Billing Contracts

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 have cited Billing over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Billing UK
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	360	307	354
Rank change year-on-year	-53	+47
Contract jobs citing Billing	256	383	321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.55%	0.71%	0.57%
As % of the General category	1.39%	1.93%	1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted	169	222	189
Median daily rate	£425	£375	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+13.33%	-6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£150	£270
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£410	£375	£400
% change year-on-year	+9.33%	-6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	9	4
Median hourly rate	-	£15.60	£12.34
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	+26.41%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£12.50	£10.68
% change year-on-year	-	+17.04%

Billing is in the common skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

General Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills	18352	19802	22234
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	39.20%	36.80%	39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	12044	13204	14221
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£280	£280
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£643	£630	£613
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	410	466	546
Median hourly rate	£26.00	£22.50	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+15.55%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.39	£11.00	£10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.15	£47.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+20.00%	+11.11%

Billing
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Billing as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the General category.

Billing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Billing.

Contractor daily rate trend for Billing in the UK

Billing
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Billing over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Billing.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Billing in the UK

Billing
Top 30 Contract 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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-15	238	£425	+6.25%	59
South East	+16	70	£363	-19.44%	5
London	-42	66	£480	+20.00%	28
Hampshire	+28	36	£350	-12.50%
Berkshire	+12	28	£450	-	4
West Midlands	+3	19	£550	+37.50%	5
South West	-2	19	£388	-7.73%	7
Yorkshire	+19	17	£413	+32.00%	3
Basingstoke	+5	17	£290	+57.60%
West Yorkshire	+19	16	£419	+19.64%	3
Reading	+19	15	£490	+12.00%	1
East of England	-6	15	£435	+3.88%	2
Leeds	+17	14	£425	-15.00%	2
East Midlands	+5	14	£410	-11.35%
Birmingham	+17	12	£550	+15.78%	2
North West	+19	11	£463	+12.12%	8
Bristol	+3	11	£359	+2.50%	3
Manchester	+9	8	£500	-11.11%	4
Scotland	+9	8	£400	+4.57%	1
Hook	+9	8	£375	-6.25%
City of London	-17	8	£550	+83.33%	9
Wiltshire	+4	6	£425	-9.76%	2
Swindon	+4	6	£425	-37.03%	2
Hertfordshire	-7	6	£450	+16.12%	1
Suffolk	+16	5	£438	+2.94%
Derbyshire	-	5	£510	-
Ipswich	+10	4	£450	+22.03%
Lincoln	-	4	£400	-
Derby	-	4	£510	-
Lincolnshire	-	4	£400	-

Billing
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Billing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Billing.

1	134 (24.59%)	Telecoms
2	120 (22.02%)	Finance
3	111 (20.37%)	SAP
4	83 (15.23%)	CRM
5	72 (13.21%)	Oracle
6	69 (12.66%)	Agile Software Development
6	69 (12.66%)	Degree
7	65 (11.93%)	SQL
8	63 (11.56%)	Project Management
9	48 (8.81%)	Service Delivery
10	47 (8.62%)	Java
11	44 (8.07%)	Salesforce.com
12	42 (7.71%)	Stakeholder Management
13	40 (7.34%)	ITIL
14	39 (7.16%)	Migration

15	38 (6.97%)	Microsoft Excel
15	38 (6.97%)	Analytical Skills
16	37 (6.79%)	ERP
17	35 (6.42%)	SAP SD
17	35 (6.42%)	SAP IS-U
18	34 (6.24%)	Retail
19	33 (6.06%)	Business Analysis
19	33 (6.06%)	Microsoft
20	32 (5.87%)	Service Management
21	30 (5.50%)	Spring
22	29 (5.32%)	Linux
22	29 (5.32%)	MVNO
23	28 (5.14%)	User Acceptance Testing
23	28 (5.14%)	Business Intelligence
24	27 (4.95%)	ABAP

Billing
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	11 (2.02%)	Cloud Foundry
2	10 (1.83%)	MS Exchange
3	8 (1.47%)	Apache
4	5 (0.92%)	Exchange Server 2013
4	5 (0.92%)	Oracle Workflow
5	4 (0.73%)	CMS
5	4 (0.73%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	4 (0.73%)	SharePoint
5	4 (0.73%)	Skype for Business
6	3 (0.55%)	JBoss
6	3 (0.55%)	OpenStack
6	3 (0.55%)	Oracle SOA Suite
6	3 (0.55%)	SAS
7	2 (0.37%)	Adobe Experience Manager
7	2 (0.37%)	Apache Pig
7	2 (0.37%)	Apache Solr
7	2 (0.37%)	Elasticsearch
7	2 (0.37%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	2 (0.37%)	Liferay
7	2 (0.37%)	Mule

