Billing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Billing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Billing over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 285 366
Rank change year-on-year +34 +81 -29
Contract jobs citing Billing 88 108 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.52% 0.39%
As % of the General category 1.11% 0.95% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 54 66
10th Percentile £304 £346 £254
25th Percentile £352 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £508 £499
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +1.75% -0.25%
75th Percentile £537 £597 £578
90th Percentile £578 £715 £781
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile £27.18 £11.75 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £13.63 £42.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £15.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +351.61% -65.56% +273.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £15.88 £47.50
90th Percentile - £16.36 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £15.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +344.44% -74.80% +162.14%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,930 11,378 13,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.25% 54.73% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,906 6,510 9,286
10th Percentile £213 £205 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 1,648 782
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%
75th Percentile £58.07 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £69.95
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%

Billing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Billing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Billing in the UK excluding London

Billing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Billing in the UK excluding London

Billing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Billing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Billing in the UK excluding London

Billing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Billing in the UK excluding London

Billing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Billing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Billing in the UK excluding London

Billing
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 Billing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
South East +38 48 £475 -5.00% 54
South West +54 17 £425 +7.32% 20
East of England +31 8 £550 -5.56% 13
North of England +19 8 £489 -2.20% 52
North West +10 8 £489 -2.20% 41
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Midlands +16 2 £315 -47.50% 20
West Midlands +9 2 £315 -47.50% 15
Scotland -1 1 £386 -11.96% 7
Wales - 1 £550 - 2
Billing
UK

Billing
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 2 (2.27%) Camunda
2 1 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
2 1 (1.14%) JBoss
2 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.95%) SAP BRIM
1 7 (7.95%) SAP Hybris
1 7 (7.95%) SAP PSCD
2 5 (5.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.68%) SAP SD
3 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.27%) SAP ECC
3 2 (2.27%) SAP GTS
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.09%) Azure
2 7 (7.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 4 (4.55%) SaaS
4 2 (2.27%) AWS
4 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.14%) Apigee
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.14%) GCP
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) Intranet
2 6 (6.82%) Unified Communications
3 5 (5.68%) 5G
3 5 (5.68%) SD-WAN
3 5 (5.68%) WAN
4 4 (4.55%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (4.55%) VoIP
5 3 (3.41%) GGSN
5 3 (3.41%) ISDN
5 3 (3.41%) LAN
5 3 (3.41%) PBX
5 3 (3.41%) SS7
5 3 (3.41%) VSAN
6 2 (2.27%) Broadband
7 1 (1.14%) MPLS
7 1 (1.14%) VoLTE
7 1 (1.14%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) Big Data
1 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.27%) Metadata
1 2 (2.27%) NewSQL
1 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.14%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Ant
1 1 (1.14%) Git
1 1 (1.14%) Hudson
1 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.14%) JIRA
1 1 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 39 (44.32%) Telecoms
2 26 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 23 (26.14%) Finance
4 15 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.09%) Back Office
5 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.09%) Retail
6 7 (7.95%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.55%) Dutch Language
8 3 (3.41%) Military
9 2 (2.27%) Law
9 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.14%) Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Legal
10 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.45%) Consultant
2 13 (14.77%) IT Manager
3 9 (10.23%) SAP Consultant
4 8 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.95%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (7.95%) Designer
5 7 (7.95%) Functional Consultant
5 7 (7.95%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 7 (7.95%) IT Services Manager
5 7 (7.95%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 7 (7.95%) Service Delivery Manager
5 7 (7.95%) Service Manager
5 7 (7.95%) Solutions Designer
6 6 (6.82%) Architect
6 6 (6.82%) Telecoms Manager
7 5 (5.68%) Lead
7 5 (5.68%) Operations Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) OSS Project Manager
8 4 (4.55%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) REST
2 6 (6.82%) Web Services
3 5 (5.68%) JSON
4 3 (3.41%) Middleware
5 2 (2.27%) CSS
5 2 (2.27%) HTML
5 2 (2.27%) SOAP
6 1 (1.14%) Ajax
6 1 (1.14%) CSS3
6 1 (1.14%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.14%) HTML5
6 1 (1.14%) JAX-WS
6 1 (1.14%) JMS
6 1 (1.14%) jQuery
6 1 (1.14%) JSP
6 1 (1.14%) RESTful
6 1 (1.14%) Servlets
6 1 (1.14%) Spring
6 1 (1.14%) Spring MVC
6 1 (1.14%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) TM Forum
2 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.68%) Frameworx
4 3 (3.41%) IoT
4 3 (3.41%) IVR
4 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.27%) Replication
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.14%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.14%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.73%) CRM
2 18 (20.45%) Customer Service
3 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (15.91%) Service Delivery
5 13 (14.77%) Agile
6 10 (11.36%) Service Management
6 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (10.23%) Contract Management
7 9 (10.23%) ITIL
7 9 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (9.09%) Customer Experience
8 8 (9.09%) Process Improvement
9 7 (7.95%) Facilities Management
9 7 (7.95%) Incident Management
9 7 (7.95%) Line Management
9 7 (7.95%) Performance Management
9 7 (7.95%) Problem Management
9 7 (7.95%) Revenue Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.55%) Java
1 4 (4.55%) SQL
2 2 (2.27%) ABAP
2 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
2 2 (2.27%) Python
2 2 (2.27%) Scala
3 1 (1.14%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.23%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.68%) PMP
5 4 (4.55%) CCNP
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.41%) CCNA
6 3 (3.41%) Degree
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.27%) GDPR
1 2 (2.27%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.14%) PMO
2 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (3.41%) VMware NSX
1 3 (3.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) vRealize
2 4 (4.55%) Amdocs OSS
3 3 (3.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (22.73%) SAP
2 19 (21.59%) Salesforce
3 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.95%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.95%) Nokia
4 7 (7.95%) Splunk
4 7 (7.95%) VMware
5 5 (5.68%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.55%) Amdocs
6 4 (4.55%) Ciena
6 4 (4.55%) Ericsson
6 4 (4.55%) NetCracker
7 3 (3.41%) Cisco
7 3 (3.41%) Huawei
7 3 (3.41%) Infoblox
8 2 (2.27%) BT
8 2 (2.27%) Openreach
8 2 (2.27%) Oracle
8 2 (2.27%) Virgin Media
9 1 (1.14%) IBM