SAP Contracts

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 2 April 2025, 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
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 26 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing SAP 1,903 2,663 3,451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.55% 6.02% 5.47%
As % of the Vendors category 13.89% 14.11% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,389 1,744
10th Percentile £357 £350 £363
25th Percentile £481 £450 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -
75th Percentile £666 £664 £667
90th Percentile £772 £783 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 131 63
10th Percentile £20.81 £13.05 £20.99
25th Percentile £25.44 £18.42 £39.40
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.03 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.69% -42.16% +50.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.13 £59.24
90th Percentile £86.00 £84.45 £67.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £24.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year +102.84% -45.22% +114.29%

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 13,698 18,876 26,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.11% 42.70% 42.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,649 11,792 17,999
10th Percentile £291 £255 £275
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 1,059 754
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.91 £14.48 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £22.50 £38.63
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -41.75% +83.93%
75th Percentile £61.50 £55.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £21.50 £33.25
% change year-on-year +26.16% -35.34% +80.41%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP.

Daily rate trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP.

Hourly rate trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Top 17 Contract 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 2 April 2025. 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 -1 1,528 £550 - 1,207
UK excluding London +2 785 £540 +2.86% 670
London +2 648 £600 +4.35% 595
Work from Home -6 645 £583 +5.91% 684
North of England 0 243 £530 +0.95% 169
South East +5 219 £575 +4.55% 208
North West +8 186 £538 +2.48% 116
Midlands +2 117 £540 +2.86% 102
South West 0 94 £500 -16.67% 62
East of England -2 94 £580 +10.48% 88
West Midlands +3 79 £585 +17.00% 70
Yorkshire -32 31 £375 -23.86% 40
East Midlands +12 30 £500 -10.91% 28
North East +4 22 £363 -29.95% 14
Scotland +1 20 £600 +26.32% 42
Wales +8 5 £725 +61.11% 13
Northern Ireland -9 4 £281 -29.75% 4

