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 28 March 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 25 26
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,325 1,923 2,659
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.23% 6.62% 6.01%
As % of the Vendors category 12.03% 14.01% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,015 1,380
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £462 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.82% -0.05%
75th Percentile £673 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £770 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 58 130
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.40 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.47 £24.27 £18.33
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £26.35
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +89.79% -41.46%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £60.19
90th Percentile £77.40 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -52.35% +102.84% -45.22%

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 19,326 13,723 18,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.48% 47.22% 42.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,358 8,677 11,800
10th Percentile £313 £293 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.19% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 477 1,033
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.55 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.64 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +23.84% -40.28%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £27.24 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.89% +26.69% -38.57%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 1,817 £560 +1.82% 552
UK excluding London -12 1,056 £525 -2.78% 415
Work from Home 0 782 £575 -1.37% 266
London -17 717 £581 -2.31% 205
North of England -19 272 £550 +4.76% 92
South East -12 267 £575 - 159
Midlands -4 237 £486 -9.11% 77
North West -16 172 £538 -0.09% 55
East of England +1 167 £515 -10.82% 37
West Midlands -11 156 £475 -18.80% 53
Yorkshire +1 91 £595 +58.67% 34
South West -33 77 £625 +23.76% 26
East Midlands -2 75 £563 +12.50% 24
Wales +6 24 £414 -42.90% 13
Scotland +5 23 £450 -25.00% 9
North East -20 8 £175 -50.00% 4
Northern Ireland -4 3 £500 +77.94% 3
Channel Islands - 2 - - 4

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 (1.46%) Confluence
2 27 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.86%) NetWeaver
4 18 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.34%) CMS
6 6 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.26%) SAP EP
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
7 5 (0.22%) MTS
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.13%) Apache
9 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.086%) JBoss
11 1 (0.043%) OpenStack
Applications
1 112 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.26%) CATIA
7 6 (0.26%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.22%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.043%) Sketch
10 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 885 (38.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (4.60%) SAP FI
3 69 (2.97%) SAP CO
4 65 (2.80%) SAP FI/CO
4 65 (2.80%) SAP MM
5 62 (2.67%) SAP ERP
6 59 (2.54%) SAP PP
7 57 (2.45%) SAP EWM
8 47 (2.02%) SAP Payroll
9 46 (1.98%) SAP HCM
10 42 (1.81%) SAP PM
11 40 (1.72%) SAP SD
12 37 (1.59%) SAP PSCD
13 34 (1.46%) SAP MDG
14 28 (1.20%) SAP Travel Management
15 27 (1.16%) SAP HR
16 26 (1.12%) SAP BRIM
16 26 (1.12%) SAP QM
17 25 (1.08%) SAP IBP
18 22 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 205 (8.82%) Azure
2 192 (8.26%) SuccessFactors
3 91 (3.91%) Power Platform
4 86 (3.70%) AWS
5 66 (2.84%) SaaS
6 43 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
7 40 (1.72%) GCP
8 36 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
9 34 (1.46%) Entra ID
10 23 (0.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 22 (0.95%) OCI
12 17 (0.73%) Boomi
12 17 (0.73%) Power Automate
13 16 (0.69%) GitHub
14 15 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (0.65%) Snowflake
15 13 (0.56%) PaaS
16 11 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (0.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.65%) Wireless
2 12 (0.52%) Network Security
3 9 (0.39%) Firewall
3 9 (0.39%) VPN
4 8 (0.34%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.34%) Skype
5 7 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 7 (0.30%) LAN
5 7 (0.30%) WAN
6 5 (0.22%) BGP
6 5 (0.22%) FTP
6 5 (0.22%) OSPF
6 5 (0.22%) RFID
6 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.17%) DNS
7 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) Junos
9 2 (0.086%) DHCP
9 2 (0.086%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (3.70%) Power BI
2 83 (3.57%) SAP HANA
3 34 (1.46%) SAP BW
4 28 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.20%) SQL Server
5 24 (1.03%) SAP Data Services
6 19 (0.82%) Metadata
6 19 (0.82%) Tableau
7 17 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
10 12 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (0.47%) GIS
12 9 (0.39%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 7 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.26%) MaxDB
14 6 (0.26%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.26%) Sybase ASE
15 5 (0.22%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 90 (3.87%) JIRA
2 15 (0.65%) Git
3 13 (0.56%) Hudson
4 11 (0.47%) LSMW
5 7 (0.30%) GitLab
5 7 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.30%) Toad
6 6 (0.26%) Postman
7 5 (0.22%) Selenium
8 4 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.17%) JMeter
8 4 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.13%) JUnit
9 3 (0.13%) Storybook
10 2 (0.086%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.086%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.086%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.043%) Axure RP
11 1 (0.043%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.043%) GCC
General
1 796 (34.24%) Finance
2 732 (31.48%) Social Skills
3 359 (15.44%) Manufacturing
4 294 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
5 285 (12.26%) Public Sector
6 151 (6.49%) Telecoms
7 147 (6.32%) Marketing
8 124 (5.33%) Electronics
9 97 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 66 (2.84%) Banking
