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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 360 391
Rank change year-on-year -12 +31 +5
Contract jobs citing Billing 317 192 208
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.59% 0.49%
As % of the General category 1.09% 0.94% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 116 132
10th Percentile £363 £304 £254
25th Percentile £460 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% -7.80% -3.55%
75th Percentile £656 £577 £604
90th Percentile £785 £688 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +1.50% -6.40% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 12
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.75 -
25th Percentile £13.70 £23.33 £14.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £40.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +118.92% -89.72%
75th Percentile £31.88 £60.63 £52.00
90th Percentile £42.38 £69.25 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 £19.91 £15.50
% change year-on-year -19.76% +28.45% -

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 29,030 20,484 24,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.87% 62.93% 57.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,339 12,845 15,110
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £488
% change year-on-year +6.61% -3.94% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,028 1,056 1,756
10th Percentile £14.02 £13.30 £13.12
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.00 £26.21 £33.97
Median % change year-on-year +25.91% -22.83% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £51.93 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £71.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +46.67% -31.95% +26.01%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -46 248 £525 +16.15% 154
London -19 130 £600 +32.16% 85
Work from Home +4 127 £500 +2.56% 72
UK excluding London -72 119 £475 +1.50% 96
South East -37 56 £469 - 41
Midlands -33 24 £500 +58.73% 10
North of England -70 21 £492 -6.29% 22
West Midlands -42 20 £475 +50.79% 8
Yorkshire -32 11 £461 -7.81% 4
North West -52 10 £575 +4.55% 17
Scotland - 9 £525 - 1
East of England -16 7 £631 +80.36% 11
South West -51 6 £500 +17.65% 8
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 2
Wales -13 1 £475 -13.64% 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 6 (1.89%) Confluence
2 5 (1.58%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.26%) Apache
4 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Mule
5 1 (0.32%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 52 (16.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (14.51%) SAP BRIM
3 33 (10.41%) SAP FI
4 30 (9.46%) SAP PSCD
5 29 (9.15%) SAP FI-CA
6 23 (7.26%) SAP SD
7 16 (5.05%) NetSuite
8 13 (4.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 10 (3.15%) SAP Hybris
10 9 (2.84%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (2.52%) Oracle Payables
12 7 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
13 6 (1.89%) SAP Convergent Charging
14 5 (1.58%) Oracle ERP
14 5 (1.58%) Sage X3
14 5 (1.58%) SAP CO
15 4 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
15 4 (1.26%) Salesforce CRM
15 4 (1.26%) SAP ERP
15 4 (1.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 43 (13.56%) Azure
2 32 (10.09%) AWS
3 24 (7.57%) GCP
4 18 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.42%) SaaS
6 13 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (3.79%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 10 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.15%) Serverless
9 7 (2.21%) GitHub
9 7 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.21%) OCI
9 7 (2.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (1.58%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.58%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (1.58%) Fivetran
11 5 (1.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.84%) WAN
2 5 (1.58%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.26%) 5G
3 4 (1.26%) HTTP
3 4 (1.26%) Internet
4 3 (0.95%) 4G
4 3 (0.95%) Broadband
4 3 (0.95%) LAN
4 3 (0.95%) MPLS
4 3 (0.95%) Network Security
4 3 (0.95%) SMS
4 3 (0.95%) Wireless
5 2 (0.63%) Multicast
5 2 (0.63%) NaaS
5 2 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.63%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.47%) Power BI
2 8 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.21%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.95%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.63%) Flink
6 2 (0.63%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.63%) MySQL
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (5.36%) JIRA
2 8 (2.52%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) JMeter
3 2 (0.63%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.63%) NeoLoad
3 2 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.63%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 164 (51.74%) Finance
2 93 (29.34%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.25%) Telecoms
4 35 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.99%) Banking
7 14 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.15%) Legal
11 7 (2.21%) Corporate Banking
11 7 (2.21%) Marketing
11 7 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.58%) Back Office
12 5 (1.58%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.26%) Publishing
13 4 (1.26%) Retail
14 3 (0.95%) German Language
14 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (26.18%) Consultant
2 63 (19.87%) SAP Consultant
3 58 (18.30%) Architect
4 36 (11.36%) Analyst
5 31 (9.78%) Functional Consultant
6 28 (8.83%) Lead
6 28 (8.83%) Senior
6 28 (8.83%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (8.20%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 25 (7.89%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.10%) Developer
10 12 (3.79%) SAP SD Consultant
11 9 (2.84%) Data Engineer
11 9 (2.84%) Enterprise Architect
11 9 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
12 8 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.52%) Senior Consultant
13 7 (2.21%) Financial Analyst
13 7 (2.21%) Senior SAP Consultant
13 7 (2.21%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.89%) BAPI
2 15 (4.73%) REST
3 12 (3.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (3.15%) Kafka
5 8 (2.52%) .NET
6 7 (2.21%) OpenAPI
6 7 (2.21%) Swagger
7 6 (1.89%) Middleware
7 6 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (1.89%) SOAP
8 5 (1.58%) RAML
8 5 (1.58%) Web Services
9 4 (1.26%) EDI
9 4 (1.26%) JSON
9 4 (1.26%) XML
10 2 (0.63%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.63%) gRPC
10 2 (0.63%) IDoc
10 2 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.83%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.15%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.21%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.58%) Life Science
6 5 (1.58%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.26%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.26%) TM Forum
8 3 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.95%) NHS
8 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.95%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.63%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.21%) Android
2 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.63%) HPUX
3 2 (0.63%) Linux
3 2 (0.63%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (27.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (17.03%) CRM
3 53 (16.72%) ERP
4 50 (15.77%) Migration
5 49 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (14.20%) Order to Cash
7 42 (13.25%) Agile
7 42 (13.25%) Roadmaps
8 39 (12.30%) Validation
9 38 (11.99%) User Acceptance Testing
10 37 (11.67%) Workshop Facilitation
11 33 (10.41%) Decision-Making
12 29 (9.15%) Order Management
13 28 (8.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (8.52%) Revenue Management
15 26 (8.20%) Analytics
15 26 (8.20%) Data Modelling
15 26 (8.20%) Procure-to-Pay
16 23 (7.26%) Data Migration
16 23 (7.26%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.78%) SQL
2 18 (5.68%) Python
3 8 (2.52%) Java
4 5 (1.58%) DataWeave
4 5 (1.58%) X++
5 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
5 3 (0.95%) Rust
6 2 (0.63%) ABAP
6 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.63%) Bash
6 2 (0.63%) C#
6 2 (0.63%) C++
6 2 (0.63%) Go
6 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.32%) R
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (8.52%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.58%) Degree
5 4 (1.26%) ACCA
5 4 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.95%) CIMA
6 3 (0.95%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.63%) CBAP
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.32%) PMP
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.42%) SLA
3 7 (2.21%) GDPR
4 6 (1.89%) IFRS
4 6 (1.89%) PMO
5 5 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.26%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.26%) QA
6 4 (1.26%) SEPA
7 3 (0.95%) GxP
8 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.63%) GAAP
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.79%) Terraform
2 8 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.26%) Grafana
4 3 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.95%) SCCM
5 2 (0.63%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.63%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 113 (35.65%) SAP
2 41 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 39 (12.30%) Salesforce
4 38 (11.99%) Oracle
5 12 (3.79%) Ariba
5 12 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.52%) Google
7 7 (2.21%) Sage
8 6 (1.89%) Computacenter
8 6 (1.89%) Guidewire
9 5 (1.58%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.58%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.58%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.26%) Remedy
11 3 (0.95%) Apple
11 3 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.95%) PeopleSoft
12 2 (0.63%) Amdocs
12 2 (0.63%) Conga
12 2 (0.63%) NetCracker