SAP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SAP products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 37 55
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing SAP 2,600 3,275 3,988
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.96% 5.49% 4.49%
As % of the Vendors category 13.99% 12.80% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,694 2,441
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £665 £656
90th Percentile £788 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 56 43
10th Percentile £13.04 £20.34 £13.17
25th Percentile £15.50 £29.21 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.75 £45.00 £29.38
Median % change year-on-year -42.78% +53.17% +40.57%
75th Percentile £55.63 £53.13 £52.75
90th Percentile £65.75 £68.11 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.65 £45.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year -45.22% +106.90% +32.02%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,582 25,595 35,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.62% 42.88% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,513 17,161 23,519
10th Percentile £263 £273 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.64% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 690 889
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.15 £43.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.43% +108.60% -6.33%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £46.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.55
% change year-on-year -44.26% +107.55% +0.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SAP in the UK

SAP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP in the UK

SAP
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 SAP within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +11 2,059 £550 - 739
UK excluding London +3 1,087 £525 -4.55% 512
Work from Home +4 1,010 £550 - 305
London +27 824 £578 +4.62% 229
South East -2 325 £550 -6.14% 118
North of England +7 290 £513 -5.09% 130
North West +25 167 £525 +5.00% 82
East of England +34 154 £525 +16.67% 75
Midlands -3 153 £515 +1.83% 100
South West +10 137 £600 - 52
West Midlands +5 106 £485 -8.92% 62
Yorkshire -7 106 £485 -11.82% 32
East Midlands -13 37 £555 +11.00% 37
Scotland +44 34 £500 +2.56% 34
North East +21 11 £390 +25.10% 18
Northern Ireland +14 11 £400 -27.27% 9
Wales -1 6 £500 -9.09% 14

