SAP Job Trends in England

SAP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SAP SE.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 94 121
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 -11
Permanent jobs citing SAP 1,612 1,467 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.84% 3.39% 2.17%
As % of the Vendors category 7.09% 8.06% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 935 667 1,006
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,822 £28,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £99,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Vendors
England

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,739 18,194 30,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.96% 41.98% 34.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14,052 10,334 21,125
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,144 £26,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,925 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SAP job vacancy trend in England

SAP
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAP

SAP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAP in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SAP in England

SAP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +39 565 £80,000 +14.29% 186
North of England -34 387 £60,000 +30.43% 106
Midlands -19 271 £67,000 +57.65% 79
North West +49 224 £60,000 +26.32% 56
West Midlands -18 203 £70,000 +64.71% 50
South East -44 182 £56,000 +1.82% 119
Yorkshire -53 148 £75,000 +78.57% 42
South West -30 94 £47,500 -13.64% 23
East of England +19 67 £55,000 -26.67% 41
East Midlands -5 66 £55,000 +37.50% 29
North East -57 15 £69,250 +53.89% 9
SAP
UK

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 10 (0.62%) Anypoint
1 10 (0.62%) Mule
2 9 (0.56%) Confluence
3 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.43%) SAS
5 6 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.12%) Camunda
6 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.062%) Apache
7 1 (0.062%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 88 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 482 (29.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 97 (6.02%) SAP PM
3 67 (4.16%) SAP ERP
4 49 (3.04%) SAP IBP
5 48 (2.98%) SAP PP
6 46 (2.85%) SAP CO
7 45 (2.79%) SAP FI
8 43 (2.67%) SAP FI/CO
9 37 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
10 33 (2.05%) SAP MDG
11 32 (1.99%) NetSuite
12 30 (1.86%) SAP Business One
13 29 (1.80%) SAP QM
14 28 (1.74%) SAP SD
15 25 (1.55%) SAP HCM
16 21 (1.30%) SAP HR
16 21 (1.30%) SAP Payroll
17 20 (1.24%) SAP MM
18 16 (0.99%) SAP Travel Management
19 15 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 138 (8.56%) SuccessFactors
2 105 (6.51%) Azure
3 97 (6.02%) Power Platform
4 88 (5.46%) AWS
5 38 (2.36%) SaaS
6 36 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (1.99%) GCP
8 30 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (0.87%) Serverless
11 12 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (0.62%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (0.62%) Boomi
13 9 (0.56%) Entra ID
13 9 (0.56%) Workato
14 8 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (0.50%) Power Automate
14 8 (0.50%) Smartsheet
15 7 (0.43%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.36%) Internet
2 14 (0.87%) VPN
3 13 (0.81%) Broadband
3 13 (0.81%) SSL
4 12 (0.74%) DNS
5 8 (0.50%) HTTP
6 7 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.43%) VoIP
7 6 (0.37%) BGP
7 6 (0.37%) DHCP
7 6 (0.37%) IPsec
7 6 (0.37%) WAN
7 6 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.31%) Firewall
8 5 (0.31%) LAN
9 4 (0.25%) Intranet
10 2 (0.12%) Network Security
10 2 (0.12%) VLAN
11 1 (0.062%) AMQP
11 1 (0.062%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.83%) Power BI
2 65 (4.03%) SAP HANA
3 49 (3.04%) Tableau
4 37 (2.30%) SAP BW
5 29 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 28 (1.74%) BusinessObjects
7 18 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.05%) Big Data
9 12 (0.74%) Power Query
9 12 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.68%) Metadata
11 9 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.56%) SQL Server
12 7 (0.43%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 7 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.37%) Apache Hive
13 6 (0.37%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.37%) HBase
13 6 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
14 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (3.41%) JIRA
2 6 (0.37%) Hudson
3 5 (0.31%) Git
3 5 (0.31%) VersionOne
3 5 (0.31%) Yeoman
4 4 (0.25%) GitLab
4 4 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.19%) Maven
5 3 (0.19%) TestDirector
6 2 (0.12%) LSMW
6 2 (0.12%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.062%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.062%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.062%) ERwin
7 1 (0.062%) JMeter
7 1 (0.062%) Postman
7 1 (0.062%) Selenium
7 1 (0.062%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.062%) Toad
General
1 464 (28.78%) Finance
2 344 (21.34%) Social Skills
3 274 (17.00%) Manufacturing
4 198 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (7.63%) Law
6 99 (6.14%) Retail
7 64 (3.97%) Legal
8 34 (2.11%) Marketing
8 34 (2.11%) Public Sector
9 31 (1.92%) Military
