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 22 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
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,310 1,955 2,663
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.26% 6.62% 6.01%
As % of the Vendors category 12.05% 14.05% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,027 1,367
10th Percentile £350 £361 £350
25th Percentile £456 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £666 £669 £663
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 56 129
10th Percentile £17.09 £19.06 £13.05
25th Percentile £21.75 £24.14 £18.58
Median hourly rate £24.78 £50.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -50.45% +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 19,176 13,912 18,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.67% 47.11% 42.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,284 8,717 11,823
10th Percentile £310 £290 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.84%
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 979 464 1,031
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +20.83% -36.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.69 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.69 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.36% +22.22% -35.71%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 1,807 £555 +0.68% 564
UK excluding London -12 1,027 £525 -3.23% 419
Work from Home -1 782 £560 -3.11% 272
London -13 736 £575 -4.17% 195
North of England -18 276 £550 +4.76% 95
South East -14 248 £575 -1.03% 141
Midlands -4 233 £485 -8.06% 92
North West -15 176 £538 -0.09% 65
East of England +1 167 £518 -10.78% 38
West Midlands -16 152 £475 -13.64% 54
Yorkshire -2 90 £595 +58.67% 28
East Midlands -3 75 £525 +5.00% 38
South West -44 70 £650 +30.00% 31
Wales +11 23 £370 -49.03% 7
Scotland +2 22 £450 -18.18% 9
North East -25 9 £175 -51.72% 2
Northern Ireland -3 3 £500 +77.94% 4
Channel Islands - 1 - - 6

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 34 (1.47%) Confluence
2 25 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.87%) NetWeaver
4 18 (0.78%) 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 (0.043%) GeoServer
Applications
1 112 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.26%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.22%) PTC Creo
9 4 (0.17%) CATIA
10 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.043%) Sketch
11 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 870 (37.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (4.59%) SAP FI
3 70 (3.03%) SAP CO
4 66 (2.86%) SAP FI/CO
5 63 (2.73%) SAP MM
6 59 (2.55%) SAP ERP
7 57 (2.47%) SAP PP
8 51 (2.21%) SAP EWM
8 51 (2.21%) SAP Payroll
9 46 (1.99%) SAP HCM
10 42 (1.82%) SAP PM
11 37 (1.60%) SAP MDG
12 36 (1.56%) SAP PSCD
12 36 (1.56%) SAP SD
13 29 (1.26%) SAP HR
13 29 (1.26%) SAP Travel Management
14 27 (1.17%) SAP BRIM
15 26 (1.13%) SAP QM
16 22 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
16 22 (0.95%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 201 (8.70%) Azure
2 188 (8.14%) SuccessFactors
3 85 (3.68%) AWS
4 81 (3.51%) Power Platform
5 64 (2.77%) SaaS
6 51 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (1.65%) GCP
8 35 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
8 35 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 33 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 22 (0.95%) OCI
12 17 (0.74%) Boomi
12 17 (0.74%) Power Automate
13 16 (0.69%) GitHub
13 16 (0.69%) Snowflake
14 14 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (0.52%) PaaS
16 11 (0.48%) PowerApps
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%) 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 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.087%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (3.55%) SAP HANA
2 76 (3.29%) Power BI
3 32 (1.39%) SAP BW
4 28 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
7 18 (0.78%) Metadata
8 17 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 17 (0.74%) Tableau
9 14 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
9 14 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (0.48%) GIS
12 9 (0.39%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 8 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.26%) MaxDB
14 6 (0.26%) MySQL
14 6 (0.26%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.26%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 88 (3.81%) JIRA
2 17 (0.74%) Git
3 11 (0.48%) Hudson
3 11 (0.48%) LSMW
4 8 (0.35%) GitLab
4 8 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.30%) 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%) JUnit
8 4 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.13%) Storybook
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.087%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.087%) Tricentis qTest
10 2 (0.087%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.043%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.043%) TestDirector
General
1 810 (35.06%) Finance
2 738 (31.95%) Social Skills
3 367 (15.89%) Manufacturing
4 300 (12.99%) Public Sector
5 285 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
6 165 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 161 (6.97%) Marketing
8 138 (5.97%) Electronics
9 101 (4.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 71 (3.07%) Billing
11 64 (2.77%) Banking
12 63 (2.73%) Retail
13 61 (2.64%) Legal
14 55 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
14 55 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
16 43 (1.86%) Aerospace
17 42 (1.82%) Local Government
18 34 (1.47%) General Ledger
19 28 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 610 (26.41%) Consultant
2 510 (22.08%) SAP Consultant
