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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 368 378
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -32
Contract jobs citing Billing 331 193 198
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.59% 0.52%
As % of the General category 1.10% 0.92% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 122 120
10th Percentile £400 £300 £243
25th Percentile £469 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -3.47%
75th Percentile £630 £619 £600
90th Percentile £767 £746 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 10
10th Percentile £13.45 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £13.64 £24.31 £14.50
Median hourly rate £15.98 £41.75 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.74% +30.47% -82.22%
75th Percentile £19.48 £59.06 £74.69
90th Percentile £22.65 £61.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.45 £22.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -32.09% +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 30,223 20,950 22,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.69% 63.60% 57.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,737 12,987 13,281
10th Percentile £313 £275 £283
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 2,489 1,199 1,107
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.70
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.08
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -30.14% +30.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £48.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.50 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.22 £21.39 £35.36
% change year-on-year +41.28% -39.51% +34.70%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -57 263 £540 +13.09% 675
London -51 134 £563 +14.33% 429
UK excluding London -46 131 £500 +17.65% 294
Work from Home +11 128 £500 +2.56% 312
South East -53 52 £469 +7.30% 85
Midlands -22 27 £500 -39.39% 49
North of England -59 24 £575 +64.05% 70
West Midlands -40 17 £470 -43.03% 30
North West -33 13 £600 -20.00% 44
Scotland - 11 £525 - 19
South West -53 10 £500 +17.65% 18
East of England -18 8 £581 +66.07% 28
Yorkshire -42 8 £492 +60.78% 17
East Midlands - 8 £550 - 19
North East - 3 - - 10
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 20

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 (2.11%) Confluence
2 5 (1.51%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Mendix
4 1 (0.30%) Mule
4 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 48 (14.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (12.99%) SAP BRIM
3 24 (7.25%) SAP SD
4 22 (6.65%) SAP FI
4 22 (6.65%) SAP PSCD
5 19 (5.74%) SAP FI-CA
6 18 (5.44%) NetSuite
7 12 (3.63%) SAP Hybris
8 11 (3.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (3.02%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
10 8 (2.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 7 (2.11%) Oracle ERP
12 6 (1.81%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (1.81%) SAP Convergent Charging
13 5 (1.51%) Sage X3
14 4 (1.21%) SAP CO
15 3 (0.91%) JDE EnterpriseOne
15 3 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
15 3 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 53 (16.01%) Azure
2 37 (11.18%) AWS
3 26 (7.85%) GCP
4 23 (6.95%) SaaS
5 16 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (4.83%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 11 (3.32%) Serverless
8 10 (3.02%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.42%) GitHub
10 8 (2.42%) OCI
11 7 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 6 (1.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 5 (1.51%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (1.51%) Cloud Functions
13 5 (1.51%) Fivetran
13 5 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.51%) Broadband
2 4 (1.21%) HTTP
2 4 (1.21%) WAN
3 3 (0.91%) 5G
4 2 (0.60%) 4G
4 2 (0.60%) LAN
4 2 (0.60%) Multicast
4 2 (0.60%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.60%) SMS
4 2 (0.60%) VoLTE
4 2 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (2.72%) BigQuery
2 9 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.72%) Power BI
3 8 (2.42%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.51%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.21%) Metadata
6 4 (1.21%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.91%) Looker
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.30%) Power Query
9 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (4.53%) JIRA
2 6 (1.81%) Git
3 5 (1.51%) RStudio
4 2 (0.60%) JMeter
4 2 (0.60%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.60%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 168 (50.76%) Finance
2 107 (32.33%) Social Skills
3 40 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.57%) Telecoms
5 25 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.04%) Banking
7 14 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (3.93%) Marketing
9 12 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.02%) Legal
11 8 (2.42%) Corporate Banking
11 8 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.42%) Retail
12 7 (2.11%) Back Office
13 6 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.51%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.21%) Advertising
15 4 (1.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (23.87%) Consultant
2 64 (19.34%) Architect
3 56 (16.92%) SAP Consultant
4 43 (12.99%) Analyst
5 38 (11.48%) Lead
6 32 (9.67%) Business Analyst
6 32 (9.67%) Functional Consultant
7 27 (8.16%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 27 (8.16%) Senior
8 26 (7.85%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.23%) SAP SD Consultant
10 12 (3.63%) Developer
10 12 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (2.72%) Salesforce Analyst
11 9 (2.72%) Salesforce Business Analyst
11 9 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
12 8 (2.42%) Product Lead
12 8 (2.42%) Senior Consultant
13 7 (2.11%) Financial Analyst
13 7 (2.11%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.44%) REST
2 14 (4.23%) BAPI
3 12 (3.63%) Terraform
4 8 (2.42%) Kafka
4 8 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (2.11%) EDI
6 6 (1.81%) .NET
6 6 (1.81%) Middleware
6 6 (1.81%) SOAP
7 5 (1.51%) OpenAPI
7 5 (1.51%) PySpark
7 5 (1.51%) RAML
7 5 (1.51%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (1.51%) Swagger
8 4 (1.21%) JSON
8 4 (1.21%) Web Services
8 4 (1.21%) XML
9 2 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.60%) Loki
10 1 (0.30%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
2 26 (7.85%) Onboarding
3 24 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.53%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.72%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.81%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.51%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.51%) TM Forum
8 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.21%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.91%) CMDB
10 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.91%) Life Science
10 3 (0.91%) NHS
10 3 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.81%) Android
2 4 (1.21%) Windows
3 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.60%) HPUX
3 2 (0.60%) Linux
3 2 (0.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (32.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 65 (19.64%) Migration
3 61 (18.43%) ERP
4 54 (16.31%) CRM
4 54 (16.31%) Roadmaps
5 49 (14.80%) Order to Cash
6 48 (14.50%) Workshop Facilitation
7 47 (14.20%) Agile
8 45 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (12.39%) User Acceptance Testing
10 40 (12.08%) Order Management
11 39 (11.78%) Validation
12 34 (10.27%) Analytics
13 31 (9.37%) Revenue Management
14 29 (8.76%) AI
14 29 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (8.76%) Requirements Gathering
15 27 (8.16%) Data Migration
16 26 (7.85%) CI/CD
16 26 (7.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.97%) SQL
2 22 (6.65%) Python
3 7 (2.11%) R
4 6 (1.81%) Java
5 5 (1.51%) DataWeave
5 5 (1.51%) X++
6 3 (0.91%) Bash
6 3 (0.91%) Rust
7 2 (0.60%) ABAP
7 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.60%) C#
7 2 (0.60%) Go
7 2 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 26 (7.85%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.11%) Degree
5 5 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.21%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.91%) ACCA
7 3 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.60%) CBAP
8 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.30%) CIMA
9 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.30%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.30%) PMP
9 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.93%) SLA
3 8 (2.42%) QA
4 6 (1.81%) GDPR
4 6 (1.81%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.81%) SEPA
5 5 (1.51%) IFRS
5 5 (1.51%) PMO
6 3 (0.91%) GxP
6 3 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.30%) GAAP
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.60%) Argo
2 2 (0.60%) Grafana
2 2 (0.60%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.60%) SCCM
3 1 (0.30%) Ansible
Vendors
1 111 (33.53%) SAP
2 46 (13.90%) Microsoft
3 44 (13.29%) Salesforce
4 35 (10.57%) Oracle
5 17 (5.14%) Ariba
6 13 (3.93%) Google
7 11 (3.32%) Databricks
8 10 (3.02%) Sage
8 10 (3.02%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.42%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.81%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.51%) JD Edwards
11 5 (1.51%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.51%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.21%) Informatica
12 4 (1.21%) NetCracker
12 4 (1.21%) Talend
13 2 (0.60%) Apple
13 2 (0.60%) HP
13 2 (0.60%) Nokia