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 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 380 368
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +13
Contract jobs citing Billing 311 193 208
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.58% 0.53%
As % of the General category 1.06% 0.92% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 120 133
10th Percentile £400 £300 £297
25th Percentile £463 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% -3.55%
75th Percentile £656 £577 £600
90th Percentile £773 £688 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +13.65% -15.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 11
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.16 -
25th Percentile £13.70 £19.91 £14.50
Median hourly rate £16.50 £28.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% -32.94% -76.39%
75th Percentile £31.88 £57.50 £74.38
90th Percentile £42.38 £61.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 £19.91 £21.50
% change year-on-year -19.76% -7.40% -

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 29,346 20,916 22,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.01% 63.18% 57.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,454 13,076 14,194
10th Percentile £313 £280 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,145 1,115 1,411
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.97 £16.19 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +27.07%
75th Percentile £60.00 £51.10 £58.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.14 £38.12
% change year-on-year +49.05% -41.92% +46.62%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -52 243 £541 +20.22% 244
Work from Home +4 127 £500 +2.56% 125
London -22 127 £600 +33.33% 149
UK excluding London -60 117 £483 +13.65% 135
South East -56 50 £470 +0.32% 51
North of England -60 23 £492 +0.61% 31
Midlands -34 20 £488 +54.76% 16
West Midlands -46 16 £473 +50.00% 15
North West -52 12 £600 +9.09% 27
Yorkshire -36 11 £461 +52.88% 3
Scotland - 9 £525 - 6
East of England -11 7 £631 +80.36% 9
South West -49 7 £500 +17.65% 9
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 1
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 7
Wales -13 1 £475 -13.64% 7

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 (2.25%) Confluence
2 6 (1.93%) Apache
3 5 (1.61%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Mule
6 1 (0.32%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 51 (16.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (14.79%) SAP BRIM
3 29 (9.32%) SAP FI
4 26 (8.36%) SAP FI-CA
4 26 (8.36%) SAP PSCD
5 23 (7.40%) SAP SD
6 17 (5.47%) NetSuite
7 13 (4.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (2.89%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (2.89%) SAP Hybris
9 8 (2.57%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
11 6 (1.93%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (1.93%) SAP Convergent Charging
12 5 (1.61%) Sage X3
13 4 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
13 4 (1.29%) SAP CO
13 4 (1.29%) SAP ERP
14 3 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
15 2 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.18%) Azure
2 31 (9.97%) AWS
3 21 (6.75%) GCP
4 16 (5.14%) SaaS
5 14 (4.50%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.18%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (3.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 10 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.22%) Serverless
9 8 (2.57%) GitHub
9 8 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.57%) OCI
10 6 (1.93%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.61%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (1.61%) Fivetran
11 5 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (1.61%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (1.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.89%) WAN
2 5 (1.61%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.29%) 5G
3 4 (1.29%) HTTP
4 3 (0.96%) 4G
4 3 (0.96%) Broadband
4 3 (0.96%) Internet
4 3 (0.96%) LAN
4 3 (0.96%) MPLS
4 3 (0.96%) Network Security
4 3 (0.96%) SMS
4 3 (0.96%) Wireless
5 2 (0.64%) Multicast
5 2 (0.64%) NaaS
5 2 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.64%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (2.25%) BigQuery
1 7 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (2.25%) Power BI
2 6 (1.93%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.96%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.96%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.64%) Flink
4 2 (0.64%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.64%) Metadata
4 2 (0.64%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.64%) MySQL
4 2 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.64%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.64%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.82%) JIRA
2 8 (2.57%) Git
3 2 (0.64%) JMeter
3 2 (0.64%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.64%) NeoLoad
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.64%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 164 (52.73%) Finance
2 88 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 37 (11.90%) Telecoms
4 34 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 22 (7.07%) Banking
7 14 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.22%) Legal
11 8 (2.57%) Corporate Banking
12 7 (2.25%) Marketing
12 7 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.61%) Back Office
13 5 (1.61%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.61%) Retail
14 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.29%) Publishing
15 3 (0.96%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 78 (25.08%) Consultant
2 58 (18.65%) SAP Consultant
3 56 (18.01%) Architect
4 34 (10.93%) Analyst
5 31 (9.97%) Functional Consultant
6 30 (9.65%) Lead
7 28 (9.00%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (8.36%) Business Analyst
8 26 (8.36%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 26 (8.36%) Senior
9 13 (4.18%) Developer
10 12 (3.86%) SAP SD Consultant
11 10 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (2.89%) Data Engineer
12 9 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
13 8 (2.57%) Enterprise Architect
13 8 (2.57%) Product Lead
13 8 (2.57%) Senior Consultant
14 7 (2.25%) Senior SAP Consultant
14 7 (2.25%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.75%) BAPI
2 17 (5.47%) REST
3 12 (3.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (3.54%) Kafka
5 8 (2.57%) SOAP
6 7 (2.25%) OpenAPI
6 7 (2.25%) Swagger
7 6 (1.93%) .NET
7 6 (1.93%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (1.61%) EDI
8 5 (1.61%) Middleware
8 5 (1.61%) RAML
8 5 (1.61%) Web Services
9 4 (1.29%) JSON
9 4 (1.29%) XML
10 2 (0.64%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.64%) gRPC
10 2 (0.64%) IDoc
10 2 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.64%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.00%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (5.47%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.86%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.22%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.22%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.93%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.61%) Life Science
6 5 (1.61%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.29%) TM Forum
8 3 (0.96%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.96%) NHS
8 3 (0.96%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.64%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.64%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.93%) Android
2 4 (1.29%) Windows
3 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.64%) HPUX
4 2 (0.64%) Linux
4 2 (0.64%) Unix
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (17.04%) Migration
3 49 (15.76%) CRM
3 49 (15.76%) ERP
4 48 (15.43%) Order to Cash
5 46 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (14.47%) Roadmaps
7 44 (14.15%) Agile
8 39 (12.54%) User Acceptance Testing
9 37 (11.90%) Workshop Facilitation
10 36 (11.58%) Validation
11 30 (9.65%) Order Management
12 29 (9.32%) Revenue Management
13 28 (9.00%) Decision-Making
14 27 (8.68%) Analytics
15 26 (8.36%) Procure-to-Pay
16 25 (8.04%) Data Modelling
16 25 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 24 (7.72%) Requirements Gathering
18 23 (7.40%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.65%) SQL
2 18 (5.79%) Python
3 8 (2.57%) Java
4 5 (1.61%) DataWeave
4 5 (1.61%) X++
5 3 (0.96%) Bash
5 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.96%) Rust
6 2 (0.64%) ABAP
6 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.64%) C#
6 2 (0.64%) C++
6 2 (0.64%) Go
6 2 (0.64%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.32%) R
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (4.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.93%) Degree
5 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.64%) ACCA
8 2 (0.64%) CBAP
8 2 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.32%) CIMA
9 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.32%) PMP
9 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.54%) SLA
3 6 (1.93%) GDPR
3 6 (1.93%) IFRS
3 6 (1.93%) PMO
3 6 (1.93%) QA
4 5 (1.61%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.61%) SEPA
5 3 (0.96%) GxP
6 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.64%) GAAP
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (4.18%) Terraform
2 8 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.61%) Grafana
4 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.96%) SCCM
5 2 (0.64%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.64%) Argo
5 2 (0.64%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 109 (35.05%) SAP
2 39 (12.54%) Oracle
3 38 (12.22%) Microsoft
4 36 (11.58%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.18%) Ariba
6 12 (3.86%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.89%) Guidewire
8 8 (2.57%) Google
9 7 (2.25%) Sage
10 6 (1.93%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.61%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.61%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.61%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.96%) Amdocs
12 3 (0.96%) Apple
12 3 (0.96%) NetCracker
13 2 (0.64%) Ciena
13 2 (0.64%) Conga
13 2 (0.64%) HP
13 2 (0.64%) Nokia