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 19 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
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +2
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,726 2,049 2,512
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.09% 6.24% 6.46%
As % of the Vendors category 12.18% 13.21% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,361 1,017 1,277
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £465 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £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 222 108 86
10th Percentile £16.52 £16.15 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.16 £19.88 £22.19
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +26.91% -27.88% -21.42%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £59.64
90th Percentile £86.00 £67.88 £66.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.36% -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 22,385 15,513 17,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.79% 47.27% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,864 9,479 10,592
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,146 809 818
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -10.18% -31.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.43 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.70 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.28% -21.11% -21.43%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -11 2,163 £575 +3.60% 931
UK excluding London -3 1,380 £550 - 696
Work from Home -5 824 £561 +1.58% 484
London -22 770 £600 +4.35% 384
South East -6 374 £550 +4.76% 147
Midlands +13 366 £550 - 127
North of England -8 344 £550 - 181
North West -1 244 £550 +2.04% 126
West Midlands +1 228 £500 -7.66% 68
East of England -8 144 £580 - 69
East Midlands +30 128 £625 - 59
Yorkshire 0 93 £513 -5.96% 49
South West -39 79 £600 +9.09% 69
Wales +9 41 £550 +228.36% 22
Scotland -5 40 £525 +23.53% 73
North East -42 6 £500 -8.26% 10
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +3 2 £488 +118.61% 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 42 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.32%) Confluence
3 22 (0.81%) NetWeaver
4 10 (0.37%) CMS
5 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.15%) Apache
7 4 (0.15%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.11%) JBoss
8 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.073%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.073%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.073%) SAS
9 2 (0.073%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 129 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) CATIA
7 7 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.037%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,057 (38.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 122 (4.48%) SAP FI
3 74 (2.71%) SAP CO
4 68 (2.49%) SAP ERP
4 68 (2.49%) SAP FI/CO
5 66 (2.42%) SAP MM
5 66 (2.42%) SAP SD
6 51 (1.87%) SAP PSCD
7 50 (1.83%) SAP EWM
8 48 (1.76%) SAP Payroll
9 47 (1.72%) SAP GRC
9 47 (1.72%) SAP PP
10 44 (1.61%) SAP BRIM
11 42 (1.54%) SAP IBP
12 41 (1.50%) SAP HR
13 36 (1.32%) SAP MDG
13 36 (1.32%) SAP PM
14 33 (1.21%) SAP QM
15 32 (1.17%) SAP HCM
16 30 (1.10%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 289 (10.60%) SuccessFactors
2 228 (8.36%) Azure
3 140 (5.14%) Power Platform
4 100 (3.67%) AWS
5 66 (2.42%) SaaS
6 61 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (1.72%) GCP
8 40 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 34 (1.25%) Boomi
10 27 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (0.88%) Snowflake
12 20 (0.73%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 19 (0.70%) GitHub
14 16 (0.59%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (0.55%) Smartsheet
16 13 (0.48%) Tricentis Tosca
17 12 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.26%) Network Security
2 6 (0.22%) Intranet
3 5 (0.18%) Firewall
4 3 (0.11%) Broadband
4 3 (0.11%) HTTP
4 3 (0.11%) VPN
5 2 (0.073%) LAN
5 2 (0.073%) SSL
5 2 (0.073%) WAN
6 1 (0.037%) DNS
6 1 (0.037%) FTP
6 1 (0.037%) Internet
6 1 (0.037%) MQTT
6 1 (0.037%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.037%) Wireless
6 1 (0.037%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (4.55%) Power BI
2 93 (3.41%) SAP HANA
3 56 (2.05%) SAP BW
4 51 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (1.65%) Tableau
6 41 (1.50%) SQL Server
7 39 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
8 27 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
9 16 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.55%) Metadata
11 14 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.48%) GIS
12 13 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
14 11 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.37%) MaxDB
15 10 (0.37%) Relational Database
16 8 (0.29%) NoSQL
17 6 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 112 (4.11%) JIRA
2 22 (0.81%) Hudson
3 20 (0.73%) Git
4 11 (0.40%) Postman
5 8 (0.29%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.26%) eggPlant
6 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.26%) SoapUI
7 6 (0.22%) JMeter
7 6 (0.22%) LSMW
7 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.18%) Toad
9 4 (0.15%) Selenium
10 3 (0.11%) GitLab
11 2 (0.073%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.073%) Maven
11 2 (0.073%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.073%) Rational Functional Tester
11 2 (0.073%) SOAtest
General
1 842 (30.89%) Finance
2 697 (25.57%) Social Skills
3 316 (11.59%) Manufacturing
4 275 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 145 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 120 (4.40%) Retail
7 109 (4.00%) Billing
8 82 (3.01%) Legal
9 78 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 77 (2.82%) Aerospace
11 57 (2.09%) Banking
11 57 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 57 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (1.91%) General Ledger
13 31 (1.14%) Automotive
13 31 (1.14%) Local Government
14 30 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.06%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.03%) Aviation
16 28 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 662 (24.28%) Consultant
2 567 (20.80%) SAP Consultant
3 351 (12.88%) Architect
4 319 (11.70%) Lead
5 310 (11.37%) Analyst
6 258 (9.46%) Senior
7 191 (7.01%) SAP Manager
8 180 (6.60%) SAP Architect
9 169 (6.20%) Solutions Architect
10 166 (6.09%) Project Manager
11 132 (4.84%) Business Analyst
12 111 (4.07%) Developer
13 104 (3.82%) SAP Analyst
14 88 (3.23%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 84 (3.08%) Functional Consultant
16 83 (3.04%) SAP Project Manager
17 77 (2.82%) Administrator
18 76 (2.79%) SAP Functional Consultant
19 71 (2.60%) Senior Consultant
20 63 (2.31%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (4.40%) SAP Fiori
2 100 (3.67%) Middleware
3 78 (2.86%) REST
4 65 (2.38%) SOAP
5 52 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
6 51 (1.87%) SAP Basis
7 47 (1.72%) XML
8 37 (1.36%) BAPI
9 36 (1.32%) IDoc
10 33 (1.21%) SAP PI
11 32 (1.17%) JSON
12 30 (1.10%) Web Services
13 28 (1.03%) EDI
14 26 (0.95%) SAPUI5
15 23 (0.84%) OAuth
16 19 (0.70%) Node.js
17 16 (0.59%) Kafka
17 16 (0.59%) SAP ALE
18 15 (0.55%) JDBC
19 14 (0.51%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 91 (3.34%) Onboarding
1 91 (3.34%) Public Cloud
2 79 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 70 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
4 66 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 56 (2.05%) FMCG
7 52 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
8 42 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 38 (1.39%) Life Science
10 35 (1.28%) Cloud Native
11 29 (1.06%) Replication
12 24 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (0.73%) Operational Technology
16 18 (0.66%) AI Agents
17 16 (0.59%) SCADA
18 15 (0.55%) Private Cloud
19 14 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.80%) Linux
2 35 (1.28%) Windows
3 26 (0.95%) Unix
4 9 (0.33%) VMS
5 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.29%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.073%) AIX
8 2 (0.073%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (22.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 606 (22.23%) ERP
3 480 (17.61%) Migration
4 347 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
5 321 (11.78%) User Acceptance Testing
6 305 (11.19%) Data Migration
7 289 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 277 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 273 (10.01%) Agile
10 251 (9.21%) Validation
11 222 (8.14%) Analytics
11 222 (8.14%) Workshop Facilitation
12 205 (7.52%) Logistics
13 171 (6.27%) Roadmaps
14 166 (6.09%) Project Management
15 159 (5.83%) Change Management
16 157 (5.76%) Data Modelling
17 155 (5.69%) Business Intelligence
17 155 (5.69%) System Integration Testing
18 152 (5.58%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 139 (5.10%) SQL
2 111 (4.07%) ABAP
3 68 (2.49%) Python
4 50 (1.83%) Java
5 23 (0.84%) JavaScript
6 20 (0.73%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.26%) Bicep
7 7 (0.26%) C#
8 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.22%) Bash
8 6 (0.22%) VB.NET
9 5 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.18%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.15%) BeanShell
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
1 441 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 341 (12.51%) SC Cleared
3 135 (4.95%) Degree
4 125 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 56 (2.05%) DV Cleared
6 37 (1.36%) ACCA
7 36 (1.32%) CIMA
8 32 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 32 (1.17%) PMP
9 25 (0.92%) SAP Certification
10 20 (0.73%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.51%) HNC
12 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.40%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.40%) NVQ Level 4
14 10 (0.37%) ISEB
14 10 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.52%) PMO
3 89 (3.26%) QA
4 62 (2.27%) GDPR
5 57 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 50 (1.83%) GRC
7 17 (0.62%) IFRS
8 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.40%) GxP
10 9 (0.33%) NIST
11 8 (0.29%) SLA
12 7 (0.26%) GAAP
13 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.22%) GMP
13 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.22%) ITGC
13 6 (0.22%) NCSC
14 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.073%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.66%) IAG
3 7 (0.26%) Docker
4 6 (0.22%) Corosync
5 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.62%) Terraform
2 16 (0.59%) Kubernetes
2 16 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
4 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 4 (0.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.11%) Grafana
6 3 (0.11%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.073%) MOM
8 1 (0.037%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.037%) Packer
8 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.037%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.037%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.037%) WSUS
Vendors
1 269 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 261 (9.57%) Oracle
3 253 (9.28%) Ariba
4 110 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 93 (3.41%) Workday
6 78 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.47%) MuleSoft
8 39 (1.43%) Databricks
9 36 (1.32%) Concur
10 33 (1.21%) Adobe
10 33 (1.21%) Informatica
11 31 (1.14%) IBM
12 27 (0.99%) Google
13 17 (0.62%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.59%) Infor
14 16 (0.59%) OpenText
15 15 (0.55%) Siemens
16 14 (0.51%) IFS
17 13 (0.48%) Dell
17 13 (0.48%) JD Edwards