Procure-to-Pay Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Procure-to-Pay (including Purchase-to-Pay, P2P)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Procure-to-Pay skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 110 127
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 +49
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 9 13 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.50% 0.69% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.75% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £488 £431 -
25th Percentile £525 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £526 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.01% -12.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £609 -
90th Percentile £713 £681 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £526 £600
% change year-on-year +9.26% -12.29% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,626 1,728 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.59% 92.01% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,052 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £372 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.52% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -37.13%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Procure-to-Pay job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Procure-to-Pay.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Procure-to-Pay

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Procure-to-Pay in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Procure-to-Pay.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Procure-to-Pay

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (11.11%) SAP ERP
3 1 (11.11%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) OCI
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) General Ledger
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Business Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) C++ Developer
2 1 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Procurement Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Procurement Officer
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Business Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP P2P Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Support
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Support Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Life Science
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
1 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Accounts Payable
2 3 (33.33%) Accounts Receivable
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) E-Procurement
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Basel III
2 1 (11.11%) GAAP
2 1 (11.11%) IFRS
2 1 (11.11%) IFRS 9
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Informatica
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Workday