Budget Responsibility Contracts in the UK excluding London

Budgetary Responsibility
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Budget Responsibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budget Responsibility over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 383 433
Rank change year-on-year +53 +50 +75
Contract jobs citing Budget Responsibility 4 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.053% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.063% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 18
10th Percentile - £424 £350
25th Percentile £535 £473 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £605
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -7.48% +10.05%
75th Percentile £565 £876 £636
90th Percentile - £955 £652
UK median daily rate £570 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.98% -2.08% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
UK median hourly rate - £46.18 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Budget Responsibility 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 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
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% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Budget Responsibility
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Budget Responsibility in the UK excluding London

Budget Responsibility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Budget Responsibility in the UK excluding London

Budget Responsibility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Budget Responsibility in the UK excluding London

Budget Responsibility
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 Responsibility within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +33 3 £550 +11.11% 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
Budget Responsibility
UK

Budget Responsibility
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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Primavera
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Banking Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Business Case
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Line Management
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
3 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (25.00%) Change Control
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle