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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 366 386
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 -28
Contract jobs citing Billing 321 196 201
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.60% 0.52%
As % of the General category 1.09% 0.94% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 123 127
10th Percentile £400 £300 £276
25th Percentile £469 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -3.47%
75th Percentile £634 £613 £600
90th Percentile £763 £710 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +15.76% -15.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 10
10th Percentile £13.45 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £13.64 £24.31 £14.50
Median hourly rate £15.98 £41.75 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.74% +30.47% -82.22%
75th Percentile £27.84 £59.06 £74.69
90th Percentile £42.38 £61.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.45 £22.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -32.09% +5.81% +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 29,578 20,791 22,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.13% 63.49% 57.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,440 12,926 13,659
10th Percentile £313 £275 £292
25th Percentile £418 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £499
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.71% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,300 1,170 1,213
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.87 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.88% -31.10% +32.73%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.84 £70.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.93 £22.06 £36.08
% change year-on-year +44.72% -38.86% +39.05%

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 September 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 September 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 1 September 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 -51 252 £543 +20.56% 471
London -42 131 £575 +17.95% 292
UK excluding London -48 123 £492 +15.76% 219
Work from Home +11 122 £500 +2.56% 207
South East -47 49 £470 +4.44% 66
North of England -54 26 £492 +37.43% 57
Midlands -39 21 £488 +22.64% 43
West Midlands -39 16 £473 +18.87% 22
North West -49 13 £600 -14.29% 39
Scotland - 11 £525 - 13
Yorkshire -31 10 £461 +50.63% 8
South West -45 9 £500 +17.65% 14
East of England -18 7 £581 +66.07% 13
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 21
North East - 3 - - 10
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 11
Wales -14 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 7 (2.18%) Confluence
2 5 (1.56%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) Mendix
4 1 (0.31%) Mule
4 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 48 (14.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (13.08%) SAP BRIM
3 26 (8.10%) SAP FI
4 23 (7.17%) SAP FI-CA
5 22 (6.85%) SAP PSCD
5 22 (6.85%) SAP SD
6 17 (5.30%) NetSuite
7 13 (4.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (3.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (3.12%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
10 8 (2.49%) SAP Hybris
11 6 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (1.87%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (1.87%) SAP Convergent Charging
12 5 (1.56%) Sage X3
13 4 (1.25%) SAP CO
13 4 (1.25%) SAP ERP
14 3 (0.93%) Cloudability
14 3 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 52 (16.20%) Azure
2 36 (11.21%) AWS
3 27 (8.41%) GCP
4 24 (7.48%) SaaS
5 17 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (4.98%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.36%) Serverless
8 11 (3.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 9 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.49%) GitHub
10 8 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.49%) OCI
10 8 (2.49%) 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%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (1.56%) Cloud Functions
12 5 (1.56%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.49%) 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
5 2 (0.62%) 4G
5 2 (0.62%) Multicast
5 2 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.62%) SMS
5 2 (0.62%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.62%) Wireless
6 1 (0.31%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (2.80%) BigQuery
1 9 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (2.80%) Power BI
2 7 (2.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.56%) Delta Lake
3 5 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.93%) Metadata
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.62%) Looker
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.31%) Power Query
7 1 (0.31%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.67%) JIRA
2 6 (1.87%) Git
3 5 (1.56%) RStudio
4 2 (0.62%) JMeter
4 2 (0.62%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.62%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) GitLab
5 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
General
1 167 (52.02%) Finance
2 93 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (11.21%) Telecoms
5 26 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.54%) Banking
7 14 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.12%) Legal
9 10 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.80%) Marketing
11 8 (2.49%) Corporate Banking
12 7 (2.18%) Retail
13 6 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.56%) Back Office
14 5 (1.56%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.25%) Publishing
16 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (24.30%) Consultant
2 63 (19.63%) Architect
3 55 (17.13%) SAP Consultant
4 44 (13.71%) 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 26 (8.10%) Senior
10 23 (7.17%) SAP Functional Consultant
11 13 (4.05%) SAP SD Consultant
12 12 (3.74%) Developer
12 12 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.80%) Financial Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
14 8 (2.49%) Data Engineer
14 8 (2.49%) Product Lead
14 8 (2.49%) Salesforce Analyst
14 8 (2.49%) Salesforce Business Analyst
15 7 (2.18%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.61%) REST
2 17 (5.30%) BAPI
3 12 (3.74%) Terraform
4 11 (3.43%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (3.12%) Kafka
6 6 (1.87%) .NET
6 6 (1.87%) OpenAPI
6 6 (1.87%) Swagger
7 5 (1.56%) EDI
7 5 (1.56%) Middleware
7 5 (1.56%) PySpark
7 5 (1.56%) RAML
7 5 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (1.56%) SOAP
8 4 (1.25%) JSON
8 4 (1.25%) Web Services
8 4 (1.25%) XML
9 2 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.62%) Loki
10 1 (0.31%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.03%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 21 (6.54%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.12%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.56%) TM Forum
7 5 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.25%) CMDB
8 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.25%) Life Science
8 4 (1.25%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.93%) NHS
9 3 (0.93%) Reinsurance
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
1 106 (33.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 66 (20.56%) Migration
3 56 (17.45%) ERP
4 53 (16.51%) CRM
4 53 (16.51%) Roadmaps
5 47 (14.64%) Order to Cash
6 46 (14.33%) Agile
7 43 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (13.40%) Workshop Facilitation
8 40 (12.46%) User Acceptance Testing
9 38 (11.84%) Validation
10 34 (10.59%) Order Management
11 33 (10.28%) Analytics
12 29 (9.03%) AI
12 29 (9.03%) Data Migration
12 29 (9.03%) Decision-Making
13 27 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (8.41%) Requirements Gathering
13 27 (8.41%) Revenue Management
14 26 (8.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.59%) SQL
2 23 (7.17%) Python
3 7 (2.18%) Java
4 6 (1.87%) R
5 5 (1.56%) DataWeave
5 5 (1.56%) X++
6 3 (0.93%) Bash
6 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.93%) Rust
7 2 (0.62%) ABAP
7 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.62%) C#
7 2 (0.62%) Go
7 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) C++
8 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 27 (8.41%) 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 23 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.74%) SLA
3 7 (2.18%) QA
4 6 (1.87%) GDPR
4 6 (1.87%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.87%) PMO
4 6 (1.87%) SEPA
5 5 (1.56%) IFRS
6 3 (0.93%) GxP
6 3 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 8583
7 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 4 (1.25%) Grafana
3 2 (0.62%) Argo
3 2 (0.62%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.62%) SCCM
4 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 106 (33.02%) SAP
2 44 (13.71%) Microsoft
3 41 (12.77%) Salesforce
4 37 (11.53%) Oracle
5 14 (4.36%) Ariba
6 12 (3.74%) Google
7 9 (2.80%) Databricks
7 9 (2.80%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.49%) Sage
9 7 (2.18%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.87%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.56%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.56%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.25%) NetCracker
13 3 (0.93%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.93%) Informatica
13 3 (0.93%) Talend
14 2 (0.62%) Aderant
14 2 (0.62%) Duck Creek
14 2 (0.62%) Nokia