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 15 May 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
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,426 1,997 2,541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.09% 6.87% 5.96%
As % of the Vendors category 12.34% 14.44% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,021 1,268
10th Percentile £360 £375 £355
25th Percentile £460 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £688
90th Percentile £755 £751 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -1.02% -1.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 61 131
10th Percentile £16.72 £21.39 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £29.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +120.90% -42.16%
75th Percentile £57.38 £70.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £78.19 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -42.00% +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 19,666 13,833 18,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.24% 47.59% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,458 8,647 11,218
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 559 1,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -47.06%
75th Percentile £58.88 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.81 £74.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +26.39% +6.98% -45.64%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -15 1,938 £560 -2.61% 570
UK excluding London -8 1,154 £535 -1.02% 381
Work from Home 0 783 £560 -3.61% 259
London -15 755 £600 - 199
South East -13 293 £563 +2.27% 128
Midlands -2 288 £525 -3.05% 97
North of England -20 283 £550 +3.77% 95
North West -12 181 £500 -5.66% 52
West Midlands -11 175 £500 -9.09% 62
East of England -2 157 £505 -12.93% 42
East Midlands +9 105 £588 +15.20% 35
Yorkshire -1 98 £573 +34.71% 39
South West -29 77 £552 +10.40% 16
Scotland +13 31 £525 -12.50% 9
Wales +13 30 £550 +19.70% 9
North East -34 4 £500 -4.76% 8
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -2 3 £500 +77.94%

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 35 (1.44%) Confluence
2 27 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 22 (0.91%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.45%) CMS
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
7 6 (0.25%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.082%) Apache
10 2 (0.082%) JBoss
11 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.041%) Documentum
11 1 (0.041%) LiveCycle
11 1 (0.041%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 122 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.41%) CATIA
8 6 (0.25%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.21%) PTC Creo
10 2 (0.082%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.041%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.041%) Sketch
11 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 952 (39.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 99 (4.08%) SAP FI
3 63 (2.60%) SAP CO
4 62 (2.56%) SAP ERP
5 59 (2.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 59 (2.43%) SAP MM
6 54 (2.23%) SAP EWM
7 49 (2.02%) SAP SD
8 46 (1.90%) SAP PSCD
9 45 (1.85%) SAP PP
10 43 (1.77%) SAP BRIM
11 38 (1.57%) SAP PM
12 34 (1.40%) SAP IBP
13 33 (1.36%) SAP MDG
14 31 (1.28%) SAP HCM
15 30 (1.24%) SAP GRC
15 30 (1.24%) SAP QM
16 29 (1.20%) SAP Travel Management
17 28 (1.15%) SAP Payroll
18 26 (1.07%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 216 (8.90%) Azure
2 198 (8.16%) SuccessFactors
3 112 (4.62%) Power Platform
4 89 (3.67%) AWS
5 79 (3.26%) SaaS
6 49 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (1.65%) Entra ID
8 34 (1.40%) GCP
9 29 (1.20%) Boomi
10 28 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 17 (0.70%) OCI
14 16 (0.66%) Smartsheet
15 15 (0.62%) GitHub
15 15 (0.62%) PaaS
15 15 (0.62%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.62%) Snowflake
16 14 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (0.54%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.45%) Network Security
2 7 (0.29%) Firewall
3 6 (0.25%) WAN
4 5 (0.21%) VPN
5 4 (0.16%) FTP
5 4 (0.16%) RFID
5 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.12%) BGP
6 3 (0.12%) LAN
6 3 (0.12%) OSPF
7 2 (0.082%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.082%) DNS
7 2 (0.082%) Internet
7 2 (0.082%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.082%) Skype
8 1 (0.041%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.041%) Junos
8 1 (0.041%) MQTT
8 1 (0.041%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.041%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.29%) Power BI
2 83 (3.42%) SAP HANA
3 45 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (1.36%) SQL Server
5 32 (1.32%) SAP BW
6 28 (1.15%) Tableau
7 21 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
8 20 (0.82%) SAP Data Services
9 18 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 15 (0.62%) Metadata
11 15 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (0.33%) GIS
13 7 (0.29%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.29%) Sybase ASE
14 6 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.25%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 6 (0.25%) MaxDB
15 5 (0.21%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 108 (4.45%) JIRA
2 22 (0.91%) Hudson
3 21 (0.87%) Git
4 8 (0.33%) Postman
5 7 (0.29%) GitLab
5 7 (0.29%) LSMW
6 5 (0.21%) Selenium
7 4 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.16%) JMeter
7 4 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.082%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.082%) TestRail
10 1 (0.041%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.041%) GCC
10 1 (0.041%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.041%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.041%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.041%) Subversion
10 1 (0.041%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 775 (31.95%) Finance
2 695 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 280 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (11.46%) Manufacturing
5 193 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 91 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 87 (3.59%) Billing
