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 13 September 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
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,760 2,076 2,554
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.08% 6.31% 6.63%
As % of the Vendors category 12.14% 13.37% 14.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,349 1,027 1,226
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £563
% change year-on-year +1.85% -4.00% +6.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 108 80
10th Percentile £15.03 £15.00 £15.05
25th Percentile £17.88 £18.72 £22.56
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.77 £36.93
Median % change year-on-year +27.39% -38.36% +5.51%
75th Percentile £54.06 £43.75 £60.36
90th Percentile £87.50 £65.93 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.30 £22.32 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.34% -36.24% +6.06%

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 22,742 15,523 17,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.83% 47.16% 44.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,950 9,507 10,289
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,256 789 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.68 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.44 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -18.87% -27.06%
75th Percentile £62.13 £43.21 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.60 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.48% -30.00% -25.00%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 2,181 £575 +3.60% 1,367
UK excluding London +1 1,417 £550 +1.85% 834
Work from Home -9 807 £566 +1.98% 591
London -32 755 £600 +2.56% 567
South East -1 407 £550 +6.80% 259
Midlands +9 345 £550 - 178
North of England -8 344 £550 - 206
North West -6 247 £550 +2.04% 109
West Midlands +2 209 £514 -5.08% 101
East of England -6 153 £571 -1.59% 89
East Midlands +25 127 £600 -3.07% 77
Yorkshire 0 90 £513 -9.29% 77
South West -33 84 £546 -2.89% 62
Wales +14 47 £550 +228.36% 17
Scotland -14 46 £525 +23.53% 31
North East -45 6 £450 -17.43% 21
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -3 2 £450 +172.73% 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 37 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.09%) Confluence
3 21 (0.76%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.43%) CMS
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.22%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.14%) SugarCRM
8 3 (0.11%) Apache
8 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.072%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.072%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.072%) SAS
9 2 (0.072%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 134 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.33%) CATIA
7 7 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Windchill
9 1 (0.036%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.036%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1,065 (38.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 124 (4.49%) SAP FI
3 77 (2.79%) SAP CO
4 69 (2.50%) SAP ERP
5 68 (2.46%) SAP FI/CO
5 68 (2.46%) SAP SD
6 65 (2.36%) SAP MM
7 63 (2.28%) SAP Payroll
8 56 (2.03%) SAP HR
9 54 (1.96%) SAP PSCD
10 51 (1.85%) SAP GRC
11 50 (1.81%) SAP HCM
12 47 (1.70%) SAP BRIM
12 47 (1.70%) SAP EWM
12 47 (1.70%) SAP PP
13 42 (1.52%) SAP PM
14 40 (1.45%) SAP IBP
14 40 (1.45%) SAP MDG
15 31 (1.12%) SAP QM
16 30 (1.09%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 273 (9.89%) SuccessFactors
2 223 (8.08%) Azure
3 143 (5.18%) Power Platform
4 108 (3.91%) AWS
5 66 (2.39%) SaaS
6 57 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (1.85%) GCP
8 37 (1.34%) Entra ID
9 31 (1.12%) Boomi
10 30 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (0.80%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 22 (0.80%) Snowflake
13 18 (0.65%) GitHub
13 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (0.62%) Tricentis Tosca
15 16 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (0.58%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.54%) Smartsheet
17 14 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.22%) Intranet
2 5 (0.18%) Broadband
3 3 (0.11%) Firewall
3 3 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.072%) HTTP
4 2 (0.072%) Internet
4 2 (0.072%) LAN
4 2 (0.072%) Network Security
4 2 (0.072%) SSL
4 2 (0.072%) WAN
5 1 (0.036%) DNS
5 1 (0.036%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.036%) MQTT
5 1 (0.036%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.036%) Wireless
5 1 (0.036%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (4.53%) Power BI
2 87 (3.15%) SAP HANA
3 59 (2.14%) SAP BW
4 46 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (1.52%) Tableau
6 41 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
7 35 (1.27%) SQL Server
8 27 (0.98%) SAP Data Services
9 18 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 17 (0.62%) Metadata
10 17 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
11 13 (0.47%) GIS
12 12 (0.43%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.36%) Delta Lake
13 10 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.36%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.33%) Power Query
15 7 (0.25%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
16 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 113 (4.09%) JIRA
2 19 (0.69%) Hudson
3 17 (0.62%) Git
4 11 (0.40%) Postman
5 10 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.29%) eggPlant
7 7 (0.25%) SoapUI
7 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.18%) JMeter
9 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.18%) LSMW
9 5 (0.18%) Toad
10 4 (0.14%) Selenium
11 3 (0.11%) SOAtest
12 2 (0.072%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.072%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.072%) Maven
12 2 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.072%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 863 (31.27%) Finance
2 722 (26.16%) Social Skills
3 340 (12.32%) Manufacturing
4 283 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (4.82%) Retail
6 131 (4.75%) Public Sector
7 109 (3.95%) Billing
8 85 (3.08%) Legal
9 72 (2.61%) Aerospace
