Budgeting Contracts in Reading

Budgeting
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 74 82
Rank change year-on-year +15 +8 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Budgeting 8 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 1.45% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.68% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £130 - -
25th Percentile £144 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £447 - £406
90th Percentile £644 - £438
Berkshire median daily rate £440 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 551 951 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.14% 85.91% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 512 644
10th Percentile £353 £350 £349
25th Percentile £450 £475 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £599 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +8.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 22
10th Percentile - £14.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.52 £54.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -6.67% +135.71%
75th Percentile £38.42 £74.87 £74.59
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £76.82
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £60.60 £59.38
% change year-on-year -47.11% +2.06% +128.37%

Budgeting
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Budgeting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Budgeting in Reading

Budgeting
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Budgeting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Budgeting

Budgeting
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting in Reading over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting in Reading

Budgeting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (12.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Commercial Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) ERP Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Commercial Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Financial Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Budget Management
2 3 (37.50%) Cost Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (25.00%) Contract Management
3 2 (25.00%) Deadline-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Enablement
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ACCA
1 2 (25.00%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) COBIT
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IFS
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle