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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,843 2,128 2,504
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.14% 6.40% 6.66%
As % of the Vendors category 12.31% 13.40% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,076 1,182
10th Percentile £363 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 127 65
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.50 £17.55
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.09 £27.72
Median hourly rate £24.19 £22.63 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -49.71% -5.26%
75th Percentile £44.25 £34.88 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.25 £66.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £21.39 £35.36
% change year-on-year +13.09% -39.51% -5.71%

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 23,086 15,878 16,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.72% 44.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,928 9,791 9,890
10th Percentile £310 £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 £623 £613 £625
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,458 809 574
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.96 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £17.87 £16.44
Median hourly rate £24.19 £24.62 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -24.82% -25.40%
75th Percentile £55.88 £37.50 £64.40
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.39 £30.21
% change year-on-year +8.37% -29.18% -30.96%

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 16 October 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 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Top 17 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 16 October 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 -7 2,232 £565 -1.74% 279
UK excluding London +1 1,466 £550 - 230
Work from Home -14 791 £550 -2.65% 169
London -32 759 £600 +2.56% 87
South East +6 403 £550 +6.80% 67
Midlands +10 365 £550 +4.76% 45
North of England -12 364 £525 -13.93% 60
North West -10 248 £550 -12.00% 36
West Midlands +4 232 £500 -4.76% 23
East of England -2 163 £574 -1.03% 9
East Midlands +23 124 £599 +14.10% 22
Yorkshire 0 102 £500 -4.76% 22
South West -38 78 £534 -2.95% 31
Scotland -10 55 £533 +25.41% 5
Wales +20 53 £550 +228.36% 12
North East -33 13 £500 +37.93% 2
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 4

