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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 353 361
Rank change year-on-year -29 +8 +57
Contract jobs citing Billing 209 207 289
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.56% 0.62%
As % of the General category 0.95% 0.96% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 112 159
10th Percentile £308 £313 £238
25th Percentile £413 £400 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -0.66% +9.14%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £674 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -6.80% -0.66% +15.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 2
10th Percentile £16.95 £14.50 £12.57
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.19 £12.66
Median hourly rate £17.04 £66.25 £13.14
Median % change year-on-year -74.28% +404.28% -8.21%
75th Percentile £27.82 £74.06 £13.49
90th Percentile £58.13 £75.00 £13.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £67.50 £13.14
% change year-on-year -74.81% +413.80% -3.13%

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 22,000 21,592 27,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.93% 58.79% 59.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,766 12,736 18,599
10th Percentile £270 £286 £290
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £644 £660
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,391 816 1,100
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.83 £16.74
Median hourly rate £24.61 £29.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -1.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £43.92 £55.35 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £71.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -1.36% +23.37%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -21 173 £518 +0.49% 409
London +29 101 £588 +16.05% 207
Work from Home +16 75 £626 +23.35% 209
UK excluding London -60 70 £480 -6.80% 287
South East +1 35 £496 -3.64% 190
South West +8 11 £550 -8.33% 10
North of England -36 11 £351 -41.58% 53
Yorkshire -29 6 £306 -49.00% 18
North West -22 5 £750 +50.00% 34
West Midlands -37 5 £825 +88.57% 5
Midlands -41 5 £825 +66.67% 17
Scotland +12 3 £373 - 1
Northern Ireland -4 2 £500 +376.19% 1
East of England -16 2 £500 +17.65% 10
Wales - 1 £280 - 2

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 (1.91%) Appian
1 4 (1.91%) Camunda
2 3 (1.44%) NServiceBus
2 3 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.44%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) CICS
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.48%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (8.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (7.18%) SAP PSCD
3 13 (6.22%) SAP FI
4 10 (4.78%) SAP BRIM
4 10 (4.78%) SAP FI-CA
5 8 (3.83%) SAP Hybris
6 7 (3.35%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (3.35%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (2.87%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (2.87%) SAP CO
7 6 (2.87%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (2.87%) SAP PS
8 4 (1.91%) NetSuite
8 4 (1.91%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (1.91%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (1.91%) SAP IS-U
8 4 (1.91%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.96%) Oracle BRM
9 2 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.96%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 35 (16.75%) Azure
2 19 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 17 (8.13%) SaaS
4 13 (6.22%) AWS
4 13 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.78%) GitHub
6 10 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 7 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.91%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.91%) OCI
9 4 (1.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (1.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.96%) Azure API Management
11 2 (0.96%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.96%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) MVNO
2 1 (0.48%) 5G
2 1 (0.48%) Broadband
2 1 (0.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) GPRS
2 1 (0.48%) GSM
2 1 (0.48%) MPLS
2 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.48%) SSL
2 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.78%) Power BI
2 6 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.87%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.87%) Parquet
3 4 (1.91%) Metadata
3 4 (1.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.91%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.48%) Easytrieve
6 1 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.48%) GIS
6 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (6.70%) JIRA
2 2 (0.96%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.96%) Selenium
3 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.48%) Hudson
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 109 (52.15%) Finance
2 100 (47.85%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.66%) Telecoms
6 14 (6.70%) Legal
7 11 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (4.31%) General Ledger
8 9 (4.31%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.35%) Law
9 7 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.91%) Publishing
10 4 (1.91%) Retail
11 3 (1.44%) Local Government
12 2 (0.96%) Banking
12 2 (0.96%) Marketing
12 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.48%) French Language
13 1 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 52 (24.88%) Consultant
2 30 (14.35%) Analyst
3 26 (12.44%) SAP Consultant
4 23 (11.00%) Architect
5 17 (8.13%) Functional Consultant
6 16 (7.66%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.70%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.22%) Developer
9 12 (5.74%) Lead
10 10 (4.78%) Senior
11 8 (3.83%) Salesforce Architect
11 8 (3.83%) SAP Functional Consultant
12 7 (3.35%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 7 (3.35%) Project Manager
13 6 (2.87%) Oracle Consultant
14 5 (2.39%) Business Manager
14 5 (2.39%) Data Analyst
14 5 (2.39%) Junior
14 5 (2.39%) Project Consultant
14 5 (2.39%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.83%) Lightning Web Components
2 7 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.87%) PySpark
3 6 (2.87%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (2.39%) .NET
4 5 (2.39%) ADO
4 5 (2.39%) Great Expectations
4 5 (2.39%) JSON
4 5 (2.39%) REST
4 5 (2.39%) Visualforce
5 4 (1.91%) SOAP
6 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.44%) Middleware
6 3 (1.44%) Web Services
7 2 (0.96%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.96%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.96%) OAuth
7 2 (0.96%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.96%) OpenID
7 2 (0.96%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.35%) Mainframe
2 7 (3.35%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.39%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.39%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.91%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.91%) Low-Code
4 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.96%) IoT
5 2 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.96%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.48%) CUDA
6 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.48%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) CentOS
1 1 (0.48%) Linux
1 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (17.22%) CRM
2 36 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (14.83%) Agile
4 30 (14.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (12.44%) ERP
6 25 (11.96%) Migration
7 24 (11.48%) Accounts Receivable
8 21 (10.05%) Project Management
8 21 (10.05%) Validation
9 20 (9.57%) Customer Service
10 19 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
11 18 (8.61%) DevOps
11 18 (8.61%) Requirements Gathering
12 17 (8.13%) Budgeting
12 17 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (8.13%) Change Management
13 16 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (7.66%) Process Improvement
14 15 (7.18%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.05%) SQL
2 8 (3.83%) Apex Code
3 6 (2.87%) Python
4 5 (2.39%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.91%) SOQL
6 3 (1.44%) Groovy
6 3 (1.44%) Java
6 3 (1.44%) SOSL
6 3 (1.44%) X++
7 2 (0.96%) Bash
7 2 (0.96%) C#
7 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.96%) PHP
7 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.48%) ABAP
8 1 (0.48%) Bicep
8 1 (0.48%) COBOL
8 1 (0.48%) JCL
8 1 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (7.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.26%) Degree
3 9 (4.31%) ACCA
3 9 (4.31%) CIMA
4 8 (3.83%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.39%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (1.44%) PMP
8 2 (0.96%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) AAT
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.48%) ECDL
9 1 (0.48%) MBA
9 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.87%) GDPR
3 5 (2.39%) IFRS
4 3 (1.44%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) PMO
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.44%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.44%) Terraform
2 2 (0.96%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.96%) VxRail
3 1 (0.48%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (0.48%) Ansible
3 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.48%) Grafana
3 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 55 (26.32%) SAP
2 31 (14.83%) Oracle
3 27 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 27 (12.92%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.83%) MuleSoft
5 6 (2.87%) Databricks
6 5 (2.39%) IFS
6 5 (2.39%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.91%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.91%) Pega
7 4 (1.91%) Xero
8 3 (1.44%) Ariba
8 3 (1.44%) Conga
9 2 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.96%) Ericsson
9 2 (0.96%) Google
9 2 (0.96%) HP
9 2 (0.96%) Spotify
9 2 (0.96%) VMware
9 2 (0.96%) Workday