Budget Management Contracts in the Midlands

Budget Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Budget Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budget Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 104 93
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +35
Contract jobs citing Budget Management 21 29 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.10% 1.05% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.28% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 44
10th Percentile £470 £378 £370
25th Percentile £513 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -2.27% +18.28%
75th Percentile £575 £722 £597
90th Percentile £678 £868 £625
England median daily rate £545 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +3.81% -6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.15
25th Percentile - - £22.15
Median hourly rate - - £24.05
75th Percentile - - £25.71
90th Percentile - - £26.56
England median hourly rate £24.19 £26.73 £28.57
% change year-on-year -9.50% -6.42% +2.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Budget Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Budget Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Budget Management in the Midlands

Budget Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budget Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Budget Management in the Midlands

Budget Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Management in the Midlands

Budget Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budget Management in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Budget Management in the Midlands

Budget Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budget Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +7 14 £541 -1.55% 25
East Midlands +8 6 £500 -4.76% 20
Budget Management
England

Budget Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) SAP HCM
2 1 (4.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (4.76%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) SaaS
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
2 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Engagement Manager
2 5 (23.81%) Project Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Finance Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Programme Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Technical Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Technical Programme Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Finance Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Banking Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.76%) IT Finance Manager
6 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) SAP Financial Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) SAP Manager
6 1 (4.76%) SAP Support
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (57.14%) Project Delivery
3 10 (47.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (38.10%) Waterfall
5 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (33.33%) Project Management
6 6 (28.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 6 (28.57%) Project Planning
7 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
7 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
8 4 (19.05%) Agile Project Management
9 3 (14.29%) Change Management
9 3 (14.29%) SDLC
9 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
10 2 (9.52%) Business Strategy
10 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (9.52%) PRINCE2
10 2 (9.52%) Programme Management
10 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
10 2 (9.52%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) Basel III
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) MiFID
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) SAP
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Ariba
3 1 (4.76%) Concur