Procure-to-Pay Contracts in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay (including Purchase-to-Pay, P2P)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 309 388
Rank change year-on-year +25 +79 +56
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 55 90 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.43% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.51% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 56 35
10th Percentile £400 £419 £413
25th Percentile £441 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £646
90th Percentile - £763 £783
UK median daily rate £571 £600 £553
% change year-on-year -4.79% +8.60% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £60.75
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £75.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Procure-to-Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Procure-to-Pay as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
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 Procure-to-Pay within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 of England +42 18 £700 +33.33% 16
North of England +13 14 £225 -59.09% 24
South East +18 13 £563 -10.00% 45
North West +14 13 £225 -59.46% 13
Midlands +17 5 £438 -20.45% 30
West Midlands +15 5 £438 -20.45% 14
South West +43 4 £325 -16.93% 15
Scotland +5 3 £511 -25.62% 7
Yorkshire -2 1 - - 9
Procure-to-Pay
UK

Procure-to-Pay
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.09%) Mattermost
1 5 (9.09%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (38.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (16.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (9.09%) SAP LE
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.82%) SAP CO
6 1 (1.82%) SAP FI
6 1 (1.82%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (1.82%) SAP MDG
6 1 (1.82%) SAP MM
6 1 (1.82%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (1.82%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) Azure
2 4 (7.27%) AWS
2 4 (7.27%) GCP
2 4 (7.27%) OCI
2 4 (7.27%) Power Automate
2 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.27%) PowerApps
3 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Skype
1 5 (9.09%) Softphone
1 5 (9.09%) Unified Communications
1 5 (9.09%) WebEx
2 1 (1.82%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.82%) 4G
2 1 (1.82%) 5G
2 1 (1.82%) LTE
2 1 (1.82%) MIMO
2 1 (1.82%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) Data Lake
1 4 (7.27%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
General
1 31 (56.36%) Social Skills
2 30 (54.55%) Finance
3 9 (16.36%) Manufacturing
4 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (5.45%) Aerospace
5 3 (5.45%) Legal
5 3 (5.45%) Retail
6 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Automotive
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Consultant
2 13 (23.64%) SAP Consultant
3 12 (21.82%) Analyst
4 10 (18.18%) Senior
5 9 (16.36%) Functional Consultant
5 9 (16.36%) Senior Consultant
6 6 (10.91%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 5 (9.09%) Architect
7 5 (9.09%) Lead
7 5 (9.09%) Messaging Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Messaging Support
7 5 (9.09%) Messaging Support Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Operations Support Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 5 (9.09%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
7 5 (9.09%) Senior Functional Consultant
7 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (9.09%) Supply Chain Consultant
7 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (9.09%) XMPP
3 4 (7.27%) Middleware
4 3 (5.45%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Life Science
2 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (30.91%) Record to Report
3 16 (29.09%) ERP
4 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (20.00%) Migration
6 10 (18.18%) Business Transformation
7 9 (16.36%) B2B
8 8 (14.55%) Logistics
8 8 (14.55%) Order to Cash
9 7 (12.73%) DevOps
10 6 (10.91%) Agile
10 6 (10.91%) Coaching
10 6 (10.91%) Supply Chain Planning
10 6 (10.91%) Use Case
11 5 (9.09%) Inventory Management
11 5 (9.09%) ITIL
11 5 (9.09%) Problem Management
11 5 (9.09%) Project Management
11 5 (9.09%) Quality Management
11 5 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) SQL
2 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.64%) ProC
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (7.27%) Degree
2 4 (7.27%) PMP
2 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) AAT
5 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.82%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.82%) GxP
2 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (45.45%) SAP
2 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.36%) Oracle
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco
4 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 5 (9.09%) Splunk
5 4 (7.27%) Ariba
6 1 (1.82%) Huawei
6 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow