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 25 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 344 367
Rank change year-on-year -50 +23 +113
Contract jobs citing Billing 243 185 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.63% 0.50%
As % of the General category 0.95% 0.99% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 98 128
10th Percentile £356 £263 £243
25th Percentile £450 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -4.76%
75th Percentile £671 £561 £627
90th Percentile £833 £675 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £470 £508
% change year-on-year -2.45% -7.39% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 8
10th Percentile - £29.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £50.88 £14.88
Median hourly rate £28.13 £70.00 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +344.44% -74.80%
75th Percentile £36.84 £75.00 £23.72
90th Percentile £42.38 - £50.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -59.82% +351.61% -65.56%

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 25,523 18,645 25,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.74% 63.17% 58.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,795 11,922 16,091
10th Percentile £305 £300 £270
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,617 795 1,928
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.13 £15.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.00 £28.42
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -1.48% -18.80%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% -6.85% -13.66%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -65 196 £500 +2.56% 175
London -34 99 £600 +23.08% 94
Work from Home +9 96 £545 +11.79% 110
UK excluding London -87 88 £458 -2.45% 111
South East -56 54 £469 -2.29% 49
North of England -63 14 £447 -8.59% 29
Midlands -49 11 £372 +17.94% 8
West Midlands -50 9 £475 +50.79% 6
East of England -39 8 £631 +14.77% 13
North West -39 8 £447 -8.59% 18
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 7
Scotland +10 4 £391 +1.40% 2
South West -56 2 £418 -1.76% 10
Wales -8 1 £475 -13.64% 2
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 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 5 (2.06%) Apache
1 5 (2.06%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.65%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.65%) Appian
2 4 (1.65%) Camunda
2 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 30 (12.35%) SAP PSCD
2 27 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 25 (10.29%) SAP BRIM
4 22 (9.05%) SAP FI
5 19 (7.82%) SAP FI-CA
6 12 (4.94%) SAP Hybris
7 11 (4.53%) SAP SD
8 9 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (3.70%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (1.23%) NetSuite
10 3 (1.23%) SAP CO
10 3 (1.23%) SAP ERP
10 3 (1.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle BRM
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.82%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.76%) Azure
2 20 (8.23%) AWS
3 13 (5.35%) GCP
3 13 (5.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 12 (4.94%) SaaS
5 10 (4.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.29%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 6 (2.47%) Serverless
9 5 (2.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.65%) OCI
11 3 (1.23%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.23%) Figma
11 3 (1.23%) GitHub
11 3 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.23%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.88%) WAN
2 4 (1.65%) HTTP
2 4 (1.65%) Internet
3 3 (1.23%) LAN
3 3 (1.23%) MPLS
3 3 (1.23%) Network Security
3 3 (1.23%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.23%) Wireless
4 2 (0.82%) Broadband
4 2 (0.82%) GPRS
4 2 (0.82%) GSM
4 2 (0.82%) NaaS
5 1 (0.41%) 4G
5 1 (0.41%) 5G
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.41%) OSPF
5 1 (0.41%) SMS
5 1 (0.41%) SSL
5 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.47%) Power BI
2 4 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.23%) Metadata
4 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.82%) Flink
4 2 (0.82%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.82%) MySQL
4 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.82%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (6.58%) JIRA
2 9 (3.70%) Git
3 3 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.82%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 117 (48.15%) Finance
2 82 (33.74%) Social Skills
3 40 (16.46%) Telecoms
4 33 (13.58%) Public Sector
5 28 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.94%) Banking
6 12 (4.94%) Legal
7 9 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.47%) Law
8 6 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.06%) Retail
10 4 (1.65%) Back Office
10 4 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.65%) Publishing
11 3 (1.23%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.23%) German Language
11 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.82%) Automotive
12 2 (0.82%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 60 (24.69%) Consultant
2 40 (16.46%) Architect
3 38 (15.64%) SAP Consultant
4 22 (9.05%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (8.23%) Analyst
6 18 (7.41%) Functional Consultant
7 17 (7.00%) Senior
8 13 (5.35%) Developer
8 13 (5.35%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 9 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.29%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.29%) Coordinator
11 7 (2.88%) Contracts Manager
11 7 (2.88%) Designer
11 7 (2.88%) Lead
11 7 (2.88%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.47%) Cloud Consultant
12 6 (2.47%) Product Manager
12 6 (2.47%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.41%) REST
2 15 (6.17%) BAPI
3 9 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.29%) .NET
4 8 (3.29%) OpenAPI
4 8 (3.29%) Swagger
5 7 (2.88%) Middleware
6 6 (2.47%) JSON
6 6 (2.47%) SOAP
7 5 (2.06%) GraphQL
7 5 (2.06%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.65%) Kafka
8 4 (1.65%) RAML
8 4 (1.65%) Web Services
8 4 (1.65%) XML
9 3 (1.23%) EDI
9 3 (1.23%) gRPC
9 3 (1.23%) Pandas
10 2 (0.82%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.35%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.88%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.06%) Life Science
7 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.65%) TM Forum
7 4 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.23%) IoT
8 3 (1.23%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.23%) Unix
2 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) HPUX
3 1 (0.41%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 37 (15.23%) CRM
3 36 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (12.76%) Decision-Making
5 30 (12.35%) ERP
6 28 (11.52%) Order to Cash
7 27 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 26 (10.70%) Agile
9 25 (10.29%) Validation
10 24 (9.88%) Migration
10 24 (9.88%) Workshop Facilitation
11 21 (8.64%) CI/CD
11 21 (8.64%) Cost Management
12 19 (7.82%) Order Management
12 19 (7.82%) Roadmaps
12 19 (7.82%) User Acceptance Testing
13 18 (7.41%) Observability
13 18 (7.41%) Process Improvement
14 17 (7.00%) Data Migration
14 17 (7.00%) Revenue Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.05%) SQL
2 18 (7.41%) Python
3 11 (4.53%) Java
4 6 (2.47%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.06%) Apex Code
5 5 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.65%) C#
6 4 (1.65%) DataWeave
6 4 (1.65%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.23%) Bash
7 3 (1.23%) PHP
7 3 (1.23%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.82%) C++
8 2 (0.82%) VBA
8 2 (0.82%) X++
9 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.41%) Groovy
9 1 (0.41%) R
9 1 (0.41%) SOQL
9 1 (0.41%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 13 (5.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.70%) ACCA
4 8 (3.29%) CIMA
5 4 (1.65%) Degree
6 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.82%) AAT
7 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.82%) ECDL
8 1 (0.41%) CCA
8 1 (0.41%) CCDE
8 1 (0.41%) CCDP
8 1 (0.41%) CCIE
8 1 (0.41%) CCNP
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.70%) GDPR
2 9 (3.70%) SLA
3 6 (2.47%) PMO
4 3 (1.23%) GxP
4 3 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.82%) GAAP
5 2 (0.82%) IFRS
5 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.47%) Terraform
2 5 (2.06%) Grafana
2 5 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.06%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.82%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.82%) SCCM
4 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 67 (27.57%) SAP
2 35 (14.40%) Oracle
3 29 (11.93%) Salesforce
4 26 (10.70%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.17%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.70%) Guidewire
7 8 (3.29%) Google
8 6 (2.47%) Ariba
9 5 (2.06%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.06%) Workday
10 4 (1.65%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.65%) Pega
10 4 (1.65%) Remedy
11 3 (1.23%) Apple
11 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.23%) Spotify
12 2 (0.82%) Amdocs
12 2 (0.82%) Ciena