Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ERP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ERP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 116 125
Rank change year-on-year +24 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing ERP 1,023 1,283 1,853
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.38% 2.21% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.46% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 821 1,254
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £438 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 6
10th Percentile £13.05 £39.55 £12.51
25th Percentile £17.00 £54.38 £14.77
Median hourly rate £40.00 £64.68 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.15% +274.93% -68.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £73.75 £20.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £23.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £64.68 £14.36
% change year-on-year -38.15% +350.38% -41.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ERP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

ERP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ERP in the UK

ERP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ERP.

Daily rate trend for ERP in the UK

ERP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ERP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ERP in the UK

ERP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ERP.

Hourly rate trend for ERP in the UK

ERP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ERP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ERP in the UK

ERP
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERP within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +21 824 £550 +0.87% 724
UK excluding London +12 502 £500 -4.76% 562
Work from Home +30 428 £550 - 292
London +35 374 £575 - 165
South East +1 112 £513 -6.82% 130
Midlands +16 105 £500 -3.61% 114
North of England -10 103 £500 -9.09% 151
West Midlands +23 81 £450 -18.18% 66
Scotland +67 76 £500 -8.68% 34
South West -6 56 £513 +2.50% 80
Yorkshire -14 52 £500 -9.09% 48
North West +6 46 £500 - 85
East of England +12 40 £525 +36.36% 53
East Midlands +1 20 £555 +5.71% 48
Northern Ireland +8 6 £650 +62.50% 9
North East +9 3 £550 +34.15% 21
Wales 0 3 £350 -36.36% 4

ERP
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 14 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.08%) Confluence
3 9 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
4 6 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.49%) SAS
6 3 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.098%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.098%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 53 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 102 (9.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (5.87%) SAP ERP
3 50 (4.89%) Oracle ERP
4 31 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
5 30 (2.93%) Oracle EBS
6 26 (2.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 25 (2.44%) NetSuite
7 25 (2.44%) Oracle Cash Management
7 25 (2.44%) Oracle General Ledger
7 25 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
8 22 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
9 20 (1.96%) Oracle Assets
10 19 (1.86%) Dynamics AX
11 18 (1.76%) Oracle Financials
12 15 (1.47%) Dynamics GP
13 13 (1.27%) Workday HCM
14 12 (1.17%) Odoo
14 12 (1.17%) Oracle Applications
15 11 (1.08%) SAP FI
15 11 (1.08%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 123 (12.02%) Dynamics 365
2 86 (8.41%) OCI
3 77 (7.53%) Azure
4 61 (5.96%) SaaS
5 56 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 25 (2.44%) AWS
7 17 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.66%) WhatsApp
8 16 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (1.37%) PaaS
9 14 (1.37%) PowerApps
10 13 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (1.08%) Oracle CX
12 9 (0.88%) Boomi
13 8 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 7 (0.68%) GCP
14 7 (0.68%) iPaaS
14 7 (0.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 6 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) WAN
2 5 (0.49%) Firewall
2 5 (0.49%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.29%) Intranet
3 3 (0.29%) IPsec
3 3 (0.29%) PuTTY
3 3 (0.29%) VPN
4 2 (0.20%) Internet
4 2 (0.20%) IPv6
4 2 (0.20%) LAN
5 1 (0.098%) HTTP
5 1 (0.098%) NAS
5 1 (0.098%) RS-422
5 1 (0.098%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.20%) Power BI
2 41 (4.01%) Oracle Reports
3 23 (2.25%) SAP HANA
4 16 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 11 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.08%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.88%) SAP BW
7 9 (0.88%) Tableau
8 7 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
8 7 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.59%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.49%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
10 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.39%) Data Mart
11 4 (0.39%) GIS
11 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (2.35%) JIRA
2 5 (0.49%) Toad
3 4 (0.39%) Git
3 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.29%) LSMW
4 3 (0.29%) Selenium
5 2 (0.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.098%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.098%) eCATT
6 1 (0.098%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.098%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.098%) Visual Studio
General
1 475 (46.43%) Finance
2 333 (32.55%) Social Skills
3 133 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (12.22%) Manufacturing
5 81 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.40%) Retail
7 26 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (2.25%) Banking
9 23 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 20 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.86%) Billing
12 18 (1.76%) Legal
13 17 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.47%) Local Government
15 14 (1.37%) Marketing
16 12 (1.17%) Back Office
16 12 (1.17%) French Language
17 9 (0.88%) General Ledger
17 9 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 197 (19.26%) Analyst
2 143 (13.98%) Project Manager
3 130 (12.71%) Consultant
3 130 (12.71%) Lead
4 111 (10.85%) Business Analyst
5 89 (8.70%) Architect
6 84 (8.21%) ERP Manager
7 63 (6.16%) Developer
8 57 (5.57%) Senior
9 49 (4.79%) ERP Project Manager
10 46 (4.50%) ERP Analyst
11 43 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
12 41 (4.01%) Financial Analyst
13 40 (3.91%) SAP Manager
14 33 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
15 27 (2.64%) ERP Business Analyst
16 26 (2.54%) IT Manager
17 24 (2.35%) Programme Manager
18 23 (2.25%) Data Analyst
18 23 (2.25%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (1.37%) .NET
2 14 (1.37%) Middleware
3 13 (1.27%) REST
4 12 (1.17%) HTML
4 12 (1.17%) XML
5 11 (1.08%) SOAP
6 9 (0.88%) SAP PI
7 8 (0.78%) JSON
8 6 (0.59%) CSS
9 4 (0.39%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.39%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.39%) IDoc
9 4 (0.39%) Node.js
9 4 (0.39%) PySpark
9 4 (0.39%) React
9 4 (0.39%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.29%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.29%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.50%) Management Information System
2 28 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (1.76%) FMCG
3 18 (1.76%) Onboarding
4 16 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (0.88%) Life Science
8 8 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 8 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (0.59%) IoT
9 6 (0.59%) PKI
9 6 (0.59%) PMI
9 6 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.59%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.39%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.39%) Online Banking
11 4 (0.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.78%) Windows
2 5 (0.49%) VMS
3 4 (0.39%) Unix
4 3 (0.29%) Android
5 2 (0.20%) Linux
5 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.098%) HPUX
6 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (16.03%) Project Management
2 150 (14.66%) Migration
3 116 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
4 111 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 108 (10.56%) Agile
5 108 (10.56%) Data Migration
6 101 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
7 100 (9.78%) Change Management
8 94 (9.19%) CRM
9 80 (7.82%) Analytics
10 68 (6.65%) Project Delivery
11 66 (6.45%) User Acceptance Testing
12 59 (5.77%) Data Modelling
13 55 (5.38%) Business Analysis
13 55 (5.38%) Logistics
14 53 (5.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (4.79%) Process Improvement
16 47 (4.59%) Decision-Making
16 47 (4.59%) Roadmaps
17 45 (4.40%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 89 (8.70%) SQL
2 29 (2.83%) Python
3 17 (1.66%) C#
4 16 (1.56%) ABAP
5 14 (1.37%) PL/SQL
6 12 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.78%) C
7 8 (0.78%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.68%) Java
9 3 (0.29%) Go
9 3 (0.29%) PHP
9 3 (0.29%) Ruby
9 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.29%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.20%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.20%) R
10 2 (0.20%) SAPscript
10 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 97 (9.48%) Degree
2 46 (4.50%) Security Cleared
3 38 (3.71%) SC Cleared
4 20 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 16 (1.56%) PMI Certification
5 16 (1.56%) PMP
6 14 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (0.98%) ACCA
7 10 (0.98%) CIMA
8 7 (0.68%) SAP Certification
9 6 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.49%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.29%) AAT
12 3 (0.29%) Novell Certification
13 2 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 1 (0.098%) CAPM
14 1 (0.098%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.69%) QA
2 25 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.44%) PMO
3 17 (1.66%) GDPR
4 13 (1.27%) SLA
5 8 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
5 8 (0.78%) GRC
5 8 (0.78%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.39%) GxP
8 4 (0.39%) IFRS
8 4 (0.39%) ITGC
8 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.29%) GMP
9 3 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.20%) GAMP
10 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (0.39%) Active Directory
1 4 (0.39%) Docker
2 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (0.88%) Terraform
2 6 (0.59%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.098%) Kibana
3 1 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 341 (33.33%) SAP
2 233 (22.78%) Oracle
3 160 (15.64%) Microsoft
4 42 (4.11%) Workday
5 34 (3.32%) IFS
6 21 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.76%) Sage
8 15 (1.47%) Ariba
9 12 (1.17%) Adobe
10 9 (0.88%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.78%) Databricks
11 8 (0.78%) JD Edwards
12 7 (0.68%) IBM
13 6 (0.59%) Blue Prism
13 6 (0.59%) Cadence
13 6 (0.59%) CyberSource
13 6 (0.59%) Infor
13 6 (0.59%) PeopleSoft
13 6 (0.59%) Reuters
13 6 (0.59%) ServiceNow