Source to Pay Contracts in the UK excluding London

Source to Pay (S2P)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Source to Pay skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Source to Pay 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 332 391 449
Rank change year-on-year +59 +58 +61
Contract jobs citing Source to Pay 4 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.039% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.045% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £263 £431 £554
25th Percentile £281 £458 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £518 £594
Median % change year-on-year -37.20% -12.84% -20.83%
75th Percentile £466 £578 £634
90th Percentile £543 £606 £662
UK median daily rate £500 £650 £665
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.26% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £21.39 £79.17 -
Median % change year-on-year -72.98% - -
UK median hourly rate £21.39 £79.17 -
% change year-on-year -72.98% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Source 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
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 £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Source to Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Source to Pay in the UK excluding London

Source to Pay
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Source to Pay in the UK excluding London

Source to Pay
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Source to Pay in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Source to Pay in the UK excluding London

Source to Pay
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Source to Pay in the UK excluding London

Source 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 Source to Pay within the UK excluding London 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
South East +45 3 £419 -31.35% 5
North West - 1 £325 - 2
North of England - 1 £325 - 2
Source to Pay
UK

Source 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Procurement Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CIMA
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) Ariba
3 1 (25.00%) DocuSign
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle