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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 356 376
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Billing 318 194 195
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.60% 0.51%
As % of the General category 1.07% 0.94% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 122 121
10th Percentile £406 £300 £250
25th Percentile £470 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -6.20% -3.47%
75th Percentile £634 £619 £600
90th Percentile £772 £711 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 10
10th Percentile £13.45 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £13.57 £24.31 £14.50
Median hourly rate £15.45 £41.75 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.99% +30.47% -82.22%
75th Percentile £20.13 £59.06 £74.69
90th Percentile £42.38 £61.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.05 £22.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -33.86% +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 29,647 20,544 21,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.27% 63.58% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,516 12,745 13,465
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
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 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.62% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,164 1,171
10th Percentile £13.70 £13.47 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.27% -32.93% +36.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.16 £22.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +41.36% -42.18% +46.90%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -41 252 £543 +18.19% 447
London -56 131 £569 +15.60% 276
UK excluding London -47 122 £500 +17.65% 219
Work from Home +2 121 £500 +2.56% 202
South East -58 48 £470 +4.44% 61
North of England -61 25 £492 +37.43% 58
Midlands -32 22 £488 +22.64% 44
West Midlands -37 16 £473 +18.87% 19
North West -39 13 £600 -14.29% 39
Scotland - 11 £525 - 16
South West -51 10 £500 +17.65% 12
Yorkshire -37 9 £441 +44.11% 9
East of England -14 7 £581 +66.07% 13
East Midlands - 4 £550 - 25
North East - 3 - - 10
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 13

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 (2.20%) Confluence
2 5 (1.57%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.26%) Apache
3 4 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) Mendix
4 1 (0.31%) Mule
4 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (14.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (12.89%) SAP BRIM
3 25 (7.86%) SAP FI
4 22 (6.92%) SAP FI-CA
4 22 (6.92%) SAP SD
5 21 (6.60%) SAP PSCD
6 17 (5.35%) NetSuite
7 11 (3.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (3.46%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (3.14%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
9 8 (2.52%) SAP Hybris
10 6 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (1.89%) SAP Convergent Charging
11 5 (1.57%) Sage X3
12 4 (1.26%) SAP CO
13 3 (0.94%) Cloudability
13 3 (0.94%) SAP ERP
13 3 (0.94%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 52 (16.35%) Azure
2 35 (11.01%) AWS
3 26 (8.18%) GCP
4 24 (7.55%) SaaS
5 17 (5.35%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (5.03%) Power Platform
7 13 (4.09%) Serverless
8 11 (3.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 9 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.52%) OCI
10 8 (2.52%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.20%) GitHub
11 7 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 6 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 5 (1.57%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (1.57%) Cloud Functions
13 5 (1.57%) Fivetran
13 5 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.20%) WAN
2 5 (1.57%) Broadband
3 4 (1.26%) HTTP
3 4 (1.26%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.94%) 5G
4 3 (0.94%) LAN
5 2 (0.63%) 4G
5 2 (0.63%) Internet
5 2 (0.63%) MPLS
5 2 (0.63%) Multicast
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
5 2 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.63%) SMS
5 2 (0.63%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.63%) Wireless
6 1 (0.31%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.83%) BigQuery
1 9 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (2.83%) Power BI
2 8 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.20%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.57%) Delta Lake
4 5 (1.57%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.94%) Metadata
5 3 (0.94%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.63%) Looker
6 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.31%) Power Query
7 1 (0.31%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.72%) JIRA
2 6 (1.89%) Git
3 5 (1.57%) RStudio
4 2 (0.63%) JMeter
4 2 (0.63%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.63%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
General
1 163 (51.26%) Finance
