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 20 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	349	367	366
Rank change year-on-year	+18	-1	-9
Contract jobs citing Billing	367	197	194
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.67%	0.59%	0.52%
As % of the General category	1.16%	0.94%	0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted	165	114	109
10^th Percentile	£411	£350	£309
25^th Percentile	£469	£413	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£515
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-2.91%	-0.58%
75^th Percentile	£625	£666	£600
90^th Percentile	£773	£718	£680
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£450	£515
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-12.62%	-0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	23	8	10
10^th Percentile	£13.50	£16.85	-
25^th Percentile	£14.54	£17.00	£14.50
Median hourly rate	£19.48	£18.72	£32.00
Median % change year-on-year	+4.07%	-41.51%	+143.58%
75^th Percentile	£28.33	£37.06	£74.69
90^th Percentile	£57.00	£59.38	£75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.98	£17.00	£21.50
% change year-on-year	-6.03%	-20.93%	+63.65%

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.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills	31,524	20,919	21,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	57.25%	63.05%	58.77%
Number of daily rates quoted	18,305	13,022	12,835
10^th Percentile	£313	£275	£286
25^th Percentile	£420	£400	£410
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£625	£649
90^th Percentile	£740	£738	£763
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£480
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-1.04%	-4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2,904	1,269	880
10^th Percentile	£13.45	£13.56	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£16.00	£16.17	£17.00
Median hourly rate	£27.08	£24.34	£31.31
Median % change year-on-year	+11.24%	-22.26%	+13.85%
75^th Percentile	£53.75	£43.75	£58.56
90^th Percentile	£77.50	£67.25	£71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£26.90	£21.18	£29.50
% change year-on-year	+27.04%	-28.22%	+13.46%

Billing Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Billing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Billing Daily Rate Trend

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 20 October 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.

Billing Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Billing over the 6 months to 20 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Billing in the UK

Billing Top 16 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 20 October 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	-18	294	£537	+7.40%	344
UK excluding London	-12	165	£500	+11.11%	148
London	-60	134	£563	+2.27%	209
Work from Home	-19	131	£525	+1.94%	194
South East	-25	63	£469	-2.29%	44
North of England	-42	36	£600	+71.18%	28
Midlands	-13	35	£500	-39.39%	26
West Midlands	-36	20	£470	-43.03%	17
North West	-32	19	£613	-18.33%	13
Yorkshire	-29	14	£492	+60.78%	6
Scotland	-14	12	£525	+118.75%	11
East Midlands	-	12	£550	-	9
East of England	-20	10	£550	+57.14%	19
South West	-44	9	£500	+17.65%	7
North East	-	3	-	-	9
Northern Ireland	+4	2	£600	+20.00%	11

Billing Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Billing also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Billing.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SAP	33.5%	123
2	Stakeholder Management	31.9%	117
3	ERP	21.3%	78
4	Migration	19.3%	71
5	Azure	16.6%	61
6	Microsoft	16.1%	59
7	Workshop Facilitation	15.5%	57
8	Problem-Solving	15.3%	56
9	CRM	15.0%	55
10	Order Management	14.7%	54
11	Order to Cash	14.4%	53
12	Roadmaps	13.9%	51
13	User Acceptance Testing	13.6%	50
14	SAP BRIM	12.8%	47
14	SAP S/4HANA	12.8%	47
14	Validation	12.8%	47
17	Agile	12.5%	46
17	Oracle	12.5%	46
17	Salesforce	12.5%	46
20	AWS	11.4%	42
21	Analytics	11.2%	41
21	Security Cleared	11.2%	41
23	CI/CD	10.1%	37
24	Requirements Gathering	9.8%	36
24	Revenue Management	9.8%	36
26	Customer Service	9.5%	35
27	GCP	9.3%	34
27	Process Improvement	9.3%	34
29	AI	9.0%	33
30	Continuous Improvement	8.7%	32

Billing Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Finance	53.1%	195
2	Social Skills	35.7%	131
3	Analytical Skills	13.1%	48
4	Telecoms	10.6%	39
5	Public Sector	9.3%	34
6	Banking	4.6%	17
7	Legal	4.4%	16
8	Marketing	4.1%	15
9	Documentation Skills	3.5%	13
9	Manufacturing	3.5%	13
11	General Ledger	3.3%	12
11	Organisational Skills	3.3%	12
13	Influencing Skills	3.0%	11
14	Corporate Banking	2.2%	8
14	Inclusion and Diversity	2.2%	8
14	Retail	2.2%	8
17	Back Office	1.6%	6
18	Advertising	1.4%	5
18	Local Government	1.4%	5
18	Presentation Skills	1.4%	5