Budget Control Contracts in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Budget Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budget Control over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 398 433
Rank change year-on-year +82 +35 +70
Contract jobs citing Budget Control 18 5 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.024% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.029% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 16
10th Percentile £341 - £245
25th Percentile £358 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -0.87% +44.45%
75th Percentile £402 - £713
90th Percentile £531 - £800
UK median daily rate £391 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -25.52% -12.50% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £23.48 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.48 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +333.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Budget Control 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Budget Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Budget Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Budget Control in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budget Control in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Budget Control in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Control in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Control in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budget Control in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Budget Control in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budget Control within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West - 12 £391 - 5
North of England - 12 £391 - 6
Midlands - 4 £537 - 4
East Midlands - 3 £537 - 1
South East +40 2 £288 - 8
Scotland - 2 £438 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Budget Control
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Budget Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (27.78%) JBoss
1 5 (27.78%) Tomcat
1 5 (27.78%) WebLogic
1 5 (27.78%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon Glacier
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (27.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) DB2
1 5 (27.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Bitbucket
1 5 (27.78%) Git
1 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Local Government
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Scrum Master
2 6 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 5 (27.78%) Architect
3 5 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Agile Scrum Master
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Java Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Java Scrum Master
4 2 (11.11%) Java Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) ICT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) ICT Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
1 5 (27.78%) RAML
1 5 (27.78%) REST
1 5 (27.78%) RESTful
1 5 (27.78%) SOAP
1 5 (27.78%) Web Services
1 5 (27.78%) WSDL
2 4 (22.22%) EJB
2 4 (22.22%) J2EE
2 4 (22.22%) JSP
2 4 (22.22%) Servlets
2 4 (22.22%) Spring
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 5 (27.78%) Private Cloud
2 5 (27.78%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Digital Signage
3 2 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 13 (72.22%) SDLC
3 9 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 9 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (44.44%) Scrum
5 7 (38.89%) Conflict Resolution
5 7 (38.89%) Servant Leadership
5 7 (38.89%) Situational Awareness
6 6 (33.33%) Project Planning
7 5 (27.78%) API Development
7 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
7 5 (27.78%) Contingency Planning
7 5 (27.78%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
7 5 (27.78%) Microservices
7 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Pega