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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,432 1,995 2,600
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.15% 6.83% 5.96%
As % of the Vendors category 12.27% 14.38% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,023 1,314
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £673 £663 £675
90th Percentile £755 £760 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £541 £525
% change year-on-year -1.15% +3.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 59 128
10th Percentile £17.69 £21.08 £13.04
25th Percentile £22.63 £25.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.23 £57.50 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.96% +123.30% -42.78%
75th Percentile £57.25 £70.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £78.66 £86.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -43.50% +102.84% -45.22%

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 19,815 13,870 18,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.00% 47.46% 42.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,654 8,704 11,485
10th Percentile £313 £289 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 992 558 1,082
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.13 £14.40
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -49.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £24.19 £21.50
% change year-on-year +11.64% +12.49% -46.25%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -15 1,902 £575 +4.55% 417
UK excluding London -11 1,128 £535 -1.15% 339
Work from Home +1 800 £575 -1.03% 172
London -16 751 £600 - 120
South East -10 286 £575 +4.55% 116
North of England -24 279 £550 +3.77% 79
Midlands 0 262 £513 -6.68% 90
North West -16 179 £550 +3.77% 45
West Midlands -9 167 £494 -16.84% 57
East of England +2 164 £505 -12.93% 32
Yorkshire -1 95 £588 +54.10% 29
East Midlands +8 89 £600 +20.00% 33
South West -36 77 £618 +32.71% 16
Wales +18 38 £550 -24.14% 6
Scotland +9 28 £450 -25.00% 8
North East -34 4 £500 -2.91% 10
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +2 3 £500 +77.94% 3

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 36 (1.48%) Confluence
2 28 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.82%) NetWeaver
4 17 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.45%) CMS
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
7 6 (0.25%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.082%) Apache
10 2 (0.082%) JBoss
11 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.041%) Documentum
11 1 (0.041%) LiveCycle
11 1 (0.041%) MTS
Applications
1 124 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.41%) CATIA
8 6 (0.25%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.21%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.041%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.041%) Sketch
11 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 914 (37.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 107 (4.40%) SAP FI
3 72 (2.96%) SAP CO
4 68 (2.80%) SAP ERP
4 68 (2.80%) SAP FI/CO
5 60 (2.47%) SAP MM
6 57 (2.34%) SAP EWM
7 54 (2.22%) SAP PP
8 46 (1.89%) SAP SD
9 45 (1.85%) SAP PM
10 41 (1.69%) SAP PSCD
11 39 (1.60%) SAP HCM
12 36 (1.48%) SAP BRIM
12 36 (1.48%) SAP Payroll
13 32 (1.32%) SAP MDG
14 31 (1.27%) SAP IBP
15 29 (1.19%) SAP QM
16 27 (1.11%) SAP Travel Management
17 24 (0.99%) SAP EHS
18 22 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 208 (8.55%) SuccessFactors
2 207 (8.51%) Azure
3 112 (4.61%) Power Platform
4 89 (3.66%) AWS
5 79 (3.25%) SaaS
6 38 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (1.56%) Entra ID
7 35 (1.44%) GCP
8 30 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (0.90%) Boomi
11 21 (0.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 17 (0.70%) OCI
12 17 (0.70%) Snowflake
13 15 (0.62%) GitHub
14 14 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (0.58%) PaaS
14 14 (0.58%) Power Automate
15 13 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.49%) Network Security
2 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 7 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (0.29%) Skype
3 7 (0.29%) VPN
3 7 (0.29%) WAN
4 5 (0.21%) FTP
4 5 (0.21%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.16%) BGP
5 4 (0.16%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.16%) LAN
5 4 (0.16%) OSPF
5 4 (0.16%) RFID
6 3 (0.12%) DNS
6 3 (0.12%) Internet
7 2 (0.082%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.082%) Junos
7 2 (0.082%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.041%) MQTT
8 1 (0.041%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.36%) Power BI
2 82 (3.37%) SAP HANA
3 44 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.52%) SAP BW
5 30 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 26 (1.07%) Tableau
7 23 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
8 21 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 19 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
9 19 (0.78%) Metadata
10 16 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (0.37%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 7 (0.29%) GIS
14 6 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.25%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
15 5 (0.21%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.21%) MaxDB
15 5 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 103 (4.24%) JIRA
2 20 (0.82%) Hudson
3 16 (0.66%) Git
4 8 (0.33%) LSMW
5 7 (0.29%) GitLab
6 6 (0.25%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.21%) Postman
7 5 (0.21%) Selenium
8 4 (0.16%) JMeter
8 4 (0.16%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.082%) JUnit
10 2 (0.082%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.082%) Storybook
10 2 (0.082%) TestRail
10 2 (0.082%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.041%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.041%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.041%) TestDirector
11 1 (0.041%) Toad
General
1 783 (32.20%) Finance
2 717 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 321 (13.20%) Manufacturing
4 303 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
5 230 (9.46%) Public Sector
6 97 (3.99%) Telecoms
7 94 (3.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 93 (3.82%) Marketing
