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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 355 376
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 +100
Contract jobs citing Billing 259 167 207
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.92% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 100 129
10th Percentile £386 £346 £249
25th Percentile £463 £387 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -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 8 5 11
10th Percentile £13.41 £27.65 £13.00
25th Percentile £13.70 £39.25 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £70.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.71% +366.67% -76.00%
75th Percentile £34.50 £75.00 £15.75
90th Percentile £42.38 £76.50 £16.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £70.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year -65.71% +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 26,189 18,092 24,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.74% 63.32% 57.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,889 11,502 15,553
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,728 774 1,959
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.64 £15.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -8.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.63 £24.22 £28.00
% change year-on-year +18.19% -13.50% +1.08%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -71 205 £545 +21.11% 241
London -17 117 £625 +38.27% 111
Work from Home +3 101 £525 +9.38% 102
UK excluding London -105 79 £470 +10.59% 162
South East -55 39 £470 - 55
Midlands -56 17 £500 +58.73% 27
North of England -65 14 £447 -8.59% 45
West Midlands -52 12 £500 +58.73% 17
North West -40 8 £447 -8.59% 27
East of England -28 7 £631 +80.36% 8
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 12
Scotland +3 4 £500 +29.67% 8
East Midlands - 4 £550 - 10
South West -44 3 £475 +11.76% 13
Wales -16 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 (2.70%) Apache
2 4 (1.54%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.77%) Appian
4 2 (0.77%) Camunda
5 1 (0.39%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 20 (7.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 41 (15.83%) SAP BRIM
1 41 (15.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (11.58%) SAP PSCD
3 29 (11.20%) SAP FI
4 26 (10.04%) SAP FI-CA
5 17 (6.56%) SAP SD
6 11 (4.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (3.47%) SAP Hybris
8 7 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (1.93%) NetSuite
9 5 (1.93%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (1.93%) SAP Convergent Charging
10 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
10 4 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (1.54%) SAP ERP
11 3 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (1.16%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (1.16%) SAP CO
11 3 (1.16%) SAP FI/CO
12 2 (0.77%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.27%) Azure
2 19 (7.34%) AWS
3 15 (5.79%) SaaS
4 13 (5.02%) GCP
5 12 (4.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 10 (3.86%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 6 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 6 (2.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.93%) OCI
8 5 (1.93%) Serverless
9 3 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.16%) Boomi
9 3 (1.16%) Google Docs
9 3 (1.16%) Google Sheets
9 3 (1.16%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.32%) WAN
2 4 (1.54%) HTTP
2 4 (1.54%) Internet
3 3 (1.16%) MPLS
3 3 (1.16%) Network Security
3 3 (1.16%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.16%) Wireless
4 2 (0.77%) 5G
4 2 (0.77%) LAN
4 2 (0.77%) 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 7 (2.70%) Power BI
2 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.77%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.77%) Flink
4 2 (0.77%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.77%) Metadata
4 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.77%) MySQL
4 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.77%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (5.79%) JIRA
2 11 (4.25%) Git
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.77%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 124 (47.88%) Finance
2 80 (30.89%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.67%) Telecoms
4 30 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.86%) Banking
6 10 (3.86%) Legal
7 7 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.93%) Back Office
9 5 (1.93%) Law
10 4 (1.54%) Publishing
11 3 (1.16%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.16%) German Language
11 3 (1.16%) Marketing
12 2 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (23.55%) Consultant
2 50 (19.31%) Architect
3 46 (17.76%) SAP Consultant
4 28 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (9.65%) Analyst
6 21 (8.11%) Functional Consultant
7 16 (6.18%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 14 (5.41%) Business Analyst
8 14 (5.41%) Senior
9 13 (5.02%) Developer
9 13 (5.02%) Lead
10 10 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.32%) Contracts Manager
12 6 (2.32%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.32%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.32%) SAP Architect
13 5 (1.93%) Coordinator
13 5 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
13 5 (1.93%) SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.49%) BAPI
2 18 (6.95%) REST
3 9 (3.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.09%) Middleware
4 8 (3.09%) OpenAPI
4 8 (3.09%) SOAP
4 8 (3.09%) Swagger
5 7 (2.70%) .NET
6 6 (2.32%) JSON
7 5 (1.93%) Web Services
8 4 (1.54%) EDI
8 4 (1.54%) Kafka
8 4 (1.54%) RAML
8 4 (1.54%) XML
9 3 (1.16%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.16%) gRPC
9 3 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.77%) IDoc
10 2 (0.77%) Next.js
10 2 (0.77%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (5.02%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.32%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.32%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.93%) Life Science
7 4 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.16%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.16%) TM Forum
9 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.77%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.54%) Android
2 2 (0.77%) 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 60 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (13.90%) ERP
3 35 (13.51%) CRM
4 33 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (11.97%) Decision-Making
6 30 (11.58%) Order to Cash
7 29 (11.20%) Migration
8 27 (10.42%) Order Management
9 26 (10.04%) Agile
9 26 (10.04%) Data Modelling
10 25 (9.65%) Validation
11 22 (8.49%) Roadmaps
11 22 (8.49%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (8.11%) Workshop Facilitation
13 20 (7.72%) CI/CD
14 19 (7.34%) Convergent Charging
14 19 (7.34%) Project Management
14 19 (7.34%) Revenue Management
15 18 (6.95%) Cost Management
16 17 (6.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.65%) SQL
2 13 (5.02%) Python
3 10 (3.86%) Java
4 4 (1.54%) DataWeave
4 4 (1.54%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.16%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.16%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.16%) X++
6 2 (0.77%) ABAP
6 2 (0.77%) C#
6 2 (0.77%) C++
6 2 (0.77%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.77%) VBA
7 1 (0.39%) Bash
7 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.39%) Go
7 1 (0.39%) Groovy
7 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.39%) R
7 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 21 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (3.86%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.09%) ACCA
4 7 (2.70%) CIMA
5 4 (1.54%) Degree
6 3 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.77%) 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 11 (4.25%) SLA
2 10 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.70%) GDPR
4 5 (1.93%) PMO
4 5 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.54%) IFRS
6 3 (1.16%) GxP
7 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.77%) GAAP
7 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.77%) QA
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (1.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.93%) Grafana
2 5 (1.93%) Prometheus
2 5 (1.93%) Terraform
3 2 (0.77%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.77%) SCCM
4 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 93 (35.91%) SAP
2 34 (13.13%) Oracle
2 34 (13.13%) Salesforce
3 29 (11.20%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.18%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.25%) Guidewire
6 9 (3.47%) Google
7 8 (3.09%) Ariba
8 5 (1.93%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (1.54%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.54%) Remedy
10 3 (1.16%) Apple
10 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.16%) Computacenter
10 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.77%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.77%) Ciena
11 2 (0.77%) Conga
11 2 (0.77%) Nokia
11 2 (0.77%) Pega