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 10 October 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
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 0
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,798 2,121 2,545
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.13% 6.40% 6.71%
As % of the Vendors category 12.29% 13.44% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,306 1,062 1,197
10th Percentile £360 £363 £400
25th Percentile £459 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £740 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 124 68
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.50 £15.92
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.27 £26.50
Median hourly rate £24.19 £22.63 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -46.75% +5.59%
75th Percentile £44.25 £34.31 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.25 £65.25 £65.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £22.32 £35.36
% change year-on-year +7.55% -36.89% +17.87%

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 22,765 15,787 16,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.70% 47.66% 44.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,737 9,715 9,930
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £613 £625
90th Percentile £711 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,403 805 601
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.84 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.11 £17.79 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -25.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £38.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.01% -29.12% -29.41%

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 10 October 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 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Top 17 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 10 October 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 -9 2,207 £560 -2.61% 2,223
UK excluding London -1 1,427 £550 - 1,386
Work from Home -12 787 £550 -2.22% 816
London -28 765 £600 +2.56% 908
South East +1 393 £540 +4.50% 354
North of England -15 358 £525 -12.86% 336
Midlands +7 352 £550 +4.76% 248
North West -11 248 £550 -12.00% 184
West Midlands +4 221 £520 -1.05% 138
East of England -1 166 £566 -2.41% 156
East Midlands +21 122 £598 +13.90% 109
Yorkshire +6 100 £500 -4.76% 111
South West -39 76 £525 -4.55% 111
Scotland -7 49 £533 +25.41% 91
Wales +17 47 £575 +133.50% 58
North East -40 9 £400 -27.27% 42
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 38

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 (1.22%) SharePoint
2 25 (0.89%) Confluence
3 20 (0.71%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.46%) CMS
5 7 (0.25%) Apache
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.18%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.14%) SugarCRM
7 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.11%) SAP Portal
9 2 (0.071%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.071%) SAS
9 2 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 154 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) Windchill
7 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.036%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.036%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.036%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 1,086 (38.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 136 (4.86%) SAP FI
3 87 (3.11%) SAP Payroll
4 86 (3.07%) SAP CO
5 83 (2.97%) SAP HCM
6 77 (2.75%) SAP FI/CO
7 67 (2.39%) SAP HR
7 67 (2.39%) SAP SD
8 65 (2.32%) SAP MM
9 64 (2.29%) SAP ERP
10 54 (1.93%) SAP GRC
11 53 (1.89%) SAP PSCD
12 50 (1.79%) SAP PP
13 49 (1.75%) SAP BRIM
14 43 (1.54%) SAP MDG
15 42 (1.50%) SAP EWM
16 41 (1.47%) SAP PM
17 34 (1.22%) Teamcenter
18 33 (1.18%) SAP FI-CA
19 32 (1.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 274 (9.79%) SuccessFactors
2 223 (7.97%) Azure
3 130 (4.65%) Power Platform
4 100 (3.57%) AWS
5 63 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (2.18%) GCP
7 57 (2.04%) SaaS
8 32 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (1.11%) Boomi
10 30 (1.07%) Entra ID
11 29 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
12 28 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (0.68%) GitHub
14 19 (0.68%) Snowflake
15 17 (0.61%) Tricentis Tosca
16 15 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (0.54%) Power Automate
17 14 (0.50%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.25%) Intranet
2 6 (0.21%) HTTP
3 5 (0.18%) Broadband
4 4 (0.14%) Network Security
4 4 (0.14%) VPN
5 3 (0.11%) Firewall
5 3 (0.11%) SSL
6 2 (0.071%) Internet
6 2 (0.071%) LAN
6 2 (0.071%) WAN
7 1 (0.036%) DNS
7 1 (0.036%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.036%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.036%) MQTT
7 1 (0.036%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.036%) Wireless
7 1 (0.036%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (3.97%) Power BI
2 93 (3.32%) SAP HANA
3 56 (2.00%) SAP BW
4 46 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
5 42 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (1.36%) Tableau
7 36 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 21 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
9 18 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (0.57%) Data Lake
11 15 (0.54%) Metadata
11 15 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 14 (0.50%) GIS
13 12 (0.43%) Power Query
14 10 (0.36%) Delta Lake
15 9 (0.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.32%) Relational Database
16 8 (0.29%) MySQL
16 8 (0.29%) NoSQL
17 7 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 117 (4.18%) JIRA
2 19 (0.68%) Git
3 15 (0.54%) Hudson
3 15 (0.54%) Postman
4 12 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.29%) eggPlant
6 7 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.25%) SoapUI
6 7 (0.25%) Toad
7 6 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.18%) JMeter
8 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.18%) LSMW
8 5 (0.18%) Selenium
9 3 (0.11%) GitLab
9 3 (0.11%) SOAtest
10 2 (0.071%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.071%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 890 (31.81%) Finance
2 786 (28.09%) Social Skills
3 423 (15.12%) Manufacturing
4 288 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 142 (5.08%) Retail
7 122 (4.36%) Billing
8 86 (3.07%) Aerospace
9 85 (3.04%) Legal
10 77 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 66 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 60 (2.14%) Banking
14 56 (2.00%) General Ledger
15 44 (1.57%) Automotive
16 39 (1.39%) Aviation
17 38 (1.36%) Telecoms
18 33 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
19 27 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
19 27 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 652 (23.30%) Consultant
2 543 (19.41%) SAP Consultant
3 364 (13.01%) Architect
4 311 (11.12%) Lead
5 307 (10.97%) Analyst
6 240 (8.58%) Senior
7 191 (6.83%) SAP Manager
8 183 (6.54%) SAP Architect
9 158 (5.65%) Project Manager
10 148 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
11 134 (4.79%) Business Analyst
12 124 (4.43%) Administrator
12 124 (4.43%) SAP Analyst
13 91 (3.25%) Developer
14 84 (3.00%) Functional Consultant
15 79 (2.82%) SAP Project Manager
16 75 (2.68%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 71 (2.54%) SAP Solutions Architect
18 61 (2.18%) Senior Consultant
19 54 (1.93%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (5.25%) SAP Fiori
2 111 (3.97%) Middleware
3 96 (3.43%) REST
4 77 (2.75%) SOAP
5 57 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
6 56 (2.00%) SAPUI5
7 47 (1.68%) XML
8 46 (1.64%) SAP PI
9 44 (1.57%) SAP Basis
10 41 (1.47%) Web Services
11 35 (1.25%) BAPI
12 32 (1.14%) JSON
13 31 (1.11%) IDoc
14 27 (0.96%) EDI
15 24 (0.86%) OAuth
16 20 (0.71%) Kafka
16 20 (0.71%) SAP ALE
17 19 (0.68%) Node.js
18 17 (0.61%) OAuth2
18 17 (0.61%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 107 (3.82%) Onboarding
2 93 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
3 76 (2.72%) Data Structures
4 74 (2.64%) Public Cloud
5 62 (2.22%) FMCG
5 62 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 61 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 56 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 51 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.57%) Life Science
10 30 (1.07%) Cloud Native
10 30 (1.07%) Replication
11 29 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (0.89%) Private Cloud
13 20 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.57%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.50%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.46%) Driving Licence
17 13 (0.46%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.22%) Linux
2 33 (1.18%) Windows
3 21 (0.75%) Unix
4 9 (0.32%) SUSE
5 7 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.25%) VMS
6 3 (0.11%) Android
6 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.11%) Solaris
7 2 (0.071%) AIX
8 1 (0.036%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 776 (27.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 624 (22.30%) ERP
3 510 (18.23%) Migration
4 367 (13.12%) User Acceptance Testing
5 362 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
6 308 (11.01%) Data Migration
7 278 (9.94%) Agile
8 270 (9.65%) Validation
9 252 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 247 (8.83%) Analytics
11 246 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 245 (8.76%) Logistics
13 215 (7.68%) Workshop Facilitation
14 196 (7.01%) Roadmaps
15 188 (6.72%) Project Delivery
16 176 (6.29%) Process Improvement
17 172 (6.15%) System Integration Testing
18 169 (6.04%) Decision-Making
19 161 (5.75%) Project Management
20 160 (5.72%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 140 (5.00%) SQL
2 138 (4.93%) ABAP
3 67 (2.39%) Python
4 58 (2.07%) Java
5 27 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.57%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.25%) Groovy
7 7 (0.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.21%) C#
9 5 (0.18%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.18%) Bash
9 5 (0.18%) BeanShell
9 5 (0.18%) Korn
9 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
10 4 (0.14%) Bicep
10 4 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.071%) Perl
12 2 (0.071%) VBA
Qualifications
1 456 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 356 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 161 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 132 (4.72%) Degree
5 53 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 43 (1.54%) ACCA
7 41 (1.47%) CIMA
7 41 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 41 (1.47%) PMP
8 27 (0.96%) SAP Certification
9 16 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 16 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.43%) ISEB
11 11 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 10 (0.36%) APMG
12 10 (0.36%) CIPD
12 10 (0.36%) HNC
13 9 (0.32%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.04%) PMO
3 74 (2.64%) QA
4 64 (2.29%) GDPR
5 49 (1.75%) GRC
6 40 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (0.61%) IFRS
8 14 (0.50%) GxP
9 13 (0.46%) SLA
10 12 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.36%) NIST
12 8 (0.29%) ITGC
13 7 (0.25%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.21%) GAAP
14 6 (0.21%) GMP
14 6 (0.21%) NCSC
15 5 (0.18%) COSHH
15 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.18%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.46%) IAG
3 5 (0.18%) Docker
4 4 (0.14%) Corosync
4 4 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.21%) Grafana
3 5 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.18%) Pacemaker
4 4 (0.14%) Control-M
4 4 (0.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.071%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.071%) MOM
7 1 (0.036%) Ansible
7 1 (0.036%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.036%) QRadar
7 1 (0.036%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.036%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 314 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 279 (9.97%) Oracle
3 275 (9.83%) Ariba
4 108 (3.86%) Salesforce
5 103 (3.68%) Workday
6 81 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 56 (2.00%) Concur
8 44 (1.57%) Databricks
9 43 (1.54%) MuleSoft
10 39 (1.39%) IBM
11 33 (1.18%) Siemens
12 30 (1.07%) Google
13 24 (0.86%) Adobe
14 23 (0.82%) Informatica
15 17 (0.61%) Sage
16 16 (0.57%) IFS
17 15 (0.54%) OpenText
17 15 (0.54%) Red Hat
18 14 (0.50%) Dell
18 14 (0.50%) JD Edwards