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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 359 359
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -12
Contract jobs citing Billing 362 201 199
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.61% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.16% 0.96% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 117 115
10th Percentile £406 £350 £213
25th Percentile £466 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -3.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £758 £735 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 10
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.80 -
25th Percentile £14.45 £17.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.48 £20.36 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -36.39% -66.88%
75th Percentile £28.33 £43.88 £74.69
90th Percentile £57.00 £60.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.45 £17.04 £21.50
% change year-on-year -9.33% -20.74% +62.08%

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 31,316 20,992 21,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.66% 63.27% 58.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,212 13,093 12,972
10th Percentile £313 £275 £280
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £646
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £477
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.42% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,802 1,249 919
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.51 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.17 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -21.88% +7.56%
75th Percentile £53.84 £44.75 £59.98
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £21.39 £30.00
% change year-on-year +28.56% -28.70% +11.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing
Top 16 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 14 October 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 -25 289 £537 +7.40% 362
UK excluding London -18 159 £500 +11.11% 129
London -69 134 £563 +5.14% 246
Work from Home -5 133 £519 +3.75% 149
South East -35 60 £469 -2.29% 39
Midlands -22 34 £500 -39.39% 20
North of England -48 33 £600 +71.18% 32
West Midlands -32 19 £470 -43.03% 17
North West -36 18 £613 -18.33% 19
Scotland -12 12 £525 +118.75% 12
Yorkshire -27 12 £492 +60.78% 4
East Midlands - 12 £550 - 3
East of England -22 10 £581 +66.07% 13
South West -38 10 £500 +17.65% 8
North East - 3 - - 9
Northern Ireland +6 2 £600 +20.00% 4

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 9 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.49%) Confluence
2 5 (1.38%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.10%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Mendix
4 1 (0.28%) Mule
4 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.10%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 47 (12.98%) SAP BRIM
1 47 (12.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (7.18%) SAP PSCD
3 25 (6.91%) SAP FI
4 23 (6.35%) SAP FI-CA
5 22 (6.08%) SAP SD
6 19 (5.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 18 (4.97%) NetSuite
8 14 (3.87%) Oracle ERP
9 13 (3.59%) SAP Hybris
10 11 (3.04%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (2.76%) Oracle General Ledger
12 9 (2.49%) Oracle Assets
13 8 (2.21%) Oracle EBS
13 8 (2.21%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 7 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
15 6 (1.66%) Cloudability
15 6 (1.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 6 (1.66%) Salesforce CRM
15 6 (1.66%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 60 (16.57%) Azure
2 43 (11.88%) AWS
3 32 (8.84%) GCP
4 26 (7.18%) SaaS
5 22 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (4.97%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 16 (4.42%) Power Platform
8 13 (3.59%) Snowflake
9 12 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.31%) Serverless
10 9 (2.49%) GitHub
11 8 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.21%) OCI
12 7 (1.93%) dbt
13 6 (1.66%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.38%) Azure Databricks
14 5 (1.38%) Cloud Functions
14 5 (1.38%) Fivetran
14 5 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.93%) Broadband
2 4 (1.10%) HTTP
2 4 (1.10%) WAN
3 3 (0.83%) 5G
4 2 (0.55%) 4G
4 2 (0.55%) Firewall
4 2 (0.55%) LAN
4 2 (0.55%) Multicast
4 2 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.55%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.55%) SMS
4 2 (0.55%) Softphone
4 2 (0.55%) VLAN
4 2 (0.55%) VoIP
4 2 (0.55%) VoLTE
4 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
2 12 (3.31%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.21%) Power BI
4 7 (1.93%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.38%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.38%) Power Query
6 5 (1.38%) PowerPivot
7 4 (1.10%) Looker
7 4 (1.10%) Metadata
7 4 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.31%) JIRA
2 10 (2.76%) Git
3 5 (1.38%) RStudio
4 3 (0.83%) GitLab
5 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.55%) JMeter
5 2 (0.55%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.55%) NeoLoad
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 192 (53.04%) Finance
