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 4 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
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,700 2,017 2,512
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.03% 6.24% 6.60%
As % of the Vendors category 12.04% 13.22% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,334 1,009 1,232
10th Percentile £366 £362 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £787
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £541 £575
% change year-on-year +1.57% -5.83% +7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 106 81
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.00 £15.10
25th Percentile £18.27 £19.07 £22.75
Median hourly rate £31.86 £23.27 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.95% -39.57% +3.29%
75th Percentile £60.75 £43.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £87.35 £66.38 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.63 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.57% -35.34% +2.94%

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 22,422 15,261 16,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.80% 47.23% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,829 9,339 10,233
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,171 780 716
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.54 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.15 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -16.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.84 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.75 £21.30 £29.00
% change year-on-year +30.28% -26.55% -27.50%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 2,151 £575 +1.77% 1,496
UK excluding London 0 1,385 £550 +1.57% 1,002
Work from Home -9 799 £575 +1.77% 762
London -32 756 £600 +2.56% 648
South East +1 397 £550 +4.76% 232
North of England -6 346 £550 - 243
Midlands +13 342 £550 - 164
North West -3 247 £550 - 162
West Midlands +9 213 £500 -7.66% 92
East of England -11 141 £580 - 128
East Midlands +29 120 £613 -1.05% 72
Yorkshire -3 93 £513 -2.38% 67
South West -38 83 £546 -0.68% 99
Scotland -14 43 £529 +24.47% 99
Wales +10 42 £550 +228.36% 25
North East -42 5 £500 -8.26% 14
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -3 1 £450 +172.73% 25

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 40 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.30%) Confluence
3 18 (0.67%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.15%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.11%) Apache
9 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.11%) JBoss
9 3 (0.11%) SugarCRM
9 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.074%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.074%) SAS
10 2 (0.074%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 126 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) CATIA
7 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.037%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1,039 (38.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 124 (4.59%) SAP FI
3 77 (2.85%) SAP CO
4 69 (2.56%) SAP FI/CO
5 68 (2.52%) SAP MM
5 68 (2.52%) SAP SD
6 65 (2.41%) SAP ERP
7 52 (1.93%) SAP Payroll
8 51 (1.89%) SAP GRC
9 50 (1.85%) SAP PSCD
10 49 (1.81%) SAP HR
11 48 (1.78%) SAP EWM
12 46 (1.70%) SAP PP
13 43 (1.59%) SAP BRIM
14 41 (1.52%) SAP HCM
14 41 (1.52%) SAP MDG
14 41 (1.52%) SAP PM
15 40 (1.48%) SAP IBP
16 31 (1.15%) SAP QM
17 29 (1.07%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 275 (10.19%) SuccessFactors
2 223 (8.26%) Azure
3 141 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 106 (3.93%) AWS
5 65 (2.41%) SaaS
6 57 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (1.78%) GCP
8 39 (1.44%) Entra ID
9 32 (1.19%) Boomi
10 28 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (0.81%) Snowflake
13 21 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 17 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (0.63%) GitHub
14 17 (0.63%) Tricentis Tosca
15 16 (0.59%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.56%) Smartsheet
17 14 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 14 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.22%) Intranet
2 5 (0.19%) Firewall
3 4 (0.15%) Broadband
4 3 (0.11%) HTTP
4 3 (0.11%) Network Security
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
1 125 (4.63%) Power BI
2 89 (3.30%) SAP HANA
3 60 (2.22%) SAP BW
4 47 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (1.56%) Tableau
6 40 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
7 38 (1.41%) SQL Server
8 26 (0.96%) SAP Data Services
9 17 (0.63%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.63%) Metadata
10 14 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 14 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (0.44%) GIS
12 10 (0.37%) Delta Lake
12 10 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.37%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.30%) Sybase ASE
14 7 (0.26%) MaxDB
14 7 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 107 (3.96%) JIRA
2 21 (0.78%) Hudson
3 18 (0.67%) Git
4 11 (0.41%) Postman
5 7 (0.26%) eggPlant
5 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.26%) SoapUI
5 7 (0.26%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.19%) JMeter
7 5 (0.19%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.19%) LSMW
7 5 (0.19%) 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
1 836 (30.96%) Finance
2 698 (25.85%) Social Skills
3 312 (11.56%) Manufacturing
4 272 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 129 (4.78%) Public Sector
6 127 (4.70%) Retail
7 103 (3.81%) Billing
8 80 (2.96%) Legal
9 70 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 70 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 61 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 59 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
12 57 (2.11%) Banking
13 53 (1.96%) General Ledger
14 35 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (1.26%) Automotive
