Source to Pay Contracts

Source to Pay (S2P)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Source to Pay skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Source to Pay over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 675 794
Rank change year-on-year +127 +119 -158
Contract jobs citing Source to Pay 38 47 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.078% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.087% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 24
10th Percentile £413 £470 £408
25th Percentile £500 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £680 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% +40.54%
75th Percentile £925 £900 £713
90th Percentile - £913 £811
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £575 £750
% change year-on-year -10.00% -23.33% +122.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £79.17 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.17 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Source 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Source to Pay as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Source to Pay in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Source to Pay.

Daily rate trend for Source to Pay in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Source to Pay over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Source to Pay in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Source to Pay.

Hourly rate trend for Source to Pay in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Source to Pay within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +118 30 £663 -8.62% 13
London +110 21 £713 -18.57% 4
Work from Home +120 17 £650 +18.18% 7
UK excluding London +66 8 £518 -10.00% 13
South East +9 4 £610 -0.81% 5
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 2
Midlands - 3 £425 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 1

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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 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 11 (28.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (7.89%) SAP MM
3 2 (5.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 2 (5.26%) SAP IBP
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (2.63%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (7.89%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (7.89%) SAP Fieldglass
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.26%) Tableau
3 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 22 (57.89%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Legal
5 4 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Retail
8 1 (2.63%) Back Office
8 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.63%) Local Government
8 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Lead
2 7 (18.42%) Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (13.16%) Consultant
4 5 (13.16%) Project Manager
5 4 (10.53%) ERP Architect
5 4 (10.53%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Data Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) SAP Architect
6 3 (7.89%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Delivery Director
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Procurement Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Procurement Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Programme Director
7 2 (5.26%) Programme Manager
7 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) .NET
1 3 (7.89%) .NET Core
1 3 (7.89%) .NET Framework
1 3 (7.89%) ARM Templates
1 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (7.89%) CSS
1 3 (7.89%) Entity Framework
1 3 (7.89%) jQuery
1 3 (7.89%) React
1 3 (7.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 1 (2.63%) IDoc
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.53%) PMI
3 3 (7.89%) N-Tier
4 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) Life Science
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) ERP
1 14 (36.84%) Project Management
2 9 (23.68%) Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (23.68%) Record to Report
2 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.42%) Data Migration
4 7 (18.42%) Migration
5 6 (15.79%) Analytics
5 6 (15.79%) Programme Management
6 5 (13.16%) Business Forecasting
6 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (13.16%) Data Analytics
6 5 (13.16%) Order to Cash
6 5 (13.16%) Planning and Forecasting
6 5 (13.16%) PLM
6 5 (13.16%) PRINCE2
6 5 (13.16%) Supply Chain Management
7 4 (10.53%) Change Management
7 4 (10.53%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) C#
1 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
1 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
1 3 (7.89%) Python
1 3 (7.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) PMO
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) GRC
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (55.26%) SAP
2 9 (23.68%) Ariba
3 6 (15.79%) Oracle
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.26%) Alteryx
5 2 (5.26%) CA
6 1 (2.63%) Concur
6 1 (2.63%) Nintex
6 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow