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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 356 393
Rank change year-on-year -24 +37 +57
Contract jobs citing Billing 275 173 201
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the General category 1.02% 0.93% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 104 127
10th Percentile £359 £350 £231
25th Percentile £460 £387 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £550 £615
90th Percentile £805 £668 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +7.43% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 11
10th Percentile £13.45 £23.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £13.70 £29.88 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £55.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.37% +268.33% -76.00%
75th Percentile £37.13 £73.75 £18.88
90th Percentile £42.38 £76.25 £43.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.23 £49.25 £15.00
% change year-on-year -60.96% +228.33% -66.67%

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 26,921 18,634 24,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.96% 63.44% 57.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,272 11,755 15,666
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,790 862 2,008
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.46 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £27.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.72% -7.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.60 £53.95 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £67.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.98 £24.34 £28.42
% change year-on-year +27.29% -14.36% +3.35%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -47 216 £525 +16.67% 235
London -25 117 £600 +33.33% 109
Work from Home +2 112 £525 +7.69% 115
UK excluding London -82 91 £470 +7.43% 155
South East -52 44 £470 -0.11% 63
Midlands -50 18 £500 +58.73% 18
North of England -69 17 £447 -9.61% 42
West Midlands -49 13 £500 +58.73% 11
North West -41 10 £447 -8.59% 22
Yorkshire -46 7 £441 -11.81% 15
Scotland -7 6 £500 +29.67% 3
East of England -24 6 £650 +85.71% 7
South West -36 4 £475 +11.76% 20
East Midlands - 4 £550 - 7
Wales -12 1 £475 -13.64%

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 (2.55%) Apache
2 4 (1.45%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.73%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 20 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 44 (16.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (15.64%) SAP BRIM
3 30 (10.91%) SAP FI
3 30 (10.91%) SAP PSCD
4 27 (9.82%) SAP FI-CA
5 19 (6.91%) SAP SD
6 11 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 10 (3.64%) SAP Hybris
8 8 (2.91%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (2.55%) NetSuite
9 7 (2.55%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (1.82%) SAP Convergent Charging
11 4 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
11 4 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (1.45%) SAP ERP
12 3 (1.09%) SAP CO
12 3 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
13 2 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 22 (8.00%) Azure
2 17 (6.18%) AWS
3 16 (5.82%) SaaS
4 15 (5.45%) GCP
5 14 (5.09%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 11 (4.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 7 (2.55%) OCI
9 6 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (2.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.82%) Serverless
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.09%) Boomi
11 3 (1.09%) GitHub
11 3 (1.09%) Google Docs
11 3 (1.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.18%) WAN
2 4 (1.45%) HTTP
2 4 (1.45%) Internet
3 3 (1.09%) MPLS
3 3 (1.09%) Network Security
3 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.09%) Wireless
4 2 (0.73%) 5G
4 2 (0.73%) LAN
4 2 (0.73%) NaaS
5 1 (0.36%) 4G
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.36%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.36%) OSPF
5 1 (0.36%) SMS
5 1 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.64%) Power BI
2 5 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.73%) Flink
5 2 (0.73%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.73%) Metadata
5 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.73%) MySQL
5 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.73%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 17 (6.18%) JIRA
2 11 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.73%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.36%) Storybook
General
1 132 (48.00%) Finance
2 83 (30.18%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.55%) Telecoms
4 31 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.55%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.36%) Banking
7 10 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.27%) Legal
9 7 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Back Office
12 4 (1.45%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.45%) Publishing
13 3 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.09%) German Language
13 3 (1.09%) Law
13 3 (1.09%) Marketing
13 3 (1.09%) Retail
14 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (24.73%) Consultant
2 51 (18.55%) SAP Consultant
3 47 (17.09%) Architect
4 29 (10.55%) Analyst
5 25 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (8.73%) Functional Consultant
7 19 (6.91%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 18 (6.55%) Senior
9 17 (6.18%) Business Analyst
9 17 (6.18%) Lead
10 14 (5.09%) Developer
11 10 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Oracle Consultant
13 7 (2.55%) SAP SD Consultant
14 6 (2.18%) Contracts Manager
14 6 (2.18%) Data Engineer
14 6 (2.18%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 6 (2.18%) Project Manager
14 6 (2.18%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.36%) BAPI
2 17 (6.18%) REST
3 11 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (2.91%) .NET
4 8 (2.91%) SOAP
5 7 (2.55%) Middleware
6 6 (2.18%) OpenAPI
6 6 (2.18%) Swagger
6 6 (2.18%) Web Services
7 4 (1.45%) EDI
7 4 (1.45%) JSON
7 4 (1.45%) Kafka
7 4 (1.45%) RAML
7 4 (1.45%) XML
8 3 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.73%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.73%) gRPC
9 2 (0.73%) IDoc
9 2 (0.73%) Next.js
9 2 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.18%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.18%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.18%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.82%) Life Science
6 4 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.09%) Smart Meter
8 2 (0.73%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.73%) iPad
8 2 (0.73%) iPhone
8 2 (0.73%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.18%) Android
2 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.73%) HPUX
2 2 (0.73%) Linux
2 2 (0.73%) Unix
2 2 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 40 (14.55%) ERP
2 40 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (14.18%) CRM
4 34 (12.36%) Migration
5 33 (12.00%) Order to Cash
6 31 (11.27%) Agile
7 30 (10.91%) Validation
8 28 (10.18%) Decision-Making
8 28 (10.18%) Order Management
9 26 (9.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 26 (9.45%) Workshop Facilitation
10 24 (8.73%) Data Modelling
10 24 (8.73%) Roadmaps
11 22 (8.00%) CI/CD
12 20 (7.27%) Revenue Management
13 19 (6.91%) Convergent Charging
13 19 (6.91%) Data Migration
13 19 (6.91%) Observability
13 19 (6.91%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.55%) SQL
2 13 (4.73%) Python
3 10 (3.64%) Java
4 4 (1.45%) DataWeave
4 4 (1.45%) PL/SQL
4 4 (1.45%) X++
5 3 (1.09%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.73%) ABAP
6 2 (0.73%) C#
6 2 (0.73%) C++
6 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.73%) VBA
7 1 (0.36%) Bash
7 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.36%) Go
7 1 (0.36%) Groovy
7 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.55%) ACCA
5 6 (2.18%) CIMA
5 6 (2.18%) Degree
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.36%) CBAP
8 1 (0.36%) PMP
8 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.73%) SLA
2 10 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.82%) GDPR
3 5 (1.82%) PMO
3 5 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.45%) IFRS
5 3 (1.09%) GxP
6 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.73%) GAAP
6 2 (0.73%) QA
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.55%) Terraform
2 5 (1.82%) Grafana
2 5 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.73%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.73%) SCCM
4 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 99 (36.00%) SAP
2 37 (13.45%) Oracle
3 34 (12.36%) Salesforce
4 33 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 14 (5.09%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.00%) Guidewire
7 10 (3.64%) Ariba
7 10 (3.64%) Google
8 5 (1.82%) Computacenter
8 5 (1.82%) PeopleSoft
9 4 (1.45%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.45%) Remedy
9 4 (1.45%) Sage
10 3 (1.09%) Apple
10 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.73%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.73%) Ciena
11 2 (0.73%) NetCracker
11 2 (0.73%) PagerDuty