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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,691 2,051 2,526
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.01% 6.22% 6.54%
As % of the Vendors category 11.99% 13.19% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,330 1,025 1,252
10th Percentile £366 £361 £400
25th Percentile £463 £470 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £671 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £787
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 107 84
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.10
25th Percentile £19.88 £19.07 £22.56
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £36.93
Median % change year-on-year +26.91% -30.95% -6.62%
75th Percentile £59.94 £45.63 £60.36
90th Percentile £86.15 £66.15 £65.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.63 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.57% -35.34% -

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 22,440 15,554 16,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.75% 47.20% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,821 9,526 10,400
10th Percentile £313 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,170 794 740
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.69 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.29 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -13.28% -31.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.01 £62.51
90th Percentile £81.36 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -22.76% -30.51%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 2,141 £575 +1.55% 847
UK excluding London -2 1,376 £550 - 605
Work from Home -8 803 £575 +1.55% 364
London -30 757 £600 +3.27% 309
South East -2 390 £550 +4.76% 170
Midlands +13 348 £550 - 128
North of England -4 347 £550 - 149
North West -3 246 £550 - 88
West Midlands +11 218 £500 -7.66% 69
East of England -9 134 £573 -1.29% 81
East Midlands +33 120 £613 -1.05% 56
Yorkshire -1 94 £500 -8.26% 52
South West -36 82 £546 -0.68% 50
Wales +10 42 £550 +228.36% 15
Scotland -13 42 £533 +25.41% 20
North East -40 6 £500 -8.26% 9
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -4 1 £450 +172.73% 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 41 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.37%) Confluence
3 19 (0.71%) NetWeaver
4 11 (0.41%) CMS
5 7 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.15%) Apache
7 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.11%) JBoss
8 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.074%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.074%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.074%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.074%) SAS
9 2 (0.074%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 124 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) CATIA
7 7 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.074%) Windchill
9 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.037%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1,039 (38.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 121 (4.50%) SAP FI
3 76 (2.82%) SAP CO
4 69 (2.56%) SAP MM
5 68 (2.53%) SAP SD
6 67 (2.49%) SAP FI/CO
7 65 (2.42%) SAP ERP
8 51 (1.90%) SAP PSCD
9 50 (1.86%) SAP GRC
10 49 (1.82%) SAP Payroll
11 47 (1.75%) SAP EWM
12 45 (1.67%) SAP PP
13 44 (1.64%) SAP BRIM
13 44 (1.64%) SAP HR
14 41 (1.52%) SAP MDG
15 40 (1.49%) SAP IBP
15 40 (1.49%) SAP PM
16 35 (1.30%) SAP HCM
17 31 (1.15%) SAP QM
18 30 (1.11%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 275 (10.22%) SuccessFactors
2 222 (8.25%) Azure
3 140 (5.20%) Power Platform
4 105 (3.90%) AWS
5 65 (2.42%) SaaS
6 56 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (1.78%) GCP
8 38 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 32 (1.19%) Boomi
10 28 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (0.85%) Snowflake
12 21 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 17 (0.63%) Tricentis Tosca
14 16 (0.59%) GitHub
14 16 (0.59%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (0.56%) Smartsheet
16 13 (0.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.22%) Intranet
2 5 (0.19%) Firewall
3 3 (0.11%) Broadband
3 3 (0.11%) HTTP
3 3 (0.11%) Network Security
3 3 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.074%) LAN
4 2 (0.074%) SSL
4 2 (0.074%) WAN
5 1 (0.037%) DNS
5 1 (0.037%) Internet
5 1 (0.037%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.037%) MQTT
5 1 (0.037%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.037%) Wireless
5 1 (0.037%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (4.61%) Power BI
2 94 (3.49%) SAP HANA
3 59 (2.19%) SAP BW
4 48 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (1.60%) Tableau
6 40 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
6 40 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.97%) SAP Data Services
8 17 (0.63%) Metadata
9 16 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.52%) GIS
10 14 (0.52%) Oracle Database
11 13 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.37%) Relational Database
13 9 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
14 8 (0.30%) Delta Lake
14 8 (0.30%) MaxDB
14 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 108 (4.01%) JIRA
2 20 (0.74%) Hudson
3 19 (0.71%) Git
4 11 (0.41%) Postman
5 7 (0.26%) eggPlant
5 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.26%) SoapUI
6 6 (0.22%) JMeter
6 6 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.19%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.19%) LSMW
7 5 (0.19%) Toad
8 4 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.074%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.074%) Maven
9 2 (0.074%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.074%) Rational Functional Tester
9 2 (0.074%) SilkTest
9 2 (0.074%) SOAtest
General
1 834 (30.99%) Finance
2 701 (26.05%) Social Skills
3 308 (11.45%) Manufacturing
4 272 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 134 (4.98%) Public Sector
6 123 (4.57%) Retail
7 106 (3.94%) Billing
8 81 (3.01%) Legal
9 69 (2.56%) Aerospace
9 69 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 59 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (2.16%) Banking
11 58 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 53 (1.97%) General Ledger
13 34 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.23%) Automotive
15 28 (1.04%) Local Government
15 28 (1.04%) Telecoms
16 26 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 667 (24.79%) Consultant
2 571 (21.22%) SAP Consultant
3 349 (12.97%) Architect
4 316 (11.74%) Lead
5 309 (11.48%) Analyst
6 261 (9.70%) Senior
7 191 (7.10%) SAP Manager
8 177 (6.58%) SAP Architect
9 163 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
10 158 (5.87%) Project Manager
11 132 (4.91%) Business Analyst
12 107 (3.98%) Developer
13 103 (3.83%) SAP Analyst
14 86 (3.20%) Functional Consultant
14 86 (3.20%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 80 (2.97%) SAP Project Manager
16 78 (2.90%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 77 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
18 69 (2.56%) Administrator
19 64 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (4.53%) SAP Fiori
2 94 (3.49%) Middleware
3 76 (2.82%) REST
4 62 (2.30%) SOAP
5 54 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
6 51 (1.90%) SAP Basis
7 45 (1.67%) XML
8 35 (1.30%) BAPI
9 32 (1.19%) SAP PI
9 32 (1.19%) Web Services
10 31 (1.15%) IDoc
10 31 (1.15%) JSON
11 29 (1.08%) SAPUI5
12 27 (1.00%) EDI
13 23 (0.85%) OAuth
14 19 (0.71%) Node.js
15 17 (0.63%) Terraform
16 16 (0.59%) Kafka
16 16 (0.59%) SAP ALE
17 15 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 85 (3.16%) Onboarding
2 81 (3.01%) Data Structures
2 81 (3.01%) Public Cloud
3 71 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
4 69 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.23%) FMCG
6 59 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 54 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 46 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 36 (1.34%) Life Science
10 34 (1.26%) Cloud Native
11 30 (1.11%) Replication
12 24 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (0.74%) Operational Technology
15 17 (0.63%) AI Agents
16 16 (0.59%) SCADA
17 15 (0.56%) Private Cloud
18 14 (0.52%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.64%) Linux
2 32 (1.19%) Windows
3 23 (0.85%) Unix
4 9 (0.33%) VMS
5 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.30%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.074%) AIX
8 2 (0.074%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (23.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 604 (22.45%) ERP
3 489 (18.17%) Migration
4 349 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
5 328 (12.19%) User Acceptance Testing
6 310 (11.52%) Data Migration
7 280 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 269 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 267 (9.92%) Agile
10 253 (9.40%) Validation
11 225 (8.36%) Analytics
12 209 (7.77%) Logistics
12 209 (7.77%) Workshop Facilitation
13 175 (6.50%) Roadmaps
14 159 (5.91%) System Integration Testing
15 157 (5.83%) Business Intelligence
15 157 (5.83%) Project Management
16 154 (5.72%) Data Modelling
17 152 (5.65%) Process Improvement
18 150 (5.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 141 (5.24%) SQL
2 109 (4.05%) ABAP
3 69 (2.56%) Python
4 51 (1.90%) Java
5 23 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 19 (0.71%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.26%) Bicep
7 7 (0.26%) C#
8 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.22%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.22%) VB.NET
9 5 (0.19%) Bash
9 5 (0.19%) BeanShell
9 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.19%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.15%) C++
10 4 (0.15%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 450 (16.72%) Security Cleared
2 350 (13.01%) SC Cleared
3 134 (4.98%) Degree
4 126 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 62 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.34%) ACCA
7 34 (1.26%) CIMA
8 29 (1.08%) PMP
9 28 (1.04%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.89%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (0.59%) HNC
13 12 (0.45%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
15 10 (0.37%) CISSP
15 10 (0.37%) ISEB
15 10 (0.37%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.31%) PMO
3 85 (3.16%) QA
4 59 (2.19%) GDPR
5 54 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 53 (1.97%) GRC
7 17 (0.63%) IFRS
8 15 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.41%) GxP
10 10 (0.37%) NIST
11 7 (0.26%) ITGC
11 7 (0.26%) SLA
12 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.22%) GAAP
12 6 (0.22%) GMP
12 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.22%) NCSC
13 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 22 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.63%) IAG
3 6 (0.22%) Corosync
3 6 (0.22%) Docker
4 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
4 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.11%) Ansible
6 3 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.074%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.074%) MOM
8 1 (0.037%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.037%) QRadar
8 1 (0.037%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.037%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.037%) WSUS
Vendors
1 273 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 259 (9.62%) Oracle
3 253 (9.40%) Ariba
4 110 (4.09%) Salesforce
5 96 (3.57%) Workday
6 73 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.49%) Databricks
7 40 (1.49%) MuleSoft
8 36 (1.34%) Concur
9 34 (1.26%) Adobe
10 33 (1.23%) IBM
11 30 (1.11%) Informatica
12 27 (1.00%) Google
13 19 (0.71%) Siemens
14 17 (0.63%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.52%) Infor
15 14 (0.52%) OpenText
16 13 (0.48%) IFS
17 12 (0.45%) Sage
18 11 (0.41%) Dell