Procure-to-Pay Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 372 435
Rank change year-on-year +85 +63 -44
Contract jobs citing Procure-to-Pay 91 63 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 40 55
10th Percentile £416 £413 £390
25th Percentile £500 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +27.91%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £650
90th Percentile £738 £804 -
UK median daily rate £588 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% +6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Procure-to-Pay
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-to-Pay
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Procure-to-Pay in the UK excluding London

Procure-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 Procure-to-Pay within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +27 37 £625 +4.17% 20
North of England +37 23 £550 +10.00% 8
East of England +18 13 £513 -36.92% 11
Scotland +45 12 £688 +19.57%
North West +25 12 £560 +23.76% 6
Yorkshire +25 10 £540 -1.82%
Midlands +33 4 £425 -39.29% 8
South West - 4 £391 -
West Midlands +15 3 £425 -39.29% 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Procure-to-Pay
UK

Procure-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 5 (5.49%) SAS
2 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (38.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 27 (29.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (10.99%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (10.99%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
4 7 (7.69%) SAP MM
5 6 (6.59%) SAP CO
5 6 (6.59%) SAP FI
5 6 (6.59%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (4.40%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (4.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (3.30%) SAP BPC
8 2 (2.20%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (1.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle AGIS
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (1.10%) SAP EWM
9 1 (1.10%) SAP GTS
9 1 (1.10%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.78%) Azure
2 17 (18.68%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.69%) OCI
4 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.20%) PaaS
5 2 (2.20%) SaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.10%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
1 1 (1.10%) LAN
1 1 (1.10%) MPLS
1 1 (1.10%) WAN
1 1 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Crystal Reports
1 5 (5.49%) SAP BW
2 4 (4.40%) SAP Data Services
3 3 (3.30%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.20%) Power BI
4 2 (2.20%) Tableau
5 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (5.49%) JIRA
3 4 (4.40%) LSMW
General
1 46 (50.55%) Finance
2 35 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.99%) Pharmaceutical
4 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.89%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 6 (6.59%) Banking
8 5 (5.49%) Retail
9 4 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
9 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Legal
11 1 (1.10%) Billing
11 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (37.36%) Analyst
2 20 (21.98%) Consultant
3 18 (19.78%) Lead
4 12 (13.19%) Functional Consultant
5 10 (10.99%) Oracle Consultant
5 10 (10.99%) Oracle P2P Consultant
5 10 (10.99%) Test Analyst
6 9 (9.89%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 8 (8.79%) Finance Manager
7 8 (8.79%) QA Analyst
7 8 (8.79%) QA Test Analyst
7 8 (8.79%) Senior
8 7 (7.69%) Data Analyst
8 7 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (6.59%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (6.59%) Workstream Lead
10 5 (5.49%) Developer
10 5 (5.49%) IFS Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Oracle Analyst
10 5 (5.49%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.40%) BAPI
1 4 (4.40%) IDoc
1 4 (4.40%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (4.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
1 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.20%) Life Science
2 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.10%) CMDB
3 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.10%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.56%) Order to Cash
2 23 (25.27%) ERP
2 23 (25.27%) Record to Report
3 21 (23.08%) Agile
4 17 (18.68%) DevOps
4 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (16.48%) Analytics
5 15 (16.48%) Migration
6 13 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (12.09%) Project Management
8 10 (10.99%) Data Analysis
8 10 (10.99%) Data Migration
9 9 (9.89%) E-business
10 8 (8.79%) Test Management
11 7 (7.69%) Cash Management
11 7 (7.69%) Data Analytics
11 7 (7.69%) Project Delivery
11 7 (7.69%) Unit Testing
12 6 (6.59%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.59%) SQL
2 1 (1.10%) ABAP
2 1 (1.10%) ProC
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Degree
2 7 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.20%) ACCA
4 2 (2.20%) CIMA
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) QA
2 8 (8.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.40%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.20%) GxP
4 2 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.10%) PMO
Vendors
1 35 (38.46%) Oracle
1 35 (38.46%) SAP
2 6 (6.59%) Ariba
3 5 (5.49%) IFS
3 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.40%) FIS
5 3 (3.30%) Blue Prism
5 3 (3.30%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.20%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.20%) Workday
7 1 (1.10%) Cognos