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 25 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
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,409 1,995 2,628
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.17% 6.76% 6.02%
As % of the Vendors category 12.23% 14.23% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 1,030 1,341
10th Percentile £360 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £487 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -
75th Percentile £673 £663 £675
90th Percentile £752 £765 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £540 £525
% change year-on-year - +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 58 125
10th Percentile £17.69 £20.99 £13.02
25th Percentile £22.63 £24.81 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.38 £56.25 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.22% +120.59% -43.33%
75th Percentile £57.25 £70.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £86.00 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.54 £50.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -48.92% +107.08% -46.34%

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 19,692 14,016 18,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.23% 47.49% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,581 8,810 11,522
10th Percentile £313 £290 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £630
90th Percentile £703 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 559 1,077
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.17 £14.36
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.83 £75.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.25 £24.18 £21.46
% change year-on-year +12.70% +12.67% -47.11%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -15 1,891 £575 +4.55% 433
UK excluding London -5 1,128 £540 - 367
Work from Home +1 787 £568 -1.30% 212
London -16 738 £600 - 110
South East -10 296 £575 +4.55% 124
North of England -20 275 £550 +4.27% 90
Midlands +2 260 £502 -8.82% 91
North West -18 180 £550 +3.77% 49
West Midlands -5 168 £475 -20.00% 54
East of England +1 166 £505 -12.93% 33
Yorkshire -6 90 £575 +50.82% 36
East Midlands +4 86 £600 +20.00% 37
South West -44 78 £618 +31.34% 22
Wales +22 38 £550 -24.14% 3
Scotland +13 24 £450 -25.00% 9
North East -38 4 £500 +20.48% 11
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +2 3 £500 +77.94% 7

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 37 (1.54%) Confluence
2 29 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.83%) NetWeaver
4 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.42%) CMS
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) SAP EP
8 5 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
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%) Apache
11 2 (0.083%) JBoss
12 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.042%) LiveCycle
12 1 (0.042%) MTS
Applications
1 128 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.42%) CATIA
8 6 (0.25%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.21%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.042%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.042%) Sketch
11 1 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 895 (37.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (4.44%) SAP FI
3 71 (2.95%) SAP CO
4 67 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO
5 66 (2.74%) SAP ERP
6 58 (2.41%) SAP EWM
6 58 (2.41%) SAP MM
7 54 (2.24%) SAP PP
8 46 (1.91%) SAP PM
9 42 (1.74%) SAP SD
10 41 (1.70%) SAP HCM
11 40 (1.66%) SAP PSCD
12 39 (1.62%) SAP Payroll
13 32 (1.33%) SAP MDG
14 29 (1.20%) SAP BRIM
14 29 (1.20%) SAP IBP
14 29 (1.20%) SAP QM
15 27 (1.12%) SAP Travel Management
16 23 (0.95%) SAP EHS
17 21 (0.87%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 205 (8.51%) Azure
2 202 (8.39%) SuccessFactors
3 110 (4.57%) Power Platform
4 89 (3.69%) AWS
5 78 (3.24%) SaaS
6 39 (1.62%) Entra ID
7 38 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (1.49%) GCP
9 32 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (0.91%) Boomi
12 20 (0.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 17 (0.71%) GitHub
13 17 (0.71%) OCI
14 16 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (0.66%) Snowflake
15 15 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (0.62%) Power Automate
16 14 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (0.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.50%) Network Security
2 8 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (0.33%) Firewall
2 8 (0.33%) Skype
2 8 (0.33%) VPN
3 7 (0.29%) WAN
4 5 (0.21%) FTP
4 5 (0.21%) LAN
4 5 (0.21%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.17%) BGP
5 4 (0.17%) DNS
5 4 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.17%) OSPF
5 4 (0.17%) RFID
6 3 (0.12%) Internet
7 2 (0.083%) DHCP
7 2 (0.083%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.083%) Junos
7 2 (0.083%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.042%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.32%) Power BI
2 84 (3.49%) SAP HANA
3 43 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (1.49%) SAP BW
5 30 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 25 (1.04%) Tableau
7 23 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
8 20 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 19 (0.79%) Metadata
10 17 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
11 15 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.37%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 7 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.29%) GIS
15 6 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
16 5 (0.21%) MaxDB
16 5 (0.21%) MySQL
16 5 (0.21%) Relational Database
16 5 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 107 (4.44%) JIRA
2 18 (0.75%) Hudson
3 16 (0.66%) Git
4 8 (0.33%) LSMW
5 7 (0.29%) GitLab
5 7 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.25%) Toad
7 5 (0.21%) Postman
7 5 (0.21%) Selenium
7 5 (0.21%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.17%) JMeter
9 3 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.12%) JUnit
9 3 (0.12%) Storybook
10 2 (0.083%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.083%) TestRail
10 2 (0.083%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.042%) GCC
11 1 (0.042%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.042%) SpecFlow
General
1 782 (32.46%) Finance
2 726 (30.14%) Social Skills
3 324 (13.45%) Manufacturing
4 309 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
5 236 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 105 (4.36%) Telecoms
7 102 (4.23%) Marketing
8 91 (3.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 82 (3.40%) Electronics
10 69 (2.86%) Retail
11 67 (2.78%) Banking
11 67 (2.78%) Billing
11 67 (2.78%) Legal
12 55 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 51 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
14 50 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
15 49 (2.03%) Aerospace
16 43 (1.78%) General Ledger
17 35 (1.45%) Local Government
18 28 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 587 (24.37%) Consultant
2 503 (20.88%) SAP Consultant
3 317 (13.16%) Lead
4 295 (12.25%) Architect
5 239 (9.92%) Analyst
6 185 (7.68%) Senior
7 177 (7.35%) Project Manager
8 176 (7.31%) SAP Manager
9 163 (6.77%) SAP Architect
10 148 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
11 131 (5.44%) Developer
12 110 (4.57%) Business Analyst
13 91 (3.78%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 90 (3.74%) SAP Project Manager
15 81 (3.36%) SAP Developer
16 79 (3.28%) Administrator
17 72 (2.99%) Functional Consultant
18 67 (2.78%) SAP Functional Consultant
19 66 (2.74%) SAP Analyst
20 56 (2.32%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (4.32%) SAP Fiori
2 65 (2.70%) Middleware
3 52 (2.16%) SAP Basis
4 48 (1.99%) REST
5 47 (1.95%) SAPUI5
6 41 (1.70%) SOAP
7 39 (1.62%) XML
8 29 (1.20%) BAPI
8 29 (1.20%) Web Services
9 28 (1.16%) SAP TM
10 27 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
11 23 (0.95%) IDoc
11 23 (0.95%) SAP PI
12 21 (0.87%) CSS
12 21 (0.87%) HTML
13 17 (0.71%) EDI
14 16 (0.66%) JSON
14 16 (0.66%) OAuth
15 12 (0.50%) SAML
15 12 (0.50%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (3.40%) Onboarding
2 81 (3.36%) Public Cloud
3 76 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (2.45%) Data Structures
5 45 (1.87%) FMCG
6 43 (1.78%) Product Ownership
7 38 (1.58%) Management Information System
8 35 (1.45%) Replication
9 33 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 31 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.25%) Taxonomies
12 28 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.12%) Cloud Native
14 26 (1.08%) Life Science
15 21 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.66%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.66%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.62%) AI Agents
18 12 (0.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.66%) Windows
2 24 (1.00%) Linux
3 13 (0.54%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.33%) Android
4 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.25%) Unix
6 5 (0.21%) VMS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.042%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.042%) SUSE
8 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (22.33%) ERP
2 470 (19.51%) Migration
3 455 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 293 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
5 266 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 263 (10.92%) Data Migration
7 255 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 233 (9.67%) Agile
9 208 (8.63%) Business Intelligence
10 202 (8.39%) Project Management
11 199 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
12 193 (8.01%) Workshop Facilitation
13 185 (7.68%) Validation
14 176 (7.31%) Change Management
15 173 (7.18%) Logistics
16 170 (7.06%) Data Modelling
17 168 (6.97%) Analytics
18 146 (6.06%) Roadmaps
19 139 (5.77%) Project Delivery
20 123 (5.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 121 (5.02%) SQL
2 119 (4.94%) ABAP
3 48 (1.99%) Python
4 40 (1.66%) Java
5 35 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.71%) PowerShell
7 8 (0.33%) C#
8 7 (0.29%) Groovy
8 7 (0.29%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.17%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.17%) C
10 4 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.17%) Go
11 3 (0.12%) Bicep
11 3 (0.12%) C++
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.12%) VB
11 3 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 401 (16.65%) Security Cleared
2 314 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 158 (6.56%) Degree
4 116 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 57 (2.37%) DV Cleared
6 47 (1.95%) PMP
7 42 (1.74%) PMI Certification
7 42 (1.74%) SAP Certification
8 41 (1.70%) ACCA
9 40 (1.66%) CIMA
10 31 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 17 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.58%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.46%) CISSP
15 10 (0.42%) HNC
16 9 (0.37%) CISM
17 8 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.33%) NVQ Level 4
17 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 106 (4.40%) QA
3 85 (3.53%) PMO
4 53 (2.20%) GDPR
5 44 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.04%) SLA
7 24 (1.00%) GRC
8 16 (0.66%) GxP
9 11 (0.46%) IFRS
9 11 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.42%) NIST
11 9 (0.37%) GAAP
11 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.33%) GMP
13 6 (0.25%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.21%) Basel III
14 5 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.21%) IFRS 9
14 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 32 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.42%) IAG
3 8 (0.33%) Docker
4 5 (0.21%) Corosync
5 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.042%) Varnish
5 1 (0.042%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.54%) Terraform
3 10 (0.42%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.29%) HP ALM
5 6 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (0.21%) Pacemaker
7 4 (0.17%) Ansible
8 3 (0.12%) Control-M
9 2 (0.083%) Grafana
9 2 (0.083%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.083%) vRealize
9 2 (0.083%) WSUS
10 1 (0.042%) Argo
10 1 (0.042%) CEMLI
10 1 (0.042%) MOM
10 1 (0.042%) Packer
10 1 (0.042%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.042%) SCCM
10 1 (0.042%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 238 (9.88%) Ariba
2 214 (8.88%) Microsoft
3 186 (7.72%) Oracle
4 93 (3.86%) Salesforce
5 80 (3.32%) Workday
6 73 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 39 (1.62%) Informatica
8 38 (1.58%) Adobe
9 37 (1.54%) Sage
10 28 (1.16%) Databricks
11 26 (1.08%) IBM
12 22 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 20 (0.83%) Okta
14 16 (0.66%) Cisco
15 15 (0.62%) Concur
15 15 (0.62%) OpenText
15 15 (0.62%) Siemens
16 14 (0.58%) Infor
17 13 (0.54%) Dell
17 13 (0.54%) HP