Accounts Payable Contracts

Accounts Payable
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Accounts Payable skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Accounts Payable over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 451 629
Rank change year-on-year +73 +178 +71
Contract jobs citing Accounts Payable 145 123 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.34% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 54 26
10th Percentile £404 £300 £488
25th Percentile £415 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £608
90th Percentile £638 £645 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +13.40% -7.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 0
10th Percentile £14.81 £10.88 -
25th Percentile - £16.69 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £19.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% - -
75th Percentile £23.63 £20.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £19.50 -
% change year-on-year -17.95% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Accounts Payable 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,555 36,687 51,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.22% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,047 23,611 35,552
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,428 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Accounts Payable
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Accounts Payable as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Accounts Payable in the UK

Accounts Payable
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Accounts Payable.

Daily rate trend for Accounts Payable in the UK

Accounts Payable
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Accounts Payable over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Accounts Payable in the UK

Accounts Payable
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Accounts Payable.

Hourly rate trend for Accounts Payable in the UK

Accounts Payable
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Accounts Payable within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
Work from Home +59 89 £518 +14.36% 59
England +56 88 £475 -5.00% 115
UK excluding London +76 77 £550 +13.40% 56
London +33 57 £438 -27.08% 68
Scotland +49 46 £510 - 3
South East +47 8 £588 +95.83% 20
East of England +15 6 £600 +20.00% 6
Wales - 6 - - 2
Midlands +18 5 £513 -33.87% 7
North of England +10 5 £275 -47.62% 15
East Midlands +12 4 £500 -35.48% 3
Yorkshire +14 2 £650 - 1
North East -2 2 £275 -31.25%
South West +37 1 £625 +337.06% 4
North West +1 1 - - 14
West Midlands - 1 £525 - 4

Accounts Payable
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.52%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 43 (29.66%) Oracle Payables
2 25 (17.24%) Oracle Assets
3 24 (16.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 23 (15.86%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (13.10%) SAP CO
5 19 (13.10%) SAP FI
5 19 (13.10%) SAP FI/CO
5 19 (13.10%) SAP S/4HANA
6 18 (12.41%) Oracle EBS R12
7 16 (11.03%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 11 (7.59%) Oracle Receivables
9 9 (6.21%) Oracle Cash Management
9 9 (6.21%) Oracle ERP
9 9 (6.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (3.45%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (3.45%) Oracle iProcurement
11 3 (2.07%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (2.07%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 2 (1.38%) Oracle Internet Expenses
12 2 (1.38%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 7 (4.83%) OCI
2 6 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.07%) Azure
4 3 (2.07%) Google Docs
4 3 (2.07%) Google Sheets
4 3 (2.07%) Google Workspace
5 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 44 (30.34%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (4.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.38%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.69%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.38%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.69%) Hudson
3 1 (0.69%) LSMW
General
1 128 (88.28%) Finance
2 99 (68.28%) General Ledger
3 75 (51.72%) Social Skills
4 27 (18.62%) Banking
5 7 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.76%) Legal
8 4 (2.76%) Retail
9 3 (2.07%) Local Government
9 3 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.38%) Back Office
10 2 (1.38%) Billing
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.69%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (37.93%) Analyst
2 48 (33.10%) Financial Analyst
3 45 (31.03%) Senior
4 44 (30.34%) Senior Analyst
4 44 (30.34%) Senior Financial Analyst
5 39 (26.90%) Consultant
6 17 (11.72%) SAP Consultant
7 14 (9.66%) Oracle Consultant
8 13 (8.97%) Lead
9 11 (7.59%) Functional Consultant
9 11 (7.59%) SAP CO Consultant
9 11 (7.59%) SAP FI Consultant
9 11 (7.59%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
10 8 (5.52%) Developer
10 8 (5.52%) Oracle Developer
10 8 (5.52%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 7 (4.83%) Administrator
12 6 (4.14%) Support Officer
13 5 (3.45%) E-Business Consultant
13 5 (3.45%) Oracle Financials Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (5.52%) SAP Fiori
3 4 (2.76%) XML
3 4 (2.76%) XSLT
4 3 (2.07%) WebCenter
5 1 (0.69%) BAPI
5 1 (0.69%) EDI
5 1 (0.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 44 (30.34%) Social Media
2 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.76%) EPoS
3 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.07%) Life Science
4 3 (2.07%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.14%) Unix
2 3 (2.07%) Windows
3 2 (1.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (44.83%) Procure-to-Pay
2 52 (35.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (31.03%) Root Cause Analysis
4 44 (30.34%) Accounts Receivable
5 18 (12.41%) ERP
6 16 (11.03%) Migration
7 15 (10.34%) Analytics
7 15 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (9.66%) Cash Management
9 12 (8.28%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (8.28%) Validation
10 11 (7.59%) Data Migration
10 11 (7.59%) Test Scripting
11 10 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
11 10 (6.90%) Workflow
12 9 (6.21%) Order to Cash
12 9 (6.21%) Workshop Facilitation
13 8 (5.52%) Agile
13 8 (5.52%) Business Intelligence
14 7 (4.83%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.86%) SQL
2 11 (7.59%) PL/SQL
3 3 (2.07%) ProC
4 2 (1.38%) C
4 2 (1.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 46 (31.72%) ACCA
1 46 (31.72%) CIMA
2 11 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.83%) Degree
5 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.38%) GRC
2 2 (1.38%) IFRS
2 2 (1.38%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) GAAP
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) PMO
3 1 (0.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 74 (51.03%) SAP
2 43 (29.66%) Oracle
3 14 (9.66%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.83%) Ariba
5 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.76%) Workday
6 3 (2.07%) Google
6 3 (2.07%) Xero
7 2 (1.38%) Cognos
7 2 (1.38%) Kofax
7 2 (1.38%) ReadSoft
8 1 (0.69%) IFS
8 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.69%) NEC
8 1 (0.69%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.69%) Snow