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 10 May 2024 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 119 207
Rank change year-on-year -2 +88 -75
Permanent jobs citing SAP 2,300 2,955 3,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.32% 2.93% 1.99%
As % of the Vendors category 6.29% 6.98% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,231 1,667 2,185
10th Percentile £30,000 £39,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,185 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% -2.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -8.70% +14.43% +0.50%

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 36,551 42,350 61,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.84% 41.92% 38.89%
Number of salaries quoted 25,003 24,216 32,825
10th Percentile £26,702 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,294 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.62%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -6 1,971 £60,000 -2.44% 729
UK excluding London -13 1,355 £52,500 -8.70% 492
Work from Home +70 1,061 £63,000 -3.08% 465
London +49 703 £80,000 +14.29% 212
South East +16 435 £55,750 -14.23% 103
North of England +24 378 £50,000 -13.04% 159
Midlands -20 235 £45,000 -21.74% 103
North West +5 219 £53,750 -6.52% 106
West Midlands -11 162 £55,000 -4.35% 68
Yorkshire +36 122 £49,827 -13.35% 37
East of England -18 114 £65,000 +13.04% 57
East Midlands -16 70 £42,500 -19.05% 35
Scotland -55 69 £59,500 +3.48% 23
South West -62 63 £53,500 -0.47% 46
Northern Ireland +30 41 £35,000 -39.13% 7
North East +14 37 £48,750 -15.22% 20
Wales +10 23 £37,500 -42.31% 10

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
1 307 (13.35%) SAS
2 67 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.65%) Confluence
4 29 (1.26%) WebSphere
5 28 (1.22%) Captiva
5 28 (1.22%) FileNet
6 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.30%) Apache
8 6 (0.26%) CMS
8 6 (0.26%) nginx
9 5 (0.22%) IIS
9 5 (0.22%) NetWeaver
10 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.087%) SAP Portal
13 1 (0.043%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.043%) Documentum
13 1 (0.043%) IBM Domino
13 1 (0.043%) LiveLink
13 1 (0.043%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 194 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.52%) AutoCAD
5 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.30%) Revit
8 6 (0.26%) OrCAD
9 5 (0.22%) InfoPath
10 4 (0.17%) Doxygen
11 2 (0.087%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.087%) SketchUp
11 2 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.087%) SPSS
11 2 (0.087%) Stata
11 2 (0.087%) Trello
12 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.043%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 438 (19.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 373 (16.22%) SAP ERP
3 102 (4.43%) SAP FI
4 95 (4.13%) SAP CO
5 90 (3.91%) SAP FI/CO
6 61 (2.65%) SAP Business One
7 51 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
7 51 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 50 (2.17%) SAP MM
9 46 (2.00%) NetSuite
10 42 (1.83%) SAP PP
11 41 (1.78%) SAP HR
11 41 (1.78%) SAP SD
12 35 (1.52%) SAP SCM
13 34 (1.48%) SAP BPC
14 30 (1.30%) SAP CX
14 30 (1.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
15 29 (1.26%) SAP HCM
15 29 (1.26%) SAP WM
16 27 (1.17%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 164 (7.13%) Azure
2 127 (5.52%) Power Platform
3 115 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
4 78 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (2.91%) AWS
6 63 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
7 56 (2.43%) SaaS
8 53 (2.30%) GCP
9 41 (1.78%) GitHub
10 25 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (0.91%) PaaS
12 21 (0.91%) PowerApps
13 20 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 16 (0.70%) Entra ID
14 16 (0.70%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.65%) Boomi
15 15 (0.65%) IaaS
15 15 (0.65%) WhatsApp
16 12 (0.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 317 (13.78%) Broadband
2 30 (1.30%) DNS
3 19 (0.83%) HTTP
4 18 (0.78%) MQTT
5 17 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.70%) DHCP
7 13 (0.57%) LAN
8 12 (0.52%) Wireless
9 11 (0.48%) VPN
9 11 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.43%) Modbus
10 10 (0.43%) WAN
11 8 (0.35%) LTE
12 7 (0.30%) Bluetooth
12 7 (0.30%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.30%) Firewall
12 7 (0.30%) Network Security
12 7 (0.30%) VLAN
13 6 (0.26%) FTP
13 6 (0.26%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (4.87%) Power BI
2 77 (3.35%) SAP BW
3 68 (2.96%) SAP HANA
4 65 (2.83%) SQL Server
5 39 (1.70%) BusinessObjects
5 39 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
8 21 (0.91%) DB2
9 19 (0.83%) GIS
10 17 (0.74%) Tableau
11 16 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (0.65%) Data Lake
13 11 (0.48%) Big Data
13 11 (0.48%) Metadata
14 10 (0.43%) MS Access
15 9 (0.39%) MongoDB
15 9 (0.39%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.35%) NoSQL
16 8 (0.35%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 85 (3.70%) JIRA
2 44 (1.91%) Git
3 30 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
4 24 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.65%) Subversion
6 14 (0.61%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.22%) ERwin
8 5 (0.22%) GitLab
8 5 (0.22%) Maven
9 2 (0.087%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.087%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.087%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.087%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.087%) LSMW
9 2 (0.087%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.087%) Selenium
9 2 (0.087%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.043%) TeamCity
General
1 1,066 (46.35%) Social Skills
2 1,027 (44.65%) Finance
3 383 (16.65%) Manufacturing
4 337 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
5 235 (10.22%) Public Sector
6 213 (9.26%) Marketing
7 181 (7.87%) Telecoms
8 175 (7.61%) Electronics
9 156 (6.78%) Retail
10 138 (6.00%) Legal
11 110 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 83 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
13 81 (3.52%) Banking
14 66 (2.87%) Law
15 56 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
16 48 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
17 33 (1.43%) Aerospace
17 33 (1.43%) General Ledger
18 30 (1.30%) Back Office
19 28 (1.22%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 548 (23.83%) Architect
2 459 (19.96%) Solutions Architect
3 314 (13.65%) Consultant
4 272 (11.83%) Analyst
5 236 (10.26%) SAP Consultant
6 209 (9.09%) Senior
7 190 (8.26%) Lead
8 153 (6.65%) SAP Architect
9 114 (4.96%) SAP Manager
10 108 (4.70%) SAP Solutions Architect
11 93 (4.04%) Project Manager
12 85 (3.70%) SAP Analyst
13 81 (3.52%) Developer
14 72 (3.13%) Senior Consultant
15 67 (2.91%) Senior SAP Consultant
16 60 (2.61%) Development Manager
17 58 (2.52%) Business Manager
18 54 (2.35%) IT Manager
19 49 (2.13%) Software Engineer
20 48 (2.09%) Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (2.04%) HTML
2 46 (2.00%) .NET
3 45 (1.96%) EDI
4 43 (1.87%) CSS
5 31 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
6 24 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 23 (1.00%) React
8 21 (0.91%) SAP TM
9 20 (0.87%) XML
10 18 (0.78%) Flask
11 15 (0.65%) J2EE
11 15 (0.65%) SAP Basis
12 14 (0.61%) .NET Framework
12 14 (0.61%) IDoc
13 13 (0.57%) Django
14 11 (0.48%) BAPI
14 11 (0.48%) SAP PI
15 10 (0.43%) ASP.NET
15 10 (0.43%) Web Services
16 9 (0.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 76 (3.30%) Management Information System
2 70 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
3 65 (2.83%) FMCG
4 51 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 50 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.48%) Housing Association
7 33 (1.43%) Private Cloud
8 31 (1.35%) Driving Licence
9 30 (1.30%) IoT
10 28 (1.22%) DataPower
10 28 (1.22%) Social Media
11 26 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 21 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (0.87%) Life Science
15 16 (0.70%) Biopharmaceutical
15 16 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
15 16 (0.70%) Public Cloud
16 14 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (4.65%) Linux
2 102 (4.43%) Windows
3 47 (2.04%) Unix
4 36 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.43%) Android
6 8 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.30%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.17%) AIX
10 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.043%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (32.78%) ERP
2 639 (27.78%) Agile
3 455 (19.78%) Roadmaps
4 418 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
5 411 (17.87%) Data Management
6 404 (17.57%) Change Management
7 340 (14.78%) Business Intelligence
8 339 (14.74%) Performance Management
9 331 (14.39%) Enterprise Architecture
10 320 (13.91%) Strategic Roadmap
10 320 (13.91%) TOGAF
11 307 (13.35%) Project Management
12 214 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 196 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 192 (8.35%) Programme Management
15 178 (7.74%) Digital Marketing
16 174 (7.57%) CRM
16 174 (7.57%) Project Delivery
17 161 (7.00%) Migration
18 157 (6.83%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 270 (11.74%) SQL
2 91 (3.96%) Python
3 84 (3.65%) Java
4 62 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 59 (2.57%) C#
6 54 (2.35%) C
7 45 (1.96%) C++
8 36 (1.57%) ABAP
9 34 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 18 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 17 (0.74%) Embedded C
12 14 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.57%) Bash
14 10 (0.43%) VBA
15 9 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.39%) Embedded C++
16 8 (0.35%) Go
16 8 (0.35%) PHP
16 8 (0.35%) R
16 8 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 404 (17.57%) Degree
2 86 (3.74%) Security Cleared
3 57 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (1.91%) Master's Degree
5 36 (1.57%) ACCA
5 36 (1.57%) HNC
6 34 (1.48%) CIMA
7 33 (1.43%) HND
8 31 (1.35%) PMP
8 31 (1.35%) SAP Certification
9 30 (1.30%) PMI Certification
10 28 (1.22%) SC Cleared
11 25 (1.09%) CISA
12 15 (0.65%) CISSP
13 10 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (0.39%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.39%) CISM
14 9 (0.39%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 7 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (6.43%) QA
2 89 (3.87%) SLA
3 71 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 58 (2.52%) GDPR
5 51 (2.22%) PMO
6 25 (1.09%) ITGC
7 23 (1.00%) GRC
8 19 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.57%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (0.43%) IFRS
12 7 (0.30%) GxP
13 6 (0.26%) GAAP
14 4 (0.17%) IEC 61131
14 4 (0.17%) JTAG
15 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.087%) ISO 26262
16 2 (0.087%) MISRA
16 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (1.57%) Firmware
2 30 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.70%) Docker
4 13 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.13%) NFS
8 1 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.043%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.043%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (0.61%) Terraform
2 9 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.30%) SCCM
5 5 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.17%) CSIRT
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.13%) Ansible
8 2 (0.087%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.087%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.043%) SCOM
9 1 (0.043%) systemd
9 1 (0.043%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.043%) vRealize
9 1 (0.043%) WSUS
Vendors
1 532 (23.13%) Oracle
2 338 (14.70%) Microsoft
3 305 (13.26%) Hyperion
4 304 (13.22%) Anaplan
5 127 (5.52%) Salesforce
6 73 (3.17%) Sage
7 58 (2.52%) IBM
8 53 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 32 (1.39%) Pega
10 29 (1.26%) Google
10 29 (1.26%) Infor
11 28 (1.22%) Ariba
11 28 (1.22%) Kofax
12 27 (1.17%) Concur
12 27 (1.17%) VMware
13 24 (1.04%) CA
13 24 (1.04%) Workday
14 23 (1.00%) Epicor
15 17 (0.74%) Cognos
15 17 (0.74%) IFS