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 12 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
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,800 2,110 2,528
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.13% 6.41% 6.69%
As % of the Vendors category 12.30% 13.43% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,303 1,060 1,186
10th Percentile £360 £360 £400
25th Percentile £459 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 125 67
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.50 £16.14
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £27.00
Median hourly rate £24.19 £22.63 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -46.75% +4.94%
75th Percentile £44.25 £36.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.54 £65.25 £66.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £22.32 £35.36
% change year-on-year +8.40% -36.89% +1.03%

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 22,765 15,713 16,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.71% 47.72% 44.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,724 9,689 9,905
10th Percentile £310 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £613 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,414 802 591
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.84 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.14 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -25.87%
75th Percentile £56.43 £38.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.83% -29.00% -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -8 2,210 £558 -2.96% 1,355
UK excluding London 0 1,434 £550 - 774
Work from Home -13 786 £550 -2.65% 585
London -29 761 £600 +2.56% 597
South East +3 394 £540 +4.50% 191
North of England -13 359 £525 -13.93% 214
Midlands +7 354 £550 +4.76% 139
North West -10 247 £550 -12.00% 116
West Midlands +2 223 £520 -1.05% 84
East of England +1 168 £566 -2.41% 73
East Midlands +20 122 £599 +14.10% 55
Yorkshire +1 100 £500 -4.76% 73
South West -37 77 £534 -2.95% 64
Scotland -9 49 £533 +25.41% 30
Wales +14 47 £575 +243.28% 34
North East -35 11 £500 -9.09% 25
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 29

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 (1.21%) SharePoint
2 25 (0.89%) Confluence
3 20 (0.71%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.46%) CMS
5 7 (0.25%) Apache
5 7 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.18%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.14%) SugarCRM
7 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.11%) SAP Portal
9 2 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.071%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 154 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) Windchill
7 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.071%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.036%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.036%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1,088 (38.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 137 (4.89%) SAP FI
3 87 (3.11%) SAP Payroll
4 86 (3.07%) SAP CO
5 83 (2.96%) SAP HCM
6 77 (2.75%) SAP FI/CO
7 67 (2.39%) SAP HR
7 67 (2.39%) SAP SD
8 65 (2.32%) SAP MM
9 64 (2.29%) SAP ERP
10 55 (1.96%) SAP GRC
11 52 (1.86%) SAP PSCD
12 50 (1.79%) SAP PP
13 49 (1.75%) SAP BRIM
14 43 (1.54%) SAP MDG
15 42 (1.50%) SAP EWM
16 41 (1.46%) SAP PM
17 35 (1.25%) Teamcenter
18 33 (1.18%) SAP FI-CA
19 32 (1.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 274 (9.79%) SuccessFactors
2 224 (8.00%) Azure
3 128 (4.57%) Power Platform
4 100 (3.57%) AWS
5 63 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (2.18%) GCP
7 57 (2.04%) SaaS
8 31 (1.11%) Boomi
8 31 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (1.07%) Entra ID
10 29 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
13 19 (0.68%) GitHub
13 19 (0.68%) Snowflake
14 17 (0.61%) Tricentis Tosca
15 15 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (0.54%) Power Automate
16 14 (0.50%) Smartsheet
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 (0.071%) Internet
6 2 (0.071%) LAN
6 2 (0.071%) WAN
7 1 (0.036%) DNS
7 1 (0.036%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.036%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.036%) MQTT
7 1 (0.036%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.036%) Wireless
7 1 (0.036%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (3.89%) Power BI
2 92 (3.29%) SAP HANA
3 56 (2.00%) SAP BW
4 46 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
5 42 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (1.36%) Tableau
7 36 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 21 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
9 18 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (0.57%) Data Lake
11 15 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 14 (0.50%) GIS
12 14 (0.50%) Metadata
13 12 (0.43%) Power Query
14 10 (0.36%) Delta Lake
15 9 (0.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.32%) Relational Database
16 8 (0.29%) MySQL
16 8 (0.29%) NoSQL
17 7 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 117 (4.18%) JIRA
2 19 (0.68%) Git
3 15 (0.54%) Postman
4 14 (0.50%) Hudson
5 12 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.29%) eggPlant
7 7 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.25%) SoapUI
7 7 (0.25%) Toad
8 6 (0.21%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.18%) JMeter
9 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.18%) LSMW
9 5 (0.18%) Selenium
10 3 (0.11%) GitLab
10 3 (0.11%) SOAtest
11 2 (0.071%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.071%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 892 (31.86%) Finance
2 788 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 427 (15.25%) Manufacturing
4 287 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 142 (5.07%) Public Sector
6 141 (5.04%) Retail
7 122 (4.36%) Billing
8 86 (3.07%) Aerospace
9 85 (3.04%) Legal
