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 11 April 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
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,416 1,950 2,648
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.28% 6.67% 6.03%
As % of the Vendors category 12.29% 14.11% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 1,027 1,387
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £463 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% - -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £669
90th Percentile £750 £765 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 59 123
10th Percentile £17.69 £21.08 £13.01
25th Percentile £22.63 £25.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +125.49% -43.33%
75th Percentile £57.25 £70.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.68 £86.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +112.77% -47.78%

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 19,653 13,823 18,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.94% 47.30% 42.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,587 8,734 11,686
10th Percentile £313 £293 £259
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 981 517 1,057
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £12.08
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.36
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.99 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.04% +24.40% -47.06%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £78.25 £80.04 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £25.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +1.52% +16.28% -44.16%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 1,889 £565 +2.73% 552
UK excluding London -9 1,112 £530 -1.85% 415
Work from Home +2 789 £575 - 266
London -15 747 £600 +1.69% 205
South East -13 281 £575 +0.39% 159
North of England -20 274 £550 +4.76% 92
Midlands -5 253 £500 -7.66% 77
North West -15 179 £525 -0.94% 55
East of England +1 167 £513 -11.64% 37
West Midlands -11 165 £475 -18.80% 53
Yorkshire -4 87 £575 +50.82% 34
South West -33 85 £618 +23.50% 26
East Midlands -1 83 £588 +17.50% 24
Wales +21 37 £550 -24.14% 13
Scotland +13 24 £450 -25.00% 9
North East -33 7 £175 -57.83% 4
Channel Islands - 4 - - 4
Northern Ireland -3 3 £500 +77.94% 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 33 (1.37%) Confluence
2 27 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.79%) NetWeaver
4 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.37%) CMS
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) SAP EP
8 5 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.21%) MTS
9 4 (0.17%) Apache
10 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.12%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.083%) JBoss
12 1 (0.041%) OpenStack
Applications
1 119 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.41%) CATIA
8 6 (0.25%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.21%) 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
1 908 (37.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 112 (4.64%) SAP FI
3 72 (2.98%) SAP CO
4 69 (2.86%) SAP MM
5 68 (2.81%) SAP FI/CO
6 62 (2.57%) SAP ERP
7 60 (2.48%) SAP EWM
7 60 (2.48%) SAP PP
8 45 (1.86%) SAP PM
9 42 (1.74%) SAP Payroll
10 41 (1.70%) SAP HCM
10 41 (1.70%) SAP SD
11 40 (1.66%) SAP PSCD
12 33 (1.37%) SAP MDG
13 28 (1.16%) SAP IBP
13 28 (1.16%) SAP QM
14 26 (1.08%) SAP BRIM
14 26 (1.08%) SAP Travel Management
15 24 (0.99%) SAP HR
16 23 (0.95%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 208 (8.61%) SuccessFactors
2 204 (8.44%) Azure
3 96 (3.97%) Power Platform
4 90 (3.73%) AWS
5 72 (2.98%) SaaS
6 41 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (1.45%) GCP
9 34 (1.41%) Entra ID
10 30 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (0.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 21 (0.87%) Boomi
12 21 (0.87%) OCI
13 17 (0.70%) GitHub
14 16 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (0.62%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.62%) Snowflake
16 14 (0.58%) Tricentis Tosca
17 13 (0.54%) PaaS
18 12 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.50%) Network Security
2 11 (0.46%) Wireless
3 8 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 8 (0.33%) Skype
3 8 (0.33%) VPN
4 7 (0.29%) LAN
4 7 (0.29%) WAN
5 6 (0.25%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.21%) FTP
6 5 (0.21%) RFID
6 5 (0.21%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.17%) BGP
7 4 (0.17%) DNS
7 4 (0.17%) OSPF
7 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.12%) Internet
9 2 (0.083%) DHCP
9 2 (0.083%) Junos
9 2 (0.083%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (3.77%) Power BI
2 82 (3.39%) SAP HANA
3 33 (1.37%) SAP BW
4 32 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.95%) Metadata
6 23 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
7 19 (0.79%) Tableau
8 18 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 15 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (0.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 8 (0.33%) GIS
13 7 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
15 5 (0.21%) MaxDB
15 5 (0.21%) MySQL
15 5 (0.21%) Relational Database
15 5 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 95 (3.93%) JIRA
2 17 (0.70%) Git
3 16 (0.66%) Hudson
4 12 (0.50%) LSMW
5 7 (0.29%) GitLab
5 7 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.29%) Toad
6 5 (0.21%) Postman
6 5 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.17%) JMeter
7 4 (0.17%) Selenium
8 3 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.12%) JUnit
8 3 (0.12%) Storybook
9 2 (0.083%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.083%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (0.041%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.041%) Spock
10 1 (0.041%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.041%) Zephyr
General
1 820 (33.94%) Finance
2 734 (30.38%) Social Skills
3 357 (14.78%) Manufacturing
4 301 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
5 271 (11.22%) Public Sector
6 136 (5.63%) Telecoms
7 132 (5.46%) Marketing
8 111 (4.59%) Electronics