Applications
1	38 (6.97%)	Microsoft Excel
2	19 (3.49%)	Microsoft Office
3	18 (3.30%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	4 (0.73%)	Microsoft Project
5	3 (0.55%)	MS Visio
6	2 (0.37%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	35 (6.42%)	SAP IS-U
1	35 (6.42%)	SAP SD
2	17 (3.12%)	Oracle EBS
2	17 (3.12%)	Oracle Receivables
3	16 (2.94%)	Oracle EBS R12
4	11 (2.02%)	SAP ERP
5	7 (1.28%)	Oracle Financials
6	6 (1.10%)	NetSuite
6	6 (1.10%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6	6 (1.10%)	Salesforce.com CRM
7	5 (0.92%)	Oracle Utilities
7	5 (0.92%)	SAP Retail
8	4 (0.73%)	Oracle BRM
8	4 (0.73%)	Oracle Internet Expenses
8	4 (0.73%)	SAP CRM
8	4 (0.73%)	SAP FI
9	3 (0.55%)	Oracle ERP
9	3 (0.55%)	Oracle Payables
9	3 (0.55%)	SAP Hybris
10	2 (0.37%)	Oracle Applications

Cloud Services
1	23 (4.22%)	IaaS
2	18 (3.30%)	Microsoft Azure
3	17 (3.12%)	Amazon AWS
3	17 (3.12%)	PaaS
4	14 (2.57%)	OpenShift
5	13 (2.39%)	Heroku
5	13 (2.39%)	SaaS
6	9 (1.65%)	Cloud Computing
6	9 (1.65%)	GitHub
7	5 (0.92%)	Office 365
8	2 (0.37%)	CloudSense
8	2 (0.37%)	Dropbox
8	2 (0.37%)	G Suite
8	2 (0.37%)	Google Drive
8	2 (0.37%)	SuccessFactors
9	1 (0.18%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	1 (0.18%)	Azure Active Directory
9	1 (0.18%)	Mimecast
9	1 (0.18%)	OneDrive

Communications & Networking
1	29 (5.32%)	MVNO
2	14 (2.57%)	TCP/IP
3	12 (2.20%)	DNS
3	12 (2.20%)	MPLS
4	11 (2.02%)	DHCP
5	9 (1.65%)	Firewall
6	8 (1.47%)	Internet
6	8 (1.47%)	Network Security
6	8 (1.47%)	VPN
6	8 (1.47%)	WAN
7	7 (1.28%)	3GPP
7	7 (1.28%)	Broadband
7	7 (1.28%)	Ethernet
8	6 (1.10%)	Diameter Protocol
8	6 (1.10%)	SIGTRAN
9	5 (0.92%)	IPsec
9	5 (0.92%)	OpenScape
9	5 (0.92%)	SAN
10	4 (0.73%)	LAN
10	4 (0.73%)	VLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	26 (4.77%)	SQL Server
2	17 (3.12%)	Data Warehouse
2	17 (3.12%)	NoSQL
3	16 (2.94%)	Oracle Reports
4	9 (1.65%)	BusinessObjects
5	8 (1.47%)	Big Data
6	7 (1.28%)	Relational Database
7	6 (1.10%)	Oracle BI EE
7	6 (1.10%)	Oracle Database
7	6 (1.10%)	QlikView
7	6 (1.10%)	SAP BW
8	5 (0.92%)	Oracle BI Publisher
8	5 (0.92%)	PostgreSQL
9	4 (0.73%)	GIS
9	4 (0.73%)	MongoDB
9	4 (0.73%)	MySQL
9	4 (0.73%)	RDBMS
9	4 (0.73%)	SQLPlus
10	3 (0.55%)	DTS
10	3 (0.55%)	MS Access

Development Applications
1	10 (1.83%)	Git (software)
2	9 (1.65%)	Bitbucket
2	9 (1.65%)	GitLab
2	9 (1.65%)	Maven
3	6 (1.10%)	Jenkins
4	3 (0.55%)	Team Foundation Server
4	3 (0.55%)	Toad
5	2 (0.37%)	Hudson
5	2 (0.37%)	JIRA
5	2 (0.37%)	Oracle APEX
5	2 (0.37%)	Selenium
5	2 (0.37%)	Visual Studio
6	1 (0.18%)	HP UFT
6	1 (0.18%)	JDeveloper
6	1 (0.18%)	Rational Rose
6	1 (0.18%)	WebDriver
6	1 (0.18%)	webpack

