SAP S/4HANA Contracts

SAP S/4HANA
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SAP S/4HANA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAP S/4HANA over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 150 301
Rank change year-on-year +22 +151 -15
Contract jobs citing SAP S/4HANA 769 1,001 820
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.75% 0.93%
As % of the Business Applications category 24.20% 26.97% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 456 380
10th Percentile £438 £463 £425
25th Percentile £513 £525 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £721 £700
90th Percentile £850 £850 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile £27.83 £49.25 £45.75
25th Percentile £53.70 £53.13 £53.30
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -11.11% +255.26%
75th Percentile - £97.50 £81.25
90th Percentile £62.63 £98.50 £92.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year +2.67% +38.20% +128.50%

All Business Application Skills
UK

SAP S/4HANA is in the Business Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,178 3,712 5,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.47% 6.48% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 2,133 3,142
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £799 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -2.33% +3.37% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 58 55
10th Percentile £14.71 £22.05 £15.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.16 £20.95
Median hourly rate £40.00 £49.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +50.79% -11.58%
75th Percentile £59.50 £63.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.38 £64.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.16 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -23.50% +133.33% -30.77%

SAP S/4HANA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAP S/4HANA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAP S/4HANA in the UK

SAP S/4HANA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAP S/4HANA.

Daily rate trend for SAP S/4HANA in the UK

SAP S/4HANA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP S/4HANA over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAP S/4HANA in the UK

SAP S/4HANA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAP S/4HANA.

Hourly rate trend for SAP S/4HANA in the UK

SAP S/4HANA
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAP S/4HANA over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAP S/4HANA in the UK

SAP S/4HANA
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP S/4HANA within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +25 573 £600 - 153
Work from Home +6 326 £598 +1.74% 247
UK excluding London -4 268 £550 -8.33% 70
London +104 267 £637 +5.46% 71
North of England +18 102 £525 -4.55% 13
East of England +68 76 £582 +36.94% 9
North West +23 53 £525 -2.78% 8
Yorkshire -8 44 £544 -9.38% 4
Midlands -19 43 £600 +9.09% 13
South East -64 38 £550 -19.71% 27
West Midlands -9 24 £525 -8.70% 12
East Midlands +6 17 £600 +11.11% 1
South West +16 14 £549 -28.03% 4
Scotland +38 7 £500 - 1
Wales +23 6 £550 - 5
North East - 1 £600 - 1

