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 December 2025, 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,270 2,216 2,797
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.13% 6.64% 6.51%
As % of the Vendors category 13.06% 14.47% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 1,086 1,399
10th Percentile £350 £367 £350
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% - -
75th Percentile £675 £666 £650
90th Percentile £750 £761 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 36 80
10th Percentile £16.05 £17.56 £19.15
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.18 £26.56
Median hourly rate £23.83 £28.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% -42.35% +8.89%
75th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 £65.55
90th Percentile £67.88 £71.43 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £27.50 £47.75
% change year-on-year -17.71% -42.41% +6.11%

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 17,381 15,312 19,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.93% 45.86% 44.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,108 9,124 12,146
10th Percentile £300 £284 £252
25th Percentile £409 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.58% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 450 657
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.96 £18.51 £19.76
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.43 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% -40.45% +77.13%
75th Percentile £44.94 £61.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.48 £25.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -14.08% -45.86% +101.48%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -9 1,778 £565 +2.73% 506
UK excluding London -6 997 £550 +1.85% 329
Work from Home +2 762 £560 +0.45% 226
London -7 741 £575 +2.22% 246
North of England -10 294 £597 +10.87% 74
South East -4 265 £537 -10.50% 145
North West 0 211 £623 +14.22% 35
Midlands -15 165 £518 -2.36% 52
East of England +4 137 £565 +12.21% 42
West Midlands -8 121 £515 -4.63% 27
South West -24 92 £565 +7.52% 19
Yorkshire -2 73 £565 +32.94% 36
East Midlands -21 42 £525 - 25
Scotland +10 35 £450 +0.56% 10
Wales +4 20 £170 -74.81% 1
North East -19 9 £175 -57.83% 4
Northern Ireland -4 6 £115 - 6
Channel Islands - 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 26 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 22 (0.97%) Confluence
3 21 (0.93%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) MTS
8 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.13%) Apache
9 3 (0.13%) CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.088%) SAP EP
10 2 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 98 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.18%) Windchill
8 3 (0.13%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.13%) Simulink
9 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.088%) Sketch
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.044%) InVision
10 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 823 (36.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 101 (4.45%) SAP FI
3 76 (3.35%) SAP CO
4 75 (3.30%) SAP EWM
5 70 (3.08%) SAP ERP
5 70 (3.08%) SAP MM
6 69 (3.04%) SAP FI/CO
7 65 (2.86%) SAP PP
8 60 (2.64%) SAP Payroll
9 59 (2.60%) SAP HCM
10 45 (1.98%) SAP HR
11 40 (1.76%) SAP QM
12 37 (1.63%) SAP PM
12 37 (1.63%) SAP WM
13 33 (1.45%) SAP MDG
14 29 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
15 28 (1.23%) SAP SD
16 27 (1.19%) SAP EHS
16 27 (1.19%) SAP VC
17 26 (1.15%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 165 (7.27%) Azure
2 156 (6.87%) SuccessFactors
3 100 (4.41%) Power Platform
4 82 (3.61%) AWS
5 59 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (2.60%) SaaS
6 48 (2.11%) GCP
7 41 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (1.01%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 23 (1.01%) Snowflake
9 20 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (0.84%) Entra ID
11 18 (0.79%) Power Automate
12 16 (0.70%) OCI
13 12 (0.53%) GitHub
14 11 (0.48%) Boomi
14 11 (0.48%) PaaS
15 10 (0.44%) Smartsheet
16 9 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (0.40%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.06%) Wireless
2 17 (0.75%) HTTPS
3 10 (0.44%) LAN
4 9 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (0.40%) VPN
5 8 (0.35%) Firewall
5 8 (0.35%) Skype
6 6 (0.26%) WAN
7 5 (0.22%) Network Security
8 4 (0.18%) DHCP
8 4 (0.18%) DNS
8 4 (0.18%) FTP
8 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.13%) BGP
9 3 (0.13%) Junos
9 3 (0.13%) OSPF
9 3 (0.13%) RFID
9 3 (0.13%) VLAN
10 2 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.088%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.32%) SAP HANA
2 96 (4.23%) Power BI
3 50 (2.20%) SAP BW
4 30 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 28 (1.23%) SAP Data Services
6 25 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 19 (0.84%) Metadata
8 15 (0.66%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 14 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (0.62%) Tableau
10 12 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
10 12 (0.53%) GIS
11 7 (0.31%) MySQL
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.31%) Power Query
11 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.26%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 92 (4.05%) JIRA
2 17 (0.75%) Git
3 10 (0.44%) LSMW
4 9 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.31%) GitLab
6 6 (0.26%) Toad
7 4 (0.18%) JUnit
7 4 (0.18%) Postman
7 4 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.13%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.13%) Storybook
8 3 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.088%) Clang
9 2 (0.088%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.088%) GCC
9 2 (0.088%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.088%) Selenium
9 2 (0.088%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.088%) Zephyr
General
1 789 (34.76%) Finance
2 765 (33.70%) Social Skills
3 447 (19.69%) Manufacturing
4 344 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 239 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 232 (10.22%) Telecoms
7 229 (10.09%) Marketing
8 207 (9.12%) Electronics
9 118 (5.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 66 (2.91%) Retail