11 65 (2.80%) Legal
11 65 (2.80%) Retail
12 63 (2.71%) Billing
13 54 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
15 49 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
16 48 (2.06%) Aerospace
17 41 (1.76%) Local Government
18 37 (1.59%) General Ledger
19 29 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 613 (26.37%) Consultant
2 517 (22.24%) SAP Consultant
3 282 (12.13%) Lead
4 267 (11.48%) Architect
5 210 (9.03%) Analyst
6 179 (7.70%) Project Manager
7 171 (7.35%) SAP Manager
8 161 (6.92%) Senior
9 150 (6.45%) SAP Architect
10 138 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
11 119 (5.12%) Developer
12 103 (4.43%) Business Analyst
13 94 (4.04%) SAP Project Manager
14 88 (3.78%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 76 (3.27%) Functional Consultant
16 75 (3.23%) Administrator
17 74 (3.18%) SAP Developer
17 74 (3.18%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 59 (2.54%) SAP Analyst
19 53 (2.28%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (5.38%) SAP Fiori
2 60 (2.58%) Middleware
3 53 (2.28%) SAP Basis
4 47 (2.02%) SAPUI5
5 39 (1.68%) REST
6 38 (1.63%) XML
7 36 (1.55%) SOAP
7 36 (1.55%) Web Services
8 32 (1.38%) BAPI
9 31 (1.33%) SAP PI
9 31 (1.33%) SAP TM
10 27 (1.16%) IDoc
11 21 (0.90%) CSS
11 21 (0.90%) HTML
12 20 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
13 17 (0.73%) EDI
14 15 (0.65%) SAP ALE
15 14 (0.60%) JSON
16 11 (0.47%) OAuth
17 10 (0.43%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 74 (3.18%) Public Cloud
3 64 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.02%) Data Structures
5 41 (1.76%) FMCG
5 41 (1.76%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.46%) Replication
7 29 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 28 (1.20%) Taxonomies
9 27 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 27 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.08%) Life Science
11 21 (0.90%) Data Centre
12 20 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 20 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (0.73%) Mobile App
14 15 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.81%) Windows
2 23 (0.99%) Android
2 23 (0.99%) Mac OS
3 21 (0.90%) Linux
4 14 (0.60%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.26%) Unix
6 5 (0.22%) VMS
7 4 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.086%) SUSE
9 2 (0.086%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.043%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (20.30%) ERP
2 435 (18.71%) Migration
3 427 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 280 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 265 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
6 240 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 240 (10.32%) Data Migration
7 229 (9.85%) Business Intelligence
8 223 (9.59%) Agile
9 200 (8.60%) Project Management
10 193 (8.30%) Workshop Facilitation
11 191 (8.22%) User Acceptance Testing
12 176 (7.57%) Validation
13 174 (7.48%) Logistics
14 169 (7.27%) Change Management
15 157 (6.75%) Analytics
16 149 (6.41%) Programme Management
17 146 (6.28%) Roadmaps
18 145 (6.24%) Data Modelling
19 137 (5.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 124 (5.33%) ABAP
2 106 (4.56%) SQL
3 43 (1.85%) Python
4 41 (1.76%) Java
4 41 (1.76%) JavaScript
5 16 (0.69%) PowerShell
6 11 (0.47%) Groovy
7 8 (0.34%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.30%) C#
8 7 (0.30%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.17%) C
9 4 (0.17%) Go
10 3 (0.13%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.13%) Bicep
10 3 (0.13%) C++
10 3 (0.13%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.13%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.13%) R
10 3 (0.13%) VBA
11 2 (0.086%) VB
Qualifications
1 420 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 324 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 156 (6.71%) Degree
4 112 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 50 (2.15%) PMP
7 44 (1.89%) SAP Certification
8 43 (1.85%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.33%) ACCA
11 30 (1.29%) CIMA
12 17 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.43%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.43%) CISSP
15 9 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.30%) CISM
17 7 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 7 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.25%) Data Quality
2 96 (4.13%) QA
3 74 (3.18%) PMO
4 47 (2.02%) GDPR
5 44 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.20%) SLA
7 23 (0.99%) GRC
8 19 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.56%) GxP
10 12 (0.52%) NIST
11 11 (0.47%) IFRS
12 9 (0.39%) GAAP
13 8 (0.34%) COBIT
13 8 (0.34%) GMP
13 8 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.34%) ITGC
14 7 (0.30%) SOX 404
15 6 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.22%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.22%) Basel III
System Software
1 32 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.30%) Docker
2 7 (0.30%) IAG
3 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.043%) Varnish
3 1 (0.043%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (0.34%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.34%) Terraform
3 6 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.13%) Control-M
5 2 (0.086%) Ansible
5 2 (0.086%) Grafana
5 2 (0.086%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.086%) vRealize
5 2 (0.086%) WSUS
6 1 (0.043%) Argo
6 1 (0.043%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.043%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.043%) Packer
6 1 (0.043%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.043%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.043%) SCCM
6 1 (0.043%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 221 (9.51%) Ariba
2 199 (8.56%) Microsoft
3 181 (7.78%) Oracle
4 80 (3.44%) Salesforce
5 72 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 69 (2.97%) Workday
7 37 (1.59%) Informatica
8 35 (1.51%) Cisco
8 35 (1.51%) Sage
9 31 (1.33%) Adobe
10 28 (1.20%) Databricks
10 28 (1.20%) Dell
10 28 (1.20%) IBM
11 27 (1.16%) HP
12 20 (0.86%) Okta
13 18 (0.77%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.65%) Apple
14 15 (0.65%) Google
15 14 (0.60%) OpenText
15 14 (0.60%) Siemens