2 128 (35.36%) Social Skills
3 48 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.33%) Telecoms
5 34 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.70%) Banking
7 16 (4.42%) Legal
8 15 (4.14%) Marketing
9 13 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (3.59%) General Ledger
9 13 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (3.31%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.21%) Corporate Banking
11 8 (2.21%) Retail
12 7 (1.93%) Back Office
12 7 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.38%) Advertising
13 5 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (25.69%) Consultant
2 64 (17.68%) Architect
3 59 (16.30%) SAP Consultant
4 40 (11.05%) Analyst
4 40 (11.05%) Lead
5 35 (9.67%) Functional Consultant
6 33 (9.12%) Business Analyst
7 31 (8.56%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 26 (7.18%) Senior
8 26 (7.18%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.59%) Oracle Consultant
9 13 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (3.31%) SAP SD Consultant
11 11 (3.04%) Administrator
12 10 (2.76%) Developer
13 9 (2.49%) Salesforce Analyst
13 9 (2.49%) Salesforce Business Analyst
14 8 (2.21%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (2.21%) Product Lead
14 8 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.52%) REST
2 15 (4.14%) Terraform
3 12 (3.31%) BAPI
4 10 (2.76%) Middleware
5 8 (2.21%) EDI
5 8 (2.21%) Kafka
5 8 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.93%) SOAP
7 6 (1.66%) .NET
8 5 (1.38%) OpenAPI
8 5 (1.38%) PySpark
8 5 (1.38%) RAML
8 5 (1.38%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (1.38%) Swagger
8 5 (1.38%) XML
9 4 (1.10%) JSON
9 4 (1.10%) Pandas
9 4 (1.10%) Web Services
10 3 (0.83%) Loki
11 2 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.39%) Onboarding
2 29 (8.01%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.08%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.87%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.76%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.49%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.21%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.38%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.38%) TM Forum
9 5 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.10%) IVR
10 4 (1.10%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.10%) Social Media
11 3 (0.83%) CMDB
11 3 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.66%) Android
2 4 (1.10%) Windows
3 2 (0.55%) HPUX
3 2 (0.55%) Linux
3 2 (0.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (32.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 76 (20.99%) ERP
3 69 (19.06%) Migration
4 56 (15.47%) Workshop Facilitation
5 54 (14.92%) Order to Cash
6 53 (14.64%) CRM
6 53 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (14.09%) Order Management
7 51 (14.09%) Roadmaps
8 50 (13.81%) User Acceptance Testing
9 47 (12.98%) Agile
9 47 (12.98%) Validation
10 39 (10.77%) Analytics
11 37 (10.22%) CI/CD
12 36 (9.94%) Revenue Management
13 35 (9.67%) Requirements Gathering
14 33 (9.12%) AI
14 33 (9.12%) Customer Service
15 32 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (8.84%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (8.84%) SQL
2 27 (7.46%) Python
3 7 (1.93%) R
4 6 (1.66%) Java
5 5 (1.38%) Bash
5 5 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.38%) DataWeave
6 4 (1.10%) C#
6 4 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.10%) X++
7 3 (0.83%) Go
7 3 (0.83%) Rust
8 2 (0.55%) ABAP
8 2 (0.55%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.55%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) Bicep
9 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (11.05%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.01%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.21%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.93%) Degree
6 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.83%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.55%) ACCA
8 2 (0.55%) CBAP
8 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.28%) CIMA
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.28%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.28%) PMP
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.14%) SLA
3 12 (3.31%) QA
4 6 (1.66%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.66%) SEPA
5 4 (1.10%) GDPR
5 4 (1.10%) IFRS
5 4 (1.10%) PMO
6 2 (0.55%) NCSC
6 2 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (1.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (2.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.38%) Grafana
3 3 (0.83%) Argo
4 2 (0.55%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 123 (33.98%) SAP
2 58 (16.02%) Microsoft
3 46 (12.71%) Oracle
4 43 (11.88%) Salesforce
5 21 (5.80%) Ariba
6 14 (3.87%) Databricks
6 14 (3.87%) Sage
7 12 (3.31%) Google
8 9 (2.49%) JD Edwards
8 9 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.21%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.66%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.38%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.38%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.10%) Informatica
12 4 (1.10%) NetCracker
12 4 (1.10%) Talend
13 3 (0.83%) Aderant
14 2 (0.55%) Duck Creek
14 2 (0.55%) Dynatrace