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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 364 359
Rank change year-on-year -23 -5 -12
Contract jobs citing Billing 318 199 202
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.60% 0.52%
As % of the General category 1.07% 0.95% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 125 127
10th Percentile £400 £300 £247
25th Percentile £469 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -3.47%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £598
90th Percentile £769 £708 £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 13 4 10
10th Percentile £13.45 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £13.70 £24.31 £14.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £41.75 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.48% +30.47% -82.22%
75th Percentile £25.00 £59.06 £74.69
90th Percentile £42.38 £61.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 £22.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -29.78% +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 29,707 20,917 22,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.12% 63.48% 57.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,543 13,012 13,683
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £416 £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 £740 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.30% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,298 1,175 1,220
10th Percentile £13.79 £13.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.17 £17.06
Median hourly rate £31.13 £25.15 £37.04
Median % change year-on-year +23.77% -32.10% +34.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £22.05 £37.28
% change year-on-year +42.86% -40.85% +48.38%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -53 249 £537 +19.33% 437
London -48 127 £575 +17.95% 271
UK excluding London -46 124 £492 +15.76% 211
Work from Home +3 123 £500 +2.56% 181
South East -53 49 £470 +4.44% 65
North of England -53 27 £492 +37.43% 55
Midlands -32 21 £488 +22.64% 37
West Midlands -28 16 £473 +18.87% 16
North West -51 14 £600 -14.29% 38
Scotland - 11 £525 - 13
Yorkshire -38 10 £461 +50.63% 7
South West -46 9 £500 +17.65% 15
East of England -19 7 £581 +66.07% 15
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 21
North East - 3 - - 10
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 10
Wales -15 1 £475 -13.64% 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 7 (2.20%) Confluence
2 5 (1.57%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.26%) Apache
3 4 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
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 18 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 48 (15.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (13.21%) SAP BRIM
3 26 (8.18%) SAP FI
4 23 (7.23%) SAP FI-CA
5 22 (6.92%) SAP PSCD
5 22 (6.92%) SAP SD
6 17 (5.35%) NetSuite
7 13 (4.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 11 (3.46%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (3.14%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (2.52%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
12 6 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
12 6 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (1.89%) SAP Convergent Charging
13 5 (1.57%) Sage X3
14 4 (1.26%) SAP CO
14 4 (1.26%) SAP ERP
15 3 (0.94%) Cloudability
15 3 (0.94%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 49 (15.41%) Azure
2 34 (10.69%) AWS
3 26 (8.18%) GCP
4 23 (7.23%) SaaS
5 16 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (5.03%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.09%) Serverless
7 11 (3.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 9 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.52%) GitHub
9 8 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.52%) OCI
10 7 (2.20%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (1.57%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.57%) Cloud Functions
12 5 (1.57%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.52%) WAN
2 5 (1.57%) Broadband
2 5 (1.57%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.26%) HTTP
4 3 (0.94%) 5G
4 3 (0.94%) Internet
4 3 (0.94%) LAN
4 3 (0.94%) MPLS
4 3 (0.94%) Network Security
5 2 (0.63%) 4G
5 2 (0.63%) Multicast
5 2 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.63%) SMS
5 2 (0.63%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.63%) Wireless
6 1 (0.31%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.83%) BigQuery
1 9 (2.83%) Power BI
2 8 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.57%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.26%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.94%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.94%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.63%) Looker
7 2 (0.63%) Metadata
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.31%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.31%) Power Query
8 1 (0.31%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.72%) JIRA
2 6 (1.89%) Git
3 4 (1.26%) RStudio
4 2 (0.63%) JMeter
4 2 (0.63%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.63%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) GitLab
5 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
General
1 167 (52.52%) Finance
2 93 (29.25%) Social Skills
3 40 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (11.32%) Telecoms
5 26 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.29%) Banking
7 14 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.14%) Legal
11 9 (2.83%) Marketing
12 8 (2.52%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.89%) Retail
14 5 (1.57%) Back Office
14 5 (1.57%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.26%) Publishing
16 3 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 78 (24.53%) Consultant
2 61 (19.18%) Architect
3 55 (17.30%) SAP Consultant
4 44 (13.84%) Analyst
5 33 (10.38%) Lead
6 32 (10.06%) Business Analyst
7 29 (9.12%) Functional Consultant
8 27 (8.49%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (8.18%) Senior
10 23 (7.23%) SAP Functional Consultant
11 13 (4.09%) SAP SD Consultant
12 12 (3.77%) Developer
13 11 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.83%) Financial Analyst
14 9 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
15 8 (2.52%) Data Engineer
15 8 (2.52%) Product Lead
15 8 (2.52%) Salesforce Analyst
15 8 (2.52%) Salesforce Business Analyst
16 7 (2.20%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.35%) BAPI
1 17 (5.35%) REST
2 12 (3.77%) Terraform
3 11 (3.46%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (2.83%) Kafka
5 6 (1.89%) .NET
5 6 (1.89%) OpenAPI
5 6 (1.89%) Swagger
6 5 (1.57%) EDI
6 5 (1.57%) Middleware
6 5 (1.57%) RAML
6 5 (1.57%) SAP Fiori
6 5 (1.57%) SOAP
7 4 (1.26%) JSON
7 4 (1.26%) PySpark
7 4 (1.26%) Web Services
7 4 (1.26%) XML
8 2 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.63%) Loki
9 1 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.81%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.57%) TM Forum
7 5 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.26%) CMDB
8 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.26%) Life Science
9 3 (0.94%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.89%) Android
2 4 (1.26%) Windows
3 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.63%) HPUX
3 2 (0.63%) Linux
3 2 (0.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (32.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 63 (19.81%) Migration
3 55 (17.30%) ERP
4 52 (16.35%) CRM
4 52 (16.35%) Roadmaps
5 46 (14.47%) Agile
5 46 (14.47%) Order to Cash
6 43 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (13.21%) Workshop Facilitation
8 39 (12.26%) User Acceptance Testing
9 37 (11.64%) Validation
10 33 (10.38%) Order Management
11 32 (10.06%) Analytics
12 29 (9.12%) Decision-Making
13 28 (8.81%) AI
14 27 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (8.49%) Data Migration
14 27 (8.49%) Revenue Management
15 26 (8.18%) Requirements Gathering
16 25 (7.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.06%) SQL
2 22 (6.92%) Python
3 6 (1.89%) Java
4 5 (1.57%) DataWeave
4 5 (1.57%) R
4 5 (1.57%) X++
5 3 (0.94%) Bash
5 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.94%) Rust
6 2 (0.63%) ABAP
6 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.63%) C#
6 2 (0.63%) Go
6 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.31%) C++
7 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 27 (8.49%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.20%) Degree
5 6 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.63%) ACCA
8 2 (0.63%) CBAP
8 2 (0.63%) 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 21 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.46%) SLA
3 7 (2.20%) QA
4 6 (1.89%) GDPR
4 6 (1.89%) PMO
5 5 (1.57%) IFRS
5 5 (1.57%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.57%) SEPA
6 3 (0.94%) GxP
6 3 (0.94%) 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 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.26%) Grafana
3 2 (0.63%) Argo
3 2 (0.63%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.63%) SCCM
4 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 107 (33.65%) SAP
2 43 (13.52%) Microsoft
3 41 (12.89%) Salesforce
4 37 (11.64%) Oracle
5 14 (4.40%) Ariba
6 11 (3.46%) Google
7 9 (2.83%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.52%) Sage
9 7 (2.20%) Databricks
9 7 (2.20%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.89%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.57%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.57%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.26%) NetCracker
13 3 (0.94%) Dynatrace
14 2 (0.63%) Aderant
14 2 (0.63%) Conga
14 2 (0.63%) Duck Creek
14 2 (0.63%) Splunk
14 2 (0.63%) Talend