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 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +2
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,719 2,073 2,497
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.08% 6.26% 6.44%
As % of the Vendors category 12.17% 13.25% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 1,029 1,276
10th Percentile £362 £362 £400
25th Percentile £463 £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 225 108 87
10th Percentile £16.52 £16.15 £15.10
25th Percentile £22.00 £20.09 £22.38
Median hourly rate £32.23 £26.36 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% -25.47% -21.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £86.00 £69.13 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £22.63 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.25% -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 22,333 15,640 16,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.25% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,840 9,561 10,600
10th Percentile £313 £278 £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 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.41% -4.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,148 809 830
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.99 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.68% -10.18% -30.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.60 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.27 £21.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +41.51% -22.22% -17.22%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -12 2,161 £575 +1.77% 1,053
UK excluding London -2 1,381 £550 - 743
Work from Home -5 821 £550 -0.90% 593
London -25 767 £600 +3.45% 442
South East -6 374 £550 +4.76% 159
Midlands +10 364 £550 - 139
North of England -6 346 £550 +0.92% 198
North West +1 243 £550 +2.04% 132
West Midlands -3 225 £500 -7.66% 80
East of England -7 144 £580 - 66
East Midlands +29 129 £619 -0.12% 59
Yorkshire +5 96 £525 - 59
South West -34 80 £600 +9.09% 77
Wales +8 41 £550 +77.28% 21
Scotland -2 40 £525 +23.53% 73
North East -46 6 £500 -8.26% 12
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +1 2 £488 +118.61% 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 42 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.32%) Confluence
3 22 (0.81%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.48%) 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 (0.074%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.074%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.074%) SAS
9 2 (0.074%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 129 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (1.07%) 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 1,053 (38.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 122 (4.49%) SAP FI
3 74 (2.72%) SAP CO
4 68 (2.50%) SAP FI/CO
5 66 (2.43%) SAP ERP
6 64 (2.35%) SAP SD
7 61 (2.24%) SAP MM
8 52 (1.91%) SAP PSCD
9 48 (1.77%) SAP EWM
10 47 (1.73%) SAP GRC
11 46 (1.69%) SAP Payroll
12 45 (1.66%) SAP BRIM
13 42 (1.54%) SAP IBP
13 42 (1.54%) SAP PP
14 38 (1.40%) SAP HR
15 35 (1.29%) SAP MDG
15 35 (1.29%) SAP PM
16 32 (1.18%) SAP HCM
16 32 (1.18%) SAP QM
17 31 (1.14%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 290 (10.67%) SuccessFactors
2 229 (8.42%) Azure
3 142 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 97 (3.57%) AWS
5 67 (2.46%) SaaS
6 61 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (1.62%) GCP
8 40 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 39 (1.43%) Boomi
10 29 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (0.88%) Snowflake
13 20 (0.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 19 (0.70%) GitHub
15 17 (0.63%) Power Automate
16 16 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (0.55%) Smartsheet
18 13 (0.48%) Tricentis Tosca
19 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 (0.074%) LAN
5 2 (0.074%) SSL
5 2 (0.074%) 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
1 125 (4.60%) Power BI
2 94 (3.46%) SAP HANA
3 55 (2.02%) SAP BW
4 52 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (1.66%) Tableau
6 41 (1.51%) SQL Server
7 38 (1.40%) BusinessObjects
8 27 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
9 16 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.59%) Metadata
9 16 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.48%) GIS
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
1 110 (4.05%) JIRA
2 23 (0.85%) Hudson
3 20 (0.74%) 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 (0.074%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.074%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.074%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.074%) Rational Functional Tester
11 2 (0.074%) SOAtest
General
1 841 (30.93%) Finance
2 699 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 307 (11.29%) Manufacturing
4 282 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 148 (5.44%) Public Sector
6 116 (4.27%) Retail
7 109 (4.01%) Billing
8 81 (2.98%) Legal
8 81 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 75 (2.76%) Aerospace
10 57 (2.10%) Banking
10 57 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 56 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (1.91%) General Ledger
13 33 (1.21%) Automotive
13 33 (1.21%) Local Government
14 30 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 29 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.07%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.03%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 657 (24.16%) Consultant
2 562 (20.67%) SAP Consultant
3 345 (12.69%) Architect
4 315 (11.59%) Analyst
4 315 (11.59%) Lead
5 257 (9.45%) Senior
6 194 (7.13%) SAP Manager
7 177 (6.51%) SAP Architect
8 168 (6.18%) Project Manager
9 167 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
10 136 (5.00%) Business Analyst
11 112 (4.12%) Developer
12 106 (3.90%) SAP Analyst
13 87 (3.20%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 85 (3.13%) SAP Project Manager
15 84 (3.09%) Functional Consultant
16 80 (2.94%) Administrator
17 77 (2.83%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 69 (2.54%) Senior Consultant
19 63 (2.32%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (4.19%) SAP Fiori
2 99 (3.64%) Middleware
3 77 (2.83%) REST
4 63 (2.32%) SOAP
5 54 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
6 50 (1.84%) SAP Basis
7 45 (1.66%) XML
8 38 (1.40%) BAPI
9 35 (1.29%) IDoc
10 32 (1.18%) JSON
10 32 (1.18%) SAP PI
11 30 (1.10%) Web Services
12 27 (0.99%) EDI
13 25 (0.92%) SAPUI5
14 23 (0.85%) OAuth
15 19 (0.70%) Node.js
16 16 (0.59%) Kafka
16 16 (0.59%) SAP ALE
17 14 (0.51%) JDBC
17 14 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 91 (3.35%) Onboarding
2 89 (3.27%) Public Cloud
3 85 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 75 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 62 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 55 (2.02%) FMCG
8 51 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
9 42 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 37 (1.36%) Life Science
11 34 (1.25%) Cloud Native
12 27 (0.99%) Replication
13 24 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 23 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
16 19 (0.70%) Operational Technology
17 18 (0.66%) AI Agents
18 16 (0.59%) SCADA
19 14 (0.51%) IoT
19 14 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.80%) Linux
2 36 (1.32%) Windows
3 26 (0.96%) 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 (0.074%) AIX
8 2 (0.074%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (22.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 604 (22.21%) ERP
3 485 (17.84%) Migration
4 355 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
5 316 (11.62%) User Acceptance Testing
6 308 (11.33%) Data Migration
7 287 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 276 (10.15%) Agile
9 274 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 260 (9.56%) Validation
11 222 (8.16%) Workshop Facilitation
12 219 (8.05%) Analytics
13 203 (7.47%) Logistics
14 168 (6.18%) Roadmaps
15 167 (6.14%) Project Management
16 161 (5.92%) Change Management
17 157 (5.77%) Data Modelling
18 156 (5.74%) Business Intelligence
19 152 (5.59%) System Integration Testing
20 151 (5.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 144 (5.30%) SQL
2 106 (3.90%) ABAP
3 68 (2.50%) Python
4 50 (1.84%) Java
5 23 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 20 (0.74%) 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%) C++
10 4 (0.15%) Korn
11 3 (0.11%) C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 443 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 339 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 137 (5.04%) Degree
4 121 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 55 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.32%) ACCA
7 35 (1.29%) CIMA
8 33 (1.21%) PMP
9 32 (1.18%) PMI Certification
10 26 (0.96%) SAP Certification
11 20 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.51%) HNC
13 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.40%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.40%) NVQ Level 4
15 10 (0.37%) ISEB
15 10 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.53%) PMO
3 95 (3.49%) QA
4 62 (2.28%) GDPR
5 56 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 50 (1.84%) GRC
7 17 (0.63%) IFRS
8 11 (0.40%) GxP
8 11 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.33%) SLA
10 8 (0.29%) GMP
10 8 (0.29%) NIST
11 7 (0.26%) GAAP
12 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.22%) ITGC
12 6 (0.22%) NCSC
13 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 27 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.66%) IAG
3 8 (0.29%) Docker
4 6 (0.22%) Corosync
5 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.037%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (0.63%) Terraform
2 16 (0.59%) Kubernetes
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
5 4 (0.15%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.074%) 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
1 270 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 266 (9.78%) Oracle
3 250 (9.19%) Ariba
4 109 (4.01%) Salesforce
5 95 (3.49%) Workday
6 77 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.66%) MuleSoft
8 39 (1.43%) Databricks
9 37 (1.36%) Informatica
10 36 (1.32%) Concur
11 34 (1.25%) IBM
12 33 (1.21%) Adobe
13 27 (0.99%) Google
14 17 (0.63%) Infor
14 17 (0.63%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.59%) IFS
15 16 (0.59%) Sage
15 16 (0.59%) Siemens
16 15 (0.55%) Dell
16 15 (0.55%) OpenText