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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 363 350
Rank change year-on-year -7 -13 +64
Contract jobs citing Billing 200 202 301
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.54% 0.63%
As % of the General category 0.95% 0.92% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 116 170
10th Percentile £350 £228 £243
25th Percentile £413 £390 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -2.27% +9.05%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £710 £670 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £508 £518
% change year-on-year -11.33% -2.03% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 2
10th Percentile £16.85 - £29.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.50 £54.85
Median hourly rate £18.72 £32.00 £96.63
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -66.88% +544.22%
75th Percentile £37.06 £74.69 £138.35
90th Percentile £59.38 £75.00 £163.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £21.50 £13.27
% change year-on-year -20.93% +62.08% -2.64%

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 21,036 22,017 28,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.18% 58.75% 59.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,108 12,987 19,191
10th Percentile £275 £281 £300
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £665
90th Percentile £738 £763 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,263 902 1,086
10th Percentile £13.60 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.02 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +7.17% +19.44%
75th Percentile £43.75 £59.99 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £71.50 £71.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.27 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -29.10% +11.11% +26.23%

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 17 October 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 17 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing
Top 14 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 17 October 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 +8 173 £500 -2.44% 322
London +40 101 £550 +12.82% 143
Work from Home +13 71 £500 -1.48% 197
UK excluding London -38 69 £450 -11.33% 237
South East +8 33 £480 -6.80% 106
South West +24 14 £425 -29.17% 21
North of England -34 10 £351 -29.90% 72
Yorkshire -27 6 £306 -49.00% 19
West Midlands -31 5 £825 +83.33% 11
Midlands -42 5 £825 +50.00% 14
East of England -2 4 £350 -17.65% 15
North West -21 4 £750 +50.00% 49
Northern Ireland -5 2 £500 +376.19% 3
Scotland +7 1 £240 - 4

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 3 (1.50%) Camunda
1 3 (1.50%) NServiceBus
1 3 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (1.50%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.00%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Appian
3 1 (0.50%) CICS
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.50%) SAP Portal
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (8.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.00%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (9.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (7.00%) SAP PSCD
3 13 (6.50%) SAP FI
4 10 (5.00%) SAP BRIM
5 9 (4.50%) SAP FI-CA
6 8 (4.00%) SAP Hybris
7 7 (3.50%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (3.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (3.00%) Oracle EBS R12
8 6 (3.00%) SAP CO
8 6 (3.00%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (3.00%) SAP PS
9 4 (2.00%) NetSuite
9 4 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (2.00%) SAP IS-U
9 4 (2.00%) SAP MDG
10 2 (1.00%) Cloudability
10 2 (1.00%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (1.00%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.50%) Azure
2 19 (9.50%) Dynamics 365
3 15 (7.50%) SaaS
4 11 (5.50%) AWS
4 11 (5.50%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 5 (2.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 5 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (2.00%) OCI
9 3 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.00%) GitHub
10 2 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.00%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.00%) PaaS
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) 5G
2 3 (1.50%) MVNO
3 2 (1.00%) Broadband
3 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.00%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) GPRS
4 1 (0.50%) GSM
4 1 (0.50%) MPLS
4 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.00%) Power BI
2 4 (2.00%) Metadata
2 4 (2.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.50%) Easytrieve
4 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.50%) GIS
4 1 (0.50%) MySQL
4 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.50%) Redis
4 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.00%) JIRA
2 4 (2.00%) Selenium
3 2 (1.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.50%) Hudson
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 107 (53.50%) Finance
2 90 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.50%) Telecoms
5 19 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.50%) Legal
7 9 (4.50%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.00%) General Ledger
9 7 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.50%) Law
11 3 (1.50%) Local Government
11 3 (1.50%) Publishing
12 2 (1.00%) Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Marketing
12 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.50%) French Language
13 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (24.50%) Consultant
2 31 (15.50%) Analyst
3 26 (13.00%) Architect
4 25 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
5 17 (8.50%) Business Analyst
5 17 (8.50%) Functional Consultant
5 17 (8.50%) Project Manager
6 15 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (6.00%) Lead
8 10 (5.00%) Developer
9 9 (4.50%) Junior
10 8 (4.00%) Salesforce Architect
10 8 (4.00%) SAP Functional Consultant
11 7 (3.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 7 (3.50%) SC Cleared Project Manager
11 7 (3.50%) Senior
12 6 (3.00%) Data Analyst
13 5 (2.50%) Business Manager
13 5 (2.50%) Operations Manager
13 5 (2.50%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (3.00%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (2.50%) ADO
3 5 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.50%) Visualforce
4 4 (2.00%) SOAP
5 3 (1.50%) .NET
5 3 (1.50%) Middleware
5 3 (1.50%) REST
5 3 (1.50%) Web Services
6 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.50%) ATL
6 1 (0.50%) EDI
6 1 (0.50%) Playwright
6 1 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.50%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.50%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.00%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.00%) CMDB
5 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.00%) IoT
5 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.00%) TM Forum
6 1 (0.50%) CUDA
6 1 (0.50%) IPTV
6 1 (0.50%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.50%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) CentOS
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (19.00%) Agile
2 36 (18.00%) CRM
3 32 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (15.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 31 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (13.00%) Project Management
6 25 (12.50%) ERP
6 25 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 24 (12.00%) Accounts Receivable
7 24 (12.00%) Migration
8 20 (10.00%) Customer Service
9 18 (9.00%) Budgeting
9 18 (9.00%) Workshop Facilitation
10 17 (8.50%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (8.50%) Order Management
11 16 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
12 15 (7.50%) DevOps
12 15 (7.50%) PRINCE2
12 15 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
13 14 (7.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.00%) SQL
2 8 (4.00%) Apex Code
3 5 (2.50%) Java
3 5 (2.50%) PL/SQL
4 4 (2.00%) SOQL
5 3 (1.50%) Groovy
5 3 (1.50%) SOSL
5 3 (1.50%) X++
6 1 (0.50%) ABAP
6 1 (0.50%) Bicep
6 1 (0.50%) COBOL
6 1 (0.50%) JCL
6 1 (0.50%) Korn
6 1 (0.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.00%) Degree
4 7 (3.50%) ACCA
4 7 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.50%) CIMA
5 5 (2.50%) PMP
6 4 (2.00%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.50%) IFRS
3 3 (1.50%) GDPR
4 2 (1.00%) PMO
4 2 (1.00%) QA
5 1 (0.50%) GRC
5 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.00%) Amdocs OSS
1 4 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.00%) VxRail
3 1 (0.50%) Ansible
3 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.50%) Grafana
3 1 (0.50%) Kibana
3 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (27.00%) SAP
2 28 (14.00%) Oracle
3 27 (13.50%) Salesforce
4 26 (13.00%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.00%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.50%) Ericsson
6 5 (2.50%) Guidewire
6 5 (2.50%) IFS
7 4 (2.00%) Amdocs
7 4 (2.00%) Ciena
7 4 (2.00%) NetCracker
7 4 (2.00%) Nokia
8 3 (1.50%) Conga
8 3 (1.50%) Google
8 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.50%) Xero
9 2 (1.00%) Ariba
9 2 (1.00%) IBM
9 2 (1.00%) VMware
10 1 (0.50%) BT