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 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 365 383
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 +96
Contract jobs citing Billing 245 168 217
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the General category 1.00% 0.91% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 83 118
10th Percentile £373 £237 £238
25th Percentile £461 £419 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £522
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% -1.31% -0.67%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £638
90th Percentile £844 £662 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -9.91% -0.58% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 9
10th Percentile - £29.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £50.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.04 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.66% +351.61% -61.25%
75th Percentile £26.72 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £34.69 - £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -75.71% +351.61% -45.61%

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 24,490 18,471 26,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.18% 62.69% 58.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,292 11,661 16,664
10th Percentile £300 £293 £263
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £493
% change year-on-year - -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,503 647 1,814
10th Percentile £13.58 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.15 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.09 £30.00 £25.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.70% +15.85% -20.32%
75th Percentile £56.25 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.79 £75.65 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £27.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% +11.04% -13.49%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -30 203 £520 +4.00% 194
London -8 98 £625 +31.03% 97
Work from Home +5 97 £591 +18.20% 103
UK excluding London -63 97 £464 -9.91% 124
South East -25 63 £470 -8.74% 63
North of England -57 14 £447 -13.96% 36
Midlands -62 10 £372 -27.86% 9
North West -30 9 £447 -13.96% 22
West Midlands -57 9 £475 -7.77% 7
Scotland +12 5 £373 -3.27% 2
East of England -29 5 £513 -6.82% 6
Yorkshire -51 5 £461 -26.25% 11
South West -29 4 £325 -27.78% 6
Wales - 2 £378 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 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 6 (2.45%) Appian
1 6 (2.45%) Camunda
2 5 (2.04%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 31 (12.65%) SAP PSCD
2 22 (8.98%) SAP BRIM
3 20 (8.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (7.35%) SAP FI-CA
5 16 (6.53%) SAP FI
5 16 (6.53%) SAP Hybris
6 8 (3.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (2.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle BRM
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (1.63%) SAP SD
9 3 (1.22%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.82%) Documaker
10 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.82%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.82%) SAP IS-U
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.29%) Azure
2 20 (8.16%) AWS
3 17 (6.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 16 (6.53%) SaaS
5 12 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (4.90%) GCP
6 10 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.67%) GitHub
7 9 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (2.86%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.45%) Serverless
10 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.22%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.22%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.22%) Figma
11 3 (1.22%) OCI
12 2 (0.82%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.45%) WAN
2 3 (1.22%) Broadband
2 3 (1.22%) GPRS
2 3 (1.22%) GSM
2 3 (1.22%) Internet
2 3 (1.22%) LAN
3 2 (0.82%) Firewall
3 2 (0.82%) MPLS
3 2 (0.82%) NaaS
3 2 (0.82%) Network Security
3 2 (0.82%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.82%) Wireless
4 1 (0.41%) 4G
4 1 (0.41%) 5G
4 1 (0.41%) BGP
4 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.86%) Power BI
2 6 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.45%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.45%) Parquet
3 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.22%) Metadata
4 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.82%) Flink
4 2 (0.82%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.82%) MySQL
4 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.82%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (5.71%) JIRA
2 5 (2.04%) Git
3 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.82%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.41%) Postman
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 115 (46.94%) Finance
2 91 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.73%) Public Sector
4 39 (15.92%) Telecoms
5 29 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.35%) Legal
7 11 (4.49%) Law
7 11 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.67%) Banking
9 5 (2.04%) Retail
10 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.63%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.63%) Publishing
11 3 (1.22%) German Language
11 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.82%) Automotive
12 2 (0.82%) Front Office
12 2 (0.82%) Marketing
13 1 (0.41%) Advertising
13 1 (0.41%) French Language
Job Titles
1 61 (24.90%) Consultant
2 38 (15.51%) Architect
2 38 (15.51%) SAP Consultant
3 24 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
4 23 (9.39%) Functional Consultant
5 18 (7.35%) Analyst
6 16 (6.53%) Senior
7 15 (6.12%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 12 (4.90%) Developer
9 10 (4.08%) Coordinator
9 10 (4.08%) Designer
10 9 (3.67%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Solutions Designer
11 8 (3.27%) Operations Manager
12 6 (2.45%) Contracts Manager
12 6 (2.45%) Lead
12 6 (2.45%) Oracle Consultant
13 5 (2.04%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.90%) REST
2 9 (3.67%) BAPI
3 8 (3.27%) PySpark
4 7 (2.86%) JSON
4 7 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.45%) .NET
5 6 (2.45%) Middleware
5 6 (2.45%) SOAP
6 5 (2.04%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.04%) Great Expectations
7 4 (1.63%) Kafka
7 4 (1.63%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (1.63%) OpenAPI
7 4 (1.63%) Swagger
8 3 (1.22%) gRPC
8 3 (1.22%) Pandas
8 3 (1.22%) Web Services
9 2 (0.82%) ADO
9 2 (0.82%) EDI
9 2 (0.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.27%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.63%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.63%) Smart Meter
6 4 (1.63%) TM Forum
7 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.22%) IoT
7 3 (1.22%) IPTV
7 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Unix
2 1 (0.41%) Android
2 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.41%) CentOS
2 1 (0.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (22.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 40 (16.33%) CRM
3 37 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (12.24%) Decision-Making
5 29 (11.84%) Validation
6 26 (10.61%) Data Modelling
6 26 (10.61%) Workshop Facilitation
7 25 (10.20%) Accounts Receivable
7 25 (10.20%) Order Management
8 23 (9.39%) Agile
8 23 (9.39%) CI/CD
8 23 (9.39%) ERP
9 22 (8.98%) Observability
10 21 (8.57%) Order to Cash
11 20 (8.16%) Cost Management
11 20 (8.16%) Migration
11 20 (8.16%) Process Improvement
11 20 (8.16%) Requirements Gathering
11 20 (8.16%) Revenue Management
12 17 (6.94%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.43%) SQL
2 17 (6.94%) Python
3 10 (4.08%) Java
4 7 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.63%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.22%) Bash
6 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.22%) PHP
7 2 (0.82%) C#
7 2 (0.82%) C++
7 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.82%) VBA
8 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) Korn
8 1 (0.41%) SOQL
8 1 (0.41%) SOSL
8 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 29 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.90%) ACCA
2 12 (4.90%) CIMA
2 12 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
5 4 (1.63%) Degree
6 2 (0.82%) AAT
6 2 (0.82%) ECDL
6 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.82%) PMP
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) CCDE
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) MBA
7 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.67%) SLA
3 8 (3.27%) GDPR
4 5 (2.04%) PMO
5 3 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) GAAP
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.45%) Grafana
1 6 (2.45%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.45%) Terraform
2 5 (2.04%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.82%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.82%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.41%) Ansible
4 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.41%) Kibana
4 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 69 (28.16%) SAP
2 30 (12.24%) Oracle
3 26 (10.61%) Salesforce
4 24 (9.80%) Microsoft
5 16 (6.53%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.27%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.86%) Databricks
8 6 (2.45%) Pega
9 5 (2.04%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.04%) Workday
10 4 (1.63%) Ariba
10 4 (1.63%) Google
10 4 (1.63%) Remedy
10 4 (1.63%) Xero
11 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.22%) Spotify
12 2 (0.82%) Ciena