11 56 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.38%) Billing
13 53 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
14 51 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (2.16%) Banking
16 47 (2.07%) Legal
17 41 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
18 40 (1.76%) Aerospace
19 32 (1.41%) Local Government
20 22 (0.97%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 686 (30.22%) Consultant
2 555 (24.45%) SAP Consultant
3 211 (9.30%) Lead
4 205 (9.03%) Architect
5 183 (8.06%) Analyst
6 148 (6.52%) Project Manager
7 127 (5.59%) SAP Manager
8 124 (5.46%) Developer
9 116 (5.11%) Senior
10 114 (5.02%) SAP Architect
11 91 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
12 88 (3.88%) Business Analyst
13 73 (3.22%) Functional Consultant
14 72 (3.17%) SAP Project Manager
15 67 (2.95%) SAP Functional Consultant
16 66 (2.91%) SAP Developer
17 65 (2.86%) Management Consultant
18 62 (2.73%) SAP Analyst
19 58 (2.56%) SAP Solutions Architect
20 55 (2.42%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (7.31%) SAP Fiori
2 54 (2.38%) Web Services
2 54 (2.38%) XML
3 49 (2.16%) SOAP
4 45 (1.98%) SAP PI
5 44 (1.94%) REST
6 43 (1.89%) SAPUI5
7 39 (1.72%) Middleware
8 37 (1.63%) BAPI
9 36 (1.59%) SAP Basis
10 32 (1.41%) SAP TM
11 29 (1.28%) JSON
12 27 (1.19%) HTML
13 23 (1.01%) CSS
14 20 (0.88%) IDoc
14 20 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
15 17 (0.75%) JMS
16 16 (0.70%) EDI
17 15 (0.66%) SailPoint
18 14 (0.62%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 69 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
2 60 (2.64%) Onboarding
3 41 (1.81%) Life Science
4 39 (1.72%) Data Structures
4 39 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 39 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 37 (1.63%) Data Centre
6 35 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (1.50%) FMCG
8 29 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 21 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
10 21 (0.93%) Replication
10 21 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (0.79%) Private Cloud
13 16 (0.70%) Mobile App
14 15 (0.66%) NHS
15 14 (0.62%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.29%) Windows
2 33 (1.45%) Android
3 32 (1.41%) Mac OS
4 24 (1.06%) Linux
5 19 (0.84%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.26%) Unix
8 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.088%) SUSE
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (17.53%) Migration
2 395 (17.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 393 (17.31%) ERP
4 309 (13.61%) Business Intelligence
5 301 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
6 268 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 258 (11.37%) Agile
8 226 (9.96%) Programme Management
9 215 (9.47%) Data Migration
9 215 (9.47%) Logistics
10 202 (8.90%) Digital Marketing
11 193 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 176 (7.75%) Project Management
13 160 (7.05%) Analytics
13 160 (7.05%) Workshop Facilitation
14 157 (6.92%) User Acceptance Testing
15 151 (6.65%) Change Management
16 138 (6.08%) Project Delivery
17 135 (5.95%) Roadmaps
18 127 (5.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 150 (6.61%) ABAP
2 110 (4.85%) SQL
3 58 (2.56%) Python
4 57 (2.51%) JavaScript
5 56 (2.47%) Java
6 23 (1.01%) PowerShell
7 17 (0.75%) C#
8 15 (0.66%) Groovy
9 8 (0.35%) Apex Code
9 8 (0.35%) C++
9 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.18%) C
11 4 (0.18%) Go
11 4 (0.18%) R
11 4 (0.18%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.13%) COBOL
12 3 (0.13%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.13%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 531 (23.39%) Security Cleared
2 433 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 167 (7.36%) Degree
4 100 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 62 (2.73%) SAP Certification
6 50 (2.20%) PMP
7 49 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 47 (2.07%) PMI Certification
9 43 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.37%) ACCA
11 30 (1.32%) CIMA
12 27 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.48%) CISSP
14 11 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.44%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.40%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.35%) CISM
18 7 (0.31%) Azure Certification
18 7 (0.31%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (3.79%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.35%) QA
3 57 (2.51%) PMO
4 42 (1.85%) GDPR
5 34 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 23 (1.01%) GRC
7 21 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.93%) SLA
8 20 (0.88%) GxP
9 12 (0.53%) IFRS
9 12 (0.53%) NIST
10 11 (0.48%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.40%) COBIT
12 8 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.31%) GMP
13 7 (0.31%) ITGC
13 7 (0.31%) NCSC
13 7 (0.31%) SOX 404
14 6 (0.26%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.26%) RMADS
System Software
1 32 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.57%) Docker
3 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.088%) IAG
4 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.044%) Varnish
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (0.18%) Terraform
4 3 (0.13%) Control-M
4 3 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (0.13%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.13%) vRealize
5 2 (0.088%) Ansible
5 2 (0.088%) Grafana
5 2 (0.088%) Linux-HA
5 2 (0.088%) Pacemaker
5 2 (0.088%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.088%) SCCM
6 1 (0.044%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.044%) Argo
6 1 (0.044%) Autotask
6 1 (0.044%) FreeIPA
6 1 (0.044%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.044%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 188 (8.28%) Ariba
2 185 (8.15%) Oracle
3 181 (7.97%) Microsoft
4 94 (4.14%) Salesforce
5 78 (3.44%) Workday
6 70 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.94%) Cisco
8 35 (1.54%) Adobe
9 34 (1.50%) HP
10 33 (1.45%) Dell
11 25 (1.10%) Apple
12 23 (1.01%) Google
12 23 (1.01%) OpenText
13 21 (0.93%) Databricks
13 21 (0.93%) IBM
14 20 (0.88%) webMethods
15 19 (0.84%) MuleSoft
16 18 (0.79%) Concur
16 18 (0.79%) Informatica
17 12 (0.53%) Software AG