Budgeting and Forecasting Contracts in the North of England

Budgeting and Forecasting
England > North of England

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 172 187
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 +48
Contract jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting 10 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile £358 £442 £463
25th Percentile £420 £493 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £506 £545
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -7.16% -0.91%
75th Percentile - £519 £594
90th Percentile - £585 £600
England median daily rate £456 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -10.45% -7.36% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Budgeting and Forecasting 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,013 4,001 4,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.73% 84.36% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,944 2,402 3,369
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £377 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £644 £675 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 391 203
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.55 £15.36
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.77 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.09% -21.62% +39.47%
75th Percentile £52.25 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £63.75 £62.25
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -24.85% +2.63% +46.16%

Budgeting and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Budgeting and Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Budgeting and Forecasting in the North of England

Budgeting and Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Budgeting and Forecasting in the North of England

Budgeting and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting and Forecasting in the North of England

Budgeting and Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Budgeting and Forecasting in the North of England

Budgeting and Forecasting
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
North West +10 7 £545 +7.71% 32
Yorkshire - 3 - - 20
Budgeting and Forecasting
England

Budgeting and Forecasting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP PS
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Essbase
2 4 (40.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Essbase Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Commercial Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Commercial Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) SAP PS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) MDX
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Budgeting
2 6 (60.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Financial Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) Metadata Management
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (20.00%) Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) Contract Management
7 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
7 1 (10.00%) Data Management
7 1 (10.00%) ERP
7 1 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
7 1 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SCOM
1 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Dell
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) SAP