Indirect Procurement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Indirect Procurement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Indirect Procurement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Indirect Procurement over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 383 442
Rank change year-on-year +51 +59 +51
Contract jobs citing Indirect Procurement 3 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.029% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.035% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £463 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -22.45% +9.38%
75th Percentile - £488 £619
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £581 £475 £613
% change year-on-year +22.32% -22.45% -9.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Indirect Procurement 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,533 17,354 21,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.54% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,213 10,334 14,740
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 833 2,042 1,299
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.18 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.86 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.68 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.44% +1.39% +44.00%

Indirect Procurement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Indirect Procurement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Indirect Procurement in the UK excluding London

Indirect Procurement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Indirect Procurement in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Indirect Procurement in the UK excluding London

Indirect Procurement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Indirect Procurement in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Indirect Procurement in the UK excluding London

Indirect Procurement
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Indirect Procurement within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 2
Midlands - 2 £500 - 3
North of England +17 1 - - 5
North West - 1 - - 4
Indirect Procurement
UK

Indirect Procurement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Buyer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Process Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Buyer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Content Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Demand Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow