Procure-to-Pay Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 124 111 128
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 +52
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 12 9 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.54% 0.37% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.45% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £438 - £412
25th Percentile £459 £463 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £451
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% +5.26% -9.75%
75th Percentile £604 £810 £481
90th Percentile £671 £1,104 £493
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £13.73
Median % change year-on-year - +118.50% -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £30.00 £88.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -66.10% +479.57%

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 1,994 2,019 2,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.02% 83.67% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,102 1,705
10th Percentile £255 £300 £270
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £598
90th Percentile £678 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 113 173
10th Percentile £14.07 £17.32 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £26.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%
75th Percentile £44.78 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £71.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

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

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

Procure-to-Pay job vacancy trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Procure-to-Pay.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Procure-to-Pay

Procure-to-Pay
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 16 October 2025.

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Procure-to-Pay.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Procure-to-Pay

Procure-to-Pay
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 16 October 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 -15 10 £604 +27.16%
Manchester -7 1 £450 -54.77% 2
Lancashire - 1 - -
Procure-to-Pay
England

Procure-to-Pay
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 8 (66.67%) Mattermost
1 8 (66.67%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Skype
1 8 (66.67%) Softphone
1 8 (66.67%) Unified Communications
1 8 (66.67%) WebEx
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) Messaging Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Messaging Support
1 8 (66.67%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Operations Support Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Messaging Analyst
2 7 (58.33%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 7 (58.33%) Operational Support Analyst
2 7 (58.33%) Operations Analyst
2 7 (58.33%) Operations Support Analyst
2 7 (58.33%) Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) B2B
2 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 8 (66.67%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Inventory Management
4 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (16.67%) Logistics
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
5 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (8.33%) ERP
5 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
5 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (8.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (8.33%) PMP
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 8 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 8 (66.67%) Splunk
2 4 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle