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 11 June 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
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +6
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,473 1,937 2,561
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.96% 6.59% 5.87%
As % of the Vendors category 12.19% 13.85% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 954 1,274
10th Percentile £360 £381 £386
25th Percentile £463 £496 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £757 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.31% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 71 140
10th Percentile £16.72 £19.91 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £27.88 £16.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £26.35
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +108.77% -41.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £86.00 £65.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £24.83
% change year-on-year -40.00% +101.41% -44.83%

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 20,281 13,989 18,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.65% 47.63% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,754 8,611 11,465
10th Percentile £313 £280 £269
25th Percentile £413 £404 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.72% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,038 624 1,139
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.34 £14.49
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +8.51% -45.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.49 £22.94 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.93% +4.26% -45.00%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 1,978 £560 -2.61% 487
UK excluding London -8 1,204 £528 -2.31% 356
Work from Home -2 771 £560 -3.74% 252
London -20 752 £600 - 179
South East -7 306 £550 +2.42% 116
Midlands -4 298 £550 +1.57% 77
North of England -14 296 £500 -5.66% 84
North West -10 192 £475 -10.38% 47
West Midlands -7 175 £525 -4.55% 51
East of England +3 164 £505 -14.23% 36
East Midlands +15 113 £600 +20.00% 26
Yorkshire +9 98 £550 +41.94% 34
South West -25 76 £534 +1.67% 30
Scotland +3 35 £533 -11.17% 11
Wales +10 33 £550 +21.41% 11
North East -35 6 £500 -5.66% 5
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +2 2 £488 +73.49% 3

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 33 (1.33%) Confluence
2 30 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.93%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.53%) CMS
5 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.24%) 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 (0.081%) Apache
11 2 (0.081%) JBoss
12 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.040%) LiveCycle
12 1 (0.040%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 124 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.40%) CATIA
8 6 (0.24%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.20%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.040%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,000 (40.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 102 (4.12%) SAP FI
3 63 (2.55%) SAP ERP
4 62 (2.51%) SAP CO
5 60 (2.43%) SAP FI/CO
6 58 (2.35%) SAP MM
7 57 (2.30%) SAP SD
8 53 (2.14%) SAP EWM
9 46 (1.86%) SAP PSCD
10 44 (1.78%) SAP BRIM
11 38 (1.54%) SAP PM
12 37 (1.50%) SAP IBP
13 33 (1.33%) SAP GRC
13 33 (1.33%) SAP Travel Management
14 32 (1.29%) SAP HCM
15 29 (1.17%) SAP MDG
15 29 (1.17%) SAP Payroll
15 29 (1.17%) SAP PP
16 27 (1.09%) SAP FI-CA
17 25 (1.01%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 220 (8.90%) SuccessFactors
2 214 (8.65%) Azure
3 114 (4.61%) Power Platform
4 81 (3.28%) AWS
5 76 (3.07%) SaaS
6 49 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (1.50%) Boomi
8 36 (1.46%) Entra ID
9 29 (1.17%) GCP
10 22 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (0.73%) Power Automate
11 18 (0.73%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 17 (0.69%) OCI
12 17 (0.69%) Snowflake
13 14 (0.57%) PaaS
13 14 (0.57%) PowerApps
13 14 (0.57%) Smartsheet
14 13 (0.53%) GitHub
14 13 (0.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.44%) Network Security
2 7 (0.28%) Firewall
2 7 (0.28%) WAN
3 6 (0.24%) VPN
4 4 (0.16%) RFID
4 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.12%) LAN
6 2 (0.081%) BGP
6 2 (0.081%) DNS
6 2 (0.081%) HTTP
6 2 (0.081%) Internet
6 2 (0.081%) OSPF
6 2 (0.081%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.040%) DHCP
7 1 (0.040%) FTP
7 1 (0.040%) Intranet
7 1 (0.040%) MQTT
7 1 (0.040%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.040%) Wireless
7 1 (0.040%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (4.37%) Power BI
2 90 (3.64%) SAP HANA
3 45 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (1.58%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.37%) SAP BW
6 29 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
7 28 (1.13%) Tableau
8 20 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
9 19 (0.77%) SAP Data Services
10 18 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.61%) Metadata
12 14 (0.57%) Data Lake
13 11 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
14 10 (0.40%) MaxDB
15 9 (0.36%) GIS
15 9 (0.36%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.28%) Oracle Database
17 6 (0.24%) NoSQL
17 6 (0.24%) Semantic Layer
18 5 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 100 (4.04%) JIRA
2 24 (0.97%) Hudson
3 18 (0.73%) Git
4 8 (0.32%) Postman
5 6 (0.24%) LSMW
6 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.16%) JMeter
7 4 (0.16%) Selenium
8 3 (0.12%) GitLab
8 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.081%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.081%) Maven
9 2 (0.081%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.081%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.081%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.081%) Toad
10 1 (0.040%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.040%) GCC
10 1 (0.040%) Subversion
10 1 (0.040%) TestDirector
General
1 793 (32.07%) Finance
2 682 (27.58%) Social Skills
3 267 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (10.15%) Manufacturing
5 166 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 99 (4.00%) Billing
