SAP Contracts

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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +19
Contract jobs citing SAP 1,985 2,627 3,299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.76% 6.02% 5.50%
As % of the Vendors category 14.24% 14.17% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,028 1,342 1,696
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £487 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £663
90th Percentile £765 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 126 56
10th Percentile £20.99 £13.03 £21.97
25th Percentile £24.81 £15.50 £36.94
Median hourly rate £56.25 £25.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +120.59% -43.33% +62.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.88 £53.13
90th Percentile £86.00 £66.25 £68.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £24.19 £45.00
% change year-on-year +106.70% -46.24% +114.29%

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 13,939 18,542 25,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.45% 42.49% 42.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,768 11,522 17,173
10th Percentile £290 £260 £270
25th Percentile £406 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -1.90% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,091 708
10th Percentile £14.96 £12.02 £15.23
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -48.19% +103.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £75.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.70% -42.77% +100.53%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP.

Daily rate trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP.

Hourly rate trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Top 17 Contract 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 26 April 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 0 1,571 £550 - 1,329
UK excluding London +2 812 £540 +2.86% 732
London +3 674 £600 +3.45% 674
Work from Home -2 668 £578 +5.00% 779
North of England +1 251 £528 +0.48% 199
South East +5 233 £550 - 212
North West +11 190 £530 +0.95% 135
Midlands -2 113 £550 +6.28% 154
East of England -1 103 £580 +10.48% 54
South West +5 94 £470 -21.64% 54
West Midlands 0 80 £594 +22.42% 102
Yorkshire -29 32 £381 -21.39% 50
East Midlands +8 27 £500 -9.09% 45
North East +11 25 £415 +6.41% 14
Scotland +6 18 £600 +23.08% 47
Wales +4 5 £725 +61.11% 18
Northern Ireland -13 4 £281 -29.75% 9