16 28 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.00%) Local Government
18 26 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
19 24 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 672 (24.89%) Consultant
2 572 (21.19%) SAP Consultant
3 351 (13.00%) Architect
4 317 (11.74%) Lead
5 310 (11.48%) Analyst
6 261 (9.67%) Senior
7 192 (7.11%) SAP Manager
8 173 (6.41%) SAP Architect
9 158 (5.85%) Project Manager
10 157 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
11 135 (5.00%) Business Analyst
12 105 (3.89%) SAP Analyst
13 104 (3.85%) Developer
14 83 (3.07%) Functional Consultant
15 82 (3.04%) SAP Solutions Architect
16 78 (2.89%) SAP Project Manager
17 75 (2.78%) Senior Consultant
18 73 (2.70%) Administrator
18 73 (2.70%) SAP Functional Consultant
19 64 (2.37%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (4.74%) SAP Fiori
2 97 (3.59%) Middleware
3 79 (2.93%) REST
4 65 (2.41%) SOAP
5 53 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 49 (1.81%) SAP Basis
7 46 (1.70%) XML
8 33 (1.22%) BAPI
9 32 (1.19%) SAP PI
9 32 (1.19%) Web Services
10 31 (1.15%) IDoc
10 31 (1.15%) JSON
11 29 (1.07%) SAPUI5
12 28 (1.04%) EDI
13 23 (0.85%) OAuth
14 18 (0.67%) Node.js
15 17 (0.63%) SAP ALE
15 17 (0.63%) Terraform
16 16 (0.59%) JDBC
16 16 (0.59%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 88 (3.26%) Onboarding
2 83 (3.07%) Data Structures
3 78 (2.89%) Public Cloud
4 73 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 70 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 62 (2.30%) FMCG
7 57 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 54 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
9 45 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 37 (1.37%) Life Science
11 34 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 30 (1.11%) Replication
13 23 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (0.78%) Operational Technology
15 20 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (0.63%) AI Agents
17 16 (0.59%) SCADA
18 15 (0.56%) Private Cloud
19 14 (0.52%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.52%) Linux
2 31 (1.15%) Windows
3 22 (0.81%) 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%) Solaris
8 2 (0.074%) AIX
8 2 (0.074%) Android
8 2 (0.074%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (23.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 601 (22.26%) ERP
3 498 (18.44%) Migration
4 355 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
5 335 (12.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 310 (11.48%) Data Migration
7 273 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 271 (10.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 265 (9.81%) Agile
10 259 (9.59%) Validation
11 234 (8.67%) Analytics
12 216 (8.00%) Logistics
13 212 (7.85%) Workshop Facilitation
14 177 (6.56%) Roadmaps
15 158 (5.85%) Project Management
16 157 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
16 157 (5.81%) System Integration Testing
17 154 (5.70%) Process Improvement
18 153 (5.67%) Decision-Making
19 150 (5.56%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 141 (5.22%) SQL
2 108 (4.00%) ABAP
3 68 (2.52%) Python
4 51 (1.89%) Java
5 23 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 20 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.26%) Apex Code
7 7 (0.26%) Bicep
7 7 (0.26%) C#
8 6 (0.22%) BeanShell
9 5 (0.19%) Bash
9 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.19%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.19%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.19%) VB.NET
10 4 (0.15%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) C++
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.074%) C
12 2 (0.074%) Perl
Qualifications
1 447 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 348 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 134 (4.96%) Degree
4 127 (4.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 61 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.33%) ACCA
7 34 (1.26%) CIMA
8 31 (1.15%) PMP
9 30 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 25 (0.93%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.59%) HNC
13 12 (0.44%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
15 10 (0.37%) CISSP
15 10 (0.37%) ISEB
15 10 (0.37%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.30%) PMO
3 85 (3.15%) QA
4 61 (2.26%) GDPR
5 53 (1.96%) GRC
6 52 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (0.63%) IFRS
8 16 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.41%) GxP
9 11 (0.41%) NIST
10 7 (0.26%) ITGC
10 7 (0.26%) SLA
11 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.22%) GAAP
11 6 (0.22%) GMP
11 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.22%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.22%) NCSC
12 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 21 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.67%) IAG
3 6 (0.22%) Corosync
4 5 (0.19%) Docker
5 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (0.59%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
4 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.11%) Ansible
6 3 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.074%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.074%) MOM
8 1 (0.037%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.037%) QRadar
8 1 (0.037%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.037%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.037%) WSUS
Vendors
1 273 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 258 (9.56%) Oracle
3 256 (9.48%) Ariba
4 112 (4.15%) Salesforce
5 97 (3.59%) Workday
6 73 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.67%) Databricks
8 40 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 36 (1.33%) Concur
10 35 (1.30%) Adobe
11 32 (1.19%) IBM
12 29 (1.07%) Informatica
13 27 (1.00%) Google
14 23 (0.85%) Siemens
15 17 (0.63%) Red Hat
16 14 (0.52%) Infor
16 14 (0.52%) Sage
17 12 (0.44%) OpenText
18 11 (0.41%) Dell
18 11 (0.41%) IFS