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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 364 424
Rank change year-on-year +59 +60 -33
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 96 66 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.33% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 37 63
10th Percentile £418 £303 £365
25th Percentile £500 £413 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.94%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £650
90th Percentile £733 £770 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 21 June 2024.

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 21 June 2024. 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
South East +32 40 £625 +4.17% 8
North of England +20 20 £623 +37.57% 8
East of England +14 15 £500 -37.50% 6
Yorkshire +20 10 £540 +0.47% 1
Scotland +44 9 £725 +38.10%
North West +12 9 £623 +38.33% 4
Midlands +18 7 £575 -17.86% 3
West Midlands +18 6 £575 -17.86% 2
South West - 5 £475 - 3
East Midlands - 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 5 (5.21%) SAS
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (36.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 26 (27.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (13.54%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (13.54%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (8.33%) SAP MM
5 4 (4.17%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (4.17%) SAP CO
5 4 (4.17%) SAP FI
5 4 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (3.13%) NetSuite
6 3 (3.13%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (2.08%) SAP BPC
8 1 (1.04%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle AGIS
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (1.04%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.88%) Azure
2 20 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.29%) OCI
4 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.08%) PaaS
5 2 (2.08%) SaaS
6 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.04%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Internet
1 1 (1.04%) LAN
1 1 (1.04%) MPLS
1 1 (1.04%) WAN
1 1 (1.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.17%) SAP BW
2 4 (4.17%) SAP Data Services
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle Discoverer
3 3 (3.13%) SQLPlus
4 2 (2.08%) Power BI
4 2 (2.08%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.08%) Tableau
5 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.17%) LSMW
3 3 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 48 (50.00%) Finance
2 37 (38.54%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.29%) Telecoms
7 6 (6.25%) Banking
8 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.21%) Retail
9 4 (4.17%) Legal
9 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Billing
11 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) Analyst
2 22 (22.92%) Lead
3 19 (19.79%) Consultant
4 12 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
5 10 (10.42%) Oracle Consultant
5 10 (10.42%) Oracle P2P Consultant
5 10 (10.42%) Test Analyst
6 9 (9.38%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 8 (8.33%) Developer
7 8 (8.33%) QA Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) QA Test Analyst
8 7 (7.29%) Architect
8 7 (7.29%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (6.25%) Finance Manager
9 6 (6.25%) Senior
9 6 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.25%) Workstream Lead
10 5 (5.21%) IFS Developer
10 5 (5.21%) Oracle Analyst
10 5 (5.21%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) XML
2 4 (4.17%) BAPI
2 4 (4.17%) IDoc
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.04%) CMDB
3 1 (1.04%) Life Science
3 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.04%) PMI
3 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.42%) Order to Cash
2 27 (28.13%) Agile
3 26 (27.08%) ERP
4 24 (25.00%) Record to Report
5 20 (20.83%) DevOps
6 16 (16.67%) Migration
6 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (14.58%) Analytics
9 11 (11.46%) Data Migration
9 11 (11.46%) Project Management
10 10 (10.42%) Unit Testing
10 10 (10.42%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (9.38%) E-business
12 8 (8.33%) Test Management
13 7 (7.29%) Cash Management
13 7 (7.29%) Data Analytics
13 7 (7.29%) Data Cleansing
13 7 (7.29%) Project Delivery
13 7 (7.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) SQL
2 3 (3.13%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.04%) ProC
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Degree
2 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.13%) ACCA
4 3 (3.13%) CIMA
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 5 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.13%) GxP
4 2 (2.08%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.04%) PMO
5 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 35 (36.46%) Oracle
2 34 (35.42%) SAP
3 6 (6.25%) Ariba
3 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.21%) IFS
5 4 (4.17%) FIS
6 3 (3.13%) Blue Prism
7 2 (2.08%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.08%) Hyperion
7 2 (2.08%) Sage
7 2 (2.08%) Workday
8 1 (1.04%) Cognos