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (1.10%) SharePoint
2 18 (0.95%) NetWeaver
3 16 (0.84%) Confluence
4 15 (0.79%) MTS
5 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.37%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.21%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.16%) CMS
8 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.11%) Documentum
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.053%) IIS
10 1 (0.053%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle BPEL
Applications
1 69 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Blender
8 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.053%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.053%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.053%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.053%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 660 (34.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 97 (5.10%) SAP FI
3 82 (4.31%) SAP CO
4 77 (4.05%) SAP FI/CO
5 50 (2.63%) SAP PP
6 48 (2.52%) SAP SD
7 45 (2.36%) SAP EWM
8 42 (2.21%) SAP ERP
9 41 (2.15%) SAP Payroll
10 40 (2.10%) SAP MM
11 39 (2.05%) SAP HR
12 30 (1.58%) SAP MDG
13 25 (1.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 23 (1.21%) SAP GTS
14 23 (1.21%) SAP PS
15 21 (1.10%) SAP PM
16 20 (1.05%) SAP GRC
16 20 (1.05%) Shopify
17 19 (1.00%) SAP HCM
17 19 (1.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 141 (7.41%) SuccessFactors
2 130 (6.83%) Azure
3 70 (3.68%) Power Platform
4 60 (3.15%) AWS
5 31 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (1.21%) GCP
8 21 (1.10%) SaaS
8 21 (1.10%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 19 (1.00%) BigCommerce
10 17 (0.89%) Snowflake
11 12 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (0.58%) GitHub
13 9 (0.47%) Boomi
13 9 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.47%) Serverless
14 8 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (0.42%) Yammer
15 7 (0.37%) Entra ID
16 6 (0.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.89%) Firewall
2 13 (0.68%) VPN
3 12 (0.63%) HTTP
4 10 (0.53%) SAN
5 9 (0.47%) Network Security
6 8 (0.42%) LAN
7 7 (0.37%) WAN
8 6 (0.32%) DHCP
8 6 (0.32%) DNS
8 6 (0.32%) NAS
8 6 (0.32%) RFID
8 6 (0.32%) Wireless
9 5 (0.26%) SSL
10 4 (0.21%) BGP
10 4 (0.21%) EIGRP
10 4 (0.21%) Internet
10 4 (0.21%) OSPF
10 4 (0.21%) Skype
10 4 (0.21%) VoIP
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (4.52%) SAP HANA
2 68 (3.57%) Power BI
3 42 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (1.79%) SAP BW
5 32 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 25 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (1.21%) SQL Server
8 21 (1.10%) NoSQL
8 21 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
9 20 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
10 15 (0.79%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.74%) Metadata
12 13 (0.68%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.68%) Tableau
13 11 (0.58%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 9 (0.47%) Big Data
15 8 (0.42%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.32%) Qlik Sense
17 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (2.73%) JIRA
2 32 (1.68%) Git
3 27 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.89%) GitLab
4 17 (0.89%) Postman
5 15 (0.79%) JUnit
6 14 (0.74%) Gradle
6 14 (0.74%) Mockito
6 14 (0.74%) Selenium
7 13 (0.68%) Liquibase
8 10 (0.53%) LSMW
9 7 (0.37%) ERwin
10 6 (0.32%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.32%) JMeter
11 5 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.26%) NUnit
11 5 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
11 5 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.21%) Toad
General
1 645 (33.89%) Finance
2 592 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 376 (19.76%) Manufacturing
4 267 (14.03%) Public Sector
5 231 (12.14%) Marketing
6 225 (11.82%) Telecoms
7 222 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
8 212 (11.14%) Electronics
9 129 (6.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 123 (6.46%) Retail
11 59 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
12 50 (2.63%) Billing
13 43 (2.26%) Banking
14 39 (2.05%) Aerospace
15 38 (2.00%) Legal
16 37 (1.94%) Automotive
17 36 (1.89%) Local Government
18 28 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
19 26 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
20 24 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 535 (28.11%) Consultant
2 464 (24.38%) SAP Consultant
3 216 (11.35%) Lead
4 205 (10.77%) Architect
5 154 (8.09%) Analyst
6 152 (7.99%) Developer
7 125 (6.57%) SAP Manager
8 120 (6.31%) Senior
9 117 (6.15%) SAP Architect
10 116 (6.10%) Project Manager
11 85 (4.47%) Business Analyst
12 82 (4.31%) SAP Analyst
13 71 (3.73%) SAP Developer
14 68 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
15 53 (2.79%) Functional Consultant
15 53 (2.79%) SAP Project Manager
16 48 (2.52%) SAP Solutions Architect
17 47 (2.47%) ABAP Developer
17 47 (2.47%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 43 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (4.68%) SAP Fiori
2 43 (2.26%) SAPUI5
3 42 (2.21%) Web Services
4 35 (1.84%) .NET
4 35 (1.84%) Middleware
5 34 (1.79%) XML
6 33 (1.73%) REST
7 31 (1.63%) HTML
7 31 (1.63%) SOAP
8 30 (1.58%) CSS
9 27 (1.42%) BAPI
9 27 (1.42%) React
9 27 (1.42%) SAP PI
10 26 (1.37%) Kafka
10 26 (1.37%) SAP Basis
11 23 (1.21%) Spring
12 21 (1.10%) RESTful
13 20 (1.05%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.00%) VML
15 17 (0.89%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 68 (3.57%) Life Science
2 51 (2.68%) Management Information System
3 46 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
4 43 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.63%) FMCG
7 30 (1.58%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 29 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 27 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.31%) NHS
11 24 (1.26%) Product Ownership
12 19 (1.00%) Private Cloud
13 16 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 15 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.74%) Industry 4.0
16 13 (0.68%) LIMS
17 12 (0.63%) Manufacturing Execution System
17 12 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 79 (4.15%) Windows
2 36 (1.89%) Linux
3 16 (0.84%) Windows 10
4 13 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.58%) Unix
6 10 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.11%) Android
7 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.053%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.053%) HPUX
8 1 (0.053%) Solaris
8 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
2 294 (15.45%) Business Intelligence
3 287 (15.08%) Agile
4 265 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 249 (13.08%) ERP
6 243 (12.77%) Programme Management
7 240 (12.61%) Migration
8 215 (11.30%) Project Management
9 210 (11.04%) Digital Marketing
10 150 (7.88%) Analytics
11 122 (6.41%) Change Management
11 122 (6.41%) Data Migration
12 111 (5.83%) Logistics
13 107 (5.62%) User Acceptance Testing
14 104 (5.47%) Data Modelling
15 99 (5.20%) Process Improvement
16 94 (4.94%) Project Delivery
17 93 (4.89%) Workshop Facilitation
18 91 (4.78%) DevOps
19 87 (4.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 136 (7.15%) ABAP
2 122 (6.41%) SQL
3 78 (4.10%) Java
4 53 (2.79%) JavaScript
5 52 (2.73%) Python
6 46 (2.42%) PowerShell
7 29 (1.52%) C#
8 27 (1.42%) TypeScript
9 13 (0.68%) Bash
10 11 (0.58%) C++
11 10 (0.53%) Groovy
12 8 (0.42%) COBOL
12 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.32%) C
13 6 (0.32%) R
13 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.26%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.26%) Bicep
14 5 (0.26%) VBA
15 4 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 297 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 215 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 167 (8.78%) Degree
4 68 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 52 (2.73%) SAP Certification
7 33 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 33 (1.73%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.58%) PMP
9 13 (0.68%) ACCA
9 13 (0.68%) DBS Check
10 12 (0.63%) CIMA
11 11 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.42%) ISEB
14 7 (0.37%) CCA
14 7 (0.37%) CISSP
14 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.99%) QA
2 65 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 37 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 32 (1.68%) PMO
5 26 (1.37%) GDPR
6 20 (1.05%) GRC
6 20 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.79%) IFRS
8 8 (0.42%) GxP
9 6 (0.32%) GAAP
9 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.32%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.26%) SLA
11 4 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.21%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.21%) DICOM
11 4 (0.21%) HL7
11 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.21%) NIST
11 4 (0.21%) PMBOK
System Software
1 50 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.31%) Docker
3 8 (0.42%) IAG
4 7 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.053%) Firmware
8 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 17 (0.89%) Terraform
3 9 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.42%) HP ALM
4 8 (0.42%) MOM
5 6 (0.32%) Ansible
5 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.16%) Grafana
6 3 (0.16%) Puppet
6 3 (0.16%) SCCM
7 2 (0.11%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Salt
7 2 (0.11%) SCOM
7 2 (0.11%) vRealize
7 2 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 2 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 244 (12.82%) Ariba
2 160 (8.41%) Microsoft
3 118 (6.20%) Oracle
4 99 (5.20%) Salesforce
5 56 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 34 (1.79%) Workday
7 26 (1.37%) Adobe
7 26 (1.37%) Google
8 21 (1.10%) VMware
9 19 (1.00%) HP
9 19 (1.00%) Sitecore
10 18 (0.95%) Databricks
11 16 (0.84%) Concur
11 16 (0.84%) Dell
11 16 (0.84%) OpenText
12 12 (0.63%) Siemens
13 11 (0.58%) Cisco
13 11 (0.58%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.42%) IBM
15 7 (0.37%) Hyperion