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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 365 340
Rank change year-on-year -7 -25 +134
Contract jobs citing Billing 223 196 275
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.95% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 99 152
10th Percentile £346 £302 £238
25th Percentile £450 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% +1.35% +1.07%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £600
90th Percentile £751 £700 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £538 £518
% change year-on-year -13.95% +3.76% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 5
10th Percentile - £55.80 £12.76
25th Percentile - £66.25 £13.13
Median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.33% +368.75% +1.33%
75th Percentile £19.10 - £16.71
90th Percentile £35.00 - £44.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £75.00 £14.63
% change year-on-year -77.33% +412.56% +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 22,568 20,730 25,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 60.81% 61.16% 59.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,110 12,377 17,024
10th Percentile £280 £288 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,443 712 1,089
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.50 £16.71
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.37 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -17.07% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £55.00 £59.92
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.33 £70.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.06 £30.83
% change year-on-year -15.58% -15.46% +40.11%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -9 192 £550 +4.76% 554
London +20 95 £625 +19.05% 112
UK excluding London -32 91 £463 -13.95% 474
Work from Home +5 83 £615 +36.59% 231
South East -8 57 £475 -7.77% 119
North of England -50 11 £328 -45.29% 115
South West -12 9 £675 +12.50% 61
West Midlands -28 7 £825 +60.19% 43
Midlands -46 7 £825 +54.93% 82
North West -25 6 £750 +50.00% 58
Yorkshire -42 5 £302 -49.75% 46
Scotland +7 4 £373 -3.27% 17
East of England -24 3 £388 -8.82% 71
Wales - 1 £280 - 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 (3.14%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.69%) Appian
2 6 (2.69%) Camunda
3 3 (1.35%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.35%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Portal
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (9.42%) SAP PSCD
2 16 (7.17%) SAP BRIM
2 16 (7.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (6.28%) SAP Hybris
4 11 (4.93%) SAP FI-CA
5 8 (3.59%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (3.59%) SAP FI
6 5 (2.24%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (2.24%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (1.79%) Oracle BRM
8 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
8 3 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (1.35%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.90%) Documaker
9 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.90%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.90%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.45%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (17.04%) Azure
2 20 (8.97%) Dynamics 365
3 16 (7.17%) SaaS
4 15 (6.73%) AWS
5 14 (6.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 13 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.93%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.04%) GitHub
8 9 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (3.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (2.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (1.79%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.79%) GCP
12 4 (1.79%) OCI
12 4 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.35%) PaaS
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 4 (1.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.90%) Metadata
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 11 (4.93%) 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
1 111 (49.78%) Finance
2 102 (45.74%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.00%) Public Sector
4 26 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.42%) Telecoms
6 18 (8.07%) Legal
7 11 (4.93%) Law
8 10 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.59%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.24%) Banking
10 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.79%) Publishing
11 4 (1.79%) Retail
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 30 (13.45%) Architect
3 29 (13.00%) SAP Consultant
4 22 (9.87%) Analyst
5 21 (9.42%) Functional Consultant
5 21 (9.42%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (5.38%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 11 (4.93%) Business Analyst
7 11 (4.93%) Developer
7 11 (4.93%) Senior
8 10 (4.48%) Lead
9 9 (4.04%) Designer
9 9 (4.04%) Solutions Designer
10 7 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.14%) Salesforce Architect
11 6 (2.69%) Coordinator
11 6 (2.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 6 (2.69%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.24%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.14%) JSON
1 7 (3.14%) Middleware
1 7 (3.14%) PySpark
2 6 (2.69%) REST
3 5 (2.24%) .NET
3 5 (2.24%) ADO
3 5 (2.24%) Great Expectations
3 5 (2.24%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.79%) SOAP
5 3 (1.35%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.35%) GraphQL
5 3 (1.35%) RESTful
5 3 (1.35%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.35%) Web Services
6 2 (0.90%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.90%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.90%) OpenID
6 2 (0.90%) SAML
6 2 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.04%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.14%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.14%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.24%) Credit Risk
4 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.24%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.79%) IoT
5 4 (1.79%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.79%) TM Forum
6 3 (1.35%) IPTV
6 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.35%) Smart Meter
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
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 41 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 40 (17.94%) CRM
3 32 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (13.45%) Agile
5 26 (11.66%) Accounts Receivable
5 26 (11.66%) ERP
6 25 (11.21%) Workshop Facilitation
7 24 (10.76%) Order Management
8 21 (9.42%) Migration
8 21 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (8.52%) DevOps
10 18 (8.07%) Validation
11 17 (7.62%) CI/CD
11 17 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (7.62%) Cost Management
11 17 (7.62%) Process Improvement
11 17 (7.62%) Project Management
11 17 (7.62%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (7.17%) Revenue Management
13 15 (6.73%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.87%) SQL
2 11 (4.93%) Python
3 7 (3.14%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.24%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.79%) Java
6 3 (1.35%) Groovy
6 3 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.35%) PHP
6 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.35%) SOQL
6 3 (1.35%) X++
7 2 (0.90%) Bash
7 2 (0.90%) C#
7 2 (0.90%) SOSL
8 1 (0.45%) ABAP
8 1 (0.45%) Bicep
8 1 (0.45%) Korn
8 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (10.31%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.48%) ACCA
3 10 (4.48%) CIMA
4 8 (3.59%) Degree
5 7 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.24%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.90%) AAT
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) ECDL
7 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) PMP
8 1 (0.45%) CCA
8 1 (0.45%) CCDE
8 1 (0.45%) CCDP
8 1 (0.45%) CCIE
8 1 (0.45%) CCNP
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.59%) GDPR
3 3 (1.35%) QA
4 2 (0.90%) PMO
5 1 (0.45%) GRC
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.79%) Terraform
3 2 (0.90%) Grafana
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%) Kibana
4 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 54 (24.22%) SAP
2 29 (13.00%) Oracle
3 28 (12.56%) Salesforce
4 26 (11.66%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.14%) MuleSoft
5 7 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.69%) Databricks
6 6 (2.69%) Pega
7 5 (2.24%) Workday
8 4 (1.79%) Xero
9 3 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.35%) Google
9 3 (1.35%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.35%) IFS
9 3 (1.35%) Spotify
9 3 (1.35%) VMware
10 2 (0.90%) Ariba
10 2 (0.90%) Conga
10 2 (0.90%) HP
11 1 (0.45%) Aruba