Budgeting Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Budgeting
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Budgeting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 113 134
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 +28
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 9 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.56% 0.28% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.32% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £162 £366 £217
25th Percentile £187 £376 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £391 £387
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% +0.97% -13.94%
75th Percentile £486 £396 £494
90th Percentile £494 £398 £557
UK median daily rate £463 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.90% - +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,450 1,556 2,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 90.01% 86.11% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 901 1,358
10th Percentile £253 £205 £250
25th Percentile £392 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £537 £573
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 42 53
10th Percentile £15.24 £12.57 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.35 £13.28
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +13.63% +2.29%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.40
90th Percentile £34.00 £41.70 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -32.03% -15.64% +25.31%

Budgeting
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Budgeting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Budgeting job vacancy trend in Scotland

Budgeting
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Budgeting

Budgeting
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting in Scotland

Budgeting
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Budgeting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Budgeting

Budgeting
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budgeting within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Edinburgh - 7 £200 - 6
Glasgow -9 4 £500 +27.88% 4
Budgeting
UK

Budgeting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) OCI
1 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) PMO Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Data Management
2 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (22.22%) Data Entry
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) KYC
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) P3O
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce