SAP IBP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SAP IBP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP IBP over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 328 440
Rank change year-on-year +43 +112 +168
Contract jobs citing SAP IBP 16 16 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.76% 1.19% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 19
10th Percentile £380 - £494
25th Percentile £416 £325 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £640
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -29.69% +14.29%
75th Percentile £743 £475 £774
90th Percentile £760 - £811
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £635
% change year-on-year +16.67% -29.13% +0.63%

All Business Application Skills
Work from Home

SAP IBP falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 910 1,344 1,826
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.19% 8.81% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 767 1,033
10th Percentile £413 £363 £351
25th Percentile £488 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £661 £680
90th Percentile £795 £756 £786
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 23
10th Percentile £55.65 £15.61 £24.40
25th Percentile £62.50 £26.44 £36.15
Median hourly rate £86.00 £45.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.11% -8.16% +103.74%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £87.05 £71.47 £92.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%

SAP IBP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SAP IBP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAP IBP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SAP IBP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SAP IBP.

SAP IBP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAP IBP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SAP IBP over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

SAP IBP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SAP IBP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Notion
1 1 (6.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.25%) Demantra
2 1 (6.25%) SAP APO
2 1 (6.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SAP BW
1 1 (6.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Consultant
2 7 (43.75%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Product Lead
4 2 (12.50%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Supply Chain Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) SAP APO Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Basis Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Manager
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Test Manager
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Trainer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Supply Chain Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Supply Chain Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) UAT Manager
5 1 (6.25%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) SAP Basis
1 1 (6.25%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Business Transformation
1 4 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (18.75%) Analytics
2 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Bill of Materials
3 2 (12.50%) Business Case
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Demand Management
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Quality Management
3 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.25%) Demand Forecasting
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Inventory Management
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bash
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) PMO
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Anaplan
2 1 (6.25%) Ariba
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle