SAP ERP Job Trends

SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SAP ERP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 701 620
Rank change year-on-year +70 -81 +391
Permanent jobs citing SAP ERP 21 50 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.074% 0.21%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.77% 1.45% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7 31 81
10th Percentile £41,150 £50,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £66,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% +30.77%
75th Percentile £78,125 £80,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £79,250 £96,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -39.29% +40.00% -23.08%

All Business Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,745 3,447 3,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.24% 5.12% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,581 1,672 2,125
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £51,238 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.49% -10.89% +9.52%

SAP ERP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAP ERP job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP ERP
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP ERP

SAP ERP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAP ERP over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SAP ERP in the UK

SAP ERP
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 ERP within the UK over the 6 months to 12 November 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 +65 16 £75,000 +7.14% 18
UK excluding London +63 13 £42,500 -39.29% 12
London +47 7 £77,500 +3.33% 4
Work from Home +59 5 £77,500 +55.00% 13
Midlands +48 4 £41,000 -51.76% 4
East Midlands +26 4 £41,000 -16.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
North of England +6 3 £75,000 +33.33% 2
Yorkshire +5 2 - - 1
South East +32 1 £42,500 -39.29% 3
North West +25 1 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Scotland - 1 - -

SAP ERP
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 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (47.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (23.81%) SAP CO
2 5 (23.81%) SAP FI
2 5 (23.81%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (14.29%) SAP MDG
4 1 (4.76%) SAP HCM
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (4.76%) SAP PM
4 1 (4.76%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
2 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.76%) SAP HANA
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) LSMW
General
1 11 (52.38%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (52.38%) Manufacturing
2 10 (47.62%) Finance
3 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (19.05%) Aerospace
4 4 (19.05%) Electronics
4 4 (19.05%) Legal
4 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Advertising
6 1 (4.76%) Local Government
6 1 (4.76%) Marketing
6 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Consultant
1 4 (19.05%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Management Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) IT Director
3 2 (9.52%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) ABAP Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Client Director
4 1 (4.76%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Payroll Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) SAP HCM Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Payroll Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior ABAP Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Middleware
2 2 (9.52%) SAP Basis
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.52%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) ERP
2 12 (57.14%) Migration
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (38.10%) Data Migration
6 6 (28.57%) Coaching
6 6 (28.57%) Post-Merger Integration
6 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
7 5 (23.81%) Analytics
8 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
8 4 (19.05%) Innovative Thinking
8 4 (19.05%) Inventory Management
8 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 4 (19.05%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (19.05%) Systems Analysis
8 4 (19.05%) Time Management
9 3 (14.29%) Commercialisation
9 3 (14.29%) Logistics
9 3 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) ABAP
1 2 (9.52%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.76%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) GAAP
1 2 (9.52%) IFRS
2 1 (4.76%) GMP
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Adaptive Insights
3 1 (4.76%) Anaplan
3 1 (4.76%) Ariba
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Infor