Budgeting and Resource Allocation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Budgeting and Resource Allocation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 81 95
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +18
Contract jobs citing Budgeting and Resource Allocation 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.27% 0.10% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.11% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £496 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £769 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.48% +39.82% -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £420 £769 £550
% change year-on-year -45.38% +39.82% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Budgeting and Resource Allocation 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 1,273 899 1,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.78% 90.90% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 602 952
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -8.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £668
North West median daily rate £456 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 34 78
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.27 £12.47
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.50 £13.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £54.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.98 £63.50 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.88 £23.45
% change year-on-year +41.15% +35.95% -37.47%

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Budgeting and Resource Allocation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Budgeting and Resource Allocation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Budgeting and Resource Allocation

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting and Resource Allocation in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting and Resource Allocation in Manchester

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Budgeting
2 3 (75.00%) Design Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Event Storming
2 3 (75.00%) GTM Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 3 (75.00%) Product Management
2 3 (75.00%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (75.00%) Product Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform