Procure-to-Pay Contract Job Trends in London

Procure-to-Pay (including Purchase-to-Pay, P2P)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Procure-to-Pay skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 303 303
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 +74
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 153 66 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.53% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 39 45
10th Percentile £478 £423 £410
25th Percentile £500 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +5.64% -9.09%
75th Percentile £681 £731 £650
90th Percentile £850 £814 £795
England median daily rate £525 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -8.10% +3.86% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 £44.19
% change year-on-year -50.00% +69.73% -41.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

Procure-to-Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Procure-to-Pay job vacancy trend in London

Procure-to-Pay
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Procure-to-Pay
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Procure-to-Pay in London

Procure-to-Pay
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Procure-to-Pay
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Central London +7 24 £650 -13.33% 7
North London - 1 - -
East London - 1 £500 - 1
Procure-to-Pay
England

Procure-to-Pay
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 32 (20.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 27 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (12.42%) NetSuite
4 15 (9.80%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (6.54%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (5.23%) SAP SD
7 7 (4.58%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (2.61%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 4 (2.61%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
9 3 (1.96%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (1.96%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (1.96%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (1.96%) Oracle SCM
9 3 (1.96%) SAP FI
9 3 (1.96%) SAP MM
10 2 (1.31%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (1.31%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (1.31%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 37 (24.18%) Dynamics 365
2 32 (20.92%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.54%) OCI
4 9 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
5 8 (5.23%) Azure
6 6 (3.92%) SaaS
7 3 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.96%) Boomi
8 2 (1.31%) IaaS
8 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.65%) AWS
9 1 (0.65%) GCP
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.65%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.65%) PaaS
9 1 (0.65%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) BGP
1 7 (4.58%) Multicast
1 7 (4.58%) OSPF
1 7 (4.58%) VLAN
2 6 (3.92%) Firewall
2 6 (3.92%) WAN
3 4 (2.61%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (1.31%) VPN
5 1 (0.65%) DHCP
5 1 (0.65%) DNS
5 1 (0.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.26%) Power BI
2 3 (1.96%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.31%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.65%) Metadata
4 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.31%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.65%) LSMW
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.65%) Postman
3 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 135 (88.24%) Finance
2 36 (23.53%) Law
3 24 (15.69%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.80%) Billing
6 13 (8.50%) Banking
7 9 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.27%) Retail
9 4 (2.61%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.61%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.96%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.96%) Legal
10 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.31%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.31%) German Language
11 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (32.03%) Lead
2 41 (26.80%) Architect
3 33 (21.57%) Consultant
4 31 (20.26%) Functional Architect
4 31 (20.26%) Lead Architect
5 18 (11.76%) Senior
6 15 (9.80%) Analyst
7 13 (8.50%) Functional Consultant
8 11 (7.19%) Business Analyst
8 11 (7.19%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (6.54%) Oracle Consultant
9 10 (6.54%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 7 (4.58%) Network Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Oracle P2P Consultant
11 6 (3.92%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.92%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Senior SAP Consultant
12 5 (3.27%) Product Owner
12 5 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.58%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (3.27%) Middleware
4 3 (1.96%) Kafka
4 3 (1.96%) REST
5 2 (1.31%) BAPI
5 2 (1.31%) JSON
5 2 (1.31%) OAuth
5 2 (1.31%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.31%) React
6 1 (0.65%) eBPF
6 1 (0.65%) EDI
6 1 (0.65%) IDoc
6 1 (0.65%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.65%) Playwright
6 1 (0.65%) SAP ALE
6 1 (0.65%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.65%) SOAP
6 1 (0.65%) Swagger
6 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.92%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.61%) FMCG
5 3 (1.96%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.31%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.31%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) Life Science
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.96%) Linux
1 3 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (50.98%) ERP
2 74 (48.37%) Order to Cash
2 74 (48.37%) Record to Report
3 64 (41.83%) Migration
4 62 (40.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 59 (38.56%) Data Migration
6 52 (33.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 45 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (28.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (24.18%) Translating Business Requirements
10 33 (21.57%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (21.57%) End-to-End Testing
11 31 (20.26%) Architectural Design
12 22 (14.38%) Agile
13 20 (13.07%) Validation
14 18 (11.76%) Process Improvement
15 17 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
16 16 (10.46%) System Integration Testing
17 15 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (9.15%) Accounts Payable
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.58%) Python
2 6 (3.92%) SQL
3 3 (1.96%) ABAP
3 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.96%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.65%) C#
4 1 (0.65%) C++
4 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (3.92%) Degree
2 5 (3.27%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.61%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.31%) ACCA
4 2 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.65%) CIMA
5 1 (0.65%) ISEB
5 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.88%) QA
2 8 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.96%) IFRS
4 3 (1.96%) PMO
5 2 (1.31%) GAAP
5 2 (1.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.65%) SEPA
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.96%) Ansible
3 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (30.07%) SAP
2 40 (26.14%) Microsoft
3 32 (20.92%) Oracle
4 12 (7.84%) Ariba
5 7 (4.58%) Arista
5 7 (4.58%) Cisco
5 7 (4.58%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.61%) Workday
7 3 (1.96%) Dell
7 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.31%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.31%) OpenText
9 1 (0.65%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.65%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.65%) Concur
9 1 (0.65%) F5
9 1 (0.65%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.65%) Sage