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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,245 2,019 2,805
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.58% 6.63% 6.28%
As % of the Vendors category 12.47% 14.29% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,004 1,426
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -
75th Percentile £675 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -0.56% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 47 119
10th Percentile £16.04 £19.04 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.68 £24.10 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £41.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.17% +45.61% -36.67%
75th Percentile £56.52 £70.00 £59.96
90th Percentile £78.03 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £31.76 £25.34
% change year-on-year -24.98% +25.34% -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 17,996 14,131 19,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.75% 46.39% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,531 8,441 12,170
10th Percentile £300 £275 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 891 400 925
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.91
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +12.02% -18.85%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.75 £58.48
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.29 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.82% +4.33% -11.26%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -11 1,762 £575 +4.55% 537
UK excluding London -14 973 £537 -0.56% 430
Work from Home -2 776 £573 -0.43% 235
London -9 736 £588 +2.17% 182
North of England -13 296 £600 +13.21% 102
South East -8 240 £565 +2.68% 141
North West -10 202 £625 +16.17% 68
Midlands -17 180 £475 -12.04% 98
East of England +1 147 £505 -8.18% 51
West Midlands -22 121 £489 -16.50% 54
Yorkshire +3 83 £585 +56.00% 33
South West -42 81 £600 +14.29% 33
East Midlands -11 56 £475 -8.65% 43
Scotland -1 24 £450 -18.18% 6
Wales +7 21 £370 -44.23% 8
North East -25 10 £175 -53.33% 2
Northern Ireland 0 4 £308 - 1
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 27 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.02%) Confluence
3 16 (0.71%) NetWeaver
4 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) CMS
7 5 (0.22%) MTS
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) Apache
8 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.089%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.089%) LiveCycle
9 2 (0.089%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.089%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.045%) Anypoint
Applications
1 104 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.22%) PTC Creo
9 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.045%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.045%) Sketch
10 1 (0.045%) Trello
10 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 861 (38.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (4.90%) SAP FI
3 80 (3.56%) SAP CO
4 72 (3.21%) SAP FI/CO
5 70 (3.12%) SAP MM
6 67 (2.98%) SAP EWM
7 62 (2.76%) SAP PP
8 59 (2.63%) SAP ERP
9 52 (2.32%) SAP HCM
10 51 (2.27%) SAP Payroll
11 41 (1.83%) SAP PM
12 35 (1.56%) SAP PSCD
13 33 (1.47%) SAP QM
13 33 (1.47%) SAP WM
14 31 (1.38%) SAP HR
14 31 (1.38%) SAP MDG
14 31 (1.38%) SAP Travel Management
15 30 (1.34%) SAP SD
16 29 (1.29%) SAP EHS
17 25 (1.11%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 183 (8.15%) Azure
2 144 (6.41%) SuccessFactors
3 85 (3.79%) AWS
4 84 (3.74%) Power Platform
5 58 (2.58%) SaaS
6 54 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (2.23%) GCP
8 36 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.07%) Entra ID
9 24 (1.07%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 21 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (0.85%) OCI
11 19 (0.85%) Power Automate
12 16 (0.71%) Snowflake
13 12 (0.53%) Boomi
14 11 (0.49%) GitHub
14 11 (0.49%) Tricentis Tosca
15 9 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.02%) Wireless
2 16 (0.71%) 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 (0.31%) Firewall
5 7 (0.31%) Network Security
6 5 (0.22%) BGP
6 5 (0.22%) DNS
6 5 (0.22%) OSPF
6 5 (0.22%) RFID
6 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.18%) FTP
7 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.13%) DHCP
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) Junos
9 2 (0.089%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (3.70%) SAP HANA
2 82 (3.65%) Power BI
3 32 (1.43%) SAP BW
4 25 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.02%) SQL Server
6 21 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 21 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
7 17 (0.76%) Metadata
8 14 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
8 14 (0.62%) Tableau
9 13 (0.58%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 11 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (0.40%) GIS
12 7 (0.31%) Power Query
12 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.27%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.27%) MySQL
14 5 (0.22%) DB2
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 82 (3.65%) JIRA
2 16 (0.71%) Git
3 9 (0.40%) LSMW
4 8 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.31%) GitLab
5 7 (0.31%) Toad
6 6 (0.27%) Postman
7 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.18%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.18%) Hudson
7 4 (0.18%) JUnit
7 4 (0.18%) Selenium
8 3 (0.13%) JMeter
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.13%) Storybook
8 3 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.089%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.089%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.045%) Bitbucket
General
1 793 (35.32%) Finance
2 755 (33.63%) Social Skills
3 378 (16.84%) Manufacturing
4 320 (14.25%) Public Sector
5 267 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
6 192 (8.55%) Telecoms
7 190 (8.46%) Marketing
8 163 (7.26%) Electronics
9 99 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 69 (3.07%) Billing
11 62 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 58 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
12 58 (2.58%) Retail
13 57 (2.54%) Banking
14 52 (2.32%) Legal
15 46 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
16 42 (1.87%) Aerospace
17 41 (1.83%) Local Government
18 40 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
19 30 (1.34%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 669 (29.80%) Consultant
2 538 (23.96%) SAP Consultant
3 258 (11.49%) Lead
4 224 (9.98%) Architect
5 187 (8.33%) Analyst
6 158 (7.04%) Project Manager
7 145 (6.46%) SAP Manager
8 135 (6.01%) Senior
9 125 (5.57%) Developer
9 125 (5.57%) SAP Architect
10 114 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
11 95 (4.23%) Business Analyst
12 79 (3.52%) SAP Project Manager
13 78 (3.47%) Functional Consultant
14 74 (3.30%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 73 (3.25%) SAP Functional Consultant
16 72 (3.21%) Management Consultant
17 70 (3.12%) SAP Developer
18 57 (2.54%) Administrator
19 54 (2.41%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (7.17%) SAP Fiori
2 52 (2.32%) SAPUI5
3 50 (2.23%) XML
4 49 (2.18%) Middleware
5 48 (2.14%) Web Services
6 46 (2.05%) SOAP
7 40 (1.78%) SAP TM
8 39 (1.74%) REST
9 38 (1.69%) BAPI
10 36 (1.60%) SAP Basis
11 30 (1.34%) SAP PI
12 26 (1.16%) HTML
13 24 (1.07%) CSS
14 20 (0.89%) JSON
15 19 (0.85%) IDoc
16 18 (0.80%) EDI
17 17 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
18 16 (0.71%) JMS
19 13 (0.58%) .NET
20 12 (0.53%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 72 (3.21%) Onboarding
2 64 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
3 58 (2.58%) Public Cloud
4 42 (1.87%) Data Structures
5 36 (1.60%) FMCG
6 33 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 33 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 29 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 28 (1.25%) Life Science
9 26 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 22 (0.98%) Taxonomies
13 20 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (0.89%) Replication
14 17 (0.76%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.71%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.62%) Cloud Native
16 14 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.00%) Windows
2 32 (1.43%) Mac OS
3 31 (1.38%) Android
4 17 (0.76%) Linux
5 16 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.089%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.089%) SUSE
9 2 (0.089%) Unix
10 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (19.11%) ERP
2 411 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 398 (17.73%) Migration
4 286 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
5 266 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 264 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 219 (9.76%) Agile
8 216 (9.62%) Logistics
9 207 (9.22%) Data Migration
10 196 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 181 (8.06%) Programme Management
12 180 (8.02%) Project Management
13 178 (7.93%) User Acceptance Testing
14 168 (7.48%) Workshop Facilitation
15 165 (7.35%) Digital Marketing
16 164 (7.31%) Analytics
17 152 (6.77%) Change Management
18 139 (6.19%) Roadmaps
19 138 (6.15%) Validation
20 136 (6.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (6.24%) ABAP
2 105 (4.68%) SQL
3 51 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 46 (2.05%) Java
5 44 (1.96%) Python
6 15 (0.67%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.62%) Groovy
8 13 (0.58%) C#
9 12 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.22%) C++
12 4 (0.18%) Go
12 4 (0.18%) R
12 4 (0.18%) VBA
13 3 (0.13%) COBOL
13 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.089%) C
14 2 (0.089%) Tcl
14 2 (0.089%) VB
14 2 (0.089%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 471 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 388 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 174 (7.75%) Degree
4 106 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 56 (2.49%) SAP Certification
6 52 (2.32%) PMP
7 45 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 40 (1.78%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.20%) ACCA
10 27 (1.20%) CIMA
11 21 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.36%) CISSP
15 7 (0.31%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.31%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 7 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 80 (3.56%) QA
3 61 (2.72%) PMO
4 41 (1.83%) GDPR
5 32 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.25%) SLA
7 18 (0.80%) GRC
8 17 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.71%) GxP
10 12 (0.53%) NIST
11 11 (0.49%) GMP
12 10 (0.45%) IFRS
13 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.36%) COBIT
14 8 (0.36%) GAAP
14 8 (0.36%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.36%) ITGC
15 7 (0.31%) SOX 404
16 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.40%) Docker
3 3 (0.13%) IAG
4 2 (0.089%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.045%) Varnish
5 1 (0.045%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.22%) Terraform
4 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.13%) Control-M
5 3 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.089%) Grafana
6 2 (0.089%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.089%) Linux-HA
6 2 (0.089%) Pacemaker
6 2 (0.089%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.089%) SCCM
6 2 (0.089%) vRealize
7 1 (0.045%) Argo
7 1 (0.045%) Autotask
7 1 (0.045%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.045%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.045%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 192 (8.55%) Ariba
1 192 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 174 (7.75%) Oracle
3 86 (3.83%) Salesforce
4 75 (3.34%) Workday
5 69 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 44 (1.96%) Cisco
7 37 (1.65%) Adobe
8 33 (1.47%) Dell
8 33 (1.47%) HP
9 28 (1.25%) Sage
10 24 (1.07%) Apple
10 24 (1.07%) Google
10 24 (1.07%) IBM
11 23 (1.02%) Databricks
12 22 (0.98%) Informatica
13 19 (0.85%) webMethods
14 16 (0.71%) Okta
14 16 (0.71%) Siemens
15 15 (0.67%) OpenText