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 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 340 377
Rank change year-on-year -52 +37 +102
Contract jobs citing Billing 236 192 218
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the General category 0.93% 1.03% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 104 126
10th Percentile £320 £274 £300
25th Percentile £450 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £506
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -1.73% -3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £552 £627
90th Percentile £837 £650 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £489 £515
% change year-on-year -6.75% -5.05% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 8
10th Percentile - £29.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £50.88 £14.88
Median hourly rate £25.00 £70.00 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% +344.44% -65.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £75.00 £23.72
90th Percentile £42.38 - £50.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -64.29% +351.61% -45.61%

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 25,419 18,596 25,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.12% 63.19% 58.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,754 11,902 16,136
10th Percentile £305 £296 £270
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,600 775 1,917
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.34 £18.17 £15.39
Median hourly rate £27.80 £28.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +4.00% -21.43%
75th Percentile £59.50 £56.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £26.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -5.09% +1.92% -14.75%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -83 190 £500 +2.25% 216
Work from Home -13 95 £550 +12.82% 105
London -24 92 £575 +17.95% 125
UK excluding London -92 88 £456 -6.75% 120
South East -34 56 £469 -6.90% 53
North of England -62 14 £447 -8.59% 33
Midlands -60 10 £372 -27.86% 11
West Midlands -59 9 £475 -7.77% 9
North West -46 8 £447 -8.59% 22
East of England -34 6 £613 +11.36% 9
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 8
Scotland +5 4 £391 +1.40% 2
Wales -6 2 £378 -31.36% 5
South West -41 2 £418 -1.76% 9
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 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 5 (2.12%) Apache
1 5 (2.12%) Appian
1 5 (2.12%) Camunda
1 5 (2.12%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (8.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 29 (12.29%) SAP PSCD
2 24 (10.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (8.47%) SAP BRIM
3 20 (8.47%) SAP FI
4 18 (7.63%) SAP FI-CA
5 12 (5.08%) SAP Hybris
6 9 (3.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (3.81%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (3.39%) SAP SD
8 4 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (1.27%) NetSuite
9 3 (1.27%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle BRM
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.85%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
11 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.25%) Azure
2 20 (8.47%) AWS
3 13 (5.51%) GCP
3 13 (5.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 11 (4.66%) SaaS
5 10 (4.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (3.81%) GitHub
6 9 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (2.97%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.54%) Serverless
10 4 (1.69%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.69%) OCI
10 4 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.27%) Figma
11 3 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.97%) WAN
2 4 (1.69%) Internet
3 3 (1.27%) LAN
3 3 (1.27%) MPLS
3 3 (1.27%) Network Security
3 3 (1.27%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.27%) Wireless
4 2 (0.85%) Broadband
4 2 (0.85%) GPRS
4 2 (0.85%) GSM
4 2 (0.85%) HTTP
4 2 (0.85%) NaaS
5 1 (0.42%) BGP
5 1 (0.42%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.42%) Firewall
5 1 (0.42%) OSPF
5 1 (0.42%) SMS
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (2.54%) Delta Lake
1 6 (2.54%) Parquet
1 6 (2.54%) Power BI
2 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.27%) Metadata
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.85%) Flink
4 2 (0.85%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.85%) MySQL
4 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.85%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.42%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 16 (6.78%) JIRA
2 7 (2.97%) Git
3 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.85%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.42%) GitLab
5 1 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 110 (46.61%) Finance
2 82 (34.75%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.68%) Telecoms
4 35 (14.83%) Public Sector
5 27 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.08%) Banking
6 12 (5.08%) Legal
7 10 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.97%) Law
9 6 (2.54%) Retail
10 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.69%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.27%) Back Office
11 3 (1.27%) German Language
11 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.27%) Publishing
12 2 (0.85%) Automotive
12 2 (0.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (23.73%) Consultant
2 37 (15.68%) SAP Consultant
3 34 (14.41%) Architect
4 20 (8.47%) Analyst
5 18 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.36%) Developer
6 15 (6.36%) Functional Consultant
7 14 (5.93%) Senior
8 12 (5.08%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 9 (3.81%) Coordinator
9 9 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.39%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.39%) Designer
10 8 (3.39%) Lead
10 8 (3.39%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (2.97%) Contracts Manager
11 7 (2.97%) Solutions Designer
12 6 (2.54%) Cloud Consultant
12 6 (2.54%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.93%) REST
2 13 (5.51%) BAPI
3 11 (4.66%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (3.81%) JSON
5 8 (3.39%) PySpark
6 7 (2.97%) .NET
7 6 (2.54%) Middleware
7 6 (2.54%) OpenAPI
7 6 (2.54%) SOAP
7 6 (2.54%) Swagger
8 5 (2.12%) GraphQL
8 5 (2.12%) Great Expectations
9 4 (1.69%) Kafka
9 4 (1.69%) Web Services
10 3 (1.27%) gRPC
10 3 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (1.27%) Pandas
11 2 (0.85%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.85%) Polars
11 2 (0.85%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.97%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.69%) Life Science
6 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.69%) TM Forum
7 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.27%) IoT
7 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.27%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.85%) Unix
2 1 (0.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (23.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (15.25%) CRM
3 35 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (13.14%) Decision-Making
5 30 (12.71%) Validation
6 26 (11.02%) Data Modelling
6 26 (11.02%) Order to Cash
7 25 (10.59%) Agile
7 25 (10.59%) CI/CD
7 25 (10.59%) ERP
8 23 (9.75%) Observability
9 22 (9.32%) Workshop Facilitation
10 21 (8.90%) Cost Management
10 21 (8.90%) Migration
11 19 (8.05%) Process Improvement
12 18 (7.63%) Cost Optimisation
12 18 (7.63%) Roadmaps
13 17 (7.20%) Order Management
14 16 (6.78%) Data Migration
15 15 (6.36%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.44%) SQL
2 18 (7.63%) Python
3 10 (4.24%) Java
4 6 (2.54%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.27%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.27%) Bash
6 3 (1.27%) C#
6 3 (1.27%) PHP
6 3 (1.27%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.85%) C++
7 2 (0.85%) DataWeave
7 2 (0.85%) VBA
8 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.42%) Groovy
8 1 (0.42%) R
8 1 (0.42%) SOQL
8 1 (0.42%) SOSL
8 1 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 30 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.08%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.24%) ACCA
3 10 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.81%) CIMA
5 5 (2.12%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (1.69%) Degree
7 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.85%) AAT
8 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.85%) ECDL
8 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.42%) CCDE
9 1 (0.42%) CCIE
9 1 (0.42%) CCNP
9 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.81%) SLA
3 8 (3.39%) GDPR
4 6 (2.54%) PMO
5 3 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.85%) GAAP
6 2 (0.85%) GxP
6 2 (0.85%) IFRS
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.69%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.54%) Terraform
2 5 (2.12%) Grafana
2 5 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.12%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.85%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.85%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (23.73%) SAP
2 34 (14.41%) Oracle
3 26 (11.02%) Microsoft
4 25 (10.59%) Salesforce
5 16 (6.78%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.39%) Google
6 8 (3.39%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.97%) Databricks
8 6 (2.54%) Ariba
9 5 (2.12%) Pega
9 5 (2.12%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.12%) Workday
10 4 (1.69%) Remedy
11 3 (1.27%) Apple
11 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.27%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.27%) Spotify
12 2 (0.85%) Ciena
12 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft