Order to Cash Contract Job Trends in England

Order to Cash (O2C)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Order to Cash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 467 429
Rank change year-on-year -18 -38 +81
Contract jobs citing Order to Cash 152 50 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.20% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 27 49
10th Percentile £438 £458 £425
25th Percentile - £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £635 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.26% +5.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £569 £751 £713
90th Percentile £760 £845 £811
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £35.38 - -
25th Percentile £35.94 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £50.25 - £21.50
75th Percentile £71.50 - £22.25
90th Percentile £79.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £85.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -18.82% +295.35% -68.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

Order to Cash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Order to Cash job vacancy trend in England

Order to Cash
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Order to Cash in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Order to Cash in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Order to Cash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Order to Cash

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Order to Cash in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Order to Cash in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
London -17 92 £500 -21.26% 50
North of England -53 18 £525 - 17
Midlands -43 15 £475 -36.67% 8
North West - 15 £550 - 11
East of England -18 11 £475 -26.92% 8
East Midlands - 9 £513 - 7
South East -69 7 £540 -13.60% 17
West Midlands -41 6 £390 -48.00% 1
North East - 2 £500 - 2
South West -42 1 £525 -19.23%
Yorkshire -44 1 - - 4
Order to Cash
UK

Order to Cash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (1.97%) Confluence
1 3 (1.97%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (30.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (15.13%) NetSuite
3 17 (11.18%) SAP SD
4 15 (9.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (3.95%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (3.95%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (3.29%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (3.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (2.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (2.63%) SAP GTS
7 4 (2.63%) SAP MDG
7 4 (2.63%) SAP VC
8 3 (1.97%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (1.97%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (1.32%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (1.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (1.32%) SAP MDG-F
9 2 (1.32%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 35 (23.03%) Dynamics 365
2 30 (19.74%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.58%) SaaS
4 7 (4.61%) OCI
5 5 (3.29%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.32%) AWS
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Serverless
7 1 (0.66%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.08%) Power BI
2 3 (1.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.66%) MySQL
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.66%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Hudson
1 3 (1.97%) JIRA
2 1 (0.66%) LSMW
2 1 (0.66%) Toad
General
1 126 (82.89%) Finance
2 33 (21.71%) Billing
3 30 (19.74%) Law
4 24 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 13 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.24%) Retail
7 8 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.95%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.63%) Automotive
9 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.63%) Marketing
9 4 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.32%) Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (30.26%) Lead
2 42 (27.63%) Consultant
3 36 (23.68%) Architect
4 29 (19.08%) Functional Architect
4 29 (19.08%) Lead Architect
5 26 (17.11%) SAP Consultant
6 17 (11.18%) Analyst
7 16 (10.53%) Business Analyst
7 16 (10.53%) SAP SD Consultant
8 9 (5.92%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
9 8 (5.26%) Senior
10 7 (4.61%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.95%) Functional Consultant
11 6 (3.95%) Oracle Consultant
11 6 (3.95%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (3.95%) Senior SAP Consultant
11 6 (3.95%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
12 5 (3.29%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
12 5 (3.29%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
12 5 (3.29%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.58%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (3.29%) Middleware
2 5 (3.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.97%) EDI
4 2 (1.32%) IDoc
4 2 (1.32%) Kafka
4 2 (1.32%) Node.js
4 2 (1.32%) React
5 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.66%) Restlet
5 1 (0.66%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.66%) Spring
5 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.61%) Product Ownership
1 7 (4.61%) Public Cloud
2 5 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.32%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.32%) FMCG
5 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.66%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.66%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (0.66%) Life Science
6 1 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.63%) VMS
2 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (63.82%) Procure-to-Pay
2 80 (52.63%) Record to Report
3 76 (50.00%) ERP
4 66 (43.42%) Migration
5 53 (34.87%) User Acceptance Testing
6 52 (34.21%) Data Migration
7 49 (32.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 42 (27.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (27.63%) Translating Business Requirements
9 37 (24.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (21.71%) Business Intelligence
11 30 (19.74%) Architectural Design
11 30 (19.74%) End-to-End Testing
12 23 (15.13%) Logistics
12 23 (15.13%) Process Improvement
13 22 (14.47%) Validation
14 19 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (11.18%) Workshop Facilitation
16 15 (9.87%) System Integration Testing
17 14 (9.21%) Revenue Recognition
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.97%) SQL
2 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (2.63%) ACCA
2 3 (1.97%) CIMA
2 3 (1.97%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.32%) Degree
3 2 (1.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.29%) PMO
3 4 (2.63%) IFRS
4 3 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.32%) SLA
6 1 (0.66%) GAAP
6 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 65 (42.76%) SAP
2 34 (22.37%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.84%) Oracle
4 9 (5.92%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.95%) Ariba
6 3 (1.97%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.32%) Netlify
8 1 (0.66%) Sage
8 1 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow