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Report Q3 2022

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 Welcome
Welcome to Q3’s edition of the SAP Report, we hope you find it useful. The biggest development in the UK SAP industry since we were last here was the
huge move by new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to repeal the 2017 and 2021 IR35 reforms, much to the delight of the freelance sector (more on this on our
Overview IR35 section here).
In less seismic developments, bluewave’s fledgling 5-a-side team enjoyed measured success at the Business Fives football tournament in Leeds. Despite
finishing top of our group and looking resplendent in our SAP-sponsored Hoffenheim shirts, we were dispatched quicker than manufactured goods from an
EWM warehouse in the knockout stages. Best stick to the day job.
SAP Industry News
You will find this Q3 SAP Report jam-packed with all the regular content plus special features on Women in SAP, SAP Ariba and the global contracting
market.
SAP jobs and hiring continued the upward trend throughout Q2 as did day rates and permanent salaries. Demand for good SAP professionals is
Spotlight on S/4HANA consistently high and there are more S/4 HANA customers than ever before. If our own half year results are anything to go by, the SAP market is buoyant
despite the cost of living crisis and current economic uncertainty with plenty of new programmes to continue momentum well in to next year and beyond.
Many suggest that the hyperactivity around S/4 HANA has created an acute shortage of skills in the market, however as a recruitment business exclusively
Vincent Dunlop focused on bringing great SAP people together, we disagree. Maybe it us because we know where and how to look… more on this later.
Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity Co-Founder | Director As always, if you have any feedback, additional content suggestions or personal blogs that you would like to showcase, it would be great to hear from you.

SAP Salary & Day

Rate Benchmarking Experts in S/4HANA bluewave half-year results
Looking for Click here
SAP customers up July: 2022
Global Contractor Outlook your next Niche SAP skills
196% YoY
SAP job? Click here

Revenues up
CoE build and optimisation
200% YoY
Women in SAP
Click here Click here

Spotlight on Ariba Permanent SAP resource hiring

Record number of
Click here
S/4HANA
Looking to Programmes
Spotlight on IR35 build an Contract SAP resource hiring
exceptional
Click here
Contract hires:
SAP team? Peer reviews record-
How We Can Help
Click here equalling
performance
Click here
UK: Germany:
Perm hires:
record doubled in 50+ SAP
Customers in
To download our SAP CIO performance capability
Dashboard for SAP professionals SAP podcasts supassed 2021 revenue in
5 months
since 2020 first 8 months

in C-Suite and Senior coming soon

Leadership roles click here
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 Industry News
Overview

SAP Industry News

Spotlight on S/4HANA

Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity

Lack of IT Alignment Hampers Migration to SAP SAP Acquires Search-Driven
SAP Announces Q2 and Half-Year 2022 Results S/4HANA Analytics Company Askdata
WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced its financial results Approximately 66% of respondents say that the biggest hurdle to With the acquisition of Askdata, SAP strengthens
SAP Salary & Day
for the second quarter and half-year ended June 30, 2022. complete SAP S/4HANA migration is aligning business, project, and IT its ability to help organisaitons take
Rate Benchmarking better informed decisions.
teams.

Global Contractor Outlook

RISE with SAP Gains Strong SAP Named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic
Women in SAP Momentum Across North America Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce
Hundreds of companies selected RISE with SAP Gartner once again names SAP a Leader in digital commerce
in the first half of the year, with public cloud gaining solutions. In its latest 2022 report, Gartner Inc. assessed solutions
Spotlight on Ariba traction as the deployment of choice with from 19 vendors, including the SAP® Commerce Cloud solution.
many customers.

Spotlight on IR35

How We Can Help Latest SAP news

Keep up with the latest SAP news,
insights and advice from industry
professionals, recruiters and commentators.

