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 31 May 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
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,446 1,957 2,506
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.98% 6.72% 5.84%
As % of the Vendors category 12.16% 14.08% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 989 1,256
10th Percentile £360 £380 £372
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.41% +3.09%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £745 £750 £819
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 66 131
10th Percentile £16.72 £20.15 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £31.76 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.86 £58.75 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -45.77% +125.70% -42.16%
75th Percentile £58.23 £70.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.41 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £50.49 £24.65
% change year-on-year -42.57% +104.84% -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 20,109 13,901 18,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.93% 47.75% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,663 8,623 11,336
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +1.02% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,040 593 1,120
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.11
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.04 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.81% +15.73% -47.67%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.52 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +31.11% +4.65% -45.64%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -15 1,962 £556 -3.30% 504
UK excluding London -8 1,195 £525 -2.78% 347
Work from Home -1 765 £560 -3.61% 233
London -19 746 £600 - 208
South East -12 300 £550 +0.46% 104
North of England -15 299 £525 -0.94% 97
Midlands -4 298 £533 -1.66% 83
North West -9 190 £495 -6.60% 60
West Midlands -11 174 £500 -9.09% 55
East of England 0 161 £505 -15.48% 33
East Midlands +19 115 £600 +20.00% 28
Yorkshire 0 103 £550 +41.94% 34
South West -26 81 £546 +9.25% 21
Scotland +8 33 £533 -11.17% 10
Wales +6 28 £550 +21.41% 6
North East -31 6 £500 -6.54% 6
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +5 2 £488 +118.61% 5

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 32 (1.31%) Confluence
2 30 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.94%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.53%) CMS
5 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.20%) SAP EP
9 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.12%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.082%) Apache
11 2 (0.082%) JBoss
12 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.041%) LiveCycle
12 1 (0.041%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.041%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 123 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.41%) CATIA
8 6 (0.25%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.20%) PTC Creo
10 2 (0.082%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.041%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 976 (39.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 100 (4.09%) SAP FI
3 60 (2.45%) SAP CO
3 60 (2.45%) SAP ERP
3 60 (2.45%) SAP MM
4 57 (2.33%) SAP FI/CO
4 57 (2.33%) SAP SD
5 52 (2.13%) SAP EWM
6 46 (1.88%) SAP PSCD
7 44 (1.80%) SAP BRIM
8 38 (1.55%) SAP IBP
9 37 (1.51%) SAP PP
10 36 (1.47%) SAP PM
11 32 (1.31%) SAP GRC
12 31 (1.27%) SAP MDG
13 30 (1.23%) SAP Travel Management
14 29 (1.19%) SAP HCM
15 28 (1.14%) SAP FI-CA
16 24 (0.98%) NetSuite
16 24 (0.98%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 215 (8.79%) Azure
2 207 (8.46%) SuccessFactors
3 113 (4.62%) Power Platform
4 80 (3.27%) AWS
5 77 (3.15%) SaaS
6 48 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (1.68%) Entra ID
8 35 (1.43%) Boomi
9 27 (1.10%) GCP
10 24 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 18 (0.74%) Power Automate
14 17 (0.70%) OCI
15 16 (0.65%) Snowflake
16 15 (0.61%) Smartsheet
17 14 (0.57%) PowerApps
18 13 (0.53%) GitHub
18 13 (0.53%) IaaS
18 13 (0.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.49%) Network Security
2 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 7 (0.29%) VPN
3 7 (0.29%) WAN
4 4 (0.16%) LAN
4 4 (0.16%) RFID
4 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.12%) BGP
5 3 (0.12%) OSPF
6 2 (0.082%) DNS
6 2 (0.082%) FTP
6 2 (0.082%) HTTP
6 2 (0.082%) Internet
6 2 (0.082%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.082%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.041%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.041%) Junos
7 1 (0.041%) MQTT
7 1 (0.041%) Wireless
7 1 (0.041%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.33%) Power BI
2 83 (3.39%) SAP HANA
3 43 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (1.47%) SQL Server
5 33 (1.35%) SAP BW
6 29 (1.19%) Tableau
7 23 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
8 18 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
8 18 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (0.61%) Metadata
11 14 (0.57%) Data Lake
12 10 (0.41%) Sybase ASE
13 9 (0.37%) MaxDB
14 8 (0.33%) GIS
14 8 (0.33%) Relational Database
15 5 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.20%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 103 (4.21%) JIRA
2 25 (1.02%) Hudson
3 19 (0.78%) Git
4 9 (0.37%) Postman
5 7 (0.29%) LSMW
6 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.20%) Selenium
7 4 (0.16%) GitLab
7 4 (0.16%) JMeter
8 3 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.082%) Maven
9 2 (0.082%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.082%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.082%) TestRail
10 1 (0.041%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.041%) Subversion
10 1 (0.041%) TestDirector
10 1 (0.041%) Toad
General
1 796 (32.54%) Finance
2 694 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 263 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (10.71%) Manufacturing
5 181 (7.40%) Public Sector
6 97 (3.97%) Billing
7 85 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 78 (3.19%) Legal
9 76 (3.11%) Retail
10 69 (2.82%) Banking
11 58 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
12 57 (2.33%) Aerospace
13 52 (2.13%) Telecoms
14 48 (1.96%) General Ledger
15 46 (1.88%) Marketing
16 44 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
17 41 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
18 40 (1.64%) Local Government
19 32 (1.31%) Electronics
20 25 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 587 (24.00%) Consultant
2 508 (20.77%) SAP Consultant
3 321 (13.12%) Lead
4 310 (12.67%) Architect
5 261 (10.67%) Analyst
6 208 (8.50%) Senior
7 184 (7.52%) Project Manager
8 178 (7.28%) SAP Manager
9 170 (6.95%) SAP Architect
10 155 (6.34%) Solutions Architect
11 115 (4.70%) Business Analyst
12 94 (3.84%) Developer
13 92 (3.76%) SAP Project Manager
14 87 (3.56%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 79 (3.23%) Functional Consultant
16 77 (3.15%) Administrator
17 73 (2.98%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 63 (2.58%) SAP Analyst
18 63 (2.58%) Senior Manager
19 62 (2.53%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (4.09%) SAP Fiori
2 84 (3.43%) Middleware
3 56 (2.29%) SAP Basis
4 54 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
5 50 (2.04%) REST
6 33 (1.35%) BAPI
7 32 (1.31%) SOAP
8 31 (1.27%) SAP TM
9 30 (1.23%) SAPUI5
9 30 (1.23%) XML
10 27 (1.10%) IDoc
11 24 (0.98%) JSON
12 20 (0.82%) OAuth
13 19 (0.78%) EDI
14 18 (0.74%) Web Services
15 17 (0.70%) SAP PI
16 13 (0.53%) SAP ALE
17 12 (0.49%) SAML
18 11 (0.45%) Node.js
18 11 (0.45%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (3.80%) Public Cloud
2 80 (3.27%) Onboarding
3 76 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 44 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 42 (1.72%) FMCG
7 38 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 29 (1.19%) Life Science
11 28 (1.14%) Taxonomies
12 27 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 26 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (1.02%) Replication
15 23 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
16 20 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
17 17 (0.70%) Virtual Team
18 13 (0.53%) AI Agents
19 11 (0.45%) Manufacturing Execution System
19 11 (0.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.31%) Linux
2 31 (1.27%) Windows
3 10 (0.41%) Unix
3 10 (0.41%) VMS
4 8 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.082%) AIX
7 2 (0.082%) Android
7 2 (0.082%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.082%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.041%) Solaris
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (23.18%) ERP
2 456 (18.64%) Migration
3 455 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 304 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (11.16%) Data Migration
6 258 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 243 (9.93%) User Acceptance Testing
8 242 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 235 (9.61%) Agile
10 217 (8.87%) Validation
11 189 (7.73%) Project Management
12 185 (7.56%) Workshop Facilitation
13 182 (7.44%) Analytics
14 165 (6.75%) Logistics
15 164 (6.70%) Change Management
16 152 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
17 149 (6.09%) Data Modelling
18 133 (5.44%) Project Delivery
19 132 (5.40%) Decision-Making
20 129 (5.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 117 (4.78%) SQL
2 81 (3.31%) ABAP
3 51 (2.09%) Python
4 30 (1.23%) Java
5 19 (0.78%) PowerShell
6 17 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.37%) C#
8 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.20%) Groovy
10 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.16%) C
11 3 (0.12%) Bash
11 3 (0.12%) Bicep
11 3 (0.12%) C++
11 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.12%) Go
11 3 (0.12%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 358 (14.64%) Security Cleared
2 281 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 141 (5.76%) Degree
4 117 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (2.09%) ACCA
6 50 (2.04%) CIMA
7 45 (1.84%) PMP
8 42 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 39 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 33 (1.35%) SAP Certification
11 16 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.45%) CISSP
13 11 (0.45%) HNC
13 11 (0.45%) NVQ Level 4
14 9 (0.37%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.33%) CISM
16 7 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.40%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.92%) PMO
3 90 (3.68%) QA
4 54 (2.21%) GDPR
4 54 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 33 (1.35%) GRC
6 20 (0.82%) IFRS
7 18 (0.74%) SLA
8 13 (0.53%) GAAP
9 12 (0.49%) GxP
10 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.33%) GMP
11 8 (0.33%) NIST
12 6 (0.25%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.20%) Basel III
13 5 (0.20%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.20%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (0.86%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.45%) IAG
3 7 (0.29%) Docker
4 6 (0.25%) Corosync
5 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.53%) Terraform
3 10 (0.41%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (0.29%) Pacemaker
6 6 (0.25%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.16%) Ansible
8 3 (0.12%) Control-M
8 3 (0.12%) Grafana
9 2 (0.082%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.082%) WSUS
10 1 (0.041%) Argo
10 1 (0.041%) CEMLI
10 1 (0.041%) MOM
10 1 (0.041%) Packer
10 1 (0.041%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.041%) SCCM
Vendors
1 242 (9.89%) Ariba
2 224 (9.16%) Microsoft
3 222 (9.08%) Oracle
4 98 (4.01%) Salesforce
5 88 (3.60%) Workday
6 69 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 39 (1.59%) Informatica
8 34 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 31 (1.27%) Adobe
9 31 (1.27%) Sage
10 29 (1.19%) Databricks
11 25 (1.02%) Concur
12 20 (0.82%) Okta
13 19 (0.78%) IBM
14 17 (0.70%) Dell
14 17 (0.70%) Siemens
15 14 (0.57%) IFS
15 14 (0.57%) Infor
16 13 (0.53%) Google
16 13 (0.53%) OpenText