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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 362 366
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -19
Contract jobs citing Billing 358 198 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.60% 0.52%
As % of the General category 1.16% 0.95% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 118 115
10th Percentile £407 £350 £213
25th Percentile £469 £413 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -3.47%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £600
90th Percentile £757 £733 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 10
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £13.89 £17.79 £14.50
Median hourly rate £17.99 £24.43 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% -23.66% -66.88%
75th Percentile £22.12 £50.69 £74.69
90th Percentile £36.93 £60.63 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 £17.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.47% -20.56% +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 30,759 20,913 22,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.39% 63.27% 58.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,866 13,017 13,104
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
25th Percentile £420 £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 £740 £738 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.66% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,720 1,230 965
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.57 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.19 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.08 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% -24.02% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £45.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £21.39 £31.97
% change year-on-year +28.56% -33.09% +21.79%

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 8 October 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 8 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing
Top 16 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 8 October 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 -8 287 £537 +7.40% 664
UK excluding London -12 158 £500 +11.11% 284
London -57 133 £563 +12.50% 413
Work from Home -8 131 £525 +5.00% 308
South East -32 62 £469 -2.29% 91
Midlands -20 34 £500 -39.39% 35
North of England -38 31 £600 +71.18% 71
West Midlands -30 19 £470 -43.03% 31
North West -31 16 £613 -18.33% 45
Yorkshire -28 12 £492 +60.78% 18
East Midlands - 12 £550 - 4
Scotland - 12 £525 - 18
South West -41 10 £500 +17.65% 23
East of England -29 9 £581 +66.07% 30
North East - 3 - - 9
Northern Ireland +9 2 £600 +20.00% 12

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 9 (2.51%) Confluence
2 8 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.40%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.12%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Mendix
5 1 (0.28%) Mule
5 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.12%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (13.13%) SAP BRIM
1 47 (13.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (6.98%) SAP PSCD
3 24 (6.70%) SAP FI
4 22 (6.15%) SAP FI-CA
4 22 (6.15%) SAP SD
5 18 (5.03%) NetSuite
5 18 (5.03%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (3.63%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (3.63%) SAP Hybris
7 11 (3.07%) Oracle Payables
8 9 (2.51%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
9 8 (2.23%) Oracle Assets
10 7 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
10 7 (1.96%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 7 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 6 (1.68%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (1.68%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (1.68%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 59 (16.48%) Azure
2 42 (11.73%) AWS
3 32 (8.94%) GCP
4 26 (7.26%) SaaS
5 21 (5.87%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (5.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 15 (4.19%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.35%) Serverless
8 12 (3.35%) Snowflake
9 11 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.51%) GitHub
10 9 (2.51%) OCI
11 8 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.68%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.68%) dbt
14 5 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.40%) Azure Databricks
14 5 (1.40%) Cloud Functions
14 5 (1.40%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.68%) Broadband
2 4 (1.12%) HTTP
2 4 (1.12%) WAN
3 3 (0.84%) 5G
4 2 (0.56%) 4G
4 2 (0.56%) LAN
4 2 (0.56%) Multicast
4 2 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.56%) SMS
4 2 (0.56%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) Softphone
5 1 (0.28%) VLAN
5 1 (0.28%) VoIP
5 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (3.07%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.23%) Power BI
4 7 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.40%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.12%) Looker
7 4 (1.12%) Metadata
7 4 (1.12%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.12%) Power Query
7 4 (1.12%) PowerPivot
7 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.35%) JIRA
2 9 (2.51%) Git
3 5 (1.40%) RStudio
4 3 (0.84%) GitLab
5 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) JMeter
5 2 (0.56%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.56%) NeoLoad
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.28%) Terragrunt
General
1 190 (53.07%) Finance
2 125 (34.92%) Social Skills
3 47 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.17%) Telecoms
5 33 (9.22%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.75%) Banking
7 15 (4.19%) Marketing
8 14 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.91%) Legal
9 13 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.35%) General Ledger
10 12 (3.35%) Manufacturing
11 11 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.23%) Corporate Banking
12 8 (2.23%) Retail
13 7 (1.96%) Back Office
14 5 (1.40%) Advertising
14 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (25.42%) Consultant
2 65 (18.16%) Architect
3 58 (16.20%) SAP Consultant
4 40 (11.17%) Analyst
4 40 (11.17%) Lead
5 35 (9.78%) Functional Consultant
6 33 (9.22%) Business Analyst
7 31 (8.66%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 26 (7.26%) Senior
8 26 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (3.35%) Oracle Consultant
10 12 (3.35%) SAP SD Consultant
11 11 (3.07%) Administrator
11 11 (3.07%) Developer
12 9 (2.51%) Salesforce Analyst
12 9 (2.51%) Salesforce Business Analyst
13 8 (2.23%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (2.23%) Product Lead
13 8 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.59%) REST
2 15 (4.19%) Terraform
3 12 (3.35%) BAPI
4 9 (2.51%) Middleware
5 8 (2.23%) EDI
5 8 (2.23%) Kafka
6 7 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.96%) SOAP
7 6 (1.68%) .NET
8 5 (1.40%) OpenAPI
8 5 (1.40%) PySpark
8 5 (1.40%) RAML
8 5 (1.40%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (1.40%) Swagger
8 5 (1.40%) XML
9 4 (1.12%) JSON
9 4 (1.12%) Web Services
10 3 (0.84%) Loki
10 3 (0.84%) Pandas
11 2 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.50%) Onboarding
2 29 (8.10%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.79%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.51%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.23%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.40%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.40%) TM Forum
10 5 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.12%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.12%) IVR
11 4 (1.12%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.12%) Social Media
12 3 (0.84%) CMDB
12 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.68%) Android
2 4 (1.12%) Windows
3 2 (0.56%) HPUX
3 2 (0.56%) Linux
3 2 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (32.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 75 (20.95%) ERP
3 68 (18.99%) Migration
4 56 (15.64%) Workshop Facilitation
5 55 (15.36%) CRM
5 55 (15.36%) Order to Cash
6 53 (14.80%) Roadmaps
7 51 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (13.69%) Order Management
8 49 (13.69%) User Acceptance Testing
9 47 (13.13%) Validation
10 46 (12.85%) Agile
11 38 (10.61%) Analytics
12 36 (10.06%) Revenue Management
13 35 (9.78%) CI/CD
13 35 (9.78%) Requirements Gathering
14 33 (9.22%) AI
14 33 (9.22%) Customer Service
15 32 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (8.94%) SQL
2 26 (7.26%) Python
3 7 (1.96%) R
4 6 (1.68%) Java
5 5 (1.40%) Bash
5 5 (1.40%) DataWeave
6 4 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.12%) X++
7 3 (0.84%) C#
7 3 (0.84%) Go
7 3 (0.84%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.84%) Rust
8 2 (0.56%) ABAP
8 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) Bicep
9 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (11.17%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.10%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.96%) Degree
5 4 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.84%) ACCA
6 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.56%) CBAP
7 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.28%) CIMA
8 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.28%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.28%) PMP
8 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.19%) SLA
3 11 (3.07%) QA
4 6 (1.68%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.68%) SEPA
5 5 (1.40%) IFRS
6 4 (1.12%) GDPR
6 4 (1.12%) PMO
7 2 (0.56%) NCSC
7 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) GAAP
8 1 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (1.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (2.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.40%) Grafana
3 3 (0.84%) Argo
4 2 (0.56%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 121 (33.80%) SAP
2 57 (15.92%) Microsoft
3 45 (12.57%) Oracle
4 41 (11.45%) Salesforce
5 21 (5.87%) Ariba
6 15 (4.19%) Sage
7 13 (3.63%) Databricks
8 12 (3.35%) Google
9 9 (2.51%) JD Edwards
9 9 (2.51%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.23%) Guidewire
11 6 (1.68%) Computacenter
12 5 (1.40%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.40%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.12%) Informatica
13 4 (1.12%) NetCracker
13 4 (1.12%) Talend
14 3 (0.84%) Aderant
15 2 (0.56%) AppDynamics
15 2 (0.56%) Intapp