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 28 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
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,705 2,028 2,510
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.03% 6.20% 6.47%
As % of the Vendors category 12.05% 13.13% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 1,023 1,253
10th Percentile £365 £362 £400
25th Percentile £463 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £672 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 105 84
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.66 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.28 £19.07 £22.56
Median hourly rate £32.23 £25.50 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +26.37% -27.88% -21.12%
75th Percentile £59.13 £43.75 £59.01
90th Percentile £86.00 £66.60 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +32.57% -31.42% -19.22%

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 22,439 15,440 16,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.20% 43.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,832 9,435 10,465
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,162 795 772
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.66 £13.02
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -9.73% -35.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.14 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.95 £67.80 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £21.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +32.42% -18.31% -34.67%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 2,155 £575 +1.55% 1,414
UK excluding London -4 1,387 £550 - 911
Work from Home -9 809 £575 +1.55% 724
London -29 759 £600 +3.36% 624
South East -4 391 £550 +4.76% 214
Midlands +14 356 £550 - 162
North of England -6 350 £550 - 231
North West -2 248 £550 - 155
West Midlands +7 222 £500 -7.66% 87
East of England -13 135 £565 -2.59% 114
East Midlands +31 124 £625 +0.97% 75
Yorkshire +1 95 £500 -8.26% 63
South West -22 80 £550 - 91
Wales +8 42 £550 +228.36% 23
Scotland -4 42 £533 +25.41% 69
North East -43 6 £500 -8.26% 13
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -3 1 £450 +172.73% 19

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 (0.70%) 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
1 125 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.70%) 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 (38.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 123 (4.55%) SAP FI
3 76 (2.81%) SAP CO
4 70 (2.59%) SAP MM
5 68 (2.51%) SAP SD
6 67 (2.48%) SAP FI/CO
7 66 (2.44%) SAP ERP
8 51 (1.89%) SAP PSCD
9 49 (1.81%) SAP GRC
10 48 (1.77%) SAP Payroll
11 47 (1.74%) SAP EWM
12 45 (1.66%) SAP PP
13 44 (1.63%) SAP BRIM
14 42 (1.55%) SAP HR
14 42 (1.55%) SAP MDG
15 40 (1.48%) SAP IBP
15 40 (1.48%) SAP PM
16 33 (1.22%) SAP HCM
17 31 (1.15%) SAP QM
18 30 (1.11%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 279 (10.31%) SuccessFactors
2 222 (8.21%) Azure
3 141 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 102 (3.77%) AWS
5 65 (2.40%) SaaS
6 56 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (1.77%) GCP
8 39 (1.44%) Entra ID
9 32 (1.18%) Boomi
10 28 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (0.89%) Snowflake
12 21 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 16 (0.59%) GitHub
13 16 (0.59%) Power Automate
13 16 (0.59%) Tricentis Tosca
14 15 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (0.55%) Smartsheet
15 13 (0.48%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.22%) Intranet
1 6 (0.22%) Network Security
2 5 (0.18%) Firewall
3 3 (0.11%) Broadband
3 3 (0.11%) HTTP
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
1 125 (4.62%) Power BI
2 92 (3.40%) SAP HANA
3 59 (2.18%) SAP BW
4 49 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.63%) Tableau
6 40 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
6 40 (1.48%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.96%) 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
12 10 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
14 8 (0.30%) MaxDB
14 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.26%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 109 (4.03%) JIRA
2 21 (0.78%) Hudson
3 19 (0.70%) 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 (0.18%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.18%) LSMW
7 5 (0.18%) Toad
8 4 (0.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.074%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.074%) HP UFT
9 2 (0.074%) Maven
9 2 (0.074%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.074%) Rational Functional Tester
9 2 (0.074%) SOAtest
General
1 840 (31.05%) Finance
2 703 (25.99%) Social Skills
3 310 (11.46%) Manufacturing
4 273 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (5.14%) Public Sector
6 122 (4.51%) Retail
7 107 (3.96%) Billing
8 81 (2.99%) Legal
9 71 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 69 (2.55%) Aerospace
11 59 (2.18%) Banking
11 59 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
12 58 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (1.96%) General Ledger
14 34 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (1.22%) Automotive
16 28 (1.04%) Local Government
16 28 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 26 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
18 25 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 666 (24.62%) Consultant
2 569 (21.04%) SAP Consultant
3 354 (13.09%) Architect
4 316 (11.68%) Lead
5 313 (11.57%) Analyst
6 260 (9.61%) Senior
7 190 (7.02%) SAP Manager
8 181 (6.69%) SAP Architect
9 166 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
10 160 (5.91%) Project Manager
11 135 (4.99%) Business Analyst
12 108 (3.99%) Developer
13 105 (3.88%) SAP Analyst
14 89 (3.29%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 88 (3.25%) Functional Consultant
16 81 (2.99%) SAP Project Manager
17 79 (2.92%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 76 (2.81%) Senior Consultant
19 70 (2.59%) Administrator
20 64 (2.37%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (4.47%) SAP Fiori
2 95 (3.51%) Middleware
3 76 (2.81%) REST
4 63 (2.33%) SOAP
5 54 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 48 (1.77%) SAP Basis
7 45 (1.66%) XML
8 35 (1.29%) BAPI
9 32 (1.18%) IDoc
9 32 (1.18%) SAP PI
9 32 (1.18%) Web Services
10 31 (1.15%) JSON
11 29 (1.07%) SAPUI5
12 27 (1.00%) EDI
13 23 (0.85%) OAuth
14 19 (0.70%) Node.js
15 18 (0.67%) SAP ALE
16 17 (0.63%) Terraform
17 16 (0.59%) Kafka
18 15 (0.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 87 (3.22%) Onboarding
2 85 (3.14%) Public Cloud
3 81 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 71 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
5 69 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 60 (2.22%) FMCG
7 59 (2.18%) Product Ownership
8 54 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
9 46 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 37 (1.37%) Life Science
11 34 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.15%) Replication
13 24 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 23 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (0.74%) Operational Technology
17 17 (0.63%) AI Agents
18 16 (0.59%) SCADA
19 15 (0.55%) Private Cloud
20 14 (0.52%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.63%) Linux
2 32 (1.18%) 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
1 638 (23.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 607 (22.44%) ERP
3 487 (18.00%) Migration
4 351 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
5 329 (12.16%) User Acceptance Testing
6 310 (11.46%) Data Migration
7 280 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 272 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 268 (9.91%) Agile
10 257 (9.50%) Validation
11 229 (8.47%) Analytics
12 218 (8.06%) Workshop Facilitation
13 210 (7.76%) Logistics
14 176 (6.51%) Roadmaps
15 161 (5.95%) System Integration Testing
16 160 (5.91%) Project Management
17 158 (5.84%) Business Intelligence
17 158 (5.84%) Data Modelling
18 153 (5.66%) Process Improvement
19 151 (5.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 141 (5.21%) SQL
2 109 (4.03%) ABAP
3 69 (2.55%) Python
4 51 (1.89%) Java
5 23 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 19 (0.70%) 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 (0.18%) Bash
9 5 (0.18%) BeanShell
9 5 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.15%) C++
10 4 (0.15%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 446 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 345 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 135 (4.99%) Degree
4 124 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 61 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.33%) ACCA
7 34 (1.26%) CIMA
8 30 (1.11%) PMP
9 29 (1.07%) 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 (0.44%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.41%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
15 10 (0.37%) CISSP
15 10 (0.37%) ISEB
16 9 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.36%) PMO
3 86 (3.18%) QA
4 59 (2.18%) GDPR
5 54 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 53 (1.96%) GRC
7 17 (0.63%) IFRS
8 15 (0.55%) 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 (0.18%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 26 (0.96%) 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 14 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
4 5 (0.18%) 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
1 274 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 259 (9.57%) Oracle
3 253 (9.35%) Ariba
4 110 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 96 (3.55%) Workday
6 74 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.48%) MuleSoft
8 39 (1.44%) Databricks
9 36 (1.33%) Concur
10 34 (1.26%) Adobe
11 33 (1.22%) IBM
12 31 (1.15%) Informatica
13 27 (1.00%) Google
14 19 (0.70%) Siemens
15 17 (0.63%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.55%) OpenText
17 14 (0.52%) Infor
18 13 (0.48%) IFS
19 12 (0.44%) Sage
20 11 (0.41%) Dell