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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 366 366
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +98
Contract jobs citing Billing 246 172 238
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.56% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.07% 0.90% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 83 119
10th Percentile £381 £208 £238
25th Percentile £466 £425 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +7.32% -0.49%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £627
90th Percentile £875 £700 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -17.09% +6.18% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 9
10th Percentile £16.90 £38.23 £12.10
25th Percentile - £63.44 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% -38.96%
75th Percentile £17.66 £75.00 £16.00
90th Percentile £23.43 £75.25 £26.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £14.38
% change year-on-year -75.71% +386.70% -4.12%

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 22,890 19,143 26,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.11% 62.01% 58.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,371 11,392 17,167
10th Percentile £288 £281 £265
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,391 618 1,623
10th Percentile £13.72 £15.62 £13.01
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.12 £15.14
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.00 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +12.45% +3.16%
75th Percentile £47.63 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.79 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £26.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% +7.00% +10.66%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -10 210 £520 -3.03% 172
London +17 103 £625 +25.00% 93
Work from Home +22 101 £591 +14.76% 68
UK excluding London -33 98 £456 -17.09% 104
South East +7 67 £470 -9.40% 43
Midlands -53 13 £573 -0.35% 6
West Midlands -28 12 £699 +35.73% 4
North of England -56 10 £447 -25.50% 34
North West - 8 £447 - 23
South West -19 6 £325 -31.58% 10
Scotland +10 4 £373 -3.27% 4
East of England -21 3 £388 - 5
Yorkshire -54 2 £351 -41.58% 8
East Midlands -30 1 £268 -57.05% 2
Wales - 1 £280 - 1

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 (2.85%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.44%) Appian
2 6 (2.44%) Camunda
3 3 (1.22%) Apache
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.22%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.81%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 19 (7.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (11.79%) SAP PSCD
2 20 (8.13%) SAP BRIM
3 19 (7.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (6.91%) SAP Hybris
5 16 (6.50%) SAP FI-CA
6 14 (5.69%) SAP FI
7 7 (2.85%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (2.03%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (1.63%) Oracle BRM
9 4 (1.63%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (1.22%) NetSuite
10 3 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (1.22%) SAP SD
11 2 (0.81%) Documaker
11 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.81%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.81%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.26%) Azure
2 19 (7.72%) AWS
3 17 (6.91%) Dynamics 365
3 17 (6.91%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 16 (6.50%) SaaS
5 12 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.88%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.66%) GCP
6 9 (3.66%) GitHub
6 9 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (3.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (2.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 5 (2.03%) OCI
9 5 (2.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.22%) Figma
12 2 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) Broadband
1 3 (1.22%) GPRS
1 3 (1.22%) GSM
1 3 (1.22%) MVNO
2 2 (0.81%) Firewall
2 2 (0.81%) LAN
2 2 (0.81%) WAN
2 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.41%) BGP
3 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.41%) Internet
3 1 (0.41%) OSPF
3 1 (0.41%) SSL
3 1 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.41%) Wireless
3 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.47%) Power BI
2 6 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.44%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.44%) Parquet
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.41%) GIS
5 1 (0.41%) Metadata
5 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (6.10%) JIRA
2 3 (1.22%) Git
3 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) Hudson
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.41%) Postman
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
4 1 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 111 (45.12%) Finance
2 109 (44.31%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.04%) Telecoms
4 36 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.10%) Legal
7 11 (4.47%) Law
8 9 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.44%) Banking
9 6 (2.44%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.63%) Publishing
10 4 (1.63%) Retail
11 3 (1.22%) German Language
11 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Automotive
12 2 (0.81%) Front Office
12 2 (0.81%) Marketing
13 1 (0.41%) French Language
Job Titles
1 63 (25.61%) Consultant
2 38 (15.45%) Architect
2 38 (15.45%) SAP Consultant
3 26 (10.57%) Solutions Architect
4 23 (9.35%) Analyst
4 23 (9.35%) Functional Consultant
5 17 (6.91%) Developer
6 15 (6.10%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 14 (5.69%) Senior
8 12 (4.88%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.07%) Designer
9 10 (4.07%) Lead
10 9 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.66%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.66%) Solutions Designer
11 6 (2.44%) Contracts Manager
11 6 (2.44%) Coordinator
11 6 (2.44%) Oracle Consultant
11 6 (2.44%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.44%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.07%) REST
2 8 (3.25%) .NET
2 8 (3.25%) Middleware
2 8 (3.25%) PySpark
3 7 (2.85%) JSON
4 6 (2.44%) SOAP
5 5 (2.03%) ADO
5 5 (2.03%) BAPI
5 5 (2.03%) Great Expectations
5 5 (2.03%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.22%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.22%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.22%) Pandas
6 3 (1.22%) Web Services
7 2 (0.81%) OAuth
7 2 (0.81%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.81%) React
7 2 (0.81%) RESTful
7 2 (0.81%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.07%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.66%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.66%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.03%) IoT
5 4 (1.63%) Smart Meter
5 4 (1.63%) TM Forum
6 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.22%) IPTV
6 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.81%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.81%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.81%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Unix
2 1 (0.41%) Android
2 1 (0.41%) CentOS
2 1 (0.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 43 (17.48%) CRM
3 35 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (12.60%) Agile
5 28 (11.38%) Workshop Facilitation
6 24 (9.76%) Accounts Receivable
7 23 (9.35%) Order Management
7 23 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (8.94%) CI/CD
8 22 (8.94%) Decision-Making
8 22 (8.94%) Migration
8 22 (8.94%) Validation
9 21 (8.54%) ERP
9 21 (8.54%) Process Improvement
10 20 (8.13%) Requirements Gathering
10 20 (8.13%) Revenue Management
11 19 (7.72%) Data Modelling
12 18 (7.32%) Cost Management
12 18 (7.32%) DevOps
12 18 (7.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.98%) SQL
2 13 (5.28%) Python
3 10 (4.07%) PL/SQL
4 7 (2.85%) Java
5 5 (2.03%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.63%) Groovy
7 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.22%) PHP
7 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.22%) X++
8 2 (0.81%) Bash
8 2 (0.81%) C#
8 2 (0.81%) SOQL
8 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.81%) VBA
9 1 (0.41%) ABAP
9 1 (0.41%) Bicep
9 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.41%) Korn
9 1 (0.41%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 23 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.69%) ACCA
2 14 (5.69%) CIMA
2 14 (5.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.85%) Degree
5 5 (2.03%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) AAT
6 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.81%) ECDL
6 2 (0.81%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.81%) PMP
7 1 (0.41%) CCA
7 1 (0.41%) CCDE
7 1 (0.41%) CCDP
7 1 (0.41%) CCIE
7 1 (0.41%) CCNP
7 1 (0.41%) MBA
7 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.25%) GDPR
3 5 (2.03%) SLA
4 3 (1.22%) PMO
5 2 (0.81%) QA
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.03%) Terraform
3 3 (1.22%) Grafana
4 2 (0.81%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 65 (26.42%) SAP
2 30 (12.20%) Salesforce
3 29 (11.79%) Oracle
4 25 (10.16%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.66%) Guidewire
5 9 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.85%) Databricks
6 7 (2.85%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.44%) Pega
8 5 (2.03%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (1.63%) Remedy
9 4 (1.63%) Workday
9 4 (1.63%) Xero
10 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.22%) IFS
10 3 (1.22%) Spotify
11 2 (0.81%) Ariba
11 2 (0.81%) Google
11 2 (0.81%) HP