9 93 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 68 (2.81%) Banking
11 66 (2.73%) Legal
12 64 (2.65%) Retail
13 59 (2.44%) Billing
14 56 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
15 53 (2.19%) Aerospace
16 51 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
17 50 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
18 40 (1.66%) Local Government
19 39 (1.61%) General Ledger
20 30 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 621 (25.70%) Consultant
2 528 (21.85%) SAP Consultant
3 311 (12.87%) Lead
4 281 (11.63%) Architect
5 222 (9.19%) Analyst
6 180 (7.45%) SAP Manager
7 179 (7.41%) Project Manager
8 175 (7.24%) Senior
9 163 (6.75%) SAP Architect
10 141 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
11 126 (5.22%) Developer
12 103 (4.26%) Business Analyst
13 94 (3.89%) SAP Project Manager
14 91 (3.77%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 78 (3.23%) SAP Developer
16 76 (3.15%) Administrator
17 73 (3.02%) Functional Consultant
18 71 (2.94%) SAP Functional Consultant
19 62 (2.57%) SAP Analyst
20 54 (2.24%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.09%) SAP Fiori
2 60 (2.48%) Middleware
3 56 (2.32%) SAP Basis
4 47 (1.95%) SAPUI5
5 42 (1.74%) XML
6 41 (1.70%) REST
7 38 (1.57%) SOAP
8 33 (1.37%) Web Services
9 31 (1.28%) BAPI
10 28 (1.16%) SAP TM
11 27 (1.12%) IDoc
12 25 (1.03%) SAP PI
13 22 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
14 21 (0.87%) CSS
14 21 (0.87%) HTML
15 16 (0.66%) EDI
15 16 (0.66%) SAP ALE
16 15 (0.62%) JSON
17 11 (0.46%) OAuth
17 11 (0.46%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 77 (3.19%) Public Cloud
3 70 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 41 (1.70%) Product Ownership
6 40 (1.66%) FMCG
7 36 (1.49%) Replication
8 32 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.20%) Taxonomies
11 28 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.03%) Life Science
14 23 (0.95%) Cloud Native
15 20 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (0.70%) Data Centre
17 16 (0.66%) Mobile App
18 14 (0.58%) Virtual Team
19 13 (0.54%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.61%) Windows
2 23 (0.95%) Linux
3 19 (0.79%) Android
3 19 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 14 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.25%) Unix
6 5 (0.21%) VMS
7 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.083%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.083%) SUSE
9 2 (0.083%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (20.82%) ERP
2 451 (18.67%) Migration
3 445 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 281 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
5 275 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 263 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 253 (10.47%) Data Migration
8 230 (9.52%) Agile
9 219 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
10 200 (8.28%) Project Management
11 191 (7.91%) User Acceptance Testing
12 188 (7.78%) Validation
13 187 (7.74%) Workshop Facilitation
14 176 (7.28%) Logistics
15 175 (7.24%) Change Management
16 162 (6.71%) Analytics
17 151 (6.25%) Data Modelling
18 147 (6.08%) Roadmaps
19 142 (5.88%) Programme Management
20 140 (5.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 129 (5.34%) ABAP
2 111 (4.59%) SQL
3 45 (1.86%) Python
4 38 (1.57%) Java
4 38 (1.57%) JavaScript
5 14 (0.58%) PowerShell
6 8 (0.33%) Groovy
6 8 (0.33%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.25%) C#
7 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.17%) C
8 4 (0.17%) Go
9 3 (0.12%) Bicep
9 3 (0.12%) C++
9 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
9 3 (0.12%) R
9 3 (0.12%) VB
9 3 (0.12%) VBA
10 2 (0.083%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 423 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 329 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 159 (6.58%) Degree
4 118 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 59 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 50 (2.07%) PMP
7 44 (1.82%) SAP Certification
8 43 (1.78%) PMI Certification
9 36 (1.49%) ACCA
10 35 (1.45%) CIMA
11 32 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.58%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.46%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.41%) HNC
16 8 (0.33%) CISSP
16 8 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.29%) CCA
17 7 (0.29%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 101 (4.18%) QA
3 79 (3.27%) PMO
4 47 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 43 (1.78%) GDPR
6 26 (1.08%) SLA
7 24 (0.99%) GRC
8 17 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.62%) GxP
10 12 (0.50%) NIST
11 11 (0.46%) IFRS
12 9 (0.37%) GAAP
13 8 (0.33%) COBIT
13 8 (0.33%) GMP
13 8 (0.33%) ITGC
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.29%) SOX 404
15 5 (0.21%) Basel III
15 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.41%) IAG
3 6 (0.25%) Docker
4 3 (0.12%) Corosync
5 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.041%) Varnish
5 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (0.46%) Terraform
3 8 (0.33%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.25%) HP ALM
5 4 (0.17%) Ansible
5 4 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (0.12%) Control-M
6 3 (0.12%) Pacemaker
7 2 (0.083%) Grafana
7 2 (0.083%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.083%) vRealize
7 2 (0.083%) WSUS
8 1 (0.041%) Argo
8 1 (0.041%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.041%) Packer
8 1 (0.041%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.041%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.041%) SCCM
8 1 (0.041%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 239 (9.89%) Ariba
2 208 (8.61%) Microsoft
3 188 (7.78%) Oracle
4 83 (3.44%) Salesforce
5 74 (3.06%) Workday
6 72 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 38 (1.57%) Informatica
8 37 (1.53%) Adobe
9 35 (1.45%) Sage
10 30 (1.24%) Cisco
11 29 (1.20%) IBM
12 26 (1.08%) Databricks
12 26 (1.08%) Dell
13 23 (0.95%) HP
14 20 (0.83%) Okta
15 18 (0.75%) MuleSoft
16 17 (0.70%) Concur
17 16 (0.66%) OpenText
18 14 (0.58%) Siemens
19 13 (0.54%) Google