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 34 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 25 (0.88%) Confluence
3 20 (0.70%) NetWeaver
4 11 (0.39%) CMS
5 8 (0.28%) Apache
6 7 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.21%) OpenEdge
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.21%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.18%) SAP EP
9 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.14%) SugarCRM
10 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.11%) SAP Portal
11 2 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 157 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.39%) Windchill
7 3 (0.11%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.035%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1,093 (38.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 136 (4.78%) SAP FI
3 90 (3.17%) SAP Payroll
4 85 (2.99%) SAP CO
5 83 (2.92%) SAP HCM
6 76 (2.67%) SAP FI/CO
7 70 (2.46%) SAP SD
8 68 (2.39%) SAP HR
8 68 (2.39%) SAP MM
9 64 (2.25%) SAP ERP
10 56 (1.97%) SAP GRC
11 52 (1.83%) SAP PSCD
12 50 (1.76%) SAP PP
13 49 (1.72%) SAP BRIM
14 44 (1.55%) SAP MDG
15 42 (1.48%) SAP EWM
16 41 (1.44%) SAP PM
17 39 (1.37%) Teamcenter
18 33 (1.16%) SAP FI-CA
19 32 (1.13%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 275 (9.67%) SuccessFactors
2 224 (7.88%) Azure
3 124 (4.36%) Power Platform
4 102 (3.59%) AWS
5 65 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (2.11%) GCP
7 57 (2.00%) SaaS
8 32 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (1.09%) Boomi
10 30 (1.06%) Entra ID
10 30 (1.06%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 28 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (0.70%) Tricentis Tosca
14 19 (0.67%) GitHub
15 17 (0.60%) Snowflake
16 15 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (0.49%) Power Automate
17 14 (0.49%) Smartsheet
18 13 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.25%) Intranet
2 6 (0.21%) HTTP
3 5 (0.18%) Broadband
4 4 (0.14%) Network Security
4 4 (0.14%) VPN
5 3 (0.11%) Firewall
5 3 (0.11%) SSL
6 2 (0.070%) Internet
6 2 (0.070%) LAN
6 2 (0.070%) WAN
7 1 (0.035%) DNS
7 1 (0.035%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.035%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.035%) MQTT
7 1 (0.035%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.035%) Wireless
7 1 (0.035%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.73%) Power BI
2 93 (3.27%) SAP HANA
3 57 (2.00%) SAP BW
4 46 (1.62%) BusinessObjects
5 42 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (1.37%) SQL Server
7 38 (1.34%) Tableau
8 21 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
9 19 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 14 (0.49%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.49%) GIS
11 14 (0.49%) Metadata
12 13 (0.46%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.42%) Power Query
14 11 (0.39%) Delta Lake
15 9 (0.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.28%) MySQL
16 8 (0.28%) NoSQL
16 8 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 115 (4.05%) JIRA
2 19 (0.67%) Git
3 15 (0.53%) Postman
4 14 (0.49%) Hudson
5 12 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.35%) LSMW
7 9 (0.32%) Toad
8 8 (0.28%) eggPlant
9 7 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.25%) SoapUI
10 6 (0.21%) Selenium
10 6 (0.21%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.18%) JMeter
11 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.11%) GitLab
12 3 (0.11%) SOAtest
13 2 (0.070%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.070%) HP UFT
13 2 (0.070%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 916 (32.22%) Finance
2 804 (28.28%) Social Skills
3 440 (15.48%) Manufacturing
4 289 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 137 (4.82%) Retail
7 122 (4.29%) Billing
8 92 (3.24%) Aerospace
9 84 (2.95%) Legal
9 84 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 76 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 67 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (2.18%) Banking
13 56 (1.97%) General Ledger
14 45 (1.58%) Automotive
15 42 (1.48%) Aviation
16 39 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 34 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
18 30 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
19 26 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 666 (23.43%) Consultant
2 552 (19.42%) SAP Consultant
3 367 (12.91%) Architect
4 311 (10.94%) Lead
5 305 (10.73%) Analyst
6 237 (8.34%) Senior
7 189 (6.65%) SAP Manager
8 178 (6.26%) SAP Architect
9 158 (5.56%) Project Manager
10 148 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
11 136 (4.78%) Business Analyst
12 131 (4.61%) Administrator
13 129 (4.54%) SAP Analyst
14 93 (3.27%) Developer
15 84 (2.95%) Functional Consultant
16 80 (2.81%) SAP Project Manager
17 75 (2.64%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 68 (2.39%) SAP Solutions Architect
19 61 (2.15%) Senior Consultant
20 55 (1.93%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (5.14%) SAP Fiori
2 114 (4.01%) Middleware
3 97 (3.41%) REST
4 78 (2.74%) SOAP
5 56 (1.97%) SAPUI5
6 54 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
7 49 (1.72%) XML
8 48 (1.69%) SAP Basis
9 46 (1.62%) SAP PI
9 46 (1.62%) Web Services
10 35 (1.23%) BAPI
11 33 (1.16%) JSON
12 31 (1.09%) IDoc
13 26 (0.91%) EDI
14 24 (0.84%) OAuth
15 20 (0.70%) Kafka
15 20 (0.70%) SAP ALE
16 19 (0.67%) Node.js
17 18 (0.63%) SAP TM
18 17 (0.60%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 106 (3.73%) Onboarding
2 94 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
3 78 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 69 (2.43%) Public Cloud
5 63 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 61 (2.15%) FMCG
6 61 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 56 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 54 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 45 (1.58%) Life Science
10 30 (1.06%) Replication
11 29 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (0.98%) Cloud Native
13 25 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 20 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (0.56%) AI Agents
15 16 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.49%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.46%) Driving Licence
17 13 (0.46%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 37 (1.30%) Windows
2 33 (1.16%) Linux
3 21 (0.74%) Unix
4 9 (0.32%) SUSE
5 7 (0.25%) VMS
6 6 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Android
7 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.070%) AIX
9 1 (0.035%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (27.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 635 (22.34%) ERP
3 517 (18.19%) Migration
4 373 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
5 371 (13.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 315 (11.08%) Data Migration
7 283 (9.95%) Agile
8 282 (9.92%) Validation
9 258 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 252 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 251 (8.83%) Logistics
12 247 (8.69%) Analytics
13 213 (7.49%) Workshop Facilitation
14 200 (7.03%) Roadmaps
15 198 (6.96%) Project Delivery
16 177 (6.23%) Process Improvement
17 170 (5.98%) Decision-Making
18 167 (5.87%) System Integration Testing
19 161 (5.66%) Project Management
20 159 (5.59%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (5.28%) SQL
2 140 (4.92%) ABAP
3 66 (2.32%) Python
4 60 (2.11%) Java
5 27 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.56%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.25%) Groovy
7 7 (0.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.21%) OpenEdge ABL
8 6 (0.21%) Progress 4GL
9 5 (0.18%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.18%) Bash
9 5 (0.18%) BeanShell
9 5 (0.18%) Korn
9 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
10 4 (0.14%) Bicep
10 4 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.11%) C#
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 473 (16.64%) Security Cleared
2 369 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 164 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 137 (4.82%) Degree
5 59 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 45 (1.58%) ACCA
7 44 (1.55%) PMI Certification
7 44 (1.55%) PMP
8 43 (1.51%) CIMA
9 27 (0.95%) SAP Certification
10 17 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 16 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.49%) ISEB
13 13 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 10 (0.35%) APMG
14 10 (0.35%) CIPD
14 10 (0.35%) HNC
15 9 (0.32%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 85 (2.99%) PMO
3 73 (2.57%) QA
4 66 (2.32%) GDPR
5 48 (1.69%) GRC
6 39 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (0.60%) IFRS
8 14 (0.49%) GxP
8 14 (0.49%) SLA
9 12 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.35%) NIST
11 9 (0.32%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.28%) ITGC
13 6 (0.21%) GAAP
13 6 (0.21%) GMP
13 6 (0.21%) NCSC
14 5 (0.18%) COSHH
14 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.18%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.46%) IAG
3 5 (0.18%) Docker
4 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.11%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 17 (0.60%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.21%) Grafana
3 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.14%) Control-M
4 4 (0.14%) Pacemaker
4 4 (0.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.070%) MOM
7 1 (0.035%) Ansible
7 1 (0.035%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.035%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.035%) QRadar
7 1 (0.035%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.035%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 323 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 285 (10.02%) Oracle
3 278 (9.78%) Ariba
4 110 (3.87%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.52%) Workday
6 79 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 59 (2.08%) Concur
8 44 (1.55%) Databricks
8 44 (1.55%) MuleSoft
9 39 (1.37%) IBM
10 36 (1.27%) Siemens
11 30 (1.06%) Google
12 24 (0.84%) Informatica
13 23 (0.81%) Adobe
14 20 (0.70%) IFS
15 18 (0.63%) Sage
16 15 (0.53%) OpenText
16 15 (0.53%) webMethods
17 14 (0.49%) Dell
18 13 (0.46%) JD Edwards