7 86 (3.48%) Legal
8 83 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 81 (3.28%) Retail
10 68 (2.75%) Banking
11 57 (2.30%) Aerospace
12 51 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (1.98%) General Ledger
14 46 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.78%) Local Government
16 40 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (1.42%) Telecoms
18 29 (1.17%) Marketing
19 27 (1.09%) Law
20 23 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 599 (24.22%) Consultant
2 518 (20.95%) SAP Consultant
3 321 (12.98%) Lead
4 311 (12.58%) Architect
5 262 (10.59%) Analyst
6 215 (8.69%) Senior
7 181 (7.32%) Project Manager
8 171 (6.91%) SAP Manager
9 165 (6.67%) SAP Architect
10 152 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
11 120 (4.85%) Business Analyst
12 96 (3.88%) Developer
13 86 (3.48%) SAP Project Manager
14 83 (3.36%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 80 (3.23%) Functional Consultant
16 76 (3.07%) Administrator
17 75 (3.03%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 66 (2.67%) SAP Analyst
19 63 (2.55%) Senior Manager
20 61 (2.47%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (4.33%) SAP Fiori
2 86 (3.48%) Middleware
3 55 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 53 (2.14%) SAP Basis
5 52 (2.10%) REST
6 36 (1.46%) BAPI
7 33 (1.33%) SAP TM
7 33 (1.33%) SOAP
8 31 (1.25%) XML
9 30 (1.21%) SAPUI5
10 27 (1.09%) IDoc
11 25 (1.01%) JSON
12 21 (0.85%) EDI
12 21 (0.85%) OAuth
12 21 (0.85%) Web Services
13 16 (0.65%) SAP PI
14 13 (0.53%) SAML
15 11 (0.44%) Node.js
15 11 (0.44%) SAP ALE
15 11 (0.44%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 98 (3.96%) Public Cloud
2 81 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (2.39%) Data Structures
5 51 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 45 (1.82%) FMCG
7 37 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.21%) Cloud Native
10 29 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.13%) Life Science
12 25 (1.01%) Replication
13 24 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (0.97%) Taxonomies
14 21 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (0.69%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.57%) AI Agents
17 11 (0.44%) Learning Management System
17 11 (0.44%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.54%) Linux
2 32 (1.29%) Windows
3 12 (0.49%) Unix
4 10 (0.40%) VMS
5 8 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.16%) SUSE
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 2 (0.081%) AIX
8 2 (0.081%) Android
8 2 (0.081%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (23.17%) ERP
2 475 (19.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 459 (18.56%) Migration
4 307 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
5 280 (11.32%) Data Migration
6 269 (10.88%) User Acceptance Testing
7 251 (10.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 248 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 234 (9.46%) Agile
10 223 (9.02%) Validation
11 190 (7.68%) Analytics
11 190 (7.68%) Workshop Facilitation
12 187 (7.56%) Project Management
13 176 (7.12%) Logistics
14 169 (6.83%) Change Management
15 150 (6.07%) Data Modelling
16 140 (5.66%) Business Intelligence
17 136 (5.50%) Decision-Making
18 131 (5.30%) Project Delivery
19 129 (5.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 123 (4.97%) SQL
2 89 (3.60%) ABAP
3 50 (2.02%) Python
4 28 (1.13%) Java
5 19 (0.77%) PowerShell
6 15 (0.61%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.32%) C#
8 7 (0.28%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.20%) Bash
10 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.16%) C
10 4 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.16%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.16%) VB
11 3 (0.12%) Bicep
11 3 (0.12%) C++
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.12%) Groovy
11 3 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 347 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 271 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 142 (5.74%) Degree
4 117 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (2.02%) ACCA
6 49 (1.98%) CIMA
7 43 (1.74%) PMP
8 41 (1.66%) PMI Certification
9 37 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 32 (1.29%) SAP Certification
11 16 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.44%) HNC
13 11 (0.44%) NVQ Level 4
14 10 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.36%) CISSP
15 9 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.32%) CISM
17 7 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 98 (3.96%) PMO
3 92 (3.72%) QA
4 56 (2.26%) GDPR
5 55 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 34 (1.37%) GRC
7 19 (0.77%) IFRS
8 17 (0.69%) SLA
9 12 (0.49%) GAAP
9 12 (0.49%) GxP
10 9 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.32%) GMP
12 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 6 (0.24%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.24%) NIST
14 5 (0.20%) Basel III
14 5 (0.20%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.20%) IFRS 9
14 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.44%) IAG
3 7 (0.28%) Docker
4 6 (0.24%) Corosync
5 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.040%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.53%) Terraform
3 10 (0.40%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (0.28%) Pacemaker
6 6 (0.24%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.16%) Ansible
8 3 (0.12%) Control-M
8 3 (0.12%) Grafana
9 2 (0.081%) CEMLI
9 2 (0.081%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.081%) WSUS
10 1 (0.040%) Argo
10 1 (0.040%) MOM
10 1 (0.040%) Packer
10 1 (0.040%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.040%) SCCM
Vendors
1 238 (9.62%) Ariba
2 232 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 231 (9.34%) Oracle
4 100 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 88 (3.56%) Workday
6 70 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 39 (1.58%) Informatica
8 35 (1.42%) Sage
9 34 (1.37%) MuleSoft
10 33 (1.33%) Adobe
11 29 (1.17%) Databricks
12 28 (1.13%) Concur
13 23 (0.93%) IBM
14 21 (0.85%) Siemens
15 20 (0.81%) IFS
16 17 (0.69%) Dell
17 16 (0.65%) Google
17 16 (0.65%) Infor
18 15 (0.61%) Okta
19 13 (0.53%) OpenText