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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 353 349
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +92
Contract jobs citing Billing 213 200 299
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.55% 0.64%
As % of the General category 0.96% 0.93% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 105 159
10th Percentile £350 £314 £238
25th Percentile £450 £408 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.27% +4.20%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £638
90th Percentile £750 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -12.73% +6.09% +15.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 3
10th Percentile - £20.13 £12.63
25th Percentile - £46.56 £12.82
Median hourly rate £17.00 £68.75 £13.27
Median % change year-on-year -75.27% +418.28% -13.84%
75th Percentile £25.39 £74.69 £38.63
90th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £53.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £13.14
% change year-on-year -75.71% +432.83% -8.21%

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,105 21,411 27,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.95% 59.00% 59.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,832 12,614 18,663
10th Percentile £273 £288 £285
25th Percentile £400 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% -3.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,441 801 1,131
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.55 £17.25 £16.96
Median hourly rate £24.09 £29.50 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.34% -4.30% +23.30%
75th Percentile £44.94 £55.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.37 £27.50
% change year-on-year -19.61% -0.48% +25.00%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -30 175 £550 +4.27% 258
London +32 99 £575 +9.52% 123
Work from Home +14 83 £621 +20.49% 126
UK excluding London -48 76 £480 -12.73% 139
South East +4 41 £496 -5.48% 68
North of England -39 12 £351 -41.58% 34
South West +9 10 £675 +12.50% 8
North West -20 6 £750 +50.00% 22
Yorkshire -35 6 £306 -49.00% 12
Scotland +2 4 £373 - 3
West Midlands -32 4 £825 +73.68% 6
Midlands -46 4 £825 +60.19% 14
Northern Ireland -6 2 £500 +376.19% 2
East of England -19 2 £500 +17.65% 10
Wales - 1 £280 - 1

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 4 (1.88%) Appian
1 4 (1.88%) Camunda
2 3 (1.41%) NServiceBus
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.41%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) CICS
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.47%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (7.98%) SAP PSCD
2 16 (7.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (6.10%) SAP BRIM
4 11 (5.16%) SAP FI
4 11 (5.16%) SAP Hybris
5 9 (4.23%) SAP FI-CA
6 8 (3.76%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (3.76%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (3.29%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (2.35%) SAP CO
8 5 (2.35%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (1.88%) Oracle BRM
9 4 (1.88%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (1.88%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (1.88%) SAP IS-U
9 4 (1.88%) SAP PS
10 3 (1.41%) NetSuite
10 3 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (1.41%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.94%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.37%) Azure
2 19 (8.92%) Dynamics 365
3 17 (7.98%) SaaS
4 14 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.10%) AWS
6 11 (5.16%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 10 (4.69%) GitHub
7 10 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.88%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.88%) OCI
9 4 (1.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (1.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.41%) PaaS
11 2 (0.94%) Azure API Management
11 2 (0.94%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.41%) Broadband
1 3 (1.41%) GPRS
1 3 (1.41%) GSM
1 3 (1.41%) MVNO
2 2 (0.94%) Firewall
2 2 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.69%) Power BI
2 6 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.82%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.82%) Parquet
3 4 (1.88%) Metadata
3 4 (1.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.47%) Easytrieve
6 1 (0.47%) GIS
6 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (7.04%) JIRA
2 2 (0.94%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.94%) Selenium
3 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.47%) Hudson
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 114 (53.52%) Finance
2 108 (50.70%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.51%) Telecoms
6 14 (6.57%) Legal
7 12 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (4.23%) General Ledger
9 8 (3.76%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.29%) Law
10 7 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.35%) Banking
12 4 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.88%) Publishing
12 4 (1.88%) Retail
13 3 (1.41%) Local Government
14 2 (0.94%) Marketing
14 2 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.47%) French Language
15 1 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 56 (26.29%) Consultant
2 28 (13.15%) Analyst
3 27 (12.68%) SAP Consultant
4 23 (10.80%) Architect
5 18 (8.45%) Functional Consultant
6 16 (7.51%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.10%) Developer
9 11 (5.16%) Lead
9 11 (5.16%) Senior
10 9 (4.23%) SAP Functional Consultant
11 8 (3.76%) Salesforce Architect
12 7 (3.29%) Designer
12 7 (3.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 7 (3.29%) Oracle Consultant
12 7 (3.29%) Solutions Designer
13 6 (2.82%) Project Manager
14 5 (2.35%) Coordinator
14 5 (2.35%) Operations Manager
14 5 (2.35%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.76%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (2.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.82%) PySpark
3 5 (2.35%) .NET
3 5 (2.35%) ADO
3 5 (2.35%) Great Expectations
3 5 (2.35%) JSON
3 5 (2.35%) REST
3 5 (2.35%) Visualforce
4 4 (1.88%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.88%) SOAP
5 3 (1.41%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.41%) Middleware
5 3 (1.41%) Web Services
6 2 (0.94%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.94%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.94%) OAuth
6 2 (0.94%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.94%) OpenID
6 2 (0.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.76%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.29%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.35%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.35%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.88%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.88%) Low-Code
4 4 (1.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.41%) IPTV
5 3 (1.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.94%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.94%) IoT
6 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.94%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.47%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.41%) Unix
2 1 (0.47%) CentOS
2 1 (0.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (16.43%) CRM
4 30 (14.08%) Agile
5 28 (13.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (12.21%) ERP
7 25 (11.74%) Migration
8 24 (11.27%) Accounts Receivable
9 23 (10.80%) Validation
10 22 (10.33%) Workshop Facilitation
11 20 (9.39%) Customer Service
12 19 (8.92%) Change Management
12 19 (8.92%) DevOps
12 19 (8.92%) Project Management
12 19 (8.92%) Requirements Gathering
13 17 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (7.51%) Process Improvement
14 16 (7.51%) User Acceptance Testing
15 15 (7.04%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.80%) SQL
2 8 (3.76%) Apex Code
3 7 (3.29%) PL/SQL
4 6 (2.82%) Python
5 5 (2.35%) Java
6 4 (1.88%) SOQL
7 3 (1.41%) Groovy
7 3 (1.41%) SOSL
7 3 (1.41%) X++
8 2 (0.94%) Bash
8 2 (0.94%) C#
8 2 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.94%) PHP
8 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.47%) ABAP
9 1 (0.47%) Bicep
9 1 (0.47%) COBOL
9 1 (0.47%) JCL
9 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.16%) Degree
2 11 (5.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.23%) ACCA
3 9 (4.23%) CIMA
4 7 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.35%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.94%) AAT
6 2 (0.94%) ECDL
6 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.94%) PMP
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CCDP
7 1 (0.47%) CCIE
7 1 (0.47%) CCNP
7 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.82%) GDPR
3 3 (1.41%) IFRS
3 3 (1.41%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) GRC
4 1 (0.47%) PMO
4 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.41%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.41%) Terraform
2 2 (0.94%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.94%) VxRail
3 1 (0.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.47%) Grafana
3 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 55 (25.82%) SAP
2 33 (15.49%) Oracle
3 28 (13.15%) Microsoft
4 27 (12.68%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.76%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.82%) Databricks
7 5 (2.35%) IFS
7 5 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.35%) Workday
8 4 (1.88%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.88%) Pega
8 4 (1.88%) Xero
9 3 (1.41%) Ariba
9 3 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.41%) Conga
9 3 (1.41%) Spotify
10 2 (0.94%) Google
10 2 (0.94%) HP
10 2 (0.94%) VMware
11 1 (0.47%) Atlassian