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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 351 334
Rank change year-on-year -41 -17 +118
Contract jobs citing Billing 215 199 282
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.58% 0.64%
As % of the General category 0.95% 0.96% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 100 158
10th Percentile £315 £212 £238
25th Percentile £425 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £636
90th Percentile £760 £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 12 10 5
10th Percentile - £59.15 £12.76
25th Percentile - £67.19 £13.13
Median hourly rate £17.00 £73.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.95% +360.94% +1.33%
75th Percentile £24.15 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £55.25 - £44.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £73.75 £14.63
% change year-on-year -76.95% +404.02% +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 22,538 20,835 26,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.39% 60.86% 59.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,113 12,431 17,395
10th Percentile £275 £290 £279
25th Percentile £400 £413 £420
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 -2.66% -2.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,452 737 1,087
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.85
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £59.27
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.65 £71.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.23 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.13% -12.57% +39.53%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -19 185 £550 +4.76% 196
London +24 96 £625 +19.05% 57
UK excluding London -47 88 £463 -13.95% 170
Work from Home -2 78 £626 +39.09% 147
South East 0 54 £475 -7.77% 60
North of England -40 11 £328 -45.29% 35
South West -8 9 £675 +12.50% 20
North West -27 6 £750 +50.00% 22
West Midlands -29 6 £825 +60.19% 18
Midlands -46 6 £825 +60.19% 26
Yorkshire -45 5 £302 -49.75% 11
Scotland +8 4 £373 - 6
East of England -26 3 £388 -8.82% 21
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £280 - 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 (3.26%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.79%) Appian
2 6 (2.79%) Camunda
3 3 (1.40%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.40%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Portal
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (8.84%) SAP PSCD
2 15 (6.98%) SAP BRIM
3 14 (6.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (6.05%) SAP Hybris
5 11 (5.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 10 (4.65%) SAP FI-CA
7 7 (3.26%) SAP FI
8 6 (2.79%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (1.86%) Oracle BRM
11 3 (1.40%) NetSuite
11 3 (1.40%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.93%) Documaker
12 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
12 2 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
12 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
12 2 (0.93%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.93%) SAP IS-U
12 2 (0.93%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 38 (17.67%) Azure
2 20 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
3 15 (6.98%) AWS
3 15 (6.98%) SaaS
4 13 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 11 (5.12%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.65%) GitHub
6 10 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.86%) OCI
9 4 (1.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.40%) GCP
10 3 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.40%) PaaS
11 2 (0.93%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) Broadband
1 3 (1.40%) GPRS
1 3 (1.40%) GSM
1 3 (1.40%) MVNO
2 2 (0.93%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.65%) Power BI
2 6 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.79%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.79%) Parquet
3 4 (1.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.93%) Metadata
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.47%) GIS
6 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (5.58%) JIRA
2 2 (0.93%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.93%) Selenium
3 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.47%) Hudson
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 111 (51.63%) Finance
2 104 (48.37%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 26 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.30%) Telecoms
6 17 (7.91%) Legal
7 12 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (5.12%) Law
9 9 (4.19%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.33%) Banking
10 5 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.86%) Publishing
11 4 (1.86%) Retail
12 2 (0.93%) Automotive
12 2 (0.93%) Marketing
12 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.47%) French Language
Job Titles
1 53 (24.65%) Consultant
2 31 (14.42%) Architect
3 26 (12.09%) SAP Consultant
4 22 (10.23%) Analyst
5 21 (9.77%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (9.30%) Functional Consultant
7 12 (5.58%) Developer
8 11 (5.12%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.12%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 11 (5.12%) Senior
9 9 (4.19%) Designer
9 9 (4.19%) Lead
9 9 (4.19%) Solutions Designer
10 7 (3.26%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.26%) Salesforce Architect
11 6 (2.79%) Coordinator
11 6 (2.79%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 5 (2.33%) Data Analyst
12 5 (2.33%) Operations Manager
12 5 (2.33%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.26%) JSON
1 7 (3.26%) Middleware
1 7 (3.26%) PySpark
2 6 (2.79%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (2.79%) REST
3 5 (2.33%) .NET
3 5 (2.33%) ADO
3 5 (2.33%) Great Expectations
3 5 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.86%) SOAP
5 3 (1.40%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.40%) GraphQL
5 3 (1.40%) RESTful
5 3 (1.40%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.40%) Web Services
6 2 (0.93%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.93%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.93%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.93%) OpenID
6 2 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.19%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.26%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.26%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.33%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.33%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.86%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.86%) IoT
4 4 (1.86%) Low-Code
4 4 (1.86%) TM Forum
5 3 (1.40%) IPTV
5 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.40%) Smart Meter
6 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.93%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.40%) Unix
2 1 (0.47%) CentOS
2 1 (0.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 40 (18.60%) CRM
3 35 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (14.88%) Agile
5 28 (13.02%) Accounts Receivable
6 26 (12.09%) ERP
7 24 (11.16%) Workshop Facilitation
8 22 (10.23%) Order Management
9 21 (9.77%) Migration
9 21 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (8.84%) DevOps
11 18 (8.37%) Project Management
11 18 (8.37%) Validation
12 17 (7.91%) Process Improvement
12 17 (7.91%) Requirements Gathering
13 16 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (7.44%) Customer Service
14 15 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (6.98%) Change Management
14 15 (6.98%) Revenue Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.23%) SQL
2 11 (5.12%) Python
3 7 (3.26%) PL/SQL
4 6 (2.79%) Apex Code
5 5 (2.33%) Java
6 3 (1.40%) Groovy
6 3 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.40%) PHP
6 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.40%) SOQL
6 3 (1.40%) X++
7 2 (0.93%) Bash
7 2 (0.93%) C#
7 2 (0.93%) SOSL
8 1 (0.47%) ABAP
8 1 (0.47%) Bicep
8 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 22 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.51%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.65%) ACCA
3 10 (4.65%) CIMA
4 8 (3.72%) Degree
5 7 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.33%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.93%) AAT
7 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.93%) ECDL
7 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.93%) PMP
8 1 (0.47%) CCA
8 1 (0.47%) CCDE
8 1 (0.47%) CCDP
8 1 (0.47%) CCIE
8 1 (0.47%) CCNP
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.72%) GDPR
3 3 (1.40%) QA
4 2 (0.93%) PMO
4 2 (0.93%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) GRC
5 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.40%) Terraform
3 2 (0.93%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.93%) VxRail
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 50 (23.26%) SAP
2 32 (14.88%) Oracle
3 28 (13.02%) Salesforce
4 26 (12.09%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.72%) MuleSoft
6 7 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.79%) Databricks
7 6 (2.79%) Pega
8 5 (2.33%) Workday
9 4 (1.86%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.86%) Xero
10 3 (1.40%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.40%) IFS
10 3 (1.40%) Spotify
10 3 (1.40%) VMware
11 2 (0.93%) Ariba
11 2 (0.93%) Conga
11 2 (0.93%) Google
11 2 (0.93%) HP
12 1 (0.47%) Aruba