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 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 341 333
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 +114
Contract jobs citing Billing 223 210 303
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.59% 0.67%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.98% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 106 163
10th Percentile £352 £263 £238
25th Percentile £450 £403 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £638
90th Percentile £755 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -9.81% +0.39% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 5
10th Percentile - £41.25 £12.76
25th Percentile - £64.38 £13.13
Median hourly rate £17.00 £72.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.55% +353.13% +3.93%
75th Percentile £24.15 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £55.25 - £44.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £73.75 £14.63
% change year-on-year -76.95% +404.02% +2.24%

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,488 21,514 27,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.98% 60.24% 59.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,113 12,801 17,952
10th Percentile £275 £291 £281
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 778 1,129
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.51 £18.00 £16.84
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -13.28% +26.84%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.25 £70.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.13 £28.96
% change year-on-year -15.79% -9.79% +31.64%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -21 190 £550 +4.76% 433
London +28 104 £613 +16.67% 79
UK excluding London -42 87 £469 -9.81% 425
Work from Home -3 84 £626 +38.96% 299
South East +1 53 £473 -8.25% 115
North of England -43 11 £328 -45.29% 86
South West -13 9 £675 +12.50% 50
North West -12 6 £750 +50.00% 42
West Midlands -28 6 £825 +73.68% 39
Midlands -47 6 £825 +60.19% 78
Yorkshire -42 5 £302 -49.75% 37
Scotland +8 4 £373 - 20
East of England -17 2 £500 +17.65% 52
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 6
Wales - 1 £280 - 26

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 (2.69%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (2.24%) Appian
2 5 (2.24%) Camunda
3 3 (1.35%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.35%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.90%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.45%) SAP Portal
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (8.97%) SAP PSCD
2 15 (6.73%) SAP BRIM
3 13 (5.83%) SAP Hybris
3 13 (5.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (4.93%) Oracle Receivables
4 11 (4.93%) SAP FI-CA
5 8 (3.59%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (3.59%) SAP FI
6 7 (3.14%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (2.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (1.79%) Oracle BRM
8 4 (1.79%) SAP IS-U
9 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
9 3 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.90%) Documaker
10 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.90%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (17.04%) Azure
2 19 (8.52%) Dynamics 365
3 17 (7.62%) SaaS
4 14 (6.28%) AWS
4 14 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 11 (4.93%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.48%) GitHub
7 10 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (1.79%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.79%) OCI
10 4 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.35%) GCP
11 3 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.35%) PaaS
12 2 (0.90%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) Broadband
1 3 (1.35%) GPRS
1 3 (1.35%) GSM
1 3 (1.35%) MVNO
2 2 (0.90%) Firewall
2 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.45%) LAN
3 1 (0.45%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.48%) Power BI
2 6 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.69%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.69%) Parquet
3 5 (2.24%) Metadata
4 4 (1.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.45%) GIS
6 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (6.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.90%) Selenium
3 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.45%) Hudson
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 113 (50.67%) Finance
2 111 (49.78%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.97%) Telecoms
5 17 (7.62%) Legal
6 13 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.48%) Law
8 9 (4.04%) General Ledger
9 7 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.24%) Banking
10 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.24%) Retail
11 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.79%) Publishing
12 2 (0.90%) Automotive
12 2 (0.90%) Marketing
12 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.45%) French Language
Job Titles
1 56 (25.11%) Consultant
2 32 (14.35%) Architect
3 28 (12.56%) SAP Consultant
4 27 (12.11%) Analyst
5 20 (8.97%) Functional Consultant
5 20 (8.97%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.73%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.38%) Developer
8 11 (4.93%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 11 (4.93%) Senior
9 10 (4.48%) Lead
9 10 (4.48%) Salesforce Architect
10 8 (3.59%) Designer
10 8 (3.59%) Solutions Designer
11 6 (2.69%) Coordinator
11 6 (2.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 6 (2.69%) Oracle Consultant
11 6 (2.69%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.24%) Credit Controller
12 5 (2.24%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.04%) Lightning Web Components
2 7 (3.14%) JSON
2 7 (3.14%) PySpark
3 6 (2.69%) Middleware
3 6 (2.69%) REST
3 6 (2.69%) Visualforce
4 5 (2.24%) .NET
4 5 (2.24%) ADO
4 5 (2.24%) Great Expectations
4 5 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (1.79%) SOAP
6 3 (1.35%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.35%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.35%) RESTful
6 3 (1.35%) Web Services
7 2 (0.90%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.90%) OAuth
7 2 (0.90%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.90%) OpenID
7 2 (0.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.04%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.14%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.24%) Credit Risk
4 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.24%) Mainframe
4 5 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.79%) IoT
5 4 (1.79%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.35%) IPTV
6 3 (1.35%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.35%) TM Forum
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.90%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.35%) Unix
2 1 (0.45%) CentOS
2 1 (0.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (19.28%) CRM
2 41 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (15.25%) Agile
5 28 (12.56%) Workshop Facilitation
6 27 (12.11%) Accounts Receivable
7 26 (11.66%) ERP
8 25 (11.21%) Migration
9 22 (9.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (8.97%) DevOps
10 20 (8.97%) Order Management
10 20 (8.97%) Validation
11 19 (8.52%) Customer Service
11 19 (8.52%) Project Management
11 19 (8.52%) Requirements Gathering
12 18 (8.07%) Change Management
13 17 (7.62%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (7.17%) Process Improvement
14 16 (7.17%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.31%) SQL
2 10 (4.48%) Python
3 9 (4.04%) Apex Code
4 7 (3.14%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.24%) Java
5 5 (2.24%) SOQL
6 4 (1.79%) SOSL
7 3 (1.35%) Groovy
7 3 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.35%) PHP
7 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.35%) X++
8 2 (0.90%) Bash
8 2 (0.90%) C#
9 1 (0.45%) ABAP
9 1 (0.45%) Bicep
9 1 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 21 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.48%) ACCA
3 10 (4.48%) CIMA
3 10 (4.48%) Degree
4 7 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.24%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.90%) AAT
6 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.90%) ECDL
6 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.90%) PMP
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) CCA
7 1 (0.45%) CCDP
7 1 (0.45%) CCIE
7 1 (0.45%) CCNP
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.14%) GDPR
3 3 (1.35%) QA
4 2 (0.90%) PMO
4 2 (0.90%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) GRC
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.35%) Terraform
3 2 (0.90%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.90%) VxRail
4 1 (0.45%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 52 (23.32%) SAP
2 34 (15.25%) Oracle
3 30 (13.45%) Salesforce
4 25 (11.21%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.59%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.69%) Databricks
6 6 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.24%) IFS
7 5 (2.24%) Pega
7 5 (2.24%) Workday
8 4 (1.79%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.79%) Xero
9 3 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.35%) Spotify
9 3 (1.35%) VMware
10 2 (0.90%) Ariba
10 2 (0.90%) Conga
10 2 (0.90%) Google
10 2 (0.90%) HP
11 1 (0.45%) Aruba