Accounts Payable Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Accounts Payable
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Accounts Payable skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Accounts Payable 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.35% - 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% - 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
East of England median daily rate £505 £575 -
% change year-on-year -12.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £87.30 - -
25th Percentile £87.75 - £10.75
Median hourly rate £89.50 - £11.50
75th Percentile £90.75 - £12.25
90th Percentile £90.90 - -
East of England median hourly rate £89.50 - £11.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Accounts Payable falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 211 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 72.73% 89.79% 83.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 100 105
10th Percentile £220 £185 £300
25th Percentile £405 £460 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £554 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +10.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £689 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 34 16
10th Percentile £28.19 £30.81 £35.63
25th Percentile £61.00 £59.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £71.50 £82.25 £56.58
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +45.38% -3.29%
75th Percentile £75.00 £91.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £91.50 £70.63
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £36.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year +29.25% -14.53% +117.06%

Accounts Payable
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Accounts Payable relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Accounts Payable job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Accounts Payable
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Accounts Payable.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accounts Payable within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
Luton - 4 £500 - 1
Accounts Payable
East of England

Accounts Payable
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (50.00%) SAP GRC
1 2 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) General Ledger
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) ERP Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Financial Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Accounts Receivable
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Cash Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) SAP Security
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) SAP