SAP ERP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAP ERP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 549 499
Rank change year-on-year +59 -50 +195
Permanent jobs citing SAP ERP 25 29 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.078% 0.16%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.56% 1.54% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4 23 40
10th Percentile £41,075 £54,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £67,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% +40.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,125 £79,063
90th Percentile £88,000 £96,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -11.76% +30.77%

All Business Application Skills
UK excluding London

SAP ERP falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring business application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,598 1,880 1,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.79% 5.03% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 890 867 1,033
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,033 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% -3.28% -4.00%

SAP ERP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAP ERP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SAP ERP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SAP ERP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAP ERP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAP ERP

SAP ERP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAP ERP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SAP ERP in the UK excluding London

SAP ERP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP ERP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +15 12 £75,000 +25.00% 17
Yorkshire +8 11 - - 9
Midlands +17 6 £41,000 -55.68% 18
East Midlands -5 6 £41,000 -41.43% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
South East +37 2 £66,250 -5.36% 15
North West +24 1 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Scotland +7 1 - - 2
SAP ERP
UK

SAP ERP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (12.00%) SAP CO
2 3 (12.00%) SAP FI
2 3 (12.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (4.00%) SAP PM
3 1 (4.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
1 1 (4.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (4.00%) Tableau
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (24.00%) Aerospace
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Electronics
3 6 (24.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Local Government
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) QA Manager
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) IT Director
3 2 (8.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Release Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Client Director
4 1 (4.00%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) ERP
2 13 (52.00%) Mentoring
3 12 (48.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (44.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (44.00%) Process Improvement
5 10 (40.00%) Agile
5 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (40.00%) DevOps
5 10 (40.00%) Waterfall
6 7 (28.00%) Strategic Planning
7 6 (24.00%) Decision-Making
8 5 (20.00%) Architectural Design
8 5 (20.00%) Coaching
8 5 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (20.00%) Integration Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Migration
8 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (16.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) MBA
2 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GMP
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Adaptive Insights
3 1 (4.00%) Anaplan
3 1 (4.00%) Ariba
3 1 (4.00%) Infor