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 17 July 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +2
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,652 2,075 2,564
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.04% 6.38% 6.08%
As % of the Vendors category 12.20% 13.42% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,015 1,316
10th Percentile £360 £368 £395
25th Percentile £460 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 115 116
10th Percentile £16.72 £16.31 £13.99
25th Percentile £22.63 £21.35 £19.65
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +3.39% -39.80%
75th Percentile £60.75 £60.00 £55.79
90th Percentile £86.00 £70.00 £65.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £25.42 £27.02
% change year-on-year +18.02% -5.90% -39.97%

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 21,743 15,464 18,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.29% 47.54% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,516 9,461 11,390
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 756 1,049
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.24 £15.10
Median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.79% -3.27% -35.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.67 £61.30
90th Percentile £84.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.04% -10.00% -19.35%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -13 2,095 £575 +1.05% 471
UK excluding London -7 1,298 £540 -1.82% 348
Work from Home -3 830 £550 -5.17% 322
London -25 772 £600 +2.56% 181
South East -7 349 £550 +2.52% 102
Midlands +6 339 £525 -4.55% 76
North of England -10 310 £525 -0.94% 85
West Midlands -7 209 £500 -7.66% 50
North West -12 206 £530 - 48
East of England 0 165 £510 -14.82% 33
East Midlands +30 121 £600 +0.67% 26
Yorkshire +6 99 £525 - 33
South West -38 76 £600 +20.00% 17
Scotland -1 37 £533 -11.17% 12
Wales +7 32 £550 +77.28% 15
North East -45 4 £500 -6.54% 5
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -2 2 £488 +73.49% 10

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 41 (1.55%) Confluence
2 29 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.87%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.45%) CMS
5 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 5 (0.19%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.075%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.075%) Apache
9 2 (0.075%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.075%) JBoss
9 2 (0.075%) SAS
10 1 (0.038%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.038%) Camunda
10 1 (0.038%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.038%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.038%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 126 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.38%) CATIA
8 3 (0.11%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.038%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.038%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,064 (40.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 118 (4.45%) SAP FI
3 70 (2.64%) SAP SD
4 68 (2.56%) SAP CO
4 68 (2.56%) SAP MM
5 66 (2.49%) SAP ERP
6 63 (2.38%) SAP FI/CO
7 60 (2.26%) SAP PSCD
8 55 (2.07%) SAP EWM
9 48 (1.81%) SAP BRIM
10 44 (1.66%) SAP Payroll
11 43 (1.62%) SAP IBP
12 41 (1.55%) SAP GRC
12 41 (1.55%) SAP PP
13 39 (1.47%) SAP PM
14 38 (1.43%) SAP HCM
15 36 (1.36%) SAP MDG
16 34 (1.28%) SAP FI-CA
17 32 (1.21%) SAP QM
18 29 (1.09%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 252 (9.50%) SuccessFactors
2 230 (8.67%) Azure
3 137 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 89 (3.36%) AWS
5 75 (2.83%) SaaS
6 61 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.43%) Boomi
7 38 (1.43%) Entra ID
8 35 (1.32%) GCP
9 25 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (0.79%) Power Automate
10 21 (0.79%) Snowflake
11 20 (0.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 18 (0.68%) GitHub
13 15 (0.57%) PowerApps
13 15 (0.57%) Smartsheet
14 14 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (0.53%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.34%) Network Security
2 7 (0.26%) Firewall
3 5 (0.19%) VPN
4 4 (0.15%) WAN
5 3 (0.11%) DNS
5 3 (0.11%) HTTP
6 2 (0.075%) BGP
6 2 (0.075%) LAN
6 2 (0.075%) OSPF
6 2 (0.075%) RFID
6 2 (0.075%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.038%) Broadband
7 1 (0.038%) FTP
7 1 (0.038%) Internet
7 1 (0.038%) Intranet
7 1 (0.038%) MQTT
7 1 (0.038%) SSL
7 1 (0.038%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.038%) Wireless
7 1 (0.038%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (4.71%) Power BI
2 98 (3.70%) SAP HANA
3 47 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (1.70%) SAP BW
5 42 (1.58%) SQL Server
6 40 (1.51%) BusinessObjects
7 38 (1.43%) Tableau
8 27 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
9 18 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 16 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.53%) Metadata
12 12 (0.45%) Relational Database
13 11 (0.41%) GIS
13 11 (0.41%) Sybase ASE
14 10 (0.38%) MaxDB
15 9 (0.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.30%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.26%) NoSQL
18 6 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 106 (4.00%) JIRA
2 24 (0.90%) Hudson
3 21 (0.79%) Git
4 8 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.23%) LSMW
5 6 (0.23%) Postman
6 4 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.11%) GitLab
7 3 (0.11%) JMeter
7 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.075%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.075%) Maven
8 2 (0.075%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.075%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.075%) Selenium
8 2 (0.075%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.075%) Toad
9 1 (0.038%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.038%) GCC
9 1 (0.038%) Spock
General
1 835 (31.49%) Finance
2 686 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 286 (10.78%) Manufacturing
4 285 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 161 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 114 (4.30%) Billing
7 98 (3.70%) Retail
8 91 (3.43%) Pharmaceutical
9 88 (3.32%) Legal
