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 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,695 2,089 2,496
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.05% 6.34% 6.41%
As % of the Vendors category 12.14% 13.42% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,349 1,044 1,281
10th Percentile £360 £363 £393
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +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 229 108 87
10th Percentile £16.54 £16.15 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.00 £20.33 £22.38
Median hourly rate £32.23 £27.31 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -22.78% -26.72%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.31 £60.60
90th Percentile £86.30 £70.00 £66.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -31.42% -26.67%

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 22,198 15,572 17,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.59% 47.24% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,745 9,526 10,606
10th Percentile £313 £280 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,146 796 841
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.48 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.24 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -15.52% -27.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.43 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.96 £21.30 £28.00
% change year-on-year +50.06% -23.93% -18.84%

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 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 12 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 12 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 -14 2,136 £575 +0.44% 1,427
UK excluding London -3 1,367 £550 - 911
Work from Home -5 816 £550 -3.93% 721
London -31 758 £600 +2.56% 661
South East -8 374 £550 +4.76% 221
Midlands +13 363 £550 - 161
North of England -3 337 £550 - 223
North West -3 232 £550 - 156
West Midlands +3 227 £500 -7.66% 99
East of England -7 142 £544 -6.25% 91
East Midlands +35 126 £625 +0.89% 61
Yorkshire +6 98 £525 - 63
South West -34 80 £575 +9.52% 86
Wales +11 40 £550 +77.28% 20
Scotland -3 39 £529 -0.42% 98
North East -46 6 £500 -8.26% 9
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +4 2 £488 +73.49% 21