9 78 (3.21%) Billing
10 74 (3.04%) Electronics
11 72 (2.96%) Retail
12 67 (2.75%) Banking
13 66 (2.71%) Legal
14 56 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
15 51 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
16 50 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
17 49 (2.01%) Aerospace
18 45 (1.85%) General Ledger
19 36 (1.48%) Local Government
20 26 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 588 (24.18%) Consultant
2 506 (20.81%) SAP Consultant
3 318 (13.08%) Lead
4 311 (12.79%) Architect
5 239 (9.83%) Analyst
6 189 (7.77%) Senior
7 180 (7.40%) Project Manager
8 179 (7.36%) SAP Manager
9 175 (7.20%) SAP Architect
10 155 (6.37%) Solutions Architect
11 131 (5.39%) Developer
12 115 (4.73%) Business Analyst
13 95 (3.91%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 92 (3.78%) SAP Project Manager
15 80 (3.29%) SAP Developer
16 79 (3.25%) Administrator
17 72 (2.96%) Functional Consultant
18 67 (2.75%) SAP Functional Consultant
19 61 (2.51%) SAP Analyst
20 56 (2.30%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (4.56%) SAP Fiori
2 66 (2.71%) Middleware
3 52 (2.14%) SAP Basis
4 48 (1.97%) REST
4 48 (1.97%) SAPUI5
5 40 (1.64%) SOAP
6 33 (1.36%) XML
7 31 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
8 28 (1.15%) SAP TM
9 26 (1.07%) BAPI
9 26 (1.07%) Web Services
10 25 (1.03%) IDoc
11 22 (0.90%) SAP PI
12 20 (0.82%) CSS
12 20 (0.82%) HTML
13 18 (0.74%) EDI
14 16 (0.66%) JSON
14 16 (0.66%) OAuth
15 13 (0.53%) SAML
16 12 (0.49%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (3.45%) Public Cloud
2 79 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 76 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 46 (1.89%) FMCG
6 45 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 38 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 35 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (1.44%) Replication
9 30 (1.23%) Cloud Native
9 30 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.23%) Taxonomies
10 27 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.11%) Life Science
10 27 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (0.74%) Virtual Team
13 15 (0.62%) AI Agents
13 15 (0.62%) Mobile App
14 12 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.32%) Windows
2 23 (0.95%) Linux
3 10 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.29%) Android
4 7 (0.29%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.25%) Unix
6 5 (0.21%) VMS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.082%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.041%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (22.49%) ERP
2 473 (19.45%) Migration
3 452 (18.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 295 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
5 266 (10.94%) Data Migration
6 263 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 253 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 234 (9.62%) Agile
9 207 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
10 202 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
10 202 (8.31%) Project Management
11 198 (8.14%) Workshop Facilitation
12 184 (7.57%) Validation
13 176 (7.24%) Logistics
14 175 (7.20%) Analytics
15 174 (7.15%) Change Management
16 169 (6.95%) Data Modelling
17 145 (5.96%) Roadmaps
18 140 (5.76%) Project Delivery
19 123 (5.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 116 (4.77%) ABAP
1 116 (4.77%) SQL
2 49 (2.01%) Python
3 35 (1.44%) Java
3 35 (1.44%) JavaScript
4 17 (0.70%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.33%) C#
6 7 (0.29%) Groovy
7 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.25%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.16%) C
8 4 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.16%) Go
9 3 (0.12%) C++
9 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
9 3 (0.12%) R
9 3 (0.12%) VB
9 3 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 393 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 312 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 157 (6.46%) Degree
4 115 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 47 (1.93%) PMP
7 43 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 43 (1.77%) SAP Certification
8 42 (1.73%) ACCA
9 40 (1.64%) CIMA
10 31 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.58%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.45%) CISSP
14 10 (0.41%) HNC
14 10 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.37%) CISM
15 9 (0.37%) NVQ Level 4
16 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 107 (4.40%) QA
3 85 (3.50%) PMO
4 56 (2.30%) GDPR
5 46 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.15%) GRC
7 23 (0.95%) SLA
8 16 (0.66%) GxP
9 12 (0.49%) IFRS
10 11 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.41%) NIST
12 9 (0.37%) GAAP
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.33%) GMP
14 7 (0.29%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.21%) Basel III
15 5 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.21%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.41%) IAG
3 8 (0.33%) Docker
4 5 (0.21%) Corosync
5 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.041%) Varnish
5 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (0.49%) Terraform
3 11 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.29%) HP ALM
5 6 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (0.21%) Pacemaker
7 3 (0.12%) Ansible
7 3 (0.12%) Control-M
8 2 (0.082%) Grafana
8 2 (0.082%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.082%) vRealize
8 2 (0.082%) WSUS
9 1 (0.041%) Argo
9 1 (0.041%) CEMLI
9 1 (0.041%) MOM
9 1 (0.041%) Packer
9 1 (0.041%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.041%) SCCM
9 1 (0.041%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 235 (9.66%) Ariba
2 213 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 187 (7.69%) Oracle
4 97 (3.99%) Salesforce
5 80 (3.29%) Workday
6 73 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.64%) Informatica
8 38 (1.56%) Adobe
9 37 (1.52%) Sage
10 28 (1.15%) Databricks
11 26 (1.07%) IBM
12 22 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 20 (0.82%) Okta
14 16 (0.66%) Concur
15 15 (0.62%) Infor
15 15 (0.62%) OpenText
15 15 (0.62%) Siemens
16 14 (0.58%) Cisco
17 13 (0.53%) IFS
18 12 (0.49%) Dell