ERP Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 108 119
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing ERP 995 1,310 1,998
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.31% 2.34% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.61% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 837 1,371
10th Percentile £363 £381 £381
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 5
10th Percentile £13.05 £45.82 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.50 £52.50 £14.77
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +290.63% -58.44%
75th Percentile £55.00 £72.50 £20.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.75 £64.68 £15.18
% change year-on-year -54.00% +326.05% -34.00%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +9 808 £540 -1.82% 762
UK excluding London +9 511 £500 -4.76% 569
Work from Home +16 400 £550 - 334
London +30 344 £561 -2.39% 192
South East -5 126 £525 -4.55% 137
Midlands +2 107 £500 -7.41% 120
North of England -18 99 £500 -9.09% 139
West Midlands +11 83 £500 -13.04% 61
Scotland +51 70 £525 - 36
South West +1 61 £525 +10.53% 83
Yorkshire -14 50 £500 -9.09% 46
North West +10 43 £500 - 80
East of England -2 38 £550 +25.00% 55
East Midlands -15 20 £555 +5.71% 59
Northern Ireland +4 6 £650 +62.50% 10
North East +6 4 £550 +37.50% 18
Wales +6 4 £425 -22.73% 5

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 15 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.01%) Confluence
3 9 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (0.90%) Cloud Foundry
4 6 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.50%) SAS
6 3 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.10%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.10%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 107 (10.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (6.73%) SAP ERP
3 41 (4.12%) Oracle ERP
4 32 (3.22%) Oracle EBS
5 27 (2.71%) Oracle Receivables
6 26 (2.61%) NetSuite
7 25 (2.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 23 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
9 22 (2.21%) Oracle Payables
10 20 (2.01%) Oracle Cash Management
10 20 (2.01%) Oracle General Ledger
11 19 (1.91%) Dynamics AX
12 17 (1.71%) Oracle Assets
13 16 (1.61%) Oracle Financials
14 15 (1.51%) Workday HCM
15 13 (1.31%) Dynamics GP
16 12 (1.21%) SAP CO
16 12 (1.21%) SAP FI
16 12 (1.21%) SAP FI/CO
17 11 (1.11%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 115 (11.56%) Dynamics 365
2 79 (7.94%) Azure
3 77 (7.74%) OCI
4 64 (6.43%) SaaS
5 55 (5.53%) Power Platform
6 29 (2.91%) AWS
7 20 (2.01%) SuccessFactors
8 17 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (1.61%) WhatsApp
10 15 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.51%) PaaS
11 14 (1.41%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.21%) Boomi
13 8 (0.80%) GCP
13 8 (0.80%) iPaaS
13 8 (0.80%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 7 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (0.60%) Miro
15 6 (0.60%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.90%) Firewall
2 7 (0.70%) WAN
3 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.40%) HTTP
5 3 (0.30%) Intranet
5 3 (0.30%) IPsec
5 3 (0.30%) IPv6
5 3 (0.30%) PuTTY
5 3 (0.30%) VPN
6 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 1 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.10%) NAS
7 1 (0.10%) RS-422
7 1 (0.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.32%) Power BI
2 35 (3.52%) Oracle Reports
3 25 (2.51%) SAP HANA
4 14 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 13 (1.31%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.11%) SAP BW
7 7 (0.70%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (0.70%) Tableau
8 6 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.50%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.50%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
9 5 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.40%) Big Data
10 4 (0.40%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.40%) Presto
Development Applications
1 23 (2.31%) JIRA
2 5 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.40%) Toad
4 3 (0.30%) Git
4 3 (0.30%) LSMW
4 3 (0.30%) Selenium
5 2 (0.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.10%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.10%) eCATT
6 1 (0.10%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.10%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 440 (44.22%) Finance
2 320 (32.16%) Social Skills
3 129 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (12.26%) Manufacturing
5 78 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.72%) Retail
7 27 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (2.41%) Banking
8 24 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 23 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.71%) Billing
12 17 (1.71%) Local Government
