Budget Control Contracts in England

Budget Control
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Budget Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budget Control over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 517 635
Rank change year-on-year +60 +118 +116
Contract jobs citing Budget Control 29 24 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.065% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.075% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 27
10th Percentile £357 £350 £400
25th Percentile £358 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% -12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £528 £681 £750
90th Percentile £574 £925 £785
UK median daily rate £391 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -25.52% -12.50% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £23.48 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.48 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +333.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Budget Control 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Budget Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Budget Control in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budget Control in England.

Daily rate trend for Budget Control in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Control in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Control in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budget Control in England.

Hourly rate trend for Budget Control in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budget Control within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
London +36 13 £474 -9.81% 6
North West - 12 £391 - 4
North of England - 12 £391 - 4
Midlands - 4 £537 - 4
East Midlands - 3 £537 - 1
South East +46 2 £288 - 10
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
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Budget Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) JBoss
1 5 (17.24%) Tomcat
1 5 (17.24%) WebLogic
1 5 (17.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon Glacier
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon Kinesis
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon S3
2 7 (24.14%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (24.14%) Serverless
3 1 (3.45%) OCI
3 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) DynamoDB
2 5 (17.24%) DB2
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) Bitbucket
2 5 (17.24%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 19 (65.52%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (20.69%) Banking
5 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Scrum Master
2 7 (24.14%) Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Project Manager
3 6 (20.69%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (17.24%) Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) IT Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Agile Scrum Master
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Architect
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Implementation Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Implementation Project Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Java Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Java Scrum Master
7 2 (6.90%) Java Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Project Implementation Manager
8 1 (3.45%) Business Manager
8 1 (3.45%) Client Services Manager
8 1 (3.45%) Implementation Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) ActiveMQ
1 7 (24.14%) Kafka
1 7 (24.14%) RESTful
2 5 (17.24%) RAML
2 5 (17.24%) REST
2 5 (17.24%) SOAP
2 5 (17.24%) Web Services
2 5 (17.24%) WSDL
3 4 (13.79%) EJB
3 4 (13.79%) J2EE
3 4 (13.79%) JSP
3 4 (13.79%) Servlets
3 4 (13.79%) Spring
3 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Product Ownership
2 7 (24.14%) Public Cloud
3 5 (17.24%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Digital Signage
4 2 (6.90%) NHS
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) SDLC
2 18 (62.07%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) Project Planning
4 9 (31.03%) Backlog Management
4 9 (31.03%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (27.59%) Cost Optimisation
5 8 (27.59%) Decision-Making
5 8 (27.59%) Scrum
6 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
6 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
6 7 (24.14%) Event-Driven
6 7 (24.14%) Financial Analysis
6 7 (24.14%) Mathematics
6 7 (24.14%) Servant Leadership
6 7 (24.14%) Service Catalogue
6 7 (24.14%) Service Delivery
6 7 (24.14%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 7 (24.14%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.90%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft