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 6 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 349 356
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +119
Contract jobs citing Billing 222 185 245
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the General category 1.00% 0.94% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 96 128
10th Percentile £363 £266 £238
25th Percentile £454 £406 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +5.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £603 £591
90th Percentile £750 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £538 £518
% change year-on-year -13.95% +3.76% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 7
10th Percentile £16.95 £52.45 £11.70
25th Percentile - £65.31 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.00 £72.50 £13.27
Median % change year-on-year -76.55% +446.55% -15.99%
75th Percentile £17.50 £75.00 £16.36
90th Percentile £21.98 - £35.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £72.50 £13.14
% change year-on-year -76.55% +451.86% -8.21%

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 22,294 19,786 25,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 60.41% 61.47% 59.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,016 11,791 16,573
10th Percentile £284 £285 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.31% -1.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,375 671 1,110
10th Percentile £13.84 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.53 £19.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -14.91% +29.28%
75th Percentile £46.00 £53.75 £58.36
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.42 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.72% -11.94% +33.33%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -7 191 £550 +4.76% 214
London +18 96 £625 +19.05% 75
UK excluding London -48 88 £463 -13.95% 157
Work from Home +3 85 £600 +33.19% 102
South East +4 56 £475 -7.77% 56
North of England -47 11 £328 -45.29% 35
South West -7 7 £675 +12.50% 17
West Midlands -33 7 £825 +60.19% 7
Midlands -46 7 £825 +54.93% 18
North West -23 6 £750 +50.00% 18
Yorkshire -54 5 £302 -49.75% 11
Scotland +5 4 £373 -3.27% 3
East of England -18 3 £388 -8.82% 24
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £280 - 5

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 (3.15%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.70%) Appian
2 6 (2.70%) Camunda
3 3 (1.35%) Apache
3 3 (1.35%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.35%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 17 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (9.46%) SAP PSCD
2 16 (7.21%) SAP BRIM
2 16 (7.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (6.31%) SAP Hybris
4 11 (4.95%) SAP FI-CA
5 8 (3.60%) SAP FI
6 5 (2.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (1.80%) Oracle BRM
7 4 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (1.80%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
8 3 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (1.35%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.90%) Documaker
9 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.90%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.90%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.45%) Cloudability
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.67%) Azure
2 20 (9.01%) Dynamics 365
3 16 (7.21%) SaaS
4 15 (6.76%) AWS
5 14 (6.31%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 12 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.95%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.05%) GitHub
8 9 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (3.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.25%) GCP
10 5 (2.25%) OCI
10 5 (2.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (1.80%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) Broadband
1 3 (1.35%) GPRS
1 3 (1.35%) GSM
1 3 (1.35%) MVNO
2 2 (0.90%) Firewall
2 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.45%) LAN
3 1 (0.45%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.50%) Power BI
2 6 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.70%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.70%) Parquet
3 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.90%) Metadata
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.45%) GIS
5 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (5.86%) JIRA
2 3 (1.35%) Git
3 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.45%) Hudson
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.45%) Postman
4 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 108 (48.65%) Finance
2 103 (46.40%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.36%) Telecoms
6 17 (7.66%) Legal
7 11 (4.95%) Law
8 8 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.15%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.25%) Banking
10 5 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.80%) Publishing
11 4 (1.80%) Retail
12 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Automotive
13 2 (0.90%) Front Office
13 2 (0.90%) Marketing
13 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.45%) French Language
Job Titles
1 57 (25.68%) Consultant
2 29 (13.06%) Architect
2 29 (13.06%) SAP Consultant
3 22 (9.91%) Analyst
4 21 (9.46%) Functional Consultant
4 21 (9.46%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (6.31%) Developer
6 12 (5.41%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 11 (4.95%) Business Analyst
8 10 (4.50%) Senior
9 9 (4.05%) Designer
9 9 (4.05%) Lead
9 9 (4.05%) Solutions Designer
10 8 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.60%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.15%) Salesforce Architect
12 6 (2.70%) Coordinator
12 6 (2.70%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 6 (2.70%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.70%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.05%) REST
2 7 (3.15%) JSON
2 7 (3.15%) Middleware
2 7 (3.15%) PySpark
2 7 (3.15%) SOAP
3 5 (2.25%) .NET
3 5 (2.25%) ADO
3 5 (2.25%) Great Expectations
3 5 (2.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.25%) Web Services
4 3 (1.35%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.35%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.35%) RESTful
4 3 (1.35%) Visualforce
5 2 (0.90%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.90%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.90%) OpenAPI
5 2 (0.90%) OpenID
5 2 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.50%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.25%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.80%) IoT
6 4 (1.80%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.80%) TM Forum
7 3 (1.35%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.35%) IPTV
7 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) Smart Meter
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.35%) Unix
2 1 (0.45%) CentOS
2 1 (0.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 39 (17.57%) CRM
3 30 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (13.06%) Agile
5 25 (11.26%) Workshop Facilitation
6 24 (10.81%) ERP
6 24 (10.81%) Order Management
7 21 (9.46%) Accounts Receivable
7 21 (9.46%) CI/CD
7 21 (9.46%) Validation
8 20 (9.01%) Migration
8 20 (9.01%) Project Management
8 20 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (8.11%) Cost Management
9 18 (8.11%) DevOps
9 18 (8.11%) Process Improvement
10 17 (7.66%) Data Modelling
10 17 (7.66%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (7.21%) Revenue Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.81%) SQL
2 11 (4.95%) Python
3 7 (3.15%) Java
4 6 (2.70%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.25%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.35%) Groovy
6 3 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.35%) PHP
6 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.35%) SOQL
6 3 (1.35%) X++
7 2 (0.90%) Bash
7 2 (0.90%) C#
7 2 (0.90%) SOSL
8 1 (0.45%) ABAP
8 1 (0.45%) Bicep
8 1 (0.45%) Korn
8 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (9.46%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.41%) ACCA
2 12 (5.41%) CIMA
2 12 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.05%) Degree
4 7 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.25%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.90%) AAT
6 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.90%) ECDL
6 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.90%) PMP
7 1 (0.45%) CCA
7 1 (0.45%) CCDE
7 1 (0.45%) CCDP
7 1 (0.45%) CCIE
7 1 (0.45%) CCNP
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.60%) GDPR
3 3 (1.35%) QA
4 2 (0.90%) PMO
5 1 (0.45%) GRC
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.25%) Terraform
3 3 (1.35%) Grafana
4 2 (0.90%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 54 (24.32%) SAP
2 28 (12.61%) Salesforce
3 27 (12.16%) Oracle
4 25 (11.26%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.15%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.70%) Databricks
7 6 (2.70%) Guidewire
7 6 (2.70%) Pega
8 5 (2.25%) Workday
9 4 (1.80%) Google
9 4 (1.80%) Xero
10 3 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.35%) IFS
10 3 (1.35%) Spotify
11 2 (0.90%) Ariba
11 2 (0.90%) Conga
11 2 (0.90%) HP
12 1 (0.45%) Dell
12 1 (0.45%) Ericsson