Billing Contract Job Trends in Reading

Billing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Billing over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 61 76
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing Billing 10 18 19
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.30% 2.20% 1.72%
As % of the General category 2.28% 3.57% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £393 £196 -
25th Percentile £400 £356 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% -7.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £528 £681 £513
90th Percentile £688 £700 -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -11.63% -2.27% +10.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.51
Median hourly rate - £29.00 £13.01
Median % change year-on-year - +122.91% -
75th Percentile - - £13.52
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £29.00 £13.01
% change year-on-year - +122.91% -

All General Skills
Reading

Billing falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 438 504 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 57.03% 61.54% 65.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 224 401
10th Percentile £280 £250 £210
25th Percentile £401 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £501
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +7.89% -4.67%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £594
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £501 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 24
10th Percentile £14.50 £33.05 £38.85
25th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £48.94
Median hourly rate £80.50 £52.83 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +52.39% -9.39% -9.86%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.26 £63.78
90th Percentile £98.75 £71.82 £81.52
Berkshire median hourly rate £52.74 £58.38 £58.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +0.65% -3.07%

Billing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Billing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Billing job vacancy trend in Reading

Billing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Billing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Billing

Billing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Billing in Reading over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Billing in Reading

Billing
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Billing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Billing

Billing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle BRM
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) OSPF
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
1 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Automotive
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (20.00%) OpenID
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) iSeries
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CRM
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) B2C
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (20.00%) Business Case
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) MLOps
3 2 (20.00%) Product Backlog
3 2 (20.00%) Product Vision
3 2 (20.00%) RBAC
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) PHP
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Meraki
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy