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 31 January 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,212 2,070 2,823
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.71% 6.58% 6.31%
As % of the Vendors category 12.52% 14.24% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,000 1,444
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £461 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £675 £654 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £540 £530
% change year-on-year -0.51% +1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 40 113
10th Percentile £16.38 £19.45 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.44 £22.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.76 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.43% +15.49% -38.89%
75th Percentile £56.00 £69.44 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.75 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.21 £25.34
% change year-on-year -21.12% +19.20% -43.69%

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 17,661 14,540 19,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.58% 46.24% 43.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,354 8,598 12,385
10th Percentile £300 £281 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 837 425 889
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.91% -6.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £51.02 £61.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £73.00 £80.06 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.16% -16.67% +16.37%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -10 1,747 £574 +4.36% 415
UK excluding London -12 964 £537 -0.51% 318
Work from Home -2 745 £575 +4.55% 171
London -7 732 £588 +2.17% 180
North of England -14 291 £598 +12.83% 69
South East -11 242 £550 - 138
North West -7 200 £624 +15.72% 39
Midlands -16 179 £500 -7.41% 61
East of England +4 134 £505 -8.18% 34
West Midlands -16 119 £514 -4.81% 48
South West -36 83 £575 +8.49% 15
Yorkshire +4 80 £565 +41.25% 26
East Midlands -11 56 £475 -8.65% 12
Scotland +6 29 £450 +0.56% 6
Wales +7 21 £370 -45.26% 5
North East -28 10 £175 -53.33% 5
Northern Ireland +3 5 £115 -
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 24 (1.08%) SharePoint
2 17 (0.77%) Confluence
3 16 (0.72%) NetWeaver
4 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.23%) CMS
6 5 (0.23%) MTS
6 5 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.14%) Apache
8 3 (0.14%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.090%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.090%) LiveCycle
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.090%) SAP EP
Applications
1 94 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.18%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.045%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.045%) Sketch
9 1 (0.045%) Trello
9 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 845 (38.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (4.79%) SAP FI
3 76 (3.44%) SAP CO
4 71 (3.21%) SAP EWM
5 69 (3.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 68 (3.07%) SAP MM
7 64 (2.89%) SAP PP
8 63 (2.85%) SAP ERP
9 48 (2.17%) SAP HCM
9 48 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
10 38 (1.72%) SAP WM
11 37 (1.67%) SAP PM
12 34 (1.54%) SAP HR
13 33 (1.49%) SAP QM
14 32 (1.45%) SAP PSCD
15 31 (1.40%) SAP MDG
16 28 (1.27%) SAP EHS
17 27 (1.22%) SAP Travel Management
18 25 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
18 25 (1.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 176 (7.96%) Azure
2 139 (6.28%) SuccessFactors
3 87 (3.93%) Power Platform
4 78 (3.53%) AWS
5 62 (2.80%) SaaS
6 54 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
7 43 (1.94%) GCP
8 40 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.13%) Entra ID
10 24 (1.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 22 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (0.99%) OCI
12 19 (0.86%) Snowflake
13 18 (0.81%) Power Automate
14 13 (0.59%) Boomi
14 13 (0.59%) GitHub
15 12 (0.54%) PaaS
16 11 (0.50%) Tricentis Tosca
17 10 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.04%) Wireless
2 17 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 10 (0.45%) VPN
4 8 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.36%) LAN
4 8 (0.36%) Skype
4 8 (0.36%) WAN
5 7 (0.32%) Firewall
5 7 (0.32%) Network Security
6 5 (0.23%) BGP
6 5 (0.23%) DNS
6 5 (0.23%) OSPF
6 5 (0.23%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.18%) FTP
7 4 (0.18%) RFID
7 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.14%) DHCP
8 3 (0.14%) Internet
8 3 (0.14%) Junos
9 2 (0.090%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (3.84%) SAP HANA
2 83 (3.75%) Power BI
3 45 (2.03%) SAP BW
4 30 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (1.31%) SAP Data Services
6 25 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 22 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 17 (0.77%) Metadata
9 16 (0.72%) Tableau
10 15 (0.68%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 14 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
12 11 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.41%) GIS
14 7 (0.32%) Power Query
14 7 (0.32%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.27%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.27%) MySQL
15 6 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 77 (3.48%) JIRA
2 15 (0.68%) Git
3 10 (0.45%) LSMW
4 9 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.32%) GitLab
5 7 (0.32%) Postman
5 7 (0.32%) Toad
6 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.18%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.18%) JUnit
6 4 (0.18%) Selenium
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.14%) Storybook
7 3 (0.14%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.090%) Hudson
8 2 (0.090%) JMeter
8 2 (0.090%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.090%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.045%) Travis CI
General
1 796 (35.99%) Finance
2 755 (34.13%) Social Skills
3 400 (18.08%) Manufacturing
4 341 (15.42%) Public Sector
5 254 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
6 216 (9.76%) Telecoms
7 210 (9.49%) Marketing
8 185 (8.36%) Electronics
9 96 (4.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 64 (2.89%) Billing
11 61 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 60 (2.71%) Retail
13 58 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
14 53 (2.40%) Banking
14 53 (2.40%) Legal
15 49 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
16 39 (1.76%) Local Government
17 37 (1.67%) Aerospace
18 33 (1.49%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 656 (29.66%) Consultant
2 523 (23.64%) SAP Consultant
3 257 (11.62%) Lead
4 214 (9.67%) Architect
5 178 (8.05%) Analyst
6 145 (6.56%) Project Manager
7 128 (5.79%) Developer
8 125 (5.65%) Senior
9 123 (5.56%) SAP Manager
10 118 (5.33%) SAP Architect
11 105 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
12 94 (4.25%) Business Analyst
13 75 (3.39%) Management Consultant
14 70 (3.16%) Functional Consultant
14 70 (3.16%) SAP Developer
15 67 (3.03%) SAP Project Manager
15 67 (3.03%) SAP Solutions Architect
16 64 (2.89%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 52 (2.35%) SAP Analyst
18 49 (2.22%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (7.50%) SAP Fiori
2 54 (2.44%) Web Services
3 53 (2.40%) XML
4 49 (2.22%) SAPUI5
4 49 (2.22%) SOAP
5 46 (2.08%) Middleware
5 46 (2.08%) REST
6 41 (1.85%) SAP TM
7 39 (1.76%) BAPI
8 36 (1.63%) SAP PI
9 35 (1.58%) SAP Basis
10 25 (1.13%) HTML
11 24 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
12 23 (1.04%) CSS
12 23 (1.04%) JSON
13 19 (0.86%) IDoc
14 17 (0.77%) JMS
15 16 (0.72%) SailPoint
16 15 (0.68%) EDI
17 14 (0.63%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 72 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
2 71 (3.21%) Onboarding
3 56 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 41 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 37 (1.67%) FMCG
6 33 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 32 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.36%) Life Science
9 29 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.04%) Management Information System
13 22 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (0.95%) Taxonomies
15 20 (0.90%) Replication
16 17 (0.77%) Mobile App
17 16 (0.72%) NHS
18 15 (0.68%) Virtual Team
19 14 (0.63%) Cloud Native
20 13 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.22%) Windows
2 32 (1.45%) Mac OS
3 31 (1.40%) Android
4 18 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.72%) Linux
6 7 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.23%) VMS
8 4 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.090%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.090%) SUSE
9 2 (0.090%) Unix
10 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (18.58%) ERP
2 390 (17.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 386 (17.45%) Migration
4 284 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
5 283 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
6 270 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 231 (10.44%) Agile
8 213 (9.63%) Logistics
9 203 (9.18%) Data Migration
10 201 (9.09%) Programme Management
11 186 (8.41%) Digital Marketing
12 181 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 171 (7.73%) Analytics
13 171 (7.73%) User Acceptance Testing
14 170 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
15 163 (7.37%) Project Management
16 140 (6.33%) Roadmaps
17 138 (6.24%) Change Management
18 137 (6.19%) Validation
19 134 (6.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 144 (6.51%) ABAP
2 111 (5.02%) SQL
3 52 (2.35%) JavaScript
4 51 (2.31%) Python
5 49 (2.22%) Java
6 21 (0.95%) PowerShell
7 15 (0.68%) C#
8 14 (0.63%) Groovy
9 11 (0.50%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.27%) C++
12 4 (0.18%) Go
12 4 (0.18%) R
12 4 (0.18%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.18%) VBA
13 3 (0.14%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.14%) COBOL
13 3 (0.14%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.090%) C
14 2 (0.090%) VB
Qualifications
1 487 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 399 (18.04%) SC Cleared
3 167 (7.55%) Degree
4 97 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 56 (2.53%) SAP Certification
6 49 (2.22%) PMP
7 45 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 42 (1.90%) PMI Certification
9 26 (1.18%) ACCA
9 26 (1.18%) CIMA
10 23 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.41%) CISSP
14 8 (0.36%) CCA
14 8 (0.36%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 7 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.32%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.53%) QA
3 55 (2.49%) PMO
4 44 (1.99%) GDPR
5 30 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 25 (1.13%) SLA
7 19 (0.86%) GRC
8 18 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.68%) GxP
10 12 (0.54%) NIST
11 10 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.45%) IFRS
12 8 (0.36%) COBIT
12 8 (0.36%) GAAP
12 8 (0.36%) GMP
12 8 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.32%) ITGC
13 7 (0.32%) SOX 404
14 6 (0.27%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 28 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.41%) Docker
3 2 (0.090%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.045%) IAG
4 1 (0.045%) Varnish
4 1 (0.045%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.27%) Terraform
4 3 (0.14%) Control-M
4 3 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.090%) Grafana
5 2 (0.090%) Linux-HA
5 2 (0.090%) Pacemaker
5 2 (0.090%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.090%) SCCM
5 2 (0.090%) vRealize
6 1 (0.045%) Ansible
6 1 (0.045%) Argo
6 1 (0.045%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.045%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.045%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.045%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 183 (8.27%) Oracle
2 181 (8.18%) Ariba
3 176 (7.96%) Microsoft
4 83 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 81 (3.66%) Workday
6 67 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.99%) Cisco
8 37 (1.67%) Adobe
9 34 (1.54%) Dell
10 32 (1.45%) HP
11 24 (1.08%) Apple
12 22 (0.99%) Databricks
12 22 (0.99%) Google
12 22 (0.99%) IBM
12 22 (0.99%) Sage
13 20 (0.90%) OpenText
13 20 (0.90%) webMethods
14 19 (0.86%) Informatica
15 16 (0.72%) Okta
16 15 (0.68%) MuleSoft