Budget Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Budget Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Budget Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 64 86
Rank change year-on-year -27 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing Budget Management 6 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.51% 1.57% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.75% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £408 £390 £430
25th Percentile £418 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £659 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.16% +19.85% +5.77%
75th Percentile £505 £725 £613
90th Percentile £547 £800 £683
North West median daily rate £436 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.85% -0.08% +8.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 973 1,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 90.13% 90.09% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 578 975
10th Percentile £305 £294 £301
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £645 £677 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 36 46
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.45 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.43 £32.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -0.76% -17.09%
75th Percentile £57.50 £34.56 £59.38
90th Percentile £64.25 £65.00 £75.63
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £30.20 £38.00
% change year-on-year +32.45% -20.53% +35.11%

Budget Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Budget Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Budget Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Budget Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Management in Manchester

Budget Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Budget Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Director
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft