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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,289 1,934 2,659
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.21% 6.65% 6.01%
As % of the Vendors category 11.97% 14.08% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 1,021 1,369
10th Percentile £350 £361 £350
25th Percentile £455 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £671 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £765 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 57 129
10th Percentile £16.98 £19.23 £13.05
25th Percentile £21.75 £24.19 £18.58
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +87.55% -40.76%
75th Percentile £56.69 £70.00 £60.25
90th Percentile £75.40 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -52.35% +102.84% -45.22%

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 19,125 13,735 18,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.57% 47.23% 42.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,245 8,659 11,809
10th Percentile £313 £290 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 468 1,034
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.44 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.97 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.00 £23.56
Median % change year-on-year -12.48% +23.12% -38.82%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £27.43 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.13% +27.56% -38.57%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -14 1,793 £550 - 547
UK excluding London -13 1,038 £525 -2.78% 410
Work from Home 0 767 £560 -2.61% 264
London -18 713 £575 -4.17% 207
North of England -16 271 £550 +4.27% 88
South East -10 258 £575 -0.52% 160
Midlands -5 236 £483 -8.96% 74
North West -14 172 £500 -7.06% 53
East of England +1 166 £515 -11.21% 36
West Midlands -6 153 £475 -16.30% 52
Yorkshire -1 89 £595 +58.67% 33
East Midlands -1 77 £525 +5.00% 22
South West -37 72 £625 +25.00% 27
Wales +10 25 £370 -49.03% 11
Scotland +11 22 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -21 9 £175 -51.72% 3
Northern Ireland -4 3 £500 +77.94% 3
Channel Islands - 1 - - 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 33 (1.44%) Confluence
2 27 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.87%) NetWeaver
4 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.35%) CMS
6 6 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.26%) SAP EP
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) MTS
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.13%) Apache
9 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.087%) JBoss
11 1 (0.044%) OpenStack
Applications
1 111 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.26%) CATIA
7 6 (0.26%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.22%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.044%) Sketch
10 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 863 (37.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 104 (4.54%) SAP FI
3 68 (2.97%) SAP CO
4 64 (2.80%) SAP FI/CO
5 62 (2.71%) SAP MM
6 61 (2.66%) SAP ERP
7 58 (2.53%) SAP PP
8 53 (2.32%) SAP EWM
9 48 (2.10%) SAP Payroll
10 47 (2.05%) SAP HCM
11 42 (1.83%) SAP PM
12 37 (1.62%) SAP PSCD
12 37 (1.62%) SAP SD
13 35 (1.53%) SAP MDG
14 28 (1.22%) SAP Travel Management
15 27 (1.18%) SAP HR
16 26 (1.14%) SAP BRIM
16 26 (1.14%) SAP QM
17 22 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
17 22 (0.96%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 202 (8.82%) Azure
2 191 (8.34%) SuccessFactors
3 85 (3.71%) Power Platform
4 82 (3.58%) AWS
5 65 (2.84%) SaaS
6 52 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (1.66%) GCP
8 36 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
9 35 (1.53%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 22 (0.96%) OCI
12 17 (0.74%) Boomi
12 17 (0.74%) Power Automate
13 16 (0.70%) GitHub
14 15 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (0.66%) Snowflake
15 13 (0.57%) PaaS
16 11 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (0.48%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.00%) Wireless
2 12 (0.52%) Network Security
3 9 (0.39%) Firewall
3 9 (0.39%) VPN
4 8 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.35%) Skype
5 7 (0.31%) HTTPS
5 7 (0.31%) LAN
5 7 (0.31%) WAN
6 5 (0.22%) BGP
6 5 (0.22%) FTP
6 5 (0.22%) OSPF
6 5 (0.22%) RFID
6 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.17%) DNS
7 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) Junos
9 2 (0.087%) DHCP
9 2 (0.087%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (3.49%) Power BI
1 80 (3.49%) SAP HANA
2 32 (1.40%) SAP BW
3 27 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (1.18%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.05%) SAP Data Services
5 18 (0.79%) Metadata
6 17 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 17 (0.74%) Tableau
7 14 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
9 12 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (0.48%) GIS
11 9 (0.39%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 7 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.26%) MaxDB
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.26%) Sybase ASE
14 5 (0.22%) MySQL
15 4 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 90 (3.93%) JIRA
2 15 (0.66%) Git
3 13 (0.57%) Hudson
4 11 (0.48%) LSMW
5 7 (0.31%) GitLab
5 7 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.31%) Toad
6 6 (0.26%) Postman
7 5 (0.22%) Selenium
8 4 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.17%) JMeter
8 4 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.13%) JUnit
9 3 (0.13%) Storybook
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.087%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.087%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.044%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.044%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.044%) TestDirector
General
1 798 (34.86%) Finance
2 730 (31.89%) Social Skills
3 367 (16.03%) Manufacturing
4 294 (12.84%) Public Sector
5 285 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
6 162 (7.08%) Telecoms
7 158 (6.90%) Marketing
8 135 (5.90%) Electronics
9 96 (4.19%) Pharmaceutical
10 64 (2.80%) Banking
11 63 (2.75%) Billing
11 63 (2.75%) Retail
12 61 (2.66%) Legal
