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 18 February 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
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,257 2,039 2,788
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.57% 6.65% 6.28%
As % of the Vendors category 12.44% 14.32% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,013 1,416
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -
75th Percentile £675 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -0.56% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 48 120
10th Percentile £16.04 £19.17 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.68 £24.14 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £45.75 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.54% +60.53% -36.67%
75th Percentile £56.52 £70.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.03 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £31.76 £26.03
% change year-on-year -24.98% +22.01% -42.16%

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 18,146 14,238 19,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.74% 46.42% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 8,517 12,062
10th Percentile £300 £275 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -0.86% -0.94%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 893 403 932
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £27.33
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.76% -17.17%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.75 £58.54
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.41 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.33% -10.81%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 1,772 £575 +4.55% 490
UK excluding London -13 976 £537 -0.56% 374
Work from Home -2 779 £573 -0.43% 240
London -10 742 £588 -0.17% 183
North of England -15 297 £600 +13.21% 91
South East -8 241 £555 +0.82% 132
North West -9 202 £625 +16.17% 67
Midlands -19 180 £475 -12.04% 84
East of England 0 147 £505 -8.18% 45
West Midlands -20 121 £489 -16.50% 51
Yorkshire +5 84 £595 +58.67% 24
South West -40 82 £600 +14.29% 23
East Midlands -12 56 £475 -8.65% 32
Scotland +3 24 £450 -18.18% 5
Wales +7 21 £370 -38.42% 4
North East -25 10 £175 -53.33%
Northern Ireland 0 4 £308 -
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 27 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.02%) Confluence
3 16 (0.71%) NetWeaver
4 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.27%) CMS
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) MTS
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) Apache
8 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.089%) Camunda
9 2 (0.089%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.089%) LiveCycle
9 2 (0.089%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.089%) SAP EP
Applications
1 104 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.22%) PTC Creo
9 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.044%) Sketch
10 1 (0.044%) Trello
10 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 868 (38.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (4.87%) SAP FI
3 80 (3.54%) SAP CO
4 72 (3.19%) SAP FI/CO
5 70 (3.10%) SAP MM
6 67 (2.97%) SAP EWM
7 62 (2.75%) SAP PP
8 59 (2.61%) SAP ERP
9 52 (2.30%) SAP HCM
10 51 (2.26%) SAP Payroll
11 41 (1.82%) SAP PM
12 35 (1.55%) SAP PSCD
13 33 (1.46%) SAP QM
13 33 (1.46%) SAP WM
14 31 (1.37%) SAP HR
14 31 (1.37%) SAP MDG
14 31 (1.37%) SAP Travel Management
15 30 (1.33%) SAP SD
16 29 (1.28%) SAP EHS
17 25 (1.11%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 185 (8.20%) Azure
2 147 (6.51%) SuccessFactors
3 85 (3.77%) AWS
3 85 (3.77%) Power Platform
4 58 (2.57%) SaaS
5 54 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (2.22%) GCP
7 38 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (1.06%) Entra ID
8 24 (1.06%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 21 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (0.89%) Power Automate
11 19 (0.84%) OCI
12 16 (0.71%) Snowflake
13 13 (0.58%) Boomi
14 11 (0.49%) GitHub
14 11 (0.49%) Tricentis Tosca
15 9 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.02%) Wireless
2 16 (0.71%) HTTPS
3 10 (0.44%) VPN
4 8 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.35%) LAN
4 8 (0.35%) Skype
4 8 (0.35%) WAN
5 7 (0.31%) Firewall
5 7 (0.31%) Network Security
6 5 (0.22%) BGP
6 5 (0.22%) DNS
6 5 (0.22%) OSPF
6 5 (0.22%) RFID
6 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.18%) FTP
7 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.13%) DHCP
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) Junos
9 2 (0.089%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (3.68%) Power BI
1 83 (3.68%) SAP HANA
2 32 (1.42%) SAP BW
3 26 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.02%) SQL Server
5 21 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 21 (0.93%) SAP Data Services
6 18 (0.80%) Metadata
7 14 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
7 14 (0.62%) Tableau
8 13 (0.58%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 11 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (0.40%) GIS
11 7 (0.31%) Power Query
11 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.27%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.27%) MySQL
12 6 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 82 (3.63%) JIRA
2 16 (0.71%) Git
3 9 (0.40%) LSMW
4 8 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.31%) GitLab
5 7 (0.31%) Toad
6 6 (0.27%) Postman
7 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.18%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.18%) Hudson
7 4 (0.18%) JUnit
7 4 (0.18%) Selenium
8 3 (0.13%) JMeter
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.13%) Storybook
8 3 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.089%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.089%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.044%) Bitbucket
General
1 796 (35.27%) Finance
2 760 (33.67%) Social Skills
3 378 (16.75%) Manufacturing
4 320 (14.18%) Public Sector
5 270 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
6 192 (8.51%) Telecoms
7 190 (8.42%) Marketing
8 163 (7.22%) Electronics
9 100 (4.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 69 (3.06%) Billing
11 62 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
12 58 (2.57%) Banking
12 58 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
12 58 (2.57%) Retail
13 53 (2.35%) Legal
14 46 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (1.86%) Aerospace
15 42 (1.86%) Local Government
16 41 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (1.37%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 672 (29.77%) Consultant
2 540 (23.93%) SAP Consultant
3 259 (11.48%) Lead
4 224 (9.92%) Architect
5 190 (8.42%) Analyst
6 159 (7.04%) Project Manager
7 146 (6.47%) SAP Manager
8 136 (6.03%) Senior
9 126 (5.58%) Developer
10 125 (5.54%) SAP Architect
11 114 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
12 97 (4.30%) Business Analyst
13 80 (3.54%) SAP Project Manager
14 78 (3.46%) Functional Consultant
15 74 (3.28%) SAP Solutions Architect
16 73 (3.23%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 72 (3.19%) Management Consultant
18 70 (3.10%) SAP Developer
19 57 (2.53%) Administrator
20 55 (2.44%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (7.13%) SAP Fiori
2 52 (2.30%) SAPUI5
3 50 (2.22%) XML
4 49 (2.17%) Middleware
5 48 (2.13%) Web Services
6 46 (2.04%) SOAP
7 40 (1.77%) REST
7 40 (1.77%) SAP TM
8 38 (1.68%) BAPI
9 36 (1.60%) SAP Basis
10 30 (1.33%) SAP PI
11 26 (1.15%) HTML
12 24 (1.06%) CSS
13 20 (0.89%) JSON
14 19 (0.84%) IDoc
14 19 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
15 18 (0.80%) EDI
16 16 (0.71%) JMS
17 13 (0.58%) .NET
18 12 (0.53%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 72 (3.19%) Onboarding
2 66 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
3 58 (2.57%) Public Cloud
4 45 (1.99%) Data Structures
5 36 (1.60%) FMCG
6 33 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
6 33 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 29 (1.28%) Data Centre
8 28 (1.24%) Life Science
9 26 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 22 (0.97%) Taxonomies
13 20 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (0.89%) Replication
14 17 (0.75%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.71%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.62%) Cloud Native
16 14 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.99%) Windows
2 32 (1.42%) Mac OS
3 31 (1.37%) Android
4 17 (0.75%) Linux
5 16 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.089%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.089%) SUSE
9 2 (0.089%) Unix
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (19.18%) ERP
2 414 (18.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 401 (17.77%) Migration
4 290 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
5 267 (11.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 265 (11.74%) Business Intelligence
7 220 (9.75%) Agile
8 216 (9.57%) Logistics
9 209 (9.26%) Data Migration
10 199 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 181 (8.02%) Programme Management
11 181 (8.02%) Project Management
12 178 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
13 170 (7.53%) Workshop Facilitation
14 165 (7.31%) Digital Marketing
15 164 (7.27%) Analytics
16 154 (6.82%) Change Management
17 141 (6.25%) Validation
18 140 (6.20%) Roadmaps
19 137 (6.07%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (6.20%) ABAP
2 107 (4.74%) SQL
3 51 (2.26%) JavaScript
4 47 (2.08%) Java
5 45 (1.99%) Python
6 16 (0.71%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.62%) Groovy
8 13 (0.58%) C#
9 12 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.35%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.22%) C++
12 4 (0.18%) Go
12 4 (0.18%) R
12 4 (0.18%) VBA
13 3 (0.13%) COBOL
13 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.089%) C
14 2 (0.089%) VB
14 2 (0.089%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.089%) XPath
Qualifications
1 474 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 390 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 174 (7.71%) Degree
4 106 (4.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 56 (2.48%) SAP Certification
6 53 (2.35%) PMP
7 45 (1.99%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 40 (1.77%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.20%) ACCA
10 27 (1.20%) CIMA
11 21 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.35%) CISSP
15 7 (0.31%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.31%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 7 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.16%) Data Quality
2 83 (3.68%) QA
3 61 (2.70%) PMO
4 42 (1.86%) GDPR
5 32 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 28 (1.24%) SLA
7 18 (0.80%) GRC
8 17 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.71%) GxP
10 12 (0.53%) GMP
10 12 (0.53%) NIST
11 10 (0.44%) IFRS
12 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.35%) COBIT
13 8 (0.35%) GAAP
13 8 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.35%) ITGC
14 7 (0.31%) SOX 404
15 5 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.44%) Docker
3 3 (0.13%) IAG
4 2 (0.089%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.044%) Varnish
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.22%) Terraform
4 4 (0.18%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.13%) Control-M
5 3 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.089%) Grafana
6 2 (0.089%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.089%) Linux-HA
6 2 (0.089%) Pacemaker
6 2 (0.089%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.089%) SCCM
6 2 (0.089%) vRealize
7 1 (0.044%) Ansible
7 1 (0.044%) Argo
7 1 (0.044%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.044%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 194 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 193 (8.55%) Ariba
3 177 (7.84%) Oracle
4 86 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 77 (3.41%) Workday
6 69 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.95%) Cisco
8 37 (1.64%) Adobe
9 33 (1.46%) Dell
9 33 (1.46%) HP
10 30 (1.33%) Sage
11 25 (1.11%) IBM
12 24 (1.06%) Apple
12 24 (1.06%) Google
13 23 (1.02%) Databricks
13 23 (1.02%) Informatica
14 19 (0.84%) webMethods
15 16 (0.71%) Okta
15 16 (0.71%) Siemens
16 15 (0.66%) OpenText