Budget Management Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Budget Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Budget Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 67 73
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +31
Contract jobs citing Budget Management 5 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.46% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.49% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £474 £438 £299
25th Percentile £491 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -27.66%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £500
90th Percentile £696 £663 £545
Scotland median daily rate £415 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -15.35% +0.56% +2.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Budget Management 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 559 615 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.58% 94.33% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 348 471
10th Percentile £193 £199 £232
25th Percentile £406 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 27
10th Percentile £17.29 £20.65 £13.27
25th Percentile £18.91 £21.34 £16.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.95% -32.60% +63.06%
75th Percentile £70.50 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £28.38 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £22.26
% change year-on-year -13.04% +3.35% +28.44%

Budget Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Budget Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Budget Management job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Budget Management
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Budget Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Budget Management

Budget Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Management in Edinburgh

Budget Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Budget Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Budget Management

Budget Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Technology
2 1 (20.00%) HR Manager
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (20.00%) Business Case
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian