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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 360 369
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing Billing 321 197 204
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.60% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.07% 0.95% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 125 127
10th Percentile £400 £300 £247
25th Percentile £469 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -6.00% -3.47%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £600
90th Percentile £767 £735 £656
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 29,878 20,817 22,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.21% 63.61% 57.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,632 12,898 13,596
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
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 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,334 1,175 1,171
10th Percentile £13.69 £13.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.70 £16.02 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.54 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -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 £21.39 £38.12
% change year-on-year +45.65% -43.89% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -35 255 £539 +15.06% 474
London -38 133 £563 +14.85% 295
UK excluding London -50 123 £500 +17.65% 230
Work from Home +2 121 £500 +2.56% 218
South East -59 48 £470 +4.44% 62
North of England -54 25 £492 +37.43% 56
Midlands -41 22 £488 -20.25% 50
West Midlands -38 16 £473 -22.70% 26
North West -46 13 £600 -14.29% 36
Scotland - 11 £525 - 16
South West -50 10 £500 +17.65% 14
Yorkshire -36 9 £441 +44.11% 11
East of England -14 8 £581 +66.07% 14
East Midlands - 4 £550 - 24
North East - 3 - - 9
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 16

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 (2.18%) Confluence
2 5 (1.56%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.25%) Apache
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 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (14.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (12.77%) SAP BRIM
3 25 (7.79%) SAP FI
4 22 (6.85%) SAP FI-CA
4 22 (6.85%) SAP SD
5 21 (6.54%) SAP PSCD
6 17 (5.30%) NetSuite
7 11 (3.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 11 (3.43%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (3.12%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
9 8 (2.49%) SAP Hybris
10 6 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (1.87%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (1.87%) SAP Convergent Charging
11 5 (1.56%) Sage X3
12 4 (1.25%) SAP CO
13 3 (0.93%) Cloudability
13 3 (0.93%) SAP ERP
13 3 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 54 (16.82%) Azure
2 37 (11.53%) AWS
3 26 (8.10%) GCP
4 24 (7.48%) SaaS
5 17 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (4.98%) Power Platform
7 13 (4.05%) Serverless
8 11 (3.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 10 (3.12%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.49%) OCI
12 7 (2.18%) GitHub
12 7 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 6 (1.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 5 (1.56%) Azure Databricks
14 5 (1.56%) Cloud Functions
14 5 (1.56%) Fivetran
14 5 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
15 4 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.18%) WAN
2 5 (1.56%) Broadband
3 4 (1.25%) HTTP
3 4 (1.25%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.93%) 5G
4 3 (0.93%) LAN
5 2 (0.62%) 4G
5 2 (0.62%) Internet
5 2 (0.62%) MPLS
5 2 (0.62%) Multicast
5 2 (0.62%) Network Security
5 2 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.62%) SMS
5 2 (0.62%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.62%) Wireless
6 1 (0.31%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.12%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (2.80%) BigQuery
2 9 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.80%) Power BI
3 8 (2.49%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.56%) Delta Lake
5 5 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.25%) Metadata
6 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.62%) Looker
8 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.31%) Power Query
9 1 (0.31%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.67%) JIRA
2 6 (1.87%) Git
3 5 (1.56%) RStudio
4 2 (0.62%) JMeter
4 2 (0.62%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.62%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
General
1 163 (50.78%) Finance
2 95 (29.60%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.90%) Telecoms
5 23 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.23%) Banking
7 14 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.43%) Marketing
10 10 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.80%) Legal
12 8 (2.49%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (2.18%) Retail
14 6 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.56%) Back Office
15 5 (1.56%) General Ledger
15 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.56%) Manufacturing
16 4 (1.25%) Publishing
17 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (24.30%) Consultant
2 66 (20.56%) Architect
3 54 (16.82%) SAP Consultant
4 43 (13.40%) Analyst
5 34 (10.59%) Lead
6 32 (9.97%) Business Analyst
7 29 (9.03%) Functional Consultant
8 28 (8.72%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (8.41%) Senior
10 23 (7.17%) SAP Functional Consultant
11 13 (4.05%) SAP SD Consultant
12 12 (3.74%) Developer
12 12 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.80%) Salesforce Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) Salesforce Business Analyst
13 9 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
14 8 (2.49%) Data Engineer
14 8 (2.49%) Financial Analyst
14 8 (2.49%) Product Lead
14 8 (2.49%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.92%) REST
2 16 (4.98%) BAPI
3 11 (3.43%) Terraform
4 10 (3.12%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (2.80%) Kafka
6 6 (1.87%) .NET
6 6 (1.87%) OpenAPI
6 6 (1.87%) SOAP
6 6 (1.87%) Swagger
7 5 (1.56%) EDI
7 5 (1.56%) Middleware
7 5 (1.56%) PySpark
7 5 (1.56%) RAML
7 5 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (1.25%) JSON
8 4 (1.25%) Web Services
8 4 (1.25%) XML
9 2 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.62%) Loki
10 1 (0.31%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.03%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (7.17%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.85%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.12%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.56%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.56%) TM Forum
7 5 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.25%) CMDB
8 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.25%) Life Science
8 4 (1.25%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.87%) Android
2 4 (1.25%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.62%) HPUX
3 2 (0.62%) Linux
3 2 (0.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (33.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 67 (20.87%) Migration
3 56 (17.45%) ERP
4 55 (17.13%) Roadmaps
5 54 (16.82%) CRM
6 48 (14.95%) Agile
7 47 (14.64%) Order to Cash
8 44 (13.71%) Workshop Facilitation
9 42 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (12.15%) User Acceptance Testing
11 37 (11.53%) Validation
12 36 (11.21%) Order Management
13 34 (10.59%) Analytics
14 29 (9.03%) AI
15 28 (8.72%) Data Migration
15 28 (8.72%) Decision-Making
15 28 (8.72%) Revenue Management
15 28 (8.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (8.41%) Requirements Gathering
17 26 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.90%) SQL
2 22 (6.85%) Python
3 7 (2.18%) Java
4 6 (1.87%) R
5 5 (1.56%) DataWeave
5 5 (1.56%) X++
6 3 (0.93%) Rust
7 2 (0.62%) ABAP
7 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.62%) Bash
7 2 (0.62%) C#
7 2 (0.62%) Go
7 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) C++
8 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 24 (7.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (6.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.18%) Degree
5 5 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.62%) ACCA
8 2 (0.62%) CBAP
8 2 (0.62%) 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 25 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.43%) SLA
3 8 (2.49%) QA
4 6 (1.87%) GDPR
4 6 (1.87%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.87%) SEPA
5 5 (1.56%) IFRS
5 5 (1.56%) PMO
6 3 (0.93%) GxP
6 3 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.93%) Grafana
3 2 (0.62%) Argo
3 2 (0.62%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.62%) SCCM
4 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 103 (32.09%) SAP
2 43 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.40%) Salesforce
3 35 (10.90%) Oracle
4 13 (4.05%) Ariba
5 11 (3.43%) Databricks
5 11 (3.43%) Google
6 9 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.49%) Guidewire
7 8 (2.49%) Sage
8 6 (1.87%) Computacenter
9 5 (1.56%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.56%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.25%) Informatica
10 4 (1.25%) NetCracker
10 4 (1.25%) Talend
11 3 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.62%) Aderant
12 2 (0.62%) Duck Creek
12 2 (0.62%) Nokia