Budget Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Budget Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 236 195
Rank change year-on-year +31 -41 -14
Contract jobs citing Budget Management 153 168 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.80% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.96% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 204
10th Percentile £321 £340 £313
25th Percentile £413 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +12.53% -8.65% +6.39%
75th Percentile £598 £568 £607
90th Percentile £658 £750 £674
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.46% -4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 7
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.86 £13.75
25th Percentile £26.88 £20.99 £20.89
Median hourly rate £28.75 £26.73 £27.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% -1.47% +34.04%
75th Percentile £31.41 £52.63 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.16 £85.56 £53.00
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +24.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,355 17,496 20,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.47% 82.80% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,548 10,267 13,881
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £366 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 2,162 1,257
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.86 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%
75th Percentile £53.94 £61.90 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Budget Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Budget Management in the UK excluding London

Budget Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Budget Management in the UK excluding London

Budget Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Management in the UK excluding London

Budget Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Budget Management in the UK excluding London

Budget Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Budget Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Budget Management in the UK excluding London

Budget Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 June 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 of England +19 49 £550 +11.56% 118
North West +23 34 £569 +15.37% 67
South East +12 33 £475 - 109
Scotland +26 25 £479 +6.44% 27
Midlands +8 24 £540 +2.86% 65
South West +39 15 £600 +14.29% 38
West Midlands +10 13 £541 +3.14% 45
Yorkshire -1 11 £518 +8.95% 44
East Midlands +1 10 £443 -17.67% 19
North East +3 4 £421 -26.78% 8
East of England +20 3 £600 +81.13% 40
Northern Ireland - 3 £600 - 11
Wales 0 1 £331 -66.88% 18
Budget Management
UK

Budget Management
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 4 (2.61%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.61%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.65%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.65%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.88%) AWS
2 7 (4.58%) Azure
3 6 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.61%) GCP
5 3 (1.96%) SaaS
6 2 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.31%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.65%) Asana
7 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) WAN
2 3 (1.96%) Network Security
2 3 (1.96%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.31%) BGP
3 2 (1.31%) DHCP
3 2 (1.31%) DNS
3 2 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (1.31%) MPLS
3 2 (1.31%) OSPF
3 2 (1.31%) VLAN
3 2 (1.31%) VPN
4 1 (0.65%) 4G
4 1 (0.65%) LAN
4 1 (0.65%) NAS
4 1 (0.65%) SAN
4 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.27%) Power Query
2 4 (2.61%) Metadata
3 2 (1.31%) GIS
4 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 80 (52.29%) Finance
2 65 (42.48%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.46%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (9.15%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.84%) Banking
7 11 (7.19%) Legal
8 7 (4.58%) Marketing
8 7 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (4.58%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.27%) Retail
10 4 (2.61%) Automotive
10 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Electronics
11 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.31%) Local Government
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 53 (34.64%) Project Manager
2 22 (14.38%) Administrator
2 22 (14.38%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 12 (7.84%) Lead
4 11 (7.19%) Senior
5 10 (6.54%) Senior Manager
6 9 (5.88%) IT Manager
7 8 (5.23%) IT Project Manager
7 8 (5.23%) Programme Manager
8 7 (4.58%) Senior Project Manager
8 7 (4.58%) Technical Manager
9 6 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.92%) Engagement Manager
10 5 (3.27%) Analyst
10 5 (3.27%) Security Manager
10 5 (3.27%) Security Project Manager
11 4 (2.61%) SAP Manager
11 4 (2.61%) SC Cleared Project Manager
12 3 (1.96%) Technical Programme Manager
12 3 (1.96%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.58%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.92%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.27%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.27%) PMI
4 5 (3.27%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.31%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.31%) PKI
6 1 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.65%) Robotics
6 1 (0.65%) SCADA
6 1 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.96%) Windows
2 2 (1.31%) Linux
2 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (38.56%) Project Management
3 49 (32.03%) Agile
4 48 (31.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 43 (28.10%) Project Delivery
6 31 (20.26%) Decision-Making
7 30 (19.61%) Process Improvement
8 25 (16.34%) Change Management
9 24 (15.69%) PRINCE2
9 24 (15.69%) Risk Management
10 22 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (14.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (12.42%) Cloud Security
12 18 (11.76%) Project Planning
12 18 (11.76%) Waterfall
13 17 (11.11%) Budgeting
14 16 (10.46%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 16 (10.46%) Programme Management
15 15 (9.80%) Business Case
16 14 (9.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (15.03%) BPSS Clearance
2 19 (12.42%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.80%) Degree
4 13 (8.50%) SC Cleared
5 11 (7.19%) PMI Certification
6 9 (5.88%) PMP
7 7 (4.58%) CIMA
8 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.96%) ACCA
9 3 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.31%) CCIE
10 2 (1.31%) CCNP
10 2 (1.31%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.31%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.65%) CCNA
11 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.19%) PMO
2 6 (3.92%) QA
3 5 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.27%) GDPR
4 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.31%) NIST
6 1 (0.65%) Basel III
6 1 (0.65%) COBIT
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.65%) MiFID
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.31%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Grafana
1 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.65%) SCCM
1 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.46%) SAP
3 6 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.27%) Oracle
4 5 (3.27%) VMware
5 4 (2.61%) Cisco
6 3 (1.96%) IFS
6 3 (1.96%) Pega
6 3 (1.96%) Spotify
7 2 (1.31%) Ariba
7 2 (1.31%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.31%) Google
7 2 (1.31%) Intel
7 2 (1.31%) Juniper
7 2 (1.31%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.65%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.65%) BT
8 1 (0.65%) Splunk
8 1 (0.65%) Veeam