SAP Payroll Management (HR-PY)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SAP Payroll skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 798 650 759
Rank change year-on-year -148 +109 -33
Permanent jobs citing SAP Payroll 10 30 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.060% 0.012%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.28% 1.11% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8 26 5
10th Percentile £83,875 - £32,600
25th Percentile £85,000 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -8.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £68,438 £62,500
90th Percentile - £75,000 £64,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +63.64% -8.33% +15.82%

All Business Application Skills
UK

SAP Payroll 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 3,559 2,691 3,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.02% 5.41% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,175 1,520 1,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,975
25th Percentile £42,375 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%

SAP Payroll
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAP Payroll job vacancy trend in the UK

SAP Payroll
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAP Payroll

SAP Payroll
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP Payroll within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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 -150 9 £90,000 +63.64% 29
UK excluding London -151 8 £90,000 +63.64% 16
South East -47 7 £90,000 +20.00% 1
Work from Home -52 2 £82,500 +50.00% 24
North West - 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - - 5

SAP Payroll
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 9 (90.00%) SAP HCM
2 7 (70.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (10.00%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Consultant
1 8 (80.00%) SAP Consultant
2 7 (70.00%) Lead
2 7 (70.00%) Lead Consultant
2 7 (70.00%) SAP HCM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) ABAP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP HR Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior ABAP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior SAP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (70.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (10.00%) Time Management
2 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) SAP