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 21 August 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
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +2
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,710 2,039 2,517
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.06% 6.22% 6.47%
As % of the Vendors category 12.11% 13.15% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,349 1,024 1,273
10th Percentile £363 £362 £400
25th Percentile £463 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £669 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 106 87
10th Percentile £15.95 £15.71 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.00 £19.07 £22.38
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.57 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +32.30% -30.53% -23.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.38 £60.78
90th Percentile £86.00 £66.38 £66.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.75 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +31.46% -31.42% -21.72%

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 22,372 15,511 17,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.77% 47.32% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,838 9,480 10,542
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £610 £612 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,143 812 808
10th Percentile £14.51 £14.69 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -9.73% -31.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.00 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.24 £26.56
% change year-on-year +41.24% -20.04% -24.11%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 2,152 £575 +2.68% 599
UK excluding London -3 1,376 £550 - 476
Work from Home -5 814 £568 +0.44% 254
London -29 764 £600 +4.35% 158
South East -5 378 £550 +4.76% 134
Midlands +14 359 £550 - 114
North of England -7 342 £550 - 129
North West -4 243 £550 - 81
West Midlands +5 222 £500 -7.66% 66
East of England -6 142 £580 - 49
East Midlands +28 127 £625 +0.97% 48
Yorkshire +1 92 £500 -8.26% 40
South West -38 80 £550 - 40
Scotland -7 42 £533 +25.41% 12
Wales +8 41 £550 +228.36% 12
North East -40 6 £500 -8.26% 9
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -4 2 £488 +195.45% 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 42 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.29%) Confluence
3 20 (0.74%) NetWeaver
4 11 (0.41%) CMS
5 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.15%) Apache
7 4 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.11%) JBoss
8 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.074%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.074%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.074%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.074%) SAS
9 2 (0.074%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 127 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) CATIA
7 7 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.037%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,049 (38.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 122 (4.50%) SAP FI
3 74 (2.73%) SAP CO
4 68 (2.51%) SAP ERP
5 67 (2.47%) SAP FI/CO
5 67 (2.47%) SAP MM
5 67 (2.47%) SAP SD
6 51 (1.88%) SAP PSCD
7 50 (1.85%) SAP EWM
8 48 (1.77%) SAP Payroll
9 47 (1.73%) SAP GRC
9 47 (1.73%) SAP PP
10 44 (1.62%) SAP BRIM
11 41 (1.51%) SAP HR
11 41 (1.51%) SAP IBP
12 38 (1.40%) SAP MDG
13 37 (1.37%) SAP PM
14 33 (1.22%) SAP QM
15 32 (1.18%) SAP HCM
16 30 (1.11%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 288 (10.63%) SuccessFactors
2 222 (8.19%) Azure
3 142 (5.24%) Power Platform
4 96 (3.54%) AWS
5 66 (2.44%) SaaS
6 58 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (1.73%) GCP
8 38 (1.40%) Entra ID
9 33 (1.22%) Boomi
10 29 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (0.89%) Snowflake
13 21 (0.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 17 (0.63%) GitHub
15 16 (0.59%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.55%) Smartsheet
17 14 (0.52%) Tricentis Tosca
18 13 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.26%) Network Security
2 6 (0.22%) Intranet
3 5 (0.18%) Firewall
4 3 (0.11%) Broadband
4 3 (0.11%) HTTP
4 3 (0.11%) VPN
5 2 (0.074%) LAN
5 2 (0.074%) SSL
5 2 (0.074%) WAN
6 1 (0.037%) DNS
6 1 (0.037%) Internet
6 1 (0.037%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.037%) MQTT
6 1 (0.037%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.037%) Wireless
6 1 (0.037%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (4.65%) Power BI
2 93 (3.43%) SAP HANA
3 57 (2.10%) SAP BW
4 51 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (1.70%) Tableau
6 41 (1.51%) SQL Server
7 40 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
8 27 (1.00%) SAP Data Services
9 16 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.55%) Metadata
11 14 (0.52%) GIS
11 14 (0.52%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
14 11 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.37%) MaxDB
15 10 (0.37%) Relational Database
16 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
17 7 (0.26%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 111 (4.10%) JIRA
2 22 (0.81%) Hudson
3 20 (0.74%) Git
4 11 (0.41%) Postman
5 7 (0.26%) eggPlant
5 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.26%) SoapUI
6 6 (0.22%) JMeter
6 6 (0.22%) LSMW
6 6 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.18%) Toad
8 4 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.074%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.074%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.074%) Maven
9 2 (0.074%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.074%) Rational Functional Tester
9 2 (0.074%) SilkTest
General
1 837 (30.89%) Finance
2 694 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 316 (11.66%) Manufacturing
4 274 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 142 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 122 (4.50%) Retail
7 109 (4.02%) Billing
8 83 (3.06%) Legal
9 78 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 74 (2.73%) Aerospace
