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 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 358 350
Rank change year-on-year -22 -8 +81
Contract jobs citing Billing 218 205 296
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.56% 0.64%
As % of the General category 0.98% 0.94% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 106 161
10th Percentile £353 £253 £238
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.35% +4.12%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £638
90th Percentile £753 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -10.57% +1.35% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 3
10th Percentile - £41.25 £12.63
25th Percentile - £64.38 £12.82
Median hourly rate £17.00 £72.50 £13.27
Median % change year-on-year -76.55% +446.55% -15.99%
75th Percentile £30.25 £75.00 £38.63
90th Percentile £53.00 - £53.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £73.75 £13.14
% change year-on-year -76.95% +461.37% -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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,315 21,727 27,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.77% 59.38% 59.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,958 12,818 18,329
10th Percentile £272 £293 £281
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,459 818 1,120
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.89 £17.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £29.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.93% -9.38% +28.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £58.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.25 £71.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £27.06 £29.83
% change year-on-year -18.19% -9.26% +32.56%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 -22 181 £550 +4.76% 166
London +15 97 £600 +14.29% 65
Work from Home +18 85 £626 +25.20% 100
UK excluding London -39 85 £470 -10.57% 134
South East +10 50 £470 -8.74% 63
North of England -38 12 £351 -41.58% 27
South West +8 10 £675 +12.50% 6
North West -17 6 £750 +50.00% 16
Yorkshire -34 6 £306 -49.00% 10
Scotland +6 4 £373 - 5
West Midlands -20 4 £825 +73.68% 10
Midlands -45 4 £825 +60.19% 16
Northern Ireland -3 2 £500 +376.19% 3
East of England -16 2 £500 +17.65% 6
Wales - 1 £280 - 8

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 4 (1.83%) Appian
1 4 (1.83%) Camunda
1 4 (1.83%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.38%) NServiceBus
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.38%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) CICS
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.46%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (7.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (8.72%) SAP PSCD
2 16 (7.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (6.88%) SAP BRIM
4 13 (5.96%) SAP Hybris
5 10 (4.59%) SAP FI
5 10 (4.59%) SAP FI-CA
6 9 (4.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (3.67%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (3.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (2.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (1.83%) Oracle BRM
10 4 (1.83%) SAP CO
10 4 (1.83%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (1.83%) SAP IS-U
11 3 (1.38%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (1.38%) SAP PS
12 2 (0.92%) Documaker
12 2 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
12 2 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 35 (16.06%) Azure
2 19 (8.72%) Dynamics 365
3 17 (7.80%) SaaS
4 14 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 12 (5.50%) AWS
7 11 (5.05%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.59%) GitHub
8 10 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (1.83%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.83%) OCI
11 4 (1.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.38%) PaaS
13 2 (0.92%) GCP
13 2 (0.92%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.38%) Broadband
1 3 (1.38%) GPRS
1 3 (1.38%) GSM
1 3 (1.38%) MVNO
2 2 (0.92%) Firewall
2 2 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.46%) LAN
3 1 (0.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.59%) Power BI
2 6 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.75%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.75%) Parquet
3 5 (2.29%) Metadata
4 4 (1.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.46%) Easytrieve
7 1 (0.46%) GIS
7 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (6.88%) JIRA
2 2 (0.92%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.92%) Selenium
3 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.46%) Hudson
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 113 (51.83%) Finance
2 109 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.72%) Telecoms
6 16 (7.34%) Legal
7 13 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (4.13%) General Ledger
9 8 (3.67%) Law
10 7 (3.21%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.29%) Banking
11 5 (2.29%) Retail
12 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.83%) Publishing
13 2 (0.92%) Automotive
13 2 (0.92%) Marketing
13 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.46%) French Language
14 1 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (26.15%) Consultant
2 29 (13.30%) SAP Consultant
3 27 (12.39%) Analyst
4 26 (11.93%) Architect
5 20 (9.17%) Functional Consultant
6 17 (7.80%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (6.88%) Business Analyst
8 13 (5.96%) Developer
9 11 (5.05%) Lead
9 11 (5.05%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 11 (5.05%) Senior
10 9 (4.13%) Salesforce Architect
11 7 (3.21%) Designer
11 7 (3.21%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 7 (3.21%) Solutions Designer
12 6 (2.75%) Coordinator
12 6 (2.75%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.75%) Project Manager
13 5 (2.29%) Business Manager
13 5 (2.29%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.13%) Lightning Web Components
2 7 (3.21%) PySpark
3 6 (2.75%) Visualforce
4 5 (2.29%) .NET
4 5 (2.29%) ADO
4 5 (2.29%) Great Expectations
4 5 (2.29%) JSON
4 5 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.29%) REST
5 4 (1.83%) Middleware
5 4 (1.83%) SOAP
6 3 (1.38%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.38%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.38%) Web Services
7 2 (0.92%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.92%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.92%) OAuth
7 2 (0.92%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.92%) OpenID
7 2 (0.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.21%) Cloud Native
1 7 (3.21%) Mainframe
1 7 (3.21%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.75%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.29%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.29%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.83%) IoT
4 4 (1.83%) Low-Code
4 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.38%) IPTV
6 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.92%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.38%) Unix
2 1 (0.46%) CentOS
2 1 (0.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (17.43%) CRM
2 37 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (15.14%) Agile
5 26 (11.93%) Migration
5 26 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (11.93%) Workshop Facilitation
6 25 (11.47%) Accounts Receivable
7 24 (11.01%) ERP
8 22 (10.09%) Validation
9 20 (9.17%) Customer Service
10 19 (8.72%) Change Management
10 19 (8.72%) DevOps
10 19 (8.72%) Project Management
10 19 (8.72%) Requirements Gathering
11 17 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (7.80%) Order Management
11 17 (7.80%) Revenue Management
12 16 (7.34%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.55%) SQL
2 9 (4.13%) Apex Code
2 9 (4.13%) Python
3 7 (3.21%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.29%) Java
4 5 (2.29%) SOQL
5 4 (1.83%) SOSL
6 3 (1.38%) Groovy
6 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.38%) PHP
6 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.38%) X++
7 2 (0.92%) Bash
7 2 (0.92%) C#
8 1 (0.46%) ABAP
8 1 (0.46%) Bicep
8 1 (0.46%) COBOL
8 1 (0.46%) JCL
8 1 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 20 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.59%) Degree
4 9 (4.13%) ACCA
4 9 (4.13%) CIMA
5 7 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.29%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.92%) AAT
7 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.92%) ECDL
7 2 (0.92%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.92%) PMP
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) CCDE
8 1 (0.46%) CCIE
8 1 (0.46%) CCNP
8 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.75%) GDPR
3 3 (1.38%) QA
4 2 (0.92%) IFRS
5 1 (0.46%) GRC
5 1 (0.46%) PMO
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.38%) Terraform
2 2 (0.92%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.92%) VxRail
3 1 (0.46%) Ansible
3 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.46%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Kibana
Vendors
1 55 (25.23%) SAP
2 32 (14.68%) Oracle
3 27 (12.39%) Salesforce
4 26 (11.93%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.67%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.75%) Databricks
7 5 (2.29%) IFS
7 5 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.29%) Workday
8 4 (1.83%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.83%) Pega
8 4 (1.83%) Xero
9 3 (1.38%) Ariba
9 3 (1.38%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.38%) Spotify
10 2 (0.92%) Conga
10 2 (0.92%) Google
10 2 (0.92%) HP
10 2 (0.92%) VMware
11 1 (0.46%) Aruba