SAP Jobs in the North West

SAP
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 106 124
Rank change year-on-year +27 +18 -14
Permanent jobs citing SAP 274 214 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.62% 2.20% 2.72%
As % of the Vendors category 11.31% 6.65% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 105 110 131
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £36,250 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £56,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £95,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

All Vendors
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,422 3,220 3,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 31.98% 33.13% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,480 2,397 1,767
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,650 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,943 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £80,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.50% +2.73%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing SAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the North West

SAP
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAP in the North West.

Salary trend for SAP in the North West

SAP
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAP in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SAP in the North West

SAP
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cumbria - 177 £50,818 - 7
Manchester +41 55 £52,500 -4.55% 73
Lancashire -43 18 £52,500 +23.53% 47
Merseyside +37 11 £26,500 -38.73% 10
Cheshire -28 10 £52,500 -4.55% 24
SAP
England

SAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 58 (21.17%) Confluence
2 53 (19.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 69 (25.18%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (11.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 57 (20.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (6.57%) SAP ERP
3 8 (2.92%) Primavera
4 6 (2.19%) Infor LN
5 4 (1.46%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.73%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.73%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.73%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.36%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.36%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.36%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.77%) Power Platform
2 4 (1.46%) Azure
3 3 (1.09%) AWS
3 3 (1.09%) GitHub
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.09%) SaaS
3 3 (1.09%) Snowflake
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.36%) GCP
4 1 (0.36%) Kong
4 1 (0.36%) OCI
4 1 (0.36%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) DNS
2 2 (0.73%) FTP
2 2 (0.73%) HTTP
2 2 (0.73%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.73%) SSH
2 2 (0.73%) SSL
3 1 (0.36%) DHCP
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.77%) Power BI
2 6 (2.19%) Tableau
3 4 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (1.46%) MySQL
4 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.73%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (21.17%) JIRA
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 120 (43.80%) Manufacturing
2 95 (34.67%) Finance
3 54 (19.71%) Social Skills
4 37 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.82%) Law
8 4 (1.46%) Billing
9 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.73%) Electronics
10 2 (0.73%) Marketing
10 2 (0.73%) Police
10 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (23.36%) Architect
2 61 (22.26%) Lead
3 60 (21.90%) Solutions Architect
4 58 (21.17%) Lead Architect
4 58 (21.17%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 50 (18.25%) Analyst
6 38 (13.87%) Project Manager
7 31 (11.31%) Data Analyst
8 26 (9.49%) Administrator
8 26 (9.49%) Procurement Analyst
9 21 (7.66%) Configuration Manager
10 20 (7.30%) SAP Manager
10 20 (7.30%) Systems Administrator
11 19 (6.93%) Financial Analyst
12 16 (5.84%) Delivery Project Manager
12 16 (5.84%) Finance Systems Analyst
12 16 (5.84%) Systems Analyst
13 10 (3.65%) Senior
14 8 (2.92%) Principal Engineer
15 7 (2.55%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.84%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (1.82%) EDI
3 3 (1.09%) Bootstrap
3 3 (1.09%) CSS
3 3 (1.09%) Laravel
3 3 (1.09%) RESTful
3 3 (1.09%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (0.73%) LAMP
4 2 (0.73%) Loki
4 2 (0.73%) SAP Basis
4 2 (0.73%) Symfony
4 2 (0.73%) XML
5 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.15%) Management Information System
2 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (1.09%) Life Science
3 2 (0.73%) IoT
3 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
3 2 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (0.73%) Replication
4 1 (0.36%) Acoustics
4 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.36%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.36%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.36%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.73%) AIX
1 2 (0.73%) CentOS
1 2 (0.73%) Linux
1 2 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (0.73%) Unix
2 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (72.99%) ERP
2 84 (30.66%) Agile
3 69 (25.18%) Process Improvement
4 59 (21.53%) Business Strategy
4 59 (21.53%) Enterprise Architecture
4 59 (21.53%) PLM
5 58 (21.17%) CAD
6 46 (16.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (16.06%) Project Management
8 41 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (13.50%) Analytics
9 37 (13.50%) Decision-Making
10 32 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (11.68%) Data Management
11 28 (10.22%) Visualisation
12 27 (9.85%) Data Analysis
12 27 (9.85%) Data Analytics
13 26 (9.49%) Economics
13 26 (9.49%) Indirect Procurement
13 26 (9.49%) Source to Pay
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.30%) ABAP
2 6 (2.19%) PHP
3 4 (1.46%) Python
4 2 (0.73%) AWK
4 2 (0.73%) C
4 2 (0.73%) C++
4 2 (0.73%) Korn
4 2 (0.73%) Perl
4 2 (0.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (66.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 79 (28.83%) Degree
3 40 (14.60%) ACCA
3 40 (14.60%) CIMA
4 16 (5.84%) CCAB
4 16 (5.84%) HNC
5 7 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.46%) ICAEW
7 3 (1.09%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.73%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.73%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (25.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.55%) IFRS
3 4 (1.46%) GMP
3 4 (1.46%) QA
4 2 (0.73%) GAAP
System Software
1 2 (0.73%) KVM
1 2 (0.73%) Postfix
1 2 (0.73%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.73%) Grafana
1 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.73%) Nagios
1 2 (0.73%) Nessus
1 2 (0.73%) Terraform
2 1 (0.36%) Ansible
2 1 (0.36%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 73 (26.64%) Microsoft
2 58 (21.17%) Siemens
3 12 (4.38%) Oracle
4 7 (2.55%) Google
4 7 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.19%) Infor
6 5 (1.82%) Sage
7 4 (1.46%) Hyperion
7 4 (1.46%) Workday
8 3 (1.09%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.73%) Cognos
9 2 (0.73%) IBM
9 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.73%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.73%) Tenable
10 1 (0.36%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (0.36%) Veritas