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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 360 375
Rank change year-on-year +80 +15 +67
Contract jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting 63 37 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 39
10th Percentile £228 - £300
25th Percentile £308 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -1.04% -2.78%
75th Percentile £541 £519 £548
90th Percentile £558 £575 £600
UK median daily rate £469 £510 £545
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.51% +9.00%
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 11,812 17,287 20,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.62% 83.43% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 10,277 13,944
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,126 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.41 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.43
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 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 31 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 +28 24 £400 -5.88% 21
West Midlands +26 22 £349 -17.88% 14
South East +39 11 £700 +64.71% 34
South West +52 9 £363 -34.09% 17
North of England +20 9 £545 +5.01% 44
North West +9 6 £545 +5.01% 23
Scotland +8 5 £489 +2.95% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £313 - 5
Yorkshire - 3 - - 12
East Midlands - 2 £488 - 6
East of England - 2 £713 - 9
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 11 (17.46%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (31.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (7.94%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.59%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.76%) Azure
2 2 (3.17%) AWS
2 2 (3.17%) GCP
3 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.59%) GitHub
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.59%) OCI
3 1 (1.59%) SaaS
3 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Essbase
2 4 (6.35%) Metadata
2 4 (6.35%) Power Query
3 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.59%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (96.83%) Finance
2 24 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 16 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.35%) Retail
6 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Legal
6 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Banking
7 2 (3.17%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.59%) Billing
8 1 (1.59%) Electronics
8 1 (1.59%) Games
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Local Government
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (14.29%) Senior
2 7 (11.11%) Consultant
2 7 (11.11%) Programme Controller
3 6 (9.52%) Engagement Manager
4 5 (7.94%) Accountant
4 5 (7.94%) Finance Manager
4 5 (7.94%) Project Manager
4 5 (7.94%) Senior Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) Business Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Commercial Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) Essbase Consultant
5 4 (6.35%) Oracle Consultant
5 4 (6.35%) Report Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Performance Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Systems Accountant
7 2 (3.17%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) MDX
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.59%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) Housing Association
3 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (65.08%) Budgeting
2 17 (26.98%) Planning and Forecasting
3 16 (25.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (23.81%) Budget Management
5 14 (22.22%) Project Management
6 13 (20.63%) Decision-Making
7 12 (19.05%) Agile
7 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (17.46%) Financial Analysis
9 9 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
10 8 (12.70%) Contract Management
10 8 (12.70%) ERP
10 8 (12.70%) Process Improvement
10 8 (12.70%) Waterfall
11 7 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
11 7 (11.11%) Project Delivery
11 7 (11.11%) Project Planning
12 6 (9.52%) Change Management
12 6 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) CIMA
2 7 (11.11%) ACCA
3 2 (3.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) PMO
2 3 (4.76%) IFRS
3 2 (3.17%) GAAP
4 1 (1.59%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Ansible
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.59%) SCOM
1 1 (1.59%) Terraform
1 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (31.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (22.22%) Oracle
3 11 (17.46%) SAP
4 4 (6.35%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.76%) IFS
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco
7 1 (1.59%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.59%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.59%) Citrix
7 1 (1.59%) Databricks
7 1 (1.59%) Dell
7 1 (1.59%) HP
7 1 (1.59%) IBM
7 1 (1.59%) Spotify
7 1 (1.59%) Tagetik
7 1 (1.59%) VMware
7 1 (1.59%) Workday