Budget Management Contracts in the South West

Budget Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 125 142
Rank change year-on-year +28 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing Budget Management 16 22 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.94% 0.69% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.83% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 23
10th Percentile £100 £467 £421
25th Percentile £361 £500 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £620 £569 £600
90th Percentile £625 £600 £639
England median daily rate £545 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +3.81% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £30.14 -
England median hourly rate £26.12 £26.73 £28.57
% change year-on-year -2.30% -6.42% -13.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,535 2,651 3,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.45% 83.16% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 1,692 2,378
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 336 332
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.19 £16.05
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £61.10
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -9.98% +25.36%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.39
England median hourly rate £29.90 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -18.08% -1.75% +52.57%

Budget Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Budget Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budget Management in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Budget Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Management in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budget Management in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Budget Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Wiltshire +35 7 £100 -78.38% 5
Somerset +10 5 £600 - 12
Bristol +18 4 £388 -26.19% 19
Budget Management
England

Budget Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) BGP
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) MPLS
1 2 (12.50%) OSPF
1 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 2 (12.50%) VLAN
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
4 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
5 2 (12.50%) Electronics
5 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (12.50%) Marketing
6 1 (6.25%) Legal
6 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Development
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Project Management
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (43.75%) Supplier Management
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (37.50%) Project Delivery
5 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (31.25%) Business Case
5 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
5 5 (31.25%) Data Governance Strategy
5 5 (31.25%) Data Management
5 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
5 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
5 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (12.50%) CCIE
3 2 (12.50%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) JNCIE
3 2 (12.50%) JNCIP
4 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Juniper
2 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Broadcom
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) VMware