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 4 March 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
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,310 2,019 2,711
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.48% 6.72% 6.12%
As % of the Vendors category 12.34% 14.41% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 1,032 1,371
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -1.11% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 53 120
10th Percentile £16.55 £19.65 £13.05
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £47.50 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.47% +62.39% -35.00%
75th Percentile £55.75 £70.00 £60.06
90th Percentile £77.58 £86.00 £84.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £36.63 £26.03
% change year-on-year -34.96% +40.72% -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 18,722 14,011 19,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.43% 46.64% 43.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,002 8,583 11,959
10th Percentile £306 £283 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.93%
75th Percentile £602 £623 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 937 442 979
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.62 £12.73
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.55 £29.54 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +16.97% -27.86%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £82.33 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £27.35 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.26% +10.95% -24.15%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 1,816 £560 +1.82% 638
UK excluding London -13 1,017 £534 -1.11% 489
Work from Home -1 795 £560 -2.61% 333
London -12 740 £575 -4.17% 164
North of England -13 305 £597 +12.55% 109
South East -10 237 £550 - 137
Midlands -12 213 £500 -7.41% 120
North West -9 203 £623 +15.49% 65
East of England 0 159 £505 -12.93% 61
West Midlands -18 139 £492 -13.30% 69
Yorkshire -1 90 £595 +58.67% 40
South West -42 77 £625 +20.67% 40
East Midlands -5 70 £505 -2.88% 49
Scotland +2 22 £450 -18.18% 16
Wales +8 21 £370 -38.42% 13
North East -24 11 £175 -51.72% 5
Northern Ireland -1 3 £513 - 4
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 25 (1.08%) Confluence
2 22 (0.95%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.91%) NetWeaver
4 15 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.35%) CMS
6 6 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.22%) MTS
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
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 (0.087%) Apache
9 2 (0.087%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.087%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.043%) LiveCycle
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 106 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.26%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.22%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.043%) Sketch
10 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 907 (39.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (4.76%) SAP FI
3 77 (3.33%) SAP CO
4 73 (3.16%) SAP MM
5 70 (3.03%) SAP FI/CO
6 62 (2.68%) SAP ERP
6 62 (2.68%) SAP PP
7 54 (2.34%) SAP EWM
8 51 (2.21%) SAP Payroll
9 49 (2.12%) SAP HCM
10 42 (1.82%) SAP PM
11 35 (1.52%) SAP PSCD
12 33 (1.43%) SAP QM
13 32 (1.39%) SAP Travel Management
14 31 (1.34%) SAP HR
14 31 (1.34%) SAP MDG
15 30 (1.30%) SAP SD
16 26 (1.13%) SAP BRIM
16 26 (1.13%) SAP VC
17 22 (0.95%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 196 (8.48%) Azure
2 168 (7.27%) SuccessFactors
3 89 (3.85%) AWS
4 81 (3.51%) Power Platform
5 59 (2.55%) SaaS
6 52 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (2.21%) GCP
8 34 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.30%) Entra ID
10 27 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 21 (0.91%) OCI
13 18 (0.78%) Boomi
14 17 (0.74%) Power Automate
14 17 (0.74%) Snowflake
15 14 (0.61%) GitHub
16 11 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (0.48%) Tricentis Tosca
17 10 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.00%) Wireless
2 11 (0.48%) Network Security
3 9 (0.39%) VPN
4 8 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (0.35%) HTTPS
4 8 (0.35%) Skype
5 7 (0.30%) Firewall
5 7 (0.30%) LAN
5 7 (0.30%) WAN
6 5 (0.22%) BGP
6 5 (0.22%) FTP
6 5 (0.22%) OSPF
6 5 (0.22%) RFID
6 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.17%) DNS
7 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
8 3 (0.13%) Junos
9 2 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.087%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (3.81%) SAP HANA
2 78 (3.38%) Power BI
3 31 (1.34%) SAP BW
4 29 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 20 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 20 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
7 18 (0.78%) Metadata
8 15 (0.65%) Tableau
9 14 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
10 13 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (0.43%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 10 (0.43%) GIS
13 8 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.26%) MySQL
14 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
15 5 (0.22%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.22%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 85 (3.68%) JIRA
2 16 (0.69%) Git
3 10 (0.43%) LSMW
4 9 (0.39%) GitLab
5 8 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.30%) Hudson
6 7 (0.30%) Toad
7 6 (0.26%) Postman
8 4 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.17%) JUnit
8 4 (0.17%) Selenium
8 4 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.13%) JMeter
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.13%) Storybook
9 3 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
10 2 (0.087%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.087%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.043%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.043%) Travis CI
General
1 810 (35.06%) Finance
2 739 (31.99%) Social Skills
3 383 (16.58%) Manufacturing
4 314 (13.59%) Public Sector
5 270 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
6 177 (7.66%) Telecoms
7 170 (7.36%) Marketing
8 147 (6.36%) Electronics
9 107 (4.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 69 (2.99%) Billing
11 60 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 60 (2.60%) Retail
12 58 (2.51%) Banking
12 58 (2.51%) Legal
13 57 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
14 47 (2.03%) Aerospace
15 42 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (1.82%) Local Government
16 34 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
17 31 (1.34%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 652 (28.23%) Consultant
2 531 (22.99%) SAP Consultant
3 271 (11.73%) Lead
4 238 (10.30%) Architect
5 194 (8.40%) Analyst
6 172 (7.45%) Project Manager
7 165 (7.14%) SAP Manager
8 146 (6.32%) Senior
9 133 (5.76%) SAP Architect
10 126 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
11 114 (4.94%) Developer
12 96 (4.16%) Business Analyst
13 90 (3.90%) SAP Project Manager
14 82 (3.55%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 78 (3.38%) Functional Consultant
16 73 (3.16%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 67 (2.90%) Administrator
17 67 (2.90%) SAP Developer
18 59 (2.55%) Management Consultant
18 59 (2.55%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (6.54%) SAP Fiori
2 58 (2.51%) Middleware
3 47 (2.03%) SAPUI5
3 47 (2.03%) Web Services
4 42 (1.82%) SAP Basis
4 42 (1.82%) XML
5 41 (1.77%) SAP TM
6 40 (1.73%) SOAP
7 39 (1.69%) BAPI
8 38 (1.65%) REST
9 30 (1.30%) SAP PI
10 23 (1.00%) HTML
11 22 (0.95%) IDoc
12 21 (0.91%) CSS
13 19 (0.82%) EDI
13 19 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.61%) SAP ALE
15 13 (0.56%) .NET
15 13 (0.56%) JSON
15 13 (0.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 82 (3.55%) Onboarding
2 69 (2.99%) Public Cloud
3 63 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 34 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 33 (1.43%) FMCG
7 29 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
8 28 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 27 (1.17%) Life Science
10 25 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.08%) Taxonomies
11 22 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (0.91%) Replication
13 20 (0.87%) Management Information System
14 18 (0.78%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.69%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.61%) Cloud Native
18 12 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.95%) Windows
2 31 (1.34%) Android
2 31 (1.34%) Mac OS
3 21 (0.91%) Linux
4 15 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.22%) VMS
6 5 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 4 (0.17%) Unix
8 2 (0.087%) SUSE
9 1 (0.043%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (19.35%) ERP
2 433 (18.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 419 (18.14%) Migration
4 273 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 272 (11.77%) Problem-Solving
6 242 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
7 218 (9.44%) Agile
8 216 (9.35%) Data Migration
9 209 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 203 (8.79%) Logistics
11 200 (8.66%) Project Management
12 193 (8.35%) Workshop Facilitation
13 185 (8.01%) User Acceptance Testing
14 168 (7.27%) Change Management
14 168 (7.27%) Programme Management
15 167 (7.23%) Analytics
16 150 (6.49%) Digital Marketing
16 150 (6.49%) Validation
17 148 (6.41%) Roadmaps
18 135 (5.84%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (6.06%) ABAP
2 108 (4.68%) SQL
3 47 (2.03%) JavaScript
4 46 (1.99%) Python
5 41 (1.77%) Java
6 18 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.61%) Groovy
8 13 (0.56%) C#
9 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.17%) C++
10 4 (0.17%) Go
10 4 (0.17%) VBA
11 3 (0.13%) R
11 3 (0.13%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.13%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.087%) Bash
12 2 (0.087%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.087%) VB
12 2 (0.087%) XPath
Qualifications
1 455 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 364 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 166 (7.19%) Degree
4 106 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 53 (2.29%) PMP
6 51 (2.21%) SAP Certification
7 45 (1.95%) PMI Certification
8 40 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 39 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 29 (1.26%) ACCA
11 28 (1.21%) CIMA
12 21 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.35%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.35%) CISSP
15 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.30%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.30%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (4.16%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.85%) QA
3 70 (3.03%) PMO
4 42 (1.82%) GDPR
5 36 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 30 (1.30%) SLA
7 22 (0.95%) GRC
8 17 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.56%) GxP
9 13 (0.56%) NIST
10 10 (0.43%) IFRS
11 9 (0.39%) GAAP
11 9 (0.39%) GMP
12 8 (0.35%) COBIT
12 8 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.35%) ITGC
13 7 (0.30%) SOX 404
14 6 (0.26%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.48%) Docker
3 5 (0.22%) IAG
4 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.043%) Varnish
5 1 (0.043%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (0.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.26%) HP ALM
3 6 (0.26%) Terraform
4 3 (0.13%) Control-M
4 3 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (0.13%) Grafana
5 2 (0.087%) Ansible
5 2 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.087%) Linux-HA
5 2 (0.087%) Pacemaker
5 2 (0.087%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.087%) vRealize
6 1 (0.043%) Argo
6 1 (0.043%) Autotask
6 1 (0.043%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.043%) Packer
6 1 (0.043%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 204 (8.83%) Ariba
2 198 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 179 (7.75%) Oracle
4 82 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 76 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 76 (3.29%) Workday
6 44 (1.90%) Cisco
7 37 (1.60%) Dell
8 36 (1.56%) Adobe
9 35 (1.52%) HP
10 33 (1.43%) Sage
11 29 (1.26%) Informatica
12 24 (1.04%) Databricks
13 23 (1.00%) Apple
13 23 (1.00%) IBM
14 21 (0.91%) Google
15 18 (0.78%) Okta
16 17 (0.74%) OpenText
17 16 (0.69%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.61%) Concur