13 56 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
14 55 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
15 48 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
16 45 (1.97%) Aerospace
17 41 (1.79%) Local Government
18 35 (1.53%) General Ledger
19 28 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 596 (26.04%) Consultant
2 500 (21.84%) SAP Consultant
3 274 (11.97%) Lead
4 259 (11.31%) Architect
5 209 (9.13%) Analyst
6 177 (7.73%) Project Manager
7 170 (7.43%) SAP Manager
8 160 (6.99%) Senior
9 141 (6.16%) SAP Architect
10 139 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
11 116 (5.07%) Developer
12 104 (4.54%) Business Analyst
13 93 (4.06%) SAP Project Manager
14 88 (3.84%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 77 (3.36%) Administrator
16 76 (3.32%) Functional Consultant
17 74 (3.23%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 73 (3.19%) SAP Developer
19 58 (2.53%) SAP Analyst
20 53 (2.32%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.37%) SAP Fiori
2 60 (2.62%) Middleware
3 48 (2.10%) SAP Basis
4 47 (2.05%) SAPUI5
5 39 (1.70%) REST
6 38 (1.66%) XML
7 36 (1.57%) Web Services
8 35 (1.53%) SOAP
9 32 (1.40%) BAPI
10 31 (1.35%) SAP PI
10 31 (1.35%) SAP TM
11 25 (1.09%) IDoc
12 21 (0.92%) CSS
12 21 (0.92%) HTML
13 20 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
14 16 (0.70%) EDI
15 14 (0.61%) JSON
15 14 (0.61%) SAP ALE
16 11 (0.48%) OAuth
17 9 (0.39%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 75 (3.28%) Onboarding
2 73 (3.19%) Public Cloud
3 64 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 41 (1.79%) FMCG
6 40 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 33 (1.44%) Replication
8 29 (1.27%) Data Centre
8 29 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 28 (1.22%) Taxonomies
10 26 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.05%) Life Science
13 21 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (0.79%) Cloud Native
15 17 (0.74%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.70%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.92%) Windows
2 31 (1.35%) Android
2 31 (1.35%) Mac OS
3 21 (0.92%) Linux
4 15 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.26%) Unix
6 5 (0.22%) VMS
7 4 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.087%) SUSE
9 2 (0.087%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.044%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (20.14%) ERP
2 433 (18.92%) Migration
3 430 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 276 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 263 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
6 237 (10.35%) Data Migration
7 233 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
8 231 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 221 (9.65%) Agile
10 201 (8.78%) Project Management
11 192 (8.39%) Workshop Facilitation
12 189 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
13 174 (7.60%) Validation
14 172 (7.51%) Logistics
15 168 (7.34%) Change Management
16 161 (7.03%) Programme Management
17 152 (6.64%) Analytics
18 146 (6.38%) Roadmaps
19 142 (6.20%) Data Modelling
20 140 (6.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 125 (5.46%) ABAP
2 103 (4.50%) SQL
3 43 (1.88%) Python
4 41 (1.79%) Java
4 41 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 17 (0.74%) PowerShell
6 12 (0.52%) Groovy
7 8 (0.35%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.31%) C#
8 7 (0.31%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.17%) C
9 4 (0.17%) Go
10 3 (0.13%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.13%) Bicep
10 3 (0.13%) C++
10 3 (0.13%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.13%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.13%) VBA
11 2 (0.087%) Korn
11 2 (0.087%) VB
Qualifications
1 418 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 324 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 155 (6.77%) Degree
4 104 (4.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (2.18%) DV Cleared
5 50 (2.18%) PMP
6 44 (1.92%) SAP Certification
7 43 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 34 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.31%) ACCA
10 29 (1.27%) CIMA
11 18 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.48%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.39%) CISSP
16 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 7 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 6 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (5.16%) Data Quality
2 94 (4.11%) QA
3 73 (3.19%) PMO
4 47 (2.05%) GDPR
5 43 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.22%) SLA
7 22 (0.96%) GRC
8 19 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.57%) GxP
10 12 (0.52%) NIST
11 10 (0.44%) IFRS
12 9 (0.39%) GAAP
12 9 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.35%) COBIT
13 8 (0.35%) GMP
13 8 (0.35%) ITGC
14 7 (0.31%) SOX 404
15 6 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.22%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.22%) Basel III
System Software
1 33 (1.44%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.31%) Docker
3 6 (0.26%) IAG
4 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.044%) Varnish
4 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (0.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.35%) Terraform
3 6 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.13%) Control-M
5 2 (0.087%) Ansible
5 2 (0.087%) Grafana
5 2 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.087%) vRealize
5 2 (0.087%) WSUS
6 1 (0.044%) Argo
6 1 (0.044%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.044%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.044%) Packer
6 1 (0.044%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.044%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.044%) SCCM
6 1 (0.044%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 218 (9.52%) Ariba
2 200 (8.74%) Microsoft
3 180 (7.86%) Oracle
4 79 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 72 (3.15%) ServiceNow
6 71 (3.10%) Workday
7 43 (1.88%) Cisco
8 37 (1.62%) Informatica
9 36 (1.57%) Dell
10 35 (1.53%) HP
10 35 (1.53%) Sage
11 31 (1.35%) Adobe
12 27 (1.18%) IBM
13 26 (1.14%) Databricks
14 23 (1.00%) Apple
15 21 (0.92%) Okta
16 18 (0.79%) MuleSoft
17 15 (0.66%) Google
18 14 (0.61%) OpenText
18 14 (0.61%) Siemens