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 7 April 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
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,399 1,936 2,636
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.26% 6.62% 6.01%
As % of the Vendors category 12.19% 14.02% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,020 1,377
10th Percentile £361 £361 £350
25th Percentile £463 £483 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +0.68% -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £669
90th Percentile £750 £773 £787
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 60 127
10th Percentile £17.69 £21.16 £13.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £25.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.08 £56.25 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -46.53% +116.10% -42.16%
75th Percentile £57.25 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £86.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -50.00% +102.84% -45.22%

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 19,674 13,807 18,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.15% 47.18% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,623 8,723 11,700
10th Percentile £313 £291 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 502 1,052
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.25 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £14.39
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.68 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +27.44% -46.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.44 £56.70
90th Percentile £78.65 £80.54 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £26.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.09% +23.26% -43.42%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 1,865 £575 +4.55% 552
UK excluding London -10 1,105 £550 +1.85% 415
Work from Home 0 793 £581 +1.04% 266
London -16 732 £600 - 205
North of England -21 279 £563 +7.14% 92
South East -12 276 £575 - 159
Midlands -8 250 £500 -7.41% 77
North West -12 179 £550 +2.23% 55
East of England +1 167 £518 -10.78% 37
West Midlands -9 164 £475 -18.80% 53
Yorkshire -1 92 £595 +56.07% 34
East Midlands +4 81 £600 +20.00% 24
South West -34 81 £618 +23.50% 26
Wales +19 36 £550 -24.14% 13
Scotland +14 24 £450 -25.00% 9
North East -32 7 £175 -55.70% 4
Channel Islands - 5 - - 4
Northern Ireland -6 3 £500 +77.94% 3

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 33 (1.38%) Confluence
2 26 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.79%) NetWeaver
4 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.38%) CMS
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.25%) SAP EP
8 5 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.21%) MTS
9 4 (0.17%) Apache
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.13%) MS Project Server
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.083%) JBoss
12 1 (0.042%) OpenStack
Applications
1 116 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.38%) CATIA
8 6 (0.25%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.21%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.042%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.042%) Sketch
11 1 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 907 (37.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 112 (4.67%) SAP FI
3 73 (3.04%) SAP CO
4 69 (2.88%) SAP FI/CO
4 69 (2.88%) SAP MM
5 64 (2.67%) SAP ERP
6 62 (2.58%) SAP PP
7 60 (2.50%) SAP EWM
8 44 (1.83%) SAP HCM
8 44 (1.83%) SAP Payroll
8 44 (1.83%) SAP PM
9 42 (1.75%) SAP SD
10 39 (1.63%) SAP PSCD
11 32 (1.33%) SAP MDG
12 28 (1.17%) SAP QM
13 27 (1.13%) SAP BRIM
13 27 (1.13%) SAP IBP
13 27 (1.13%) SAP Travel Management
14 24 (1.00%) SAP HR
15 22 (0.92%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 207 (8.63%) SuccessFactors
2 205 (8.55%) Azure
3 97 (4.04%) Power Platform
4 87 (3.63%) AWS
5 72 (3.00%) SaaS
6 40 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (1.54%) GCP
9 34 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
9 34 (1.42%) Entra ID
10 23 (0.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 21 (0.88%) OCI
12 17 (0.71%) Boomi
12 17 (0.71%) GitHub
12 17 (0.71%) Power Automate
12 17 (0.71%) Snowflake
13 16 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (0.58%) Tricentis Tosca
15 13 (0.54%) PaaS
16 12 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.50%) Network Security
2 11 (0.46%) Wireless
3 8 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 8 (0.33%) Skype
3 8 (0.33%) VPN
4 7 (0.29%) LAN
4 7 (0.29%) WAN
5 6 (0.25%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.21%) FTP
6 5 (0.21%) RFID
6 5 (0.21%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.17%) BGP
7 4 (0.17%) DNS
7 4 (0.17%) OSPF
7 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.13%) Internet
9 2 (0.083%) DHCP
9 2 (0.083%) Junos
9 2 (0.083%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (3.83%) Power BI
2 83 (3.46%) SAP HANA
3 33 (1.38%) SAP BW
4 32 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.96%) SAP Data Services
7 22 (0.92%) Metadata
8 19 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 19 (0.79%) Tableau
9 15 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
11 13 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
12 11 (0.46%) GIS
13 8 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 6 (0.25%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
15 5 (0.21%) MaxDB
15 5 (0.21%) MySQL
15 5 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 94 (3.92%) JIRA
2 17 (0.71%) Git
3 15 (0.63%) Hudson
4 11 (0.46%) LSMW
5 7 (0.29%) GitLab
5 7 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.29%) Toad
6 5 (0.21%) Postman
6 5 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.17%) JMeter
7 4 (0.17%) Selenium
8 3 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.13%) JUnit
8 3 (0.13%) Storybook
9 2 (0.083%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.083%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (0.042%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.042%) GCC
10 1 (0.042%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.042%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 808 (33.68%) Finance
2 730 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 354 (14.76%) Manufacturing
4 300 (12.51%) Analytical Skills
5 276 (11.50%) Public Sector
6 139 (5.79%) Telecoms
7 134 (5.59%) Marketing
8 112 (4.67%) Electronics
9 94 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 70 (2.92%) Retail
11 69 (2.88%) Banking
12 66 (2.75%) Legal
13 63 (2.63%) Billing
14 55 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
15 52 (2.17%) Aerospace
16 51 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
17 50 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
18 40 (1.67%) Local Government
19 38 (1.58%) General Ledger
20 29 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 623 (25.97%) Consultant
2 531 (22.13%) SAP Consultant
3 301 (12.55%) Lead
4 280 (11.67%) Architect
5 218 (9.09%) Analyst
6 180 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 180 (7.50%) SAP Manager
7 175 (7.29%) Senior
8 159 (6.63%) SAP Architect
9 142 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (5.21%) Developer
11 101 (4.21%) Business Analyst
12 95 (3.96%) SAP Project Manager
13 90 (3.75%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 77 (3.21%) SAP Developer
15 74 (3.08%) Administrator
15 74 (3.08%) Functional Consultant
16 73 (3.04%) SAP Functional Consultant
17 61 (2.54%) SAP Analyst
18 55 (2.29%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (5.21%) SAP Fiori
2 59 (2.46%) Middleware
3 54 (2.25%) SAP Basis
4 47 (1.96%) SAPUI5
5 40 (1.67%) XML
6 38 (1.58%) REST
7 35 (1.46%) SOAP
8 33 (1.38%) Web Services
9 31 (1.29%) BAPI
10 29 (1.21%) SAP TM
11 27 (1.13%) SAP PI
12 26 (1.08%) IDoc
13 22 (0.92%) CSS
13 22 (0.92%) HTML
14 20 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
15 15 (0.63%) EDI
15 15 (0.63%) SAP ALE
16 13 (0.54%) JSON
17 11 (0.46%) OAuth
17 11 (0.46%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (3.21%) Public Cloud
2 75 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 66 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 44 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 42 (1.75%) FMCG
7 34 (1.42%) Replication
8 32 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 29 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
9 29 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.21%) Taxonomies
10 26 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (1.00%) Life Science
12 22 (0.92%) Cloud Native
13 20 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (0.71%) Data Centre
14 17 (0.71%) Mobile App
15 14 (0.58%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.50%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.63%) Windows
2 20 (0.83%) Linux
3 19 (0.79%) Android
3 19 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 14 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.25%) Unix
6 5 (0.21%) VMS
7 4 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.083%) SUSE
9 2 (0.083%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.042%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (20.63%) ERP
2 444 (18.51%) Migration
3 441 (18.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 272 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 271 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
6 263 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 246 (10.25%) Data Migration
8 231 (9.63%) Agile
9 221 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
10 201 (8.38%) Project Management
11 194 (8.09%) Workshop Facilitation
12 188 (7.84%) User Acceptance Testing
13 180 (7.50%) Validation
14 174 (7.25%) Logistics
15 172 (7.17%) Change Management
16 163 (6.79%) Analytics
17 151 (6.29%) Data Modelling
18 149 (6.21%) Roadmaps
19 140 (5.84%) Programme Management
20 139 (5.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 125 (5.21%) ABAP
2 113 (4.71%) SQL
3 46 (1.92%) Python
4 40 (1.67%) JavaScript
5 39 (1.63%) Java
6 14 (0.58%) PowerShell
7 9 (0.38%) Groovy
8 8 (0.33%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.29%) C#
9 7 (0.29%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.17%) C
10 4 (0.17%) Go
11 3 (0.13%) Bicep
11 3 (0.13%) C++
11 3 (0.13%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.13%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.13%) R
11 3 (0.13%) VB
11 3 (0.13%) VBA
12 2 (0.083%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 423 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 328 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 161 (6.71%) Degree
4 117 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 58 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 50 (2.08%) PMP
7 43 (1.79%) PMI Certification
7 43 (1.79%) SAP Certification
8 33 (1.38%) ACCA
8 33 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 32 (1.33%) CIMA
10 17 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (0.58%) ISTQB
12 11 (0.46%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.38%) HNC
13 9 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.33%) CISSP
14 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 98 (4.09%) QA
3 77 (3.21%) PMO
4 45 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 43 (1.79%) GDPR
6 27 (1.13%) SLA
7 24 (1.00%) GRC
8 17 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.58%) GxP
10 12 (0.50%) NIST
11 11 (0.46%) IFRS
12 9 (0.38%) GAAP
13 8 (0.33%) COBIT
13 8 (0.33%) GMP
13 8 (0.33%) ITGC
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.29%) SOX 404
15 5 (0.21%) Basel III
15 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.21%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.38%) IAG
3 7 (0.29%) Docker
4 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.042%) Varnish
4 1 (0.042%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (0.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.38%) Terraform
3 6 (0.25%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.13%) Control-M
5 2 (0.083%) Ansible
5 2 (0.083%) Grafana
5 2 (0.083%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.083%) vRealize
5 2 (0.083%) WSUS
6 1 (0.042%) Argo
6 1 (0.042%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.042%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.042%) Packer
6 1 (0.042%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.042%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.042%) SCCM
6 1 (0.042%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 238 (9.92%) Ariba
2 206 (8.59%) Microsoft
3 188 (7.84%) Oracle
4 83 (3.46%) Salesforce
5 72 (3.00%) Workday
6 70 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 38 (1.58%) Informatica
8 35 (1.46%) Adobe
8 35 (1.46%) Sage
9 30 (1.25%) Cisco
10 29 (1.21%) IBM
11 27 (1.13%) Databricks
12 24 (1.00%) Dell
13 23 (0.96%) HP
14 20 (0.83%) Okta
15 18 (0.75%) MuleSoft
16 16 (0.67%) Concur
16 16 (0.67%) OpenText
17 14 (0.58%) Google
17 14 (0.58%) Siemens