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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 362 387
Rank change year-on-year -9 +25 +42
Contract jobs citing Billing 287 177 200
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the General category 1.04% 0.93% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 107 125
10th Percentile £356 £350 £243
25th Percentile £456 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -6.40% -3.55%
75th Percentile £690 £563 £615
90th Percentile £799 £675 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £459 £500
% change year-on-year +2.40% -8.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 11
10th Percentile £13.47 £23.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £13.70 £29.88 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.75 £47.75 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.64% +218.33% -86.67%
75th Percentile £34.50 £66.88 £18.88
90th Percentile £42.38 £73.75 £43.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.50 £28.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% +90.00% -66.67%

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 27,583 19,019 24,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.32% 63.47% 56.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,651 11,970 15,527
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,865 925 2,025
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.46 £12.78
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.55 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.23 £28.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.09% -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.50 £67.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £24.34 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.42% -18.87% +17.19%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -58 224 £500 +10.13% 197
Work from Home +17 121 £500 +2.56% 83
London -29 119 £600 +27.46% 112
UK excluding London -78 100 £470 +2.40% 116
South East -47 51 £469 -1.26% 44
Midlands -35 19 £500 +58.73% 12
North of England -66 17 £447 -9.61% 32
West Midlands -46 14 £488 +54.76% 10
North West -39 10 £447 -8.59% 21
Yorkshire -46 7 £441 -11.81% 5
East of England -27 6 £650 +85.71% 9
Scotland - 6 £500 - 4
South West -43 5 £488 +14.71% 13
East Midlands - 4 £550 - 2
Wales -14 1 £475 -13.64%

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 (2.44%) Apache
2 4 (1.39%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 46 (16.03%) SAP BRIM
1 46 (16.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (11.15%) SAP PSCD
3 31 (10.80%) SAP FI
4 27 (9.41%) SAP FI-CA
5 19 (6.62%) SAP SD
6 12 (4.18%) SAP Hybris
7 11 (3.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (3.48%) NetSuite
9 8 (2.79%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (1.74%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (1.74%) SAP Convergent Charging
12 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
12 4 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (1.39%) Sage X3
12 4 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (1.39%) SAP CO
12 4 (1.39%) SAP ERP
12 4 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 23 (8.01%) Azure
2 18 (6.27%) AWS
2 18 (6.27%) GCP
3 15 (5.23%) Power Platform
3 15 (5.23%) SaaS
4 14 (4.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 8 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (2.44%) OCI
7 6 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 6 (2.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 6 (2.09%) Serverless
8 5 (1.74%) GitHub
8 5 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.39%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (1.39%) Fivetran
9 4 (1.39%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.09%) WAN
2 4 (1.39%) HTTP
2 4 (1.39%) Internet
2 4 (1.39%) Wireless
3 3 (1.05%) MPLS
3 3 (1.05%) Network Security
3 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.70%) 5G
4 2 (0.70%) LAN
4 2 (0.70%) NaaS
5 1 (0.35%) 4G
5 1 (0.35%) BGP
5 1 (0.35%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.35%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.35%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.35%) OSPF
5 1 (0.35%) SMS
5 1 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.48%) Power BI
2 7 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (2.09%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.70%) Flink
5 2 (0.70%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.70%) Metadata
5 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.70%) MySQL
5 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (0.35%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 17 (5.92%) JIRA
2 11 (3.83%) Git
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.70%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.35%) GitLab
4 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 145 (50.52%) Finance
2 88 (30.66%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.03%) Telecoms
4 31 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.18%) Banking
5 12 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.79%) Legal
7 7 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.74%) Back Office
8 5 (1.74%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Publishing
10 3 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.05%) German Language
10 3 (1.05%) Marketing
10 3 (1.05%) Retail
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 75 (26.13%) Consultant
2 57 (19.86%) SAP Consultant
3 47 (16.38%) Architect
4 29 (10.10%) Functional Consultant
5 28 (9.76%) Analyst
6 25 (8.71%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (8.36%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 22 (7.67%) Senior
9 19 (6.62%) Lead
10 18 (6.27%) Developer
11 17 (5.92%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.79%) Data Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.79%) SAP SD Consultant
13 7 (2.44%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 7 (2.44%) Oracle Consultant
13 7 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
14 6 (2.09%) Contracts Manager
14 6 (2.09%) SAP Architect
14 6 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.36%) BAPI
2 17 (5.92%) REST
3 12 (4.18%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (3.14%) .NET
5 8 (2.79%) SOAP
6 7 (2.44%) Web Services
7 6 (2.09%) Middleware
7 6 (2.09%) OpenAPI
7 6 (2.09%) Swagger
8 4 (1.39%) EDI
8 4 (1.39%) JSON
8 4 (1.39%) Kafka
8 4 (1.39%) RAML
8 4 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (1.39%) XML
9 3 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.70%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.70%) IDoc
10 2 (0.70%) Pandas
10 2 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (3.83%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.44%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.09%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.74%) Life Science
6 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.70%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.70%) NHS
9 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.09%) Android
2 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.70%) HPUX
3 2 (0.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (15.33%) ERP
3 43 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (14.29%) CRM
5 38 (13.24%) Migration
6 34 (11.85%) Order to Cash
7 32 (11.15%) Validation
8 30 (10.45%) Agile
9 28 (9.76%) Decision-Making
10 27 (9.41%) Workshop Facilitation
11 26 (9.06%) Order Management
11 26 (9.06%) User Acceptance Testing
12 24 (8.36%) Data Modelling
12 24 (8.36%) Revenue Management
12 24 (8.36%) Roadmaps
13 20 (6.97%) Data Migration
14 19 (6.62%) CI/CD
14 19 (6.62%) Convergent Charging
14 19 (6.62%) Project Management
14 19 (6.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.45%) SQL
2 16 (5.57%) Python
3 11 (3.83%) Java
4 5 (1.74%) X++
5 4 (1.39%) DataWeave
5 4 (1.39%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.05%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.05%) Rust
7 2 (0.70%) ABAP
7 2 (0.70%) C#
7 2 (0.70%) C++
7 2 (0.70%) Go
7 2 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.70%) VBA
8 1 (0.35%) Bash
8 1 (0.35%) Groovy
8 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (8.36%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.44%) ACCA
5 6 (2.09%) CIMA
5 6 (2.09%) Degree
6 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.35%) CBAP
8 1 (0.35%) PMP
8 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.53%) SLA
2 11 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.09%) PMO
4 5 (1.74%) GDPR
4 5 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.39%) IFRS
6 3 (1.05%) GxP
7 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.70%) GAAP
7 2 (0.70%) QA
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (3.48%) Terraform
2 6 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.74%) Grafana
3 5 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.05%) SCCM
5 2 (0.70%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 105 (36.59%) SAP
2 37 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.89%) Oracle
3 36 (12.54%) Salesforce
4 15 (5.23%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.83%) Ariba
5 11 (3.83%) Guidewire
6 10 (3.48%) Google
7 6 (2.09%) Sage
8 5 (1.74%) Computacenter
8 5 (1.74%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.39%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.39%) Remedy
10 3 (1.05%) Apple
10 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.70%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.70%) NetCracker
11 2 (0.70%) Nokia