Catalyst 2030 Announces Global

Follow us on Award Winners
LinkedIn SAP Achieves Goal of Supporting 200 Startups Corporates Awards Category - SAP, Germany.
This category highlights best practices in private
Founded or led by underrepresented entrepreneurs six months ahead
sector engagement with the social
of schedule
entrepreneurship sector.
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 Spotlight on S/4HANA
Quarterly number of SAP S/4HANA subscribers worldwide
Overview Breakdown of SAP S/4HANA customers from 2015 to 2022, by quarter
Breakdown of SAP S/4HANA customers
by Industry by No. of Employees

SAP Industry News 350 Others

453 Manufacturing 60

Subscribers
57 Transportation 50
Spotlight on S/4HANA 58 Construction 43.7%
and Real Estate 40
65 Automotive
31.5%

Source: appsruntheworld
98 Banking and 214 Professional 30

Source: appsruntheworld
Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity Financial Services Services
22.9%
20
115 Utilities

Source: statista
211 Consumer 10
SAP Salary & Day 134 Oil, Gas Packaged Goods
1.9%
and Chemicals
Rate Benchmarking 171 Life
0
184 Retail
Sciences 10000+ 1000-10000 100-1000 0-100

Global Contractor Outlook

Free SAP S/4HANA Resources Breakdown of SAP S/4HANA customers Breakdown of SAP S/4HANA customers
Women in SAP Outside of your own peer network, where do you go to find out the how-to’s of preparing by Countries by Revenue
for and implementing S/4HANA? Below are some links to useful and mosly free SAP
resources to help you on your journey:

513 United Kingdom 60

Spotlight on Ariba SAP COMMUNITY NETWORK Q&A for SAP Professionals - tends to be hands-on 500 Other

troubleshooting and technical advice Click here

53.8%
50

SAP BLOGS Passionate SAP Professionals’ best practice blogging on all manner
40
Spotlight on IR35 of subjects Click here
34.1%

Source: appsruntheworld
Source: appsruntheworld
53 France
UK & IRELAND SAP USER GROUP Peer-to-peer experiences of implementing 30
56 United Arab
and living with SAP. Lessons learned etc Click here Emirates
64 Ireland 20
How We Can Help FREE ONLINE SAP COURSES Click here
67 Singapore 11%
YOUTUBE Literally 1000s of videos from basic introductions to accelerating 80 India 460 United States 10

your SAP transformation Click here 92 Australia 1.1%

0
225 Germany
SAP DEVELOPER CENTRE An open repository for SAP Developers Click here 1000 M+ 100-1000 M 10-100 M 0-10 M

EX-SAP COMMUNITY Ex-SAP employers can stay in contact and tap in to

in-house knowlege. The only draw back is that you have to have worked for SAP
Click here
Looking to
build an exceptional
Looking for
your next WOW,
S/4HANA team? job in S/4HANA? the UK has more S/4 HANA customers
than anywhere else in the world
BLUEWAVESELECT Our own website features up to date SAP content including
industry news and blogs Click here Click here Click here

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 Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity
All Sources: bluewaveSELECT

Overview Permanent vs Contract Jobs End user vs Consultancy SAP Jobs and Hiring Activity
Record growth outperforms other industries
The Association of Professional Sta˝ng Companies (APSCo) reported a 12% decrease in UK permanent
SAP Industry News vacancies and an 11% decrease in contract vacancies across all sectors in June (YoY). By stark contrast,
the SAP market delivered the highest level of new jobs and hires in Q2 since the SAP industry report
56% 73%
End User launched at the start of 2020.
Contract
Spotlight on S/4HANA 44% 27% SAP Hiring
Consultancy
Perm

% Change
SAP Jobs

Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity 0 100 0 100

355
SAP Salary & Day SAP Gender Diversity
Rate Benchmarking

77% 23%
Global Contractor Outlook
Male
Female SAP Jobs

Women in SAP
Contract: Inside IR35 vs Outside IR35 S/4HANA vs ECC Flexible Working is it here to stay?
Q2 2022 Hybrid, remote and onsite work requirements compared
Spotlight on Ariba 33% 67%
Inside IR35 Outside IR35

Spotlight on IR35 60% 25% 15%

Hybrid Remote On Site
S/4HANA VS ECC
Historic Data
How We Can Help
% of total SAP vacancies

SAP Jobs by Seniority

83% 17% 42% 25% 22% 11%

S/4HANA ECC
Consultant Principal / SME Leadership Analyst
Consultant Principal / SME Leadership Analyst

