Billing Contracts

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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 384 473
Rank change year-on-year +44 +89 -5
Contract jobs citing Billing 185 220 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.50% 0.41%
As % of the General category 1.00% 0.87% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 129 141
10th Percentile £263 £243 £350
25th Percentile £394 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £558 £627 £696
90th Percentile £675 £715 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £508 £499
% change year-on-year -7.59% +1.75% -0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 7
10th Percentile £29.00 £12.25 £31.30
25th Percentile £50.88 £14.88 £38.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £15.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +344.44% -74.80% +162.14%
75th Percentile £75.00 £23.72 £121.88
90th Percentile - £50.45 £180.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £15.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +351.61% -65.56% +273.44%

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 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

Billing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Billing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Billing in the UK

Billing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Billing.

Daily rate trend for Billing in the UK

Billing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Billing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Billing.

Hourly rate trend for Billing in the UK

Billing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Billing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing
Top 14 Contract 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 30 April 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 +38 162 £488 -5.34% 328
UK excluding London +34 88 £469 -7.59% 169
London +18 67 £488 -7.14% 173
Work from Home +17 65 £488 -2.50% 209
South East +38 48 £475 -5.00% 54
South West +54 17 £425 +7.32% 22
East of England +31 8 £550 -5.56% 13
North of England +19 8 £489 -2.20% 52
North West +10 8 £489 -2.20% 40
Channel Islands - 3 - -
Midlands +16 2 £315 -47.50% 20
West Midlands +9 2 £315 -47.50% 15
Scotland -1 1 £386 -11.96% 7
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

Billing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.08%) Camunda
1 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.54%) Apache
2 1 (0.54%) CMS
2 1 (0.54%) JBoss
2 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (9.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (8.65%) SAP SD
3 12 (6.49%) SAP PSCD
4 11 (5.95%) SAP FI
5 8 (4.32%) NetSuite
5 8 (4.32%) SAP BRIM
6 7 (3.78%) SAP Hybris
7 5 (2.70%) SAP FI-CA
8 4 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (2.16%) SAP CO
8 4 (2.16%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (2.16%) SAP GTS
9 3 (1.62%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (1.62%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (1.08%) SAP CRM
10 2 (1.08%) SAP ECC
10 2 (1.08%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.27%) Azure
2 12 (6.49%) AWS
3 9 (4.86%) SaaS
3 9 (4.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 7 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.16%) OCI
8 3 (1.62%) Apigee
8 3 (1.62%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.62%) GCP
9 2 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.08%) Boomi
9 2 (1.08%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.08%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.32%) Unified Communications
2 7 (3.78%) 5G
2 7 (3.78%) Intranet
3 6 (3.24%) Diameter Protocol
4 5 (2.70%) GGSN
4 5 (2.70%) LAN
4 5 (2.70%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.70%) SS7
4 5 (2.70%) WAN
5 4 (2.16%) VoIP
6 3 (1.62%) ISDN
6 3 (1.62%) PBX
6 3 (1.62%) VoLTE
6 3 (1.62%) VoWiFi
6 3 (1.62%) VSAN
7 2 (1.08%) 4G
7 2 (1.08%) Broadband
8 1 (0.54%) MPLS
8 1 (0.54%) VPN
8 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.16%) Power BI
4 2 (1.08%) Big Data
4 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.08%) Metadata
4 2 (1.08%) NewSQL
4 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.54%) OLTP
5 1 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.54%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.54%) Tableau
5 1 (0.54%) UniData
Development Applications
1 4 (2.16%) JIRA
2 3 (1.62%) Ant
3 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.54%) GCC
4 1 (0.54%) Git
4 1 (0.54%) Hudson
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) Postman
4 1 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 68 (36.76%) Finance
2 58 (31.35%) Social Skills
3 46 (24.86%) Telecoms
4 31 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.03%) Retail
6 10 (5.41%) Legal
7 9 (4.86%) Back Office
8 8 (4.32%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.78%) Marketing
10 4 (2.16%) Dutch Language
10 4 (2.16%) German Language
11 3 (1.62%) Advertising
11 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.62%) Military
12 2 (1.08%) Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.08%) Law
12 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (22.70%) Consultant
2 24 (12.97%) SAP Consultant
3 17 (9.19%) Analyst
4 16 (8.65%) Project Manager
5 15 (8.11%) Lead
6 14 (7.57%) Architect
6 14 (7.57%) IT Manager
7 11 (5.95%) Senior
8 9 (4.86%) Developer
8 9 (4.86%) Functional Consultant
9 8 (4.32%) Designer
9 8 (4.32%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 8 (4.32%) Solutions Designer
10 7 (3.78%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.78%) IT Services Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.78%) IT Services Manager
10 7 (3.78%) Service Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.78%) Service Manager
11 6 (3.24%) SAP SD Consultant
11 6 (3.24%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.32%) .NET
1 8 (4.32%) REST
2 6 (3.24%) Web Services
3 5 (2.70%) .NET Framework
3 5 (2.70%) Entity Framework
3 5 (2.70%) JSON
3 5 (2.70%) Middleware
4 3 (1.62%) ADO
4 3 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.62%) SOAP
5 2 (1.08%) CSS
5 2 (1.08%) EDI
5 2 (1.08%) HTML
5 2 (1.08%) IDoc
5 2 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.08%) RESTful
6 1 (0.54%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.54%) htmx
6 1 (0.54%) OAuth
6 1 (0.54%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.49%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.78%) TM Forum
3 6 (3.24%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.70%) Frameworx
4 5 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.62%) Digital Media
5 3 (1.62%) IoT
5 3 (1.62%) IVR
5 3 (1.62%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.08%) Replication
6 2 (1.08%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.08%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) Android
2 1 (0.54%) Unix
2 1 (0.54%) VMS
2 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (19.46%) CRM
3 28 (15.14%) Agile
4 22 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (11.35%) Customer Service
6 19 (10.27%) Project Management
7 15 (8.11%) ERP
7 15 (8.11%) Migration
7 15 (8.11%) Service Delivery
8 14 (7.57%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (6.49%) Order Management
9 12 (6.49%) Service Management
10 11 (5.95%) Customer Experience
10 11 (5.95%) DevOps
10 11 (5.95%) PRINCE2
10 11 (5.95%) Project Delivery
10 11 (5.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (5.41%) Data Analysis
11 10 (5.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.65%) SQL
2 7 (3.78%) Java
3 6 (3.24%) ABAP
3 6 (3.24%) RPG
3 6 (3.24%) RPG IV
4 5 (2.70%) C#
4 5 (2.70%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.62%) Python
6 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.08%) Scala
7 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.54%) C
7 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (10.27%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.86%) Degree
3 9 (4.86%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.32%) PMP
5 6 (3.24%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.16%) CCNP
6 4 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.62%) CCNA
8 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.54%) APMP
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.70%) QA
3 3 (1.62%) GDPR
4 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.08%) PMO
5 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) IFRS
5 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.70%) Docker
3 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.62%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.62%) vSphere
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.78%) Kubernetes
1 7 (3.78%) vRealize
2 4 (2.16%) Amdocs OSS
3 3 (1.62%) VxRail
4 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.54%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (25.41%) SAP
2 35 (18.92%) Salesforce
3 28 (15.14%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.86%) Nokia
5 8 (4.32%) Oracle
5 8 (4.32%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.78%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.78%) Splunk
6 7 (3.78%) VMware
7 5 (2.70%) Ariba
7 5 (2.70%) Huawei
8 4 (2.16%) Amdocs
8 4 (2.16%) Ciena
8 4 (2.16%) Ericsson
8 4 (2.16%) NetCracker
9 3 (1.62%) comScore
9 3 (1.62%) Google
9 3 (1.62%) Infoblox
9 3 (1.62%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.62%) Zuora