Budgeting and Forecasting Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Budgeting and Forecasting
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Budgeting and Forecasting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.41% 0.35% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £380 £466 -
25th Percentile £480 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% - -
75th Percentile £562 £497 -
90th Percentile £607 £499 -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% +5.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 832 502 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.47% 87.15% 81.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 309 448
10th Percentile £190 £246 £188
25th Percentile £354 £350 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year - -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £537 £534 £550
90th Percentile £611 £600 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 21 61
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.10 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +27.05% +5.23%
75th Percentile £24.74 £30.00 £33.25
90th Percentile £25.68 £39.68 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Budgeting and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Budgeting and Forecasting job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Budgeting and Forecasting
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Budgeting and Forecasting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Budgeting and Forecasting

Budgeting and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting and Forecasting in the East Midlands

Budgeting and Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £536 -
Nottinghamshire -11 1 £625 +28.21% 3
Leicestershire - 1 £313 -
Budgeting and Forecasting
England

Budgeting and Forecasting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Transformation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Change Control
2 3 (75.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Control
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (50.00%) Release Management
3 2 (50.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Planview