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 14 December 2025, 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,291 2,294 2,960
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.29% 6.63% 6.65%
As % of the Vendors category 13.27% 14.55% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,137 1,510
10th Percentile £350 £382 £356
25th Percentile £460 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +1.82% -0.68%
75th Percentile £675 £672 £650
90th Percentile £750 £773 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 44 71
10th Percentile £15.89 £16.44 £19.76
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.97 £26.67
Median hourly rate £23.75 £30.21 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.37% -38.36% +8.89%
75th Percentile £41.25 £55.20 £65.84
90th Percentile £65.18 £73.41 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £30.00 £48.38
% change year-on-year -24.57% -37.98% +7.50%

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 17,267 15,769 20,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.39% 45.60% 45.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,977 9,400 12,797
10th Percentile £293 £283 £255
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 871 477 663
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.50 £14.59
25th Percentile £18.09 £19.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%
75th Percentile £44.84 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 -6 1,777 £570 +1.79% 1,131
UK excluding London -4 1,018 £550 - 1,026
Work from Home +5 770 £565 +1.35% 504
London -10 721 £575 +2.22% 224
North of England +2 308 £600 +12.10% 208
South East -6 274 £537 -10.50% 307
North West +3 224 £625 +10.23% 103
Midlands -14 159 £523 -1.42% 197
East of England -1 135 £575 +15.00% 159
West Midlands -10 115 £518 -0.48% 99
South West -20 96 £600 +13.21% 108
Yorkshire -7 73 £565 +34.52% 96
East Midlands -22 42 £525 -2.78% 91
Scotland +3 38 £450 +0.56% 34
Wales +4 18 £170 -74.81% 22
North East -18 10 £175 -55.70% 10
Northern Ireland -4 6 £115 - 23
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 26 (1.13%) SharePoint
2 22 (0.96%) Confluence
2 22 (0.96%) NetWeaver
3 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.35%) Anypoint
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.22%) MTS
7 3 (0.13%) Apache
7 3 (0.13%) CMS
7 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.087%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.087%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.087%) SAP EP
8 2 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.044%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.044%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.044%) LiveCycle
9 1 (0.044%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.044%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 108 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.22%) Windchill
8 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.17%) Simulink
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 2 (0.087%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.044%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.044%) InVision
11 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 825 (36.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (4.19%) SAP FI
3 73 (3.19%) SAP CO
4 72 (3.14%) SAP MM
5 71 (3.10%) SAP EWM
6 69 (3.01%) SAP ERP
7 66 (2.88%) SAP PP
8 65 (2.84%) SAP FI/CO
9 62 (2.71%) SAP Payroll
10 60 (2.62%) SAP HCM
11 47 (2.05%) SAP HR
12 41 (1.79%) SAP QM
13 37 (1.62%) SAP WM
14 36 (1.57%) SAP PM
15 34 (1.48%) SAP MDG
16 28 (1.22%) SAP PS
16 28 (1.22%) SAP VC
17 27 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
17 27 (1.18%) SAP EHS
17 27 (1.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 165 (7.20%) Azure
1 165 (7.20%) SuccessFactors
2 102 (4.45%) Power Platform
3 81 (3.54%) AWS
4 59 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (2.49%) SaaS
6 48 (2.10%) GCP
7 42 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (1.00%) Snowflake
9 22 (0.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 18 (0.79%) Entra ID
10 18 (0.79%) Power Automate
11 12 (0.52%) GitHub
12 11 (0.48%) OCI
13 10 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.44%) Smartsheet
14 9 (0.39%) Boomi
14 9 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (0.39%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.05%) Wireless
2 17 (0.74%) HTTPS
3 9 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
3 9 (0.39%) LAN
4 8 (0.35%) Firewall
4 8 (0.35%) Skype
5 7 (0.31%) VPN
6 4 (0.17%) DNS
6 4 (0.17%) FTP
6 4 (0.17%) Network Security
6 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.17%) WAN
7 3 (0.13%) BGP
7 3 (0.13%) DHCP
7 3 (0.13%) Junos
7 3 (0.13%) OSPF
7 3 (0.13%) VLAN
8 2 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.087%) RTP
8 2 (0.087%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.28%) SAP HANA
2 96 (4.19%) Power BI
3 50 (2.18%) SAP BW
4 28 (1.22%) SAP Data Services
5 27 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 26 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (0.92%) SQL Server
8 16 (0.70%) Tableau
9 14 (0.61%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 14 (0.61%) Metadata
10 12 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
10 12 (0.52%) GIS
10 12 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.31%) MySQL
11 7 (0.31%) Power Query
11 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.26%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 86 (3.75%) JIRA
2 21 (0.92%) Git
3 10 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.39%) LSMW
5 7 (0.31%) GitLab
6 6 (0.26%) Toad
7 5 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
8 4 (0.17%) Clang
8 4 (0.17%) GCC
8 4 (0.17%) JUnit
8 4 (0.17%) Subversion
9 3 (0.13%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.13%) Postman
9 3 (0.13%) Storybook
9 3 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.087%) Selenium
10 2 (0.087%) SpecFlow
General
1 794 (34.66%) Finance
2 756 (33.00%) Social Skills
3 459 (20.03%) Manufacturing
4 349 (15.23%) Public Sector
5 245 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
6 244 (10.65%) Telecoms
7 238 (10.39%) Marketing
8 216 (9.43%) Electronics
9 137 (5.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 63 (2.75%) Retail
11 51 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
