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 23 September 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
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,760 2,135 2,533
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.03% 6.53% 6.72%
As % of the Vendors category 12.05% 13.74% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,068 1,204
10th Percentile £360 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 114 73
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.15 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.58 £27.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £22.63 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% -46.75% +28.79%
75th Percentile £44.63 £43.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £86.00 £66.83 £65.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.30 £22.32 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.35% -36.24% +16.67%

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 22,914 15,542 16,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.77% 47.53% 44.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,985 9,534 10,004
10th Percentile £311 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £616 £613 £625
90th Percentile £706 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,302 796 645
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.72 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.53 £17.59 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -20.16% -28.21%
75th Percentile £60.25 £43.38 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +21.61% -29.42% -29.41%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 2,163 £573 -0.30% 2,103
UK excluding London -4 1,402 £550 - 1,391
Work from Home -11 799 £550 -3.08% 814
London -31 747 £600 +2.56% 767
South East -1 401 £545 +5.93% 384
Midlands +5 339 £550 +1.57% 282
North of England -25 338 £550 -8.33% 342
North West -10 239 £550 -11.65% 181
West Midlands 0 207 £525 -2.78% 164
East of England -10 154 £566 -2.41% 136
East Midlands +23 125 £575 -6.20% 118
Yorkshire -12 92 £500 -4.76% 124
South West -33 85 £543 -5.65% 112
Wales +15 49 £550 +228.36% 50
Scotland -12 46 £533 +25.41% 72
North East -43 6 £450 -18.18% 39
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 20

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 36 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 26 (0.94%) Confluence
3 19 (0.69%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.43%) CMS
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.18%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.14%) SugarCRM
9 3 (0.11%) Apache
9 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.072%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.072%) SAS
10 2 (0.072%) ThingWorx
11 1 (0.036%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 143 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) Windchill
7 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) CATIA
9 1 (0.036%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.036%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1,082 (39.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 126 (4.57%) SAP FI
3 80 (2.90%) SAP CO
4 71 (2.57%) SAP FI/CO
5 70 (2.54%) SAP Payroll
6 68 (2.46%) SAP ERP
6 68 (2.46%) SAP SD
7 60 (2.17%) SAP MM
8 58 (2.10%) SAP HR
9 54 (1.96%) SAP HCM
10 53 (1.92%) SAP PSCD
11 51 (1.85%) SAP GRC
12 50 (1.81%) SAP PP
13 47 (1.70%) SAP BRIM
14 44 (1.59%) SAP MDG
15 43 (1.56%) SAP EWM
16 41 (1.49%) SAP PM
17 37 (1.34%) SAP IBP
18 36 (1.30%) SAP QM
19 29 (1.05%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 264 (9.57%) SuccessFactors
2 224 (8.12%) Azure
3 140 (5.07%) Power Platform
4 104 (3.77%) AWS
5 61 (2.21%) SaaS
6 60 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (2.03%) GCP
8 35 (1.27%) Boomi
9 31 (1.12%) Entra ID
10 30 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
11 28 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (0.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (0.72%) Snowflake
14 19 (0.69%) Smartsheet
15 17 (0.62%) GitHub
15 17 (0.62%) Tricentis Tosca
16 15 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (0.54%) Power Automate
17 13 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.22%) HTTP
1 6 (0.22%) Intranet
2 5 (0.18%) Broadband
3 3 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.072%) Firewall
4 2 (0.072%) Internet
4 2 (0.072%) LAN
4 2 (0.072%) Network Security
4 2 (0.072%) SSL
4 2 (0.072%) WAN
5 1 (0.036%) DNS
5 1 (0.036%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.036%) MQTT
5 1 (0.036%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.036%) Wireless
5 1 (0.036%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (4.42%) Power BI
2 89 (3.22%) SAP HANA
3 55 (1.99%) SAP BW
4 47 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
5 40 (1.45%) Tableau
6 31 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 21 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
8 19 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 17 (0.62%) Metadata
11 14 (0.51%) GIS
12 11 (0.40%) Oracle Database
12 11 (0.40%) Power Query
13 10 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.36%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.33%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.22%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.22%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 121 (4.38%) JIRA
2 21 (0.76%) Git
3 18 (0.65%) Hudson
4 15 (0.54%) Postman
5 10 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.29%) eggPlant
7 7 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.25%) SoapUI
7 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.18%) JMeter
9 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.18%) Selenium
9 5 (0.18%) Toad
10 4 (0.14%) LSMW
11 3 (0.11%) SOAtest
12 2 (0.072%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.072%) Maven
12 2 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.072%) SilkTest
General
1 877 (31.78%) Finance
2 730 (26.45%) Social Skills
3 372 (13.48%) Manufacturing
4 289 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
5 137 (4.96%) Public Sector
5 137 (4.96%) Retail
6 114 (4.13%) Billing
7 84 (3.04%) Legal
8 74 (2.68%) Aerospace
9 70 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 67 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 66 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (1.96%) Banking
12 54 (1.96%) General Ledger
13 38 (1.38%) Automotive
14 34 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 32 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.12%) Aviation
17 26 (0.94%) Law
18 24 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 660 (23.91%) Consultant
2 556 (20.14%) SAP Consultant
3 353 (12.79%) Architect
4 330 (11.96%) Lead
5 310 (11.23%) Analyst
6 254 (9.20%) Senior
7 194 (7.03%) SAP Manager
8 180 (6.52%) SAP Architect
9 155 (5.62%) Project Manager
10 147 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
11 131 (4.75%) Business Analyst
12 108 (3.91%) SAP Analyst
13 100 (3.62%) Developer
14 96 (3.48%) Administrator
15 87 (3.15%) Functional Consultant
16 80 (2.90%) SAP Project Manager
17 76 (2.75%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 75 (2.72%) SAP Solutions Architect
19 64 (2.32%) Senior Consultant
20 63 (2.28%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.14%) SAP Fiori
2 104 (3.77%) Middleware
3 90 (3.26%) REST
4 73 (2.64%) SOAP
5 53 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 49 (1.78%) XML
7 46 (1.67%) SAP Basis
7 46 (1.67%) SAPUI5
8 37 (1.34%) BAPI
9 36 (1.30%) SAP PI
9 36 (1.30%) Web Services
10 32 (1.16%) JSON
11 31 (1.12%) IDoc
12 29 (1.05%) EDI
13 24 (0.87%) OAuth
14 20 (0.72%) Node.js
15 19 (0.69%) SAP ALE
16 17 (0.62%) Kafka
16 17 (0.62%) OAuth2
17 16 (0.58%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 96 (3.48%) Onboarding
2 82 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
3 77 (2.79%) Data Structures
4 73 (2.64%) Public Cloud
5 67 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 60 (2.17%) FMCG
7 59 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 58 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
9 48 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 42 (1.52%) Life Science
11 33 (1.20%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (0.91%) Replication
14 24 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (0.69%) AI Agents
15 19 (0.69%) Operational Technology
16 17 (0.62%) Private Cloud
17 16 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
18 13 (0.47%) Manufacturing Execution System
18 13 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.30%) Linux
2 29 (1.05%) Windows
3 20 (0.72%) Unix
4 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.29%) SUSE
5 7 (0.25%) VMS
6 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Android
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.072%) AIX
9 1 (0.036%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (25.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 642 (23.26%) ERP
3 486 (17.61%) Migration
4 365 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
5 354 (12.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 305 (11.05%) Data Migration
7 269 (9.75%) Agile
8 262 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 254 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 254 (9.20%) Validation
10 240 (8.70%) Logistics
11 236 (8.55%) Analytics
12 207 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
13 180 (6.52%) Roadmaps
14 168 (6.09%) Process Improvement
15 167 (6.05%) Project Delivery
16 166 (6.01%) Decision-Making
16 166 (6.01%) System Integration Testing
17 161 (5.83%) Project Management
18 153 (5.54%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 144 (5.22%) SQL
2 123 (4.46%) ABAP
3 70 (2.54%) Python
4 52 (1.88%) Java
5 23 (0.83%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.58%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.22%) C#
9 5 (0.18%) Bash
9 5 (0.18%) BeanShell
9 5 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
10 4 (0.14%) Bicep
10 4 (0.14%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.072%) C++
12 2 (0.072%) Perl
12 2 (0.072%) VB
Qualifications
1 452 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 355 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 156 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 137 (4.96%) Degree
5 56 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 38 (1.38%) ACCA
7 37 (1.34%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.34%) PMP
8 36 (1.30%) CIMA
9 21 (0.76%) SAP Certification
10 19 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.47%) HNC
14 11 (0.40%) ISEB
14 11 (0.40%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.33%) CIPD
17 8 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.25%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.30%) PMO
3 80 (2.90%) QA
4 58 (2.10%) GDPR
5 52 (1.88%) GRC
6 41 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (0.62%) IFRS
8 16 (0.58%) GxP
9 12 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.40%) NIST
11 10 (0.36%) SLA
12 8 (0.29%) ITGC
13 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.22%) GAAP
13 6 (0.22%) GMP
13 6 (0.22%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.22%) NCSC
14 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
15 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 18 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.62%) IAG
3 6 (0.22%) Corosync
4 5 (0.18%) Docker
5 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (0.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (0.25%) Pacemaker
3 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.14%) Control-M
5 3 (0.11%) Ansible
5 3 (0.11%) Grafana
6 2 (0.072%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.072%) MOM
7 1 (0.036%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.036%) QRadar
7 1 (0.036%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.036%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 293 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 266 (9.64%) Oracle
3 261 (9.46%) Ariba
4 114 (4.13%) Salesforce
5 104 (3.77%) Workday
6 77 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.59%) Databricks
8 42 (1.52%) MuleSoft
9 41 (1.49%) Concur
10 36 (1.30%) IBM
11 30 (1.09%) Adobe
11 30 (1.09%) Siemens
12 28 (1.01%) Google
13 23 (0.83%) Informatica
14 17 (0.62%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.58%) Infor
15 16 (0.58%) Sage
16 15 (0.54%) Dell
17 14 (0.51%) JD Edwards
18 13 (0.47%) IFS