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 30 June 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
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +3
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,561 1,977 2,590
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.99% 6.46% 6.00%
As % of the Vendors category 12.20% 13.64% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 977 1,317
10th Percentile £360 £379 £395
25th Percentile £456 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £654 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £753 £809
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 96 139
10th Percentile £16.72 £17.14 £13.41
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.75 £27.72
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +36.18% -38.40%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £85.00 £65.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.38 £34.16 £26.00
% change year-on-year -11.07% +31.37% -42.22%

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 21,000 14,497 18,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.92% 47.38% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,095 8,886 11,472
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,085 687 1,156
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.30 £14.72
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.19
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +3.99% -40.35%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.63 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.79 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.82 £23.50
% change year-on-year +42.45% -2.91% -27.24%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 2,039 £560 -2.61% 341
UK excluding London -6 1,264 £525 -4.55% 248
Work from Home -2 797 £550 -5.34% 151
London -25 752 £600 - 143
Midlands +7 325 £525 -3.05% 65
South East -9 323 £540 +0.56% 80
North of England -11 309 £500 -5.66% 60
North West -9 201 £500 -5.66% 39
West Midlands -3 199 £502 -8.82% 46
East of England 0 166 £505 -15.66% 17
East Midlands +25 116 £575 +12.75% 19
Yorkshire +8 103 £525 +35.48% 17
South West -28 77 £550 +4.76% 11
Scotland -1 35 £533 -11.17% 12
Wales +11 34 £550 +21.41% 4
North East -41 5 £500 -6.54% 5
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland 0 2 £488 +73.49% 7

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 35 (1.37%) Confluence
2 29 (1.13%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.90%) NetWeaver
4 13 (0.51%) CMS
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 5 (0.20%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.078%) Apache
10 2 (0.078%) JBoss
10 2 (0.078%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.078%) SAS
11 1 (0.039%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.039%) LiveCycle
11 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.039%) WebSphere
Applications
1 129 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.39%) CATIA
8 5 (0.20%) PTC Creo
9 4 (0.16%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.039%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1,025 (40.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (4.30%) SAP FI
3 68 (2.66%) SAP ERP
4 63 (2.46%) SAP CO
5 62 (2.42%) SAP MM
6 60 (2.34%) SAP FI/CO
6 60 (2.34%) SAP SD
7 54 (2.11%) SAP PSCD
8 53 (2.07%) SAP EWM
9 49 (1.91%) SAP BRIM
10 40 (1.56%) SAP IBP
10 40 (1.56%) SAP PM
11 37 (1.44%) SAP PP
12 35 (1.37%) SAP GRC
13 33 (1.29%) SAP Payroll
14 31 (1.21%) SAP FI-CA
14 31 (1.21%) SAP HCM
14 31 (1.21%) SAP MDG
15 28 (1.09%) SAP QM
16 26 (1.02%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 236 (9.22%) SuccessFactors
2 218 (8.51%) Azure
3 129 (5.04%) Power Platform
4 82 (3.20%) AWS
5 75 (2.93%) SaaS
6 54 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.48%) Entra ID
8 37 (1.44%) Boomi
9 29 (1.13%) GCP
10 23 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (0.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 20 (0.78%) Power Automate
13 20 (0.78%) Snowflake
14 15 (0.59%) GitHub
14 15 (0.59%) PowerApps
15 14 (0.55%) OCI
15 14 (0.55%) Smartsheet
16 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
17 12 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.39%) Network Security
2 6 (0.23%) Firewall
2 6 (0.23%) VPN
3 5 (0.20%) WAN
4 3 (0.12%) DNS
4 3 (0.12%) RFID
4 3 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.078%) BGP
5 2 (0.078%) HTTP
5 2 (0.078%) LAN
5 2 (0.078%) OSPF
6 1 (0.039%) FTP
6 1 (0.039%) Internet
6 1 (0.039%) Intranet
6 1 (0.039%) MQTT
6 1 (0.039%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.039%) SSL
6 1 (0.039%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.039%) Wireless
6 1 (0.039%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (4.61%) Power BI
2 91 (3.55%) SAP HANA
3 44 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
4 40 (1.56%) SAP BW
4 40 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.33%) Tableau
6 28 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
7 20 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
8 17 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.43%) Sybase ASE
11 10 (0.39%) MaxDB
11 10 (0.39%) Metadata
12 9 (0.35%) GIS
13 7 (0.27%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.23%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.20%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 99 (3.87%) JIRA
2 24 (0.94%) Hudson
3 18 (0.70%) Git
4 7 (0.27%) Postman
5 6 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.23%) LSMW
6 4 (0.16%) JMeter
6 4 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.12%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.078%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.078%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.078%) Maven
8 2 (0.078%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.078%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.078%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.078%) Toad
9 1 (0.039%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.039%) Subversion
9 1 (0.039%) TestDirector
General
1 829 (32.37%) Finance
2 690 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 277 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (10.66%) Manufacturing
5 170 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 107 (4.18%) Billing
7 89 (3.48%) Retail
8 88 (3.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 87 (3.40%) Legal
10 61 (2.38%) Banking
11 59 (2.30%) Aerospace
12 55 (2.15%) General Ledger
13 47 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
14 46 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
15 45 (1.76%) Local Government
16 35 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 34 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
18 26 (1.02%) Law
19 22 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 22 (0.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 621 (24.25%) Consultant
2 535 (20.89%) SAP Consultant
3 330 (12.89%) Architect
4 322 (12.57%) Lead
5 297 (11.60%) Analyst
6 221 (8.63%) Senior
7 177 (6.91%) SAP Architect
8 174 (6.79%) Project Manager
9 170 (6.64%) SAP Manager
10 157 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
11 130 (5.08%) Business Analyst
12 107 (4.18%) Developer
13 86 (3.36%) Functional Consultant
13 86 (3.36%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 83 (3.24%) SAP Analyst
15 81 (3.16%) SAP Functional Consultant
15 81 (3.16%) SAP Project Manager
16 77 (3.01%) Administrator
17 65 (2.54%) Senior Manager
18 55 (2.15%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (4.53%) SAP Fiori
2 93 (3.63%) Middleware
3 57 (2.23%) REST
4 53 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
5 52 (2.03%) SAP Basis
6 40 (1.56%) BAPI
7 39 (1.52%) SOAP
8 33 (1.29%) SAPUI5
9 32 (1.25%) IDoc
9 32 (1.25%) XML
10 27 (1.05%) JSON
11 26 (1.02%) EDI
11 26 (1.02%) SAP TM
12 24 (0.94%) Web Services
13 21 (0.82%) OAuth
14 19 (0.74%) SAP PI
15 14 (0.55%) SAP ALE
16 13 (0.51%) SAML
17 12 (0.47%) Node.js
18 10 (0.39%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 96 (3.75%) Public Cloud
2 79 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 74 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
4 68 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 53 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 51 (1.99%) FMCG
7 43 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 31 (1.21%) Cloud Native
11 25 (0.98%) Replication
12 24 (0.94%) Life Science
13 23 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (0.82%) Taxonomies
15 20 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (0.66%) Virtual Team
17 14 (0.55%) AI Agents
17 14 (0.55%) SCADA
18 13 (0.51%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.60%) Linux
2 31 (1.21%) Windows
3 13 (0.51%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) VMS
5 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.31%) SUSE
6 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 2 (0.078%) AIX
8 2 (0.078%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (23.12%) ERP
2 517 (20.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 473 (18.47%) Migration
4 323 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
5 291 (11.36%) Data Migration
6 278 (10.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 267 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 261 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 249 (9.72%) Agile
10 243 (9.49%) Validation
11 215 (8.40%) Workshop Facilitation
12 205 (8.00%) Analytics
13 193 (7.54%) Logistics
14 190 (7.42%) Project Management
15 170 (6.64%) Change Management
16 149 (5.82%) Business Intelligence
16 149 (5.82%) Data Modelling
17 146 (5.70%) Decision-Making
18 134 (5.23%) Roadmaps
19 125 (4.88%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 126 (4.92%) SQL
2 101 (3.94%) ABAP
3 51 (1.99%) Python
4 30 (1.17%) Java
5 18 (0.70%) PowerShell
6 14 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.27%) C#
8 6 (0.23%) Bash
8 6 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.16%) Bicep
9 4 (0.16%) C
9 4 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.16%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.16%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.16%) VB
10 3 (0.12%) C++
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.078%) VBA
Qualifications
1 356 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 281 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 140 (5.47%) Degree
4 117 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (1.84%) ACCA
6 46 (1.80%) CIMA
7 40 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 40 (1.56%) PMP
8 39 (1.52%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.25%) SAP Certification
10 15 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 15 (0.59%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.43%) HNC
12 11 (0.43%) NVQ Level 4
13 9 (0.35%) CISSP
13 9 (0.35%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.31%) CISM
15 7 (0.27%) CCA
15 7 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 97 (3.79%) PMO
3 91 (3.55%) QA
4 59 (2.30%) GDPR
5 56 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 37 (1.44%) GRC
7 17 (0.66%) IFRS
8 15 (0.59%) SLA
9 13 (0.51%) GxP
10 12 (0.47%) GMP
11 10 (0.39%) GAAP
12 9 (0.35%) NCSC
13 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.27%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 6 (0.23%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.23%) NIST
16 5 (0.20%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.20%) ITGC
17 4 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 25 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.51%) IAG
3 7 (0.27%) Docker
4 6 (0.23%) Corosync
5 1 (0.039%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (0.55%) Terraform
3 10 (0.39%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.27%) Pacemaker
5 6 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.16%) Ansible
7 3 (0.12%) Grafana
8 2 (0.078%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.078%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.039%) Control-M
9 1 (0.039%) MOM
9 1 (0.039%) Packer
9 1 (0.039%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.039%) WSUS
Vendors
1 247 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 246 (9.61%) Ariba
3 234 (9.14%) Oracle
4 96 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 90 (3.51%) Workday
6 72 (2.81%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.44%) Informatica
8 36 (1.41%) MuleSoft
9 34 (1.33%) Adobe
9 34 (1.33%) Databricks
10 32 (1.25%) Sage
11 29 (1.13%) Concur
12 26 (1.02%) IBM
13 23 (0.90%) Siemens
14 20 (0.78%) IFS
15 17 (0.66%) Infor
16 16 (0.62%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.59%) Dell
17 15 (0.59%) Google
18 13 (0.51%) OpenText