Procure-to-Pay Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Procure-to-Pay (including Purchase-to-Pay, P2P)
East of England > Bedfordshire

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 21 33
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 2 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.74% 5.59% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 6.30% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £463 -
25th Percentile - £641 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +33.33% -
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - £556
East of England median daily rate £545 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -22.14% +27.27% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Procure-to-Pay 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 240 127 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 88.89% 88.81% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 68 147
10th Percentile £399 £292 £325
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £555
90th Percentile £650 £700 £607
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 30
10th Percentile £25.15 £22.28 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £29.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £68.21 £45.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.09% +112.79% -59.05%
75th Percentile £76.25 £63.08 £32.90
90th Percentile £86.43 £76.40 £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -49.43% +25.79% +44.55%

Procure-to-Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Procure-to-Pay relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Procure-to-Pay job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Procure-to-Pay
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Procure-to-Pay.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Procure-to-Pay

Procure-to-Pay
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 Procure-to-Pay within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 February 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 -13 1 £650 -7.14% 1
Procure-to-Pay
East of England

Procure-to-Pay
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 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Life Science
2 1 (50.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Design
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Conceptual Models
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Ariba