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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 344 386
Rank change year-on-year -47 +42 +97
Contract jobs citing Billing 245 179 217
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.62% 0.49%
As % of the General category 0.98% 0.98% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 91 125
10th Percentile £351 £325 £263
25th Percentile £450 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -3.47% -1.33%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £638
90th Percentile £839 £675 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £495 £518
% change year-on-year -6.27% -4.44% +9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 9
10th Percentile - £29.00 £12.10
25th Percentile - £50.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% -61.25%
75th Percentile £33.44 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £42.38 - £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% -45.61%

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 25,119 18,234 25,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.22% 62.79% 58.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,660 11,696 16,405
10th Percentile £300 £300 £268
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,557 715 1,850
10th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.14 £19.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.00 £58.56 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £27.70 £25.00
% change year-on-year -13.36% +10.80% -19.35%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -66 198 £500 - 190
Work from Home -11 101 £561 +12.25% 94
London -35 96 £600 +20.00% 100
UK excluding London -77 94 £464 -6.27% 122
South East -29 62 £470 -8.68% 52
North of England -65 13 £447 -8.59% 36
Midlands -67 10 £372 -27.86% 8
West Midlands -53 9 £475 -7.77% 5
North West -42 7 £447 -8.59% 23
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 11
Scotland +12 5 £373 -3.27% 4
East of England -31 5 £513 -6.82% 9
South West -35 3 £325 -25.71% 9
Wales -9 2 £378 -31.36% 5
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 3

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 6 (2.45%) Appian
1 6 (2.45%) Camunda
2 5 (2.04%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 23 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 34 (13.88%) SAP PSCD
2 25 (10.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 24 (9.80%) SAP BRIM
4 19 (7.76%) SAP FI
4 19 (7.76%) SAP FI-CA
5 16 (6.53%) SAP Hybris
6 8 (3.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (3.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (3.27%) SAP SD
7 4 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (1.22%) Oracle BRM
8 3 (1.22%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.82%) Documaker
9 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 34 (13.88%) Azure
2 20 (8.16%) AWS
3 17 (6.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 13 (5.31%) SaaS
5 12 (4.90%) GCP
6 10 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (3.67%) GitHub
7 9 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.45%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.45%) Serverless
11 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.22%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.22%) Figma
12 3 (1.22%) Google Docs
12 3 (1.22%) Google Sheets
12 3 (1.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.86%) WAN
2 4 (1.63%) Internet
3 3 (1.22%) Broadband
3 3 (1.22%) GPRS
3 3 (1.22%) GSM
3 3 (1.22%) LAN
3 3 (1.22%) MPLS
3 3 (1.22%) Network Security
3 3 (1.22%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.22%) Wireless
4 2 (0.82%) NaaS
5 1 (0.41%) 4G
5 1 (0.41%) 5G
5 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.41%) OSPF
5 1 (0.41%) SMS
5 1 (0.41%) SSL
5 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (2.45%) Delta Lake
1 6 (2.45%) Parquet
1 6 (2.45%) Power BI
2 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.22%) Metadata
4 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.82%) Flink
4 2 (0.82%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.82%) MySQL
4 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.82%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 15 (6.12%) JIRA
2 5 (2.04%) Git
3 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.82%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Postman
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 117 (47.76%) Finance
2 93 (37.96%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.73%) Public Sector
4 40 (16.33%) Telecoms
5 30 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.53%) Legal
7 12 (4.90%) Law
7 12 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.49%) Banking
9 6 (2.45%) Retail
10 5 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.63%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.63%) Publishing
12 3 (1.22%) German Language
12 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.82%) Automotive
13 2 (0.82%) Back Office
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
14 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 57 (23.27%) Consultant
2 41 (16.73%) SAP Consultant
3 34 (13.88%) Architect
4 20 (8.16%) Analyst
4 20 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (6.94%) Functional Consultant
6 15 (6.12%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 15 (6.12%) Senior
7 13 (5.31%) Developer
8 10 (4.08%) Coordinator
8 10 (4.08%) Designer
9 9 (3.67%) Business Analyst
9 9 (3.67%) Contracts Manager
9 9 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.67%) Solutions Designer
10 7 (2.86%) Operations Manager
11 6 (2.45%) Lead
11 6 (2.45%) Product Manager
11 6 (2.45%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.31%) BAPI
2 12 (4.90%) REST
3 8 (3.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (3.27%) PySpark
4 7 (2.86%) JSON
5 6 (2.45%) .NET
5 6 (2.45%) Middleware
5 6 (2.45%) SOAP
6 5 (2.04%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.04%) Great Expectations
7 4 (1.63%) Kafka
7 4 (1.63%) OpenAPI
7 4 (1.63%) Swagger
8 3 (1.22%) gRPC
8 3 (1.22%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (1.22%) Pandas
8 3 (1.22%) Web Services
9 2 (0.82%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.82%) EDI
9 2 (0.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.63%) Life Science
6 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.63%) TM Forum
7 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.22%) IoT
7 3 (1.22%) IPTV
7 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.22%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Unix
2 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) CentOS
3 1 (0.41%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (16.73%) CRM
3 39 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (13.06%) Decision-Making
5 30 (12.24%) Validation
6 29 (11.84%) Data Modelling
7 26 (10.61%) Workshop Facilitation
8 24 (9.80%) Agile
8 24 (9.80%) Order to Cash
9 23 (9.39%) CI/CD
9 23 (9.39%) ERP
9 23 (9.39%) Migration
10 22 (8.98%) Observability
10 22 (8.98%) Order Management
10 22 (8.98%) Process Improvement
11 21 (8.57%) Accounts Receivable
11 21 (8.57%) Cost Management
12 19 (7.76%) Cost Optimisation
12 19 (7.76%) Data Migration
12 19 (7.76%) Revenue Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.43%) SQL
2 18 (7.35%) Python
3 10 (4.08%) Java
4 7 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.22%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.22%) Bash
6 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.22%) PHP
6 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.82%) C#
7 2 (0.82%) C++
7 2 (0.82%) VBA
8 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) R
8 1 (0.41%) SOQL
8 1 (0.41%) SOSL
8 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 29 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.90%) ACCA
2 12 (4.90%) CIMA
2 12 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
4 5 (2.04%) Degree
5 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.82%) AAT
6 2 (0.82%) ECDL
6 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.82%) PMP
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) CCDE
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) MBA
7 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.08%) GDPR
3 9 (3.67%) SLA
4 6 (2.45%) PMO
5 3 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.82%) GxP
6 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) GAAP
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.63%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.45%) Grafana
1 6 (2.45%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.45%) Terraform
2 5 (2.04%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.82%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.82%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.82%) SCCM
4 1 (0.41%) Ansible
4 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (25.71%) SAP
2 30 (12.24%) Oracle
3 26 (10.61%) Salesforce
4 24 (9.80%) Microsoft
5 17 (6.94%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.27%) Google
6 8 (3.27%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.86%) Databricks
8 6 (2.45%) Pega
9 5 (2.04%) Ariba
9 5 (2.04%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.04%) Workday
10 4 (1.63%) Remedy
10 4 (1.63%) Xero
11 3 (1.22%) Apple
11 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.22%) Spotify
12 2 (0.82%) Amdocs