Accounts Payable Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Accounts Payable
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Accounts Payable skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 72 97
Rank change year-on-year -11 +25 +31
Contract jobs citing Accounts Payable 8 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.66% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.52% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £478 £466
25th Percentile £325 £538 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +17.95% -3.47%
75th Percentile £375 £613 £497
90th Percentile - £665 £499
North West median daily rate £350 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -39.13% +9.52% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.75 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £21.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Accounts Payable 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,088 957 1,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.69% 89.61% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 569 985
10th Percentile £306 £294 £302
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £684 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 36 50
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.52 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.81 £32.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.74% -0.76% -14.15%
75th Percentile £56.88 £34.56 £60.94
90th Percentile £63.73 £65.00 £75.70
North West median hourly rate £33.75 £30.95 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.05% -22.63% +54.98%

Accounts Payable
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Accounts Payable relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Accounts Payable job vacancy trend in Manchester

Accounts Payable
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Accounts Payable.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Accounts Payable.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (50.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Cash Management
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) SuccessFactors
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Project Support Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ERP
1 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Cash Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
3 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Test Management
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SAP