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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 343 382
Rank change year-on-year -45 +39 +100
Contract jobs citing Billing 257 185 219
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.63% 0.51%
As % of the General category 1.00% 1.00% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 106 128
10th Percentile £365 £281 £248
25th Percentile £462 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% -7.80% -4.76%
75th Percentile £695 £550 £625
90th Percentile £825 £675 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -10.00% +0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 9
10th Percentile £17.00 £26.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £36.69 £14.50
Median hourly rate £31.25 £72.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.90% +367.74% -75.20%
75th Percentile £38.69 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £42.38 £75.75 £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £72.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -56.90% +367.74% -65.56%

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 25,766 18,539 25,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.11% 63.24% 58.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,810 11,839 15,826
10th Percentile £306 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +0.21% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,650 792 1,938
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £60.56 £56.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.50% -2.59%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -61 207 £518 +14.43% 265
London -7 111 £625 +32.77% 144
Work from Home +1 106 £550 +18.22% 108
UK excluding London -106 85 £469 +4.22% 146
South East -48 52 £469 +0.21% 62
North of England -54 14 £447 -8.59% 44
Midlands -60 12 £372 +17.94% 18
West Midlands -48 10 £475 +50.79% 12
North West -42 8 £447 -8.59% 26
East of England -33 7 £631 +80.36% 13
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 10
South West -49 3 £475 +11.76% 11
Scotland +1 2 £455 +17.87% 2
Wales -15 1 £475 -13.64% 2
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 6

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 (2.72%) Apache
2 5 (1.95%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.56%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.17%) Appian
4 3 (1.17%) Camunda
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 19 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 36 (14.01%) SAP BRIM
1 36 (14.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (12.84%) SAP PSCD
3 24 (9.34%) SAP FI
4 22 (8.56%) SAP FI-CA
5 14 (5.45%) SAP Hybris
5 14 (5.45%) SAP SD
6 9 (3.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (3.50%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (1.17%) NetSuite
8 3 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (1.17%) SAP CO
8 3 (1.17%) SAP ERP
8 3 (1.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle BRM
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.78%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 27 (10.51%) Azure
2 20 (7.78%) AWS
3 15 (5.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 13 (5.06%) GCP
4 13 (5.06%) SaaS
5 10 (3.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (2.72%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.56%) OCI
9 4 (1.56%) Serverless
10 3 (1.17%) Boomi
10 3 (1.17%) Figma
10 3 (1.17%) Google Docs
10 3 (1.17%) Google Sheets
10 3 (1.17%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.72%) WAN
2 4 (1.56%) HTTP
2 4 (1.56%) Internet
3 3 (1.17%) LAN
3 3 (1.17%) MPLS
3 3 (1.17%) Network Security
3 3 (1.17%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.17%) Wireless
4 2 (0.78%) Broadband
4 2 (0.78%) GPRS
4 2 (0.78%) GSM
4 2 (0.78%) NaaS
5 1 (0.39%) 4G
5 1 (0.39%) 5G
5 1 (0.39%) BGP
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.39%) OSPF
5 1 (0.39%) SMS
5 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.95%) Power BI
2 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.17%) Metadata
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.78%) Flink
4 2 (0.78%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.78%) MySQL
4 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.78%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (5.84%) JIRA
2 11 (4.28%) Git
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 119 (46.30%) Finance
2 80 (31.13%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.73%) Telecoms
4 34 (13.23%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.06%) Legal
7 11 (4.28%) Banking
8 9 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.33%) Law
11 5 (1.95%) Back Office
11 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.56%) Publishing
13 3 (1.17%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.17%) German Language
13 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.17%) Retail
14 2 (0.78%) Automotive
14 2 (0.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 67 (26.07%) Consultant
2 50 (19.46%) Architect
3 47 (18.29%) SAP Consultant
4 28 (10.89%) Solutions Architect
5 23 (8.95%) Functional Consultant
6 21 (8.17%) Analyst
7 18 (7.00%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 14 (5.45%) Senior
9 12 (4.67%) Developer
10 10 (3.89%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Lead
13 7 (2.72%) Contracts Manager
13 7 (2.72%) Coordinator
13 7 (2.72%) Oracle Consultant
14 6 (2.33%) Designer
14 6 (2.33%) Product Manager
14 6 (2.33%) SAP Architect
15 5 (1.95%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.00%) REST
2 17 (6.61%) BAPI
3 9 (3.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.11%) Middleware
4 8 (3.11%) OpenAPI
4 8 (3.11%) SOAP
4 8 (3.11%) Swagger
5 6 (2.33%) .NET
5 6 (2.33%) JSON
6 4 (1.56%) EDI
6 4 (1.56%) Kafka
6 4 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.56%) RAML
6 4 (1.56%) Web Services
6 4 (1.56%) XML
7 3 (1.17%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.17%) gRPC
7 3 (1.17%) Pandas
8 2 (0.78%) IDoc
8 2 (0.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.84%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.72%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.95%) Life Science
7 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.56%) TM Forum
8 3 (1.17%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.17%) IoT
8 3 (1.17%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.78%) iPhone
9 2 (0.78%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.17%) Unix
2 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) HPUX
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (21.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (13.62%) CRM
3 31 (12.06%) Decision-Making
3 31 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (11.67%) Order to Cash
5 29 (11.28%) ERP
6 28 (10.89%) Data Modelling
6 28 (10.89%) Workshop Facilitation
7 27 (10.51%) Migration
8 26 (10.12%) Agile
9 24 (9.34%) Validation
10 23 (8.95%) Revenue Management
10 23 (8.95%) User Acceptance Testing
11 21 (8.17%) Cost Management
12 20 (7.78%) Order Management
12 20 (7.78%) Roadmaps
13 19 (7.39%) CI/CD
14 18 (7.00%) Data Migration
15 17 (6.61%) Project Management
15 17 (6.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.34%) SQL
2 15 (5.84%) Python
3 10 (3.89%) Java
4 6 (2.33%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.56%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.56%) DataWeave
6 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.78%) ABAP
7 2 (0.78%) C#
7 2 (0.78%) C++
7 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.78%) VBA
7 2 (0.78%) X++
8 1 (0.39%) Bash
8 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.39%) Groovy
8 1 (0.39%) R
8 1 (0.39%) SOQL
8 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (10.12%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.11%) ACCA
5 7 (2.72%) CIMA
6 4 (1.56%) Degree
7 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AAT
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.39%) CCDE
9 1 (0.39%) CCDP
9 1 (0.39%) CCIE
9 1 (0.39%) CCNP
9 1 (0.39%) ECDL
9 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.50%) SLA
3 8 (3.11%) GDPR
4 6 (2.33%) PMO
5 3 (1.17%) GxP
5 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.78%) GAAP
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS
6 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (1.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.95%) Grafana
1 5 (1.95%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.95%) Prometheus
2 4 (1.56%) Terraform
3 2 (0.78%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.78%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 84 (32.68%) SAP
2 35 (13.62%) Oracle
3 31 (12.06%) Salesforce
4 24 (9.34%) Microsoft
5 16 (6.23%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.28%) Guidewire
7 8 (3.11%) Google
8 6 (2.33%) Ariba
9 5 (1.95%) PeopleSoft
10 4 (1.56%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.56%) Remedy
10 4 (1.56%) Workday
11 3 (1.17%) Apple
11 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.17%) Pega
12 2 (0.78%) Amdocs
12 2 (0.78%) Ciena
12 2 (0.78%) Conga
12 2 (0.78%) Nokia