SAP Business Information Warehouse (NetWeaver BW)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SAP BW skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SAP BW over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 844 857
Rank change year-on-year +163 +13 +294
Permanent jobs citing SAP BW 40 77 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.071% 0.096%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 0.42% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 18 48 44
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,750 £49,375
25th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +28.57% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £100,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £84,500 £105,000 £97,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +25.00% +20.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SAP BW falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,782 18,501 19,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.84% 17.06% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,821 12,560 12,779
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,960 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,743 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

SAP BW
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAP BW as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP BW in the UK

SAP BW
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAP BW.

Salary trend for SAP BW in the UK

SAP BW
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAP BW over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SAP BW in the UK

SAP BW
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP BW within the UK over the 6 months to 10 June 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
England +126 32 £72,500 -19.44% 34
London +106 21 £78,500 -12.78% 10
Work from Home +120 19 £72,500 -19.44% 113
UK excluding London +182 13 £72,500 -3.33% 23
South East +80 5 £70,000 -6.67% 6
Midlands +78 4 £72,500 +26.09% 4
West Midlands +69 3 £72,500 - 2
North of England +54 2 £73,750 - 10
North West +2 2 £73,750 - 7
Scotland - 2 £72,500 - 1
East Midlands +49 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £32,500 -

SAP BW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Maya
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (67.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (37.50%) SAP IBP
3 10 (25.00%) SAP FI
4 8 (20.00%) SAP CO
4 8 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (7.50%) SAP EHS
5 3 (7.50%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (7.50%) SAP GRC
5 3 (7.50%) SAP IS-U
5 3 (7.50%) SAP PP
6 2 (5.00%) SAP BPC
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (2.50%) SAP CAR
7 1 (2.50%) SAP HCM
7 1 (2.50%) SAP Retail
7 1 (2.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) GCP
3 7 (17.50%) Power Platform
4 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
5 5 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (17.50%) Power BI
3 5 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 5 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 4 (10.00%) Big Data
4 4 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (10.00%) Metadata
4 4 (10.00%) Tableau
5 3 (7.50%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.50%) PowerCenter
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JUnit
1 1 (2.50%) Selenium
1 1 (2.50%) TestComplete
General
1 24 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (45.00%) Finance
4 14 (35.00%) Law
5 10 (25.00%) Games
5 10 (25.00%) Manufacturing
6 7 (17.50%) Automotive
6 7 (17.50%) Banking
6 7 (17.50%) Telecoms
7 4 (10.00%) Legal
8 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Dutch Language
9 1 (2.50%) French Language
9 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Senior
2 15 (37.50%) Architect
3 10 (25.00%) SAP Architect
4 9 (22.50%) IT Architect
4 9 (22.50%) Senior Architect
5 7 (17.50%) Analyst
5 7 (17.50%) SAP Functional Architect
6 6 (15.00%) Consultant
6 6 (15.00%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (12.50%) Data Architect
7 5 (12.50%) Lead
7 5 (12.50%) Project Manager
7 5 (12.50%) Senior Manager
7 5 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (10.00%) Senior SAP Consultant
9 3 (7.50%) IT Consultant
9 3 (7.50%) SAP Financial Consultant
9 3 (7.50%) Senior IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) Middleware
2 2 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (20.00%) PMI
3 7 (17.50%) Reinsurance
4 4 (10.00%) Derivative
5 2 (5.00%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (5.00%) Fixed Income
5 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Project Management
2 16 (40.00%) ERP
3 15 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (35.00%) Analytics
5 13 (32.50%) Business Strategy
6 12 (30.00%) Risk Management
7 11 (27.50%) Agile
7 11 (27.50%) Roadmaps
8 10 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (22.50%) Project Delivery
10 8 (20.00%) Migration
10 8 (20.00%) Visualisation
11 7 (17.50%) Asset Management
11 7 (17.50%) Cost Reduction
11 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
11 7 (17.50%) Data Visualisation
11 7 (17.50%) Due Diligence
12 6 (15.00%) Analytical Thinking
12 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) SQL
2 4 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Degree
2 8 (20.00%) PMI Certification
3 6 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (10.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (7.50%) SAP Certification
6 2 (5.00%) ACCA
6 2 (5.00%) CIMA
6 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.50%) PMO
3 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (7.50%) GRC
5 2 (5.00%) IFRS
5 2 (5.00%) ITGC
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) SAP
2 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (22.50%) Ariba
4 5 (12.50%) Databricks
5 4 (10.00%) Google
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle
5 4 (10.00%) Teradata
6 2 (5.00%) Informatica
6 2 (5.00%) Wallstreet Suite