SAP S/4HANA
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 7 (0.91%) Confluence
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 14 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 61 (7.93%) SAP FI
2 48 (6.24%) SAP EWM
3 45 (5.85%) SAP CO
4 41 (5.33%) SAP FI/CO
5 40 (5.20%) SAP SD
6 25 (3.25%) SAP MDG
7 22 (2.86%) SAP MM
8 19 (2.47%) SAP ERP
9 16 (2.08%) SAP PP
10 14 (1.82%) SAP BPC
11 12 (1.56%) SAP HCM
11 12 (1.56%) SAP PS
12 11 (1.43%) SAP QM
13 10 (1.30%) SAP HR
13 10 (1.30%) SAP IS-U
14 9 (1.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
14 9 (1.17%) SAP PM
15 8 (1.04%) SAP GTS
15 8 (1.04%) SAP Retail
16 7 (0.91%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 33 (4.29%) SuccessFactors
2 16 (2.08%) Azure
3 6 (0.78%) WhatsApp
4 5 (0.65%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (0.52%) SaaS
5 4 (0.52%) Yammer
6 1 (0.13%) AWS
6 1 (0.13%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.13%) Boomi
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.13%) GCP
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Fieldglass
6 1 (0.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.39%) HTTP
2 2 (0.26%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (8.32%) SAP HANA
2 18 (2.34%) SAP BW
3 15 (1.95%) SAP Data Services
4 11 (1.43%) Oracle Database
5 5 (0.65%) DB2
5 5 (0.65%) Power BI
6 4 (0.52%) Metadata
7 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.39%) GIS
7 3 (0.39%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.26%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 2 (0.26%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 19 (2.47%) JIRA
2 10 (1.30%) LSMW
3 3 (0.39%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.26%) Postman
4 2 (0.26%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) GCC
5 1 (0.13%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 231 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 203 (26.40%) Finance
3 78 (10.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 68 (8.84%) Manufacturing
5 65 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (6.50%) Retail
7 25 (3.25%) Banking
8 22 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (2.47%) Billing
10 16 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.95%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.56%) French Language
12 12 (1.56%) Legal
13 8 (1.04%) Automotive
13 8 (1.04%) General Ledger
13 8 (1.04%) German Language
14 7 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.65%) Back Office
15 5 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.65%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 276 (35.89%) Consultant
2 240 (31.21%) SAP Consultant
3 153 (19.90%) Lead
4 83 (10.79%) Architect
5 76 (9.88%) SAP Manager
6 67 (8.71%) SAP Architect
7 54 (7.02%) Senior
8 53 (6.89%) Solutions Architect
9 51 (6.63%) Project Manager
10 49 (6.37%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
11 44 (5.72%) Analyst
12 42 (5.46%) SAP Solutions Architect
13 39 (5.07%) Functional Consultant
14 34 (4.42%) SAP Analyst
14 34 (4.42%) SAP Project Manager
15 30 (3.90%) SAP Functional Consultant
16 29 (3.77%) SAP EWM Consultant
17 27 (3.51%) SAP FI Consultant
18 26 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
19 24 (3.12%) SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.68%) SAP Fiori
2 18 (2.34%) SAP Basis
3 13 (1.69%) BAPI
3 13 (1.69%) SAP TM
3 13 (1.69%) Web Services
4 11 (1.43%) Middleware
5 10 (1.30%) IDoc
6 8 (1.04%) SAP ALE
7 7 (0.91%) EDI
8 6 (0.78%) SAPUI5
9 5 (0.65%) SAP Business Workflow
10 4 (0.52%) XML
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (0.39%) REST
11 3 (0.39%) SAP PI
11 3 (0.39%) Web Dynpro
12 2 (0.26%) JDBC
12 2 (0.26%) Node.js
12 2 (0.26%) SailPoint
12 2 (0.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.29%) FMCG
2 30 (3.90%) Life Science
3 21 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.30%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.30%) Replication
7 9 (1.17%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.91%) Product Ownership
8 7 (0.91%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.39%) Biopharmaceutical
10 3 (0.39%) IoT
10 3 (0.39%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.39%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.26%) LPAR
11 2 (0.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.65%) Linux
2 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.39%) zOS
4 2 (0.26%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 105 (13.65%) ERP
3 103 (13.39%) Migration
4 92 (11.96%) Project Management
5 75 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (8.06%) Agile
7 60 (7.80%) Data Migration
8 49 (6.37%) Business Transformation
8 49 (6.37%) Logistics
8 49 (6.37%) Roadmaps
9 44 (5.72%) Analytics
9 44 (5.72%) Change Management
9 44 (5.72%) Procure-to-Pay
10 43 (5.59%) Requirements Gathering
11 38 (4.94%) Project Delivery
12 35 (4.55%) User Acceptance Testing
13 33 (4.29%) Order to Cash
14 32 (4.16%) Data Modelling
14 32 (4.16%) Validation
15 31 (4.03%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 65 (8.45%) ABAP
2 13 (1.69%) SQL
3 4 (0.52%) JavaScript
3 4 (0.52%) Python
4 1 (0.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 49 (6.37%) Degree
2 28 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 26 (3.38%) SAP Certification
4 20 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 7 (0.91%) PMP
9 5 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.52%) CBAP
11 2 (0.26%) CAPM
11 2 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.13%) ACCA
12 1 (0.13%) CCA
12 1 (0.13%) CIMA
12 1 (0.13%) CISM
12 1 (0.13%) CISSP
12 1 (0.13%) ISEB
12 1 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.73%) Data Quality
1 21 (2.73%) QA
2 11 (1.43%) GxP
3 10 (1.30%) GDPR
4 9 (1.17%) PMO
5 7 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.91%) SLA
6 4 (0.52%) GRC
7 3 (0.39%) ITGC
8 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.13%) CRD IV
9 1 (0.13%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.13%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 748 (97.27%) SAP
2 118 (15.34%) Ariba
3 22 (2.86%) Oracle
4 16 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 14 (1.82%) Microsoft
6 12 (1.56%) Concur
7 8 (1.04%) Adobe
8 7 (0.91%) Hyperion
8 7 (0.91%) IBM
8 7 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.78%) Reuters
10 5 (0.65%) HP
11 4 (0.52%) FIS
11 4 (0.52%) OpenText
12 3 (0.39%) Blue Prism
12 3 (0.39%) Kofax
12 3 (0.39%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.39%) ReadSoft
12 3 (0.39%) UiPath
12 3 (0.39%) Workday