Procure-to-Pay Contracts in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay (including Purchase-to-Pay, P2P)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Procure-to-Pay skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Procure-to-Pay over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 380 438
Rank change year-on-year +80 +58 -67
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 90 63 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 39 53
10th Percentile £406 £413 £383
25th Percentile £497 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +28.65%
75th Percentile £688 £646 £650
90th Percentile £763 £768 -
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Procure-to-Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Procure-to-Pay as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Procure-to-Pay within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +32 41 £625 +4.17% 12
North of England +40 21 £550 +10.00% 9
Scotland +45 12 £688 +19.57%
Yorkshire +24 10 £540 -1.82% 1
North West +16 10 £560 +23.76% 7
East of England +16 10 £500 -25.93% 9
Midlands +29 4 £425 -32.00% 9
South West - 4 £391 - 1
West Midlands +16 3 £425 -32.00% 6
East Midlands +20 1 - - 3
Procure-to-Pay
UK

Procure-to-Pay
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (5.56%) SAS
2 4 (4.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (38.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 26 (28.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (7.78%) Oracle Financials
4 7 (7.78%) SAP CO
4 7 (7.78%) SAP FI
4 7 (7.78%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (7.78%) SAP MM
5 4 (4.44%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (4.44%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (3.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (3.33%) SAP BPC
7 2 (2.22%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (1.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle AGIS
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (1.11%) SAP EWM
8 1 (1.11%) SAP GTS
8 1 (1.11%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.00%) Azure
2 17 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.78%) OCI
4 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.22%) PaaS
5 2 (2.22%) SaaS
6 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) Internet
1 1 (1.11%) LAN
1 1 (1.11%) MPLS
1 1 (1.11%) WAN
1 1 (1.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (4.44%) SAP BW
3 3 (3.33%) SAP Data Services
3 3 (3.33%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.22%) Power BI
4 2 (2.22%) Tableau
5 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (5.56%) JIRA
3 3 (3.33%) LSMW
General
1 48 (53.33%) Finance
2 35 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (8.89%) Banking
6 8 (8.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (7.78%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.56%) Retail
9 4 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.22%) Legal
11 1 (1.11%) Billing
11 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (38.89%) Analyst
2 22 (24.44%) Consultant
3 17 (18.89%) Lead
4 12 (13.33%) Functional Consultant
5 10 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
5 10 (11.11%) Oracle P2P Consultant
5 10 (11.11%) Test Analyst
6 9 (10.00%) Finance Manager
6 9 (10.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 8 (8.89%) QA Analyst
7 8 (8.89%) QA Test Analyst
7 8 (8.89%) Senior
8 7 (7.78%) Data Analyst
8 7 (7.78%) Financial Analyst
8 7 (7.78%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (6.67%) Workstream Lead
10 5 (5.56%) Oracle Analyst
10 5 (5.56%) SAP Analyst
10 5 (5.56%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) IDoc
1 4 (4.44%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (4.44%) XML
2 3 (3.33%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.22%) Life Science
3 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.11%) CMDB
4 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.11%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.11%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.89%) Order to Cash
2 24 (26.67%) ERP
3 22 (24.44%) Record to Report
4 21 (23.33%) Agile
5 17 (18.89%) DevOps
5 17 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (16.67%) Analytics
6 15 (16.67%) Migration
7 13 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (14.44%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (13.33%) Project Management
9 10 (11.11%) Data Analysis
9 10 (11.11%) Data Migration
10 9 (10.00%) E-business
11 8 (8.89%) Test Management
12 7 (7.78%) Cash Management
12 7 (7.78%) Data Analytics
12 7 (7.78%) Project Delivery
12 7 (7.78%) Test Scripting
12 7 (7.78%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (1.11%) ABAP
2 1 (1.11%) ProC
Qualifications
1 13 (14.44%) Degree
2 8 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) ACCA
4 2 (2.22%) CIMA
5 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) QA
2 8 (8.89%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.44%) GDPR
4 2 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.22%) GxP
4 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.11%) PMO
Vendors
1 35 (38.89%) Oracle
1 35 (38.89%) SAP
2 5 (5.56%) IFS
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) Ariba
3 4 (4.44%) FIS
4 3 (3.33%) Blue Prism
4 3 (3.33%) Hyperion
5 2 (2.22%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.22%) Workday
6 1 (1.11%) Cognos