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 39 (1.45%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.34%) Confluence
3 22 (0.82%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.48%) CMS
5 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.15%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) Apache
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 (0.074%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.074%) SAS
9 2 (0.074%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.037%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 133 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.67%) 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 1,046 (38.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 122 (4.53%) SAP FI
3 74 (2.75%) SAP CO
4 70 (2.60%) SAP FI/CO
5 68 (2.52%) SAP ERP
6 62 (2.30%) SAP SD
7 60 (2.23%) SAP MM
8 52 (1.93%) SAP PSCD
9 49 (1.82%) SAP EWM
10 45 (1.67%) SAP BRIM
11 44 (1.63%) SAP Payroll
12 43 (1.60%) SAP GRC
12 43 (1.60%) SAP IBP
13 42 (1.56%) SAP PP
14 34 (1.26%) SAP PM
15 33 (1.22%) SAP HR
15 33 (1.22%) SAP MDG
16 32 (1.19%) SAP HCM
16 32 (1.19%) SAP QM
17 31 (1.15%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 284 (10.54%) SuccessFactors
2 225 (8.35%) Azure
3 142 (5.27%) Power Platform
4 91 (3.38%) AWS
5 68 (2.52%) SaaS
6 60 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (1.52%) Entra ID
8 39 (1.45%) GCP
9 37 (1.37%) Boomi
10 28 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (0.89%) Snowflake
13 20 (0.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 19 (0.71%) GitHub
15 18 (0.67%) Power Automate
16 16 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (0.56%) Smartsheet
18 12 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
18 12 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.26%) Network Security
2 5 (0.19%) Firewall
2 5 (0.19%) Intranet
3 3 (0.11%) HTTP
3 3 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.074%) Broadband
4 2 (0.074%) LAN
4 2 (0.074%) SSL
4 2 (0.074%) WAN
5 1 (0.037%) DNS
5 1 (0.037%) FTP
5 1 (0.037%) Internet
5 1 (0.037%) MQTT
5 1 (0.037%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.037%) Wireless
5 1 (0.037%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (4.64%) Power BI
2 92 (3.41%) SAP HANA
3 52 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (1.89%) SAP BW
5 43 (1.60%) Tableau
6 41 (1.52%) SQL Server
7 40 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
8 27 (1.00%) SAP Data Services
9 16 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.59%) Metadata
9 16 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (0.45%) GIS
11 12 (0.45%) Oracle Database
11 12 (0.45%) Sybase ASE
12 11 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.37%) MaxDB
13 10 (0.37%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.22%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 108 (4.01%) JIRA
2 24 (0.89%) Hudson
3 19 (0.71%) Git
4 8 (0.30%) Postman
5 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.22%) LSMW
6 6 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.19%) SoapUI
7 5 (0.19%) Toad
8 4 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.11%) eggPlant
9 3 (0.11%) GitLab
9 3 (0.11%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.074%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.074%) Maven
10 2 (0.074%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.074%) Selenium
11 1 (0.037%) GCC
11 1 (0.037%) Subversion
General
1 836 (31.02%) Finance
2 681 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 305 (11.32%) Manufacturing
4 278 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 150 (5.57%) Public Sector
6 114 (4.23%) Retail
7 106 (3.93%) Billing
8 84 (3.12%) Pharmaceutical
9 83 (3.08%) Legal
10 78 (2.89%) Aerospace
11 59 (2.19%) Banking
12 58 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
14 51 (1.89%) General Ledger
15 35 (1.30%) Local Government
16 32 (1.19%) Automotive
17 30 (1.11%) Aviation
18 29 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
18 29 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 645 (23.93%) Consultant
2 558 (20.71%) SAP Consultant
3 341 (12.65%) Architect
4 316 (11.73%) Lead
5 314 (11.65%) Analyst
6 257 (9.54%) Senior
7 192 (7.12%) SAP Manager
8 179 (6.64%) SAP Architect
9 169 (6.27%) Project Manager
10 166 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
11 134 (4.97%) Business Analyst
12 111 (4.12%) Developer
13 105 (3.90%) SAP Analyst
14 87 (3.23%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 85 (3.15%) SAP Project Manager
16 84 (3.12%) Functional Consultant
17 83 (3.08%) Administrator
18 77 (2.86%) SAP Functional Consultant
19 66 (2.45%) Senior Consultant
20 61 (2.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (4.16%) SAP Fiori
2 91 (3.38%) Middleware
3 72 (2.67%) REST
4 57 (2.12%) SOAP
5 54 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 51 (1.89%) SAP Basis
7 39 (1.45%) XML
8 37 (1.37%) BAPI
9 35 (1.30%) IDoc
10 32 (1.19%) SAP PI
11 30 (1.11%) JSON
12 26 (0.96%) EDI
13 25 (0.93%) SAPUI5
13 25 (0.93%) Web Services
14 22 (0.82%) OAuth
15 17 (0.63%) Node.js
16 15 (0.56%) SAP ALE
17 14 (0.52%) JDBC
17 14 (0.52%) Kafka
18 13 (0.48%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 86 (3.19%) Data Structures
1 86 (3.19%) Onboarding
2 84 (3.12%) Public Cloud
3 77 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (2.34%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.08%) FMCG
7 52 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 37 (1.37%) Life Science
10 34 (1.26%) Cloud Native
11 27 (1.00%) Replication
12 22 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (0.71%) AI Agents
15 18 (0.67%) Operational Technology
16 16 (0.59%) SCADA
17 14 (0.52%) IoT
17 14 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.71%) Linux
2 36 (1.34%) Windows
3 22 (0.82%) Unix
4 9 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.33%) VMS
5 8 (0.30%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.074%) AIX
8 2 (0.074%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (22.41%) ERP
1 604 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 489 (18.14%) Migration
3 349 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
4 308 (11.43%) Data Migration
5 307 (11.39%) User Acceptance Testing
6 290 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 273 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 270 (10.02%) Agile
9 258 (9.57%) Validation
10 219 (8.13%) Workshop Facilitation
11 216 (8.01%) Analytics
12 205 (7.61%) Logistics
13 170 (6.31%) Project Management
14 165 (6.12%) Change Management
14 165 (6.12%) Roadmaps
15 158 (5.86%) Data Modelling
16 156 (5.79%) Business Intelligence
17 152 (5.64%) Decision-Making
18 148 (5.49%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 140 (5.19%) SQL
2 107 (3.97%) ABAP
3 65 (2.41%) Python
4 45 (1.67%) Java
5 20 (0.74%) JavaScript
5 20 (0.74%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.26%) Bicep
6 7 (0.26%) C#
7 6 (0.22%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.22%) Bash
8 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.19%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.15%) C++
9 4 (0.15%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.11%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.11%) C
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.11%) Korn
10 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 433 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 329 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 132 (4.90%) Degree
4 118 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 56 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 37 (1.37%) ACCA
7 36 (1.34%) CIMA
8 32 (1.19%) PMP
9 31 (1.15%) PMI Certification
10 25 (0.93%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.45%) HNC
13 12 (0.45%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.45%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
15 8 (0.30%) CISSP
15 8 (0.30%) ISEB
15 8 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.26%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.53%) PMO
3 91 (3.38%) QA
4 62 (2.30%) GDPR
5 59 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 46 (1.71%) GRC
7 17 (0.63%) IFRS
8 11 (0.41%) GxP
9 10 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.37%) SLA
10 8 (0.30%) GMP
10 8 (0.30%) NIST
11 7 (0.26%) GAAP
11 7 (0.26%) ITGC
12 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.22%) NCSC
13 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.074%) COSHH
System Software
1 28 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.59%) IAG
3 8 (0.30%) Docker
4 6 (0.22%) Corosync
5 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.037%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (0.63%) Terraform
2 15 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
4 4 (0.15%) Ansible
5 3 (0.11%) Grafana
5 3 (0.11%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.11%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.074%) Control-M
6 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.074%) MOM
7 1 (0.037%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.037%) Packer
7 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.037%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.037%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.037%) WSUS
Vendors
1 259 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 255 (9.46%) Ariba
3 252 (9.35%) Oracle
4 106 (3.93%) Salesforce
5 91 (3.38%) Workday
6 75 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.60%) MuleSoft
8 39 (1.45%) Databricks
9 37 (1.37%) Concur
9 37 (1.37%) Informatica
10 30 (1.11%) Adobe
10 30 (1.11%) IBM
11 23 (0.85%) Google
12 18 (0.67%) Red Hat
12 18 (0.67%) Sage
13 17 (0.63%) Infor
14 16 (0.59%) IFS
14 16 (0.59%) Siemens
15 15 (0.56%) OpenText
16 14 (0.52%) Dell