11 57 (2.10%) Banking
12 56 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
12 56 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 52 (1.92%) General Ledger
14 31 (1.14%) Automotive
14 31 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.07%) Local Government
15 29 (1.07%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
17 26 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 667 (24.61%) Consultant
2 570 (21.03%) SAP Consultant
3 345 (12.73%) Architect
4 318 (11.73%) Lead
5 306 (11.29%) Analyst
6 258 (9.52%) Senior
7 190 (7.01%) SAP Manager
8 178 (6.57%) SAP Architect
9 166 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
10 162 (5.98%) Project Manager
11 131 (4.83%) Business Analyst
12 110 (4.06%) Developer
13 103 (3.80%) SAP Analyst
14 87 (3.21%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 86 (3.17%) Functional Consultant
16 81 (2.99%) SAP Project Manager
17 77 (2.84%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 74 (2.73%) Administrator
19 73 (2.69%) Senior Consultant
20 63 (2.32%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (4.46%) SAP Fiori
2 98 (3.62%) Middleware
3 77 (2.84%) REST
4 64 (2.36%) SOAP
5 54 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
6 51 (1.88%) SAP Basis
7 46 (1.70%) XML
8 37 (1.37%) BAPI
9 34 (1.25%) IDoc
10 33 (1.22%) SAP PI
11 32 (1.18%) JSON
12 30 (1.11%) Web Services
13 28 (1.03%) EDI
14 27 (1.00%) SAPUI5
15 23 (0.85%) OAuth
16 19 (0.70%) Node.js
17 16 (0.59%) Kafka
17 16 (0.59%) SAP ALE
17 16 (0.59%) Terraform
18 15 (0.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 90 (3.32%) Onboarding
2 89 (3.28%) Public Cloud
3 78 (2.88%) Data Structures
4 69 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
5 67 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 60 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.14%) FMCG
8 53 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
9 42 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 38 (1.40%) Life Science
11 34 (1.25%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.07%) Replication
13 24 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
16 19 (0.70%) Operational Technology
17 18 (0.66%) AI Agents
18 16 (0.59%) SCADA
19 15 (0.55%) Private Cloud
20 14 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.77%) Linux
2 35 (1.29%) Windows
3 26 (0.96%) Unix
4 9 (0.33%) VMS
5 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.30%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.074%) AIX
8 2 (0.074%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 605 (22.32%) ERP
3 483 (17.82%) Migration
4 347 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
5 326 (12.03%) User Acceptance Testing
6 310 (11.44%) Data Migration
7 286 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 269 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 265 (9.78%) Agile
10 253 (9.34%) Validation
11 224 (8.27%) Workshop Facilitation
12 223 (8.23%) Analytics
13 210 (7.75%) Logistics
14 171 (6.31%) Roadmaps
15 160 (5.90%) Project Management
16 158 (5.83%) System Integration Testing
17 157 (5.79%) Business Intelligence
18 155 (5.72%) Data Modelling
19 153 (5.65%) Change Management
20 150 (5.54%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 140 (5.17%) SQL
2 109 (4.02%) ABAP
3 70 (2.58%) Python
4 50 (1.85%) Java
5 23 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 20 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.26%) Bicep
7 7 (0.26%) C#
8 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.22%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.22%) VB.NET
9 5 (0.18%) Bash
9 5 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.15%) BeanShell
10 4 (0.15%) C++
10 4 (0.15%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 443 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 343 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 134 (4.94%) Degree
4 122 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 59 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.33%) ACCA
7 35 (1.29%) CIMA
8 29 (1.07%) PMP
9 28 (1.03%) PMI Certification
10 25 (0.92%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.55%) HNC
14 13 (0.48%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.41%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
16 10 (0.37%) ISEB
16 10 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 8 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.47%) PMO
3 88 (3.25%) QA
4 61 (2.25%) GDPR
5 57 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 52 (1.92%) GRC
7 17 (0.63%) IFRS
8 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.41%) GxP
10 9 (0.33%) NIST
11 8 (0.30%) SLA
12 7 (0.26%) GAAP
13 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.22%) GMP
13 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.22%) ITGC
13 6 (0.22%) NCSC
14 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.074%) NIST 800
System Software
1 26 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.63%) IAG
3 6 (0.22%) Corosync
3 6 (0.22%) Docker
4 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (0.59%) Kubernetes
1 16 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
3 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.15%) Control-M
4 4 (0.15%) Grafana
5 3 (0.11%) Ansible
5 3 (0.11%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.074%) MOM
7 1 (0.037%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.037%) QRadar
7 1 (0.037%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.037%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.037%) WSUS
Vendors
1 270 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 261 (9.63%) Oracle
3 250 (9.23%) Ariba
4 109 (4.02%) Salesforce
5 94 (3.47%) Workday
6 75 (2.77%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.48%) MuleSoft
8 38 (1.40%) Databricks
9 36 (1.33%) Concur
10 33 (1.22%) Adobe
10 33 (1.22%) Informatica
11 32 (1.18%) IBM
12 27 (1.00%) Google
13 17 (0.63%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.59%) Infor
14 16 (0.59%) OpenText
15 15 (0.55%) Siemens
16 14 (0.52%) IFS
17 13 (0.48%) Sage
18 12 (0.44%) JD Edwards