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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 351 390
Rank change year-on-year -49 +39 +100
Contract jobs citing Billing 245 183 216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.63% 0.49%
As % of the General category 0.97% 0.99% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 94 122
10th Percentile £316 £302 £300
25th Percentile £450 £403 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £638 £565 £638
90th Percentile £839 £668 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £489 £517
% change year-on-year -5.74% -5.32% +14.78%
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% -65.56%
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 25,320 18,411 25,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.07% 62.99% 58.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,770 11,794 16,301
10th Percentile £303 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £643 £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 1,559 729 1,862
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.74 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.23 £18.51 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £26.37
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +9.97% -24.66%
75th Percentile £59.25 £57.62 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.55 £27.35 £25.22
% change year-on-year -10.24% +8.47% -21.57%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -64 198 £500 - 190
Work from Home -8 100 £560 +12.00% 94
London -26 96 £600 +20.00% 100
UK excluding London -88 94 £461 -5.74% 122
South East -27 62 £470 -6.90% 52
North of England -68 14 £447 -8.59% 36
Midlands -67 10 £372 -27.86% 8
West Midlands -51 9 £475 -7.77% 5
North West -44 8 £447 -8.59% 23
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 11
Scotland +9 5 £373 -3.27% 4
East of England -35 5 £513 -6.82% 9
Wales -12 2 £378 -31.36% 5
South West -38 2 £325 -23.53% 9
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 20 (8.16%) SAP FI
5 19 (7.76%) SAP FI-CA
6 16 (6.53%) SAP Hybris
7 9 (3.67%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (3.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (3.27%) SAP SD
9 4 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (1.22%) Oracle BRM
10 3 (1.22%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.82%) Documaker
11 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.82%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.29%) Azure
2 20 (8.16%) AWS
3 17 (6.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 12 (4.90%) GCP
4 12 (4.90%) SaaS
5 10 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.67%) GitHub
6 9 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.45%) Serverless
9 5 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.22%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.22%) Figma
11 3 (1.22%) Google Docs
11 3 (1.22%) Google Sheets
11 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%) BGP
5 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.41%) Firewall
5 1 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.86%) Power BI
2 6 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.45%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.45%) Parquet
3 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.22%) Metadata
5 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.82%) Flink
5 2 (0.82%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.82%) MySQL
5 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.82%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (6.53%) JIRA
2 5 (2.04%) Git
3 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.82%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
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 31 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.53%) Legal
7 12 (4.90%) Banking
7 12 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.49%) Law
9 6 (2.45%) Retail
10 5 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.22%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.22%) German Language
12 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.22%) Publishing
13 2 (0.82%) Automotive
13 2 (0.82%) Back Office
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
14 1 (0.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 58 (23.67%) Consultant
2 42 (17.14%) SAP Consultant
3 34 (13.88%) Architect
4 22 (8.98%) Analyst
5 20 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (6.94%) Functional Consultant
7 15 (6.12%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 14 (5.71%) Senior
9 13 (5.31%) Developer
10 10 (4.08%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.08%) Coordinator
10 10 (4.08%) Designer
11 9 (3.67%) Contracts Manager
11 9 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.67%) Solutions Designer
12 7 (2.86%) Operations Manager
13 6 (2.45%) Lead
13 6 (2.45%) Product Manager
13 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%) EDI
9 2 (0.82%) OAuth
9 2 (0.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.67%) 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 57 (23.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (16.33%) CRM
4 31 (12.65%) Decision-Making
5 30 (12.24%) Validation
6 29 (11.84%) Data Modelling
7 26 (10.61%) Workshop Facilitation
8 25 (10.20%) Agile
8 25 (10.20%) ERP
9 24 (9.80%) Migration
9 24 (9.80%) Order to Cash
10 23 (9.39%) CI/CD
11 22 (8.98%) Observability
11 22 (8.98%) Order Management
11 22 (8.98%) Process Improvement
12 21 (8.57%) Cost Management
13 20 (8.16%) Accounts Receivable
14 19 (7.76%) Cost Optimisation
14 19 (7.76%) Data Migration
14 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%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.49%) ACCA
3 11 (4.49%) CIMA
4 9 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
5 5 (2.04%) Degree
6 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.82%) AAT
7 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.82%) ECDL
7 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.82%) PMP
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CCA
8 1 (0.41%) CCDP
8 1 (0.41%) CCIE
8 1 (0.41%) CCNP
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.41%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.08%) GDPR
3 9 (3.67%) SLA
4 6 (2.45%) PMO
5 4 (1.63%) 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 31 (12.65%) Oracle
3 26 (10.61%) Salesforce
4 25 (10.20%) 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%) Ariba
8 6 (2.45%) Pega
9 5 (2.04%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.04%) Workday
10 4 (1.63%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.63%) Remedy
11 3 (1.22%) Apple
11 3 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.22%) Spotify
11 3 (1.22%) Xero
12 2 (0.82%) HP