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 9 September 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
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,743 2,054 2,536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.04% 6.27% 6.66%
As % of the Vendors category 12.02% 13.30% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,345 1,018 1,220
10th Percentile £368 £363 £400
25th Percentile £469 £471 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -1.26% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £546 £575
% change year-on-year +0.78% -5.09% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 106 80
10th Percentile £15.04 £15.00 £15.05
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.07 £22.56
Median hourly rate £30.38 £23.27 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -42.56% +15.71%
75th Percentile £59.94 £43.75 £60.36
90th Percentile £87.50 £66.38 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £22.63 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.36% -35.34% +6.06%

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 22,818 15,440 16,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.89% 47.16% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,031 9,437 10,155
10th Percentile £313 £275 £289
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £627
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,217 780 691
10th Percentile £14.07 £14.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.83 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -18.87% -27.49%
75th Percentile £63.75 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.70 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.72 £21.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +25.56% -29.07% -25.00%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -10 2,177 £575 +1.55% 1,449
UK excluding London -1 1,405 £550 +0.78% 946
Work from Home -9 817 £570 +0.88% 778
London -30 762 £600 +2.56% 642
South East +2 403 £550 +4.76% 247
North of England -6 348 £550 - 244
Midlands +10 346 £550 - 155
North West -1 249 £550 +1.01% 155
West Midlands +7 215 £503 -7.11% 93
East of England -9 145 £574 -1.03% 98
East Midlands +28 122 £606 -3.00% 62
Yorkshire +3 93 £513 -5.96% 74
South West -38 85 £546 -5.00% 87
Scotland -18 44 £529 +24.47% 81
Wales +9 42 £550 +228.36% 21
North East -51 5 £500 -8.26% 16
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland -3 2 £450 +172.73% 26

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 40 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.28%) Confluence
3 18 (0.66%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.47%) CMS
5 7 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.15%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.11%) Apache
8 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.11%) JBoss
8 3 (0.11%) SugarCRM
8 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.073%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.073%) SAS
9 2 (0.073%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 129 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) CATIA
7 7 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) Windchill
9 1 (0.036%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.036%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1,061 (38.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 125 (4.56%) SAP FI
3 77 (2.81%) SAP CO
4 70 (2.55%) SAP SD
5 69 (2.52%) SAP FI/CO
6 67 (2.44%) SAP ERP
6 67 (2.44%) SAP MM
7 55 (2.01%) SAP Payroll
8 52 (1.90%) SAP HR
9 51 (1.86%) SAP GRC
10 50 (1.82%) SAP PSCD
11 48 (1.75%) SAP EWM
12 46 (1.68%) SAP PP
13 44 (1.60%) SAP HCM
14 43 (1.57%) SAP BRIM
15 41 (1.49%) SAP MDG
15 41 (1.49%) SAP PM
16 40 (1.46%) SAP IBP
17 31 (1.13%) SAP QM
18 29 (1.06%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 276 (10.06%) SuccessFactors
2 226 (8.24%) Azure
3 145 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 106 (3.86%) AWS
5 67 (2.44%) SaaS
6 58 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (1.75%) GCP
8 39 (1.42%) Entra ID
9 32 (1.17%) Boomi
10 29 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (0.80%) Snowflake
13 21 (0.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 17 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (0.62%) GitHub
14 17 (0.62%) Tricentis Tosca
15 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (0.58%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.55%) Smartsheet
17 14 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.22%) Intranet
2 5 (0.18%) Broadband
2 5 (0.18%) Firewall
3 3 (0.11%) HTTP
3 3 (0.11%) Network Security
3 3 (0.11%) VPN
4 2 (0.073%) LAN
4 2 (0.073%) SSL
4 2 (0.073%) WAN
5 1 (0.036%) DNS
5 1 (0.036%) Internet
5 1 (0.036%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.036%) MQTT
5 1 (0.036%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.036%) Wireless
5 1 (0.036%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (4.63%) Power BI
2 89 (3.24%) SAP HANA
3 60 (2.19%) SAP BW
4 47 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (1.53%) Tableau
6 40 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
7 38 (1.39%) SQL Server
8 26 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
9 17 (0.62%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.62%) Metadata
10 15 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 12 (0.44%) GIS
13 10 (0.36%) Delta Lake
13 10 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.36%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.29%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.29%) Sybase ASE
15 7 (0.26%) Power Query
15 7 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 111 (4.05%) JIRA
2 21 (0.77%) Hudson
3 19 (0.69%) Git
4 11 (0.40%) Postman
5 8 (0.29%) eggPlant
6 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.26%) SoapUI
6 7 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.18%) JMeter
8 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.18%) LSMW
8 5 (0.18%) Selenium
8 5 (0.18%) Toad
9 3 (0.11%) SOAtest
10 2 (0.073%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.073%) Maven
10 2 (0.073%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.073%) Rational Functional Tester
10 2 (0.073%) SilkTest
General
1 851 (31.02%) Finance
2 717 (26.14%) Social Skills
3 323 (11.78%) Manufacturing
4 283 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 130 (4.74%) Retail
6 129 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 105 (3.83%) Billing
8 81 (2.95%) Legal
9 70 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 69 (2.52%) Aerospace
11 62 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
13 60 (2.19%) Banking
14 54 (1.97%) General Ledger
15 35 (1.28%) Automotive
15 35 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.02%) Telecoms
17 27 (0.98%) Local Government
18 26 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
19 25 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 683 (24.90%) Consultant
2 580 (21.14%) SAP Consultant
3 350 (12.76%) Architect
4 321 (11.70%) Lead
5 312 (11.37%) Analyst
6 264 (9.62%) Senior
7 197 (7.18%) SAP Manager
8 173 (6.31%) SAP Architect
9 162 (5.91%) Project Manager
10 155 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
11 136 (4.96%) Business Analyst
12 106 (3.86%) Developer
13 105 (3.83%) SAP Analyst
14 83 (3.03%) Functional Consultant
15 82 (2.99%) SAP Project Manager
16 81 (2.95%) SAP Solutions Architect
17 77 (2.81%) Administrator
18 74 (2.70%) Senior Consultant
19 72 (2.62%) SAP Functional Consultant
20 66 (2.41%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (4.74%) SAP Fiori
2 98 (3.57%) Middleware
3 82 (2.99%) REST
4 67 (2.44%) SOAP
5 53 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
6 49 (1.79%) SAP Basis
7 47 (1.71%) XML
8 36 (1.31%) Web Services
9 33 (1.20%) BAPI
10 32 (1.17%) SAP PI
11 31 (1.13%) IDoc
11 31 (1.13%) JSON
11 31 (1.13%) SAPUI5
12 29 (1.06%) EDI
13 23 (0.84%) OAuth
14 18 (0.66%) Node.js
15 17 (0.62%) SAP ALE
15 17 (0.62%) Terraform
16 16 (0.58%) JDBC
16 16 (0.58%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 91 (3.32%) Onboarding
2 83 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 78 (2.84%) Public Cloud
4 75 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 63 (2.30%) FMCG
7 58 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 54 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
9 48 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 37 (1.35%) Life Science
11 34 (1.24%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.13%) Replication
13 24 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (0.77%) Operational Technology
15 20 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (0.62%) AI Agents
16 17 (0.62%) Private Cloud
17 16 (0.58%) SCADA
18 14 (0.51%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.49%) Linux
2 31 (1.13%) Windows
3 22 (0.80%) 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%) Solaris
8 2 (0.073%) AIX
8 2 (0.073%) Android
8 2 (0.073%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (24.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 613 (22.35%) ERP
3 503 (18.34%) Migration
4 364 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
5 342 (12.47%) User Acceptance Testing
6 314 (11.45%) Data Migration
7 279 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 273 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 267 (9.73%) Agile
10 262 (9.55%) Validation
11 237 (8.64%) Analytics
12 225 (8.20%) Logistics
13 214 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
14 178 (6.49%) Roadmaps
15 162 (5.91%) Process Improvement
16 161 (5.87%) System Integration Testing
17 159 (5.80%) Business Intelligence
17 159 (5.80%) Project Management
18 157 (5.72%) Decision-Making
19 150 (5.47%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 143 (5.21%) SQL
2 111 (4.05%) ABAP
3 69 (2.52%) Python
4 51 (1.86%) Java
5 24 (0.87%) JavaScript
6 20 (0.73%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.26%) Apex Code
7 7 (0.26%) Bicep
7 7 (0.26%) C#
8 6 (0.22%) BeanShell
9 5 (0.18%) Bash
9 5 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.18%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
10 4 (0.15%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) C++
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.073%) C
12 2 (0.073%) Perl
Qualifications
1 447 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 350 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 135 (4.92%) Degree
4 132 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 61 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.31%) ACCA
7 34 (1.24%) CIMA
8 31 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 31 (1.13%) PMP
9 25 (0.91%) SAP Certification
10 20 (0.73%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (0.58%) HNC
12 13 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 11 (0.40%) NVQ Level 4
14 10 (0.36%) CISSP
14 10 (0.36%) ISEB
14 10 (0.36%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.32%) PMO
3 85 (3.10%) QA
4 64 (2.33%) GDPR
5 53 (1.93%) GRC
6 52 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (0.62%) IFRS
8 16 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.40%) GxP
9 11 (0.40%) NIST
10 8 (0.29%) SLA
11 7 (0.26%) ITGC
12 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.22%) GAAP
12 6 (0.22%) GMP
12 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.22%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.22%) NCSC
13 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
14 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 21 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.66%) IAG
3 6 (0.22%) Corosync
4 5 (0.18%) Docker
5 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (0.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (0.26%) Pacemaker
4 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.11%) Ansible
6 3 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.073%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.073%) MOM
8 1 (0.036%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.036%) QRadar
8 1 (0.036%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.036%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.036%) WSUS
Vendors
1 282 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 264 (9.62%) Ariba
3 262 (9.55%) Oracle
4 115 (4.19%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.65%) Workday
6 75 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.64%) Databricks
8 40 (1.46%) MuleSoft
9 36 (1.31%) Concur
10 35 (1.28%) Adobe
11 32 (1.17%) IBM
12 29 (1.06%) Informatica
13 27 (0.98%) Google
14 23 (0.84%) Siemens
15 17 (0.62%) Red Hat
16 14 (0.51%) Infor
16 14 (0.51%) Sage
17 12 (0.44%) OpenText
18 11 (0.40%) Dell
18 11 (0.40%) IFS