SAP Contracts

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 8 December 2024, 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
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 25 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 +7
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,316 2,961 3,893
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.60% 6.60% 5.07%
As % of the Vendors category 14.54% 14.56% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 1,518 2,055
10th Percentile £374 £354 £368
25th Percentile £475 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £671 £650 £650
90th Percentile £770 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £525 £548
% change year-on-year +8.29% -4.17% +9.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 70 59
10th Percentile £16.78 £19.70 £17.95
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.46 £33.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £49.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.78% +8.89% -21.74%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.76 £62.00
90th Percentile £70.97 £86.50 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £47.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.17% +6.11% -10.00%

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 15,930 20,342 31,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.42% 45.32% 41.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,455 12,948 21,116
10th Percentile £288 £252 £288
25th Percentile £413 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £722 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 692 792
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.06 £16.54
Median hourly rate £29.77 £43.84 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.09% +75.35% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.56 £63.75 £63.24
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.53 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £41.65 £22.00
% change year-on-year -34.87% +89.32% +22.22%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP.

Daily rate trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP.

Hourly rate trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Top 17 Contract 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 8 December 2024. 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 -3 1,864 £565 +2.73% 575
UK excluding London -1 958 £569 +8.29% 292
Work from Home -4 801 £567 +3.14% 657
London +14 787 £563 -2.17% 286
South East +1 299 £600 +15.83% 88
North of England -13 200 £528 +0.48% 86
South West +4 161 £535 -10.83% 29
Midlands +4 157 £550 - 50
North West 0 146 £575 +9.52% 59
East of England -4 97 £500 -4.76% 22
West Midlands -1 87 £540 -1.82% 29
East Midlands +7 64 £558 -4.78% 21
Scotland +20 41 £448 -10.50% 17
Yorkshire -44 32 £420 -16.00% 17
North East 0 19 £395 -28.18% 11
Wales -3 13 £675 -1.82% 4
Northern Ireland -10 4 - - 2

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.08%) Confluence
4 22 (0.95%) MTS
5 15 (0.65%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 5 (0.22%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.17%) CMS
7 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.13%) JBoss
9 2 (0.086%) Apache
9 2 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.086%) Mendix
9 2 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.086%) SAP Portal
9 2 (0.086%) Traefik
9 2 (0.086%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.086%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.086%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.086%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.043%) Blender
8 1 (0.043%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.043%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.043%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.043%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.043%) Trello
8 1 (0.043%) UXPin
8 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 642 (27.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 114 (4.92%) SAP FI
3 96 (4.15%) SAP CO
4 90 (3.89%) SAP FI/CO
5 70 (3.02%) SAP ERP
6 69 (2.98%) SAP SD
7 64 (2.76%) SAP EWM
8 63 (2.72%) SAP MDG
9 52 (2.25%) SAP GTS
10 39 (1.68%) SAP HR
11 38 (1.64%) SAP PP
12 35 (1.51%) SAP Payroll
13 29 (1.25%) SAP MM
14 25 (1.08%) SAP Retail
15 23 (0.99%) SAP IBP
16 22 (0.95%) SAP HCM
17 21 (0.91%) SAP PM
18 20 (0.86%) SAP PSCD
18 20 (0.86%) SAP QM
18 20 (0.86%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 163 (7.04%) Azure
2 127 (5.48%) SuccessFactors
3 89 (3.84%) AWS
4 72 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
5 66 (2.85%) Power Platform
6 36 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (1.38%) GCP
8 22 (0.95%) SaaS
8 22 (0.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 17 (0.73%) BigCommerce
9 17 (0.73%) Serverless
10 16 (0.69%) Entra ID
10 16 (0.69%) GitHub
11 14 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (0.60%) IaaS
11 14 (0.60%) OCI
12 13 (0.56%) Azure AKS
13 12 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.04%) Firewall
1 24 (1.04%) SAN
2 19 (0.82%) VPN
3 15 (0.65%) LAN
3 15 (0.65%) NAS
4 13 (0.56%) BGP
4 13 (0.56%) OSPF
4 13 (0.56%) WAN
5 12 (0.52%) EIGRP
6 10 (0.43%) FTP
6 10 (0.43%) Network Security
6 10 (0.43%) Wireless
7 9 (0.39%) HTTP
7 9 (0.39%) Skype
8 8 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (0.35%) DNS
9 7 (0.30%) DHCP
9 7 (0.30%) SMTP
9 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.71%) SAP HANA
2 62 (2.68%) Power BI
3 52 (2.25%) SAP BW
4 43 (1.86%) BusinessObjects
5 41 (1.77%) SQL Server
6 34 (1.47%) SAP Data Services
7 29 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.82%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 18 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 18 (0.78%) Tableau
11 17 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 13 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (0.47%) GIS
13 11 (0.47%) MongoDB
14 10 (0.43%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.43%) Tableau Server
15 9 (0.39%) Big Data
15 9 (0.39%) DTS
15 9 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 59 (2.55%) JIRA
2 38 (1.64%) Git
3 25 (1.08%) LSMW
4 18 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.52%) GitLab
6 11 (0.47%) Selenium
7 8 (0.35%) Postman
8 6 (0.26%) GCC
8 6 (0.26%) MSI
8 6 (0.26%) NUnit
9 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.13%) Firebug
11 3 (0.13%) JMeter
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 867 (37.44%) Finance
2 585 (25.26%) Social Skills
3 519 (22.41%) Manufacturing
4 457 (19.73%) Public Sector
5 385 (16.62%) Telecoms
6 379 (16.36%) Marketing
7 365 (15.76%) Electronics
8 213 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
9 138 (5.96%) Retail
10 73 (3.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 60 (2.59%) Legal
12 53 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
13 52 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (2.07%) Billing
15 44 (1.90%) General Ledger
16 42 (1.81%) Banking
17 39 (1.68%) Aerospace
18 38 (1.64%) Local Government
19 34 (1.47%) Automotive
20 33 (1.42%) German Language
Job Titles
1 636 (27.46%) Consultant
2 541 (23.36%) SAP Consultant
3 284 (12.26%) Architect
4 247 (10.66%) Lead
5 193 (8.33%) Senior
6 192 (8.29%) Analyst
7 160 (6.91%) Developer
8 141 (6.09%) Project Manager
9 140 (6.04%) SAP Manager
10 128 (5.53%) SAP Architect
11 113 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
12 71 (3.07%) Functional Consultant
13 70 (3.02%) SAP Project Manager
14 68 (2.94%) Business Analyst
15 66 (2.85%) SAP Developer
16 64 (2.76%) SAP Analyst
17 62 (2.68%) Administrator
17 62 (2.68%) SAP Solutions Architect
18 60 (2.59%) SAP Functional Consultant
19 43 (1.86%) SAP FI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (4.27%) SAP Fiori
2 35 (1.51%) BAPI
3 34 (1.47%) .NET
3 34 (1.47%) Web Services
4 32 (1.38%) SAPUI5
5 31 (1.34%) SAP PI
6 30 (1.30%) REST
7 29 (1.25%) RESTful
8 27 (1.17%) SAP Basis
9 26 (1.12%) XML
10 25 (1.08%) Middleware
11 22 (0.95%) EDI
11 22 (0.95%) HTML
12 21 (0.91%) SOAP
13 18 (0.78%) AngularJS
14 17 (0.73%) IDoc
14 17 (0.73%) VML
15 14 (0.60%) CSS
15 14 (0.60%) Kafka
15 14 (0.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 70 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
2 58 (2.50%) FMCG
3 51 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 50 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 44 (1.90%) Life Science
7 43 (1.86%) Public Cloud
8 41 (1.77%) Product Ownership
9 24 (1.04%) Cloud Native
10 22 (0.95%) Data Structures
11 21 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
11 21 (0.91%) NHS
12 19 (0.82%) Learning Management System
13 17 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.60%) LIMS
15 13 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 10 (0.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 118 (5.09%) Windows
2 56 (2.42%) Linux
3 46 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.86%) Unix
4 20 (0.86%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.35%) VMS
7 5 (0.22%) Android
8 4 (0.17%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.13%) Solaris
9 3 (0.13%) zOS
10 2 (0.086%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.043%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
2 395 (17.06%) Programme Management
3 366 (15.80%) Digital Marketing
4 333 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
5 279 (12.05%) ERP
6 275 (11.87%) Migration
7 259 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 257 (11.10%) Agile
9 237 (10.23%) Project Management
10 143 (6.17%) Data Migration
11 126 (5.44%) Analytics
12 125 (5.40%) Workshop Facilitation
13 119 (5.14%) Roadmaps
13 119 (5.14%) User Acceptance Testing
14 114 (4.92%) Process Improvement
15 110 (4.75%) Change Management
16 107 (4.62%) Logistics
17 97 (4.19%) Data Modelling
17 97 (4.19%) Requirements Gathering
18 90 (3.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 150 (6.48%) ABAP
2 141 (6.09%) SQL
3 70 (3.02%) Java
3 70 (3.02%) Python
4 64 (2.76%) PowerShell
5 31 (1.34%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.21%) C#
7 17 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 15 (0.65%) C++
9 13 (0.56%) Bash
9 13 (0.56%) Bicep
10 11 (0.47%) C
11 10 (0.43%) Go
12 9 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.30%) Groovy
14 4 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.17%) SAPscript
14 4 (0.17%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.17%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 447 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 328 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 185 (7.99%) Degree
4 130 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 49 (2.12%) SAP Certification
6 46 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (1.99%) PMI Certification
7 44 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (1.90%) PMP
8 29 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 14 (0.60%) BC Cleared
11 12 (0.52%) CISSP
12 11 (0.47%) CCA
12 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.43%) ACCA
14 9 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (2.59%) QA
2 47 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 35 (1.51%) SLA
4 32 (1.38%) PMO
5 19 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 18 (0.78%) GDPR
7 14 (0.60%) GRC
7 14 (0.60%) IFRS
7 14 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (0.56%) GxP
9 8 (0.35%) NIST
10 5 (0.22%) GAAP
10 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.22%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.22%) RMADS
11 4 (0.17%) DICOM
11 4 (0.17%) HL7
12 3 (0.13%) ITGC
12 3 (0.13%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 85 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (0.86%) Docker
4 19 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.30%) vSphere
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.17%) IAG
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.13%) NFS
10 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.043%) Firmware
11 1 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.043%) Samba
11 1 (0.043%) XenApp
11 1 (0.043%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (1.68%) Terraform
2 34 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.04%) Ansible
4 20 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.60%) SCCM
7 11 (0.47%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.35%) MOM
9 7 (0.30%) Control-M
10 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.26%) Puppet
10 6 (0.26%) VxRail
11 5 (0.22%) Grafana
12 4 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.17%) vRealize
12 4 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 253 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 230 (9.93%) Ariba
3 181 (7.82%) Oracle
4 124 (5.35%) Salesforce
5 59 (2.55%) VMware
6 37 (1.60%) Workday
7 32 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 31 (1.34%) Concur
9 29 (1.25%) Adobe
9 29 (1.25%) Cisco
10 24 (1.04%) Google
10 24 (1.04%) IBM
11 23 (0.99%) Databricks
11 23 (0.99%) HP
12 17 (0.73%) Sitecore
13 12 (0.52%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.43%) Citrix
14 10 (0.43%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.43%) IFS
14 10 (0.43%) Siemens