8 76 (3.13%) Retail
9 70 (2.89%) Banking
9 70 (2.89%) Legal
10 64 (2.64%) Telecoms
11 58 (2.39%) Marketing
12 57 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
13 54 (2.23%) Aerospace
14 49 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
16 45 (1.85%) General Ledger
17 42 (1.73%) Electronics
18 34 (1.40%) Local Government
19 22 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 580 (23.91%) Consultant
2 502 (20.69%) SAP Consultant
3 318 (13.11%) Lead
4 313 (12.90%) Architect
5 255 (10.51%) Analyst
6 204 (8.41%) Senior
7 177 (7.30%) Project Manager
7 177 (7.30%) SAP Architect
8 176 (7.25%) SAP Manager
9 156 (6.43%) Solutions Architect
10 117 (4.82%) Business Analyst
11 99 (4.08%) Developer
12 94 (3.87%) SAP Solutions Architect
13 88 (3.63%) SAP Project Manager
14 78 (3.22%) Administrator
14 78 (3.22%) Functional Consultant
15 72 (2.97%) SAP Functional Consultant
16 62 (2.56%) SAP Analyst
17 58 (2.39%) SAP Support
17 58 (2.39%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (4.12%) SAP Fiori
2 73 (3.01%) Middleware
3 54 (2.23%) SAP Basis
4 50 (2.06%) REST
5 42 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (1.36%) BAPI
7 30 (1.24%) SAP TM
7 30 (1.24%) SAPUI5
7 30 (1.24%) SOAP
8 28 (1.15%) IDoc
9 25 (1.03%) XML
10 20 (0.82%) SAP PI
11 19 (0.78%) EDI
11 19 (0.78%) JSON
12 18 (0.74%) OAuth
13 16 (0.66%) Web Services
14 14 (0.58%) SAP ALE
15 12 (0.49%) Node.js
15 12 (0.49%) VML
16 11 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (3.63%) Public Cloud
2 81 (3.34%) Onboarding
3 78 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
4 57 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 46 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 42 (1.73%) FMCG
6 42 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
7 38 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 29 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 29 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.20%) Taxonomies
9 27 (1.11%) Life Science
10 25 (1.03%) Replication
11 23 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (0.70%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.58%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.49%) LIMS
16 11 (0.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.28%) Windows
2 29 (1.20%) Linux
3 8 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (0.33%) Unix
4 7 (0.29%) VMS
5 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.082%) AIX
7 2 (0.082%) Android
7 2 (0.082%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.082%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.082%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (23.12%) ERP
2 473 (19.50%) Migration
3 454 (18.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 300 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
5 279 (11.50%) Data Migration
6 257 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 242 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 237 (9.77%) Agile
9 234 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 195 (8.04%) Project Management
11 194 (8.00%) Validation
12 190 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
13 174 (7.17%) Change Management
14 173 (7.13%) Analytics
15 170 (7.01%) Business Intelligence
16 166 (6.84%) Logistics
17 151 (6.22%) Data Modelling
18 135 (5.56%) Project Delivery
19 130 (5.36%) Roadmaps
20 127 (5.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 115 (4.74%) SQL
2 87 (3.59%) ABAP
3 50 (2.06%) Python
4 32 (1.32%) Java
5 19 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.37%) C#
8 7 (0.29%) Groovy
9 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.21%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.16%) C
11 4 (0.16%) Go
12 3 (0.12%) Bicep
12 3 (0.12%) C++
12 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.12%) VB
12 3 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 375 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 291 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 146 (6.02%) Degree
4 119 (4.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (2.02%) ACCA
6 46 (1.90%) CIMA
6 46 (1.90%) PMP
7 45 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 44 (1.81%) PMI Certification
9 35 (1.44%) SAP Certification
10 23 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (0.54%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.45%) CISSP
14 10 (0.41%) HNC
14 10 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
15 9 (0.37%) CISM
15 9 (0.37%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.40%) Data Quality
2 97 (4.00%) QA
3 91 (3.75%) PMO
4 53 (2.18%) GDPR
5 48 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 33 (1.36%) GRC
7 22 (0.91%) SLA
8 15 (0.62%) GxP
8 15 (0.62%) IFRS
9 11 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.37%) GAAP
10 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.37%) NIST
11 8 (0.33%) GMP
12 5 (0.21%) Basel III
12 5 (0.21%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.21%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.21%) NCSC
12 5 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 25 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.41%) IAG
3 8 (0.33%) Docker
4 6 (0.25%) Corosync
5 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (0.58%) Terraform
3 10 (0.41%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
5 7 (0.29%) Pacemaker
6 6 (0.25%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.16%) Ansible
7 4 (0.16%) Grafana
8 3 (0.12%) Control-M
9 2 (0.082%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.082%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.082%) WSUS
10 1 (0.041%) Argo
10 1 (0.041%) CEMLI
10 1 (0.041%) MOM
10 1 (0.041%) Packer
10 1 (0.041%) SCCM
Vendors
1 231 (9.52%) Ariba
2 217 (8.94%) Microsoft
3 200 (8.24%) Oracle
4 97 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 81 (3.34%) Workday
6 73 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.48%) Informatica
8 34 (1.40%) Sage
9 30 (1.24%) Adobe
9 30 (1.24%) MuleSoft
10 27 (1.11%) Databricks
11 20 (0.82%) IBM
11 20 (0.82%) Okta
12 19 (0.78%) Concur
13 18 (0.74%) Dell
14 17 (0.70%) Siemens
15 15 (0.62%) Infor
16 13 (0.54%) IFS
16 13 (0.54%) Sitecore
17 12 (0.49%) OpenText