Budgeting Contracts in the North of England

Budgeting
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Budgeting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budgeting over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 167 188
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 +26
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 17 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.43% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 16
10th Percentile £351 - £465
25th Percentile £365 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -35.58% +30.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £545 £738 £545
90th Percentile - £744 £616
England median daily rate £495 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £14.27 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £14.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +124.14% -66.86% -1.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Budgeting 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 2,945 3,961 5,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.79% 85.44% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,893 2,405 3,586
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 360 204
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £16.08
Median hourly rate £27.13 £17.72 £28.85
Median % change year-on-year +53.08% -38.58% +50.87%
75th Percentile £56.76 £45.00 £45.05
90th Percentile £78.75 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Budgeting in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Budgeting in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Budgeting in the North of England

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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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire +18 9 £370 -26.00% 26
North West +8 8 £545 -17.74% 66
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England

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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 (11.76%) Confluence
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (5.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP PS
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Asana
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) GCP
1 1 (5.88%) GitHub
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.88%) OCI
1 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Essbase
2 4 (23.53%) Metadata
3 2 (11.76%) Power Query
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) QlikView
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Retail
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Project Manager
2 5 (29.41%) Consultant
3 4 (23.53%) Essbase Consultant
3 4 (23.53%) Oracle Consultant
4 3 (17.65%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) IT Manager
5 2 (11.76%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Assistant Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Banking Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Excel Specialist
6 1 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) SAP PS Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) MDX
2 1 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) PMI
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 8 (47.06%) Project Management
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Planning and Forecasting
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
3 4 (23.53%) Financial Modelling
3 4 (23.53%) Metadata Management
3 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
3 4 (23.53%) Programme Management
4 3 (17.65%) Budget Management
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
5 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Kanban
5 2 (11.76%) Resource Management
5 2 (11.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) ANSI SQL
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
1 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) ACCA
2 1 (5.88%) APMP
2 1 (5.88%) CIMA
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.88%) SCOM
1 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Cognos
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (5.88%) Veeam