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 4 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 344 375
Rank change year-on-year -34 +31 +111
Contract jobs citing Billing 254 183 218
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.62% 0.51%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.99% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 104 127
10th Percentile £363 £274 £247
25th Percentile £462 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -6.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £693 £554 £625
90th Percentile £826 £675 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -10.00% +0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 9
10th Percentile £17.00 £26.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £36.69 £14.50
Median hourly rate £31.25 £72.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.90% +367.74% -75.20%
75th Percentile £38.69 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £42.38 £75.75 £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £72.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -56.90% +367.74% -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 25,584 18,500 25,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.23% 63.16% 58.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,735 11,804 15,823
10th Percentile £306 £300 £275
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 £641 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,631 792 1,939
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £17.66 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -10.14%
75th Percentile £60.60 £56.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.50% -2.59%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -68 205 £525 +13.88% 262
London -10 110 £625 +28.21% 142
Work from Home +5 102 £550 +13.70% 116
UK excluding London -99 84 £469 +4.22% 149
South East -54 50 £469 +0.21% 63
North of England -55 14 £447 -8.59% 44
Midlands -61 12 £372 +17.94% 16
West Midlands -53 10 £475 +50.79% 10
East of England -33 8 £631 +80.36% 11
North West -37 8 £447 -8.59% 25
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 11
South West -49 3 £475 +11.76% 10
Scotland -7 2 £455 +17.87% 5
Wales -12 1 £475 -13.64% 4
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 6

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 (2.76%) Apache
2 5 (1.97%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.57%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.18%) Appian
4 3 (1.18%) Camunda
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 20 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 35 (13.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (12.99%) SAP BRIM
3 30 (11.81%) SAP PSCD
4 23 (9.06%) SAP FI
5 21 (8.27%) SAP FI-CA
6 14 (5.51%) SAP SD
7 12 (4.72%) SAP Hybris
8 9 (3.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (3.54%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (1.57%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (1.18%) NetSuite
10 3 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (1.18%) SAP CO
10 3 (1.18%) SAP ERP
10 3 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle BRM
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (10.63%) Azure
2 20 (7.87%) AWS
3 13 (5.12%) GCP
3 13 (5.12%) SaaS
3 13 (5.12%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 10 (3.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 5 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.57%) OCI
8 4 (1.57%) Serverless
9 3 (1.18%) Boomi
9 3 (1.18%) Figma
9 3 (1.18%) Google Docs
9 3 (1.18%) Google Sheets
9 3 (1.18%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.76%) WAN
2 4 (1.57%) HTTP
2 4 (1.57%) Internet
3 3 (1.18%) LAN
3 3 (1.18%) MPLS
3 3 (1.18%) Network Security
3 3 (1.18%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.18%) Wireless
4 2 (0.79%) Broadband
4 2 (0.79%) GPRS
4 2 (0.79%) GSM
4 2 (0.79%) NaaS
5 1 (0.39%) BGP
5 1 (0.39%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.39%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.39%) Firewall
5 1 (0.39%) OSPF
5 1 (0.39%) SMS
5 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.36%) Power BI
2 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.18%) 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 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (5.91%) JIRA
2 11 (4.33%) Git
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.79%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 117 (46.06%) Finance
2 79 (31.10%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.75%) Telecoms
4 32 (12.60%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.12%) Legal
7 11 (4.33%) Banking
8 9 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.36%) Law
11 5 (1.97%) Back Office
11 5 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.57%) Publishing
13 3 (1.18%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.18%) German Language
13 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.18%) Retail
14 2 (0.79%) Automotive
14 2 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 64 (25.20%) Consultant
2 49 (19.29%) Architect
3 44 (17.32%) SAP Consultant
4 28 (11.02%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (8.27%) Analyst
6 20 (7.87%) Functional Consultant
7 15 (5.91%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 15 (5.91%) Senior
8 12 (4.72%) Developer
9 10 (3.94%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.54%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.15%) Lead
12 7 (2.76%) Contracts Manager
12 7 (2.76%) Coordinator
12 7 (2.76%) Oracle Consultant
13 6 (2.36%) Designer
13 6 (2.36%) Product Manager
13 6 (2.36%) SAP Architect
14 5 (1.97%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.09%) REST
2 16 (6.30%) BAPI
3 9 (3.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.15%) Middleware
4 8 (3.15%) OpenAPI
4 8 (3.15%) SOAP
4 8 (3.15%) Swagger
5 6 (2.36%) .NET
5 6 (2.36%) JSON
6 4 (1.57%) EDI
6 4 (1.57%) Kafka
6 4 (1.57%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.57%) RAML
6 4 (1.57%) Web Services
6 4 (1.57%) XML
7 3 (1.18%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.18%) gRPC
7 3 (1.18%) Pandas
8 2 (0.79%) IDoc
8 2 (0.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.91%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.76%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.36%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.97%) Life Science
7 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.57%) TM Forum
8 3 (1.18%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.18%) IoT
8 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.79%) iPhone
9 2 (0.79%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.18%) Unix
2 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) HPUX
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (13.78%) CRM
3 32 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (12.20%) Decision-Making
5 30 (11.81%) Order to Cash
6 29 (11.42%) ERP
7 28 (11.02%) Data Modelling
8 27 (10.63%) Migration
9 26 (10.24%) Agile
9 26 (10.24%) Workshop Facilitation
10 24 (9.45%) Validation
11 23 (9.06%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (8.27%) Cost Management
12 21 (8.27%) Revenue Management
13 20 (7.87%) Order Management
13 20 (7.87%) Roadmaps
14 19 (7.48%) CI/CD
15 18 (7.09%) Data Migration
16 17 (6.69%) Project Management
16 17 (6.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.45%) SQL
2 15 (5.91%) Python
3 10 (3.94%) Java
4 6 (2.36%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.57%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.57%) DataWeave
6 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.79%) ABAP
7 2 (0.79%) C#
7 2 (0.79%) C++
7 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.79%) VBA
7 2 (0.79%) X++
8 1 (0.39%) Bash
8 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.39%) Groovy
8 1 (0.39%) R
8 1 (0.39%) SOQL
8 1 (0.39%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 24 (9.45%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.15%) ACCA
5 7 (2.76%) CIMA
6 4 (1.57%) Degree
7 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AAT
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.39%) CCDE
9 1 (0.39%) CCDP
9 1 (0.39%) CCIE
9 1 (0.39%) CCNP
9 1 (0.39%) ECDL
9 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.54%) SLA
3 8 (3.15%) GDPR
4 6 (2.36%) PMO
5 3 (1.18%) GxP
5 3 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.79%) GAAP
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS
6 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.79%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Docker
2 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.97%) Grafana
1 5 (1.97%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.97%) Prometheus
2 4 (1.57%) Terraform
3 2 (0.79%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 81 (31.89%) SAP
2 35 (13.78%) Oracle
3 30 (11.81%) Salesforce
4 25 (9.84%) Microsoft
5 16 (6.30%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.33%) Guidewire
7 8 (3.15%) Google
8 6 (2.36%) Ariba
9 5 (1.97%) PeopleSoft
10 4 (1.57%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.57%) Remedy
10 4 (1.57%) Workday
11 3 (1.18%) Apple
11 3 (1.18%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.18%) Pega
12 2 (0.79%) Amdocs
12 2 (0.79%) Ciena
12 2 (0.79%) Conga
12 2 (0.79%) Nokia