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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 360 357
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 +22
Contract jobs citing Billing 321 198 213
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.60% 0.55%
As % of the General category 1.08% 0.95% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 126 136
10th Percentile £400 £300 £271
25th Percentile £468 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.38% -8.20% -3.55%
75th Percentile £638 £597 £600
90th Percentile £785 £700 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +15.76% -15.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 10
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.16 -
25th Percentile £13.70 £19.91 £14.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% -10.94% -82.22%
75th Percentile £25.00 £57.50 £74.69
90th Percentile £42.38 £61.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 £19.91 £21.50
% change year-on-year -19.76% -7.40% +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 29,649 20,931 22,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.03% 63.47% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,570 13,025 13,875
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £749 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,278 1,168 1,286
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.43 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -28.87% +28.58%
75th Percentile £56.21 £50.00 £59.36
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £22.14 £35.00
% change year-on-year +45.55% -36.74% +34.87%

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 23 August 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 23 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing
Top 17 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 23 August 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 -56 253 £540 +20.00% 165
London -52 132 £575 +17.95% 57
Work from Home +8 126 £500 +2.09% 69
UK excluding London -56 122 £492 +15.76% 127
South East -55 49 £470 +2.40% 53
North of England -46 26 £492 +14.69% 39
Midlands -29 21 £488 +36.84% 14
West Midlands -39 16 £473 +32.63% 6
North West -36 14 £600 -7.69% 22
Yorkshire -33 11 £461 +50.63% 6
Scotland - 11 £525 - 5
South West -47 8 £500 +17.65% 11
East of England -14 7 £581 +66.07% 4
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 8
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -
Wales -18 1 £475 -13.64% 2
North East - 1 - - 11

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 (2.18%) Confluence
2 5 (1.56%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.25%) Apache
3 4 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Mendix
5 1 (0.31%) Mule
5 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 50 (15.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (13.08%) SAP BRIM
3 26 (8.10%) SAP FI
4 23 (7.17%) SAP FI-CA
4 23 (7.17%) SAP SD
5 22 (6.85%) SAP PSCD
6 17 (5.30%) NetSuite
7 14 (4.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (3.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (3.12%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (2.49%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
12 6 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
12 6 (1.87%) SAP Convergent Charging
13 5 (1.56%) Sage X3
14 4 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
14 4 (1.25%) SAP CO
14 4 (1.25%) SAP ERP
15 3 (0.93%) Cloudability
15 3 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 49 (15.26%) Azure
2 34 (10.59%) AWS
3 25 (7.79%) GCP
4 22 (6.85%) SaaS
5 16 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (4.98%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.05%) Serverless
7 11 (3.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 10 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.49%) GitHub
9 8 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.49%) OCI
10 7 (2.18%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (1.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (1.56%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.56%) Cloud Functions
12 5 (1.56%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.80%) WAN
2 5 (1.56%) Broadband
2 5 (1.56%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.25%) HTTP
4 3 (0.93%) 5G
4 3 (0.93%) Internet
4 3 (0.93%) LAN
4 3 (0.93%) MPLS
4 3 (0.93%) Network Security
4 3 (0.93%) SMS
5 2 (0.62%) 4G
5 2 (0.62%) Multicast
5 2 (0.62%) NaaS
5 2 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.62%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.80%) Power BI
2 8 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (2.49%) BigQuery
2 8 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.87%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.25%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.93%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.62%) Flink
7 2 (0.62%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.62%) Metadata
7 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.62%) MySQL
7 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (4.67%) JIRA
2 6 (1.87%) Git
3 4 (1.25%) RStudio
4 2 (0.62%) JMeter
4 2 (0.62%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.62%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.62%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.31%) GitLab
5 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 169 (52.65%) Finance
2 93 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.53%) Telecoms
5 27 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.54%) Banking
7 14 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.12%) Legal
10 9 (2.80%) Marketing
11 8 (2.49%) Corporate Banking
12 7 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (2.18%) Retail
13 5 (1.56%) Back Office
13 5 (1.56%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (24.30%) Consultant
2 65 (20.25%) Architect
3 55 (17.13%) SAP Consultant
4 42 (13.08%) Analyst
5 33 (10.28%) Lead
6 32 (9.97%) Business Analyst
7 29 (9.03%) Functional Consultant
8 28 (8.72%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (8.41%) Senior
10 23 (7.17%) SAP Functional Consultant
11 13 (4.05%) SAP SD Consultant
12 12 (3.74%) Developer
13 11 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.80%) Financial Analyst
14 9 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
15 8 (2.49%) Enterprise Architect
15 8 (2.49%) Product Lead
15 8 (2.49%) Salesforce Analyst
15 8 (2.49%) Salesforce Business Analyst
15 8 (2.49%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.92%) REST
2 18 (5.61%) BAPI
3 12 (3.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (3.74%) Terraform
4 10 (3.12%) Kafka
5 7 (2.18%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.18%) Swagger
6 6 (1.87%) .NET
6 6 (1.87%) EDI
6 6 (1.87%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (1.87%) SOAP
7 5 (1.56%) Middleware
7 5 (1.56%) RAML
8 4 (1.25%) JSON
8 4 (1.25%) PySpark
8 4 (1.25%) Web Services
8 4 (1.25%) XML
9 2 (0.62%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.62%) gRPC
9 2 (0.62%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.41%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.43%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.87%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.56%) Life Science
7 5 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.56%) TM Forum
7 5 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.25%) CMDB
8 4 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.87%) Android
2 4 (1.25%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.62%) HPUX
3 2 (0.62%) Linux
3 2 (0.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 63 (19.63%) Migration
3 56 (17.45%) ERP
4 53 (16.51%) Roadmaps
5 51 (15.89%) CRM
6 50 (15.58%) Order to Cash
7 46 (14.33%) Agile
8 44 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (13.40%) Workshop Facilitation
10 40 (12.46%) User Acceptance Testing
11 39 (12.15%) Validation
12 34 (10.59%) Order Management
13 32 (9.97%) Analytics
14 30 (9.35%) Decision-Making
15 28 (8.72%) AI
15 28 (8.72%) Data Migration
16 27 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (8.41%) Procure-to-Pay
16 27 (8.41%) Requirements Gathering
16 27 (8.41%) Revenue Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.66%) SQL
2 21 (6.54%) Python
3 7 (2.18%) Java
4 5 (1.56%) DataWeave
4 5 (1.56%) R
4 5 (1.56%) X++
5 3 (0.93%) Bash
5 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.93%) Rust
6 2 (0.62%) ABAP
6 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.62%) C#
6 2 (0.62%) C++
6 2 (0.62%) Go
6 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (8.72%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (4.36%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.18%) Degree
5 6 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.62%) ACCA
8 2 (0.62%) CBAP
8 2 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.31%) CIMA
9 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.31%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.31%) PMP
9 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.43%) SLA
3 7 (2.18%) QA
4 6 (1.87%) GDPR
4 6 (1.87%) IFRS
4 6 (1.87%) PMO
5 5 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.56%) SEPA
6 3 (0.93%) GxP
7 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.62%) GAAP
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.56%) Grafana
3 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.62%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (0.62%) Argo
4 2 (0.62%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 109 (33.96%) SAP
2 43 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 40 (12.46%) Salesforce
4 38 (11.84%) Oracle
5 14 (4.36%) Ariba
6 12 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.43%) Google
8 8 (2.49%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.18%) Databricks
9 7 (2.18%) Sage
10 6 (1.87%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.56%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.56%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.56%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.25%) NetCracker
13 3 (0.93%) Amdocs
14 2 (0.62%) AppDynamics
14 2 (0.62%) Ciena
14 2 (0.62%) Splunk
14 2 (0.62%) Talend