3 273 (11.82%) Lead
4 257 (11.13%) Architect
5 208 (9.00%) Analyst
6 183 (7.92%) Project Manager
7 170 (7.36%) SAP Manager
8 162 (7.01%) Senior
9 140 (6.06%) SAP Architect
10 137 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
11 120 (5.19%) Developer
12 104 (4.50%) Business Analyst
13 95 (4.11%) SAP Project Manager
14 87 (3.77%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 80 (3.46%) Functional Consultant
16 75 (3.25%) Administrator
16 75 (3.25%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 74 (3.20%) SAP Developer
18 60 (2.60%) SAP Analyst
19 51 (2.21%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (5.45%) SAP Fiori
2 57 (2.47%) Middleware
3 49 (2.12%) SAP Basis
4 47 (2.03%) SAPUI5
5 40 (1.73%) REST
5 40 (1.73%) XML
6 38 (1.65%) SOAP
7 37 (1.60%) Web Services
8 33 (1.43%) SAP PI
9 32 (1.39%) BAPI
9 32 (1.39%) SAP TM
10 26 (1.13%) IDoc
11 21 (0.91%) CSS
11 21 (0.91%) HTML
12 20 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
13 17 (0.74%) EDI
14 16 (0.69%) JSON
15 14 (0.61%) SAP ALE
16 12 (0.52%) OAuth
17 10 (0.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 76 (3.29%) Onboarding
2 72 (3.12%) Public Cloud
3 65 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 38 (1.65%) FMCG
5 38 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 32 (1.39%) Replication
7 29 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 29 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 28 (1.21%) Life Science
8 28 (1.21%) Taxonomies
9 27 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (0.78%) Cloud Native
14 17 (0.74%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.69%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.99%) Windows
2 31 (1.34%) Android
2 31 (1.34%) Mac OS
3 22 (0.95%) Linux
4 15 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.26%) Unix
6 5 (0.22%) VMS
6 5 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.087%) SUSE
7 2 (0.087%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.043%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (19.83%) ERP
2 435 (18.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 434 (18.79%) Migration
4 278 (12.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 263 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
6 233 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
7 231 (10.00%) Data Migration
8 229 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 224 (9.70%) Agile
10 202 (8.74%) Project Management
11 195 (8.44%) Workshop Facilitation
12 192 (8.31%) User Acceptance Testing
13 172 (7.45%) Logistics
14 171 (7.40%) Validation
15 170 (7.36%) Change Management
16 163 (7.06%) Programme Management
17 155 (6.71%) Analytics
18 148 (6.41%) Roadmaps
19 143 (6.19%) Data Modelling
20 141 (6.10%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 131 (5.67%) ABAP
2 104 (4.50%) SQL
3 44 (1.90%) Python
4 43 (1.86%) Java
4 43 (1.86%) JavaScript
5 19 (0.82%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.61%) Groovy
7 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
7 8 (0.35%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.30%) 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%) VBA
11 2 (0.087%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.087%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.087%) Korn
11 2 (0.087%) R
11 2 (0.087%) XPath
Qualifications
1 420 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 326 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 156 (6.75%) Degree
4 105 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (2.21%) PMP
6 45 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 45 (1.95%) SAP Certification
7 43 (1.86%) PMI Certification
8 35 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.30%) ACCA
10 29 (1.26%) CIMA
11 19 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.43%) CISSP
13 10 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.39%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.30%) CISM
16 7 (0.30%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.94%) QA
3 70 (3.03%) PMO
4 47 (2.03%) GDPR
5 43 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.21%) SLA
7 22 (0.95%) GRC
8 20 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.56%) NIST
10 12 (0.52%) GxP
11 10 (0.43%) IFRS
12 9 (0.39%) GAAP
12 9 (0.39%) GMP
12 9 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.35%) COBIT
13 8 (0.35%) ITGC
14 7 (0.30%) SOX 404
15 6 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 32 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.35%) Docker
3 6 (0.26%) IAG
4 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.043%) Varnish
4 1 (0.043%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.39%) Terraform
3 6 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.13%) Control-M
4 3 (0.13%) Grafana
5 2 (0.087%) Ansible
5 2 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.087%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.087%) vRealize
5 2 (0.087%) WSUS
6 1 (0.043%) Argo
6 1 (0.043%) Autotask
6 1 (0.043%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.043%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.043%) Packer
6 1 (0.043%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.043%) SCCM
6 1 (0.043%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 220 (9.52%) Ariba
2 196 (8.48%) Microsoft
3 184 (7.97%) Oracle
4 79 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 74 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 73 (3.16%) Workday
7 43 (1.86%) Cisco
8 37 (1.60%) Informatica
9 36 (1.56%) Dell
10 35 (1.52%) HP
11 33 (1.43%) Sage
12 32 (1.39%) Adobe
13 28 (1.21%) IBM
14 26 (1.13%) Databricks
15 23 (1.00%) Apple
16 21 (0.91%) Okta
17 18 (0.78%) MuleSoft
18 16 (0.69%) Google
19 14 (0.61%) OpenText
19 14 (0.61%) Siemens