11 51 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 50 (2.18%) Billing
13 49 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (2.10%) Aerospace
15 46 (2.01%) Legal
16 44 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
17 39 (1.70%) Banking
18 34 (1.48%) Local Government
19 18 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 689 (30.07%) Consultant
2 554 (24.18%) SAP Consultant
3 199 (8.69%) Architect
4 191 (8.34%) Lead
5 187 (8.16%) Analyst
6 148 (6.46%) Project Manager
7 133 (5.81%) SAP Manager
8 130 (5.67%) Developer
9 112 (4.89%) SAP Architect
10 110 (4.80%) Senior
11 90 (3.93%) Business Analyst
12 85 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
13 72 (3.14%) SAP Project Manager
14 69 (3.01%) Functional Consultant
15 68 (2.97%) SAP Analyst
16 67 (2.92%) SAP Developer
17 63 (2.75%) SAP Functional Consultant
18 59 (2.58%) Administrator
19 55 (2.40%) SAP Solutions Architect
20 54 (2.36%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (7.33%) SAP Fiori
2 54 (2.36%) XML
3 53 (2.31%) Web Services
4 51 (2.23%) SOAP
5 47 (2.05%) REST
6 45 (1.96%) SAP PI
7 44 (1.92%) SAPUI5
8 40 (1.75%) BAPI
8 40 (1.75%) Middleware
9 34 (1.48%) SAP Basis
10 33 (1.44%) JSON
11 27 (1.18%) HTML
12 24 (1.05%) CSS
13 21 (0.92%) SAP TM
14 20 (0.87%) IDoc
15 19 (0.83%) EDI
16 17 (0.74%) JMS
17 15 (0.65%) SailPoint
17 15 (0.65%) SAP ALE
18 14 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 65 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
2 59 (2.58%) Onboarding
3 42 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
4 39 (1.70%) Data Structures
4 39 (1.70%) Life Science
4 39 (1.70%) Product Ownership
5 38 (1.66%) Data Centre
6 35 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 31 (1.35%) FMCG
8 29 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 24 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
10 21 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (0.87%) Management Information System
11 20 (0.87%) Replication
11 20 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (0.83%) Private Cloud
13 14 (0.61%) Mobile App
13 14 (0.61%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.57%) NHS
15 11 (0.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.23%) Windows
2 33 (1.44%) Android
3 32 (1.40%) Mac OS
4 28 (1.22%) Linux
5 19 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.35%) Unix
7 6 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.13%) VMS
11 2 (0.087%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 390 (17.02%) Migration
3 384 (16.76%) ERP
4 320 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
5 317 (13.84%) Business Intelligence
6 271 (11.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 262 (11.44%) Agile
8 246 (10.74%) Programme Management
9 219 (9.56%) Logistics
10 211 (9.21%) Data Migration
10 211 (9.21%) Digital Marketing
11 191 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 190 (8.29%) Project Management
13 161 (7.03%) Workshop Facilitation
14 159 (6.94%) User Acceptance Testing
15 155 (6.77%) Analytics
16 152 (6.63%) Change Management
17 133 (5.81%) Roadmaps
18 126 (5.50%) Project Delivery
19 121 (5.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 147 (6.42%) ABAP
2 104 (4.54%) SQL
3 65 (2.84%) Python
4 60 (2.62%) Java
4 60 (2.62%) JavaScript
5 27 (1.18%) PowerShell
6 21 (0.92%) C#
7 14 (0.61%) Groovy
8 13 (0.57%) C++
9 9 (0.39%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.31%) Bash
10 7 (0.31%) C
10 7 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.26%) Go
11 6 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.17%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.17%) R
12 4 (0.17%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.17%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 551 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 449 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 166 (7.25%) Degree
4 107 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 61 (2.66%) SAP Certification
6 52 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.10%) PMP
8 45 (1.96%) PMI Certification
9 40 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.48%) ACCA
11 33 (1.44%) CIMA
12 25 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.61%) CISSP
13 14 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.48%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.44%) CISM
15 10 (0.44%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.35%) CESG Certified Professional
17 7 (0.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.32%) QA
3 53 (2.31%) PMO
4 39 (1.70%) GDPR
5 36 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 26 (1.13%) GxP
7 24 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.00%) GRC
9 20 (0.87%) SLA
10 13 (0.57%) NIST
11 11 (0.48%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.39%) IFRS
13 8 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.35%) COBIT
13 8 (0.35%) NCSC
13 8 (0.35%) RMADS
14 7 (0.31%) ITGC
14 7 (0.31%) SOX 404
15 6 (0.26%) APQC
15 6 (0.26%) JSP 440
System Software
1 32 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.65%) Docker
3 4 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.087%) IAG
4 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.044%) Varnish
5 1 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (0.57%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (0.31%) Terraform
4 4 (0.17%) Ansible
4 4 (0.17%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.13%) vRealize
6 2 (0.087%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.087%) Grafana
6 2 (0.087%) Linux-HA
6 2 (0.087%) Pacemaker
6 2 (0.087%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.087%) Puppet
6 2 (0.087%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.044%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.044%) FreeIPA
7 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.044%) SCCM
7 1 (0.044%) SCOM
Vendors
1 194 (8.47%) Ariba
2 193 (8.42%) Microsoft
3 185 (8.08%) Oracle
4 94 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 75 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 73 (3.19%) Workday
7 45 (1.96%) Cisco
8 34 (1.48%) HP
9 31 (1.35%) Adobe
9 31 (1.35%) Dell
10 25 (1.09%) Apple
10 25 (1.09%) Databricks
11 23 (1.00%) OpenText
12 20 (0.87%) Google
12 20 (0.87%) MuleSoft
12 20 (0.87%) webMethods
13 18 (0.79%) IBM
14 17 (0.74%) Concur
15 12 (0.52%) Informatica
15 12 (0.52%) Software AG