General
1	134 (24.59%)	Telecoms
2	120 (22.02%)	Finance
3	34 (6.24%)	Retail
4	26 (4.77%)	Banking
5	22 (4.04%)	Manufacturing
6	19 (3.49%)	Legal
7	11 (2.02%)	Law
8	9 (1.65%)	Marketing
9	7 (1.28%)	Back Office
9	7 (1.28%)	General Ledger
10	3 (0.55%)	French Language
10	3 (0.55%)	Military
10	3 (0.55%)	Pharmaceutical
10	3 (0.55%)	Retail Banking
11	2 (0.37%)	Advertising
11	2 (0.37%)	Automotive
11	2 (0.37%)	Dutch Language
11	2 (0.37%)	Financial Institution
11	2 (0.37%)	Investment Banking
11	2 (0.37%)	Music Industry

Job Titles
1	109 (20.00%)	Consultant
2	96 (17.61%)	Analyst
3	87 (15.96%)	Architect
4	59 (10.83%)	Developer
4	59 (10.83%)	SAP Consultant
5	47 (8.62%)	Project Manager
6	40 (7.34%)	Solutions Architect
7	31 (5.69%)	Business Analyst
8	25 (4.59%)	BSS Architect
8	25 (4.59%)	SAP SD Consultant
9	22 (4.04%)	OSS Architect
10	21 (3.85%)	BSS Solutions Architect
10	21 (3.85%)	SAP ISU Consultant
11	19 (3.49%)	Billing Consultant
11	19 (3.49%)	Designer
11	19 (3.49%)	Oracle Consultant
11	19 (3.49%)	OSS Solutions Architect
12	15 (2.75%)	Test Analyst
13	14 (2.57%)	Support Engineer
14	13 (2.39%)	Enterprise Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	30 (5.50%)	Spring
2	21 (3.85%)	SOAP
3	19 (3.49%)	REST
4	17 (3.12%)	IDoc
5	16 (2.94%)	J2EE
6	15 (2.75%)	Web Services
7	13 (2.39%)	XML
8	11 (2.02%)	ActiveMQ
8	11 (2.02%)	Spring Boot
9	10 (1.83%)	.NET
10	9 (1.65%)	Java EE
11	8 (1.47%)	EDI
11	8 (1.47%)	JMS
11	8 (1.47%)	Middleware
11	8 (1.47%)	Visualforce
12	6 (1.10%)	Oracle Fusion
12	6 (1.10%)	Web Dynpro
13	5 (0.92%)	BAPI
13	5 (0.92%)	CSS
13	5 (0.92%)	HTML

Miscellaneous
1	38 (6.97%)	Analytical Skills
2	26 (4.77%)	Management Information System
3	19 (3.49%)	Data Centre
4	13 (2.39%)	Computer Science
5	12 (2.20%)	User Experience
6	9 (1.65%)	Enterprise Software
6	9 (1.65%)	Mobile App
6	9 (1.65%)	PMI
6	9 (1.65%)	Smart Meter
7	8 (1.47%)	Internet of Things
8	6 (1.10%)	e-Learning
8	6 (1.10%)	Linux Command Line
8	6 (1.10%)	Replication
8	6 (1.10%)	Social Media
9	5 (0.92%)	Fintech
9	5 (0.92%)	FMCG
9	5 (0.92%)	PDA
10	4 (0.73%)	IVR
10	4 (0.73%)	RIA
11	3 (0.55%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)

Operating Systems
1	29 (5.32%)	Linux
2	16 (2.94%)	Unix
3	11 (2.02%)	Windows
4	9 (1.65%)	VMS
5	5 (0.92%)	Windows Server
6	4 (0.73%)	Apple iOS
6	4 (0.73%)	Windows 7
7	3 (0.55%)	Android
7	3 (0.55%)	Windows 10
7	3 (0.55%)	Windows Server 2008
7	3 (0.55%)	Windows Server 2012
8	1 (0.18%)	Windows 2000
8	1 (0.18%)	Windows 8
8	1 (0.18%)	Windows Vista
8	1 (0.18%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	83 (15.23%)	CRM
2	69 (12.66%)	Agile Software Development
3	63 (11.56%)	Project Management
4	48 (8.81%)	Service Delivery
5	42 (7.71%)	Stakeholder Management
6	40 (7.34%)	ITIL
7	39 (7.16%)	Migration
8	37 (6.79%)	ERP
9	33 (6.06%)	Business Analysis
10	32 (5.87%)	Service Management
11	28 (5.14%)	Business Intelligence
11	28 (5.14%)	User Acceptance Testing
12	26 (4.77%)	Data Modelling
13	25 (4.59%)	Analytics
14	24 (4.40%)	PRINCE2
15	23 (4.22%)	IT Strategy
15	23 (4.22%)	Microservices
16	22 (4.04%)	Change Management
16	22 (4.04%)	Validation
17	21 (3.85%)	Enterprise Architecture

Programming Languages
1	65 (11.93%)	SQL
2	47 (8.62%)	Java
3	27 (4.95%)	ABAP
4	26 (4.77%)	Python
5	11 (2.02%)	PL/SQL
6	10 (1.83%)	C#
7	8 (1.47%)	Apex Code
8	7 (1.28%)	JavaScript
8	7 (1.28%)	Perl
8	7 (1.28%)	VBA
9	6 (1.10%)	C
9	6 (1.10%)	Shell Script
10	4 (0.73%)	PowerShell
10	4 (0.73%)	VB
11	3 (0.55%)	COBOL
12	2 (0.37%)	C++
12	2 (0.37%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
12	2 (0.37%)	GraphQL
12	2 (0.37%)	T-SQL
12	2 (0.37%)	VB.NET

Qualifications
1	69 (12.66%)	Degree
2	24 (4.40%)	Security Cleared
3	18 (3.30%)	SC Cleared
4	13 (2.39%)	PMI Certification
5	8 (1.47%)	ACCA
5	8 (1.47%)	MCDST
5	8 (1.47%)	Microsoft Certification
6	6 (1.10%)	ISTQB
6	6 (1.10%)	PMP
7	5 (0.92%)	CIMA
8	4 (0.73%)	A+ Certification
8	4 (0.73%)	Cisco Certification
8	4 (0.73%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
9	3 (0.55%)	CCNP
9	3 (0.55%)	CISM
9	3 (0.55%)	CISSP
9	3 (0.55%)	Computer Science Degree
9	3 (0.55%)	PRINCE2 Certification
10	2 (0.37%)	Master's Degree
10	2 (0.37%)	Numerate Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	18 (3.30%)	SLA
2	17 (3.12%)	QA
3	10 (1.83%)	Data Quality
4	6 (1.10%)	IFRS
5	5 (0.92%)	PMO
6	2 (0.37%)	FedRAMP
6	2 (0.37%)	GDPR
6	2 (0.37%)	PCI DSS
7	1 (0.18%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	1 (0.18%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	1 (0.18%)	P3O
7	1 (0.18%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	15 (2.75%)	Active Directory
2	10 (1.83%)	Docker
2	10 (1.83%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	4 (0.73%)	Hyper-V
4	2 (0.37%)	Apache Flume
4	2 (0.37%)	HDFS
4	2 (0.37%)	vSphere
5	1 (0.18%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	10 (1.83%)	HP Quality Center
2	9 (1.65%)	Kubernetes
3	5 (0.92%)	SCCM
4	4 (0.73%)	Netcool
5	3 (0.55%)	Amdocs OSS
5	3 (0.55%)	Puppet
6	2 (0.37%)	Control-M
6	2 (0.37%)	HockeyApp
6	2 (0.37%)	Kibana
6	2 (0.37%)	logstash
6	2 (0.37%)	Nagios
6	2 (0.37%)	PaperCut
6	2 (0.37%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
6	2 (0.37%)	ZABBIX
7	1 (0.18%)	Backup Exec
7	1 (0.18%)	Cisco CUCM
7	1 (0.18%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	111 (20.37%)	SAP
2	72 (13.21%)	Oracle
3	44 (8.07%)	Salesforce.com
4	33 (6.06%)	Microsoft
5	18 (3.30%)	Cisco
6	15 (2.75%)	HP
7	12 (2.20%)	VMware
8	11 (2.02%)	Siebel
9	10 (1.83%)	Zuora
10	9 (1.65%)	Apigee
10	9 (1.65%)	Citrix
10	9 (1.65%)	Ericsson
10	9 (1.65%)	Huawei
10	9 (1.65%)	MuleSoft
10	9 (1.65%)	Red Hat
11	8 (1.47%)	Remedy
12	7 (1.28%)	ComArch
12	7 (1.28%)	Gemalto
13	6 (1.10%)	Motorola
13	6 (1.10%)	Xerox