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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 355 375
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 -14
Contract jobs citing Billing 347 200 201
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.60% 0.52%
As % of the General category 1.13% 0.95% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 130 120
10th Percentile £400 £303 £213
25th Percentile £469 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -3.47%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £600
90th Percentile £767 £728 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 10
10th Percentile £13.45 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £13.70 £24.31 £14.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £41.75 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.48% +30.47% -82.22%
75th Percentile £19.48 £59.06 £74.69
90th Percentile £26.20 £61.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.50 £22.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -27.47% +5.81% +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 30,691 20,987 22,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.94% 63.45% 58.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,938 13,037 13,227
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
25th Percentile £419 £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 £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,607 1,219 1,051
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.01 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -28.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £53.95 £47.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £21.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.85% -38.86% +29.63%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -29 277 £537 +10.15% 611
UK excluding London -25 148 £500 +17.65% 270
Work from Home +15 132 £506 +3.85% 254
London -55 132 £563 +12.50% 376
South East -46 60 £469 +4.22% 93
Midlands -17 33 £500 -39.39% 35
North of England -52 27 £575 +64.05% 62
West Midlands -31 19 £470 -43.03% 28
North West -32 14 £600 -20.00% 40
East Midlands - 12 £550 - 6
Scotland - 11 £525 - 18
Yorkshire -37 10 £492 +60.78% 18
South West -45 10 £500 +17.65% 14
East of England -30 8 £581 +66.07% 29
North East - 3 - - 5
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 14

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 (2.02%) Confluence
2 6 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.44%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Mendix
5 1 (0.29%) Mule
5 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.15%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (13.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (12.97%) SAP BRIM
3 22 (6.34%) SAP FI
3 22 (6.34%) SAP PSCD
3 22 (6.34%) SAP SD
4 19 (5.48%) SAP FI-CA
5 18 (5.19%) NetSuite
6 13 (3.75%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (3.46%) SAP Hybris
8 10 (2.88%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (2.59%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
10 8 (2.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 6 (1.73%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (1.73%) SAP Convergent Charging
12 5 (1.44%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 5 (1.44%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (1.44%) Sage X3
13 4 (1.15%) SAP CO
14 3 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 57 (16.43%) Azure
2 37 (10.66%) AWS
3 28 (8.07%) GCP
4 24 (6.92%) SaaS
5 20 (5.76%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (4.61%) Power Platform
7 15 (4.32%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 11 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.17%) Serverless
9 10 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 8 (2.31%) GitHub
10 8 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.31%) OCI
11 7 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.44%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (1.44%) Cloud Functions
12 5 (1.44%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 5 (1.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (1.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.44%) Broadband
2 4 (1.15%) HTTP
2 4 (1.15%) WAN
3 3 (0.86%) 5G
4 2 (0.58%) 4G
4 2 (0.58%) LAN
4 2 (0.58%) Multicast
4 2 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.58%) SMS
4 2 (0.58%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.29%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (2.59%) BigQuery
2 9 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.59%) Power BI
3 8 (2.31%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.44%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.15%) Looker
6 4 (1.15%) Metadata
6 4 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.58%) Power Query
8 2 (0.58%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (3.75%) JIRA
2 6 (1.73%) Git
3 5 (1.44%) RStudio