10 77 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 66 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 60 (2.14%) Banking
14 57 (2.04%) General Ledger
15 44 (1.57%) Automotive
16 39 (1.39%) Aviation
17 38 (1.36%) Telecoms
18 33 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
19 27 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
19 27 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 654 (23.36%) Consultant
2 544 (19.43%) SAP Consultant
3 362 (12.93%) Architect
4 310 (11.07%) Lead
5 305 (10.89%) Analyst
6 241 (8.61%) Senior
7 189 (6.75%) SAP Manager
8 180 (6.43%) SAP Architect
9 158 (5.64%) Project Manager
10 146 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
11 134 (4.79%) Business Analyst
12 127 (4.54%) Administrator
13 124 (4.43%) SAP Analyst
14 91 (3.25%) Developer
15 84 (3.00%) Functional Consultant
16 79 (2.82%) SAP Project Manager
17 75 (2.68%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 69 (2.46%) SAP Solutions Architect
19 61 (2.18%) Senior Consultant
20 54 (1.93%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (5.25%) SAP Fiori
2 112 (4.00%) Middleware
3 96 (3.43%) REST
4 77 (2.75%) SOAP
5 56 (2.00%) SAPUI5
6 55 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
7 47 (1.68%) XML
8 46 (1.64%) SAP PI
9 45 (1.61%) SAP Basis
10 41 (1.46%) Web Services
11 35 (1.25%) BAPI
12 32 (1.14%) JSON
13 31 (1.11%) IDoc
14 27 (0.96%) EDI
15 24 (0.86%) OAuth
16 20 (0.71%) Kafka
16 20 (0.71%) SAP ALE
17 19 (0.68%) Node.js
18 17 (0.61%) OAuth2
18 17 (0.61%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 107 (3.82%) Onboarding
2 94 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
3 77 (2.75%) Data Structures
4 72 (2.57%) Public Cloud
5 62 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 61 (2.18%) FMCG
6 61 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 56 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 51 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.57%) Life Science
10 30 (1.07%) Replication
10 30 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.04%) Cloud Native
12 25 (0.89%) Private Cloud
13 20 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.57%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.50%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.46%) Driving Licence
17 13 (0.46%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.21%) Windows
2 33 (1.18%) Linux
3 21 (0.75%) 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 (0.071%) AIX
9 1 (0.036%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (27.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 625 (22.32%) ERP
3 511 (18.25%) Migration
4 368 (13.14%) User Acceptance Testing
5 363 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
6 310 (11.07%) Data Migration
7 279 (9.96%) Agile
8 271 (9.68%) Validation
9 253 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 249 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 246 (8.79%) Logistics
12 245 (8.75%) Analytics
13 215 (7.68%) Workshop Facilitation
14 197 (7.04%) Roadmaps
15 188 (6.71%) Project Delivery
16 177 (6.32%) Process Improvement
17 173 (6.18%) System Integration Testing
18 166 (5.93%) Decision-Making
19 161 (5.75%) Project Management
20 160 (5.71%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 139 (4.96%) SQL
2 138 (4.93%) ABAP
3 66 (2.36%) Python
4 58 (2.07%) Java
5 27 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.57%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.25%) Groovy
7 7 (0.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.21%) C#
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%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.071%) Perl
12 2 (0.071%) VBA
Qualifications
1 459 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 359 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 161 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 132 (4.71%) Degree
5 54 (1.93%) DV Cleared
6 44 (1.57%) ACCA
7 42 (1.50%) CIMA
8 41 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 41 (1.46%) PMP
9 27 (0.96%) SAP Certification
10 16 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 16 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.43%) ISEB
12 11 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (0.36%) APMG
13 10 (0.36%) CIPD
13 10 (0.36%) HNC
14 9 (0.32%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.04%) PMO
3 75 (2.68%) QA
4 65 (2.32%) GDPR
5 49 (1.75%) GRC
6 40 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (0.61%) IFRS
8 14 (0.50%) GxP
9 13 (0.46%) SLA
10 12 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.36%) NIST
12 8 (0.29%) ITGC
13 7 (0.25%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.21%) GAAP
14 6 (0.21%) GMP
14 6 (0.21%) NCSC
15 5 (0.18%) COSHH
15 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.18%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 17 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.46%) IAG
3 5 (0.18%) Docker
4 4 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.11%) Corosync
5 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.21%) Grafana
3 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.14%) Control-M
4 4 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (0.14%) Pacemaker
4 4 (0.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.071%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.071%) MOM
7 1 (0.036%) Ansible
7 1 (0.036%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.036%) QRadar
7 1 (0.036%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.036%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 315 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 277 (9.89%) Oracle
3 275 (9.82%) Ariba
4 108 (3.86%) Salesforce
5 103 (3.68%) Workday
6 81 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 56 (2.00%) Concur
8 44 (1.57%) Databricks
9 43 (1.54%) MuleSoft
10 39 (1.39%) IBM
11 34 (1.21%) Siemens
12 30 (1.07%) Google
13 24 (0.86%) Adobe
14 23 (0.82%) Informatica
15 17 (0.61%) Sage
16 16 (0.57%) IFS
17 15 (0.54%) OpenText
18 14 (0.50%) Dell
18 14 (0.50%) Infor
18 14 (0.50%) JD Edwards