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 1 May 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,430 2,000 2,591
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.14% 6.83% 5.95%
As % of the Vendors category 12.27% 14.40% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,024 1,305
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -
75th Percentile £673 £668 £675
90th Percentile £755 £764 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £541 £525
% change year-on-year +1.57% +3.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 59 129
10th Percentile £17.69 £21.08 £13.04
25th Percentile £22.63 £25.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.36 £57.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +121.15% -42.22%
75th Percentile £57.81 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.08 £86.00 £65.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £50.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -42.00% +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 19,812 13,893 18,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.93% 47.48% 42.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,650 8,712 11,457
10th Percentile £313 £289 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.04% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 562 1,086
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.86 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.11 £14.43
Median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -49.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -46.25%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -15 1,907 £575 +4.55% 580
UK excluding London -9 1,130 £550 +1.57% 411
Work from Home 0 800 £575 -1.03% 268
London -16 749 £600 - 189
South East -8 291 £575 +4.55% 139
North of England -23 278 £550 +3.77% 98
Midlands -4 264 £514 -5.08% 104
North West -15 179 £550 +3.77% 56
West Midlands -8 169 £500 -14.53% 61
East of England +2 163 £505 -12.93% 37
Yorkshire +4 94 £588 +54.10% 37
East Midlands +10 89 £600 +20.00% 43
South West -32 78 £613 +25.64% 22
Wales +16 35 £550 -24.14% 8
Scotland +6 27 £450 -25.00% 9
North East -36 4 £500 -2.91% 11
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Northern Ireland +3 3 £500 +77.94% 5

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 36 (1.48%) Confluence
2 28 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.86%) NetWeaver
4 16 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.45%) CMS
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
7 6 (0.25%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) MS Project Server
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.082%) Apache
10 2 (0.082%) JBoss
11 1 (0.041%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.041%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.041%) Mendix
11 1 (0.041%) OpenStack
Applications
1 124 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.41%) CATIA
8 6 (0.25%) Siemens NX
9 5 (0.21%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.041%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.041%) Sketch
11 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 917 (37.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (4.36%) SAP FI
3 71 (2.92%) SAP CO
4 69 (2.84%) SAP ERP
5 67 (2.76%) SAP FI/CO
6 59 (2.43%) SAP MM
7 57 (2.35%) SAP EWM
8 54 (2.22%) SAP PP
9 46 (1.89%) SAP SD
10 42 (1.73%) SAP PM
11 41 (1.69%) SAP PSCD
12 39 (1.60%) SAP HCM
13 38 (1.56%) SAP Payroll
14 37 (1.52%) SAP BRIM
15 31 (1.28%) SAP MDG
16 30 (1.23%) SAP IBP
17 29 (1.19%) SAP QM
18 27 (1.11%) SAP Travel Management
19 24 (0.99%) SAP EHS
19 24 (0.99%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 210 (8.64%) Azure
2 209 (8.60%) SuccessFactors
3 111 (4.57%) Power Platform
4 91 (3.74%) AWS
5 78 (3.21%) SaaS
6 40 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 35 (1.44%) GCP
9 30 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (0.95%) Boomi
12 21 (0.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 17 (0.70%) OCI
14 16 (0.66%) Snowflake
15 15 (0.62%) GitHub
16 14 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (0.58%) BigCommerce
16 14 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (0.58%) PaaS
17 13 (0.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.49%) Network Security
2 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 7 (0.29%) VPN
3 7 (0.29%) WAN
4 6 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (0.25%) Skype
5 5 (0.21%) FTP
5 5 (0.21%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.16%) BGP
6 4 (0.16%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.16%) LAN
6 4 (0.16%) OSPF
6 4 (0.16%) RFID
7 3 (0.12%) DNS
7 3 (0.12%) Internet
8 2 (0.082%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.082%) Junos
8 2 (0.082%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.041%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.041%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.28%) Power BI
2 84 (3.46%) SAP HANA
3 44 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.52%) SAP BW
5 31 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 26 (1.07%) Tableau
7 23 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
8 20 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 19 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
9 19 (0.78%) Metadata
10 17 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (0.37%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 7 (0.29%) GIS
14 6 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.25%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
15 5 (0.21%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.21%) MaxDB
15 5 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 102 (4.20%) JIRA
2 20 (0.82%) Hudson
3 17 (0.70%) Git
4 8 (0.33%) LSMW
5 7 (0.29%) GitLab
5 7 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.21%) Postman
6 5 (0.21%) Selenium
7 4 (0.16%) JMeter
7 4 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.082%) JUnit
9 2 (0.082%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.082%) Storybook
9 2 (0.082%) TestRail
9 2 (0.082%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (0.041%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.041%) Spock
10 1 (0.041%) Zephyr
General
1 777 (31.98%) Finance
2 715 (29.42%) Social Skills
3 317 (13.05%) Manufacturing
4 302 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
5 226 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 93 (3.83%) Telecoms
7 92 (3.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 90 (3.70%) Marketing
9 80 (3.29%) Billing
10 73 (3.00%) Retail
11 70 (2.88%) Electronics
12 68 (2.80%) Banking
12 68 (2.80%) Legal
13 57 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
14 51 (2.10%) Aerospace
14 51 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
15 50 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
16 45 (1.85%) General Ledger
17 35 (1.44%) Local Government
18 26 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 589 (24.24%) Consultant
2 505 (20.78%) SAP Consultant
3 318 (13.09%) Lead
4 310 (12.76%) Architect
5 243 (10.00%) Analyst
6 191 (7.86%) Senior
7 182 (7.49%) Project Manager
8 178 (7.33%) SAP Manager
9 174 (7.16%) SAP Architect
10 155 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
11 126 (5.19%) Developer
12 117 (4.81%) Business Analyst
13 95 (3.91%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 92 (3.79%) SAP Project Manager
15 79 (3.25%) Administrator
16 75 (3.09%) SAP Developer
17 72 (2.96%) Functional Consultant
18 67 (2.76%) SAP Functional Consultant
19 61 (2.51%) SAP Analyst
20 56 (2.30%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (4.65%) SAP Fiori
2 66 (2.72%) Middleware
3 52 (2.14%) SAP Basis
4 48 (1.98%) REST
4 48 (1.98%) SAPUI5
5 40 (1.65%) SOAP
6 33 (1.36%) XML
7 31 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 28 (1.15%) SAP TM
9 26 (1.07%) BAPI
10 25 (1.03%) Web Services
11 24 (0.99%) IDoc
12 22 (0.91%) SAP PI
13 20 (0.82%) CSS
13 20 (0.82%) HTML
14 18 (0.74%) EDI
15 16 (0.66%) JSON
15 16 (0.66%) OAuth
16 13 (0.53%) SAML
16 13 (0.53%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (3.46%) Public Cloud
2 79 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 77 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (2.43%) Data Structures
5 45 (1.85%) FMCG
5 45 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 37 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 36 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (1.44%) Replication
9 31 (1.28%) Cloud Native
10 30 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.23%) Taxonomies
11 27 (1.11%) Life Science
12 26 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (0.74%) Virtual Team
15 15 (0.62%) Mobile App
16 14 (0.58%) AI Agents
17 11 (0.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.28%) Windows
2 24 (0.99%) Linux
3 10 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.25%) Android
5 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.25%) Unix
6 5 (0.21%) VMS
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.082%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.041%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (22.63%) ERP
2 477 (19.63%) Migration
3 453 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 297 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
5 270 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 261 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 256 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 237 (9.75%) Agile
9 207 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
10 199 (8.19%) Project Management
10 199 (8.19%) Workshop Facilitation
11 198 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
12 188 (7.74%) Validation
13 176 (7.24%) Logistics
14 174 (7.16%) Analytics
14 174 (7.16%) Change Management
15 165 (6.79%) Data Modelling
16 145 (5.97%) Roadmaps
17 140 (5.76%) Project Delivery
18 121 (4.98%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 116 (4.77%) SQL
2 111 (4.57%) ABAP
3 49 (2.02%) Python
4 35 (1.44%) Java
4 35 (1.44%) JavaScript
5 17 (0.70%) PowerShell
6 8 (0.33%) C#
7 7 (0.29%) Groovy
8 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.25%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.16%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.16%) C
9 4 (0.16%) Go
10 3 (0.12%) Bicep
10 3 (0.12%) C++
10 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.12%) VB
10 3 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 394 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 313 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 155 (6.38%) Degree
4 114 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 46 (1.89%) PMP
7 43 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 43 (1.77%) SAP Certification
8 42 (1.73%) ACCA
9 39 (1.60%) CIMA
10 30 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.58%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.45%) CISSP
14 10 (0.41%) HNC
14 10 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.37%) CISM
15 9 (0.37%) NVQ Level 4
16 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 105 (4.32%) QA
3 85 (3.50%) PMO
4 57 (2.35%) GDPR
5 47 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 30 (1.23%) GRC
7 23 (0.95%) SLA
8 16 (0.66%) GxP
9 12 (0.49%) IFRS
10 11 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.41%) NIST
12 9 (0.37%) GAAP
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.33%) GMP
14 7 (0.29%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.21%) Basel III
15 5 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.21%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.41%) IAG
3 8 (0.33%) Docker
4 6 (0.25%) Corosync
5 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.041%) Varnish
5 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (0.53%) Terraform
3 11 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (0.29%) HP ALM
5 6 (0.25%) Pacemaker
6 3 (0.12%) Ansible
6 3 (0.12%) Control-M
7 2 (0.082%) Grafana
7 2 (0.082%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.082%) vRealize
7 2 (0.082%) WSUS
8 1 (0.041%) Argo
8 1 (0.041%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.041%) MOM
8 1 (0.041%) Packer
8 1 (0.041%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.041%) SCCM
8 1 (0.041%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 234 (9.63%) Ariba
2 214 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 186 (7.65%) Oracle
4 97 (3.99%) Salesforce
5 79 (3.25%) Workday
6 72 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.65%) Informatica
8 37 (1.52%) Sage
9 36 (1.48%) Adobe
10 28 (1.15%) Databricks
11 26 (1.07%) IBM
12 22 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 20 (0.82%) Okta
14 16 (0.66%) Concur
15 15 (0.62%) Infor
15 15 (0.62%) Siemens
16 14 (0.58%) OpenText
17 13 (0.53%) Cisco
17 13 (0.53%) Dell
17 13 (0.53%) Sitecore