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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 263 270
Rank change year-on-year -29 +7 +43
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Billing 75 105 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.58% 0.69%
As % of the General category 0.79% 1.07% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 102
10th Percentile £303 £321 £350
25th Percentile £350 £411 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -3.47% +15.11%
75th Percentile £527 £600 £550
90th Percentile £686 £657 £700
UK median daily rate £459 £500 £518
% change year-on-year -8.20% -3.55% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £17.58 - -
25th Percentile £18.46 £14.50 £13.13
Median hourly rate £19.91 £21.50 £13.27
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +62.08% +6.72%
75th Percentile £25.08 £75.00 £13.40
90th Percentile £28.18 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £32.00 £180.00
% change year-on-year -10.94% -82.22% +552.53%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,463 9,789 12,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 61.17% 53.94% 55.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,675 5,588 7,908
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £358 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% +0.10%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 1,095 838
10th Percentile £13.08 £13.71 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.34 £16.00 £15.21
Median hourly rate £22.14 £35.00 £25.95
Median % change year-on-year -36.74% +34.87% +29.75%
75th Percentile £46.21 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.68 £71.25 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% +28.58% +14.58%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Billing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Billing

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 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Billing in the UK excluding London

Billing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Billing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Billing

Billing
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +7 36 £459 -8.20% 93
South West +36 15 £425 -14.66% 15
North of England -19 13 £429 -14.20% 58
North West -6 8 £650 +30.00% 34
Yorkshire -6 5 £306 -49.00% 21
West Midlands -19 5 £356 -25.00% 19
Midlands -31 5 £356 -35.23% 33
East of England +10 3 £350 -39.78% 17
Northern Ireland -9 2 £500 +376.19% 13
Wales - 1 £550 - 1
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 (2.67%) Camunda
1 2 (2.67%) CMS
2 1 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) CICS
2 1 (1.33%) JBoss
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.67%) SAP BRIM
1 5 (6.67%) SAP Hybris
1 5 (6.67%) SAP PSCD
2 4 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.67%) SAP ERP
3 2 (2.67%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.33%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (1.33%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.33%) Azure
2 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.67%) AWS
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.33%) GCP
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) 5G
2 3 (4.00%) LAN
2 3 (4.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (4.00%) VSAN
3 2 (2.67%) Broadband
3 2 (2.67%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.67%) WAN
4 1 (1.33%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (1.33%) MPLS
4 1 (1.33%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.33%) VoIP
4 1 (1.33%) VoLTE
4 1 (1.33%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.67%) Big Data
3 2 (2.67%) Metadata
3 2 (2.67%) NewSQL
3 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.33%) Easytrieve
4 1 (1.33%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Selenium
2 2 (2.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.33%) Hudson
3 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (45.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (41.33%) Finance
3 25 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 15 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.33%) Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Project Manager
2 12 (16.00%) Consultant
3 11 (14.67%) Analyst
4 7 (9.33%) Designer
4 7 (9.33%) Solutions Designer
5 6 (8.00%) Architect
5 6 (8.00%) OSS Project Manager
5 6 (8.00%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (8.00%) Telecoms Manager
5 6 (8.00%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 5 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Lead
7 4 (5.33%) Report Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 2 (2.67%) BSS Architect
9 2 (2.67%) Platform Architect
9 2 (2.67%) Test Leader
9 2 (2.67%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.00%) REST
1 6 (8.00%) Web Services
2 5 (6.67%) JSON
3 3 (4.00%) Middleware
4 1 (1.33%) Ajax
4 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.33%) CSS
4 1 (1.33%) CSS3
4 1 (1.33%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.33%) HTML
4 1 (1.33%) HTML5
4 1 (1.33%) JAX-WS
4 1 (1.33%) JMS
4 1 (1.33%) jQuery
4 1 (1.33%) JSP
4 1 (1.33%) RESTful
4 1 (1.33%) Servlets
4 1 (1.33%) SOAP
4 1 (1.33%) Spring
4 1 (1.33%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Cloud Native
1 7 (9.33%) TM Forum
2 6 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.67%) Frameworx
3 5 (6.67%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.33%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.33%) IoT
6 1 (1.33%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.33%) CRM
2 21 (28.00%) Agile
3 16 (21.33%) Project Management
4 15 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (18.67%) Customer Service
6 13 (17.33%) PRINCE2
6 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (13.33%) Customer Experience
8 9 (12.00%) Project Delivery
8 9 (12.00%) Risk Management
9 8 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.67%) Business Strategy
10 7 (9.33%) Data Mapping
10 7 (9.33%) Service Delivery
10 7 (9.33%) Service Management
10 7 (9.33%) Waterfall
11 6 (8.00%) Fault Management
11 6 (8.00%) Network Management
11 6 (8.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.33%) SQL
2 5 (6.67%) Java
3 2 (2.67%) Python
3 2 (2.67%) Scala
4 1 (1.33%) COBOL
4 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.33%) PMI Certification
2 7 (9.33%) PMP
2 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (2.67%) ACCA
5 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.67%) CIMA
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) CCNP
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) PMO
3 2 (2.67%) GDPR
3 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Amdocs OSS
2 5 (6.67%) VxRail
3 4 (5.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Salesforce
2 15 (20.00%) SAP
3 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.00%) Amdocs
4 6 (8.00%) Ciena
4 6 (8.00%) Ericsson
4 6 (8.00%) NetCracker
4 6 (8.00%) Nokia
4 6 (8.00%) VMware
5 5 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.00%) Infoblox
6 3 (4.00%) Oracle
7 2 (2.67%) BT
7 2 (2.67%) Openreach
7 2 (2.67%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.33%) Adobe
8 1 (1.33%) Databricks
8 1 (1.33%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.33%) IBM
8 1 (1.33%) IFS