10 70 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 66 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
13 59 (2.14%) Banking
14 55 (1.99%) General Ledger
15 37 (1.34%) Automotive
16 35 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
17 31 (1.12%) Telecoms
18 26 (0.94%) Aviation
19 25 (0.91%) Law
20 24 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 680 (24.64%) Consultant
2 577 (20.91%) SAP Consultant
3 354 (12.83%) Architect
4 322 (11.67%) Lead
5 313 (11.34%) Analyst
6 267 (9.67%) Senior
7 201 (7.28%) SAP Manager
8 176 (6.38%) SAP Architect
9 156 (5.65%) Project Manager
10 151 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
11 131 (4.75%) Business Analyst
12 105 (3.80%) SAP Analyst
13 103 (3.73%) Developer
14 86 (3.12%) Functional Consultant
15 85 (3.08%) Administrator
16 82 (2.97%) SAP Project Manager
17 78 (2.83%) SAP Solutions Architect
18 75 (2.72%) SAP Functional Consultant
19 73 (2.64%) Senior Consultant
20 64 (2.32%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (4.89%) SAP Fiori
2 97 (3.51%) Middleware
3 84 (3.04%) REST
4 70 (2.54%) SOAP
5 53 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 47 (1.70%) XML
7 46 (1.67%) SAP Basis
8 40 (1.45%) SAPUI5
9 36 (1.30%) Web Services
10 35 (1.27%) SAP PI
11 34 (1.23%) BAPI
12 30 (1.09%) IDoc
12 30 (1.09%) JSON
13 29 (1.05%) EDI
14 22 (0.80%) OAuth
15 19 (0.69%) Node.js
16 17 (0.62%) Kafka
17 16 (0.58%) JDBC
17 16 (0.58%) SAP ALE
17 16 (0.58%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 91 (3.30%) Onboarding
2 80 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
3 79 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 74 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 72 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 63 (2.28%) FMCG
7 59 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 55 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
9 49 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 40 (1.45%) Life Science
11 33 (1.20%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.05%) Replication
13 27 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (0.69%) Operational Technology
16 18 (0.65%) AI Agents
16 18 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
17 17 (0.62%) Private Cloud
18 14 (0.51%) Learning Management System
18 14 (0.51%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.41%) Linux
2 30 (1.09%) Windows
3 21 (0.76%) Unix
4 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.29%) SUSE
5 7 (0.25%) VMS
6 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.072%) AIX
8 2 (0.072%) Android
8 2 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (24.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 623 (22.57%) ERP
3 504 (18.26%) Migration
4 363 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
5 348 (12.61%) User Acceptance Testing
6 314 (11.38%) Data Migration
7 270 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 265 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 264 (9.57%) Agile
10 261 (9.46%) Validation
11 238 (8.62%) Analytics
12 235 (8.51%) Logistics
13 206 (7.46%) Workshop Facilitation
14 181 (6.56%) Roadmaps
15 165 (5.98%) Decision-Making
15 165 (5.98%) Process Improvement
15 165 (5.98%) System Integration Testing
16 159 (5.76%) Business Intelligence
17 158 (5.72%) Project Management
18 151 (5.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 146 (5.29%) SQL
2 119 (4.31%) ABAP
3 71 (2.57%) Python
4 56 (2.03%) Java
5 23 (0.83%) JavaScript
6 20 (0.72%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.25%) C#
8 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.22%) BeanShell
8 6 (0.22%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.18%) Bash
9 5 (0.18%) Bicep
9 5 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
10 4 (0.14%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) C++
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.072%) C
12 2 (0.072%) Perl
Qualifications
1 456 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 358 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 146 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 135 (4.89%) Degree
5 60 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 37 (1.34%) PMI Certification
6 37 (1.34%) PMP
7 35 (1.27%) ACCA
8 33 (1.20%) CIMA
9 23 (0.83%) SAP Certification
10 21 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.58%) HNC
13 13 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.40%) ISEB
14 11 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.40%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.36%) CISSP
15 10 (0.36%) NVQ Level 4
16 9 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.41%) PMO
3 82 (2.97%) QA
4 63 (2.28%) GDPR
5 52 (1.88%) GRC
6 51 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (0.62%) IFRS
8 14 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.43%) GxP
10 11 (0.40%) NIST
11 9 (0.33%) SLA
12 7 (0.25%) ITGC
13 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.22%) GAAP
13 6 (0.22%) GMP
13 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.22%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.22%) NCSC
14 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
15 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 20 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.65%) IAG
3 6 (0.22%) Corosync
4 5 (0.18%) Docker
5 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (0.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (0.25%) Pacemaker
3 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.14%) Control-M
6 3 (0.11%) Ansible
6 3 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.072%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.072%) MOM
8 1 (0.036%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.036%) QRadar
8 1 (0.036%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.036%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.036%) WSUS
Vendors
1 291 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 262 (9.49%) Oracle
3 256 (9.28%) Ariba
4 113 (4.09%) Salesforce
5 105 (3.80%) Workday
6 76 (2.75%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.63%) Databricks
8 39 (1.41%) MuleSoft
9 38 (1.38%) Concur
10 33 (1.20%) Adobe
11 31 (1.12%) IBM
12 28 (1.01%) Google
13 24 (0.87%) Informatica
14 23 (0.83%) Siemens
15 17 (0.62%) Red Hat
16 14 (0.51%) Infor
16 14 (0.51%) Sage
17 13 (0.47%) JD Edwards
18 12 (0.43%) OpenText
19 11 (0.40%) Dell