Order to Cash Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Order to Cash (O2C)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Order to Cash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 31 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Order to Cash 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.65% 2.04% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 2.24% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - £580 £554
25th Percentile - £625 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £700
East of England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Order to Cash 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 271 134 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.99% 91.16% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 77 161
10th Percentile £402 £443 £313
25th Percentile £413 £500 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £625
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 32
10th Percentile £25.15 £20.26 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £27.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £68.21 £36.14 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.74% +68.09% -61.49%
75th Percentile £73.46 £81.88 £32.90
90th Percentile £78.50 £88.00 £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.00% +31.16% +15.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Order to Cash job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Order to Cash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Order to Cash

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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 Order to Cash within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 March 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 2 £600 -14.29% 1
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East of England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Veeva
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Financial Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 2 (100.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (100.00%) Record to Report
1 2 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Ariba