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 3 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 360 382
Rank change year-on-year -19 +22 +102
Contract jobs citing Billing 242 167 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.56% 0.50%
As % of the General category 1.00% 0.90% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 80 112
10th Percentile £375 £208 £238
25th Percentile £461 £422 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £851 £700 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £524 £518
% change year-on-year -13.51% +1.11% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 9
10th Percentile - £29.00 £12.10
25th Percentile - £50.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% -55.71%
75th Percentile £22.77 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £31.88 - £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% +3.33%

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 24,224 18,626 26,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.07% 62.38% 58.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,159 11,511 16,788
10th Percentile £300 £287 £263
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £493
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.05% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,476 622 1,752
10th Percentile £13.60 £15.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.67 £20.27 £15.37
Median hourly rate £23.79 £30.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +16.69% -19.43%
75th Percentile £54.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £27.39 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.70% +9.54% -6.17%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -19 207 £515 -1.44% 233
London +2 101 £600 +20.00% 68
UK excluding London -46 98 £453 -13.51% 179
Work from Home -7 97 £596 +19.10% 127
South East +2 66 £470 -10.57% 64
North of England -56 11 £447 -13.96% 47
Midlands -51 10 £421 -21.03% 19
North West -31 9 £447 -8.59% 27
West Midlands -46 9 £573 +11.26% 11
East of England -27 6 £500 -9.09% 24
Scotland +16 5 £373 -3.27% 3
South West -20 5 £325 -27.78% 15
Yorkshire -63 2 - - 16
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 8
Wales - 1 £280 - 7

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 (2.89%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.48%) Appian
2 6 (2.48%) Camunda
3 5 (2.07%) Apache
4 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.24%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.41%) Confluence
7 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 21 (8.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 31 (12.81%) SAP PSCD
2 23 (9.50%) SAP BRIM
3 20 (8.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (7.44%) SAP Hybris
5 17 (7.02%) SAP FI-CA
6 14 (5.79%) SAP FI
7 8 (3.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle BRM
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (1.65%) SAP SD
9 3 (1.24%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.83%) Documaker
10 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.83%) SAP IS-U
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle CRM
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (15.70%) Azure
2 21 (8.68%) AWS
3 18 (7.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 16 (6.61%) SaaS
5 13 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (4.13%) GCP
8 9 (3.72%) GitHub
8 9 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (3.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (3.31%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.48%) OCI
11 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.24%) Figma
12 3 (1.24%) Serverless
13 2 (0.83%) Azure API Management
13 2 (0.83%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) Broadband
1 3 (1.24%) GPRS
1 3 (1.24%) GSM
1 3 (1.24%) WAN
2 2 (0.83%) Firewall
2 2 (0.83%) LAN
2 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.83%) Wireless
3 1 (0.41%) 4G
3 1 (0.41%) 5G
3 1 (0.41%) BGP
3 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.41%) Internet
3 1 (0.41%) NaaS
3 1 (0.41%) OSPF
3 1 (0.41%) SMS
3 1 (0.41%) SSL
3 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.31%) Power BI
2 6 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.48%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.48%) Parquet
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.24%) Metadata
5 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.41%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.41%) MySQL
6 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (5.79%) JIRA
2 5 (2.07%) Git
3 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) Hudson
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.41%) Postman
4 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
4 1 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 112 (46.28%) Finance
2 101 (41.74%) Social Skills
3 39 (16.12%) Public Sector
4 37 (15.29%) Telecoms
5 27 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.61%) Legal
7 11 (4.55%) Law
7 11 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.31%) Banking
9 5 (2.07%) Retail
10 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.65%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.65%) Publishing
11 3 (1.24%) German Language
11 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Automotive
12 2 (0.83%) Front Office
12 2 (0.83%) Marketing
13 1 (0.41%) Advertising
13 1 (0.41%) French Language
Job Titles
1 62 (25.62%) Consultant
2 39 (16.12%) SAP Consultant
3 36 (14.88%) Architect
4 23 (9.50%) Functional Consultant
5 22 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (8.26%) Analyst
7 16 (6.61%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 15 (6.20%) Developer
8 15 (6.20%) Senior
9 12 (4.96%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.13%) Designer
11 9 (3.72%) Coordinator
11 9 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.72%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.72%) Solutions Designer
12 6 (2.48%) Contracts Manager
12 6 (2.48%) Operations Manager
12 6 (2.48%) Oracle Consultant
13 5 (2.07%) Business Manager
13 5 (2.07%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.79%) REST
2 9 (3.72%) SOAP
3 8 (3.31%) BAPI
3 8 (3.31%) Middleware
3 8 (3.31%) PySpark
4 7 (2.89%) JSON
4 7 (2.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.48%) .NET
6 5 (2.07%) ADO
6 5 (2.07%) Great Expectations
7 4 (1.65%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (1.24%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.24%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.24%) Pandas
8 3 (1.24%) Swagger
8 3 (1.24%) Web Services
9 2 (0.83%) Kafka
9 2 (0.83%) React
9 2 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.13%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.72%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.89%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.65%) Smart Meter
4 4 (1.65%) TM Forum
5 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.24%) IoT
5 3 (1.24%) IPTV
5 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.41%) Android
2 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.41%) CentOS
2 1 (0.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (18.18%) CRM
3 36 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (11.98%) Workshop Facilitation
5 25 (10.33%) Accounts Receivable
5 25 (10.33%) Agile
5 25 (10.33%) Validation
6 24 (9.92%) Data Modelling
6 24 (9.92%) Decision-Making
6 24 (9.92%) Order Management
7 23 (9.50%) CI/CD
8 22 (9.09%) ERP
9 21 (8.68%) Process Improvement
9 21 (8.68%) Requirements Gathering
9 21 (8.68%) Revenue Management
10 20 (8.26%) Order to Cash
11 19 (7.85%) Observability
12 18 (7.44%) DevOps
12 18 (7.44%) Migration
12 18 (7.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.57%) SQL
2 15 (6.20%) Python
3 10 (4.13%) PL/SQL
4 9 (3.72%) Java
5 4 (1.65%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.65%) Groovy
6 3 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.24%) PHP
6 3 (1.24%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.83%) Bash
7 2 (0.83%) C#
7 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.83%) VBA
8 1 (0.41%) Bicep
8 1 (0.41%) C++
8 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.41%) Korn
8 1 (0.41%) SOQL
8 1 (0.41%) SOSL
8 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.96%) ACCA
2 12 (4.96%) CIMA
3 11 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.07%) CTC Cleared
5 5 (2.07%) Degree
6 2 (0.83%) AAT
6 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.83%) ECDL
6 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.83%) PMP
7 1 (0.41%) CCA
7 1 (0.41%) CCDP
7 1 (0.41%) CCIE
7 1 (0.41%) CCNP
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.41%) MBA
7 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.31%) GDPR
2 8 (3.31%) SLA
3 4 (1.65%) PMO
4 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.41%) GAAP
5 1 (0.41%) GRC
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.48%) Terraform
2 5 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.65%) Grafana
4 3 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.83%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.41%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.41%) Ansible
6 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.41%) Kibana
6 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 69 (28.51%) SAP
2 29 (11.98%) Oracle
3 28 (11.57%) Salesforce
4 22 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 14 (5.79%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.72%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.89%) Databricks
7 7 (2.89%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.48%) Pega
9 5 (2.07%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.07%) Workday
10 4 (1.65%) Remedy
10 4 (1.65%) Xero
11 3 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.24%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.24%) Google
11 3 (1.24%) IFS
11 3 (1.24%) Spotify
12 2 (0.83%) Ariba
12 2 (0.83%) Dynatrace