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 4 August 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
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,658 2,081 2,494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.03% 6.32% 6.36%
As % of the Vendors category 12.15% 13.41% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,323 1,028 1,283
10th Percentile £360 £375 £389
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 112 88
10th Percentile £16.72 £16.27 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £20.33 £23.76
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.40 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -22.51% -27.84%
75th Percentile £60.75 £55.99 £61.34
90th Percentile £86.15 £70.00 £67.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.36% -31.42% -29.79%

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 21,875 15,518 17,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.39% 47.16% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,551 9,508 10,703
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 786 855
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.48 £13.57
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.13 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -10.18% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £27.25
% change year-on-year +52.32% -18.11% -23.24%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 2,105 £575 +1.77% 982
UK excluding London -3 1,338 £550 - 599
Work from Home -5 820 £550 -4.35% 475
London -31 755 £600 +2.56% 414
South East -7 362 £550 +4.76% 185
Midlands +8 351 £545 -3.11% 148
North of England -7 327 £550 +0.92% 165
North West -5 222 £550 +1.01% 120
West Midlands -2 219 £500 -9.09% 88
East of England -5 151 £520 -10.34% 49
East Midlands +33 123 £600 -2.12% 60
Yorkshire +5 99 £525 - 41
South West -42 79 £575 +9.52% 24
Wales +10 38 £550 +77.28% 12
Scotland -6 38 £533 -11.17% 23
North East -45 5 £500 -8.26% 6
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 37 (1.39%) Confluence
2 33 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 22 (0.83%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.45%) CMS
5 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.15%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) Apache
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.11%) JBoss
8 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.075%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.075%) FactoryTalk
9 2 (0.075%) SAS
9 2 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.038%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.038%) Mule
Applications
1 130 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.38%) CATIA
7 9 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.038%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,049 (39.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 121 (4.55%) SAP FI
3 72 (2.71%) SAP CO
4 68 (2.56%) SAP FI/CO
4 68 (2.56%) SAP SD
5 66 (2.48%) SAP ERP
6 63 (2.37%) SAP MM
7 54 (2.03%) SAP PSCD
8 52 (1.96%) SAP EWM
9 47 (1.77%) SAP BRIM
10 45 (1.69%) SAP Payroll
11 43 (1.62%) SAP GRC
12 41 (1.54%) SAP IBP
13 40 (1.50%) SAP PP
14 35 (1.32%) SAP HCM
14 35 (1.32%) SAP MDG
15 33 (1.24%) SAP PM
15 33 (1.24%) SAP QM
16 32 (1.20%) SAP FI-CA
17 30 (1.13%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 276 (10.38%) SuccessFactors
2 218 (8.20%) Azure
3 142 (5.34%) Power Platform
4 87 (3.27%) AWS
5 69 (2.60%) SaaS
6 60 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (1.50%) Entra ID
8 37 (1.39%) Boomi
9 36 (1.35%) GCP
10 26 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (0.87%) Snowflake
13 19 (0.71%) GitHub
13 19 (0.71%) Power Automate
13 19 (0.71%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 15 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (0.56%) Smartsheet
15 14 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.26%) Network Security
2 5 (0.19%) Firewall
3 3 (0.11%) HTTP
3 3 (0.11%) Intranet
3 3 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.075%) Broadband
4 2 (0.075%) SSL
5 1 (0.038%) DNS
5 1 (0.038%) FTP
5 1 (0.038%) Internet
5 1 (0.038%) LAN
5 1 (0.038%) MQTT
5 1 (0.038%) RFID
5 1 (0.038%) WAN
5 1 (0.038%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.038%) Wireless
5 1 (0.038%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (4.78%) Power BI
2 96 (3.61%) SAP HANA
3 51 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (1.92%) SAP BW
4 41 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
4 41 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 41 (1.54%) Tableau
5 28 (1.05%) SAP Data Services
6 18 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 16 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (0.53%) Metadata
10 12 (0.45%) GIS
10 12 (0.45%) Sybase ASE
11 11 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.38%) MaxDB
12 10 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.38%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.26%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 109 (4.10%) JIRA
2 24 (0.90%) Hudson
3 20 (0.75%) Git
4 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.23%) LSMW
5 6 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.19%) Postman
6 5 (0.19%) Toad
7 3 (0.11%) GitLab
7 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.075%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.075%) Maven
8 2 (0.075%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.075%) Selenium
8 2 (0.075%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.038%) GCC
9 1 (0.038%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.038%) Spock
9 1 (0.038%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.038%) TestRail
General
1 833 (31.34%) Finance
2 673 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 288 (10.84%) Manufacturing
4 271 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 152 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 106 (3.99%) Billing
6 106 (3.99%) Retail
7 89 (3.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 80 (3.01%) Legal
