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 14 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,318 1,958 2,714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.37% 6.63% 6.10%
As % of the Vendors category 12.20% 14.09% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,187 1,021 1,386
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £456 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -0.90%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 56 125
10th Percentile £16.99 £18.90 £13.23
25th Percentile £20.52 £23.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% +72.41% -35.56%
75th Percentile £55.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.82 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £48.75 £26.03
% change year-on-year -51.13% +87.28% -42.16%

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 18,995 13,894 19,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.01% 47.08% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,130 8,646 11,977
10th Percentile £308 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +0.49% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 454 1,024
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.02 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -30.13%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.13
90th Percentile £76.75 £84.39 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £27.50 £23.11
% change year-on-year -14.55% +19.01% -29.98%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 1,821 £556 +0.86% 585
UK excluding London -12 1,030 £525 -3.67% 451
Work from Home -2 792 £560 -2.61% 297
London -11 741 £575 -3.36% 192
North of England -13 303 £598 +12.83% 85
South East -14 239 £550 -4.35% 159
Midlands -11 224 £483 -10.65% 115
North West -11 199 £626 +16.36% 61
East of England 0 162 £505 -12.93% 48
West Midlands -13 151 £475 -18.98% 63
Yorkshire +8 93 £595 +58.67% 22
South West -39 74 £650 +28.71% 25
East Midlands -2 69 £513 -1.44% 51
Wales +5 22 £370 -44.23% 9
Scotland +7 20 £450 -14.29% 13
North East -24 10 £175 -51.72% 2
Northern Ireland -1 3 £513 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 31 (1.34%) Confluence
2 24 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.86%) NetWeaver
4 16 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.35%) CMS
6 7 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.22%) MTS
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
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 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.086%) JBoss
10 2 (0.086%) SAP EP
11 1 (0.043%) Documentum
Applications
1 114 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.26%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.22%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.086%) CATIA
11 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.043%) Sketch
11 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 903 (38.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (4.62%) SAP FI
3 74 (3.19%) SAP MM
4 72 (3.11%) SAP CO
5 66 (2.85%) SAP FI/CO
6 58 (2.50%) SAP PP
7 56 (2.42%) SAP ERP
8 51 (2.20%) SAP EWM
8 51 (2.20%) SAP Payroll
9 44 (1.90%) SAP HCM
10 43 (1.86%) SAP PM
11 36 (1.55%) SAP PSCD
11 36 (1.55%) SAP SD
12 34 (1.47%) SAP MDG
13 33 (1.42%) SAP QM
14 32 (1.38%) SAP HR
15 31 (1.34%) SAP Travel Management
16 27 (1.16%) SAP BRIM
17 23 (0.99%) SAP VC
18 22 (0.95%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 203 (8.76%) Azure
2 169 (7.29%) SuccessFactors
3 88 (3.80%) AWS
4 81 (3.49%) Power Platform
5 60 (2.59%) SaaS
6 49 (2.11%) GCP
7 48 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.38%) Entra ID
10 23 (0.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 22 (0.95%) OCI
12 17 (0.73%) Boomi
13 16 (0.69%) GitHub
13 16 (0.69%) Snowflake
14 15 (0.65%) Power Automate
15 13 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
17 11 (0.47%) Tricentis Tosca
18 10 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (0.99%) Wireless
2 12 (0.52%) Network Security
3 9 (0.39%) VPN
4 8 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.35%) Firewall
4 8 (0.35%) HTTPS
4 8 (0.35%) Skype
5 7 (0.30%) LAN
5 7 (0.30%) 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 (0.086%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.086%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (3.88%) SAP HANA
2 77 (3.32%) Power BI
3 32 (1.38%) SAP BW
4 31 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 18 (0.78%) Metadata
6 18 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
7 17 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 16 (0.69%) Tableau
9 14 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
12 11 (0.47%) GIS
13 8 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.35%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 6 (0.26%) MySQL
14 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
15 5 (0.22%) MaxDB
15 5 (0.22%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 88 (3.80%) JIRA
2 19 (0.82%) Git
3 10 (0.43%) LSMW
4 9 (0.39%) GitLab
4 9 (0.39%) Hudson
5 8 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.30%) Toad
7 6 (0.26%) Postman
8 5 (0.22%) Selenium
9 4 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.17%) JMeter
9 4 (0.17%) JUnit
9 4 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.13%) Storybook
10 3 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
11 2 (0.086%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.086%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.086%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.043%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.043%) PowerDesigner
General
1 806 (34.77%) Finance
2 731 (31.54%) Social Skills
3 379 (16.35%) Manufacturing
4 310 (13.37%) Public Sector
5 284 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
6 169 (7.29%) Telecoms
7 164 (7.08%) Marketing
8 141 (6.08%) Electronics
9 106 (4.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 72 (3.11%) Billing
11 61 (2.63%) Banking
11 61 (2.63%) Retail
12 58 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
13 57 (2.46%) Legal
14 54 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
15 50 (2.16%) Aerospace
16 43 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
17 41 (1.77%) Local Government
18 33 (1.42%) General Ledger
19 30 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 635 (27.39%) Consultant
2 518 (22.35%) SAP Consultant
3 277 (11.95%) Lead
4 246 (10.61%) Architect
5 204 (8.80%) Analyst
6 180 (7.77%) Project Manager
7 161 (6.95%) SAP Manager
8 152 (6.56%) Senior
9 137 (5.91%) SAP Architect
10 134 (5.78%) Solutions Architect
11 117 (5.05%) Developer
12 102 (4.40%) Business Analyst
13 92 (3.97%) SAP Project Manager
14 86 (3.71%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 78 (3.36%) Functional Consultant
16 73 (3.15%) Administrator
16 73 (3.15%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 69 (2.98%) SAP Developer
18 61 (2.63%) SAP Analyst
19 53 (2.29%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (6.21%) SAP Fiori
2 58 (2.50%) Middleware
3 48 (2.07%) Web Services
4 46 (1.98%) SAPUI5
5 45 (1.94%) SAP Basis
6 41 (1.77%) BAPI
7 40 (1.73%) SAP TM
8 38 (1.64%) SOAP
8 38 (1.64%) XML
9 35 (1.51%) REST
10 28 (1.21%) SAP PI
11 23 (0.99%) HTML
12 22 (0.95%) IDoc
13 21 (0.91%) CSS
14 20 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
15 17 (0.73%) EDI
16 13 (0.56%) SAP ALE
17 12 (0.52%) JSON
18 11 (0.47%) SailPoint
19 10 (0.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 82 (3.54%) Onboarding
2 67 (2.89%) Public Cloud
3 61 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 37 (1.60%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.47%) FMCG
7 30 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 28 (1.21%) Life Science
9 27 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.16%) Taxonomies
10 26 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.08%) Replication
12 22 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.73%) Cloud Native
14 17 (0.73%) Mobile App
15 14 (0.60%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.90%) Windows
2 31 (1.34%) Android
2 31 (1.34%) Mac OS
3 20 (0.86%) Linux
4 15 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.30%) VMS
6 5 (0.22%) Unix
6 5 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.086%) SUSE
9 1 (0.043%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (19.11%) ERP
2 433 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 421 (18.16%) Migration
4 275 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 272 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
6 236 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
7 224 (9.66%) Agile
8 220 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 220 (9.49%) Data Migration
9 203 (8.76%) Project Management
10 198 (8.54%) Workshop Facilitation
11 195 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
12 187 (8.07%) Logistics
13 175 (7.55%) Change Management
14 163 (7.03%) Analytics
14 163 (7.03%) Programme Management
15 161 (6.95%) Validation
16 144 (6.21%) Digital Marketing
17 142 (6.13%) Roadmaps
18 141 (6.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 137 (5.91%) ABAP
2 111 (4.79%) SQL
3 47 (2.03%) JavaScript
3 47 (2.03%) Python
4 39 (1.68%) Java
5 18 (0.78%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.60%) Groovy
7 9 (0.39%) C#
8 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.35%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.22%) C++
10 4 (0.17%) Go
10 4 (0.17%) VBA
11 3 (0.13%) R
11 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.13%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.086%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.086%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.086%) C
12 2 (0.086%) VB
Qualifications
1 450 (19.41%) Security Cleared
2 357 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 160 (6.90%) Degree
4 110 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (2.16%) PMP
6 46 (1.98%) SAP Certification
7 42 (1.81%) PMI Certification
8 41 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.25%) ACCA
11 28 (1.21%) CIMA
12 19 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.35%) CISSP
15 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.30%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.30%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 6 (0.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 94 (4.06%) QA
3 69 (2.98%) PMO
4 41 (1.77%) GDPR
5 34 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.21%) SLA
7 22 (0.95%) GRC
8 19 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.56%) NIST
10 11 (0.47%) GxP
11 10 (0.43%) IFRS
12 9 (0.39%) GAAP
12 9 (0.39%) GMP
13 8 (0.35%) COBIT
13 8 (0.35%) ITGC
14 7 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.30%) SOX 404
15 6 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.22%) Accessibility
16 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.47%) Docker
3 5 (0.22%) IAG
4 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.043%) Varnish
4 1 (0.043%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (0.52%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.35%) Terraform
4 6 (0.26%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.13%) Control-M
5 3 (0.13%) Grafana
6 2 (0.086%) Ansible
6 2 (0.086%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.086%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.086%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.086%) vRealize
7 1 (0.043%) Argo
7 1 (0.043%) Autotask
7 1 (0.043%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.043%) Linux-HA
7 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.043%) Pacemaker
7 1 (0.043%) Packer
7 1 (0.043%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 215 (9.28%) Ariba
2 199 (8.58%) Microsoft
3 182 (7.85%) Oracle
4 79 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 76 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 71 (3.06%) Workday
7 44 (1.90%) Cisco
8 38 (1.64%) Adobe
9 36 (1.55%) Dell
10 35 (1.51%) HP
10 35 (1.51%) Informatica
11 32 (1.38%) Sage
12 26 (1.12%) IBM
13 25 (1.08%) Databricks
14 23 (0.99%) Apple
15 20 (0.86%) Google
15 20 (0.86%) Okta
16 17 (0.73%) MuleSoft
17 15 (0.65%) Twitter
18 14 (0.60%) OpenText