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (1.21%) NetWeaver
2 18 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.71%) Confluence
4 12 (0.60%) MTS
5 7 (0.35%) SAP EP
6 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.20%) SAS
7 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.10%) Documentum
9 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.050%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.050%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.050%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.050%) WinCC
Applications
1 68 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) Blender
8 2 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.050%) InVision
9 1 (0.050%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.050%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.050%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.050%) Simulink
9 1 (0.050%) Sketch
9 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 703 (35.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 92 (4.63%) SAP FI
3 77 (3.88%) SAP CO
4 71 (3.58%) SAP FI/CO
5 64 (3.22%) SAP PP
6 50 (2.52%) SAP SD
7 46 (2.32%) SAP ERP
7 46 (2.32%) SAP HR
8 43 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
9 42 (2.12%) SAP EWM
9 42 (2.12%) SAP MM
10 36 (1.81%) SAP MDG
11 30 (1.51%) SAP PS
12 26 (1.31%) SAP IBP
13 25 (1.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 24 (1.21%) SAP GTS
15 22 (1.11%) Shopify
16 21 (1.06%) SAP HCM
17 20 (1.01%) SAP Retail
18 19 (0.96%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 132 (6.65%) SuccessFactors
2 122 (6.15%) Azure
3 71 (3.58%) Power Platform
4 66 (3.32%) AWS
5 27 (1.36%) GCP
5 27 (1.36%) SaaS
6 26 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (1.01%) BigCommerce
9 19 (0.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 19 (0.96%) Snowflake
10 16 (0.81%) GitHub
11 10 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (0.45%) Boomi
13 8 (0.40%) Serverless
14 7 (0.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (0.35%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.91%) Firewall
2 13 (0.65%) HTTP
2 13 (0.65%) VPN
3 8 (0.40%) SAN
4 7 (0.35%) DNS
4 7 (0.35%) LAN
5 6 (0.30%) Network Security
5 6 (0.30%) WAN
6 5 (0.25%) DHCP
6 5 (0.25%) NAS
6 5 (0.25%) RFID
6 5 (0.25%) SSL
6 5 (0.25%) Wireless
7 4 (0.20%) Intranet
8 3 (0.15%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.15%) Internet
8 3 (0.15%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.10%) IMAP
9 2 (0.10%) OSPF
9 2 (0.10%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.53%) SAP HANA
2 69 (3.48%) Power BI
3 45 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 39 (1.96%) SAP BW
5 34 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (1.41%) SAP Data Services
7 25 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
8 20 (1.01%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.01%) SQL Server
9 15 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 15 (0.76%) Metadata
10 13 (0.65%) MongoDB
10 13 (0.65%) Tableau
11 9 (0.45%) Big Data
11 9 (0.45%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 8 (0.40%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.30%) Qlik Sense
15 5 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 59 (2.97%) JIRA
2 42 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.56%) GitLab
4 27 (1.36%) Git
5 23 (1.16%) Liquibase
6 22 (1.11%) Gradle
6 22 (1.11%) JUnit
7 21 (1.06%) Mockito
8 14 (0.71%) Selenium
9 12 (0.60%) Postman
10 9 (0.45%) JMeter
11 7 (0.35%) ERwin
12 6 (0.30%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.25%) LSMW
13 5 (0.25%) NeoLoad
13 5 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
14 4 (0.20%) Toad
15 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
15 3 (0.15%) NUnit
15 3 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 654 (32.95%) Finance
2 637 (32.09%) Social Skills
3 368 (18.54%) Manufacturing
4 252 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 233 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
6 218 (10.98%) Marketing
7 213 (10.73%) Telecoms
8 199 (10.03%) Electronics
9 146 (7.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 121 (6.10%) Retail
11 61 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (2.47%) Banking
13 47 (2.37%) Aerospace
13 47 (2.37%) Billing
14 40 (2.02%) Legal
15 36 (1.81%) Automotive
16 35 (1.76%) Local Government
17 30 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
18 27 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
19 24 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 557 (28.06%) Consultant
2 484 (24.38%) SAP Consultant
3 239 (12.04%) Lead
4 217 (10.93%) Architect
5 163 (8.21%) Developer
6 151 (7.61%) Analyst
7 125 (6.30%) SAP Manager
8 123 (6.20%) Project Manager
8 123 (6.20%) SAP Architect
9 118 (5.94%) Senior
10 86 (4.33%) Business Analyst
11 83 (4.18%) SAP Analyst
12 76 (3.83%) SAP Developer
12 76 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
13 58 (2.92%) SAP Project Manager
14 57 (2.87%) Functional Consultant
15 51 (2.57%) ABAP Developer
15 51 (2.57%) SAP Functional Consultant
16 50 (2.52%) SAP PP Consultant
17 49 (2.47%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (5.04%) SAP Fiori
2 44 (2.22%) Web Services
3 42 (2.12%) SAPUI5
4 39 (1.96%) Middleware
5 36 (1.81%) React
5 36 (1.81%) REST
6 35 (1.76%) Kafka
7 33 (1.66%) SAP PI
7 33 (1.66%) SOAP
8 30 (1.51%) .NET
8 30 (1.51%) CSS
8 30 (1.51%) HTML
8 30 (1.51%) Spring
9 29 (1.46%) XML
10 28 (1.41%) Spring Boot
11 26 (1.31%) BAPI
12 25 (1.26%) SAP Basis
13 22 (1.11%) EDI
13 22 (1.11%) OpenAPI
13 22 (1.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.33%) Life Science
2 59 (2.97%) Management Information System
3 50 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
5 39 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 34 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 30 (1.51%) Data Structures
7 30 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 28 (1.41%) FMCG
8 28 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.31%) Product Ownership
10 21 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (0.91%) Cloud Native
11 18 (0.91%) NHS
12 17 (0.86%) Private Cloud
13 16 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 13 (0.65%) Industry 4.0
15 13 (0.65%) LIMS
15 13 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 71 (3.58%) Windows
2 37 (1.86%) Linux
3 15 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 11 (0.55%) Unix
5 8 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.15%) SUSE
8 2 (0.10%) Android
8 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.050%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.050%) HPUX
9 1 (0.050%) Solaris
9 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
2 315 (15.87%) Agile
3 278 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 276 (13.90%) Business Intelligence
5 261 (13.15%) Migration
6 255 (12.85%) ERP
7 231 (11.64%) Programme Management
8 226 (11.39%) Project Management
9 197 (9.92%) Digital Marketing
10 163 (8.21%) Analytics
11 136 (6.85%) Data Migration
12 131 (6.60%) Change Management
13 115 (5.79%) Project Delivery
14 109 (5.49%) Workshop Facilitation
15 108 (5.44%) Data Modelling
15 108 (5.44%) User Acceptance Testing
16 106 (5.34%) Logistics
17 105 (5.29%) DevOps
18 102 (5.14%) Process Improvement
19 98 (4.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 155 (7.81%) ABAP
2 137 (6.90%) SQL
3 90 (4.53%) Java
4 61 (3.07%) Python
5 57 (2.87%) JavaScript
6 46 (2.32%) PowerShell
7 28 (1.41%) TypeScript
8 26 (1.31%) C#
9 20 (1.01%) Bash
10 9 (0.45%) Groovy
11 8 (0.40%) C++
11 8 (0.40%) COBOL
12 7 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.30%) BeanShell
13 6 (0.30%) C
13 6 (0.30%) R
13 6 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.25%) Bicep
14 5 (0.25%) Perl
14 5 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 315 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 237 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.66%) Degree
4 78 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 61 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 51 (2.57%) SAP Certification
8 37 (1.86%) PMI Certification
9 36 (1.81%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.76%) PMP
11 13 (0.65%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.60%) ACCA
12 12 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.55%) CIMA
14 8 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.35%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.35%) CCA
15 7 (0.35%) CISSP
16 6 (0.30%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 72 (3.63%) QA
3 37 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 32 (1.61%) PMO
5 31 (1.56%) GDPR
6 25 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 21 (1.06%) GRC
8 19 (0.96%) IFRS
9 13 (0.65%) GxP
10 9 (0.45%) IFRS 9
11 8 (0.40%) GAAP
12 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (0.30%) SLA
13 5 (0.25%) JSP 440
14 4 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 4 (0.20%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.20%) ITGC
14 4 (0.20%) NIST
14 4 (0.20%) PMBOK
14 4 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 36 (1.81%) Docker
3 8 (0.40%) IAG
4 4 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.10%) NFS
5 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.050%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.050%) Firmware
6 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.41%) Terraform
3 16 (0.81%) Ansible
4 8 (0.40%) HP ALM
4 8 (0.40%) MOM
4 8 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.20%) Argo
6 4 (0.20%) Puppet
7 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.10%) Grafana
8 2 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.10%) Salt
8 2 (0.10%) vRealize
8 2 (0.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (0.10%) WSUS
9 1 (0.050%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 247 (12.44%) Ariba
2 169 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 122 (6.15%) Oracle
4 112 (5.64%) Salesforce
5 70 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 34 (1.71%) Workday
7 31 (1.56%) Google
8 30 (1.51%) Adobe
9 20 (1.01%) Sitecore
10 19 (0.96%) HP
11 18 (0.91%) Concur
12 17 (0.86%) Dell
13 16 (0.81%) Databricks
13 16 (0.81%) OpenText
14 14 (0.71%) VMware
15 12 (0.60%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.60%) Siemens
16 9 (0.45%) Cisco
16 9 (0.45%) IBM
16 9 (0.45%) Splunk