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 51 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.58%) Confluence
3 16 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (0.58%) NetWeaver
5 10 (0.38%) Anypoint
5 10 (0.38%) Apache
5 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.35%) SAS
7 7 (0.27%) CMS
8 5 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.19%) IIS
9 4 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.12%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.077%) JBoss
11 2 (0.077%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.077%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 96 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.038%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.038%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.038%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.038%) InVision
8 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.038%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.038%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 754 (29.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 98 (3.77%) SAP FI
3 93 (3.58%) SAP EWM
4 76 (2.92%) SAP SD
5 73 (2.81%) SAP CO
6 65 (2.50%) SAP ERP
6 65 (2.50%) SAP FI/CO
7 60 (2.31%) SAP MDG
8 52 (2.00%) SAP QM
9 43 (1.65%) SAP MM
10 36 (1.38%) SAP HR
11 34 (1.31%) SAP PP
12 33 (1.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 31 (1.19%) SAP Hybris
14 30 (1.15%) Teamcenter
15 29 (1.12%) Shopify
16 28 (1.08%) SAP PS
17 26 (1.00%) SAP HCM
18 24 (0.92%) SAP IBP
18 24 (0.92%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 178 (6.85%) Azure
2 152 (5.85%) SuccessFactors
3 95 (3.65%) AWS
4 91 (3.50%) Power Platform
5 46 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (1.58%) SaaS
8 40 (1.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 31 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (1.00%) BigCommerce
11 25 (0.96%) PaaS
12 21 (0.81%) Serverless
12 21 (0.81%) WhatsApp
13 19 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (0.73%) GCP
14 17 (0.65%) Power Automate
15 16 (0.62%) IaaS
16 15 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (0.50%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.77%) Firewall
2 17 (0.65%) HTTP
3 15 (0.58%) LAN
3 15 (0.58%) WAN
4 13 (0.50%) VPN
5 11 (0.42%) DNS
5 11 (0.42%) FTP
5 11 (0.42%) Internet
6 10 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.27%) 3G
7 7 (0.27%) 4G
7 7 (0.27%) Wireless
8 6 (0.23%) SSL
9 5 (0.19%) Broadband
9 5 (0.19%) Skype
9 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.19%) WinSCP
10 4 (0.15%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.15%) VoIP
11 3 (0.12%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.50%) SAP HANA
2 77 (2.96%) Power BI
3 58 (2.23%) SAP BW
3 58 (2.23%) SQL Server
4 43 (1.65%) Metadata
5 35 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 27 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 24 (0.92%) Oracle Database
8 24 (0.92%) SAP Data Services
9 22 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
10 20 (0.77%) Data Vault
11 18 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.62%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 15 (0.58%) Metadata Repository
13 15 (0.58%) Qlik Sense
14 14 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (0.50%) Tableau
16 12 (0.46%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 85 (3.27%) JIRA
2 39 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 34 (1.31%) Git
4 12 (0.46%) ERwin
4 12 (0.46%) LSMW
5 11 (0.42%) Maven
5 11 (0.42%) TeamCity
6 10 (0.38%) Postman
7 9 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.27%) SoapUI
10 6 (0.23%) GitLab
10 6 (0.23%) Selenium
11 5 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.19%) JMeter
11 5 (0.19%) NUnit
12 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.15%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.12%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 827 (31.81%) Finance
2 738 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 521 (20.04%) Manufacturing
4 403 (15.50%) Public Sector
5 367 (14.12%) Marketing
6 349 (13.42%) Telecoms
7 337 (12.96%) Electronics
8 217 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
9 159 (6.12%) Retail
10 150 (5.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 73 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
12 57 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
13 54 (2.08%) Billing
14 45 (1.73%) Legal
15 33 (1.27%) Banking
16 30 (1.15%) Automotive
17 29 (1.12%) German Language
18 26 (1.00%) French Language
19 19 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 707 (27.19%) Consultant
2 591 (22.73%) SAP Consultant
3 306 (11.77%) Lead
4 267 (10.27%) Architect
5 259 (9.96%) Analyst
6 188 (7.23%) Project Manager
7 175 (6.73%) SAP Manager
8 148 (5.69%) Developer
9 147 (5.65%) Senior
10 116 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
11 113 (4.35%) SAP Architect
12 105 (4.04%) Business Analyst
13 102 (3.92%) Functional Consultant
14 93 (3.58%) SAP Analyst
15 86 (3.31%) SAP Functional Consultant
16 85 (3.27%) SAP Project Manager
17 73 (2.81%) SAP Developer
18 69 (2.65%) SAP Solutions Architect
19 54 (2.08%) SAP EWM Consultant
20 52 (2.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.08%) SAP Fiori
2 43 (1.65%) REST
3 41 (1.58%) SAP Basis
4 38 (1.46%) .NET
5 32 (1.23%) EDI
6 29 (1.12%) IDoc
7 28 (1.08%) XML
8 27 (1.04%) Web Services
9 22 (0.85%) CSS
9 22 (0.85%) Node.js
10 21 (0.81%) Middleware
11 20 (0.77%) BAPI
11 20 (0.77%) SOAP
12 19 (0.73%) Spring
12 19 (0.73%) VML
13 18 (0.69%) HTML
14 17 (0.65%) Kafka
14 17 (0.65%) SAP TM
14 17 (0.65%) Web Dynpro
15 15 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 72 (2.77%) Management Information System
2 60 (2.31%) Onboarding
3 51 (1.96%) Life Science
4 48 (1.85%) NHS
5 42 (1.62%) FMCG
6 38 (1.46%) Replication
7 36 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 32 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 30 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.04%) Cloud Native
13 26 (1.00%) Reference Data
14 23 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 19 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
17 18 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
18 17 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 16 (0.62%) Data Centre
19 16 (0.62%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 84 (3.23%) Windows
2 49 (1.88%) Linux
3 34 (1.31%) Unix
4 32 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.23%) VMS
6 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.077%) Android
7 2 (0.077%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.038%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.038%) SUSE
8 1 (0.038%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.038%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
2 372 (14.31%) Programme Management
3 334 (12.85%) ERP
4 331 (12.73%) Digital Marketing
5 310 (11.92%) Project Management
6 306 (11.77%) Migration
7 299 (11.50%) Agile
8 292 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
9 291 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 180 (6.92%) Data Migration
11 163 (6.27%) Logistics
12 162 (6.23%) Change Management
13 137 (5.27%) Analytics
14 129 (4.96%) User Acceptance Testing
15 120 (4.62%) Data Modelling
16 117 (4.50%) Roadmaps
17 110 (4.23%) DevOps
18 109 (4.19%) Project Delivery
19 105 (4.04%) Data Management
19 105 (4.04%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 169 (6.50%) ABAP
2 161 (6.19%) SQL
3 83 (3.19%) Python
4 66 (2.54%) Java
5 43 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 29 (1.12%) C#
8 18 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 18 (0.69%) T-SQL
9 13 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.38%) Perl
11 9 (0.35%) Go
11 9 (0.35%) R
12 8 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.27%) C
13 7 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.27%) Groovy
13 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.27%) XPath
13 7 (0.27%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 356 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 269 (10.35%) SC Cleared
3 199 (7.65%) Degree
4 86 (3.31%) DV Cleared
5 60 (2.31%) SAP Certification
6 31 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 27 (1.04%) PMP
9 14 (0.54%) CIMA
10 13 (0.50%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.35%) ACCA
11 9 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.31%) CISSP
13 5 (0.19%) CBAP
13 5 (0.19%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (0.19%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.15%) CLAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (3.42%) QA
2 82 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.08%) PMO
4 48 (1.85%) GDPR
5 36 (1.38%) SLA
6 14 (0.54%) GxP
7 13 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.46%) GRC
9 11 (0.42%) IFRS
10 10 (0.38%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.31%) HL7
11 8 (0.31%) NIST
12 7 (0.27%) GAAP
13 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 5 (0.19%) ITGC
14 5 (0.19%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.19%) RMADS
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.077%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 51 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.81%) Docker
3 8 (0.31%) NFS
4 5 (0.19%) HDFS
5 4 (0.15%) Firmware
5 4 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.077%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.038%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 36 (1.38%) Terraform
2 22 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.46%) Ansible
4 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.27%) HP ALM
5 7 (0.27%) Puppet
6 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (0.15%) CA Service Virtualization
8 4 (0.15%) Opsgenie
9 3 (0.12%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.12%) Grafana
10 2 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.077%) Control-M
10 2 (0.077%) Nessus
10 2 (0.077%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.077%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.038%) SCOM
Vendors
1 271 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.54%) Oracle
3 189 (7.27%) Ariba
4 129 (4.96%) Salesforce
5 72 (2.77%) Adobe
6 44 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 34 (1.31%) Dell
7 34 (1.31%) MuleSoft
8 30 (1.15%) Workday
9 26 (1.00%) IBM
9 26 (1.00%) Sitecore
10 25 (0.96%) Google
11 22 (0.85%) OpenText
12 21 (0.81%) Sparx
13 19 (0.73%) Concur
14 15 (0.58%) IFS
15 13 (0.50%) Alteryx
15 13 (0.50%) Murex
16 12 (0.46%) HP
16 12 (0.46%) Intel