Accounts Payable Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Accounts Payable
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Accounts Payable skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 106 112
Rank change year-on-year -31 +6 +65
Contract jobs citing Accounts Payable 2 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.093% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.50% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile - £494 -
25th Percentile - £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £533 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -14.80% -10.71%
75th Percentile - £543 £703
90th Percentile - £606 £754
England median daily rate £600 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% +10.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,922 1,596 1,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.27% 83.60% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 994 1,115
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £715
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 53 51
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.26 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +41.08%
75th Percentile £30.22 £33.93 £52.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £49.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

Accounts Payable
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Accounts Payable relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Accounts Payable job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Accounts Payable
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Accounts Payable.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Accounts Payable.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
Shropshire -38 2 £515 -4.63%
Accounts Payable
England

Accounts Payable
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SAP ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SAP BW
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) General Ledger
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAP BW Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Accounts Receivable
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Centre Accounting
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Revenue Management
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCA
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP