Budgeting Contracts in Birmingham

Budgeting
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Budgeting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budgeting over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 52 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +24
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 5 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.89% 1.16% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.42% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile £395 - £413
25th Percentile £409 £413 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £425 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% -39.29% +32.08%
75th Percentile £603 £438 £839
90th Percentile £721 £519 £845
West Midlands median daily rate £398 £425 £600
% change year-on-year -6.47% -29.17% +41.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Budgeting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 490 562 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.19% 81.80% 83.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 393 484
10th Percentile £164 £226 £263
25th Percentile £325 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.41%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £623
90th Percentile £639 £738 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 17 23
10th Percentile - £13.70 £12.74
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.50 £15.57
Median hourly rate £18.87 £40.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.83% +58.42% +41.46%
75th Percentile £22.08 £52.50 £30.52
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £88.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year +11.91% -19.44% +54.29%

Budgeting
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Budgeting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Budgeting in Birmingham

Budgeting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budgeting in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Budgeting in Birmingham

Budgeting
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting in Birmingham

Budgeting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Broadband
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) TestDirector
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Development Director
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Report Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Service Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Control
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Journey Map
3 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CEH
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft