Billing Contract Job Trends in the South East

Billing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Billing over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 126 139
Rank change year-on-year -60 +13 -16
Contract jobs citing Billing 48 37 46
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.71% 1.05% 0.95%
As % of the General category 1.39% 1.77% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 26
10th Percentile £419 £330 £291
25th Percentile £442 £350 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -6.40% -3.47%
75th Percentile £483 £528 £575
90th Percentile £538 £593 £706
England median daily rate £545 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +21.11% -10.00% -3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile - £20.59 -
25th Percentile £42.13 £21.62 £14.50
Median hourly rate £42.25 £24.21 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.55% +61.37% -
75th Percentile £42.38 £27.67 £15.50
90th Percentile - £29.22 £19.55
England median hourly rate £25.00 £41.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.12% -1.76% -76.39%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,443 2,091 2,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.27% 59.17% 48.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 1,283 1,366
10th Percentile £263 £200 £218
25th Percentile £413 £355 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £724 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.67% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 188 225
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £15.53
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.20 £26.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £18.82 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +139.11% -67.18% +14.70%
75th Percentile £77.81 £53.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.50 £75.24
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +38.62%

Billing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Billing job vacancy trend in the South East

Billing
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Billing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Billing

Billing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Billing in the South East over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Billing in the South East

Billing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Billing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Billing

Billing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Billing within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
Thames Valley -39 23 £438 +25.00% 20
Berkshire -19 22 £431 +23.21% 9
West Sussex -15 13 £470 -8.29% 5
Hampshire -35 7 £800 +52.38% 6
Surrey -22 2 £500 -13.94% 11
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £450 - 4
Billing
England

Billing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Chatbot
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (22.92%) SAP PSCD
2 9 (18.75%) SAP BRIM
3 8 (16.67%) SAP Hybris
4 4 (8.33%) NetSuite
4 4 (8.33%) Sage X3
5 2 (4.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (4.17%) SAP FI
5 2 (4.17%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (2.08%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) Azure
1 10 (20.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.33%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (8.33%) Fivetran
4 4 (8.33%) GCP
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.08%) AWS
7 1 (2.08%) OCI
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle CX
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 4 (8.33%) WAN
2 3 (6.25%) Broadband
3 2 (4.17%) 4G
3 2 (4.17%) 5G
3 2 (4.17%) Internet
3 2 (4.17%) MPLS
3 2 (4.17%) Network Security
3 2 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (4.17%) SMS
3 2 (4.17%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) JMeter
2 2 (4.17%) LoadRunner
2 2 (4.17%) NeoLoad
General
1 29 (60.42%) Finance
2 21 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 19 (39.58%) Telecoms
4 13 (27.08%) Public Sector
5 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (10.42%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (2.08%) General Ledger
10 1 (2.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Consultant
2 11 (22.92%) SAP Consultant
3 10 (20.83%) Functional Consultant
3 10 (20.83%) SAP Functional Consultant
4 7 (14.58%) Developer
4 7 (14.58%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 7 (14.58%) Senior
5 5 (10.42%) Lead
6 4 (8.33%) Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Architect
6 4 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.17%) Designer
8 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) .NET
2 4 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
1 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.17%) IVR
1 2 (4.17%) NHS
1 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.17%) PMI
2 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.08%) Smart Meter
2 1 (2.08%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (33.33%) Agile
3 13 (27.08%) CRM
3 13 (27.08%) Revenue Management
4 12 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 10 (20.83%) DevOps
5 10 (20.83%) ERP
5 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
6 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (12.50%) AI
7 6 (12.50%) Change Management
7 6 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 6 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (10.42%) Validation
9 4 (8.33%) ETL
9 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (8.33%) Observability
9 4 (8.33%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 5 (10.42%) X++
3 4 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.17%) CBAP
4 2 (4.17%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) PMO
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) SAP
2 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.58%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.33%) PagerDuty
3 4 (8.33%) Sage
4 2 (4.17%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) HP