9 31 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (1.86%) Billing
10 30 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.67%) Aerospace
13 26 (1.61%) German Language
14 24 (1.49%) Back Office
15 23 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 297 (18.42%) Consultant
2 267 (16.56%) Senior
3 252 (15.63%) SAP Consultant
4 178 (11.04%) SAP Manager
5 173 (10.73%) Analyst
6 172 (10.67%) Architect
7 118 (7.32%) Lead
8 92 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 79 (4.90%) Project Manager
10 75 (4.65%) SAP Architect
11 64 (3.97%) IT Manager
12 61 (3.78%) Senior Consultant
13 58 (3.60%) SAP Analyst
14 51 (3.16%) Senior SAP Consultant
15 47 (2.92%) Developer
16 46 (2.85%) Senior Manager
17 45 (2.79%) Systems Analyst
18 43 (2.67%) Managing Consultant
19 40 (2.48%) Administrator
19 40 (2.48%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (5.71%) SAP Fiori
2 43 (2.67%) Middleware
3 31 (1.92%) SAP Basis
4 24 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (1.30%) OAuth
5 21 (1.30%) SAPUI5
6 20 (1.24%) REST
7 18 (1.12%) Node.js
8 16 (0.99%) SAP TM
8 16 (0.99%) SOAP
9 14 (0.87%) JWT
10 13 (0.81%) OAuth2
11 11 (0.68%) EDI
12 10 (0.62%) MUnit
12 10 (0.62%) RAML
12 10 (0.62%) XML
13 9 (0.56%) IDoc
14 8 (0.50%) JDBC
15 7 (0.43%) JSON
15 7 (0.43%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 103 (6.39%) FMCG
2 102 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 85 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
4 64 (3.97%) Life Science
5 62 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 44 (2.73%) Data Structures
8 33 (2.05%) Driving Licence
9 27 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.24%) Product Ownership
13 18 (1.12%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.05%) Blog
15 14 (0.87%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.87%) Social Media
16 12 (0.74%) Replication
17 10 (0.62%) IoT
18 9 (0.56%) PMI
19 7 (0.43%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.43%) Windows
2 20 (1.24%) Linux
3 8 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.062%) AIX
5 1 (0.062%) SUSE
5 1 (0.062%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.062%) VMS
5 1 (0.062%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (25.74%) ERP
2 256 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 224 (13.90%) Analytics
4 218 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 196 (12.16%) Migration
6 171 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
7 170 (10.55%) Roadmaps
8 156 (9.68%) Agile
9 136 (8.44%) Data Migration
10 132 (8.19%) Decision-Making
11 130 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 124 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
13 122 (7.57%) Data Analysis
14 118 (7.32%) User Acceptance Testing
15 116 (7.20%) Business Development
16 114 (7.07%) Data Governance
17 113 (7.01%) Root Cause Analysis
18 109 (6.76%) Project Management
19 104 (6.45%) Cost Control
20 103 (6.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 105 (6.51%) SQL
2 68 (4.22%) ABAP
3 44 (2.73%) Python
4 29 (1.80%) Java
5 11 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.62%) DataWeave
6 10 (0.62%) VBA
7 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.43%) C#
8 7 (0.43%) PHP
8 7 (0.43%) Ruby
8 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.37%) C
10 5 (0.31%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.25%) Perl
11 4 (0.25%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.19%) Bicep
12 3 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 109 (6.76%) Degree
2 75 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 61 (3.78%) ACCA
4 55 (3.41%) CIMA
5 43 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (2.17%) SC Cleared
7 31 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 28 (1.74%) PMP
9 27 (1.67%) SAP Certification
10 26 (1.61%) CISSP
11 24 (1.49%) CISM
12 18 (1.12%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.99%) CISA
14 14 (0.87%) HNC
15 13 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.81%) CCSP
15 13 (0.81%) CIPFA
15 13 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.81%) CRISC
16 12 (0.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.14%) Data Quality
2 52 (3.23%) GDPR
3 40 (2.48%) QA
4 32 (1.99%) PMO
5 31 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 30 (1.86%) SLA
7 28 (1.74%) NIST
8 25 (1.55%) Accessibility
9 22 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (1.05%) COBIT
11 14 (0.87%) ITGC
12 8 (0.50%) GRC
12 8 (0.50%) IFRS
13 7 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.37%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.19%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.25%) Firmware
2 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.19%) IAG
4 2 (0.12%) Docker
5 1 (0.062%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (0.62%) CloudHub
2 6 (0.37%) Hadoop YARN
2 6 (0.37%) Terraform
3 5 (0.31%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 220 (13.65%) Oracle
2 138 (8.56%) Microsoft
3 79 (4.90%) Salesforce
4 68 (4.22%) ServiceNow
5 60 (3.72%) Workday
6 43 (2.67%) Ariba
7 42 (2.61%) Sage
8 25 (1.55%) IFS
9 24 (1.49%) Concur
10 23 (1.43%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.24%) Infor
11 20 (1.24%) OpenText
12 18 (1.12%) Alteryx
13 16 (0.99%) IBM
14 15 (0.93%) Epicor
15 14 (0.87%) Databricks
16 11 (0.68%) Hyperion
16 11 (0.68%) iManage
17 10 (0.62%) HP
17 10 (0.62%) Yardi