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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 382 383
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 +94
Contract jobs citing Billing 249 168 214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.55% 0.48%
As % of the General category 1.03% 0.88% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 81 109
10th Percentile £380 £208 £238
25th Percentile £463 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% +0.58%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £627
90th Percentile £868 £700 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -12.10% +1.35% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 9
10th Percentile £16.95 £29.00 £12.10
25th Percentile - £50.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% -51.18%
75th Percentile £19.81 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £32.19 - £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% +0.68%

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 24,234 19,043 25,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.35% 62.16% 58.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,179 11,650 16,722
10th Percentile £300 £289 £265
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £496
% change year-on-year -0.42% -3.88% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,473 622 1,713
10th Percentile £13.64 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.46 £15.33
Median hourly rate £23.58 £29.90 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +15.00% -10.34%
75th Percentile £54.00 £57.62 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £65.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £27.39 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.70% +9.54% -3.85%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -14 213 £520 -0.72% 101
London +2 104 £600 +20.00% 40
UK excluding London -43 101 £462 -12.10% 82
Work from Home +14 100 £596 +19.10% 55
South East +1 68 £470 -12.56% 39
Midlands -46 11 £573 +7.61% 12
West Midlands -40 10 £699 +35.73% 10
North of England -62 10 £447 -17.91% 17
North West -22 8 £447 -8.59% 10
South West -26 6 £325 -27.78% 5
East of England -31 6 £500 -9.09% 5
Scotland +18 5 £373 -3.27% 1
Yorkshire -68 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 2
Wales - 1 £280 - 2

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 (2.81%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.41%) Appian
2 6 (2.41%) Camunda
3 5 (2.01%) Apache
4 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.20%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.40%) Confluence
7 1 (0.40%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.40%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 21 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 31 (12.45%) SAP PSCD
2 23 (9.24%) SAP BRIM
3 21 (8.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (7.23%) SAP Hybris
5 17 (6.83%) SAP FI-CA
6 14 (5.62%) SAP FI
7 8 (3.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle BRM
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (1.61%) SAP SD
9 3 (1.20%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.80%) Documaker
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.80%) SAP IS-U
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle CRM
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.06%) Azure
2 21 (8.43%) AWS
3 18 (7.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 16 (6.43%) SaaS
5 15 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.02%) GCP
8 9 (3.61%) GitHub
8 9 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (3.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (3.61%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.41%) OCI
11 4 (1.61%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.20%) Figma
12 3 (1.20%) Serverless
13 2 (0.80%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) Broadband
1 3 (1.20%) GPRS
1 3 (1.20%) GSM
1 3 (1.20%) WAN
2 2 (0.80%) Firewall
2 2 (0.80%) LAN
2 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.80%) Wireless
3 1 (0.40%) 4G
3 1 (0.40%) 5G
3 1 (0.40%) BGP
3 1 (0.40%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.40%) Internet
3 1 (0.40%) NaaS
3 1 (0.40%) OSPF
3 1 (0.40%) SMS
3 1 (0.40%) SSL
3 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.21%) Power BI
2 6 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.41%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.41%) Parquet
3 4 (1.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.20%) Metadata
4 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.40%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.40%) MySQL
6 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (5.22%) JIRA
2 5 (2.01%) Git
3 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.40%) Hudson
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.40%) Postman
4 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.40%) Selenium
4 1 (0.40%) Storybook
General
1 118 (47.39%) Finance
2 104 (41.77%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 37 (14.86%) Telecoms
5 26 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.43%) Legal
7 11 (4.42%) Law
8 10 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.21%) Banking
10 5 (2.01%) Retail
11 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.61%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.61%) Publishing
12 3 (1.20%) German Language
13 2 (0.80%) Automotive
13 2 (0.80%) Front Office
13 2 (0.80%) Marketing
13 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 63 (25.30%) Consultant
2 40 (16.06%) SAP Consultant
3 38 (15.26%) Architect
4 25 (10.04%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (9.64%) Functional Consultant
6 21 (8.43%) Analyst
7 17 (6.83%) Developer
7 17 (6.83%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 15 (6.02%) Senior
9 13 (5.22%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.02%) Designer
11 9 (3.61%) Coordinator
11 9 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.61%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.61%) Solutions Designer
12 6 (2.41%) Contracts Manager
12 6 (2.41%) Operations Manager
12 6 (2.41%) Oracle Consultant
13 5 (2.01%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (2.01%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.22%) REST
2 8 (3.21%) .NET
2 8 (3.21%) Middleware
2 8 (3.21%) PySpark
2 8 (3.21%) SOAP
3 7 (2.81%) BAPI
3 7 (2.81%) JSON
3 7 (2.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.01%) ADO
4 5 (2.01%) Great Expectations
5 4 (1.61%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.61%) Web Services
6 3 (1.20%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.20%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.20%) Pandas
6 3 (1.20%) Swagger
7 2 (0.80%) Dask
7 2 (0.80%) Next.js
7 2 (0.80%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.02%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.61%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.21%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.61%) Smart Meter
4 4 (1.61%) TM Forum
5 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.20%) IoT
5 3 (1.20%) IPTV
5 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.20%) Unix
2 1 (0.40%) Android
2 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.40%) CentOS
2 1 (0.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (17.67%) CRM
3 37 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (11.24%) Workshop Facilitation
5 27 (10.84%) Agile
6 26 (10.44%) Validation
7 25 (10.04%) Accounts Receivable
8 24 (9.64%) Data Modelling
8 24 (9.64%) Decision-Making
8 24 (9.64%) Order Management
9 23 (9.24%) CI/CD
9 23 (9.24%) ERP
10 22 (8.84%) Requirements Gathering
11 21 (8.43%) Process Improvement
11 21 (8.43%) Revenue Management
12 20 (8.03%) Order to Cash
13 19 (7.63%) Migration
13 19 (7.63%) Observability
13 19 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (7.23%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (12.05%) SQL
2 15 (6.02%) Python
3 10 (4.02%) PL/SQL
4 9 (3.61%) Java
5 4 (1.61%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.61%) Groovy
6 3 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.20%) PHP
6 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.20%) X++
7 2 (0.80%) Bash
7 2 (0.80%) C#
7 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.80%) VBA
8 1 (0.40%) Bicep
8 1 (0.40%) C++
8 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.40%) Korn
8 1 (0.40%) SOQL
8 1 (0.40%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 24 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.82%) ACCA
2 12 (4.82%) CIMA
3 11 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.01%) CTC Cleared
5 5 (2.01%) Degree
6 2 (0.80%) AAT
6 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.80%) ECDL
6 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.80%) PMP
7 1 (0.40%) CCA
7 1 (0.40%) CCDP
7 1 (0.40%) CCIE
7 1 (0.40%) CCNP
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.40%) MBA
7 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.21%) GDPR
2 8 (3.21%) SLA
3 4 (1.61%) PMO
4 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.40%) GAAP
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.41%) Terraform
2 5 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.61%) Grafana
4 3 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.80%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.40%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.40%) Ansible
6 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.40%) Kibana
6 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 69 (27.71%) SAP
2 31 (12.45%) Oracle
3 28 (11.24%) Salesforce
4 26 (10.44%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.22%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.02%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.81%) Databricks
7 7 (2.81%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.41%) Pega
9 5 (2.01%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.01%) Workday
10 4 (1.61%) Remedy
10 4 (1.61%) Xero
11 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.20%) Google
11 3 (1.20%) IFS
11 3 (1.20%) Spotify
12 2 (0.80%) Ariba
12 2 (0.80%) Dynatrace