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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 357 383
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 +89
Contract jobs citing Billing 246 163 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.55% 0.50%
As % of the General category 1.01% 0.88% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 80 120
10th Percentile £373 £313 £238
25th Percentile £456 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -0.58% -1.33%
75th Percentile £638 £577 £630
90th Percentile £788 £666 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -11.46% -0.58% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 9
10th Percentile - £29.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £50.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.04 £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.66% +351.61% -61.25%
75th Percentile £26.72 £75.00 £16.71
90th Percentile £34.69 - £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £70.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -75.71% +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 24,323 18,503 26,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.33% 62.59% 58.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,224 11,652 16,729
10th Percentile £300 £293 £263
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,477 647 1,816
10th Percentile £13.57 £15.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.12 £15.37
Median hourly rate £24.03 £29.07 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.34% +12.89% -20.77%
75th Percentile £55.00 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.81 £27.39 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.71% +9.54% -7.41%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -27 205 £525 +2.01% 202
UK excluding London -52 100 £456 -11.46% 136
Work from Home +1 97 £591 +18.20% 99
London -1 97 £625 +25.00% 62
South East -8 67 £470 -8.83% 59
North of England -54 13 £447 -13.96% 34
North West -29 9 £447 -13.96% 19
Midlands -63 9 £268 -49.67% 17
West Midlands -56 8 £368 -28.47% 12
Scotland +11 5 £373 -3.27% 3
South West -30 5 £325 -27.78% 5
East of England -34 5 £513 -6.82% 15
Yorkshire -53 4 £476 -23.77% 13
Wales - 2 £378 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £268 - 5

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 (2.44%) Appian
1 6 (2.44%) Camunda
2 5 (2.03%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 32 (13.01%) SAP PSCD
2 24 (9.76%) SAP BRIM
3 20 (8.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (7.32%) SAP Hybris
5 17 (6.91%) SAP FI-CA
6 15 (6.10%) SAP FI
7 8 (3.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (2.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (1.63%) Oracle BRM
9 4 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (1.63%) SAP SD
10 3 (1.22%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.81%) Documaker
11 2 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.81%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.81%) SAP IS-U
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 37 (15.04%) Azure
2 22 (8.94%) AWS
3 18 (7.32%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 16 (6.50%) SaaS
5 12 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (4.47%) GCP
7 10 (4.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (3.66%) GitHub
8 9 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (2.85%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.63%) Serverless
11 3 (1.22%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.22%) Figma
11 3 (1.22%) OCI
12 2 (0.81%) Azure API Management
12 2 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.81%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.63%) WAN
2 3 (1.22%) Broadband
2 3 (1.22%) GPRS
2 3 (1.22%) GSM
3 2 (0.81%) Firewall
3 2 (0.81%) Internet
3 2 (0.81%) LAN
3 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.81%) Wireless
4 1 (0.41%) 4G
4 1 (0.41%) 5G
4 1 (0.41%) BGP
4 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.41%) MPLS
4 1 (0.41%) Network Security
4 1 (0.41%) OSPF
4 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.85%) Power BI
2 6 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.44%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.44%) Parquet
3 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.22%) Metadata
4 2 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.41%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.41%) Flink
5 1 (0.41%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.41%) Redshift Spectrum
5 1 (0.41%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (5.69%) JIRA
2 5 (2.03%) Git
3 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.41%) Postman
4 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
4 1 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 114 (46.34%) Finance
2 96 (39.02%) Social Skills
3 42 (17.07%) Public Sector
4 38 (15.45%) Telecoms
5 29 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.32%) Legal
7 11 (4.47%) Law
7 11 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.66%) Banking
9 5 (2.03%) Retail
10 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.63%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.63%) Publishing
11 3 (1.22%) German Language
12 2 (0.81%) Automotive
12 2 (0.81%) Front Office
12 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.81%) Marketing
13 1 (0.41%) Advertising
13 1 (0.41%) French Language
Job Titles
1 62 (25.20%) Consultant
2 39 (15.85%) SAP Consultant
3 36 (14.63%) Architect
4 24 (9.76%) Functional Consultant
5 22 (8.94%) Analyst
5 22 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (6.50%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 15 (6.10%) Senior
8 13 (5.28%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.88%) Developer
10 10 (4.07%) Coordinator
10 10 (4.07%) Designer
11 9 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Solutions Designer
12 7 (2.85%) Operations Manager
13 6 (2.44%) Business Manager
13 6 (2.44%) Contracts Manager
13 6 (2.44%) Oracle Consultant
14 5 (2.03%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.47%) REST
2 9 (3.66%) BAPI
3 8 (3.25%) PySpark
4 7 (2.85%) JSON
5 6 (2.44%) .NET
5 6 (2.44%) Middleware
5 6 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.44%) SOAP
6 5 (2.03%) ADO
6 5 (2.03%) Great Expectations
7 4 (1.63%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.63%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (1.22%) Kafka
8 3 (1.22%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.22%) Pandas
8 3 (1.22%) Swagger
8 3 (1.22%) Web Services
9 2 (0.81%) NumPy
9 2 (0.81%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.07%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.66%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.25%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.63%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.63%) Smart Meter
5 4 (1.63%) TM Forum
6 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.22%) IoT
6 3 (1.22%) IPTV
6 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) 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 54 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (17.89%) CRM
3 36 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (11.38%) Validation
4 28 (11.38%) Workshop Facilitation
5 27 (10.98%) Decision-Making
6 26 (10.57%) Data Modelling
7 25 (10.16%) Accounts Receivable
7 25 (10.16%) Order Management
8 24 (9.76%) Agile
9 23 (9.35%) CI/CD
9 23 (9.35%) ERP
10 22 (8.94%) Order to Cash
11 21 (8.54%) Revenue Management
12 20 (8.13%) Observability
12 20 (8.13%) Process Improvement
12 20 (8.13%) Requirements Gathering
13 19 (7.72%) Cost Management
14 18 (7.32%) Migration
15 17 (6.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.57%) SQL
2 16 (6.50%) Python
3 9 (3.66%) Java
4 7 (2.85%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.63%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.22%) Bash
6 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.22%) PHP
7 2 (0.81%) C#
7 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.81%) VBA
8 1 (0.41%) C++
8 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) Korn
8 1 (0.41%) SOQL
8 1 (0.41%) SOSL
8 1 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 26 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.88%) ACCA
2 12 (4.88%) CIMA
3 10 (4.07%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.03%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (1.63%) Degree
7 2 (0.81%) AAT
7 2 (0.81%) ECDL
7 2 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.81%) 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%) CCIE
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) MBA
8 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.66%) SLA
3 8 (3.25%) GDPR
4 5 (2.03%) PMO
5 3 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) GAAP
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) IFRS
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.44%) Terraform
2 5 (2.03%) Grafana
3 4 (1.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.81%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.41%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 71 (28.86%) SAP
2 29 (11.79%) Oracle
3 28 (11.38%) Salesforce
4 23 (9.35%) Microsoft
5 14 (5.69%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.25%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.85%) Databricks
7 7 (2.85%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.44%) Pega
9 5 (2.03%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (2.03%) Workday
10 4 (1.63%) Ariba
10 4 (1.63%) Google
10 4 (1.63%) Remedy
10 4 (1.63%) Xero
11 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.22%) Spotify
12 2 (0.81%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.81%) IFS