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 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity
All Sources: bluewaveSELECT
Q2 Top 5 in-demand SAP skills
Overview Jobs Heatmap: Europe 15% - 20% SAP Jobs: UK 15% - 20%
Given the massive spend in manufacturing Q2 2022 Q2 2022
1st ...
sites, regional delivery centres and
logistics operations, it will come as no
10% - 15% 10% - 15%
Manufacturing surprise that manufacturing and logistics 5% - 10% 5% - 10%
jumped from 4th place last time around to
SAP Industry News /Logistics first in Q2. EWM and WM lead the field in
this group. 1% - 5% 1% - 5%
An integral success (and failure) 0% - 1% 1% - 0%
criteria of any SAP programme, data has
Spotlight on S/4HANA
2nd featured in every top...5 skill summary since
we started profiling demand curves. Again,
MDG features highly this quarter and
Data expect to see data skills in high demand as
long as new programmes are being signed
off.
Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity
Always an in-demand skill as a core

3rd element of most SAP solutions. As well

as modular FI/CO and R2R process
demand we have seen a big increase
Finance in niche SAP finance areas such as tax,
SAP Salary & Day treasury, CFIN and FSCM.
Rate Benchmarking
Again, a main stay of the quarterly top
4th 5 skills, demand for technical and
solution architects is almost exclusively
Global Contractor Outlook Architecture driven by S/4HANA programmes, both
greenfield and ECC transformation.

Q2 demand for HxM skills has been

driven by Successfactors and notably
Women in SAP
5th EC ... and EC Payroll programmes.
Interestingly, Successfactors demand has
HxM come from companies that don’t run an
SAP core as well as those that do.
Spotlight on Ariba

SAP Jobs by Seniority

Spotlight on IR35 Manu/Logistics

Data
Most popular SAP jobs
Finance 42% 25% 22% 11%
How We Can Help Along with the Top 5 above, Specialist/Niche
SAP roles featured highly in Q2 driven by the
Architecture contract market as SAP Users sought to bolster Consultant Principal / SME Leadership Analyst
in house capability. These skill areas included
HxM/SF IS-Retail, AATP, VIM, Vistex and GTS

Specialist/Niche

ABAP Looking to Looking for

build exceptional
exeptional your next
BI
S/4HANA
SAP talent?
talent? job in SAP?
S/4HANA?
Training
Click here Click here

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 SAP Salary and Day Rate Benchmarking
Overview
So, what of the big S/4HANA skills shortage? Several industry commentators have said that we are in the middle of an SAP skills shortage, particularly for
professionals with S/4HANA experience - but how true is this and how has it affected SAP salaries and day rates?

One thing for sure is that there are more S/4HANA customers and more S/4HANA projects than ever before which
SAP Industry News has increased need for SAP professionals with the right commercial experience, most of whom will have multiple
A major challenge for SAP users in a offers to choose from when on the open market.
buoyant market is how to attract
and retain great SAP professionals, There will be a tipping point when the number of live S/4HANA instances are numerous enough to have produced
Spotlight on S/4HANA particularly with S/4 experience. and developed the ‘right’ amount of S/4HANA professionals to meet the demand. We have been through this cycle
before - remember each new iteration of SAP: R2 > R3 > MySAP and so on? Each one created a spike in
requirements as new adopters sought the latest skill-set and each time demand and supply steadily progressed to
a workable equilibrium.
Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity
Until that point then, yes, there will be an SAP and S/4HANA skills shortage - unless, like us, you know where and
Looking to how to look.
SAP Salary & Day
Rate Benchmarking build exceptional Our leadership team have been in this space since the R2 days, we speak to daily and track the availability of SAP
SAP team? professionals so that we can introduce them to our customers before they come on to the open market.

The benchmarking data on the following page is generated by real time vacancies, placements and data gathered
Global Contractor Outlook Click here from bluewave’s SAP candidate networks. If you want to know how to position your hiring needs to attract SAP
professionals and to check that you are paying the right amount for your resources, check out the next page...

Women in SAP
Looking for Cyclical spikes in demand for SAP professionals have been common place since 1972
your next
Spotlight on Ariba job in SAP?
Click here
Spotlight on IR35
1973 1992 2009
SAP My SAP Business
R/1 R/2 R/3 S/4HANA
Interactive Founded ERP Suite 7
How We Can Help
1972 1979 1999 2015
Benchmarking 2004 Till Date
Tool - Coming soon
Get notified here

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 SAP Salary and Day Rate Benchmarking Are you paying the right amount for your SAP resources?

Job role Contract benchmark Salary Range Job Role Contract Benchmark Salary Range
Overview Leadership Functional
Some skill areas feature a wide range of salary and
Transformation £1,200 - £2,500 £120k - £180k Solution Architect £800 - £1,300 £85 - £160k day rate due to a number of factors: end user vs
OtC consultancy, whether or not the position has an
SAP Industry News Programme £800 - £1,200 £90k - £130k
• Manager £600 - £850 £80k - £90k S/4HANA or a niche skill element, scope of
£70k - £90k • Lead £550 - £750 £70k - £80k programme, responsibility of the individual, location
Project £600 - £800
• Consultant £500 - £600 £50k - £65k and industry weighting.
Spotlight on S/4HANA
PMO £450 - £750 £45k - £60k
RtR
BAU/Head of £650 - £750 • Manager £600 - £800 £80k - £90k
£85k - £100k
Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity • Lead £550 - £750 £70k - £80k
• Consultant £500 - £600 £50k - £65k
Focused SAP
benchmarkting
Technical
PtP
SAP Salary & Day £90k - £120k • Manager £650 - £850
available
Architect £800 - £1,000 £80k - £90k
Rate Benchmarking • Lead £600 - £750 £70k - £80k
Basis £500 - £700 £60k - £90k • Consultant £500 - £600 £50k - £65k

Security £500 - £600 £55k - £80k Manufacturing Click here

Global Contractor Outlook • Manager £650 - £850 £80k - £90k
ABAP £500 - £650 £60k - £70k • Lead £600 - £750 £70k - £80k
• Consultant £500 - £600 £50k - £65k

Looking to
Women in SAP Integration £700 £60k - £90k Warehousing/Logistics
• Manager £600 - £800
build exceptional
Data £70k - £80k
• Manager £600 - £850 £75k - £90k • Lead £600 - £750 £60k - £70k

SAP talent?
Spotlight on Ariba • Lead £600 - £700 £65k - £70k • Consultant £550 - £650 £50k - £60k
• Consultant £450 - £550 £50k - £60k
SuccessFactors
• Manager £700 £90k - £120k
Spotlight on IR35 Business
• Lead £600 £75k - £90k Click here
Process • Consultant £500 £55k - £75k
• GPO £700 - £1000 £80k - £110k
• Lead £600 - £800 £70k - £80k BI
How We Can Help • Manager £650 - £850 £75k - £120k
Looking for
• BA £500 - £700 £45k - £65k
• Lead £600 - £800 £65k - £90k

your next
• Consultant £550 - £700 £55k - £70k
Change
• Manager £600 - £900 £70k - £100k
job in SAP?
Test
• Consultant £450 - £550 £45k - £65k • Manager £550 - £700 £70k - £80k
• Comms £450 - £600 £45k - £60k • Lead £455 - £600 £60k - £70k
• Consultant £350 - £550 £45k - £65k
Training Click here
• Manager £500 - £700 £55k - £80k
• Lead £400 - £600 £50k - £70k
• Delivery £350 - £500 £40k - £55k
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 Global Contractor Outlook
Have you ever wondered how UK SAP freelancers compare Hourly rates by area of expertise
Overview internationally and against other sectors? Our friends at
freelancermap.com have provied some interesting insights on the SAP
global contracting market. Remarkable
Consulting / Management
Freelancers working in the SAP field
IT Infrastructure

Source: freelancermap.com
SAP Industry News receive on average
Spoiler alert ;)

$120
Development / Tech / Data
- SAP has the highest hourly rates of all skill sets
Marketing / Communication
- 73% of all contractors accept a project because of the hourly rate
Spotlight on S/4HANA Other
- In the global freelance market, contractors in the US and Europe Engineering The lowest hourly rates are paid in the
get paid the most Graphics / Content / Media field ($65)
Graphics / Content / Media
Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity - 91% of the freelancers think that the project market
situation will stay the same or even get better $0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120

SAP Salary & Day $96

Rate Benchmarking Europe
$54 Looking for Looking to
$96 build an
North America Asia
your next exceptional
SAP job? SAP team?
Global Contractor Outlook Hourly rate across $53
Africa
all sectors by continent Click here Click here

$53
Women in SAP South America

Project market situation

Spotlight on Ariba Source: freelancermap.com

Spotlight on IR35
Accepting a project
42%
49%
expect the market to
Which factors influence your decision of accepting a project?
expect a better project remain the same
Hourly rate market situation
Remote Work avaliable Remarkable Do you think

73%
Professional Challenge
How We Can Help Matching skills
the project market
Project duration situation will change
in 2022?

