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 15 October 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
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 0
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,834 2,131 2,509
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.13% 6.42% 6.66%
As % of the Vendors category 12.28% 13.44% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,074 1,182
10th Percentile £360 £358 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £574 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -0.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £561
% change year-on-year - -2.00% +6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 127 65
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.50 £17.55
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.09 £27.72
Median hourly rate £24.19 £22.63 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -49.71% -5.26%
75th Percentile £45.00 £34.88 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.25 £66.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £21.39 £35.36
% change year-on-year +13.09% -39.51% -5.71%

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 23,078 15,851 16,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.74% 44.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,920 9,777 9,878
10th Percentile £310 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £613 £625
90th Percentile £712 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 804 580
10th Percentile £13.68 £14.84 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.03 £17.87 £16.85
Median hourly rate £24.19 £24.81 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -24.82% -24.83%
75th Percentile £56.00 £38.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.30 £31.00
% change year-on-year +8.83% -31.29% -29.14%

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 15 October 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 15 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Top 17 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 15 October 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 -8 2,230 £563 -2.17% 1,447
UK excluding London 0 1,463 £550 - 816
Work from Home -15 789 £550 -2.65% 630
London -32 758 £600 +2.56% 664
South East +2 403 £550 +6.80% 207
North of England -14 363 £525 -13.93% 223
Midlands +9 362 £550 +4.76% 149
North West -11 249 £550 -12.00% 119
West Midlands +2 230 £500 -4.76% 89
East of England -3 167 £568 -2.16% 78
East Midlands +20 123 £599 +14.10% 60
Yorkshire -5 101 £500 -4.76% 76
South West -40 77 £543 -1.36% 62
Scotland -4 55 £533 +25.41% 44
Wales +20 51 £575 +243.28% 32
North East -32 12 £500 +37.93% 28
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 22

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 (1.24%) SharePoint
2 25 (0.88%) Confluence
3 20 (0.71%) NetWeaver
4 12 (0.42%) CMS
5 8 (0.28%) Apache
6 7 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.21%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.18%) OpenEdge
8 5 (0.18%) SAP EP
9 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.14%) SugarCRM
10 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.11%) SAP Portal
11 2 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.071%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 159 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.35%) Windchill
7 3 (0.11%) PTC Creo
8 2 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.035%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1,093 (38.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 137 (4.83%) SAP FI
3 89 (3.14%) SAP Payroll
4 85 (3.00%) SAP CO
5 83 (2.93%) SAP HCM
6 76 (2.68%) SAP FI/CO
7 69 (2.43%) SAP SD
8 68 (2.40%) SAP HR
9 66 (2.33%) SAP MM
10 65 (2.29%) SAP ERP
11 56 (1.98%) SAP GRC
12 52 (1.83%) SAP PSCD
13 50 (1.76%) SAP PP
14 49 (1.73%) SAP BRIM
15 44 (1.55%) SAP MDG
16 41 (1.45%) SAP EWM
16 41 (1.45%) SAP PM
17 38 (1.34%) Teamcenter
18 33 (1.16%) SAP FI-CA
19 32 (1.13%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 275 (9.70%) SuccessFactors
2 224 (7.90%) Azure
3 125 (4.41%) Power Platform
4 101 (3.56%) AWS
5 64 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (2.12%) GCP
7 56 (1.98%) SaaS
8 32 (1.13%) Boomi
8 32 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (1.06%) Entra ID
9 30 (1.06%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 28 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (0.71%) Tricentis Tosca
13 19 (0.67%) GitHub
14 17 (0.60%) Snowflake
15 15 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (0.49%) Power Automate
16 14 (0.49%) Smartsheet
17 13 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.25%) Intranet
2 6 (0.21%) HTTP
3 5 (0.18%) Broadband
4 4 (0.14%) Network Security
4 4 (0.14%) VPN
5 3 (0.11%) Firewall
5 3 (0.11%) SSL
6 2 (0.071%) Internet
6 2 (0.071%) LAN
6 2 (0.071%) WAN
7 1 (0.035%) DNS
7 1 (0.035%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.035%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.035%) MQTT
7 1 (0.035%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.035%) Wireless
7 1 (0.035%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (3.78%) Power BI
2 92 (3.25%) SAP HANA
3 57 (2.01%) SAP BW
4 46 (1.62%) BusinessObjects
5 42 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (1.34%) SQL Server
6 38 (1.34%) Tableau
7 21 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
8 19 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 15 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 14 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.49%) GIS
10 14 (0.49%) Metadata
11 12 (0.42%) Power Query
11 12 (0.42%) Relational Database
12 11 (0.39%) Delta Lake
13 9 (0.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.28%) MySQL
14 8 (0.28%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 117 (4.13%) JIRA
2 19 (0.67%) Git
3 15 (0.53%) Postman
4 14 (0.49%) Hudson
5 12 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.32%) LSMW
6 9 (0.32%) Toad
7 8 (0.28%) eggPlant
8 7 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.25%) SoapUI
9 6 (0.21%) Selenium
9 6 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.18%) JMeter
10 5 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.11%) GitLab
11 3 (0.11%) SOAtest
12 2 (0.071%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.071%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.071%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 909 (32.07%) Finance
2 799 (28.19%) Social Skills
3 436 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 289 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 141 (4.98%) Public Sector
6 137 (4.83%) Retail
7 122 (4.30%) Billing
8 90 (3.18%) Aerospace
9 84 (2.96%) Legal
10 83 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 66 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
13 60 (2.12%) Banking
14 57 (2.01%) General Ledger
15 44 (1.55%) Automotive
16 41 (1.45%) Aviation
17 39 (1.38%) Telecoms
18 34 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
19 29 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
20 27 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 662 (23.36%) Consultant
2 548 (19.34%) SAP Consultant
3 367 (12.95%) Architect
4 310 (10.94%) Lead
5 308 (10.87%) Analyst
6 237 (8.36%) Senior
7 188 (6.63%) SAP Manager
8 178 (6.28%) SAP Architect
9 157 (5.54%) Project Manager
10 149 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
11 136 (4.80%) Business Analyst
12 131 (4.62%) Administrator
13 128 (4.52%) SAP Analyst
14 92 (3.25%) Developer
15 84 (2.96%) Functional Consultant
16 79 (2.79%) SAP Project Manager
17 75 (2.65%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 68 (2.40%) SAP Solutions Architect
19 61 (2.15%) Senior Consultant
20 55 (1.94%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (5.15%) SAP Fiori
2 113 (3.99%) Middleware
3 97 (3.42%) REST
4 78 (2.75%) SOAP
5 56 (1.98%) SAPUI5
6 55 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
7 49 (1.73%) XML
8 47 (1.66%) SAP Basis
9 46 (1.62%) SAP PI
10 45 (1.59%) Web Services
11 35 (1.24%) BAPI
12 33 (1.16%) JSON
13 31 (1.09%) IDoc
14 27 (0.95%) EDI
15 24 (0.85%) OAuth
16 20 (0.71%) Kafka
16 20 (0.71%) SAP ALE
17 19 (0.67%) Node.js
18 18 (0.64%) SAP TM
19 17 (0.60%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 106 (3.74%) Onboarding
2 94 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
3 77 (2.72%) Data Structures
4 72 (2.54%) Public Cloud
5 63 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 62 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 61 (2.15%) FMCG
8 56 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
9 53 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 45 (1.59%) Life Science
11 30 (1.06%) Replication
12 29 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (0.99%) Cloud Native
14 25 (0.88%) Private Cloud
15 20 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
16 16 (0.56%) AI Agents
16 16 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
17 14 (0.49%) Operational Technology
18 13 (0.46%) Learning Management System
18 13 (0.46%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 37 (1.31%) Windows
2 33 (1.16%) Linux
3 21 (0.74%) Unix
4 9 (0.32%) SUSE
5 7 (0.25%) VMS
6 6 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.11%) Android
7 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.071%) AIX
9 1 (0.035%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (27.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 634 (22.37%) ERP
3 518 (18.28%) Migration
4 373 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
5 370 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
6 316 (11.15%) Data Migration
7 283 (9.99%) Validation
8 281 (9.92%) Agile
9 257 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 250 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 249 (8.79%) Logistics
12 246 (8.68%) Analytics
13 215 (7.59%) Workshop Facilitation
14 199 (7.02%) Roadmaps
15 193 (6.81%) Project Delivery
16 176 (6.21%) Process Improvement
17 169 (5.96%) Decision-Making
18 168 (5.93%) System Integration Testing
19 160 (5.65%) Change Management
20 159 (5.61%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (5.22%) SQL
2 139 (4.90%) ABAP
3 66 (2.33%) Python
4 60 (2.12%) Java
5 27 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.56%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.25%) Groovy
7 7 (0.25%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.18%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.18%) Bash
8 5 (0.18%) BeanShell
8 5 (0.18%) Korn
8 5 (0.18%) OpenEdge ABL
8 5 (0.18%) Progress 4GL
8 5 (0.18%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.18%) VB.NET
9 4 (0.14%) Bicep
9 4 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.11%) C#
10 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 468 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 365 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 163 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 135 (4.76%) Degree
5 58 (2.05%) DV Cleared
6 46 (1.62%) ACCA
7 44 (1.55%) CIMA
8 43 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.52%) PMP
9 27 (0.95%) SAP Certification
10 17 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 16 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.49%) ISEB
13 13 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 10 (0.35%) APMG
14 10 (0.35%) CIPD
14 10 (0.35%) HNC
15 9 (0.32%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.00%) PMO
3 76 (2.68%) QA
4 65 (2.29%) GDPR
5 49 (1.73%) GRC
6 39 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (0.60%) IFRS
8 14 (0.49%) GxP
8 14 (0.49%) SLA
9 12 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.35%) NIST
11 8 (0.28%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.28%) ITGC
12 6 (0.21%) GAAP
12 6 (0.21%) GMP
12 6 (0.21%) NCSC
13 5 (0.18%) COSHH
13 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.18%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 17 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.46%) IAG
3 5 (0.18%) Docker
4 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.11%) Corosync
Systems Management
1 17 (0.60%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.21%) Grafana
3 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.14%) Control-M
4 4 (0.14%) Pacemaker
4 4 (0.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.071%) MOM
7 1 (0.035%) Ansible
7 1 (0.035%) CEMLI
7 1 (0.035%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.035%) QRadar
7 1 (0.035%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.035%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 323 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 284 (10.02%) Oracle
3 274 (9.67%) Ariba
4 111 (3.92%) Salesforce
5 101 (3.56%) Workday
6 79 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 58 (2.05%) Concur
8 44 (1.55%) Databricks
8 44 (1.55%) MuleSoft
9 39 (1.38%) IBM
10 36 (1.27%) Siemens
11 30 (1.06%) Google
12 24 (0.85%) Informatica
13 23 (0.81%) Adobe
14 20 (0.71%) IFS
15 17 (0.60%) Sage
16 15 (0.53%) OpenText
16 15 (0.53%) webMethods
17 14 (0.49%) Dell
18 13 (0.46%) JD Edwards