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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 367 371
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +108
Contract jobs citing Billing 243 173 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.55% 0.54%
As % of the General category 1.06% 0.89% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 84 119
10th Percentile £380 £208 £238
25th Percentile £465 £425 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% -0.49%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £628
90th Percentile £875 £700 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -17.64% +6.18% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 9
10th Percentile £16.90 £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% -38.96%
75th Percentile £17.66 £75.00 £16.00
90th Percentile £23.43 £75.25 £26.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £14.38
% change year-on-year -75.71% +386.70% -4.12%

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 22,967 19,471 26,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.28% 61.92% 58.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,411 11,610 17,070
10th Percentile £286 £284 £265
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £731 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.09% -3.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,400 630 1,545
10th Percentile £13.71 £15.62 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.00 £15.17
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.23% +8.48% +4.00%
75th Percentile £46.00 £53.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.85 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £26.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.75% +6.00% +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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +3 210 £523 -4.57% 121
London +5 103 £625 +25.00% 62
Work from Home +25 98 £591 +14.76% 52
UK excluding London -28 98 £453 -17.64% 87
South East +7 66 £470 -9.40% 41
Midlands -40 13 £573 -0.35% 6
West Midlands -34 12 £699 +35.73% 3
North of England -50 10 £447 -25.50% 21
North West - 8 £447 - 18
South West -18 7 £325 -31.58% 8
Scotland +9 4 £373 -3.27% 2
East of England -18 3 £388 - 7
Yorkshire -52 2 £351 -41.58% 2
East Midlands -25 1 £268 -57.05% 3
Wales - 1 £280 - 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 7 (2.88%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.47%) Appian
2 6 (2.47%) Camunda
3 3 (1.23%) Apache
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.23%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.82%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 19 (7.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 28 (11.52%) SAP PSCD
2 19 (7.82%) SAP BRIM
3 18 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (7.00%) SAP Hybris
5 15 (6.17%) SAP FI-CA
6 13 (5.35%) SAP FI
7 7 (2.88%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle BRM
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (1.23%) NetSuite
9 3 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (1.23%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.82%) Documaker
10 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.82%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 38 (15.64%) Azure
2 17 (7.00%) AWS
2 17 (7.00%) Dynamics 365
2 17 (7.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 15 (6.17%) SaaS
4 12 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.94%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.70%) GitHub
5 9 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (3.29%) GCP
7 6 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 5 (2.06%) OCI
8 5 (2.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.23%) Figma
11 2 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.23%) Broadband
1 3 (1.23%) GPRS
1 3 (1.23%) GSM
1 3 (1.23%) MVNO
2 2 (0.82%) Firewall
2 2 (0.82%) LAN
2 2 (0.82%) WAN
2 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
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%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.41%) Wireless
3 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.53%) Power BI
2 6 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.47%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.47%) Parquet
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.23%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.41%) GIS
5 1 (0.41%) Metadata
5 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (6.17%) JIRA
2 3 (1.23%) 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
1 111 (45.68%) Finance
2 107 (44.03%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 36 (14.81%) Telecoms
4 24 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.17%) Legal
6 11 (4.53%) Law
7 9 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.47%) Banking
8 6 (2.47%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.65%) Publishing
9 4 (1.65%) Retail
10 3 (1.23%) German Language
10 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Automotive
11 2 (0.82%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) French Language
Job Titles
1 62 (25.51%) Consultant
2 38 (15.64%) Architect
3 37 (15.23%) SAP Consultant
4 26 (10.70%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (9.88%) Analyst
6 23 (9.47%) Functional Consultant
7 17 (7.00%) Developer
8 14 (5.76%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 13 (5.35%) Senior
10 12 (4.94%) Business Analyst
11 10 (4.12%) Designer
11 10 (4.12%) Lead
12 9 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.70%) Solutions Designer
13 6 (2.47%) Contracts Manager
13 6 (2.47%) Coordinator
13 6 (2.47%) Oracle Consultant
13 6 (2.47%) Project Manager
13 6 (2.47%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.70%) REST
2 8 (3.29%) .NET
2 8 (3.29%) Middleware
3 7 (2.88%) JSON
3 7 (2.88%) PySpark
4 6 (2.47%) SOAP
5 5 (2.06%) ADO
5 5 (2.06%) Great Expectations
5 5 (2.06%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.65%) BAPI
7 3 (1.23%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.23%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.23%) Web Services
8 2 (0.82%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.82%) Next.js
8 2 (0.82%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.82%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.82%) SAML
8 2 (0.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.12%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.65%) IoT
4 4 (1.65%) TM Forum
5 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.23%) IPTV
5 3 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.23%) Smart Meter
6 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.23%) Unix
2 1 (0.41%) Android
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 48 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (17.28%) CRM
3 35 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (12.76%) Agile
5 28 (11.52%) Workshop Facilitation
6 24 (9.88%) Accounts Receivable
7 23 (9.47%) Order Management
7 23 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (9.05%) CI/CD
8 22 (9.05%) Migration
8 22 (9.05%) Validation
9 21 (8.64%) Decision-Making
9 21 (8.64%) ERP
9 21 (8.64%) Process Improvement
10 19 (7.82%) Requirements Gathering
10 19 (7.82%) Revenue Management
11 18 (7.41%) Cost Management
11 18 (7.41%) Data Modelling
11 18 (7.41%) DevOps
11 18 (7.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.29%) SQL
2 12 (4.94%) Python
3 9 (3.70%) PL/SQL
4 7 (2.88%) Java
5 5 (2.06%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.65%) Groovy
7 3 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.23%) PHP
7 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.23%) X++
8 2 (0.82%) Bash
8 2 (0.82%) C#
8 2 (0.82%) SOQL
8 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.82%) VBA
9 1 (0.41%) ABAP
9 1 (0.41%) Bicep
9 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.41%) Korn
9 1 (0.41%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 23 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.76%) ACCA
2 14 (5.76%) CIMA
2 14 (5.76%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.88%) Degree
5 5 (2.06%) CTC Cleared
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%) CCDE
7 1 (0.41%) CCDP
7 1 (0.41%) CCIE
7 1 (0.41%) CCNP
7 1 (0.41%) MBA
7 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.35%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.29%) GDPR
3 4 (1.65%) SLA
4 3 (1.23%) PMO
5 2 (0.82%) QA
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.06%) Terraform
3 3 (1.23%) 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
Vendors
1 64 (26.34%) SAP
2 30 (12.35%) Salesforce
3 28 (11.52%) Oracle
4 25 (10.29%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.70%) Guidewire
5 9 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.88%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.47%) Databricks
7 6 (2.47%) Pega
8 5 (2.06%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (1.65%) Workday
9 4 (1.65%) Xero
10 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.23%) IFS
10 3 (1.23%) Remedy
10 3 (1.23%) Spotify
11 2 (0.82%) Ariba
11 2 (0.82%) Google
11 2 (0.82%) HP