Procure-to-Pay Contract Job Trends in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Procure-to-Pay skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 79 91
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +49
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 1 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.097% 0.34% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.39% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £803 £433
25th Percentile £425 £853 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £995 £475
Median % change year-on-year -54.77% +109.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £475 £1,178 £494
90th Percentile - £1,251 £498
North West median daily rate £492 £475 £451
% change year-on-year +3.58% +5.26% -9.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £30.00 £13.73
% change year-on-year - +118.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 928 1,020 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 90.27% 87.18% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 586 1,060
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £386 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 35 61
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.34 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £26.93 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -7.43%
75th Percentile £33.00 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%

Procure-to-Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Procure-to-Pay job vacancy trend in Manchester

Procure-to-Pay
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Procure-to-Pay
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SuccessFactors
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Order to Cash
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Implementation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP