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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 347 384
Rank change year-on-year -44 +37 +88
Contract jobs citing Billing 248 182 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.62% 0.49%
As % of the General category 0.97% 0.98% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 106 123
10th Percentile £371 £281 £244
25th Percentile £461 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.16% -9.95% -4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £550 £615
90th Percentile £825 £663 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £438 £508
% change year-on-year +6.97% -13.79% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £21.00 £26.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.41 £36.69 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.13 £72.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.31% +367.74% -75.20%
75th Percentile £40.53 £75.00 £16.00
90th Percentile £42.38 £75.75 £22.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.13 £72.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year -54.31% +375.41% -66.11%

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 25,574 18,493 24,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.84% 63.34% 58.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,623 11,784 15,748
10th Percentile £306 £293 £275
25th Percentile £408 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,650 788 1,935
10th Percentile £13.95 £14.00 £12.76
25th Percentile £17.64 £17.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.82% -11.29%
75th Percentile £61.13 £56.00 £52.89
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.96 £24.62 £28.50
% change year-on-year +13.55% -13.61% -5.00%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -91 202 £531 +18.00% 246
London -10 112 £625 +38.89% 124
Work from Home -9 99 £550 +23.87% 106
UK excluding London -114 79 £468 +6.97% 153
South East -59 46 £469 +0.21% 65
Midlands -44 13 £475 +50.79% 18
North of England -62 13 £447 -8.59% 45
West Midlands -56 10 £475 +50.79% 10
East of England -27 7 £631 +80.36% 11
North West -38 7 £447 -8.59% 27
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 9
South West -48 3 £475 +11.76% 7
Scotland 0 2 £455 +17.87% 5
East Midlands - 2 £409 - 8
Wales -11 1 £475 -13.64% 3

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 (2.82%) Apache
2 5 (2.02%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.61%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.81%) Appian
5 2 (0.81%) Camunda
6 1 (0.40%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 19 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 36 (14.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (14.11%) SAP BRIM
3 30 (12.10%) SAP PSCD
4 24 (9.68%) SAP FI
5 22 (8.87%) SAP FI-CA
6 14 (5.65%) SAP SD
7 11 (4.44%) SAP Hybris
8 10 (4.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (3.63%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (2.02%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (1.61%) NetSuite
11 4 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (1.21%) SAP CO
12 3 (1.21%) SAP ERP
12 3 (1.21%) SAP FI/CO
13 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
13 2 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
13 2 (0.81%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.68%) Azure
2 19 (7.66%) AWS
3 15 (6.05%) SaaS
4 12 (4.84%) GCP
4 12 (4.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 10 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (2.82%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 6 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.02%) OCI
9 4 (1.61%) Serverless
10 3 (1.21%) Boomi
10 3 (1.21%) Figma
10 3 (1.21%) Google Docs
10 3 (1.21%) Google Sheets
10 3 (1.21%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.82%) WAN
2 4 (1.61%) HTTP
2 4 (1.61%) Internet
3 3 (1.21%) LAN
3 3 (1.21%) MPLS
3 3 (1.21%) Network Security
3 3 (1.21%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.21%) Wireless
4 2 (0.81%) NaaS
5 1 (0.40%) 4G
5 1 (0.40%) 5G
5 1 (0.40%) BGP
5 1 (0.40%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.40%) Firewall
5 1 (0.40%) OSPF
5 1 (0.40%) SMS
5 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.02%) Power BI
2 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.21%) Metadata
4 2 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.81%) Flink
4 2 (0.81%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.81%) MySQL
4 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.81%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (5.65%) JIRA
2 11 (4.44%) Git
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.81%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) Storybook
General
1 114 (45.97%) Finance
2 73 (29.44%) Social Skills
3 40 (16.13%) Telecoms
4 32 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.24%) Legal
7 8 (3.23%) Banking
8 7 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.42%) Law
10 5 (2.02%) Back Office
10 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.61%) Publishing
12 3 (1.21%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.21%) German Language
12 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.21%) Retail
13 2 (0.81%) Automotive
13 2 (0.81%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 61 (24.60%) Consultant
2 52 (20.97%) Architect
3 44 (17.74%) SAP Consultant
4 30 (12.10%) Solutions Architect
5 22 (8.87%) Functional Consultant
6 21 (8.47%) Analyst
7 17 (6.85%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 14 (5.65%) Senior
9 12 (4.84%) Developer
10 10 (4.03%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.63%) Lead
11 9 (3.63%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.82%) Contracts Manager
12 7 (2.82%) Oracle Consultant
13 6 (2.42%) Coordinator
13 6 (2.42%) Product Manager
13 6 (2.42%) SAP Architect
14 5 (2.02%) Project Manager
14 5 (2.02%) SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.26%) REST
2 17 (6.85%) BAPI
3 9 (3.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.23%) Middleware
4 8 (3.23%) OpenAPI
4 8 (3.23%) SOAP
4 8 (3.23%) Swagger
5 6 (2.42%) .NET
5 6 (2.42%) JSON
6 4 (1.61%) EDI
6 4 (1.61%) Kafka
6 4 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.61%) RAML
6 4 (1.61%) Web Services
6 4 (1.61%) XML
7 3 (1.21%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.21%) gRPC
7 3 (1.21%) Pandas
8 2 (0.81%) IDoc
8 2 (0.81%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.05%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.42%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.42%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.02%) Life Science
7 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.61%) TM Forum
8 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.21%) IoT
8 3 (1.21%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.40%) Android
2 1 (0.40%) HPUX
2 1 (0.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.40%) Unix
2 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (14.11%) CRM
3 32 (12.90%) Decision-Making
4 31 (12.50%) ERP
5 30 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (11.29%) Migration
6 28 (11.29%) Order to Cash
7 26 (10.48%) Agile
8 25 (10.08%) Data Modelling
9 24 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
10 22 (8.87%) Order Management
10 22 (8.87%) User Acceptance Testing
10 22 (8.87%) Validation
11 21 (8.47%) Revenue Management
12 20 (8.06%) Cost Management
12 20 (8.06%) Roadmaps
13 19 (7.66%) CI/CD
14 18 (7.26%) Data Migration
14 18 (7.26%) Project Management
15 17 (6.85%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.87%) SQL
2 14 (5.65%) Python
3 8 (3.23%) Java
4 4 (1.61%) Apex Code
4 4 (1.61%) DataWeave
4 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.21%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.81%) ABAP
6 2 (0.81%) C#
6 2 (0.81%) C++
6 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.81%) VBA
6 2 (0.81%) X++
7 1 (0.40%) Bash
7 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.40%) Groovy
7 1 (0.40%) R
7 1 (0.40%) SOQL
7 1 (0.40%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 23 (9.27%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.23%) ACCA
5 7 (2.82%) CIMA
6 4 (1.61%) Degree
7 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.40%) CCA
9 1 (0.40%) CCDE
9 1 (0.40%) CCDP
9 1 (0.40%) CCIE
9 1 (0.40%) CCNP
9 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMP
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.63%) SLA
3 7 (2.82%) GDPR
4 6 (2.42%) PMO
5 4 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.21%) GxP
6 3 (1.21%) IFRS
7 2 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.81%) GAAP
7 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.61%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.02%) Grafana
1 5 (2.02%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.02%) Prometheus
2 4 (1.61%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.81%) SCCM
4 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 83 (33.47%) SAP
2 34 (13.71%) Oracle
3 33 (13.31%) Salesforce
4 24 (9.68%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.05%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.44%) Guidewire
7 8 (3.23%) Google
8 5 (2.02%) Ariba
8 5 (2.02%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (1.61%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.61%) Remedy
10 3 (1.21%) Apple
10 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.81%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.81%) Ciena
11 2 (0.81%) Conga
11 2 (0.81%) Nokia
11 2 (0.81%) Pega
12 1 (0.40%) HubSpot