January 2026 – SAP Market Pulse

Insights

For candidates:

Taken together looking at the available data, if I had to bet where interviews for senior candidates are happening right now, it would be:

Finance/controlling‑centric roles in S/4 transformations (CO/FI with S/4 and cloud).​

Plant‑floor and logistics architects (PP/MES/PEO/EWM/TM/QM) connected to new facilities and complex manufacturing.​

Cloud‑aligned S/4 roles (public cloud, RISE, hyperscaler partners) in the U.S., especially Houston/Atlanta/Chicago and remote.​

This is not a deterministic prediction, but as a probability map of interviews this month, these are the highest‑likelihood pockets our data supports.