Billing Contract Job Trends

Billing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Billing over the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 356 368
Rank change year-on-year -36 +12 +88
Contract jobs citing Billing 255 170 211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.59% 0.49%
As % of the General category 0.98% 0.94% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 103 129
10th Percentile £359 £308 £249
25th Percentile £463 £374 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £550 £615
90th Percentile £825 £675 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +10.59% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 11
10th Percentile £13.70 £27.65 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.35 £39.25 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £70.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% +366.67% -76.00%
75th Percentile £37.13 £75.00 £15.75
90th Percentile £42.38 £76.50 £16.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £70.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year -64.29% +366.67% -66.67%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26,031 18,083 24,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.62% 63.22% 57.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,818 11,497 15,556
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £772
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,703 775 1,958
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.56 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.84 £15.47
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.40 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% -8.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £54.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £24.28 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.46% -13.30% -0.25%

Billing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Billing job vacancy trend in the UK

Billing
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Billing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Billing over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Billing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Billing over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 May 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
England -70 203 £541 +20.22% 229
London -18 115 £625 +38.27% 103
Work from Home -1 100 £525 +20.00% 96
UK excluding London -110 78 £470 +10.59% 154
South East -60 40 £470 +0.43% 52
Midlands -49 16 £525 +66.67% 27
North of England -67 14 £447 -8.59% 46
West Midlands -53 11 £500 +58.73% 17
North West -36 8 £447 -8.59% 28
East of England -35 7 £631 +80.36% 5
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 12
East Midlands - 4 £550 - 10
Scotland 0 3 £500 +29.67% 6
South West -44 3 £475 +11.76% 12
Wales -11 1 £475 -13.64% 2

Billing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (2.75%) Apache
2 4 (1.57%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.78%) Appian
4 2 (0.78%) Camunda
5 1 (0.39%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 20 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 41 (16.08%) SAP BRIM
2 40 (15.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (11.76%) SAP PSCD
4 29 (11.37%) SAP FI
5 26 (10.20%) SAP FI-CA
6 16 (6.27%) SAP SD
7 11 (4.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (3.53%) SAP Hybris
9 7 (2.75%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (1.96%) NetSuite
10 5 (1.96%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (1.96%) SAP Convergent Charging
11 4 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
12 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
12 3 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (1.18%) SAP CO
12 3 (1.18%) SAP ERP
12 3 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
13 2 (0.78%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 23 (9.02%) Azure
2 18 (7.06%) AWS
3 15 (5.88%) SaaS
4 11 (4.31%) GCP
5 10 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 10 (3.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 9 (3.53%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 6 (2.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.96%) OCI
8 5 (1.96%) Serverless
9 3 (1.18%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.18%) Boomi
9 3 (1.18%) Figma
9 3 (1.18%) Google Docs
9 3 (1.18%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.35%) WAN
2 4 (1.57%) HTTP
2 4 (1.57%) Internet
3 3 (1.18%) MPLS
3 3 (1.18%) Network Security
3 3 (1.18%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.18%) Wireless
4 2 (0.78%) 5G
4 2 (0.78%) LAN
4 2 (0.78%) NaaS
5 1 (0.39%) 4G
5 1 (0.39%) BGP
5 1 (0.39%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.39%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.39%) OSPF
5 1 (0.39%) SMS
5 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.35%) Power BI
2 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.78%) Flink
4 2 (0.78%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.78%) Metadata
4 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.78%) MySQL
4 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.78%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (5.88%) JIRA
2 11 (4.31%) Git
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 122 (47.84%) Finance
2 77 (30.20%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.90%) Telecoms
4 30 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.92%) Banking
6 10 (3.92%) Legal
7 7 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.96%) Back Office
9 5 (1.96%) Law
10 4 (1.57%) Publishing
11 3 (1.18%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.18%) German Language
11 3 (1.18%) Marketing
12 2 (0.78%) Advertising
12 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (23.92%) Consultant
2 51 (20.00%) Architect
3 46 (18.04%) SAP Consultant
4 29 (11.37%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (9.41%) Analyst
6 21 (8.24%) Functional Consultant
7 16 (6.27%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 14 (5.49%) Senior
9 13 (5.10%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.10%) Developer
10 12 (4.71%) Lead
11 9 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.35%) Contracts Manager
12 6 (2.35%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.35%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.35%) SAP Architect
13 5 (1.96%) Data Manager
13 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Architect
13 5 (1.96%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.63%) BAPI
2 18 (7.06%) REST
3 9 (3.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.14%) Middleware
4 8 (3.14%) OpenAPI
4 8 (3.14%) SOAP
4 8 (3.14%) Swagger
5 7 (2.75%) .NET
6 6 (2.35%) JSON
7 5 (1.96%) Web Services
8 4 (1.57%) EDI
8 4 (1.57%) Kafka
8 4 (1.57%) RAML
8 4 (1.57%) XML
9 3 (1.18%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.18%) gRPC
9 3 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.78%) IDoc
10 2 (0.78%) Next.js
10 2 (0.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.75%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.35%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.96%) Life Science
6 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.18%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.18%) TM Forum
8 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.18%) Android
2 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) HPUX
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Unix
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (13.73%) CRM
2 35 (13.73%) ERP
3 32 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (12.16%) Decision-Making
5 30 (11.76%) Order to Cash
6 29 (11.37%) Migration
7 27 (10.59%) Order Management
8 26 (10.20%) Agile
8 26 (10.20%) Data Modelling
9 25 (9.80%) Validation
10 22 (8.63%) Roadmaps
10 22 (8.63%) User Acceptance Testing
11 21 (8.24%) Workshop Facilitation
12 19 (7.45%) CI/CD
12 19 (7.45%) Convergent Charging
12 19 (7.45%) Project Management
12 19 (7.45%) Revenue Management
13 18 (7.06%) Cost Management
14 17 (6.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.80%) SQL
2 12 (4.71%) Python
3 8 (3.14%) Java
4 4 (1.57%) DataWeave
4 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.18%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.18%) X++
6 2 (0.78%) ABAP
6 2 (0.78%) C#
6 2 (0.78%) C++
6 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.78%) VBA
7 1 (0.39%) Bash
7 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.39%) Groovy
7 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.39%) R
7 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
1 21 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 10 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.14%) ACCA
4 7 (2.75%) CIMA
5 4 (1.57%) Degree
6 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.39%) PMP
8 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.92%) Data Quality
1 10 (3.92%) SLA
2 7 (2.75%) GDPR
3 5 (1.96%) PMO
3 5 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.57%) IFRS
5 3 (1.18%) GxP
6 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.78%) GAAP
6 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Docker
2 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.96%) Grafana
1 5 (1.96%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.96%) Prometheus
2 4 (1.57%) Terraform
3 2 (0.78%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.78%) SCCM
4 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 92 (36.08%) SAP
2 34 (13.33%) Oracle
2 34 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 27 (10.59%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.27%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.31%) Guidewire
6 8 (3.14%) Google
7 7 (2.75%) Ariba
8 5 (1.96%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (1.57%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.57%) Remedy
10 3 (1.18%) Apple
10 3 (1.18%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.78%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.78%) Ciena
11 2 (0.78%) Computacenter
11 2 (0.78%) Conga
11 2 (0.78%) Nokia
11 2 (0.78%) Pega