12 17 (1.71%) Marketing
13 14 (1.41%) Legal
14 13 (1.31%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.21%) Back Office
16 10 (1.01%) French Language
17 9 (0.90%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 191 (19.20%) Analyst
2 140 (14.07%) Project Manager
3 132 (13.27%) Consultant
4 119 (11.96%) Lead
5 109 (10.95%) Business Analyst
6 83 (8.34%) Architect
6 83 (8.34%) ERP Manager
7 72 (7.24%) Senior
8 59 (5.93%) Developer
9 47 (4.72%) ERP Project Manager
10 44 (4.42%) ERP Analyst
11 42 (4.22%) SAP Manager
12 41 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (3.42%) Financial Analyst
14 33 (3.32%) SAP Consultant
15 28 (2.81%) IT Manager
16 27 (2.71%) ERP Business Analyst
17 24 (2.41%) Senior Manager
18 23 (2.31%) Data Analyst
18 23 (2.31%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (1.61%) REST
3 15 (1.51%) XML
4 14 (1.41%) .NET
4 14 (1.41%) SOAP
5 12 (1.21%) HTML
5 12 (1.21%) Middleware
6 9 (0.90%) SAP PI
7 8 (0.80%) IDoc
7 8 (0.80%) JSON
8 6 (0.60%) CSS
9 5 (0.50%) PySpark
9 5 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.40%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.40%) ADO
10 4 (0.40%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.40%) Node.js
11 3 (0.30%) BAPI
11 3 (0.30%) SAP ALE
11 3 (0.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.22%) Management Information System
2 24 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (2.01%) Onboarding
4 19 (1.91%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (1.61%) FMCG
6 14 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.01%) Life Science
8 7 (0.70%) IoT
9 6 (0.60%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.60%) PKI
9 6 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.50%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.30%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.30%) N-Tier
12 3 (0.30%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.80%) Windows
2 7 (0.70%) VMS
3 4 (0.40%) Unix
4 3 (0.30%) Android
5 2 (0.20%) Linux
5 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.10%) HPUX
6 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (14.97%) Migration
1 149 (14.97%) Project Management
2 117 (11.76%) Agile
3 114 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 104 (10.45%) Data Migration
6 97 (9.75%) Business Intelligence
7 92 (9.25%) Change Management
7 92 (9.25%) CRM
8 75 (7.54%) Analytics
9 70 (7.04%) Project Delivery
10 68 (6.83%) User Acceptance Testing
11 63 (6.33%) Logistics
12 56 (5.63%) Data Modelling
13 54 (5.43%) Business Analysis
14 50 (5.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (4.92%) Procure-to-Pay
16 45 (4.52%) Decision-Making
16 45 (4.52%) GAP Analysis
16 45 (4.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.84%) SQL
2 33 (3.32%) Python
3 18 (1.81%) ABAP
4 15 (1.51%) C#
5 13 (1.31%) PL/SQL
6 12 (1.21%) C
6 12 (1.21%) Java
6 12 (1.21%) JavaScript
7 7 (0.70%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.50%) VBScript
9 4 (0.40%) Go
9 4 (0.40%) Ruby
10 3 (0.30%) PHP
11 2 (0.20%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.20%) ProC
11 2 (0.20%) R
11 2 (0.20%) SAPscript
11 2 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.20%) VB
11 2 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 93 (9.35%) Degree
2 50 (5.03%) Security Cleared
3 41 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 14 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 12 (1.21%) PMP
6 11 (1.11%) ACCA
6 11 (1.11%) CIMA
6 11 (1.11%) PMI Certification
7 8 (0.80%) CIPD
8 6 (0.60%) SAP Certification
8 6 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.30%) AAT
10 3 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.30%) CPIM
11 2 (0.20%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.72%) QA
2 24 (2.41%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.41%) PMO
3 16 (1.61%) SLA
4 13 (1.31%) GDPR
5 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.60%) GRC
6 6 (0.60%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (0.50%) GxP
8 3 (0.30%) GMP
8 3 (0.30%) IFRS
8 3 (0.30%) ITGC
9 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.20%) GAMP
9 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.50%) Docker
3 4 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (0.90%) Kubernetes
1 9 (0.90%) Terraform
2 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.10%) Kibana
3 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 341 (34.27%) SAP
2 218 (21.91%) Oracle
3 157 (15.78%) Microsoft
4 44 (4.42%) Workday
5 35 (3.52%) IFS
6 25 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.01%) Sage
8 16 (1.61%) Ariba
9 12 (1.21%) Adobe
10 9 (0.90%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.80%) Databricks
12 7 (0.70%) PeopleSoft
13 6 (0.60%) Blue Prism
13 6 (0.60%) Cadence
13 6 (0.60%) CyberSource
13 6 (0.60%) FIS
13 6 (0.60%) Infor
13 6 (0.60%) JD Edwards
14 5 (0.50%) Foundry
14 5 (0.50%) Triple Point