufacturing
4 273 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 152 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 112 (4.19%) Retail
7 106 (3.96%) Billing
8 89 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 81 (3.03%) Legal
10 76 (2.84%) Aerospace
11 60 (2.24%) Banking
12 58 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (1.91%) General Ledger
14 47 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.35%) Local Government
16 31 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
17 29 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.01%) Aviation
18 27 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
19 26 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 651 (24.34%) Consultant
2 567 (21.20%) SAP Consultant
3 338 (12.64%) Architect
4 310 (11.59%) Analyst
5 305 (11.40%) Lead
6 248 (9.27%) Senior
7 197 (7.36%) SAP Manager
8 177 (6.62%) SAP Architect
9 172 (6.43%) Project Manager
10 167 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
11 130 (4.86%) Business Analyst
12 114 (4.26%) Developer
13 104 (3.89%) SAP Analyst
14 91 (3.40%) Functional Consultant
15 88 (3.29%) SAP Project Manager
16 87 (3.25%) SAP Solutions Architect
17 84 (3.14%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 80 (2.99%) Administrator
19 62 (2.32%) Senior Manager
20 60 (2.24%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (4.30%) SAP Fiori
2 92 (3.44%) Middleware
3 71 (2.65%) REST
4 52 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
5 51 (1.91%) SOAP
6 50 (1.87%) SAP Basis
7 39 (1.46%) BAPI
7 39 (1.46%) IDoc
8 33 (1.23%) SAP PI
8 33 (1.23%) XML
9 29 (1.08%) JSON
10 28 (1.05%) SAPUI5
11 27 (1.01%) EDI
12 22 (0.82%) OAuth
12 22 (0.82%) Web Services
13 16 (0.60%) Node.js
13 16 (0.60%) SAP ALE
14 15 (0.56%) SAP TM
15 13 (0.49%) JDBC
15 13 (0.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 86 (3.21%) Data Structures
1 86 (3.21%) Public Cloud
2 85 (3.18%) Onboarding
3 78 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
4 62 (2.32%) Product Ownership
5 54 (2.02%) FMCG
6 53 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 51 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 35 (1.31%) Life Science
10 33 (1.23%) Cloud Native
11 27 (1.01%) Replication
12 23 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (0.75%) AI Agents
13 20 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (0.67%) Operational Technology
15 16 (0.60%) SCADA
15 16 (0.60%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.57%) Linux
2 35 (1.31%) Windows
3 19 (0.71%) Unix
4 9 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.34%) VMS
5 8 (0.30%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.075%) AIX
8 2 (0.075%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (22.43%) ERP
2 593 (22.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 496 (18.54%) Migration
4 347 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
5 309 (11.55%) Data Migration
6 306 (11.44%) User Acceptance Testing
7 284 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 273 (10.21%) Agile
9 268 (10.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 253 (9.46%) Validation
11 219 (8.19%) Analytics
11 219 (8.19%) Workshop Facilitation
12 199 (7.44%) Logistics
13 178 (6.65%) Project Management
14 170 (6.36%) Change Management
15 162 (6.06%) Data Modelling
15 162 (6.06%) Roadmaps
16 158 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
17 156 (5.83%) Decision-Making
18 147 (5.50%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 140 (5.23%) SQL
2 109 (4.07%) ABAP
3 61 (2.28%) Python
4 40 (1.50%) Java
5 19 (0.71%) PowerShell
6 17 (0.64%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.30%) C#
8 7 (0.26%) Bicep
9 6 (0.22%) Bash
10 5 (0.19%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.19%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.15%) C
11 4 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.11%) C++
12 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.11%) Korn
13 2 (0.075%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.075%) VB
Qualifications
1 430 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 332 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 136 (5.08%) Degree
4 119 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 56 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.50%) ACCA
7 39 (1.46%) CIMA
8 34 (1.27%) PMP
9 33 (1.23%) PMI Certification
10 25 (0.93%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.75%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.52%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.41%) HNC
14 11 (0.41%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
15 8 (0.30%) CISSP
15 8 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 7 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.51%) PMO
3 92 (3.44%) QA
4 61 (2.28%) GDPR
5 58 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 45 (1.68%) GRC
7 16 (0.60%) IFRS
8 11 (0.41%) GxP
8 11 (0.41%) SLA
9 9 (0.34%) GMP
9 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.26%) GAAP
10 7 (0.26%) ITGC
10 7 (0.26%) NIST
11 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.22%) NCSC
12 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.075%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (1.05%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.64%) IAG
3 7 (0.26%) Docker
4 6 (0.22%) Corosync
5 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (0.64%) Terraform
2 14 (0.52%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
4 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 3 (0.11%) Grafana
5 3 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.075%) MOM
7 1 (0.037%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.037%) Packer
7 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.037%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.037%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.037%) WSUS
Vendors
1 252 (9.42%) Ariba
2 250 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 244 (9.12%) Oracle
4 101 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 91 (3.40%) Workday
6 72 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 42 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 39 (1.46%) Informatica
9 38 (1.42%) Databricks
10 37 (1.38%) Concur
11 29 (1.08%) Adobe
12 27 (1.01%) IBM
13 21 (0.79%) Google
13 21 (0.79%) Sage
14 18 (0.67%) IFS
15 17 (0.64%) Infor
15 17 (0.64%) Red Hat
16 16 (0.60%) Siemens
17 14 (0.52%) Dell
17 14 (0.52%) OpenText