Procure-to-Pay Contracts in England

Procure-to-Pay (including Purchase-to-Pay, P2P)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Procure-to-Pay skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Procure-to-Pay over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 469 585
Rank change year-on-year +63 +116 -107
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 131 169 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.36% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.40% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 93 134
10th Percentile £426 £408 £378
25th Percentile £481 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +2.09%
75th Percentile £648 £670 £650
90th Percentile £738 £913 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 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
England

Procure-to-Pay 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,578 42,765 64,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.86% 89.99% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,635 30,003 45,576
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,521 1,733
10th Percentile £12.84 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Procure-to-Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Procure-to-Pay as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Procure-to-Pay in England

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in England.

Daily rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in England

Procure-to-Pay
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Procure-to-Pay in England

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in England.

Hourly rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in England

Procure-to-Pay
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +36 51 £600 +4.35% 20
South East +13 36 £625 +4.17% 14
North of England +39 23 £550 +15.49% 10
North West +25 12 £623 +38.33% 6
East of England +13 12 £500 -38.46% 12
Yorkshire +21 10 £540 -1.82% 2
Midlands +19 4 £425 -39.29% 9
South West - 4 £391 - 1
West Midlands +13 3 £425 -39.29% 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Procure-to-Pay
UK

Procure-to-Pay
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.82%) SAS
1 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 48 (36.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 32 (24.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (9.92%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (9.16%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (6.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (6.11%) SAP MM
6 7 (5.34%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (5.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (4.58%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (4.58%) SAP FI
8 5 (3.82%) Endur
8 5 (3.82%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 5 (3.82%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (3.82%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (3.82%) SAP CO
8 5 (3.82%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (1.53%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (1.53%) SAP BPC
9 2 (1.53%) SAP Retail
10 1 (0.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.32%) Azure
2 18 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (4.58%) SaaS
5 5 (3.82%) AWS
5 5 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.05%) OCI
6 4 (3.05%) WhatsApp
7 3 (2.29%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.29%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.53%) PaaS
8 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.53%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle CX
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) BGP
1 1 (0.76%) HSRP
1 1 (0.76%) Internet
1 1 (0.76%) Intranet
1 1 (0.76%) LAN
1 1 (0.76%) MPLS
1 1 (0.76%) OSPF
1 1 (0.76%) VRRP
1 1 (0.76%) WAN
1 1 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.58%) SAP BW
1 6 (4.58%) SAP HANA
2 5 (3.82%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (3.05%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.53%) Tableau
6 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.76%) Power BI
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.05%) LSMW
3 3 (2.29%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) Toad
General
1 74 (56.49%) Finance
2 49 (37.40%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (6.87%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (6.11%) Banking
5 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.34%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.58%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.58%) Retail
8 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.05%) Billing
9 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.29%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.29%) Legal
11 2 (1.53%) French Language
11 2 (1.53%) German Language
12 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 51 (38.93%) Analyst
2 29 (22.14%) Consultant
3 25 (19.08%) Lead
4 19 (14.50%) Functional Consultant
5 17 (12.98%) Oracle Consultant
6 14 (10.69%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 12 (9.16%) Financial Analyst
7 12 (9.16%) Senior
8 11 (8.40%) Business Analyst
8 11 (8.40%) Test Analyst
9 10 (7.63%) Oracle Analyst
9 10 (7.63%) Oracle P2P Consultant
10 9 (6.87%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (6.11%) QA Analyst
11 8 (6.11%) QA Test Analyst
11 8 (6.11%) SAP Analyst
12 7 (5.34%) Data Analyst
12 7 (5.34%) Developer
12 7 (5.34%) SAP Consultant
13 6 (4.58%) Functional Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.34%) IDoc
2 7 (5.34%) XML
3 6 (4.58%) Middleware
4 5 (3.82%) HTML
5 4 (3.05%) BAPI
6 2 (1.53%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.76%) EDI
7 1 (0.76%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.05%) Data Structures
1 4 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
2 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (0.76%) CMDB
3 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.76%) FMCG
3 1 (0.76%) Life Science
3 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (0.76%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.53%) Order to Cash
2 37 (28.24%) ERP
3 24 (18.32%) Agile
4 23 (17.56%) Migration
5 22 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.03%) Analytics
7 19 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (13.74%) DevOps
8 18 (13.74%) Record to Report
9 17 (12.98%) Project Management
10 15 (11.45%) Change Management
11 14 (10.69%) Data Migration
12 12 (9.16%) Data Analytics
12 12 (9.16%) Logistics
13 9 (6.87%) Data Analysis
13 9 (6.87%) Data Cleansing
13 9 (6.87%) E-business
13 9 (6.87%) Test Management
13 9 (6.87%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (6.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.45%) SQL
2 7 (5.34%) ABAP
3 5 (3.82%) C
3 5 (3.82%) C#
4 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.53%) ProC
Qualifications
1 13 (9.92%) Degree
2 10 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.29%) CIMA
5 2 (1.53%) ACCA
5 2 (1.53%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) OCP
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) QA
2 7 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.05%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) GRC
5 1 (0.76%) GxP
5 1 (0.76%) PMO
5 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (0.76%) Ansible
1 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (40.46%) SAP
2 48 (36.64%) Oracle
3 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.34%) Ariba
5 5 (3.82%) IFS
5 5 (3.82%) OpenLink
5 5 (3.82%) Triple Point
6 4 (3.05%) FIS
7 3 (2.29%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.29%) webMethods
8 2 (1.53%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.53%) Concur
8 2 (1.53%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.76%) CA
9 1 (0.76%) Cognos
9 1 (0.76%) OpenText
9 1 (0.76%) Remedy
9 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.76%) Workday