Budgeting and Forecasting Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Budgeting and Forecasting
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Budgeting and Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.44% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 0.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £472 - -
25th Percentile £477 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% - -
75th Percentile £505 £688 -
90th Percentile £506 - -
South Wales median daily rate £494 £675 -
% change year-on-year -26.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Budgeting and Forecasting 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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 171 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 86.60% 74.67% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 113 166
10th Percentile £226 £140 £183
25th Percentile £300 £209 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +10.59% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £547
90th Percentile £663 £643 £625
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 5
10th Percentile - - £18.70
25th Percentile - £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £20.08 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -22.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile £18.75 £25.60 £26.50
90th Percentile £23.59 £25.79 £36.10
South Wales median hourly rate £17.65 £25.00 £29.83
% change year-on-year -29.41% -16.20% +49.16%

Budgeting and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Budgeting and Forecasting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Budgeting and Forecasting job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Budgeting and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Budgeting and Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Budgeting and Forecasting

Budgeting and Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Asana
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Services Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Services Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PMO