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 17 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +6
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,508 1,959 2,542
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.98% 6.60% 5.83%
As % of the Vendors category 12.25% 13.86% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 969 1,259
10th Percentile £360 £379 £380
25th Percentile £463 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £687
90th Percentile £750 £750 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -1.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 78 141
10th Percentile £16.72 £18.20 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.94 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £50.49 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -35.63% +93.98% -42.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £85.18 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.15 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -39.70% +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 20,477 14,135 18,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.69% 47.62% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,867 8,698 11,416
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,051 649 1,149
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.30 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +34.31% +6.30% -44.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £59.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.72 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.13% +2.22% -43.75%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -12 2,000 £560 -2.61% 729
UK excluding London -6 1,226 £525 -3.05% 609
Work from Home -2 784 £550 -5.46% 455
London -20 754 £600 - 238
South East -7 313 £540 +0.56% 167
North of England -11 304 £500 -5.66% 152
Midlands -2 302 £550 +0.78% 119
North West -4 199 £485 -8.49% 79
West Midlands -8 177 £525 -4.55% 80
East of England +3 165 £505 -15.48% 58
East Midlands +20 115 £588 +17.50% 39
Yorkshire +3 99 £525 +32.49% 55
South West -26 76 £543 +3.33% 35
Scotland +4 36 £533 -11.17% 43
Wales +12 35 £550 +21.41% 22
North East -39 6 £500 -5.66% 20
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +1 2 £488 +73.49% 27

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 32 (1.28%) Confluence
2 29 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.92%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.52%) CMS
5 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 5 (0.20%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.12%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.080%) Apache
10 2 (0.080%) JBoss
11 1 (0.040%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.040%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.040%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.040%) SAS
Applications
1 129 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.48%) 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 1,010 (40.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (4.27%) SAP FI
3 65 (2.59%) SAP CO
4 64 (2.55%) SAP ERP
5 63 (2.51%) SAP FI/CO
6 59 (2.35%) SAP MM
7 55 (2.19%) SAP SD
8 53 (2.11%) SAP EWM
9 50 (1.99%) SAP PSCD
10 48 (1.91%) SAP BRIM
11 39 (1.56%) SAP PM
12 37 (1.48%) SAP IBP
13 34 (1.36%) SAP GRC
14 31 (1.24%) SAP Payroll
14 31 (1.24%) SAP PP
15 30 (1.20%) SAP HCM
15 30 (1.20%) SAP Travel Management
16 29 (1.16%) SAP MDG
17 28 (1.12%) SAP FI-CA
18 24 (0.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 230 (9.17%) SuccessFactors
2 215 (8.57%) Azure
3 119 (4.74%) Power Platform
4 81 (3.23%) AWS
5 74 (2.95%) SaaS
6 50 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (1.56%) Boomi
8 37 (1.48%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.12%) GCP
10 21 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (0.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 19 (0.76%) Power Automate
11 19 (0.76%) Snowflake
12 17 (0.68%) OCI
13 14 (0.56%) PowerApps
13 14 (0.56%) Smartsheet
14 13 (0.52%) GitHub
14 13 (0.52%) PaaS
15 12 (0.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.40%) Network Security
2 7 (0.28%) Firewall
3 6 (0.24%) VPN
3 6 (0.24%) WAN
4 4 (0.16%) RFID
5 3 (0.12%) LAN
5 3 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.080%) BGP
6 2 (0.080%) DNS
6 2 (0.080%) HTTP
6 2 (0.080%) OSPF
6 2 (0.080%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.040%) DHCP
7 1 (0.040%) FTP
7 1 (0.040%) Internet
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
1 112 (4.47%) Power BI
2 91 (3.63%) SAP HANA
3 45 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (1.59%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.36%) SAP BW
6 31 (1.24%) BusinessObjects
7 28 (1.12%) Tableau
8 20 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
9 19 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
10 18 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.56%) Metadata
12 11 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
13 10 (0.40%) GIS
13 10 (0.40%) MaxDB
13 10 (0.40%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.28%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.24%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.24%) Semantic Layer
16 5 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 97 (3.87%) JIRA
2 24 (0.96%) Hudson
3 18 (0.72%) Git
4 8 (0.32%) Postman
5 5 (0.20%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.20%) LSMW
6 4 (0.16%) JMeter
6 4 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.12%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.080%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.080%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.080%) Maven
8 2 (0.080%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.080%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.080%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.080%) Toad
9 1 (0.040%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.040%) Subversion
9 1 (0.040%) TestDirector
General
1 821 (32.74%) Finance
2 686 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 275 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (10.21%) Manufacturing
5 170 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 104 (4.15%) Billing
7 87 (3.47%) Legal
8 86 (3.43%) Pharmaceutical
9 83 (3.31%) Retail
10 66 (2.63%) Banking
11 58 (2.31%) Aerospace
12 53 (2.11%) General Ledger
13 49 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 48 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (1.75%) Local Government
16 41 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.04%) Law
19 25 (1.00%) Marketing
20 22 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 605 (24.12%) Consultant
2 521 (20.77%) SAP Consultant
3 326 (13.00%) Lead
4 321 (12.80%) Architect
5 279 (11.12%) Analyst
6 215 (8.57%) Senior
7 177 (7.06%) Project Manager
8 171 (6.82%) SAP Architect
9 166 (6.62%) SAP Manager
10 158 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
11 128 (5.10%) Business Analyst
12 98 (3.91%) Developer
13 87 (3.47%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 83 (3.31%) Functional Consultant
15 81 (3.23%) SAP Project Manager
16 78 (3.11%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 77 (3.07%) Administrator
18 71 (2.83%) SAP Analyst
19 62 (2.47%) Senior Manager
20 59 (2.35%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (4.27%) SAP Fiori
2 91 (3.63%) Middleware
3 55 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
4 54 (2.15%) REST
5 53 (2.11%) SAP Basis
6 38 (1.52%) BAPI
7 35 (1.40%) SOAP
8 33 (1.32%) XML
9 30 (1.20%) SAP TM
10 29 (1.16%) SAPUI5
11 28 (1.12%) IDoc
12 27 (1.08%) JSON
13 25 (1.00%) EDI
14 24 (0.96%) Web Services
15 21 (0.84%) OAuth
16 15 (0.60%) SAP PI
17 13 (0.52%) SAML
18 12 (0.48%) SAP ALE
19 11 (0.44%) Node.js
19 11 (0.44%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (3.79%) Public Cloud
2 82 (3.27%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 50 (1.99%) Product Ownership
6 47 (1.87%) FMCG
7 39 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 31 (1.24%) Cloud Native
9 31 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.04%) Replication
11 24 (0.96%) Life Science
11 24 (0.96%) Taxonomies
12 23 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.64%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.56%) AI Agents
16 12 (0.48%) Algorithms
16 12 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.52%) Linux
2 31 (1.24%) Windows
3 12 (0.48%) Unix
4 8 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.32%) VMS
5 5 (0.20%) SUSE
6 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 2 (0.080%) AIX
8 2 (0.080%) Android
8 2 (0.080%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (23.09%) ERP
2 488 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 459 (18.30%) Migration
4 311 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
5 286 (11.40%) Data Migration
6 277 (11.04%) User Acceptance Testing
7 255 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 254 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 235 (9.37%) Agile
10 232 (9.25%) Validation
11 201 (8.01%) Workshop Facilitation
12 191 (7.62%) Analytics
13 187 (7.46%) Project Management
14 181 (7.22%) Logistics
15 172 (6.86%) Change Management
16 153 (6.10%) Data Modelling
17 142 (5.66%) Business Intelligence
18 141 (5.62%) Decision-Making
19 129 (5.14%) Roadmaps
20 127 (5.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 125 (4.98%) SQL
2 87 (3.47%) ABAP
3 50 (1.99%) Python
4 29 (1.16%) Java
5 18 (0.72%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.28%) C#
7 7 (0.28%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.20%) Bash
9 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.16%) C
9 4 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.16%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.16%) VB
10 3 (0.12%) Bicep
10 3 (0.12%) C++
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.12%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.080%) VBA
Qualifications
1 346 (13.80%) Security Cleared
2 271 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 142 (5.66%) Degree
4 116 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (2.03%) ACCA
6 50 (1.99%) CIMA
7 41 (1.63%) PMP
8 40 (1.59%) PMI Certification
9 38 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 32 (1.28%) SAP Certification
11 15 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.60%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.52%) 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
16 8 (0.32%) CISM
16 8 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 99 (3.95%) PMO
3 91 (3.63%) QA
4 57 (2.27%) GDPR
4 57 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 36 (1.44%) GRC
6 18 (0.72%) IFRS
7 17 (0.68%) SLA
8 13 (0.52%) GxP
9 12 (0.48%) GAAP
10 9 (0.36%) GMP
10 9 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (0.24%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.24%) NCSC
12 6 (0.24%) NIST
13 5 (0.20%) Basel III
13 5 (0.20%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.20%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 22 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.44%) IAG
3 7 (0.28%) Docker
4 6 (0.24%) Corosync
5 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.52%) 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 (0.080%) CEMLI
9 2 (0.080%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.080%) WSUS
10 1 (0.040%) MOM
10 1 (0.040%) Packer
10 1 (0.040%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.040%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 237 (9.45%) Ariba
3 235 (9.37%) Oracle
4 102 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 92 (3.67%) Workday
6 71 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 39 (1.56%) Informatica
8 36 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 35 (1.40%) Sage
10 34 (1.36%) Adobe
11 29 (1.16%) Concur
11 29 (1.16%) Databricks
12 25 (1.00%) IBM
13 22 (0.88%) Siemens
14 21 (0.84%) IFS
15 18 (0.72%) Infor
16 17 (0.68%) Dell
16 17 (0.68%) Google
17 15 (0.60%) Okta
18 13 (0.52%) Red Hat