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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 364 387
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 +13
Contract jobs citing Billing 310 188 203
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.59% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.10% 0.94% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 110 126
10th Percentile £366 £346 £243
25th Percentile £459 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% -7.80% -3.55%
75th Percentile £688 £569 £615
90th Percentile £787 £675 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £459 £500
% change year-on-year +3.49% -8.20% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 12
10th Percentile £13.45 £24.01 -
25th Percentile £13.70 £33.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +197.30% -83.56%
75th Percentile £31.88 £66.88 £52.00
90th Percentile £42.38 £73.00 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 £28.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -43.95% +83.87% -65.56%

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 28,272 20,058 24,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.57% 63.09% 57.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,930 12,602 15,470
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £471 £488
% change year-on-year +6.27% -3.48% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,960 999 1,942
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.49 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.22 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -14.63% +4.40%
75th Percentile £60.06 £52.08 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.38 £68.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +39.13% -26.40% +20.19%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -46 243 £500 +10.62% 253
Work from Home +14 128 £500 +2.56% 115
London -31 124 £600 +32.16% 136
UK excluding London -74 116 £475 +3.49% 140
South East -35 56 £470 -1.16% 47
Midlands -41 22 £500 +58.73% 14
North of England -62 22 £447 -9.61% 41
West Midlands -43 17 £500 +58.73% 9
North West -39 12 £447 -8.59% 27
Yorkshire -42 10 £441 -11.81% 10
East of England -28 7 £631 +80.36% 15
Scotland - 7 £500 - 7
South West -39 6 £500 +17.65% 13
East Midlands - 4 £550 - 5
Wales -17 1 £475 -13.64% 1

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 (1.61%) Apache
1 5 (1.61%) Confluence
2 4 (1.29%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 50 (16.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (15.16%) SAP BRIM
3 32 (10.32%) SAP FI
3 32 (10.32%) SAP PSCD
4 28 (9.03%) SAP FI-CA
5 22 (7.10%) SAP SD
6 15 (4.84%) NetSuite
7 12 (3.87%) SAP Hybris
8 11 (3.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (2.58%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (2.26%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (1.94%) SAP Convergent Charging
12 5 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
12 5 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
12 5 (1.61%) Sage X3
12 5 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (1.61%) SAP CO
13 4 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
13 4 (1.29%) SAP ERP
13 4 (1.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 34 (10.97%) Azure
2 25 (8.06%) AWS
3 20 (6.45%) GCP
4 16 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.84%) SaaS
6 14 (4.52%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 9 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.26%) GitHub
8 7 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.26%) OCI
8 7 (2.26%) Serverless
9 6 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
10 5 (1.61%) Fivetran
10 5 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (1.61%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.90%) WAN
2 4 (1.29%) HTTP
2 4 (1.29%) Internet
2 4 (1.29%) LAN
2 4 (1.29%) SD-WAN
2 4 (1.29%) Wireless
3 3 (0.97%) 5G
3 3 (0.97%) MPLS
3 3 (0.97%) Network Security
4 2 (0.65%) 4G
4 2 (0.65%) Broadband
4 2 (0.65%) Multicast
4 2 (0.65%) NaaS
4 2 (0.65%) SMS
5 1 (0.32%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.32%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.55%) Power BI
2 8 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.26%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.97%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.65%) Flink
5 2 (0.65%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.65%) Metadata
5 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.65%) MySQL
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (5.48%) JIRA
2 9 (2.90%) Git
3 2 (0.65%) JMeter
3 2 (0.65%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.65%) NeoLoad
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.65%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) Storybook
General
1 157 (50.65%) Finance
2 94 (30.32%) Social Skills
3 47 (15.16%) Telecoms
