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 30 July 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
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,682 2,070 2,510
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.06% 6.31% 6.30%
As % of the Vendors category 12.25% 13.36% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,348 1,019 1,297
10th Percentile £360 £375 £400
25th Percentile £456 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 113 95
10th Percentile £16.72 £16.28 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £20.40 £21.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -22.23% -27.84%
75th Percentile £60.94 £58.75 £60.60
90th Percentile £86.45 £70.00 £66.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +32.57% -31.42% -32.65%

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 21,889 15,498 17,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.32% 47.23% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,607 9,498 10,855
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +4.99% -4.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 774 891
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.66 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.02 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%
75th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £25.30
% change year-on-year +52.32% -11.80% -27.19%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -11 2,121 £575 +3.60% 557
UK excluding London -5 1,335 £550 - 382
Work from Home -5 828 £550 -4.76% 245
London -25 766 £600 +3.45% 222
South East -7 364 £550 +4.76% 126
Midlands +9 347 £525 -4.55% 93
North of England -9 328 £550 +0.92% 98
North West -8 223 £550 +1.01% 63
West Midlands -5 221 £489 -11.14% 54
East of England -5 154 £510 -12.07% 40
East Midlands +36 118 £613 +0.08% 39
Yorkshire +6 100 £525 - 33
South West -36 80 £600 +14.29% 12
Wales +8 36 £550 +77.28% 8
Scotland -8 36 £533 -11.17% 12
North East -51 4 £500 -8.26% 3
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -4 2 £488 +73.49% 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 41 (1.53%) Confluence
2 33 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.86%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.45%) CMS
5 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 5 (0.19%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) Apache
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.11%) JBoss
8 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.075%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.075%) FactoryTalk
9 2 (0.075%) SAS
9 2 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.037%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.037%) Mule
Applications
1 127 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) CATIA
6 10 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.037%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,061 (39.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 121 (4.51%) SAP FI
3 73 (2.72%) SAP CO
4 70 (2.61%) SAP SD
5 68 (2.54%) SAP FI/CO
6 66 (2.46%) SAP ERP
7 64 (2.39%) SAP MM
8 55 (2.05%) SAP PSCD
9 54 (2.01%) SAP EWM
10 48 (1.79%) SAP BRIM
11 44 (1.64%) SAP Payroll
12 43 (1.60%) SAP GRC
13 41 (1.53%) SAP IBP
14 40 (1.49%) SAP PP
15 37 (1.38%) SAP HCM
16 36 (1.34%) SAP MDG
16 36 (1.34%) SAP PM
17 32 (1.19%) SAP FI-CA
17 32 (1.19%) SAP QM
18 30 (1.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 280 (10.44%) SuccessFactors
2 225 (8.39%) Azure
3 145 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 91 (3.39%) AWS
5 71 (2.65%) SaaS
6 59 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (1.49%) Entra ID
7 40 (1.49%) GCP
8 37 (1.38%) Boomi
9 28 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (0.86%) Snowflake
12 20 (0.75%) Power Automate
12 20 (0.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 18 (0.67%) GitHub
14 15 (0.56%) Smartsheet
15 14 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.26%) Network Security
2 5 (0.19%) Firewall
3 3 (0.11%) HTTP
3 3 (0.11%) Intranet
3 3 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.075%) Broadband
4 2 (0.075%) SSL
5 1 (0.037%) DNS
5 1 (0.037%) FTP
5 1 (0.037%) Internet
5 1 (0.037%) LAN
5 1 (0.037%) MQTT
5 1 (0.037%) RFID
5 1 (0.037%) WAN
5 1 (0.037%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.037%) Wireless
5 1 (0.037%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (4.85%) Power BI
2 98 (3.65%) SAP HANA
3 51 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (1.90%) SAP BW
4 42 (1.57%) SQL Server
5 41 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
5 41 (1.53%) Tableau
6 28 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
7 19 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 16 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.56%) Metadata
9 15 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (0.45%) GIS
10 12 (0.45%) Sybase ASE
11 11 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.41%) Relational Database
12 10 (0.37%) MaxDB
13 9 (0.34%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.26%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 115 (4.29%) JIRA
2 24 (0.89%) Hudson
3 20 (0.75%) Git
4 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.22%) LSMW
5 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.19%) Postman
6 5 (0.19%) Toad
7 3 (0.11%) GitLab
7 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.075%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.075%) JMeter
8 2 (0.075%) Maven
8 2 (0.075%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.075%) Selenium
8 2 (0.075%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.037%) Spock
9 1 (0.037%) Subversion
9 1 (0.037%) TestDirector
General
1 836 (31.17%) Finance
2 681 (25.39%) Social Skills
3 291 (10.85%) Manufacturing
4 278 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (5.78%) Public Sector
6 109 (4.06%) Billing
7 105 (3.91%) Retail
8 91 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 82 (3.06%) Legal
10 75 (2.80%) Aerospace
11 59 (2.20%) Banking
12 58 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.86%) General Ledger
14 43 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 38 (1.42%) Local Government
16 31 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
17 29 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 28 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
19 26 (0.97%) Law
20 24 (0.89%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 654 (24.38%) Consultant
2 571 (21.29%) SAP Consultant
3 345 (12.86%) Architect
4 322 (12.01%) Analyst
5 304 (11.33%) Lead
6 251 (9.36%) Senior
7 203 (7.57%) SAP Manager
8 181 (6.75%) SAP Architect
9 176 (6.56%) Project Manager
10 169 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
11 136 (5.07%) Business Analyst
12 114 (4.25%) Developer
13 107 (3.99%) SAP Analyst
14 92 (3.43%) Functional Consultant
15 91 (3.39%) SAP Project Manager
16 87 (3.24%) SAP Solutions Architect
17 86 (3.21%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 76 (2.83%) Administrator
19 64 (2.39%) Senior Manager
20 59 (2.20%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (4.36%) SAP Fiori
2 95 (3.54%) Middleware
3 71 (2.65%) REST
4 52 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
5 51 (1.90%) SOAP
6 49 (1.83%) SAP Basis
7 40 (1.49%) BAPI
8 39 (1.45%) IDoc
9 33 (1.23%) SAP PI
10 30 (1.12%) XML
11 29 (1.08%) JSON
11 29 (1.08%) SAPUI5
12 28 (1.04%) EDI
13 22 (0.82%) OAuth
13 22 (0.82%) Web Services
14 16 (0.60%) Node.js
14 16 (0.60%) SAP ALE
14 16 (0.60%) SAP TM
15 13 (0.48%) JDBC
15 13 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 85 (3.17%) Onboarding
2 84 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 83 (3.09%) Public Cloud
4 78 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 61 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 53 (1.98%) FMCG
6 53 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 48 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 34 (1.27%) Life Science
10 31 (1.16%) Cloud Native
11 27 (1.01%) Replication
12 25 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (0.75%) AI Agents
14 20 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (0.63%) Operational Technology
16 16 (0.60%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.56%) SCADA
18 12 (0.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.57%) Linux
2 36 (1.34%) Windows
3 19 (0.71%) Unix
4 10 (0.37%) VMS
5 9 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.30%) SUSE
7 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.11%) Solaris
9 2 (0.075%) AIX
9 2 (0.075%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (22.78%) ERP
2 589 (21.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 498 (18.57%) Migration
4 350 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
5 312 (11.63%) Data Migration
6 305 (11.37%) User Acceptance Testing
7 283 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 277 (10.33%) Agile
8 277 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 256 (9.55%) Validation
10 223 (8.31%) Workshop Facilitation
11 215 (8.02%) Analytics
12 197 (7.35%) Logistics
13 188 (7.01%) Project Management
14 173 (6.45%) Change Management
15 161 (6.00%) Data Modelling
15 161 (6.00%) Decision-Making
16 160 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
17 159 (5.93%) Roadmaps
18 145 (5.41%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 141 (5.26%) SQL
2 108 (4.03%) ABAP
3 59 (2.20%) Python
4 42 (1.57%) Java
5 19 (0.71%) PowerShell
6 17 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.30%) C#
8 6 (0.22%) Bash
8 6 (0.22%) Bicep
9 5 (0.19%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.19%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.15%) C
10 4 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.11%) C++
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.11%) VB
12 2 (0.075%) Perl
Qualifications
1 429 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 336 (12.53%) SC Cleared
3 140 (5.22%) Degree
4 121 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.49%) ACCA
7 39 (1.45%) CIMA
8 37 (1.38%) PMP
9 36 (1.34%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.01%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.75%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.52%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.41%) HNC
15 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
16 8 (0.30%) CISSP
16 8 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (0.26%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 99 (3.69%) PMO
3 95 (3.54%) QA
4 60 (2.24%) GDPR
5 58 (2.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 45 (1.68%) GRC
7 16 (0.60%) IFRS
8 13 (0.48%) SLA
9 12 (0.45%) GxP
10 11 (0.41%) GMP
11 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.26%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.26%) GAAP
12 7 (0.26%) ITGC
12 7 (0.26%) NIST
13 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.22%) NCSC
14 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.075%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.63%) IAG
3 7 (0.26%) Docker
4 6 (0.22%) Corosync
5 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (0.56%) Terraform
3 12 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
5 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 4 (0.15%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.075%) MOM
8 1 (0.037%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.037%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.037%) Packer
8 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.037%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.037%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.037%) WSUS
Vendors
1 260 (9.69%) Microsoft
2 254 (9.47%) Ariba
3 246 (9.17%) Oracle
4 102 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 93 (3.47%) Workday
6 76 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 42 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 39 (1.45%) Informatica
9 37 (1.38%) Concur
9 37 (1.38%) Databricks
10 30 (1.12%) Adobe
11 29 (1.08%) IBM
12 22 (0.82%) Sage
13 19 (0.71%) Google
13 19 (0.71%) IFS
14 17 (0.63%) Infor
14 17 (0.63%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.60%) Siemens
16 14 (0.52%) Dell
16 14 (0.52%) OpenText