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 14 February 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
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,249 2,037 2,828
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.60% 6.58% 6.31%
As % of the Vendors category 12.49% 14.21% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,011 1,449
10th Percentile £357 £363 £363
25th Percentile £460 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -
75th Percentile £675 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -0.56% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 47 120
10th Percentile £16.04 £19.04 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.68 £24.10 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £41.50 £26.91
Median % change year-on-year -42.17% +54.20% -40.19%
75th Percentile £56.52 £70.00 £59.01
90th Percentile £78.03 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £31.76 £24.65
% change year-on-year -24.98% +28.84% -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 18,002 14,337 19,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.86% 46.30% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,543 8,571 12,289
10th Percentile £300 £275 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.41%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 415 925
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.91 £29.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +5.45% -14.73%
75th Percentile £56.69 £63.75 £58.48
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.08 £26.81 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.67% +3.13% -5.80%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -10 1,767 £565 +2.73% 481
UK excluding London -13 978 £537 -0.56% 368
Work from Home -1 773 £568 -1.30% 232
London -6 734 £588 +2.17% 166
North of England -13 300 £600 +12.68% 93
South East -8 240 £555 +0.82% 130
North West -10 204 £625 +15.74% 64
Midlands -18 182 £480 -11.11% 86
East of England +2 146 £505 -8.18% 42
West Midlands -22 122 £492 -13.30% 55
Yorkshire -1 85 £570 +52.00% 25
South West -39 81 £600 +13.21% 18
East Midlands -13 56 £475 -8.65% 30
Scotland +1 24 £450 -18.18% 5
Wales +7 21 £370 -44.23% 4
North East -26 10 £175 -53.33% 5
Northern Ireland -1 4 £308 -
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 26 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 22 (0.98%) Confluence
3 17 (0.76%) NetWeaver
4 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) CMS
7 5 (0.22%) MTS
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) Apache
8 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.13%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.089%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.089%) LiveCycle
9 2 (0.089%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.044%) Anypoint
Applications
1 102 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.22%) PTC Creo
9 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.044%) Sketch
10 1 (0.044%) Trello
10 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 855 (38.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (4.89%) SAP FI
3 80 (3.56%) SAP CO
4 72 (3.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 71 (3.16%) SAP MM
6 66 (2.93%) SAP EWM
7 63 (2.80%) SAP PP
8 60 (2.67%) SAP ERP
9 52 (2.31%) SAP HCM
10 51 (2.27%) SAP Payroll
11 41 (1.82%) SAP PM
12 35 (1.56%) SAP PSCD
13 33 (1.47%) SAP QM
13 33 (1.47%) SAP WM
14 32 (1.42%) SAP SD
15 31 (1.38%) SAP HR
15 31 (1.38%) SAP MDG
16 30 (1.33%) SAP Travel Management
17 29 (1.29%) SAP EHS
18 25 (1.11%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 182 (8.09%) Azure
2 145 (6.45%) SuccessFactors
3 86 (3.82%) Power Platform
4 85 (3.78%) AWS
5 57 (2.53%) SaaS
6 54 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (2.22%) GCP
8 36 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.11%) Entra ID
10 24 (1.07%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 21 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (0.84%) OCI
13 18 (0.80%) Power Automate
14 17 (0.76%) Snowflake
15 12 (0.53%) Boomi
16 11 (0.49%) GitHub
16 11 (0.49%) Tricentis Tosca
17 9 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
18 8 (0.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.02%) Wireless
2 17 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 10 (0.44%) VPN
4 8 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.36%) LAN
4 8 (0.36%) Skype
4 8 (0.36%) WAN
5 7 (0.31%) Firewall
5 7 (0.31%) Network Security
6 5 (0.22%) BGP
6 5 (0.22%) DNS
6 5 (0.22%) OSPF
6 5 (0.22%) RFID
6 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.18%) FTP
7 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.13%) DHCP
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) Junos
9 2 (0.089%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (3.73%) Power BI
1 84 (3.73%) SAP HANA
2 33 (1.47%) SAP BW
3 25 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.02%) SQL Server
5 22 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 21 (0.93%) SAP Data Services
7 17 (0.76%) Metadata
8 14 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
8 14 (0.62%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 14 (0.62%) Tableau
9 11 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (0.40%) GIS
11 7 (0.31%) Power Query
11 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.27%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.27%) MySQL
13 5 (0.22%) DB2
13 5 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 83 (3.69%) JIRA
2 16 (0.71%) Git
3 9 (0.40%) LSMW
4 8 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.31%) GitLab
5 7 (0.31%) Toad
6 6 (0.27%) Postman
7 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.18%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.18%) Hudson
7 4 (0.18%) JUnit
7 4 (0.18%) Selenium
8 3 (0.13%) JMeter
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.13%) Storybook
8 3 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.089%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.089%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.044%) Bitbucket
General
1 794 (35.30%) Finance
2 754 (33.53%) Social Skills
3 384 (17.07%) Manufacturing
4 325 (14.45%) Public Sector
5 267 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
6 196 (8.71%) Telecoms
7 194 (8.63%) Marketing
8 167 (7.43%) Electronics
9 101 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 69 (3.07%) Billing
11 61 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
12 59 (2.62%) Retail
13 58 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
14 54 (2.40%) Banking
15 52 (2.31%) Legal
16 46 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
17 41 (1.82%) Aerospace
17 41 (1.82%) Local Government
18 40 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
19 30 (1.33%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 663 (29.48%) Consultant
2 532 (23.65%) SAP Consultant
3 256 (11.38%) Lead
4 224 (9.96%) Architect
5 190 (8.45%) Analyst
6 158 (7.03%) Project Manager
7 143 (6.36%) SAP Manager
8 133 (5.91%) Senior
9 127 (5.65%) Developer
10 125 (5.56%) SAP Architect
11 113 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
12 96 (4.27%) Business Analyst
13 78 (3.47%) SAP Project Manager
14 77 (3.42%) Functional Consultant
15 73 (3.25%) SAP Solutions Architect
16 72 (3.20%) Management Consultant
16 72 (3.20%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 71 (3.16%) SAP Developer
18 57 (2.53%) Administrator
19 56 (2.49%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (7.25%) SAP Fiori
2 54 (2.40%) SAPUI5
3 51 (2.27%) XML
4 49 (2.18%) Middleware
5 48 (2.13%) Web Services
6 46 (2.05%) SOAP
7 40 (1.78%) REST
8 39 (1.73%) SAP TM
9 38 (1.69%) BAPI
10 35 (1.56%) SAP Basis
11 31 (1.38%) SAP PI
12 26 (1.16%) HTML
13 24 (1.07%) CSS
14 21 (0.93%) JSON
15 19 (0.84%) IDoc
16 18 (0.80%) EDI
17 17 (0.76%) JMS
17 17 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
18 13 (0.58%) .NET
19 12 (0.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 72 (3.20%) Onboarding
2 66 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
3 58 (2.58%) Public Cloud
4 42 (1.87%) Data Structures
5 36 (1.60%) FMCG
6 33 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (1.42%) Product Ownership
8 30 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 28 (1.24%) Life Science
10 26 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 22 (0.98%) Taxonomies
13 20 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (0.89%) Replication
14 17 (0.76%) Mobile App
15 15 (0.67%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.62%) Cloud Native
16 14 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.09%) Windows
2 32 (1.42%) Mac OS
3 31 (1.38%) Android
4 18 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 17 (0.76%) Linux
6 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.089%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.089%) SUSE
9 2 (0.089%) Unix
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (19.03%) ERP
2 405 (18.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 396 (17.61%) Migration
4 291 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
5 270 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 268 (11.92%) Business Intelligence
7 223 (9.92%) Agile
8 213 (9.47%) Logistics
9 206 (9.16%) Data Migration
10 196 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 186 (8.27%) Programme Management
12 179 (7.96%) Project Management
12 179 (7.96%) User Acceptance Testing
13 169 (7.51%) Digital Marketing
13 169 (7.51%) Workshop Facilitation
14 165 (7.34%) Analytics
15 155 (6.89%) Change Management
16 139 (6.18%) Roadmaps
17 138 (6.14%) Validation
18 136 (6.05%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 141 (6.27%) ABAP
2 106 (4.71%) SQL
3 51 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 46 (2.05%) Java
5 44 (1.96%) Python
6 17 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.62%) Groovy
8 13 (0.58%) C#
9 12 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.22%) C++
12 4 (0.18%) Go
12 4 (0.18%) R
12 4 (0.18%) VBA
13 3 (0.13%) COBOL
13 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.089%) C
14 2 (0.089%) Tcl
14 2 (0.089%) VB
14 2 (0.089%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 474 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 391 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 174 (7.74%) Degree
4 104 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 56 (2.49%) SAP Certification
6 52 (2.31%) PMP
7 45 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 40 (1.78%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.20%) ACCA
10 27 (1.20%) CIMA
11 21 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.36%) CISSP
15 7 (0.31%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.31%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 7 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 81 (3.60%) QA
3 62 (2.76%) PMO
4 41 (1.82%) GDPR
5 30 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.24%) SLA
7 18 (0.80%) GRC
8 17 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.71%) GxP
10 12 (0.53%) NIST
11 11 (0.49%) GMP
12 10 (0.44%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.44%) IFRS
13 8 (0.36%) COBIT
13 8 (0.36%) GAAP
13 8 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.36%) ITGC
14 7 (0.31%) SOX 404
15 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 26 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.40%) Docker
3 3 (0.13%) IAG
4 2 (0.089%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.044%) Varnish
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.22%) Terraform
4 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.13%) Control-M
5 3 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.089%) Grafana
6 2 (0.089%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.089%) Linux-HA
6 2 (0.089%) Pacemaker
6 2 (0.089%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.089%) SCCM
6 2 (0.089%) vRealize
7 1 (0.044%) Argo
7 1 (0.044%) Autotask
7 1 (0.044%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.044%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.044%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 192 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 190 (8.45%) Ariba
3 174 (7.74%) Oracle
4 86 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 75 (3.33%) Workday
6 69 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.96%) Cisco
8 37 (1.65%) Adobe
9 33 (1.47%) Dell
9 33 (1.47%) HP
10 28 (1.24%) Sage
11 25 (1.11%) IBM
12 24 (1.07%) Apple
12 24 (1.07%) Google
13 23 (1.02%) Databricks
14 22 (0.98%) Informatica
15 20 (0.89%) webMethods
16 16 (0.71%) Okta
16 16 (0.71%) Siemens
17 15 (0.67%) OpenText