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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 342 355
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +123
Contract jobs citing Billing 234 176 238
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the General category 1.05% 0.91% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 87 119
10th Percentile £373 £208 £238
25th Percentile £460 £425 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +6.80% +3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £634
90th Percentile £865 £700 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £575 £518
% change year-on-year -21.74% +11.00% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 7
10th Percentile £16.90 £55.80 £11.70
25th Percentile - £66.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £13.27
Median % change year-on-year -75.71% +427.70% -47.77%
75th Percentile £17.66 £75.00 £16.36
90th Percentile £23.43 - £35.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £13.14
% change year-on-year -75.71% +432.83% -12.42%

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 22,334 19,303 25,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.91% 61.71% 58.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,075 11,487 16,655
10th Percentile £284 £285 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,366 648 1,327
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.48 £20.00 £15.44
Median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -2.65% +13.00%
75th Percentile £46.00 £53.75 £56.49
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.82 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £26.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.87% +1.92% +15.56%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -2 203 £520 -5.45% 296
London +5 98 £625 +19.05% 80
UK excluding London -25 95 £450 -21.74% 248
Work from Home +16 92 £596 +14.52% 106
South East +5 63 £470 -10.05% 91
North of England -50 12 £351 -41.58% 50
Midlands -41 10 £611 +6.30% 34
West Midlands -27 9 £825 +60.19% 12
North West - 7 £447 - 28
South West -5 6 - - 26
Yorkshire -52 5 £302 -49.75% 15
Scotland +11 4 £373 -3.27% 6
East of England -21 3 £388 - 33
East Midlands -30 1 £268 -57.05% 20
Wales - 1 £280 - 8

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 (2.99%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (2.56%) Appian
2 6 (2.56%) Camunda
3 3 (1.28%) Apache
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.28%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.85%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.43%) SAP Portal
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (11.11%) SAP PSCD
2 19 (8.12%) SAP BRIM
3 17 (7.26%) SAP Hybris
4 16 (6.84%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (5.56%) SAP FI-CA
6 10 (4.27%) SAP FI
7 6 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (1.71%) Oracle BRM
8 4 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (1.71%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (1.28%) NetSuite
9 3 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (1.28%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.85%) Documaker
10 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.85%) SAP IS-U
11 1 (0.43%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (15.81%) Azure
2 18 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 17 (7.26%) AWS
3 17 (7.26%) SaaS
3 17 (7.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 12 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (4.70%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.85%) GitHub
6 9 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (3.42%) GCP
8 5 (2.14%) OCI
8 5 (2.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (1.71%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.28%) PaaS
11 2 (0.85%) Azure API Management
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.28%) Broadband
1 3 (1.28%) GPRS
1 3 (1.28%) GSM
1 3 (1.28%) MVNO
2 2 (0.85%) Firewall
2 2 (0.85%) LAN
2 2 (0.85%) WAN
2 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.43%) BGP
3 1 (0.43%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.43%) OSPF
3 1 (0.43%) SSL
3 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.43%) Wireless
3 1 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.27%) Power BI
2 6 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.56%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.56%) Parquet
3 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.43%) GIS
5 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (5.56%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.43%) Hudson
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.43%) Postman
4 1 (0.43%) Selenium
4 1 (0.43%) Storybook
General
1 108 (46.15%) Finance
2 104 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.53%) Public Sector
4 33 (14.10%) Telecoms
5 24 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.41%) Legal
7 11 (4.70%) Law
8 8 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.99%) General Ledger
10 6 (2.56%) Banking
11 4 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.71%) Publishing
11 4 (1.71%) Retail
12 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.85%) Automotive
13 2 (0.85%) Front Office
13 2 (0.85%) Marketing
14 1 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.43%) French Language
Job Titles
1 59 (25.21%) Consultant
2 34 (14.53%) Architect
2 34 (14.53%) SAP Consultant
3 24 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
4 23 (9.83%) Functional Consultant
5 22 (9.40%) Analyst
6 17 (7.26%) Developer
7 14 (5.98%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 11 (4.70%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.27%) Senior
10 9 (3.85%) Designer
10 9 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.85%) Lead
10 9 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.85%) Solutions Designer
11 7 (2.99%) Salesforce Architect
12 6 (2.56%) Coordinator
12 6 (2.56%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (2.56%) Project Manager
13 5 (2.14%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.85%) REST
2 7 (2.99%) JSON
2 7 (2.99%) Middleware
2 7 (2.99%) PySpark
2 7 (2.99%) SOAP
3 6 (2.56%) .NET
3 6 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (2.14%) ADO
4 5 (2.14%) Great Expectations
4 5 (2.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.14%) Web Services
5 3 (1.28%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.28%) GraphQL
5 3 (1.28%) RESTful
5 3 (1.28%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.85%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.85%) Next.js
6 2 (0.85%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.85%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.27%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.42%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.14%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.71%) IoT
5 4 (1.71%) TM Forum
6 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.28%) IPTV
6 3 (1.28%) Smart Meter
7 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.43%) CentOS
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (20.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (17.95%) CRM
3 31 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (11.97%) Agile
5 27 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
6 24 (10.26%) Order Management
7 23 (9.83%) Migration
8 22 (9.40%) CI/CD
9 21 (8.97%) Accounts Receivable
10 20 (8.55%) Cost Management
10 20 (8.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (8.55%) Validation
11 19 (8.12%) Process Improvement
11 19 (8.12%) Revenue Management
12 18 (7.69%) Data Modelling
12 18 (7.69%) DevOps
12 18 (7.69%) ERP
13 17 (7.26%) Decision-Making
13 17 (7.26%) Project Management
13 17 (7.26%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.68%) SQL
2 11 (4.70%) Python
3 7 (2.99%) Java
3 7 (2.99%) PL/SQL
4 6 (2.56%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.71%) Groovy
6 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.28%) PHP
6 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.28%) SOQL
6 3 (1.28%) X++
7 2 (0.85%) Bash
7 2 (0.85%) C#
7 2 (0.85%) SOSL
7 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.43%) ABAP
8 1 (0.43%) Bicep
8 1 (0.43%) Korn
8 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (9.83%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.98%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.13%) ACCA
3 12 (5.13%) CIMA
4 8 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.99%) Degree
6 5 (2.14%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.85%) AAT
7 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.85%) ECDL
7 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.85%) PMP
8 1 (0.43%) CCA
8 1 (0.43%) CCDE
8 1 (0.43%) CCDP
8 1 (0.43%) CCIE
8 1 (0.43%) CCNP
8 1 (0.43%) MBA
8 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.70%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.42%) GDPR
3 4 (1.71%) SLA
4 3 (1.28%) QA
5 2 (0.85%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.14%) Terraform
3 3 (1.28%) Grafana
4 2 (0.85%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 58 (24.79%) SAP
2 29 (12.39%) Salesforce
3 25 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 25 (10.68%) Oracle
4 9 (3.85%) Guidewire
4 9 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.99%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.56%) Databricks
6 6 (2.56%) Pega
7 4 (1.71%) Google
7 4 (1.71%) Workday
7 4 (1.71%) Xero
8 3 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.28%) IFS
8 3 (1.28%) Remedy
8 3 (1.28%) Spotify
9 2 (0.85%) Ariba
9 2 (0.85%) Conga
9 2 (0.85%) HP
9 2 (0.85%) PeopleSoft