Accounts Payable Contracts in Scotland

Accounts Payable
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Accounts Payable skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accounts Payable 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 110 124 161
Rank change year-on-year +14 +37 -
Contract jobs citing Accounts Payable 6 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.23% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.25% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £575
75th Percentile £517 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £19.50 -
% change year-on-year -17.95% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Accounts Payable
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Accounts Payable as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Accounts Payable in Scotland

Accounts Payable
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accounts Payable in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Accounts Payable in Scotland

Accounts Payable
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accounts Payable in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Accounts Payable in Scotland

Accounts Payable
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +5 3 £490 - 5
Edinburgh - 3 £511 - 6
Accounts Payable
UK

Accounts Payable
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Accounts Payable Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) ERP Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (50.00%) WebCenter
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (50.00%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) Accounts Receivable
3 2 (33.33%) Cash Management
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (33.33%) Order to Cash
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) ProC
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle