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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 368 365
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +105
Contract jobs citing Billing 245 162 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.54% 0.50%
As % of the General category 1.02% 0.86% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 77 111
10th Percentile £375 £208 £238
25th Percentile £463 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% +1.07%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £627
90th Percentile £847 £700 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £524 £518
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.11% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 9
10th Percentile £16.95 £38.23 £12.10
25th Percentile - £63.44 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% -45.61%
75th Percentile £19.81 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £32.19 £75.25 £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% +3.33%

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 23,960 18,763 26,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.48% 62.10% 58.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,990 11,449 16,828
10th Percentile £300 £290 £265
25th Percentile £404 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £649 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,462 613 1,710
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.48 £20.45 £15.29
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% -8.77%
75th Percentile £51.53 £58.27 £51.25
90th Percentile £73.72 £75.00 £65.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +10.00% -2.59%

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 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -6 208 £515 -1.44% 120
UK excluding London -26 102 £462 -11.89% 84
London -3 99 £613 +22.50% 52
Work from Home +22 98 £600 +20.00% 63
South East +5 69 £470 -10.48% 36
Midlands -52 11 £573 +7.61% 14
West Midlands -49 10 £699 +35.73% 11
North of England -65 10 £447 -17.91% 19
North West -26 8 £447 -8.59% 11
South West -22 6 £325 -27.78% 4
East of England -22 6 £500 -9.09% 6
Scotland +16 5 £373 -3.27% 3
Yorkshire -58 2 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 3
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 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.45%) Appian
2 6 (2.45%) Camunda
3 5 (2.04%) Apache
4 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.22%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.82%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) Confluence
7 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 21 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 31 (12.65%) SAP PSCD
2 23 (9.39%) SAP BRIM
3 20 (8.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (7.35%) SAP Hybris
5 17 (6.94%) SAP FI-CA
6 14 (5.71%) SAP FI
7 8 (3.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle BRM
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (1.63%) SAP SD
9 3 (1.22%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.82%) Documaker
10 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.82%) SAP IS-U
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.33%) Azure
2 20 (8.16%) AWS
3 18 (7.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 16 (6.53%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (6.53%) SaaS
5 12 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.67%) GCP
7 9 (3.67%) GitHub
7 9 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.45%) OCI
10 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.22%) Figma
11 3 (1.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (1.22%) Serverless
12 2 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) Broadband
1 3 (1.22%) GPRS
1 3 (1.22%) GSM
2 2 (0.82%) Firewall
2 2 (0.82%) LAN
2 2 (0.82%) WAN
2 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.82%) Wireless
3 1 (0.41%) 4G
3 1 (0.41%) 5G
3 1 (0.41%) BGP
3 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.41%) Internet
3 1 (0.41%) OSPF
3 1 (0.41%) SSL
3 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.67%) Power BI
2 6 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.45%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.45%) Parquet
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.22%) Metadata
4 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.41%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.41%) Redshift Spectrum
6 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (5.31%) JIRA
2 5 (2.04%) Git
3 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) Hudson
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.41%) Postman
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
4 1 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 116 (47.35%) Finance
2 105 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 38 (15.51%) Public Sector
4 36 (14.69%) Telecoms
5 26 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.53%) Legal
7 11 (4.49%) Law
8 10 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.86%) Banking
10 5 (2.04%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.63%) Publishing
11 4 (1.63%) Retail
12 3 (1.22%) German Language
13 2 (0.82%) Automotive
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
13 2 (0.82%) Marketing
13 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (25.71%) Consultant
2 40 (16.33%) SAP Consultant
3 35 (14.29%) Architect
4 24 (9.80%) Functional Consultant
4 24 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (8.16%) Analyst
6 17 (6.94%) Developer
6 17 (6.94%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 14 (5.71%) Senior
8 12 (4.90%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.08%) Designer
10 9 (3.67%) Coordinator
10 9 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Solutions Designer
11 6 (2.45%) Contracts Manager
11 6 (2.45%) Operations Manager
11 6 (2.45%) Oracle Consultant
12 5 (2.04%) Business Manager
12 5 (2.04%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.90%) REST
2 8 (3.27%) .NET
2 8 (3.27%) Middleware
2 8 (3.27%) PySpark
2 8 (3.27%) SOAP
3 7 (2.86%) BAPI
3 7 (2.86%) JSON
3 7 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.04%) ADO
4 5 (2.04%) Great Expectations
5 4 (1.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.63%) Web Services
6 3 (1.22%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.22%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.22%) Pandas
7 2 (0.82%) Dask
7 2 (0.82%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.82%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.82%) React
7 2 (0.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.27%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.63%) Smart Meter
4 4 (1.63%) TM Forum
5 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.22%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.22%) IoT
5 3 (1.22%) IPTV
5 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.82%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Unix
2 1 (0.41%) Android
2 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.41%) CentOS
2 1 (0.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (20.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (17.96%) CRM
3 37 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
5 26 (10.61%) Agile
6 25 (10.20%) Accounts Receivable
6 25 (10.20%) Validation
7 24 (9.80%) Order Management
8 23 (9.39%) CI/CD
8 23 (9.39%) Decision-Making
9 22 (8.98%) Data Modelling
9 22 (8.98%) ERP
10 21 (8.57%) Process Improvement
10 21 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
10 21 (8.57%) Revenue Management
11 19 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (7.35%) Cost Management
12 18 (7.35%) DevOps
12 18 (7.35%) Migration
13 17 (6.94%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.84%) SQL
2 14 (5.71%) Python
3 10 (4.08%) PL/SQL
4 8 (3.27%) Java
5 4 (1.63%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.63%) Groovy
6 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.22%) PHP
6 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.22%) X++
7 2 (0.82%) Bash
7 2 (0.82%) C#
7 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.82%) VBA
8 1 (0.41%) ABAP
8 1 (0.41%) Bicep
8 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.41%) Korn
8 1 (0.41%) SOQL
8 1 (0.41%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 23 (9.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.31%) ACCA
2 13 (5.31%) CIMA
3 11 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
5 5 (2.04%) Degree
6 2 (0.82%) AAT
6 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.82%) ECDL
6 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.82%) PMP
7 1 (0.41%) CCA
7 1 (0.41%) CCDP
7 1 (0.41%) CCIE
7 1 (0.41%) CCNP
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.41%) MBA
7 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.27%) GDPR
2 8 (3.27%) SLA
3 4 (1.63%) PMO
4 1 (0.41%) GRC
4 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.41%) QA
4 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.45%) Terraform
2 5 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.22%) Grafana
4 2 (0.82%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 68 (27.76%) SAP
2 31 (12.65%) Oracle
3 28 (11.43%) Salesforce
4 26 (10.61%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.49%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.67%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.86%) Databricks
7 7 (2.86%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.45%) Pega
9 5 (2.04%) PeopleSoft
10 4 (1.63%) Remedy
10 4 (1.63%) Workday
10 4 (1.63%) Xero
11 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.22%) Google
11 3 (1.22%) IFS
11 3 (1.22%) Spotify
12 2 (0.82%) Ariba
12 2 (0.82%) Conga