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 6 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
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +6
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,438 1,942 2,523
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.94% 6.69% 5.86%
As % of the Vendors category 12.12% 14.03% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 969 1,255
10th Percentile £360 £385 £378
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -1.30% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 66 136
10th Percentile £16.72 £20.15 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £29.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £26.35
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +118.26% -41.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £83.43 £86.00 £66.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +100.00% -44.44%

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 20,109 13,843 18,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.71% 47.68% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,661 8,543 11,339
10th Percentile £313 £281 £265
25th Percentile £413 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -2.14% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.11% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,025 606 1,126
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.69 £17.37 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.48 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% +15.62% -46.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.87 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.53 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.15 £22.88 £21.50
% change year-on-year +31.80% +6.40% -45.71%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -15 1,953 £561 -2.39% 716
UK excluding London -7 1,199 £533 -1.30% 446
Work from Home -3 759 £555 -4.48% 369
London -22 738 £600 - 302
South East -11 304 £550 +2.42% 126
North of England -14 299 £500 -5.66% 125
Midlands -2 296 £550 +1.57% 99
North West -9 188 £475 -10.38% 78
West Midlands -11 175 £519 -5.68% 71
East of England +2 160 £508 -13.80% 44
East Midlands +16 112 £600 +20.00% 28
Yorkshire -2 105 £550 +41.94% 43
South West -20 80 £550 +10.00% 28
Scotland +4 33 £533 -11.17% 14
Wales +4 31 £550 +21.41% 13
North East -33 6 £500 -5.66% 6
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +4 2 £488 +118.61% 8

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 (1.35%) Confluence
2 30 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 24 (0.98%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.53%) CMS
5 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.21%) 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 (0.082%) Apache
11 2 (0.082%) JBoss
12 1 (0.041%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.041%) LiveCycle
12 1 (0.041%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 121 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.41%) CATIA
8 6 (0.25%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.21%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.041%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.041%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 982 (40.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 102 (4.18%) SAP FI
3 62 (2.54%) SAP CO
4 61 (2.50%) SAP ERP
5 60 (2.46%) SAP MM
6 59 (2.42%) SAP FI/CO
7 58 (2.38%) SAP SD
8 52 (2.13%) SAP EWM
9 46 (1.89%) SAP PSCD
10 44 (1.80%) SAP BRIM
11 37 (1.52%) SAP IBP
11 37 (1.52%) SAP PM
12 34 (1.39%) SAP PP
13 32 (1.31%) SAP GRC
14 31 (1.27%) SAP MDG
14 31 (1.27%) SAP Travel Management
15 29 (1.19%) SAP HCM
16 27 (1.11%) SAP FI-CA
17 25 (1.03%) SAP QM
18 24 (0.98%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 216 (8.86%) Azure
2 211 (8.65%) SuccessFactors
3 111 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 80 (3.28%) AWS
4 80 (3.28%) SaaS
5 47 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (1.68%) Entra ID
7 36 (1.48%) Boomi
8 29 (1.19%) GCP
9 22 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (0.74%) Power Automate
11 18 (0.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 17 (0.70%) OCI
13 16 (0.66%) Snowflake
14 14 (0.57%) PaaS
14 14 (0.57%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.57%) Smartsheet
15 13 (0.53%) GitHub
15 13 (0.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.49%) Network Security
2 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 7 (0.29%) VPN
3 7 (0.29%) WAN
4 4 (0.16%) LAN
4 4 (0.16%) RFID
4 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.12%) BGP
5 3 (0.12%) OSPF
6 2 (0.082%) DNS
6 2 (0.082%) HTTP
6 2 (0.082%) Internet
6 2 (0.082%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.082%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.041%) DHCP
7 1 (0.041%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.041%) Junos
7 1 (0.041%) MQTT
7 1 (0.041%) Wireless
7 1 (0.041%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.31%) Power BI
2 84 (3.45%) SAP HANA
3 43 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.39%) SAP BW
6 27 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
6 27 (1.11%) Tableau
7 18 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
7 18 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (0.70%) SAP Data Services
9 15 (0.62%) Metadata
10 14 (0.57%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.45%) Sybase ASE
12 10 (0.41%) MaxDB
13 8 (0.33%) GIS
13 8 (0.33%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.29%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.21%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 101 (4.14%) JIRA
2 24 (0.98%) Hudson
3 18 (0.74%) Git
4 8 (0.33%) Postman
5 6 (0.25%) LSMW
6 5 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.16%) JMeter
7 4 (0.16%) Selenium
8 3 (0.12%) GitLab
8 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.082%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.082%) Maven
9 2 (0.082%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.082%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.041%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.041%) GCC
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.041%) Spock
10 1 (0.041%) Subversion
10 1 (0.041%) Toad
General
1 779 (31.95%) Finance
2 689 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 266 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (10.38%) Manufacturing
5 168 (6.89%) Public Sector
6 97 (3.98%) Billing
7 82 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 81 (3.32%) Legal
9 79 (3.24%) Retail
10 70 (2.87%) Banking
11 57 (2.34%) Aerospace
12 52 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (1.97%) General Ledger
14 45 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
15 42 (1.72%) Local Government
15 42 (1.72%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.44%) Marketing
17 25 (1.03%) Law
18 22 (0.90%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 587 (24.08%) Consultant
2 506 (20.75%) SAP Consultant
3 316 (12.96%) Lead
4 312 (12.80%) Architect
5 256 (10.50%) Analyst
6 211 (8.65%) Senior
7 181 (7.42%) Project Manager
8 174 (7.14%) SAP Manager
9 171 (7.01%) SAP Architect
10 155 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
11 116 (4.76%) Business Analyst
12 94 (3.86%) Developer
13 90 (3.69%) SAP Project Manager
14 86 (3.53%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 79 (3.24%) Functional Consultant
16 77 (3.16%) Administrator
17 73 (2.99%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 64 (2.63%) SAP Analyst
19 63 (2.58%) Senior Manager
20 62 (2.54%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (4.22%) SAP Fiori
2 87 (3.57%) Middleware
3 57 (2.34%) SAP Basis
4 55 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
5 51 (2.09%) REST
6 34 (1.39%) BAPI
6 34 (1.39%) SOAP
7 32 (1.31%) SAP TM
8 30 (1.23%) SAPUI5
8 30 (1.23%) XML
9 27 (1.11%) IDoc
10 24 (0.98%) JSON
11 21 (0.86%) OAuth
12 19 (0.78%) EDI
13 18 (0.74%) Web Services
14 17 (0.70%) SAP PI
15 13 (0.53%) SAML
15 13 (0.53%) SAP ALE
16 11 (0.45%) Node.js
16 11 (0.45%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (3.90%) Public Cloud
2 80 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 78 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 56 (2.30%) Data Structures
5 46 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 43 (1.76%) FMCG
7 38 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 30 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 28 (1.15%) Life Science
10 28 (1.15%) Taxonomies
11 27 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.03%) Replication
12 25 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.70%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.53%) AI Agents
17 11 (0.45%) Algorithms
17 11 (0.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.44%) Linux
2 32 (1.31%) Windows
3 12 (0.49%) Unix
4 10 (0.41%) VMS
5 8 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 2 (0.082%) AIX
8 2 (0.082%) Android
8 2 (0.082%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.082%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.041%) SUSE
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (23.22%) ERP
2 458 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 452 (18.54%) Migration
4 305 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
5 274 (11.24%) Data Migration
6 258 (10.58%) User Acceptance Testing
7 256 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 247 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 234 (9.60%) Agile
10 220 (9.02%) Validation
11 189 (7.75%) Workshop Facilitation
12 187 (7.67%) Project Management
13 184 (7.55%) Analytics
14 171 (7.01%) Logistics
15 166 (6.81%) Change Management
16 148 (6.07%) Data Modelling
17 141 (5.78%) Business Intelligence
18 133 (5.46%) Decision-Making
19 131 (5.37%) Roadmaps
20 129 (5.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 118 (4.84%) SQL
2 82 (3.36%) ABAP
3 50 (2.05%) Python
4 28 (1.15%) Java
5 20 (0.82%) PowerShell
6 16 (0.66%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.33%) C#
8 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.21%) Bash
10 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.16%) C
10 4 (0.16%) Groovy
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%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 352 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 274 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 141 (5.78%) Degree
4 116 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (2.09%) ACCA
6 50 (2.05%) CIMA
7 44 (1.80%) PMP
8 41 (1.68%) PMI Certification
9 38 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 32 (1.31%) SAP Certification
11 16 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.45%) HNC
13 11 (0.45%) NVQ Level 4
14 10 (0.41%) CISSP
15 9 (0.37%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.33%) CISM
17 7 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.90%) PMO
3 91 (3.73%) QA
4 54 (2.21%) GDPR
4 54 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 33 (1.35%) GRC
6 20 (0.82%) IFRS
7 17 (0.70%) SLA
8 13 (0.53%) GAAP
9 12 (0.49%) GxP
10 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.33%) GMP
11 8 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.29%) NIST
13 6 (0.25%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.21%) Basel III
14 5 (0.21%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.21%) IFRS 9
14 5 (0.21%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (0.86%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.45%) IAG
3 7 (0.29%) Docker
4 6 (0.25%) Corosync
5 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.53%) 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
8 3 (0.12%) Control-M
8 3 (0.12%) Grafana
9 2 (0.082%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
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%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.041%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (9.84%) Ariba
2 224 (9.19%) Oracle
3 220 (9.02%) Microsoft
4 98 (4.02%) Salesforce
5 87 (3.57%) Workday
6 70 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 38 (1.56%) Informatica
8 34 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 31 (1.27%) Sage
10 30 (1.23%) Adobe
11 28 (1.15%) Databricks
12 25 (1.03%) Concur
13 20 (0.82%) IBM
13 20 (0.82%) Okta
14 18 (0.74%) Siemens
15 17 (0.70%) Dell
16 14 (0.57%) Google
16 14 (0.57%) IFS
17 13 (0.53%) Infor
17 13 (0.53%) OpenText