4 2 (0.58%) GitLab
4 2 (0.58%) JMeter
4 2 (0.58%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.58%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 181 (52.16%) Finance
2 117 (33.72%) Social Skills
3 46 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.37%) Telecoms
5 28 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.76%) Banking
7 15 (4.32%) Marketing
8 14 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.46%) Legal
9 12 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.88%) General Ledger
11 10 (2.88%) Manufacturing
12 8 (2.31%) Back Office
12 8 (2.31%) Corporate Banking
12 8 (2.31%) Retail
13 5 (1.44%) Advertising
13 5 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 81 (23.34%) Consultant
2 64 (18.44%) Architect
3 55 (15.85%) SAP Consultant
4 44 (12.68%) Analyst
5 38 (10.95%) Lead
6 33 (9.51%) Functional Consultant
7 32 (9.22%) Business Analyst
8 28 (8.07%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 26 (7.49%) Senior
9 26 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (3.46%) SAP SD Consultant
11 11 (3.17%) Developer
12 9 (2.59%) Administrator
12 9 (2.59%) Salesforce Analyst
12 9 (2.59%) Salesforce Business Analyst
13 8 (2.31%) Product Lead
13 8 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
14 7 (2.02%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 7 (2.02%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.48%) REST
2 13 (3.75%) BAPI
2 13 (3.75%) Terraform
3 8 (2.31%) Kafka
3 8 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (2.02%) EDI
4 7 (2.02%) Middleware
5 6 (1.73%) .NET
5 6 (1.73%) SOAP
6 5 (1.44%) OpenAPI
6 5 (1.44%) PySpark
6 5 (1.44%) RAML
6 5 (1.44%) SAP Fiori
6 5 (1.44%) Swagger
6 5 (1.44%) Web Services
6 5 (1.44%) XML
7 4 (1.15%) JSON
8 2 (0.58%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.58%) Loki
9 1 (0.29%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.65%) Onboarding
2 27 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.02%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.44%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.44%) TM Forum
9 5 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.15%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.15%) IVR
10 4 (1.15%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.15%) Social Media
11 3 (0.86%) CMDB
11 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.73%) Android
2 4 (1.15%) Windows
3 2 (0.58%) HPUX
3 2 (0.58%) Linux
3 2 (0.58%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (31.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 72 (20.75%) ERP
3 64 (18.44%) Migration
4 54 (15.56%) CRM
4 54 (15.56%) Order to Cash
4 54 (15.56%) Roadmaps
5 51 (14.70%) Workshop Facilitation
6 50 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (13.26%) Order Management
7 46 (13.26%) User Acceptance Testing
8 45 (12.97%) Agile
8 45 (12.97%) Validation
9 36 (10.37%) Analytics
10 32 (9.22%) AI
10 32 (9.22%) Revenue Management
11 31 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (8.93%) Customer Service
12 29 (8.36%) CI/CD
12 29 (8.36%) Requirements Gathering
13 28 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.51%) SQL
2 23 (6.63%) Python
3 8 (2.31%) R
4 6 (1.73%) Java
5 5 (1.44%) DataWeave
5 5 (1.44%) X++
6 3 (0.86%) Bash
6 3 (0.86%) Rust
7 2 (0.58%) ABAP
7 2 (0.58%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.58%) C#
7 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.58%) Go
7 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.29%) Bicep
8 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 20 (5.76%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.02%) Degree
5 5 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.86%) ACCA
7 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.58%) CBAP
8 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.29%) CIMA
9 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.29%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.29%) PMP
9 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.32%) SLA
3 10 (2.88%) QA
4 6 (1.73%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.73%) SEPA
5 5 (1.44%) GDPR
5 5 (1.44%) IFRS
5 5 (1.44%) PMO
6 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.58%) GxP
8 1 (0.29%) GAAP
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (0.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.86%) Grafana
3 2 (0.58%) Argo
3 2 (0.58%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 115 (33.14%) SAP
2 52 (14.99%) Microsoft
3 41 (11.82%) Salesforce
4 39 (11.24%) Oracle
5 19 (5.48%) Ariba
6 14 (4.03%) Google
7 13 (3.75%) Sage
8 11 (3.17%) Databricks
9 9 (2.59%) JD Edwards
9 9 (2.59%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.31%) Guidewire
11 6 (1.73%) Computacenter
12 5 (1.44%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.44%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.15%) Informatica
13 4 (1.15%) NetCracker
13 4 (1.15%) Talend
14 2 (0.58%) Adobe
14 2 (0.58%) HP
14 2 (0.58%) Nokia