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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 299 382
Rank change year-on-year +60 +83 +55
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 101 92 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.45% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.54% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 55 39
10th Percentile £413 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £494 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £641 £669 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £768
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -2.13% +2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £60.75
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £30.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -60.00% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £30.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% -60.00% -

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 11,721 17,088 20,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.59% 84.28% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,221 14,248
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,065 1,263
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.69
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 20 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 20 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
Scotland +37 43 £511 -25.62% 3
South East +24 20 £625 - 44
North of England +9 17 £225 -59.09% 10
North West +19 16 £225 -59.82% 9
East of England +26 12 £700 +36.59% 13
South West +42 4 £325 -16.93% 7
Midlands +15 4 £438 +2.94% 12
West Midlands +5 4 £438 +2.94% 6
Wales - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 1
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 8 (7.92%) Mattermost
1 8 (7.92%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (16.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (15.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 10 (9.90%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (9.90%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (6.93%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (4.95%) SAP LE
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (2.97%) Oracle iProcurement
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle AGIS
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.99%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.99%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.99%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.99%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.99%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.99%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.95%) Azure
2 3 (2.97%) AWS
2 3 (2.97%) GCP
2 3 (2.97%) OCI
2 3 (2.97%) Power Automate
2 3 (2.97%) Power Platform
2 3 (2.97%) PowerApps
3 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (43.56%) Broadband
2 8 (7.92%) Skype
2 8 (7.92%) Softphone
2 8 (7.92%) Unified Communications
2 8 (7.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (3.96%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (2.97%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.99%) Metadata
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
General
1 72 (71.29%) Finance
1 72 (71.29%) Social Skills
2 44 (43.56%) General Ledger
3 9 (8.91%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.96%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.97%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.97%) Legal
6 3 (2.97%) Retail
7 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.99%) Automotive
8 1 (0.99%) Law
8 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (58.42%) Analyst
2 52 (51.49%) Senior
3 46 (45.54%) Financial Analyst
4 44 (43.56%) Senior Analyst
4 44 (43.56%) Senior Financial Analyst
5 19 (18.81%) Consultant
6 10 (9.90%) SAP Consultant
7 8 (7.92%) Messaging Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Messaging Support
7 8 (7.92%) Messaging Support Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Operations Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Operations Support Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Support Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Messaging Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Messaging Support Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Operational Support Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Operations Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Operations Support Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (6.93%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) XMPP
2 5 (4.95%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.97%) Middleware
3 3 (2.97%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 44 (43.56%) Social Media
2 8 (7.92%) Life Science
2 8 (7.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (56.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (49.50%) Accounts Payable
3 44 (43.56%) Root Cause Analysis
4 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (15.84%) Logistics
6 14 (13.86%) ERP
7 12 (11.88%) Record to Report
8 11 (10.89%) B2B
9 9 (8.91%) Migration
10 8 (7.92%) ITIL
10 8 (7.92%) Problem Management
11 6 (5.94%) Coaching
11 6 (5.94%) Order to Cash
11 6 (5.94%) Supply Chain Planning
11 6 (5.94%) Use Case
12 5 (4.95%) Agile
12 5 (4.95%) Business Transformation
12 5 (4.95%) DevOps
12 5 (4.95%) Inventory Management
12 5 (4.95%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
1 8 (7.92%) SQL
2 2 (1.98%) ProC
3 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (43.56%) ACCA
1 44 (43.56%) CIMA
2 8 (7.92%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (3.96%) Degree
3 4 (3.96%) PMP
3 4 (3.96%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.97%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.97%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.98%) AAT
6 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.99%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.98%) QA
2 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.99%) GxP
2 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 63 (62.38%) SAP
2 16 (15.84%) Oracle
3 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.92%) Cisco
4 8 (7.92%) Red Hat
4 8 (7.92%) Splunk
5 2 (1.98%) Ariba
6 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow