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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 363 372
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Billing 309 192 205
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.59% 0.50%
As % of the General category 1.07% 0.94% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 117 131
10th Percentile £357 £300 £250
25th Percentile £458 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -3.55%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £782 £688 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +1.50% -6.40% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 11
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.75 -
25th Percentile £13.70 £23.33 £14.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £40.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +88.37% -88.06%
75th Percentile £31.88 £60.63 £59.25
90th Percentile £42.38 £69.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 £19.91 £15.50
% change year-on-year -19.76% +28.45% -

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 28,884 20,489 23,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.79% 62.87% 57.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,206 12,822 14,873
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,024 1,064 1,664
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.28 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.00 £25.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -27.14% +14.75%
75th Percentile £62.00 £51.31 £55.74
90th Percentile £81.18 £70.11 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -35.71% +34.62%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -25 240 £537 +19.33% 176
London -28 125 £600 +32.74% 107
Work from Home -1 121 £500 +2.56% 80
UK excluding London -70 116 £475 +1.50% 103
South East -55 52 £469 - 39
Midlands -28 22 £500 +58.73% 9
North of England -63 21 £492 -6.29% 25
West Midlands -38 18 £475 +50.79% 8
Yorkshire -43 11 £461 -7.81% 4
North West -47 10 £575 +4.55% 20
Scotland - 9 £525 - 9
East of England -19 7 £631 +80.36% 10
South West -49 7 £500 +17.65% 8
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 1
Wales -15 1 £475 -13.64% 4

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 (1.94%) Confluence
2 5 (1.62%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.29%) Apache
4 3 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Mule
5 1 (0.32%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 50 (16.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (14.56%) SAP BRIM
3 31 (10.03%) SAP FI
4 27 (8.74%) SAP FI-CA
4 27 (8.74%) SAP PSCD
5 23 (7.44%) SAP SD
6 16 (5.18%) NetSuite
7 13 (4.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 10 (3.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 9 (2.91%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (2.91%) SAP Hybris
10 7 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (1.94%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (1.94%) SAP Convergent Charging
12 5 (1.62%) Sage X3
12 5 (1.62%) SAP CO
13 4 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
13 4 (1.29%) SAP ERP
13 4 (1.29%) SAP FI/CO
14 2 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 40 (12.94%) Azure
2 29 (9.39%) AWS
3 21 (6.80%) GCP
4 18 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.53%) SaaS
6 13 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (3.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 10 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.24%) Serverless
9 7 (2.27%) GitHub
9 7 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.27%) OCI
10 6 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.62%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.62%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (1.62%) Fivetran
11 5 (1.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (1.62%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.91%) WAN
2 5 (1.62%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.29%) 5G
3 4 (1.29%) HTTP
3 4 (1.29%) Internet
4 3 (0.97%) 4G
4 3 (0.97%) Broadband
4 3 (0.97%) LAN
4 3 (0.97%) MPLS
4 3 (0.97%) Network Security
4 3 (0.97%) SMS
4 3 (0.97%) Wireless
5 2 (0.65%) Multicast
5 2 (0.65%) NaaS
5 2 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.65%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.56%) Power BI
2 8 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.27%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.94%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.97%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.65%) Flink
6 2 (0.65%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.65%) MySQL
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.65%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (5.50%) JIRA
2 8 (2.59%) Git
3 2 (0.65%) JMeter
3 2 (0.65%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.65%) NeoLoad
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.65%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 162 (52.43%) Finance
2 87 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.65%) Telecoms
4 35 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.15%) Banking
7 13 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.56%) Legal
9 10 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
10 7 (2.27%) Marketing
10 7 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.62%) Back Office
11 5 (1.62%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.29%) Publishing
12 4 (1.29%) Retail
13 3 (0.97%) German Language
13 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (25.89%) Consultant
2 60 (19.42%) SAP Consultant
3 57 (18.45%) Architect
4 37 (11.97%) Analyst
5 30 (9.71%) Functional Consultant
6 28 (9.06%) Senior
6 28 (9.06%) Solutions Architect
7 27 (8.74%) Lead
8 25 (8.09%) Business Analyst
8 25 (8.09%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 13 (4.21%) Developer
10 12 (3.88%) SAP SD Consultant
11 9 (2.91%) Data Engineer
11 9 (2.91%) Enterprise Architect
11 9 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
12 8 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.59%) Senior Consultant
13 7 (2.27%) Financial Analyst
13 7 (2.27%) Senior SAP Consultant
13 7 (2.27%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.44%) BAPI
2 15 (4.85%) REST
3 12 (3.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (3.24%) Kafka
5 8 (2.59%) .NET
6 7 (2.27%) OpenAPI
6 7 (2.27%) Swagger
7 6 (1.94%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (1.94%) SOAP
8 5 (1.62%) Middleware
8 5 (1.62%) RAML
8 5 (1.62%) Web Services
9 4 (1.29%) EDI
9 4 (1.29%) JSON
9 4 (1.29%) XML
10 2 (0.65%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.65%) gRPC
10 2 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.65%) Pandas
10 2 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.74%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.56%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.56%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.62%) Life Science
6 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.29%) TM Forum
8 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.97%) NHS
8 3 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.97%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.65%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.27%) Android
2 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.65%) HPUX
3 2 (0.65%) Linux
3 2 (0.65%) Unix
3 2 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (17.48%) ERP
3 49 (15.86%) CRM
3 49 (15.86%) Migration
3 49 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (14.56%) Order to Cash
5 42 (13.59%) Roadmaps
6 41 (13.27%) Agile
7 39 (12.62%) Validation
8 37 (11.97%) User Acceptance Testing
9 36 (11.65%) Workshop Facilitation
10 29 (9.39%) Order Management
11 28 (9.06%) Decision-Making
12 27 (8.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (8.41%) Analytics
13 26 (8.41%) Procure-to-Pay
13 26 (8.41%) Revenue Management
14 25 (8.09%) Data Modelling
15 23 (7.44%) Requirements Gathering
16 22 (7.12%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (10.03%) SQL
2 18 (5.83%) Python
3 8 (2.59%) Java
4 5 (1.62%) DataWeave
4 5 (1.62%) X++
5 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
5 3 (0.97%) Rust
6 2 (0.65%) ABAP
6 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.65%) Bash
6 2 (0.65%) C#
6 2 (0.65%) C++
6 2 (0.65%) Go
6 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.32%) R
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (8.41%) Security Cleared
2 21 (6.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (4.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.94%) Degree
5 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.97%) ACCA
7 3 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.97%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.65%) CBAP
8 2 (0.65%) CIMA
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.32%) PMP
9 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.85%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.56%) SLA
3 6 (1.94%) GDPR
3 6 (1.94%) IFRS
3 6 (1.94%) PMO
4 5 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.29%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.29%) QA
5 4 (1.29%) SEPA
6 3 (0.97%) GxP
7 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.65%) GAAP
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.88%) Terraform
2 8 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.97%) SCCM
5 2 (0.65%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.65%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 109 (35.28%) SAP
2 40 (12.94%) Microsoft
3 39 (12.62%) Oracle
4 38 (12.30%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.88%) Ariba
5 12 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.59%) Google
7 7 (2.27%) Sage
8 6 (1.94%) Computacenter
8 6 (1.94%) Guidewire
9 5 (1.62%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.62%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.62%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.97%) Apple
10 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.97%) PeopleSoft
11 2 (0.65%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.65%) HP
11 2 (0.65%) NetCracker
11 2 (0.65%) Nokia