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 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 349 385
Rank change year-on-year -33 +36 +102
Contract jobs citing Billing 252 184 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.63% 0.51%
As % of the General category 0.98% 0.99% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 98 129
10th Percentile £363 £263 £243
25th Percentile £454 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £561 £627
90th Percentile £825 £675 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £470 £508
% change year-on-year -2.45% -7.39% +2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 8
10th Percentile - £29.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £50.88 £14.88
Median hourly rate £28.13 £70.00 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +344.44% -74.80%
75th Percentile £36.84 £75.00 £23.72
90th Percentile £42.38 - £50.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -59.82% +351.61% -65.56%

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 25,635 18,544 25,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.57% 63.17% 58.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,828 11,863 15,921
10th Percentile £305 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £496
% change year-on-year - -4.23% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,648 796 1,927
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.67 £18.13 £15.48
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.17 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% -2.88% -17.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £79.30 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.64 £25.43 £27.51
% change year-on-year +0.81% -7.55% -9.93%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -58 204 £500 +2.56% 175
London -24 106 £600 +23.08% 93
Work from Home +6 99 £550 +12.82% 72
UK excluding London -93 89 £458 -2.45% 107
South East -53 55 £469 -2.29% 48
North of England -69 14 £447 -8.59% 28
Midlands -57 11 £372 +17.94% 8
West Midlands -53 9 £475 +50.79% 5
East of England -31 8 £631 +14.77% 11
North West -33 8 £447 -8.59% 17
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 7
Scotland +1 4 £391 +1.40% 2
South West -51 2 £418 -1.76% 9
Wales -11 1 £475 -13.64% 2
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 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 5 (1.98%) Apache
1 5 (1.98%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.59%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.59%) Appian
2 4 (1.59%) Camunda
2 4 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 31 (12.30%) SAP BRIM
2 30 (11.90%) SAP PSCD
2 30 (11.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 22 (8.73%) SAP FI
4 19 (7.54%) SAP FI-CA
5 12 (4.76%) SAP Hybris
5 12 (4.76%) SAP SD
6 9 (3.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (1.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (1.19%) SAP CO
8 3 (1.19%) SAP ERP
8 3 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle BRM
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.79%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.70%) Azure
2 20 (7.94%) AWS
3 13 (5.16%) GCP
3 13 (5.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 12 (4.76%) SaaS
5 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (3.17%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 6 (2.38%) Serverless
8 5 (1.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.59%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.59%) OCI
10 3 (1.19%) Azure API Management
10 3 (1.19%) Figma
10 3 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.19%) Google Docs
10 3 (1.19%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) WAN
2 4 (1.59%) HTTP
2 4 (1.59%) Internet
3 3 (1.19%) LAN
3 3 (1.19%) MPLS
3 3 (1.19%) Network Security
3 3 (1.19%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.19%) Wireless
4 2 (0.79%) Broadband
4 2 (0.79%) GPRS
4 2 (0.79%) GSM
4 2 (0.79%) NaaS
5 1 (0.40%) 4G
5 1 (0.40%) BGP
5 1 (0.40%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.40%) Firewall
5 1 (0.40%) OSPF
5 1 (0.40%) SMS
5 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.38%) Power BI
2 4 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.19%) Metadata
4 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.79%) Flink
4 2 (0.79%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.79%) MySQL
4 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.79%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (6.75%) JIRA
2 9 (3.57%) Git
3 3 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.79%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.40%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) Storybook
General
1 121 (48.02%) Finance
2 84 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.87%) Telecoms
4 33 (13.10%) Public Sector
5 29 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.76%) Banking
6 12 (4.76%) Legal
7 10 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.38%) Law
10 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.98%) Retail
11 4 (1.59%) Back Office
11 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.59%) Publishing
12 3 (1.19%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.19%) German Language
12 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.79%) Automotive
13 2 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 64 (25.40%) Consultant
2 43 (17.06%) Architect
3 42 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
4 25 (9.92%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.94%) Analyst
5 20 (7.94%) Functional Consultant
6 18 (7.14%) Senior
7 15 (5.95%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 13 (5.16%) Developer
9 9 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.17%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.17%) Coordinator
10 8 (3.17%) Lead
11 7 (2.78%) Contracts Manager
11 7 (2.78%) Designer
11 7 (2.78%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.38%) Cloud Consultant
12 6 (2.38%) Product Manager
12 6 (2.38%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.14%) REST
2 15 (5.95%) BAPI
3 9 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.17%) .NET
4 8 (3.17%) OpenAPI
4 8 (3.17%) Swagger
5 7 (2.78%) Middleware
6 6 (2.38%) JSON
6 6 (2.38%) SOAP
7 5 (1.98%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.98%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.59%) EDI
8 4 (1.59%) Kafka
8 4 (1.59%) RAML
8 4 (1.59%) Web Services
8 4 (1.59%) XML
9 3 (1.19%) gRPC
9 3 (1.19%) Pandas
10 2 (0.79%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.98%) Life Science
6 5 (1.98%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.59%) TM Forum
8 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.19%) IoT
8 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.19%) Unix
2 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.40%) Android
3 1 (0.40%) HPUX
3 1 (0.40%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 37 (14.68%) CRM
2 37 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (12.30%) Decision-Making
4 30 (11.90%) ERP
5 29 (11.51%) Order to Cash
6 27 (10.71%) Agile
6 27 (10.71%) Data Modelling
7 25 (9.92%) Validation
7 25 (9.92%) Workshop Facilitation
8 24 (9.52%) Migration
9 21 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 21 (8.33%) Cost Management
9 21 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 19 (7.54%) Order Management
10 19 (7.54%) Roadmaps
11 18 (7.14%) Observability
11 18 (7.14%) Process Improvement
11 18 (7.14%) Revenue Management
12 17 (6.75%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.73%) SQL
2 18 (7.14%) Python
3 11 (4.37%) Java
4 6 (2.38%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.98%) Apex Code
5 5 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.59%) C#
6 4 (1.59%) DataWeave
6 4 (1.59%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.19%) Bash
7 3 (1.19%) PHP
7 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.79%) C++
8 2 (0.79%) VBA
8 2 (0.79%) X++
9 1 (0.40%) ABAP
9 1 (0.40%) Groovy
9 1 (0.40%) SOQL
9 1 (0.40%) SOSL
9 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 13 (5.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.57%) ACCA
4 8 (3.17%) CIMA
5 4 (1.59%) Degree
6 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.79%) AAT
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.79%) ECDL
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.40%) CCDE
8 1 (0.40%) CCDP
8 1 (0.40%) CCIE
8 1 (0.40%) CCNP
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.57%) GDPR
2 9 (3.57%) SLA
3 6 (2.38%) PMO
4 3 (1.19%) GxP
4 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.79%) GAAP
5 2 (0.79%) IFRS
5 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.79%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.38%) Terraform
2 5 (1.98%) Grafana
2 5 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.79%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 75 (29.76%) SAP
2 35 (13.89%) Oracle
3 29 (11.51%) Salesforce
4 26 (10.32%) Microsoft
5 15 (5.95%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.57%) Guidewire
7 8 (3.17%) Google
8 6 (2.38%) Ariba
9 5 (1.98%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.98%) Workday
10 4 (1.59%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.59%) Pega
10 4 (1.59%) Remedy
11 3 (1.19%) Apple
11 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.19%) Spotify
12 2 (0.79%) Ciena
12 2 (0.79%) Conga