10 70 (2.64%) Aerospace
11 62 (2.34%) Banking
12 51 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.89%) General Ledger
14 44 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.47%) Local Government
16 34 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
17 30 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 25 (0.94%) Law
19 24 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 24 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 643 (24.25%) Consultant
2 567 (21.38%) SAP Consultant
3 344 (12.97%) Architect
4 313 (11.80%) Lead
5 310 (11.69%) Analyst
6 229 (8.63%) Senior
7 195 (7.35%) SAP Manager
8 182 (6.86%) SAP Architect
9 176 (6.64%) Project Manager
10 165 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
11 135 (5.09%) Business Analyst
12 117 (4.41%) Developer
13 94 (3.54%) SAP Analyst
14 93 (3.51%) Functional Consultant
15 90 (3.39%) SAP Project Manager
16 87 (3.28%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 85 (3.21%) SAP Solutions Architect
18 75 (2.83%) Administrator
19 64 (2.41%) Senior Manager
20 56 (2.11%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (4.86%) SAP Fiori
2 100 (3.77%) Middleware
3 70 (2.64%) REST
4 49 (1.85%) SAP Basis
5 48 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
5 48 (1.81%) SOAP
6 44 (1.66%) BAPI
7 39 (1.47%) IDoc
8 35 (1.32%) SAPUI5
9 32 (1.21%) SAP PI
10 28 (1.06%) JSON
11 26 (0.98%) XML
12 25 (0.94%) EDI
12 25 (0.94%) SAP TM
13 23 (0.87%) Web Services
14 21 (0.79%) OAuth
15 15 (0.57%) Node.js
15 15 (0.57%) SAP ALE
16 13 (0.49%) JDBC
17 12 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (3.36%) Public Cloud
2 83 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 78 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 74 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 57 (2.15%) Product Ownership
6 52 (1.96%) FMCG
7 50 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 43 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 33 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 28 (1.06%) Life Science
12 25 (0.94%) Replication
13 23 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (0.79%) AI Agents
16 18 (0.68%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.64%) Operational Technology
17 17 (0.64%) SCADA
17 17 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.51%) Linux
2 32 (1.21%) Windows
3 19 (0.72%) Unix
4 10 (0.38%) VMS
5 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.30%) SUSE
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.075%) AIX
8 2 (0.075%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (23.19%) ERP
2 559 (21.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 503 (18.97%) Migration
4 346 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
5 310 (11.69%) Data Migration
6 305 (11.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 279 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 275 (10.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 267 (10.07%) Agile
10 254 (9.58%) Validation
11 217 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
12 209 (7.88%) Analytics
13 196 (7.39%) Logistics
14 188 (7.09%) Project Management
15 170 (6.41%) Change Management
16 160 (6.03%) Data Modelling
17 159 (6.00%) Decision-Making
18 157 (5.92%) Business Intelligence
19 143 (5.39%) Roadmaps
19 143 (5.39%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 129 (4.86%) SQL
2 116 (4.37%) ABAP
3 56 (2.11%) Python
4 38 (1.43%) Java
5 18 (0.68%) PowerShell
6 16 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.30%) C#
8 6 (0.23%) Bash
8 6 (0.23%) Bicep
8 6 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.15%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.15%) C
10 4 (0.15%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.15%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.15%) VB
11 3 (0.11%) C++
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.075%) Korn
Qualifications
1 392 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 303 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.58%) Degree
4 114 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 53 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 42 (1.58%) ACCA
7 41 (1.55%) CIMA
8 39 (1.47%) PMP
9 38 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 31 (1.17%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.75%) Azure Certification
12 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.41%) HNC
14 11 (0.41%) NVQ Level 4
15 9 (0.34%) CISSP
16 8 (0.30%) CISM
17 7 (0.26%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 6 (0.23%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (6.26%) Data Quality
2 102 (3.85%) PMO
3 91 (3.43%) QA
4 63 (2.38%) GDPR
5 55 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 43 (1.62%) GRC
7 18 (0.68%) IFRS
8 13 (0.49%) SLA
9 12 (0.45%) GxP
10 11 (0.41%) GMP
11 8 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.26%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.26%) GAAP
12 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.26%) NIST
13 6 (0.23%) NCSC
14 5 (0.19%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.19%) ITGC
15 4 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 26 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.60%) IAG
3 7 (0.26%) Docker
4 6 (0.23%) Corosync
5 1 (0.038%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.64%) Terraform
2 16 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
5 5 (0.19%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.15%) Ansible
7 3 (0.11%) Grafana
8 2 (0.075%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.075%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.038%) MOM
9 1 (0.038%) Packer
9 1 (0.038%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.038%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.038%) WSUS
Vendors
1 260 (9.80%) Ariba
2 257 (9.69%) Microsoft
3 236 (8.90%) Oracle
4 95 (3.58%) Salesforce
5 89 (3.36%) Workday
6 75 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 41 (1.55%) MuleSoft
8 38 (1.43%) Informatica
9 37 (1.40%) Concur
9 37 (1.40%) Databricks
10 32 (1.21%) Adobe
11 28 (1.06%) Sage
12 27 (1.02%) IBM
13 20 (0.75%) IFS
14 18 (0.68%) Google
14 18 (0.68%) Siemens
15 17 (0.64%) Infor
16 16 (0.60%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.57%) Dell
18 13 (0.49%) OpenText