9 76 (2.86%) Aerospace
10 60 (2.26%) Banking
11 58 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 51 (1.92%) General Ledger
13 47 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.35%) Local Government
15 30 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
16 29 (1.09%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.02%) Aviation
17 27 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 647 (24.34%) Consultant
2 564 (21.22%) SAP Consultant
3 335 (12.60%) Architect
4 310 (11.66%) Analyst
5 304 (11.44%) Lead
6 246 (9.26%) Senior
7 195 (7.34%) SAP Manager
8 177 (6.66%) SAP Architect
9 170 (6.40%) Project Manager
10 166 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
11 130 (4.89%) Business Analyst
12 114 (4.29%) Developer
13 104 (3.91%) SAP Analyst
14 91 (3.42%) Functional Consultant
15 87 (3.27%) SAP Solutions Architect
16 86 (3.24%) SAP Project Manager
17 84 (3.16%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 80 (3.01%) Administrator
19 62 (2.33%) Senior Manager
20 60 (2.26%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (4.33%) SAP Fiori
2 92 (3.46%) Middleware
3 71 (2.67%) REST
4 52 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
5 51 (1.92%) SOAP
6 49 (1.84%) SAP Basis
7 39 (1.47%) BAPI
7 39 (1.47%) IDoc
8 33 (1.24%) SAP PI
8 33 (1.24%) XML
9 29 (1.09%) JSON
10 28 (1.05%) SAPUI5
11 27 (1.02%) EDI
12 22 (0.83%) OAuth
12 22 (0.83%) Web Services
13 16 (0.60%) Node.js
13 16 (0.60%) SAP ALE
14 15 (0.56%) SAP TM
15 13 (0.49%) JDBC
15 13 (0.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 86 (3.24%) Data Structures
1 86 (3.24%) Public Cloud
2 83 (3.12%) Onboarding
3 78 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
4 62 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 53 (1.99%) FMCG
5 53 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 34 (1.28%) Life Science
9 32 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 27 (1.02%) Replication
11 23 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (0.71%) AI Agents
14 18 (0.68%) Operational Technology
15 16 (0.60%) SCADA
15 16 (0.60%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.49%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.58%) Linux
2 35 (1.32%) Windows
3 19 (0.71%) Unix
4 9 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.34%) VMS
5 8 (0.30%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.075%) AIX
8 2 (0.075%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (22.46%) ERP
2 589 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 494 (18.59%) Migration
4 346 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
5 309 (11.63%) Data Migration
6 306 (11.51%) User Acceptance Testing
7 280 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 273 (10.27%) Agile
9 267 (10.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 251 (9.44%) Validation
11 217 (8.16%) Workshop Facilitation
12 216 (8.13%) Analytics
13 197 (7.41%) Logistics
14 178 (6.70%) Project Management
15 169 (6.36%) Change Management
16 161 (6.06%) Data Modelling
17 160 (6.02%) Roadmaps
18 157 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
19 155 (5.83%) Decision-Making
20 147 (5.53%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 139 (5.23%) SQL
2 109 (4.10%) ABAP
3 59 (2.22%) Python
4 40 (1.50%) Java
5 19 (0.71%) PowerShell
6 17 (0.64%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.30%) C#
8 7 (0.26%) Bicep
9 6 (0.23%) Bash
10 5 (0.19%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.19%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.15%) C
11 4 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.11%) C++
12 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.11%) Korn
13 2 (0.075%) Groovy
13 2 (0.075%) VB
Qualifications
1 427 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 330 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.08%) Degree
4 118 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 55 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.50%) ACCA
7 39 (1.47%) CIMA
8 34 (1.28%) PMP
9 33 (1.24%) PMI Certification
10 25 (0.94%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.75%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.53%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.41%) HNC
14 11 (0.41%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
15 8 (0.30%) CISSP
15 8 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.26%) ISEB
16 7 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.54%) PMO
3 92 (3.46%) QA
4 61 (2.29%) GDPR
5 58 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 45 (1.69%) GRC
7 16 (0.60%) IFRS
8 11 (0.41%) GxP
8 11 (0.41%) SLA
9 9 (0.34%) GMP
9 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.26%) GAAP
10 7 (0.26%) ITGC
10 7 (0.26%) NIST
11 6 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.23%) NCSC
12 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.075%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (1.05%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.64%) IAG
3 7 (0.26%) Docker
4 6 (0.23%) Corosync
5 1 (0.038%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (0.60%) Terraform
3 12 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
5 4 (0.15%) Ansible
6 3 (0.11%) Grafana
6 3 (0.11%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.075%) MOM
8 1 (0.038%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.038%) Packer
8 1 (0.038%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.038%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.038%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.038%) WSUS
Vendors
1 248 (9.33%) Ariba
1 248 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 242 (9.10%) Oracle
3 101 (3.80%) Salesforce
4 91 (3.42%) Workday
5 72 (2.71%) ServiceNow
6 42 (1.58%) MuleSoft
7 39 (1.47%) Informatica
8 37 (1.39%) Concur
8 37 (1.39%) Databricks
9 29 (1.09%) Adobe
10 27 (1.02%) IBM
11 21 (0.79%) Sage
12 19 (0.71%) Google
13 18 (0.68%) IFS
14 17 (0.64%) Infor
14 17 (0.64%) Red Hat
15 15 (0.56%) Siemens
16 14 (0.53%) Dell
16 14 (0.53%) OpenText