SAP BW Job Trends

SAP Business Information Warehouse (NetWeaver BW)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SAP BW skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 685 641
Rank change year-on-year +147 -44 +252
Permanent jobs citing SAP BW 106 31 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.056% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.60% 0.31% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 39
10th Percentile £64,250 £51,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +10.76% -13.33%
75th Percentile £84,500 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,600 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £71,991 £57,250
% change year-on-year -6.24% +25.75% -16.73%

All Database & 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 6,640 9,900 10,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.22% 17.85% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,210 5,626 8,263
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,759 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +4.60% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

SAP BW
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAP BW job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP BW
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP BW.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP BW

SAP BW
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAP BW over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SAP BW in the UK

SAP BW
Top 11 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 31 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
England +143 103 £75,000 +4.18% 10
UK excluding London +111 77 £67,500 -6.24% 6
South East +99 70 £65,000 -5.80% 4
London +77 28 £79,750 +5.63% 6
Work from Home +69 6 £76,250 +5.92% 3
West Midlands +28 2 - -
Midlands +24 2 - -
East of England +21 2 £72,500 +64.77% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North West - 1 £62,500 -
North of England - 1 £62,500 - 1

SAP BW
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.94%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 63 (59.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (18.87%) Maya
Business Applications
1 26 (24.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (19.81%) SAP IBP
3 14 (13.21%) SAP CO
3 14 (13.21%) SAP FI
3 14 (13.21%) SAP FI/CO
4 10 (9.43%) SAP FSCM
4 10 (9.43%) SAP IS-U
5 2 (1.89%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.94%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.94%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 79 (74.53%) Azure
2 63 (59.43%) Power Platform
3 10 (9.43%) AWS
3 10 (9.43%) GCP
4 3 (2.83%) Collibra
5 1 (0.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (59.43%) Data Lake
1 63 (59.43%) Power BI
2 13 (12.26%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.60%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 5 (4.72%) SAP HANA
5 3 (2.83%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.83%) Metadata
6 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) ERwin
1 3 (2.83%) PowerDesigner
General
1 62 (58.49%) Social Skills
2 47 (44.34%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (29.25%) Finance
4 20 (18.87%) Games
4 20 (18.87%) Law
5 11 (10.38%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (9.43%) Manufacturing
7 9 (8.49%) Banking
8 8 (7.55%) Automotive
8 8 (7.55%) Telecoms
9 6 (5.66%) Retail
10 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.83%) General Ledger
11 3 (2.83%) Publishing
12 1 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 40 (37.74%) Analyst
2 36 (33.96%) Lead
3 35 (33.02%) Report Analyst
4 32 (30.19%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (26.42%) Sustainability Analyst
6 22 (20.75%) Senior
7 16 (15.09%) Consultant
8 14 (13.21%) SAP Consultant
9 13 (12.26%) Architect
9 13 (12.26%) SAP Architect
10 11 (10.38%) IT Architect
10 11 (10.38%) Senior Architect
10 11 (10.38%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (8.49%) SAP Functional Architect
11 9 (8.49%) Senior SAP Consultant
12 8 (7.55%) IT Consultant
12 8 (7.55%) SAP Financial Consultant
12 8 (7.55%) Senior IT Consultant
12 8 (7.55%) Senior SAP Financial Consultant
13 4 (3.77%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.21%) Middleware
2 3 (2.83%) IDoc
3 2 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.94%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.94%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.87%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (7.55%) PMI
2 8 (7.55%) Reinsurance
3 6 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.94%) Linux
1 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (91.51%) Analytics
2 88 (83.02%) Business Intelligence
3 76 (71.70%) Data Modelling
4 67 (63.21%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (50.00%) ERP
6 35 (33.02%) Data Cleansing
7 34 (32.08%) Data Governance
8 31 (29.25%) GAP Analysis
8 31 (29.25%) Source to Pay
9 30 (28.30%) Actionable Insight
10 28 (26.42%) Quality Management
11 23 (21.70%) Project Management
12 21 (19.81%) Business Strategy
13 20 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (18.87%) Risk Management
14 19 (17.92%) Record to Report
15 16 (15.09%) Roadmaps
16 14 (13.21%) Agile
16 14 (13.21%) Migration
17 13 (12.26%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.77%) SQL
2 2 (1.89%) ABAP
3 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 79 (74.53%) Degree
2 11 (10.38%) PMI Certification
3 7 (6.60%) SAP Certification
4 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.83%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (64.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.94%) QA
Vendors
1 106 (100.00%) SAP
2 11 (10.38%) Ariba
3 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.89%) Databricks
5 1 (0.94%) Concur
5 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft