SAP Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring LSMW skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 735 657 896
Rank change year-on-year -78 +239 +19
Permanent jobs citing LSMW 2 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.005% 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.048% 0.048% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

LSMW falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,204 4,129 9,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 9.33% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,772 2,660 6,545
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,130 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

LSMW
Job Vacancy Trend

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

LSMW job vacancy trend in the UK

LSMW
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LSMW.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LSMW

LSMW
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LSMW within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 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
England - 2 - - 2
UK excluding London - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
London - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - -

LSMW
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (50.00%) SAP CO
2 1 (50.00%) SAP FI
2 1 (50.00%) SAP FI/CO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle9i Database
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) SAP CO Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) SAP FI Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) BAPI
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (50.00%) SAP XI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Order to Cash
2 1 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Record to Report
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) ABAP
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle