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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 342 342
Rank change year-on-year -33 0 +127
Contract jobs citing Billing 219 198 277
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the General category 0.98% 0.95% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 99 155
10th Percentile £324 £302 £238
25th Percentile £438 £403 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £615
90th Percentile £758 £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 11 11 5
10th Percentile - £62.50 £12.76
25th Percentile - £68.13 £13.13
Median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.33% +368.75% +1.33%
75th Percentile £19.10 - £16.71
90th Percentile £35.00 - £44.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £14.63
% change year-on-year -77.33% +412.56% +2.24%

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 22,437 20,742 26,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.08% 61.08% 59.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,022 12,399 17,274
10th Percentile £275 £288 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
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 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,452 710 1,070
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.53 £16.84
Median hourly rate £23.54 £27.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% -17.27% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £70.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.79 £25.99 £30.48
% change year-on-year -16.15% -14.72% +41.74%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -7 187 £550 +4.76% 118
London +20 94 £625 +19.05% 41
UK excluding London -19 90 £463 -13.95% 99
Work from Home -7 81 £621 +37.81% 60
South East +4 56 £475 -7.77% 41
North of England -36 11 £328 -45.29% 19
South West -14 9 £675 +12.50% 15
West Midlands -25 7 £825 +60.19% 11
Midlands -41 7 £825 +54.93% 14
North West -24 6 £750 +50.00% 14
Yorkshire -46 5 £302 -49.75% 5
Scotland +7 4 £373 -3.27% 2
East of England -24 3 £388 -8.82% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £280 -

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 (3.20%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.74%) Appian
2 6 (2.74%) Camunda
3 3 (1.37%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.37%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.91%) Confluence
5 1 (0.46%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.46%) SAP Portal
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (9.59%) SAP PSCD
2 16 (7.31%) SAP BRIM
3 15 (6.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (6.39%) SAP Hybris
5 11 (5.02%) SAP FI-CA
6 9 (4.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (3.65%) SAP FI
8 5 (2.28%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (2.28%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (1.83%) Oracle BRM
10 3 (1.37%) NetSuite
10 3 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.91%) Documaker
11 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.91%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.91%) SAP IS-U
11 2 (0.91%) SAP SD
12 1 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 38 (17.35%) Azure
2 20 (9.13%) Dynamics 365
3 15 (6.85%) AWS
3 15 (6.85%) SaaS
4 14 (6.39%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 13 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.02%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.57%) GitHub
7 10 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (1.83%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.83%) OCI
10 4 (1.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.37%) GCP
11 3 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.37%) Broadband
1 3 (1.37%) GPRS
1 3 (1.37%) GSM
1 3 (1.37%) MVNO
2 2 (0.91%) Firewall
2 2 (0.91%) 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 (4.57%) Power BI
2 6 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.74%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.74%) Parquet
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.91%) Metadata
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.46%) GIS
6 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (5.48%) JIRA
2 2 (0.91%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.91%) 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
1 111 (50.68%) Finance
2 103 (47.03%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 26 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.59%) Telecoms
6 17 (7.76%) Legal
7 11 (5.02%) Law
7 11 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.65%) General Ledger
9 5 (2.28%) Banking
9 5 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.83%) Publishing
10 4 (1.83%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Automotive
11 2 (0.91%) Marketing
11 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.46%) French Language
12 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (25.11%) Consultant
2 30 (13.70%) Architect
3 28 (12.79%) SAP Consultant
4 22 (10.05%) Analyst
5 21 (9.59%) Functional Consultant
5 21 (9.59%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (5.48%) Developer
6 12 (5.48%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 11 (5.02%) Business Analyst
7 11 (5.02%) Senior
8 10 (4.57%) Lead
9 9 (4.11%) Designer
9 9 (4.11%) Solutions Designer
10 7 (3.20%) Salesforce Architect
11 6 (2.74%) Coordinator
11 6 (2.74%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 6 (2.74%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.28%) Data Analyst
12 5 (2.28%) Operations Manager
12 5 (2.28%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.20%) JSON
1 7 (3.20%) Middleware
1 7 (3.20%) PySpark
2 6 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (2.74%) REST
3 5 (2.28%) .NET
3 5 (2.28%) ADO
3 5 (2.28%) Great Expectations
3 5 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.83%) SOAP
5 3 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.37%) GraphQL
5 3 (1.37%) RESTful
5 3 (1.37%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.37%) Web Services
6 2 (0.91%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.91%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.91%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.91%) OpenID
6 2 (0.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.11%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.20%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.20%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.28%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.28%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.28%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.28%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.83%) IoT
4 4 (1.83%) Low-Code
4 4 (1.83%) TM Forum
5 3 (1.37%) IPTV
5 3 (1.37%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.37%) Smart Meter
6 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.91%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.37%) 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 41 (18.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 40 (18.26%) CRM
3 33 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (14.16%) Agile
5 27 (12.33%) Accounts Receivable
6 26 (11.87%) ERP
7 25 (11.42%) Workshop Facilitation
8 22 (10.05%) Order Management
9 21 (9.59%) Migration
9 21 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (8.68%) DevOps
11 17 (7.76%) Process Improvement
11 17 (7.76%) Project Management
11 17 (7.76%) Requirements Gathering
11 17 (7.76%) Validation
12 16 (7.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (7.31%) Revenue Management
13 15 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (6.85%) Change Management
13 15 (6.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.05%) SQL
2 11 (5.02%) Python
3 7 (3.20%) PL/SQL
4 6 (2.74%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.83%) Java
6 3 (1.37%) Groovy
6 3 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.37%) PHP
6 3 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.37%) SOQL
6 3 (1.37%) X++
7 2 (0.91%) Bash
7 2 (0.91%) C#
7 2 (0.91%) SOSL
8 1 (0.46%) ABAP
8 1 (0.46%) Bicep
8 1 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 22 (10.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.57%) ACCA
3 10 (4.57%) CIMA
4 7 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.20%) Degree
5 5 (2.28%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.91%) AAT
6 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.91%) ECDL
6 2 (0.91%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.91%) PMP
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.46%) CCDE
7 1 (0.46%) CCDP
7 1 (0.46%) CCIE
7 1 (0.46%) CCNP
7 1 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.02%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.65%) GDPR
3 3 (1.37%) QA
4 2 (0.91%) PMO
4 2 (0.91%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) GRC
5 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.37%) Terraform
3 2 (0.91%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.91%) VxRail
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.46%) Kibana
Vendors
1 53 (24.20%) SAP
2 30 (13.70%) Oracle
3 28 (12.79%) Salesforce
4 26 (11.87%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.65%) MuleSoft
6 7 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.74%) Databricks
7 6 (2.74%) Pega
8 5 (2.28%) Workday
9 4 (1.83%) Xero
10 3 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.37%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.37%) IFS
10 3 (1.37%) Spotify
10 3 (1.37%) VMware
11 2 (0.91%) Ariba
11 2 (0.91%) Conga
11 2 (0.91%) Google
11 2 (0.91%) HP
12 1 (0.46%) Aruba