Order to Cash Contracts

Order to Cash (O2C)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Order to Cash skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Order to Cash over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 576 687
Rank change year-on-year +88 +111 -112
Contract jobs citing Order to Cash 98 117 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 65 92
10th Percentile £414 £425 £442
25th Percentile £509 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £759 £650 £675
90th Percentile £1,333 £815 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -7.50% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Order to Cash is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Order to Cash
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Order to Cash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Order to Cash in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Order to Cash.

Daily rate trend for Order to Cash in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Order to Cash over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Order to Cash in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Order to Cash.

Hourly rate trend for Order to Cash in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Order to Cash within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 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
England +72 80 £600 +9.09% 29
UK excluding London +83 52 £555 -7.50% 17
Work from Home +100 35 £575 +4.55% 71
London +82 31 £728 +32.27% 12
South East +4 14 £900 +63.64% 3
Midlands +38 12 £550 -15.38% 3
North of England +27 10 £550 -4.35% 6
East of England +12 9 £600 -18.64% 3
West Midlands +29 8 £550 -15.38% 3
Scotland +47 7 £500 -
North West +26 6 £550 -2.22% 3
East Midlands - 4 - -
Yorkshire +22 3 £540 -6.09% 3
South West - 1 £308 - 2

Order to Cash
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 5 (5.10%) SAS
2 4 (4.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (30.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (16.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 9 (9.18%) SAP SD
4 6 (6.12%) Oracle Financials
4 6 (6.12%) SAP GTS
5 5 (5.10%) Endur
5 5 (5.10%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (4.08%) SAP BPC
7 3 (3.06%) SAP CO
7 3 (3.06%) SAP FI
7 3 (3.06%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (3.06%) SAP Retail
8 2 (2.04%) JDE OneWorld
8 2 (2.04%) NetSuite
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (2.04%) SAP EWM
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.27%) OCI
2 5 (5.10%) AWS
2 5 (5.10%) Azure
2 5 (5.10%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.04%) PaaS
5 2 (2.04%) SaaS
5 2 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle CX
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.16%) SAP HANA
2 5 (5.10%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (3.06%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.06%) Power BI
4 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.02%) GIS
4 1 (1.02%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) JIRA
General
1 49 (50.00%) Finance
2 28 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Pharmaceutical
4 11 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.18%) Manufacturing
6 8 (8.16%) Retail
6 8 (8.16%) Telecoms
7 7 (7.14%) Billing
8 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
9 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.04%) Back Office
11 2 (2.04%) Legal
11 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.02%) French Language
12 1 (1.02%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) Analyst
2 21 (21.43%) Consultant
3 14 (14.29%) Lead
3 14 (14.29%) Senior
4 10 (10.20%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (9.18%) SAP Analyst
6 8 (8.16%) Architect
6 8 (8.16%) Developer
6 8 (8.16%) SAP Manager
7 7 (7.14%) Business Analyst
7 7 (7.14%) Project Manager
8 6 (6.12%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Data Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Finance Business Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) HR Consultant
9 5 (5.10%) IFS Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Risk Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) HTML
1 5 (5.10%) Middleware
1 5 (5.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.06%) IDoc
2 3 (3.06%) XML
3 2 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.02%) SAP TM
4 1 (1.02%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Life Science
2 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.08%) FMCG
3 4 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.06%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.02%) PMI
6 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.04%) Procure-to-Pay
2 38 (38.78%) Record to Report
3 33 (33.67%) ERP
4 24 (24.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (22.45%) Project Management
6 18 (18.37%) Migration
7 17 (17.35%) Analytics
8 15 (15.31%) Change Management
9 14 (14.29%) Data Migration
10 13 (13.27%) Logistics
11 12 (12.24%) User Acceptance Testing
12 10 (10.20%) Agile
12 10 (10.20%) Data Analytics
13 9 (9.18%) Business Transformation
13 9 (9.18%) Data Analysis
13 9 (9.18%) Project Delivery
14 8 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (8.16%) Decision-Making
14 8 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (8.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.27%) SQL
2 6 (6.12%) ABAP
3 5 (5.10%) C
3 5 (5.10%) C#
4 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.18%) Degree
2 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.02%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.08%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) GxP
3 3 (3.06%) PMO
3 3 (3.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.02%) QA
Vendors
1 58 (59.18%) SAP
2 22 (22.45%) Oracle
3 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.10%) IFS
4 5 (5.10%) OpenLink
4 5 (5.10%) Triple Point
5 4 (4.08%) Ariba
5 4 (4.08%) Hyperion
6 3 (3.06%) Blue Prism
6 3 (3.06%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.06%) webMethods
7 1 (1.02%) Cognos
7 1 (1.02%) Workday