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 23 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
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,520 1,960 2,584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.96% 6.54% 5.92%
As % of the Vendors category 12.18% 13.76% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 976 1,296
10th Percentile £360 £384 £395
25th Percentile £458 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 82 143
10th Percentile £16.72 £18.20 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.85 £16.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £50.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +87.55% -40.76%
75th Percentile £60.38 £69.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.70 £85.90 £67.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +96.08% -43.33%

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 20,692 14,246 18,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.75% 47.54% 42.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,970 8,765 11,497
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -3.38% -1.43%
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 1,065 661 1,168
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.50 £24.05
Median % change year-on-year +33.29% +6.03% -43.18%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.75 £23.00 £22.56
% change year-on-year +38.04% +1.95% -39.84%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -12 2,007 £560 -2.61% 460
UK excluding London -7 1,242 £525 -4.55% 335
Work from Home -1 789 £550 -5.34% 193
London -25 741 £600 - 186
South East -8 317 £545 +1.40% 111
Midlands +3 311 £540 -1.05% 68
North of England -11 305 £500 -5.66% 98
North West -7 200 £485 -8.49% 52
West Midlands -6 187 £513 -6.82% 50
East of England +1 167 £505 -15.83% 29
East Midlands +23 114 £575 +15.00% 18
Yorkshire +7 99 £525 +32.49% 40
South West -30 77 £550 +4.76% 14
Scotland +1 36 £533 -11.17% 11
Wales +9 34 £550 +21.41% 9
North East -42 6 £500 -7.41% 8
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -2 2 £488 +73.49% 5

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 31 (1.23%) Confluence
2 30 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.91%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.52%) CMS
5 9 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 5 (0.20%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
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 (0.040%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.040%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.040%) LiveCycle
11 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 132 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.40%) CATIA
8 5 (0.20%) PTC Creo
8 5 (0.20%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.040%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,016 (40.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (4.25%) SAP FI
3 67 (2.66%) SAP ERP
4 63 (2.50%) SAP CO
5 61 (2.42%) SAP FI/CO
5 61 (2.42%) SAP MM
6 56 (2.22%) SAP SD
7 54 (2.14%) SAP EWM
8 53 (2.10%) SAP PSCD
9 48 (1.90%) SAP BRIM
10 40 (1.59%) SAP PM
11 37 (1.47%) SAP IBP
12 34 (1.35%) SAP GRC
13 33 (1.31%) SAP PP
14 32 (1.27%) SAP MDG
15 30 (1.19%) SAP FI-CA
15 30 (1.19%) SAP HCM
15 30 (1.19%) SAP Payroll
16 27 (1.07%) SAP Travel Management
17 23 (0.91%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 235 (9.33%) SuccessFactors
2 217 (8.61%) Azure
3 125 (4.96%) Power Platform
4 78 (3.10%) AWS
5 71 (2.82%) SaaS
6 52 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.51%) Entra ID
8 37 (1.47%) Boomi
9 28 (1.11%) GCP
10 21 (0.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 20 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (0.79%) Power Automate
12 19 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (0.75%) Snowflake
13 17 (0.67%) OCI
14 15 (0.60%) PowerApps
15 14 (0.56%) GitHub
15 14 (0.56%) Smartsheet
16 13 (0.52%) PaaS
17 12 (0.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.40%) Network Security
2 6 (0.24%) Firewall
2 6 (0.24%) VPN
3 5 (0.20%) WAN
4 4 (0.16%) RFID
5 3 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.079%) BGP
6 2 (0.079%) DNS
6 2 (0.079%) HTTP
6 2 (0.079%) LAN
6 2 (0.079%) OSPF
6 2 (0.079%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.040%) FTP
7 1 (0.040%) Internet
7 1 (0.040%) Intranet
7 1 (0.040%) MQTT
7 1 (0.040%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.040%) Wireless
7 1 (0.040%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (4.68%) Power BI
2 90 (3.57%) SAP HANA
3 45 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (1.59%) SQL Server
5 38 (1.51%) SAP BW
6 34 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
7 29 (1.15%) Tableau
8 22 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
9 20 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.56%) Data Lake
12 11 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
13 10 (0.40%) GIS
13 10 (0.40%) MaxDB
13 10 (0.40%) Metadata
13 10 (0.40%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.28%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.24%) NoSQL
16 5 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.20%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 99 (3.93%) JIRA
2 24 (0.95%) Hudson
3 18 (0.71%) Git
4 7 (0.28%) Postman
5 6 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.16%) JMeter
6 4 (0.16%) LSMW
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 (0.040%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.040%) Subversion
9 1 (0.040%) TestDirector
General
1 828 (32.86%) Finance
2 679 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 269 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (10.56%) Manufacturing
5 169 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 105 (4.17%) Billing
7 89 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 86 (3.41%) Legal
9 84 (3.33%) Retail
10 65 (2.58%) Banking
11 58 (2.30%) Aerospace
12 56 (2.22%) General Ledger
13 47 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (1.75%) Local Government
15 36 (1.43%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
17 26 (1.03%) Law
18 22 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 609 (24.17%) Consultant
2 524 (20.79%) SAP Consultant
3 332 (13.17%) Lead
4 320 (12.70%) Architect
5 284 (11.27%) Analyst
6 217 (8.61%) Senior
7 174 (6.90%) Project Manager
8 173 (6.87%) SAP Architect
9 167 (6.63%) SAP Manager
10 155 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
11 125 (4.96%) Business Analyst
12 99 (3.93%) Developer
13 86 (3.41%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 84 (3.33%) Functional Consultant
15 80 (3.17%) SAP Project Manager
16 79 (3.13%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 78 (3.10%) SAP Analyst
18 75 (2.98%) Administrator
19 64 (2.54%) Senior Manager
20 57 (2.26%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (4.40%) SAP Fiori
2 92 (3.65%) Middleware
3 56 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 56 (2.22%) REST
4 53 (2.10%) SAP Basis
5 39 (1.55%) BAPI
6 38 (1.51%) SOAP
7 33 (1.31%) XML
8 32 (1.27%) SAPUI5
9 28 (1.11%) IDoc
10 27 (1.07%) JSON
10 27 (1.07%) SAP TM
11 26 (1.03%) EDI
12 25 (0.99%) Web Services
13 21 (0.83%) OAuth
14 17 (0.67%) SAP PI
15 13 (0.52%) SAML
16 12 (0.48%) Node.js
16 12 (0.48%) SAP ALE
17 10 (0.40%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 96 (3.81%) Public Cloud
2 80 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 77 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 50 (1.98%) FMCG
5 50 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 42 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 37 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 35 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 25 (0.99%) Replication
11 23 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (0.91%) Life Science
12 22 (0.87%) Taxonomies
13 21 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (0.63%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.56%) SCADA
16 13 (0.52%) AI Agents
16 13 (0.52%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.59%) Linux
2 31 (1.23%) Windows
3 13 (0.52%) Unix
4 8 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.32%) VMS
5 6 (0.24%) SUSE
6 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 2 (0.079%) AIX
8 2 (0.079%) Android
9 1 (0.040%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (23.33%) ERP
2 497 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 463 (18.37%) Migration
4 317 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
5 289 (11.47%) Data Migration
6 275 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
7 259 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 257 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 239 (9.48%) Agile
10 238 (9.44%) Validation
11 211 (8.37%) Workshop Facilitation
12 199 (7.90%) Analytics
13 191 (7.58%) Project Management
14 187 (7.42%) Logistics
15 171 (6.79%) Change Management
16 150 (5.95%) Data Modelling
17 147 (5.83%) Business Intelligence
18 142 (5.63%) Decision-Making
19 134 (5.32%) Roadmaps
20 126 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 125 (4.96%) SQL
2 93 (3.69%) ABAP
3 49 (1.94%) Python
4 29 (1.15%) Java
5 18 (0.71%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.56%) 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
1 347 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 274 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 137 (5.44%) Degree
4 116 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (1.98%) ACCA
6 49 (1.94%) CIMA
7 41 (1.63%) PMP
8 39 (1.55%) PMI Certification
9 38 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.19%) SAP Certification
11 15 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.60%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.44%) HNC
13 11 (0.44%) NVQ Level 4
14 10 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.36%) CISSP
16 8 (0.32%) CISM
17 7 (0.28%) CCA
17 7 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.81%) PMO
3 90 (3.57%) QA
4 57 (2.26%) GDPR
4 57 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 35 (1.39%) GRC
6 18 (0.71%) IFRS
7 15 (0.60%) SLA
8 14 (0.56%) GxP
9 12 (0.48%) GAAP
10 11 (0.44%) GMP
11 9 (0.36%) NCSC
12 8 (0.32%) 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 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.44%) IAG
3 7 (0.28%) Docker
4 6 (0.24%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 23 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.52%) Terraform
3 10 (0.40%) 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 (0.040%) MOM
9 1 (0.040%) Packer
9 1 (0.040%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 241 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 240 (9.52%) Ariba
3 234 (9.29%) Oracle
4 97 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 92 (3.65%) Workday
6 71 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.47%) Informatica
8 35 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 33 (1.31%) Adobe
9 33 (1.31%) Sage
10 32 (1.27%) Databricks
11 28 (1.11%) Concur
12 25 (0.99%) IBM
13 22 (0.87%) Siemens
14 20 (0.79%) IFS
15 17 (0.67%) Infor
16 15 (0.60%) Dell
16 15 (0.60%) Google
17 14 (0.56%) Red Hat
18 13 (0.52%) Okta