Source: freelancermap.com
Personal Development

Source: freelancermap.com
Technology Stack
Reputation of the company of freelanceres decide whether or not
Proximity to place of residence to accept a project based on the
Industry hourly rate
Sense of social responsibilty
Internationally For 54% is important to be able to work
Size of company remotly 9%
Other expect a worse
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% project market

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 Women in SAP
All Sources: bluewaveSELECT

Gendered wording
In July bluewaveSELECT’s Harriet Webster was invited to speak about removing the gender bias from Masculine Feminine
the SAP recruitment process at a Women in SAP event at Microsoft’s Experience Centre, Oxford Street, • Strong • Support
Overview London - hosted by UK and Ireland SAP User Group. • Lead • Share
• Analysis • Responsible
• Individual • Understand
It is human nature to develop unconscious biases and to recruit in our own image but are we letting this

Women
• Decision • Together
limit our ability to recruit a world class team? Below are the key takeaways on how to address this • Driven • Committed
SAP Industry News (full details and further reading here). • Competitive • Interpersonal

SAP
• Expert • Feel

in
• Objectives • Collaborate
Key steps to remove unconcious bias from the SAP recruitment process • Principles • Connect
• Remove gendered wording from job adverts
1
Spotlight on S/4HANA
• Introduce blind applications
• Change to a structured interview process
• Have a diverse interview panel How does the SAP community measure up?
• Support women in to more senior roles
Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity • Actively encourage women to progress When we were approached to present at this event, we
Harriet Webster •
•
Have a clear policy on discrimination & provide training on unconscious bias
Ensure meritocracy rules
reached out to our SAP network and asked the simple question
Head of Perm Delivery "Does your current employer have any formal measures in
place to remove gender bias from the recruitment process?"
SAP Salary & Day
Rate Benchmarking
2 The results were far from perfect

The second question we asked was ‘if yes, what measures are in place?’ 21.9%
37.5% 40.6%
Yes No Don’t
Know
Global Contractor Outlook 9.4% Removal of gendered wording from
job adverts 21.9% Use of diverse interview panels
25% Compulsory training on unconscious
bias

More people answered no than yes, and a significant section

Use of ‘blind’ job applications (e.g Active encouragment of women to answered ‘don’t know’ meaning that if their organisations do
Women in SAP 9.4% removing names and other personal
details from CVs)
18.8% put themselves forward for
promotion opportunties 21.9% A clear and well-publicised
discrimination policy have measures in place they aren’t communicated clearly
enough to be e˛ective .

Structured interview processes, rather

Spotlight on Ariba 18.8% than ‘freestyle’ (for consistency of

approach)
21.9% initiatives to support women in more
senior roles eg gender targets 18.8% Ongoing initiatives to diversify the
board
Respondents that answered yes, were generally able to select
more than one positive measure (see 2 ).

Spotlight on IR35
UKISUG highlights research from the Centre for Economics and Business Research in which it states that only 16% of UK IT professionals are women. As highlighted earlier, UKISUG Women in SAP
the percentage of women placed by bluewave in SAP roles in Q2 was 23% indicating that whilst the SAP community is far from perfect when it comes to equal Activities and Resources:
representation of women but we are considerably ahead of the general IT sector and are getting better.
How We Can Help If you are a woman in SAP and would like to get involved with the group please get in touch with [email protected] for details. • Webinars and seminars on important topics for
women in tech and business
• ‘How I got here’ stories from senior female
leaders
• Small group online coaching and mentoring
Julie Wier, sessions
Looking for Looking to Head of Community • Women only speaker training
your next build an exceptional Development,
UKISUG
• Virtual co˛ee sessions
job in S/4HANA? S/4HANA team?
•
•
Women in SAP stream at UKISUG Connect
Dedicated UKISUG Jam page, where members
Emma Chambers, can connect and collaborate
Click here Click here Women in SAP
SIG Chair

