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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 350 380
Rank change year-on-year -42 +30 +114
Contract jobs citing Billing 241 174 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.60% 0.50%
As % of the General category 0.97% 0.95% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 85 124
10th Percentile £373 £315 £256
25th Percentile £456 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -3.47% -1.33%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £630
90th Percentile £865 £659 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £507 £518
% change year-on-year -8.55% -2.06% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile - £29.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £50.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.08 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.60% +351.61% -61.25%
75th Percentile £31.88 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £40.90 - £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.04 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -75.66% +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 24,883 18,301 25,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.69% 62.93% 58.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,522 11,737 16,463
10th Percentile £300 £300 £265
25th Percentile £405 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,539 684 1,820
10th Percentile £13.72 £15.00 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £15.28
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -25.71%
75th Percentile £57.38 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.80% +12.00% -19.70%

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 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -66 194 £500 - 190
Work from Home +3 99 £568 +13.55% 94
UK excluding London -78 96 £464 -8.55% 122
London -37 91 £600 +20.00% 100
South East -23 62 £470 -8.74% 52
North of England -63 14 £447 -8.59% 36
Midlands -64 10 £372 -27.86% 8
North West -35 9 £447 -8.59% 23
West Midlands -47 9 £475 -7.77% 5
Scotland +14 5 £373 -3.27% 4
East of England -36 5 £513 -6.82% 9
Yorkshire - 5 £441 - 11
South West -27 4 £325 -27.78% 9
Wales -8 2 £378 -31.36% 5
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 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 6 (2.49%) Appian
1 6 (2.49%) Camunda
2 5 (2.07%) Apache
3 4 (1.66%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.24%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 33 (13.69%) SAP PSCD
2 23 (9.54%) SAP BRIM
2 23 (9.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (7.88%) SAP FI-CA
4 18 (7.47%) SAP FI
5 16 (6.64%) SAP Hybris
6 8 (3.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (2.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (2.90%) SAP SD
8 4 (1.66%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (1.24%) Oracle BRM
9 3 (1.24%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.83%) Documaker
10 2 (0.83%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.11%) Azure
2 20 (8.30%) AWS
3 17 (7.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 15 (6.22%) SaaS
5 12 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (4.98%) GCP
6 10 (4.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (3.73%) GitHub
7 9 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.49%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.49%) Serverless
11 4 (1.66%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.24%) Azure API Management
12 3 (1.24%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.24%) Figma
12 3 (1.24%) OCI
12 3 (1.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.90%) WAN
2 4 (1.66%) Internet
3 3 (1.24%) Broadband
3 3 (1.24%) GPRS
3 3 (1.24%) GSM
3 3 (1.24%) LAN
3 3 (1.24%) MPLS
3 3 (1.24%) Network Security
3 3 (1.24%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.83%) Firewall
4 2 (0.83%) NaaS
4 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.83%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) 4G
5 1 (0.41%) 5G
5 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.41%) SMS
5 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (2.49%) Delta Lake
1 6 (2.49%) Parquet
1 6 (2.49%) Power BI
2 3 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.24%) Metadata
3 2 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.83%) Flink
3 2 (0.83%) InfluxDB
3 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.83%) MySQL
3 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.83%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.41%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.41%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 15 (6.22%) JIRA
2 5 (2.07%) Git
3 3 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.83%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Postman
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 114 (47.30%) Finance
2 93 (38.59%) Social Skills
3 40 (16.60%) Public Sector
3 40 (16.60%) Telecoms
4 29 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.47%) Legal
6 11 (4.56%) Law
6 11 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.73%) Banking
8 5 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.07%) Retail
9 4 (1.66%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.66%) Publishing
10 3 (1.24%) German Language
10 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.83%) Automotive
11 2 (0.83%) Front Office
11 2 (0.83%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 58 (24.07%) Consultant
2 40 (16.60%) SAP Consultant
3 33 (13.69%) Architect
4 20 (8.30%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.47%) Functional Consultant
6 17 (7.05%) Analyst
6 17 (7.05%) Senior
7 14 (5.81%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 13 (5.39%) Developer
9 10 (4.15%) Coordinator
9 10 (4.15%) Designer
10 9 (3.73%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.73%) Contracts Manager
10 9 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.73%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.73%) Operations Manager
10 9 (3.73%) Solutions Designer
11 6 (2.49%) Lead
11 6 (2.49%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.49%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.98%) BAPI
1 12 (4.98%) REST
2 8 (3.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.32%) PySpark
3 7 (2.90%) JSON
4 6 (2.49%) .NET
4 6 (2.49%) Middleware
4 6 (2.49%) SOAP
5 5 (2.07%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.07%) Great Expectations
6 4 (1.66%) Kafka
6 4 (1.66%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.66%) Swagger
7 3 (1.24%) gRPC
7 3 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.24%) Pandas
7 3 (1.24%) Web Services
8 2 (0.83%) EDI
8 2 (0.83%) Polars
8 2 (0.83%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.15%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.73%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.32%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.66%) TM Forum
7 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.24%) IoT
7 3 (1.24%) IPTV
7 3 (1.24%) Life Science
7 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.24%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.83%) Clustering
8 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.41%) Android
2 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.41%) CentOS
2 1 (0.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (22.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (17.01%) CRM
3 35 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (13.28%) Decision-Making
5 29 (12.03%) Validation
6 28 (11.62%) Workshop Facilitation
7 27 (11.20%) Data Modelling
8 25 (10.37%) Order Management
9 23 (9.54%) Agile
9 23 (9.54%) CI/CD
9 23 (9.54%) Order to Cash
10 22 (9.13%) Accounts Receivable
10 22 (9.13%) Migration
10 22 (9.13%) Observability
11 21 (8.71%) ERP
11 21 (8.71%) Process Improvement
12 20 (8.30%) Cost Management
13 19 (7.88%) Data Migration
13 19 (7.88%) Revenue Management
14 18 (7.47%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.20%) SQL
2 17 (7.05%) Python
3 10 (4.15%) Java
4 7 (2.90%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.24%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.24%) Bash
6 3 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.24%) PHP
6 3 (1.24%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.83%) C#
7 2 (0.83%) C++
7 2 (0.83%) VBA
8 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) SOQL
8 1 (0.41%) SOSL
8 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 29 (12.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.98%) ACCA
2 12 (4.98%) CIMA
2 12 (4.98%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.07%) CTC Cleared
5 4 (1.66%) Degree
6 3 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.83%) AAT
7 2 (0.83%) ECDL
7 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.83%) PMP
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CCDE
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) MBA
8 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.73%) GDPR
2 9 (3.73%) SLA
3 5 (2.07%) PMO
4 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) GAAP
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) GxP
6 1 (0.41%) IFRS
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.66%) Docker
2 3 (1.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.49%) Grafana
1 6 (2.49%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.49%) Terraform
2 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.83%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (0.83%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.41%) Ansible
4 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.41%) Kibana
4 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 63 (26.14%) SAP
2 29 (12.03%) Oracle
3 27 (11.20%) Salesforce
4 25 (10.37%) Microsoft
5 16 (6.64%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.32%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.90%) Databricks
8 6 (2.49%) Pega
9 5 (2.07%) Ariba
9 5 (2.07%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.07%) Workday
10 4 (1.66%) Google
10 4 (1.66%) Remedy
10 4 (1.66%) Xero
11 3 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.24%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.24%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.24%) Spotify
12 2 (0.83%) Ciena
12 2 (0.83%) Conga