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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 359 391
Rank change year-on-year -36 +32 +57
Contract jobs citing Billing 266 167 199
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.58% 0.46%
As % of the General category 1.00% 0.91% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 101 126
10th Percentile £352 £350 £228
25th Percentile £460 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £550 £600
90th Percentile £805 £675 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +10.59% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £13.60 £23.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.89 £29.88 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £55.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.56% +268.33% -76.00%
75th Percentile £39.75 £73.75 £15.50
90th Percentile £45.51 £76.25 £21.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £49.25 £15.00
% change year-on-year -53.30% +228.33% -66.67%

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 26,471 18,328 24,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.90% 63.34% 57.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,017 11,568 15,462
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -2.73% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,759 831 1,979
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.46 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.73 £16.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.75 £27.94 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -7.36% -7.20%
75th Percentile £60.35 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.27 £24.42 £28.50
% change year-on-year +23.96% -14.32% +1.21%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -48 208 £525 +16.67% 258
London -20 113 £625 +37.67% 129
Work from Home +14 107 £545 +11.79% 108
UK excluding London -93 87 £470 +10.59% 159
South East -61 41 £469 -0.21% 51
Midlands -36 18 £500 +58.73% 24
North of England -71 16 £447 -9.61% 44
West Midlands -45 13 £500 +58.73% 15
North West -34 10 £447 -8.59% 24
East of England -27 7 £631 +80.36% 10
Yorkshire -46 6 £441 -11.81% 13
Scotland -1 5 £500 +29.67% 6
South West -41 4 £475 +11.76% 18
East Midlands - 4 £550 - 9
Wales -18 1 £475 -13.64%

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 (2.63%) Apache
2 4 (1.50%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.38%) Appian
5 1 (0.38%) Camunda
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 20 (7.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 43 (16.17%) SAP BRIM
2 42 (15.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (11.28%) SAP FI
3 30 (11.28%) SAP PSCD
4 27 (10.15%) SAP FI-CA
5 17 (6.39%) SAP SD
6 11 (4.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 10 (3.76%) SAP Hybris
8 7 (2.63%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (2.26%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (1.88%) SAP Convergent Charging
11 4 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
11 4 (1.50%) NetSuite
11 4 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (1.50%) SAP ERP
12 3 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (1.13%) SAP CO
12 3 (1.13%) SAP FI/CO
13 2 (0.75%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 23 (8.65%) Azure
2 18 (6.77%) AWS
3 15 (5.64%) SaaS
4 14 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.89%) GCP
6 12 (4.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 11 (4.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 7 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (2.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.88%) OCI
10 5 (1.88%) Serverless
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.13%) Figma
11 3 (1.13%) Google Docs
11 3 (1.13%) Google Sheets
11 3 (1.13%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.26%) WAN
2 4 (1.50%) HTTP
2 4 (1.50%) Internet
3 3 (1.13%) MPLS
3 3 (1.13%) Network Security
3 3 (1.13%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.13%) Wireless
4 2 (0.75%) 5G
4 2 (0.75%) LAN
4 2 (0.75%) NaaS
5 1 (0.38%) 4G
5 1 (0.38%) BGP
5 1 (0.38%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.38%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.38%) OSPF
5 1 (0.38%) SMS
5 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.76%) Power BI
2 3 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.75%) Flink
3 2 (0.75%) InfluxDB
3 2 (0.75%) Metadata
3 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.75%) MySQL
3 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.75%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 16 (6.02%) JIRA
2 11 (4.14%) Git
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.75%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 128 (48.12%) Finance
2 82 (30.83%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 30 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.90%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.14%) Banking
7 9 (3.38%) Legal
8 8 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.88%) Back Office
10 5 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.50%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.50%) Publishing
12 3 (1.13%) German Language
12 3 (1.13%) Law
12 3 (1.13%) Marketing
12 3 (1.13%) Retail
13 2 (0.75%) Front Office
13 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (24.44%) Consultant
2 49 (18.42%) SAP Consultant
3 48 (18.05%) Architect
4 27 (10.15%) Analyst
5 25 (9.40%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (9.02%) Functional Consultant
7 19 (7.14%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 15 (5.64%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.64%) Senior
9 14 (5.26%) Developer
9 14 (5.26%) Lead
10 10 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.26%) Contracts Manager
12 6 (2.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 6 (2.26%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.26%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.26%) SAP Architect
13 5 (1.88%) Coordinator
13 5 (1.88%) SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.65%) BAPI
2 17 (6.39%) REST
3 10 (3.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.01%) .NET
4 8 (3.01%) SOAP
5 7 (2.63%) Middleware
6 6 (2.26%) OpenAPI
6 6 (2.26%) Swagger
6 6 (2.26%) Web Services
7 4 (1.50%) EDI
7 4 (1.50%) JSON
7 4 (1.50%) Kafka
7 4 (1.50%) RAML
7 4 (1.50%) XML
8 3 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.75%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.75%) gRPC
9 2 (0.75%) Pandas
9 2 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.26%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.26%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.88%) Life Science
6 4 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.13%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) Clustering
8 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.75%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.75%) iPad
8 2 (0.75%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.88%) Android
2 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.75%) HPUX
2 2 (0.75%) Linux
2 2 (0.75%) Unix
2 2 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 37 (13.91%) ERP
2 37 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (13.53%) CRM
4 32 (12.03%) Migration
5 30 (11.28%) Order to Cash
6 29 (10.90%) Agile
6 29 (10.90%) Validation
7 28 (10.53%) Decision-Making
8 27 (10.15%) Order Management
9 25 (9.40%) Data Modelling
9 25 (9.40%) User Acceptance Testing
10 24 (9.02%) Roadmaps
11 22 (8.27%) Workshop Facilitation
12 21 (7.89%) CI/CD
13 20 (7.52%) Revenue Management
14 19 (7.14%) Convergent Charging
14 19 (7.14%) Project Management
15 18 (6.77%) Data Migration
15 18 (6.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (10.53%) SQL
2 12 (4.51%) Python
3 10 (3.76%) Java
4 4 (1.50%) DataWeave
4 4 (1.50%) PL/SQL
4 4 (1.50%) X++
5 3 (1.13%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.13%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.75%) ABAP
6 2 (0.75%) C#
6 2 (0.75%) C++
6 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.75%) VBA
7 1 (0.38%) Bash
7 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.38%) Go
7 1 (0.38%) Groovy
7 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.63%) ACCA
5 6 (2.26%) CIMA
6 5 (1.88%) Degree
7 3 (1.13%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.38%) PMP
8 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.51%) SLA
2 10 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.26%) GDPR
4 5 (1.88%) PMO
4 5 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.50%) IFRS
6 3 (1.13%) GxP
7 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.75%) GAAP
7 2 (0.75%) QA
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.88%) Grafana
1 5 (1.88%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.88%) Prometheus
1 5 (1.88%) Terraform
2 2 (0.75%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (0.75%) SCCM
3 1 (0.38%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 97 (36.47%) SAP
2 35 (13.16%) Oracle
3 32 (12.03%) Microsoft
4 31 (11.65%) Salesforce
5 15 (5.64%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.14%) Guidewire
7 10 (3.76%) Ariba
7 10 (3.76%) Google
8 5 (1.88%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (1.50%) Computacenter
9 4 (1.50%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.50%) Remedy
10 3 (1.13%) Apple
10 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.75%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.75%) Ciena
11 2 (0.75%) NetCracker
11 2 (0.75%) Nokia
11 2 (0.75%) Sage