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 Spotlight on SAP Ariba
All Sources: bluewaveSELECT

Overview Let’s take a dive into an analysis of what Over the past 3 years
the 2022 SAP Ariba Recruitment Market (2020-2022) the demand The market was heavily client driven in 2020 due COVID-related
looks like. for SAP Ariba skills has increased redundancies and early finishing contracts leading to fewer job
opportunities for Ariba professionals. Companies could far more
SAP Industry News SAP Users have renewed trust in the easily recruit high demand skills or lower rates/salaries….’
market, with paused projects being
revisited alongside plenty of commitment
from new clients wanting to bring their
2021/22 74% across EMEA
In 2021 there was a total reverse as the market bounced back from
the recession and consultants looking for new jobs started to claw
back some negotiating power - especially for "in-demand" SAP Ariba
Spotlight on S/4HANA procurment processes into the cloud. skills. And in 2022 we have seen salaries and rates continue to rise
back to pre-pandemic levels – a consideration for companies who

Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity

Tyler Watts
Associate Director | SAP Ariba/Procurement 2020/21 212% across EMEA
want to remain competitive in attracting the best consultants.

SAP Salary & Day 2020 2021 2022 EMEA Ariba Talent Market: Growth 2021 vs 2022
Client driven Candidate driven Back to pre-pandemic
Rate Benchmarking (low rates) (rising rates) rates Sourcing Supplier Risk Functional Consulting SCC SLP
50% 50% 50% 50% 50%
33% 66% 33% 66% 33% 66% 33% 66% 33% 66%

Demand for Ariba professionals has increased consistently 72%

and significantly since the first lockdown and shows no sign
16% 77% 16% 77% 16% 16% 77% 16% 77%

Global Contractor Outlook 90%

of slowing in Q4 and into 2023. Upstream, supply chain 97% 0% 100% 108% 0% 131%
collaboration and integration are by far the hottest skills
0% 100% 0% 0%

right now in this domain with over 100% growth in demand

Women in SAP for Contracts, SLP, SCC and CIG - that’s phenomenal! P2P Guided Buying Project Management CIG Contracts
56%
Companies that hired great people at a cut price due to 33% 66%
33%
50%
66% 33%
49% 66%
50% 50%

unfavourable candidate market conditions should be aware

33% 66% 33% 66%

they may lose this talent unless they focus on retention.

16% 77%
16% 77% 16% 77% 16% 77% 16% 77%

Spotlight on Ariba
Ariba professionals can once again find their true value on
176% 128%
other projects if they feel they are underpaid.
0% 100%
0% 100% 0% 100% 0% 0%

Spotlight on IR35
Looking to
build exceptional The so called golden recruitment period for companies in The big risk in 2022 and beyond is that there exists a
How We Can Help SAP Ariba talent? 2020/21 saw many contractors with strong SAP Ariba project possibility that some of these consultants may have
experience convert to a permanent position in a bid to tie their heads turned by opportunities to move elsewhere
Click here
down a long term position, secure a consistent income and, in for a higher paying role or an interesting day rate
the UK specifically, circumnavigate the complication of the contract outside of IR35. As many as 1 in 3 of those
new IR35 regulation changes. Particularly shrewd brands may
Looking for indicated in a recent bluewave survey that they would
your next also have exercised the strategy of low-balling on salaries... be willing to listen to other o˛ers if they felt it more
job in SAP? thus gaining exceptionally skilled experts for less than they closely matched their true market valuation.
would have needed to pay for them a year earlier.
Click here

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 Spotlight on IR35
IR35 solutions
IR35 and the highly contentious reclassification
Overview Public and Private sector IR35 Reform will be scrapped in April 2023. In September, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi of roles can cause significant risk and disruption
Kwarteng, announced that IR35 reforms which rolled into the public and private sectors in 2017 and 2021 respectively will no for businesses that rely on contractors for
longer apply from April 2023. Instead, the original rules will return, and contractors will be responsible for assessing their own tax SAP-enabled digital transformation initiatives and
position, either off-payroll or as an employee. support. Where roles are deemed Inside IR35,
CIOs are faced with potential resource shortages
SAP Industry News The move has been welcomed by the SAP freelancer community although it may frustrate businesses having invested as contractors show willingness to leave existing
considerable time and money on determinations and compliance over the last 18 months. roles in favour of Outside assignments.
As mentioned earlier, 67% of bluewave’s Q2 SAP contract positions were determined to be Outside IR35, this number is roughly
75% over the course of the entire 18 months since the reforms were introduced which highlights the project nature of most SAP
Spotlight on S/4HANA freelance engagements. That said, 25% of all contract roles being Inside IR35 is still a significant minority and can’t be ignored.

