SAP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAP over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SAP SE.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 110 138 138
Rank change year-on-year +28 0 -13
Permanent jobs citing SAP 1,596 3,220 3,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.01% 2.62% 2.77%
As % of the Vendors category 7.18% 6.37% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 2,028 2,393
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,050
25th Percentile £47,250 £49,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £99,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Vendors
UK

SAP is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,214 50,563 50,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.93% 41.16% 39.22%
Number of salaries quoted 16,235 29,708 33,438
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +4.40%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 +24 1,347 £65,000 - 779
UK excluding London +46 842 £55,000 -4.35% 502
Work from Home +16 608 £68,000 +4.62% 384
London +28 469 £75,000 -6.25% 279
North of England +35 199 £61,500 +11.82% 153
South East +34 195 £53,750 -10.42% 143
Midlands +71 164 £57,500 +4.55% 78
South West +26 120 £50,000 - 49
North West +71 112 £62,500 +4.17% 106
West Midlands +70 104 £61,500 +11.82% 58
Yorkshire +15 79 £58,000 +13.73% 38
Scotland +24 60 £69,724 +23.40% 21
East of England +46 59 £62,500 +4.17% 70
East Midlands +39 59 £50,000 - 18
Wales +15 35 £58,501 +26.49% 13
Northern Ireland +12 13 £35,000 +3.70% 3
North East +39 8 £57,500 +11.16% 13

SAP
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 41 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.26%) WebSphere
3 24 (1.50%) Captiva
3 24 (1.50%) FileNet
4 22 (1.38%) NetWeaver
5 17 (1.07%) MS Exchange
6 13 (0.81%) Confluence
7 12 (0.75%) IIS
8 11 (0.69%) CMS
9 10 (0.63%) Apache
10 8 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.38%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.13%) WordPress
13 1 (0.063%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.063%) Artix
13 1 (0.063%) IBM Notes
13 1 (0.063%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 84 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.69%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.69%) SOLIDWORKS
7 9 (0.56%) PTC Creo
8 7 (0.44%) OrCAD
8 7 (0.44%) Simulink
8 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.31%) Windchill
10 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
11 1 (0.063%) CATIA
11 1 (0.063%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 450 (28.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 125 (7.83%) SAP CO
2 125 (7.83%) SAP FI
3 119 (7.46%) SAP FI/CO
4 111 (6.95%) SAP ERP
5 77 (4.82%) SAP MM
5 77 (4.82%) SAP SD
6 63 (3.95%) SAP SCM
7 42 (2.63%) SAP PP
8 34 (2.13%) SAP EWM
9 30 (1.88%) SAP HR
10 26 (1.63%) SAP PM
11 24 (1.50%) SAP BPC
11 24 (1.50%) SAP Business One
12 23 (1.44%) Primavera
13 22 (1.38%) SAP QM
14 20 (1.25%) SAP WM
15 19 (1.19%) SAP CRM
15 19 (1.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
16 16 (1.00%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 201 (12.59%) Azure
2 111 (6.95%) SuccessFactors
3 97 (6.08%) Power Platform
4 93 (5.83%) AWS
5 85 (5.33%) GCP
6 66 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
7 61 (3.82%) SaaS
8 34 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 31 (1.94%) GitHub
10 29 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.75%) Snowflake
12 26 (1.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 25 (1.57%) IaaS
13 25 (1.57%) PaaS
14 24 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
16 21 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
17 12 (0.75%) Boomi
17 12 (0.75%) WhatsApp
18 9 (0.56%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.25%) DNS
2 18 (1.13%) Firewall
3 17 (1.07%) Wireless
4 13 (0.81%) DHCP
5 12 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.69%) WAN
7 8 (0.50%) LTE
8 7 (0.44%) 4G
9 6 (0.38%) Internet
9 6 (0.38%) MQTT
9 6 (0.38%) Software-Defined Radio
9 6 (0.38%) VLAN
9 6 (0.38%) VPN
10 5 (0.31%) 3G
10 5 (0.31%) 5G
10 5 (0.31%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.31%) FlexRay
10 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (5.51%) Power BI
2 76 (4.76%) SAP HANA
3 73 (4.57%) SQL Server
4 71 (4.45%) BusinessObjects
5 56 (3.51%) SAP BW
6 46 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (1.75%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 19 (1.19%) Big Data
8 19 (1.19%) Tableau
9 16 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
9 16 (1.00%) Metadata
9 16 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
12 10 (0.63%) GIS
13 9 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.56%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.56%) MySQL
13 9 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 58 (3.63%) JIRA
2 36 (2.26%) Git
3 34 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
4 29 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.63%) Chocolatey
6 7 (0.44%) ERwin
6 7 (0.44%) Selenium
7 6 (0.38%) LSMW
7 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.31%) Maven
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.25%) CMake
9 4 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.25%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.19%) JMeter
10 3 (0.19%) Subversion
11 2 (0.13%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.13%) JUnit
11 2 (0.13%) NUnit
General
1 596 (37.34%) Finance
2 511 (32.02%) Social Skills
3 418 (26.19%) Manufacturing
4 253 (15.85%) Public Sector
5 206 (12.91%) Marketing
6 199 (12.47%) Telecoms
7 192 (12.03%) Electronics
8 162 (10.15%) Retail
9 150 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
10 116 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 80 (5.01%) Legal
12 52 (3.26%) Aerospace
13 51 (3.20%) Law
14 50 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (3.01%) Automotive
16 41 (2.57%) Banking
17 38 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
18 36 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
19 28 (1.75%) Back Office
20 26 (1.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 311 (19.49%) Consultant
2 248 (15.54%) SAP Consultant
3 215 (13.47%) Analyst
4 197 (12.34%) Architect
5 182 (11.40%) Lead
6 178 (11.15%) Senior
7 138 (8.65%) Solutions Architect
8 114 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
8 114 (7.14%) SAP Architect
9 105 (6.58%) Project Manager
10 88 (5.51%) SAP Manager
11 84 (5.26%) SAP Solutions Architect
12 69 (4.32%) Developer
13 64 (4.01%) Business Analyst
14 54 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
15 50 (3.13%) Senior Consultant
16 49 (3.07%) SAP FI Consultant
17 48 (3.01%) SAP CO Consultant
17 48 (3.01%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
18 47 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.63%) SAP Fiori
2 39 (2.44%) EDI
3 33 (2.07%) .NET
4 28 (1.75%) SAP PI
5 25 (1.57%) SAPUI5
6 24 (1.50%) XML
7 18 (1.13%) IDoc
8 17 (1.07%) Middleware
8 17 (1.07%) Node.js
9 16 (1.00%) HTML
10 14 (0.88%) CSS
11 13 (0.81%) Spring
12 11 (0.69%) ASP.NET
12 11 (0.69%) Express.js
12 11 (0.69%) React
12 11 (0.69%) REST
12 11 (0.69%) RESTful
12 11 (0.69%) SOAP
12 11 (0.69%) Web Services
13 10 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 55 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
2 54 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
3 47 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 34 (2.13%) Life Science
6 32 (2.01%) FMCG
6 32 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 31 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.63%) Private Cloud
9 24 (1.50%) DataPower
10 23 (1.44%) IoT
10 23 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 18 (1.13%) Driving Licence
13 16 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (0.94%) Data Centre
15 14 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
15 14 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.81%) FPGA
16 13 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 87 (5.45%) Windows
2 52 (3.26%) Linux
3 46 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.32%) Unix
5 10 (0.63%) Android
5 10 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (0.56%) Solaris
7 7 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.063%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.063%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.063%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (20.68%) ERP
2 305 (19.11%) Business Intelligence
3 240 (15.04%) Project Management
4 238 (14.91%) Agile
5 227 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 218 (13.66%) Roadmaps
7 210 (13.16%) Programme Management
8 207 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
9 192 (12.03%) Migration
10 186 (11.65%) Digital Marketing
11 172 (10.78%) Analytics
12 146 (9.15%) Project Delivery
13 138 (8.65%) Logistics
14 128 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 121 (7.58%) Mentoring
16 115 (7.21%) Change Management
17 95 (5.95%) Software Engineering
18 92 (5.76%) Digital Engineering
19 90 (5.64%) DevOps
20 86 (5.39%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 158 (9.90%) SQL
2 91 (5.70%) Java
3 77 (4.82%) ABAP
4 62 (3.88%) Python
5 55 (3.45%) C
6 47 (2.94%) C#
7 30 (1.88%) C++
7 30 (1.88%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 23 (1.44%) MATLAB
10 22 (1.38%) Bash
11 11 (0.69%) PHP
12 10 (0.63%) Embedded C
13 9 (0.56%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.50%) SAPscript
15 7 (0.44%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.38%) Assembly Language
17 5 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.25%) Delphi
18 4 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 255 (15.98%) Degree
2 144 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 78 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 55 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (2.32%) PMP
7 32 (2.01%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.88%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.13%) ACCA
10 12 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.69%) SAP Certification
12 10 (0.63%) CCA
12 10 (0.63%) CIMA
12 10 (0.63%) CISA
12 10 (0.63%) MCSA
12 10 (0.63%) MCSE
13 9 (0.56%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (6.08%) QA
2 56 (3.51%) PMO
3 48 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.13%) GDPR
5 19 (1.19%) SLA
6 15 (0.94%) GMP
7 12 (0.75%) GRC
8 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.38%) ISO 26262
10 5 (0.31%) ITGC
10 5 (0.31%) MISRA
11 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.19%) IFRS
11 3 (0.19%) ISAE 3402
12 2 (0.13%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 58 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.32%) Firmware
3 15 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.31%) Docker
6 4 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.063%) NFS
8 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (1.19%) Terraform
2 18 (1.13%) Ansible
3 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.81%) SCCM
5 12 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 10 (0.63%) SCOM
7 3 (0.19%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.19%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.13%) Grafana
8 2 (0.13%) MIIS
9 1 (0.063%) FlexNet
9 1 (0.063%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.063%) Nmap
9 1 (0.063%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.063%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.063%) Puppet
9 1 (0.063%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 250 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 230 (14.41%) Oracle
3 91 (5.70%) Salesforce
4 70 (4.39%) IBM
5 39 (2.44%) Google
6 36 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.07%) Talend
8 28 (1.75%) Workday
9 27 (1.69%) Informatica
10 26 (1.63%) VMware
11 25 (1.57%) Pega
12 24 (1.50%) Adobe
12 24 (1.50%) Ariba
12 24 (1.50%) Kofax
12 24 (1.50%) Sage
13 20 (1.25%) Cisco
13 20 (1.25%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.25%) Qualtrics
14 17 (1.07%) Red Hat
15 16 (1.00%) TOWER Software