4 33 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.84%) Banking
6 13 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.26%) Legal
9 7 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.61%) Back Office
10 5 (1.61%) General Ledger
10 5 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.29%) Marketing
11 4 (1.29%) Publishing
11 4 (1.29%) Retail
12 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.97%) German Language
Job Titles
1 83 (26.77%) Consultant
2 63 (20.32%) SAP Consultant
3 56 (18.06%) Architect
4 33 (10.65%) Analyst
5 31 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
6 29 (9.35%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (8.39%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 26 (8.39%) Senior
8 23 (7.42%) Lead
9 22 (7.10%) Business Analyst
10 16 (5.16%) Developer
11 11 (3.55%) SAP SD Consultant
12 9 (2.90%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.58%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.58%) Project Manager
13 8 (2.58%) SAP Architect
13 8 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
14 7 (2.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 7 (2.26%) Senior Consultant
15 6 (1.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.74%) BAPI
2 15 (4.84%) REST
3 12 (3.87%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (2.90%) .NET
5 7 (2.26%) Kafka
6 6 (1.94%) Middleware
6 6 (1.94%) OpenAPI
6 6 (1.94%) SOAP
6 6 (1.94%) Swagger
7 5 (1.61%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (1.61%) Web Services
8 4 (1.29%) EDI
8 4 (1.29%) JSON
8 4 (1.29%) RAML
8 4 (1.29%) XML
9 3 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.65%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.65%) gRPC
10 2 (0.65%) IDoc
10 2 (0.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.10%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.19%) Onboarding
2 13 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.90%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (1.94%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.61%) Life Science
5 5 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.97%) NHS
7 3 (0.97%) Smart Meter
8 2 (0.65%) Clustering
8 2 (0.65%) IVR
8 2 (0.65%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.26%) Android
2 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.65%) HPUX
3 2 (0.65%) Linux
3 2 (0.65%) Unix
3 2 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (25.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 51 (16.45%) CRM
3 50 (16.13%) ERP
4 48 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (14.52%) Migration
6 42 (13.55%) Order to Cash
7 38 (12.26%) Agile
8 36 (11.61%) Validation
9 34 (10.97%) Roadmaps
9 34 (10.97%) User Acceptance Testing
10 33 (10.65%) Workshop Facilitation
11 30 (9.68%) Decision-Making
12 29 (9.35%) Order Management
13 25 (8.06%) Revenue Management
14 24 (7.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (7.42%) Data Modelling
16 22 (7.10%) Data Migration
16 22 (7.10%) Procure-to-Pay
17 20 (6.45%) Analytics
17 20 (6.45%) Convergent Charging
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.68%) SQL
2 18 (5.81%) Python
3 9 (2.90%) Java
4 5 (1.61%) X++
5 4 (1.29%) DataWeave
5 4 (1.29%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.97%) Apex Code
6 3 (0.97%) Rust
7 2 (0.65%) ABAP
7 2 (0.65%) Bash
7 2 (0.65%) C#
7 2 (0.65%) C++
7 2 (0.65%) Go
7 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.65%) VBA
8 1 (0.32%) Groovy
8 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.94%) ACCA
4 6 (1.94%) Degree
5 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.61%) CIMA
6 3 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.65%) CBAP
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.32%) PMP
8 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.52%) Data Quality
1 14 (4.52%) SLA
2 6 (1.94%) GDPR
2 6 (1.94%) IFRS
2 6 (1.94%) PMO
3 5 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.29%) QA
5 3 (0.97%) GxP
6 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.65%) GAAP
6 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.65%) SEPA
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.87%) Terraform
2 5 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.97%) SCCM
5 2 (0.65%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.65%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 111 (35.81%) SAP
2 41 (13.23%) Microsoft
3 37 (11.94%) Oracle
3 37 (11.94%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.87%) Ariba
6 9 (2.90%) Guidewire
7 8 (2.58%) Google
8 7 (2.26%) Sage
9 6 (1.94%) Computacenter
10 5 (1.61%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.61%) PagerDuty
10 5 (1.61%) PeopleSoft
11 4 (1.29%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.29%) Remedy
12 3 (0.97%) Apple
12 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.65%) Amdocs
13 2 (0.65%) Conga
13 2 (0.65%) NetCracker