Jonathan Hurren
The question remains on whether HMRC will accept a tax status reversal from Inside to Outside IR35 from contractors working ‘Outside’ IR35?
assignments via an intermediatory such as a personal services company after April 2023 at businesses that had previously
Co-Founder | Director determined its freelancer positions as Inside IR35. Access the highest possible
Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity
calibre of SAP professional
A cost-neutral solution for SAP customers to
ensure full compliance whilst accessing the very
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SAP Salary & Day Outside of SAP, a recent membership survey published Inside and struggling to hire?
by IPSE, a not-for-profit organisation representing
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Rate Benchmarking Demand for quality SAP people has never been higher and if you are part of the
35,000 cross-industry freelance professionals, provided significant minority of businesses trying to recruit contractors Inside IR35, we can help.
some interesting feedback from its members: With an educated, creative, approach Inside IR35 engagements can still attract the right
calibre of SAP experts.
Global Contractor Outlook
43%
freelancers reported that they worked on contracts deemed ‘Inside’ IR35?
Women in SAP
Outside IR35 How do you attract & retain PAYE SAP experts? Don’t Worry, We Can Still
Find SAP Experts
31% In Summary: How do you attract & retain PAYE SAP experts?
refused a contract because the client deemed the engagement to Take our specialist advice on strategies to
Spotlight on Ariba be Inside IR35 • Consider offsetting the additional costs by offering rate engage with the right level SAP experts needed
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Spotlight on IR35 stopped working with clients after existing roles were deemed and out.
Inside IR35 after April ‘21 • Ensuring candidates do not mislead and are professionally
challenged by recruiting experts on their true motivations.
How We Can Help
14% • Highlight the key selling points of your programme which make Navigate IR35
contractors more marketable for future assignments. Transform your approach with
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To further illustrate the unappealing nature of Inside IR35 can keep their Ltd companies open in parallel with the PAYE The silver bullet for IR35 compliance. Through
contracts to the majority of freelancers, in a LinkedIn assignment. this IT Services SAP Consultancy model we can
attract, secure and importantly retain the highly
survey of 600+ SAP contractors conducted by bluewave, • As travel expenses cannot be o˛set under a PAYE arrange- sort after expertise delivered through formal
ment, it’s important to identify local talent or offer fully outcome based SoWs. Placing a firewall between
86% said that they would leave an Inside IR35 remote work. the workforce and end-client this model entirely
assignment for an opportunity that was deemed Outside. removes the potential risk of IR35.
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Overview bluewaveSELECT, your highest rated Permanent Recruitment

SAP Resource Partner

We recruit great SAP people all over the world,
that’s it, nothing else. Because of this, we stay in
regular contact with great candidates who are
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businesses. This is particularly important with
permanent recruitment as the best people in the
Spotlight on S/4HANA SAP is in our DNA Exclusively SAP market are rarely on the market.
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20 years’ dedicated focus on building high performing
Q2 SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity teams, we live and breathe SAP and provide the Global Reach
experts who drive the value out of SAP programmes
all over the world.
4,000 SAP Contract Recruitment
professionals placed
SAP Salary & Day Inside or Outside IR35, UK, Europe or
Rate Benchmarking worldwide, we are experts in delivering
individual contractors or whole project teams
to deliver state of the art SAP business
Global Contractor Outlook transformation programmes.
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Partnership Recruitment
Spotlight on Ariba Partnership customers benefit from
volume rate cards, reward schemes,
a dedicated account delivery team, 24x7
Spotlight on IR35 support and much more.
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Put us to the test
How We Can Help Everything we do is about challenging the status quo, we believe in thinking di˛erently and we prove this by consistently
delivering a world class, hands-free SAP resourcing service to clients and candidates alike. We also happen to be decent
people and good fun to work with. You also believe in creativity and have ambitious plans to grow your SAP capability
then we are the partner for you.
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