Budgeting and Forecasting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Budgeting and Forecasting
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Budgeting and Forecasting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budgeting and Forecasting over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 352 415
Rank change year-on-year +76 +63 +29
Contract jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting 60 47 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.27% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 29
10th Percentile £306 £395 £362
25th Percentile £366 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £541 £519 £550
90th Percentile £675 £639 £600
UK median daily rate £489 £490 £550
% change year-on-year -0.20% -10.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.00 £51.52 -
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.03 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.11% - -
75th Percentile £37.00 £54.55 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.50 -
% change year-on-year -1.37% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Budgeting and Forecasting 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +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% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Budgeting and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Budgeting and Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Budgeting and Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Budgeting and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Budgeting and Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK excluding London

Budgeting and Forecasting
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 Budgeting and Forecasting within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +36 24 £400 -5.88% 25
West Midlands +26 22 £400 -5.88% 17
South East +37 13 £700 +64.71% 48
North of England +21 9 £545 +5.01% 45
North West +18 8 £545 +5.01% 25
South West +49 5 £363 -34.09% 19
Scotland +15 4 £489 +2.95% 11
Northern Ireland -7 3 £313 +19.05% 1
East of England +31 2 £713 - 21
East Midlands - 2 £488 - 6
Yorkshire - 1 - - 14
Budgeting and Forecasting
UK

Budgeting and Forecasting
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 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (8.33%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (3.33%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (1.67%) AWS
2 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.67%) GCP
2 1 (1.67%) OCI
2 1 (1.67%) SaaS
2 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Essbase
2 4 (6.67%) Metadata
2 4 (6.67%) Power Query
3 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 53 (88.33%) Finance
2 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.67%) Legal
5 4 (6.67%) Retail
6 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Billing
8 1 (1.67%) Electronics
8 1 (1.67%) Games
8 1 (1.67%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Local Government
8 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (15.00%) Senior
2 7 (11.67%) Project Manager
3 6 (10.00%) Consultant
3 6 (10.00%) Engagement Manager
3 6 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Accountant
4 5 (8.33%) Finance Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Business Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Commercial Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Essbase Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Report Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Performance Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Programme Controller
6 3 (5.00%) Systems Accountant
7 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) MDX
1 4 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Housing Association
3 1 (1.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (60.00%) Budgeting
2 19 (31.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (28.33%) Budget Management
4 13 (21.67%) Agile
5 11 (18.33%) Financial Analysis
5 11 (18.33%) Planning and Forecasting
5 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (16.67%) Project Management
7 9 (15.00%) Contract Management
7 9 (15.00%) Financial Modelling
8 8 (13.33%) ERP
8 8 (13.33%) Process Improvement
8 8 (13.33%) Project Delivery
9 7 (11.67%) Change Management
9 7 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
9 7 (11.67%) Waterfall
10 6 (10.00%) Project Planning
11 5 (8.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) CIMA
2 9 (15.00%) ACCA
3 2 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) PMO
2 5 (8.33%) IFRS
3 2 (3.33%) GAAP
4 1 (1.67%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (23.33%) Oracle
3 10 (16.67%) SAP
4 3 (5.00%) IFS
5 1 (1.67%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.67%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) Databricks
5 1 (1.67%) Spotify
5 1 (1.67%) Tagetik
5 1 (1.67%) VMware
5 1 (1.67%) Workday