Budget Management Contracts in the South East

Budget Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 131 151
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -18
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Budget Management 36 56 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.02% 1.17% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.43% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 41
10th Percentile £330 £369 £310
25th Percentile £364 £403 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £563 £550
90th Percentile £730 £724 £638
England median daily rate £550 £516 £550
% change year-on-year +6.64% -6.23% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £30.33 - -
25th Percentile £45.27 £18.35 -
Median hourly rate £70.16 £22.54 -
Median % change year-on-year +211.27% - -
75th Percentile - £33.68 -
90th Percentile - £44.88 -
England median hourly rate £29.27 £30.09 £21.75
% change year-on-year -2.73% +38.34% -19.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,150 3,920 5,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.31% 82.16% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,960 2,363 3,392
10th Percentile £238 £260 £250
25th Percentile £393 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +0.11% +2.66%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 309 234
10th Percentile £13.54 £15.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £21.09
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.18 £64.91
90th Percentile £70.16 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

Budget Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Budget Management in the South East

Budget Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Budget Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Budget Management

Budget Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Management in the South East over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Management in the South East

Budget Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Budget Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Budget Management

Budget Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Budget Management in the South East over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Budget Management in the South East

Budget Management
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -3 17 £425 -5.56% 45
Berkshire +6 16 £400 - 34
Hampshire +22 11 £600 -4.00% 8
Surrey +6 5 £325 -48.00% 2
West Sussex -2 3 £370 -29.52%
Oxfordshire - 1 £850 - 8
Budget Management
England

Budget Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP HCM
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) AWS
1 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (2.78%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Network Security
2 2 (5.56%) DHCP
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.78%) NAS
3 1 (2.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) DTS
1 1 (2.78%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Legal
5 3 (8.33%) Retail
6 2 (5.56%) Automotive
6 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.56%) Marketing
6 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Project Manager
2 7 (19.44%) IT Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Programme Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Security Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Commercial Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Coordinator
5 2 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Head of Digital
5 2 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Project Coordinator
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Coordinator
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.56%) PKI
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Smart Meter
5 1 (2.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
1 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Project Management
2 11 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (27.78%) Agile
4 8 (22.22%) Budgeting
5 7 (19.44%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 7 (19.44%) Contract Management
5 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
6 6 (16.67%) PRINCE2
7 5 (13.89%) Asset Management
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) Cost Control
7 5 (13.89%) ITIL
7 5 (13.89%) Line Management
7 5 (13.89%) Resource Management
8 4 (11.11%) Business Case
8 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 4 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (11.11%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 6 (16.67%) PMP
3 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) ACCA
5 2 (5.56%) CIMA
5 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) SLA
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (5.56%) PMO
4 1 (2.78%) COBIT
4 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) VMware
3 2 (5.56%) IFS
3 2 (5.56%) Intel
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Workday