Accounts Payable Contract Job Trends in the North West

Accounts Payable
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Accounts Payable skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 123 133
Rank change year-on-year -24 +10 +34
Contract jobs citing Accounts Payable 8 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.29% 0.048% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.054% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £318 - £494
25th Percentile £323 £438 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -9.52% +61.54%
75th Percentile £375 £513 £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.75 - £62.96
Median hourly rate £21.50 - £65.92
75th Percentile £23.25 - £68.88
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.50 £15.26 £19.50
% change year-on-year +40.89% -21.74% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 1,856 2,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.67% 88.76% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 1,113 1,630
10th Percentile £213 £266 £307
25th Percentile £358 £380 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £571 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 98 217
10th Percentile £16.08 £17.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.85 £22.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £31.51 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.46% +5.03% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.25 £55.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.48 £75.58 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

Accounts Payable
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Accounts Payable job vacancy trend in the North West

Accounts Payable
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Accounts Payable.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Accounts Payable.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accounts Payable within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 February 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
Manchester -16 8 £350 -26.32% 2
Accounts Payable
England

Accounts Payable
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Project Support Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) SAP Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) SAP Test Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
1 4 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 4 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 4 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 4 (50.00%) ERP
1 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 4 (50.00%) SAP Implementation
1 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 4 (50.00%) Test Management
1 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 4 (50.00%) Time Management
1 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) SAP