2 94 (29.56%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.01%) Telecoms
5 23 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.29%) Banking
7 14 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.46%) Marketing
10 10 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.83%) Legal
12 8 (2.52%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (2.20%) Retail
14 6 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.57%) Back Office
15 5 (1.57%) General Ledger
15 5 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.57%) Manufacturing
16 4 (1.26%) Publishing
17 3 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 78 (24.53%) Consultant
2 63 (19.81%) Architect
3 54 (16.98%) SAP Consultant
4 43 (13.52%) Analyst
5 34 (10.69%) Lead
6 32 (10.06%) Business Analyst
7 29 (9.12%) Functional Consultant
8 28 (8.81%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (8.49%) Senior
10 23 (7.23%) SAP Functional Consultant
11 13 (4.09%) SAP SD Consultant
12 12 (3.77%) Developer
12 12 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.83%) Salesforce Analyst
13 9 (2.83%) Salesforce Business Analyst
13 9 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
14 8 (2.52%) Data Engineer
14 8 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
14 8 (2.52%) Product Lead
14 8 (2.52%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.66%) REST
2 16 (5.03%) BAPI
3 11 (3.46%) Terraform
4 10 (3.14%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (2.83%) Kafka
6 6 (1.89%) .NET
6 6 (1.89%) OpenAPI
6 6 (1.89%) Swagger
7 5 (1.57%) EDI
7 5 (1.57%) Middleware
7 5 (1.57%) PySpark
7 5 (1.57%) RAML
7 5 (1.57%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (1.57%) SOAP
8 4 (1.26%) JSON
8 4 (1.26%) Web Services
8 4 (1.26%) XML
9 2 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.63%) Loki
10 1 (0.31%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.12%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.92%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.57%) TM Forum
7 5 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.26%) CMDB
8 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.26%) Life Science
8 4 (1.26%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.94%) NHS
9 3 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.89%) Android
2 4 (1.26%) Windows
3 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.63%) HPUX
3 2 (0.63%) Linux
3 2 (0.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (33.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 65 (20.44%) Migration
3 56 (17.61%) ERP
4 54 (16.98%) CRM
4 54 (16.98%) Roadmaps
5 47 (14.78%) Agile
5 47 (14.78%) Order to Cash
6 44 (13.84%) Workshop Facilitation
7 42 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (12.26%) User Acceptance Testing
9 37 (11.64%) Validation
10 36 (11.32%) Order Management
11 32 (10.06%) Analytics
12 29 (9.12%) AI
13 28 (8.81%) Data Migration
13 28 (8.81%) Decision-Making
13 28 (8.81%) Revenue Management
14 27 (8.49%) Requirements Gathering
14 27 (8.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 26 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.38%) SQL
2 22 (6.92%) Python
3 7 (2.20%) Java
4 6 (1.89%) R
5 5 (1.57%) DataWeave
5 5 (1.57%) X++
6 3 (0.94%) Rust
7 2 (0.63%) ABAP
7 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.63%) Bash
7 2 (0.63%) C#
7 2 (0.63%) Go
7 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) C++
8 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 24 (7.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (6.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (4.09%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.20%) Degree
5 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.26%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.63%) ACCA
8 2 (0.63%) CBAP
8 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.31%) CIMA
9 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.31%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.31%) PMP
9 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.46%) SLA
3 8 (2.52%) QA
4 6 (1.89%) GDPR
4 6 (1.89%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.89%) SEPA
5 5 (1.57%) IFRS
5 5 (1.57%) PMO
6 3 (0.94%) GxP
6 3 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.94%) Grafana
3 2 (0.63%) Argo
3 2 (0.63%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.63%) SCCM
4 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 103 (32.39%) SAP
2 43 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.52%) Salesforce
3 35 (11.01%) Oracle
4 13 (4.09%) Ariba
5 11 (3.46%) Google
6 9 (2.83%) Databricks
6 9 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.52%) Sage
8 7 (2.20%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.89%) Computacenter
10 5 (1.57%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.57%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.26%) NetCracker
12 3 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.94%) Informatica
12 3 (0.94%) Talend
13 2 (0.63%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.63%) Conga
13 2 (0.63%) Splunk