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 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 338 383
Rank change year-on-year -56 +45 +106
Contract jobs citing Billing 239 184 213
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.63% 0.49%
As % of the General category 0.94% 1.00% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 98 120
10th Percentile £324 £263 £300
25th Percentile £450 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -1.23% -3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £565 £630
90th Percentile £836 £650 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £489 £515
% change year-on-year -6.24% -5.05% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 9
10th Percentile - £29.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £50.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +351.61% -65.56%
75th Percentile £34.22 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £42.38 - £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% +351.61% -45.61%

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 25,372 18,487 25,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.33% 63.11% 58.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,738 11,821 16,062
10th Percentile £305 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £642 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,597 765 1,898
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.13 £15.39
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £59.50 £56.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.10 £26.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -5.29% +1.92% -16.85%

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 15 April 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 15 April 2026.

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 15 April 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 -89 194 £500 +1.63% 212
Work from Home +6 97 £560 +14.52% 104
London -29 95 £600 +23.08% 117
UK excluding London -85 90 £458 -6.24% 122
South East -33 58 £469 -2.80% 55
North of England -63 14 £447 -8.59% 31
Midlands -58 10 £372 -27.86% 9
West Midlands -55 9 £475 -7.77% 8
North West -42 8 £447 -8.59% 21
East of England -31 6 £613 +11.36% 11
Yorkshire - 6 £441 - 6
Scotland +8 4 £391 +1.40% 3
Wales -9 2 £378 -31.36% 4
South West -40 2 £418 -1.76% 11
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 1

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 (2.51%) Appian
1 6 (2.51%) Camunda
2 5 (2.09%) Apache
2 5 (2.09%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 30 (12.55%) SAP PSCD
2 24 (10.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (8.79%) SAP BRIM
4 19 (7.95%) SAP FI
5 18 (7.53%) SAP FI-CA
6 13 (5.44%) SAP Hybris
7 9 (3.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (3.77%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (3.35%) SAP SD
9 4 (1.67%) NetSuite
9 4 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (1.26%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle BRM
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.84%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
12 1 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.06%) Azure
2 19 (7.95%) AWS
3 14 (5.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 13 (5.44%) GCP
5 11 (4.60%) SaaS
6 10 (4.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (3.77%) GitHub
7 9 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (2.93%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.51%) Serverless
11 4 (1.67%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.67%) OCI
11 4 (1.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 3 (1.26%) Azure API Management
12 3 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.26%) Figma
12 3 (1.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.93%) WAN
2 4 (1.67%) Internet
3 3 (1.26%) LAN
3 3 (1.26%) MPLS
3 3 (1.26%) Network Security
3 3 (1.26%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.26%) Wireless
4 2 (0.84%) Broadband
4 2 (0.84%) GPRS
4 2 (0.84%) GSM
4 2 (0.84%) NaaS
5 1 (0.42%) 4G
5 1 (0.42%) 5G
5 1 (0.42%) BGP
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.42%) OSPF
5 1 (0.42%) SMS
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (2.51%) Delta Lake
1 6 (2.51%) Parquet
1 6 (2.51%) Power BI
2 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.26%) Metadata
4 2 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.84%) Flink
4 2 (0.84%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.84%) MySQL
4 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.84%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.42%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 16 (6.69%) JIRA
2 5 (2.09%) Git
3 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.84%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.42%) GitLab
5 1 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 112 (46.86%) Finance
2 87 (36.40%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.06%) Public Sector
3 36 (15.06%) Telecoms
4 28 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.44%) Legal
6 12 (5.02%) Banking
7 11 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.77%) Law
9 6 (2.51%) Retail
10 5 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.09%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.26%) German Language
12 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.84%) Automotive
13 2 (0.84%) Back Office
13 2 (0.84%) Front Office
13 2 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (23.85%) Consultant
2 38 (15.90%) SAP Consultant
3 34 (14.23%) Architect
4 20 (8.37%) Analyst
5 19 (7.95%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (6.69%) Functional Consultant
7 15 (6.28%) Developer
8 13 (5.44%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 13 (5.44%) Senior
9 10 (4.18%) Coordinator
10 9 (3.77%) Designer
10 9 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.35%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.35%) Oracle Consultant
11 8 (3.35%) Solutions Designer
12 7 (2.93%) Contracts Manager
12 7 (2.93%) Lead
13 6 (2.51%) Cloud Consultant
13 6 (2.51%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.44%) BAPI
2 12 (5.02%) REST
3 11 (4.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.35%) PySpark
5 7 (2.93%) .NET
5 7 (2.93%) JSON
6 6 (2.51%) Middleware
6 6 (2.51%) SOAP
7 5 (2.09%) GraphQL
7 5 (2.09%) Great Expectations
8 4 (1.67%) Kafka
8 4 (1.67%) OpenAPI
8 4 (1.67%) Swagger
8 4 (1.67%) Web Services
9 3 (1.26%) gRPC
9 3 (1.26%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (1.26%) Pandas
10 2 (0.84%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.84%) Dask
10 2 (0.84%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (4.18%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.93%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.67%) Life Science
6 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.67%) TM Forum
7 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.26%) IoT
7 3 (1.26%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.26%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.84%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.84%) Unix
2 1 (0.42%) Android
2 1 (0.42%) CentOS
2 1 (0.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 39 (16.32%) CRM
3 37 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (12.97%) Decision-Making
5 30 (12.55%) Validation
6 28 (11.72%) Data Modelling
7 26 (10.88%) Agile
7 26 (10.88%) ERP
7 26 (10.88%) Order to Cash
8 23 (9.62%) CI/CD
8 23 (9.62%) Migration
9 22 (9.21%) Observability
9 22 (9.21%) Workshop Facilitation
10 21 (8.79%) Cost Management
11 20 (8.37%) Process Improvement
12 19 (7.95%) Cost Optimisation
13 18 (7.53%) Data Migration
13 18 (7.53%) Order Management
13 18 (7.53%) Roadmaps
14 16 (6.69%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.30%) SQL
2 18 (7.53%) Python
3 9 (3.77%) Java
4 6 (2.51%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.26%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.26%) Bash
6 3 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.26%) PHP
6 3 (1.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.84%) C#
7 2 (0.84%) C++
7 2 (0.84%) VBA
8 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.42%) Groovy
8 1 (0.42%) R
8 1 (0.42%) SOQL
8 1 (0.42%) SOSL
8 1 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 30 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.02%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.60%) ACCA
4 10 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.18%) CIMA
5 5 (2.09%) CTC Cleared
5 5 (2.09%) Degree
6 3 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.84%) AAT
7 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.84%) ECDL
7 2 (0.84%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.42%) CCDE
8 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) MBA
8 1 (0.42%) PMP
8 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.44%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.18%) GDPR
3 9 (3.77%) SLA
4 6 (2.51%) PMO
5 4 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.84%) GAAP
6 2 (0.84%) GxP
6 2 (0.84%) IFRS
6 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.51%) Grafana
1 6 (2.51%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.51%) Terraform
2 5 (2.09%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.84%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.84%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.84%) SCCM
4 1 (0.42%) Ansible
4 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 57 (23.85%) SAP
2 34 (14.23%) Oracle
3 26 (10.88%) Microsoft
4 24 (10.04%) Salesforce
5 17 (7.11%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.35%) Google
6 8 (3.35%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.93%) Databricks
8 6 (2.51%) Ariba
8 6 (2.51%) Pega
9 5 (2.09%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.09%) Workday
10 4 (1.67%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.67%) Remedy
11 3 (1.26%) Apple
11 3 (1.26%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.26%) Spotify
12 2 (0.84%) Ciena
12 2 (0.84%) Xero