Procure-to-Pay Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Procure-to-Pay skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Procure-to-Pay over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 124 147
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 +23
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 13 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.55% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile - £505 -
25th Percentile £213 £541 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £555 £475
Median % change year-on-year -59.46% +16.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £416 £634 £556
90th Percentile £524 £637 £665
England median daily rate £575 £560 £550
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Procure-to-Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Procure-to-Pay as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Procure-to-Pay in the North West

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Procure-to-Pay in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in the North West

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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 Procure-to-Pay within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cheshire 0 7 - - 5
Manchester +14 3 £225 -63.86% 10
Procure-to-Pay
England

Procure-to-Pay
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Mattermost
1 5 (38.46%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) SAP LE
1 5 (38.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Skype
1 5 (38.46%) Softphone
1 5 (38.46%) Unified Communications
1 5 (38.46%) WebEx
2 1 (7.69%) 3GPP
2 1 (7.69%) 4G
2 1 (7.69%) 5G
2 1 (7.69%) LTE
2 1 (7.69%) MIMO
2 1 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
General
1 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Consultant
2 5 (38.46%) Messaging Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Messaging Support
2 5 (38.46%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Operations Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) SAP Consultant
2 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Messaging Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Operational Support Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Operations Support Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) SAP WM Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Senior SAP Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Senior SAP Supply Chain Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Senior SAP WM Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) B2B
1 5 (38.46%) Inventory Management
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
1 5 (38.46%) Logistics
1 5 (38.46%) Problem Management
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (38.46%) Quality Management
1 5 (38.46%) Supply Chain Planning
1 5 (38.46%) Use Case
2 1 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (7.69%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (7.69%) Statistics
2 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AAT
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
1 5 (38.46%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Huawei