Procure-to-Pay Contracts in Cheshire

Procure-to-Pay (including Purchase-to-Pay, P2P)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Procure-to-Pay skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Procure-to-Pay over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 51 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 7 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.56% 1.39% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.65% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £524 £433
25th Percentile - £541 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile - £553 £494
90th Percentile - £557 £498
North West median daily rate £225 £555 £475
% change year-on-year -59.46% +16.84% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Procure-to-Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Procure-to-Pay as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Procure-to-Pay in Cheshire

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in Cheshire

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in Cheshire

Procure-to-Pay
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Chester - 5 - - 3
Procure-to-Pay
North West

Procure-to-Pay
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (71.43%) Mattermost
1 5 (71.43%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP LE
1 2 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Skype
1 5 (71.43%) Softphone
1 5 (71.43%) Unified Communications
1 5 (71.43%) WebEx
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Messaging Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Messaging Support
1 5 (71.43%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Operations Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Operations Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Messaging Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Operational Support Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Operations Support Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) SAP WM Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Senior SAP Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) B2B
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
1 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Inventory Management
2 2 (28.57%) Logistics
2 2 (28.57%) Quality Management
2 2 (28.57%) Supply Chain Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) SAP