Budgeting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Budgeting
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Budgeting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Budgeting over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 318 337
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +7
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 89 139 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.58% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.65% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 94 122
10th Percentile £413 £350 £259
25th Percentile £429 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.25% +25.00%
75th Percentile £591 £655 £625
90th Percentile £713 £725 £717
UK median daily rate £538 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -5.70% +8.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £27.12
25th Percentile £14.13 - £29.54
Median hourly rate £14.27 £40.00 £35.22
Median % change year-on-year -64.34% +13.56% -15.06%
75th Percentile £15.41 - £42.04
90th Percentile £16.01 - £45.15
UK median hourly rate £14.50 £43.75 £35.22
% change year-on-year -66.86% +24.21% +8.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Budgeting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,514 21,548 27,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.51% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,951 19,202
10th Percentile £248 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,030 1,307 1,367
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.18 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Budgeting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Budgeting in the UK excluding London

Budgeting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Budgeting in the UK excluding London

Budgeting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting in the UK excluding London

Budgeting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Budgeting in the UK excluding London

Budgeting
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 -9 34 £525 -7.08% 50
North of England +35 20 £525 +5.00% 50
Midlands +37 19 £525 +110.00% 32
West Midlands +40 18 £500 +100.00% 18
North West +24 13 £663 +32.50% 29
South West +18 10 £513 -22.35% 24
Yorkshire +25 6 £457 -13.05% 14
Scotland +2 2 £475 -5.00% 8
Wales - 2 £220 - 1
North East +21 1 £900 - 8
East of England +1 1 £575 +15.00% 19
Northern Ireland - 1 £125 -
East Midlands - 1 £775 - 14
Budgeting
UK

Budgeting
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 3 (3.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.25%) Sketch
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.87%) Azure
2 6 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.37%) IaaS
4 3 (3.37%) PaaS
5 2 (2.25%) Figma
5 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.12%) AWS
6 1 (1.12%) SaaS
6 1 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) Network Security
2 3 (3.37%) 5G
2 3 (3.37%) Firewall
3 2 (2.25%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (2.25%) Internet
3 2 (2.25%) SAN
3 2 (2.25%) Wireless
4 1 (1.12%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.12%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (6.74%) JIRA
General
1 46 (51.69%) Finance
2 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.48%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.99%) Marketing
7 6 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.37%) Local Government
9 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.25%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.25%) Military
11 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.12%) Automotive
11 1 (1.12%) Billing
11 1 (1.12%) Legal
11 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.12%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (21.35%) Senior
2 17 (19.10%) Project Manager
3 13 (14.61%) Analyst
4 11 (12.36%) IT Manager
5 10 (11.24%) Architect
6 8 (8.99%) Consultant
6 8 (8.99%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Business Manager
7 6 (6.74%) DOORS Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Software Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (6.74%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 4 (4.49%) Finance Manager
8 4 (4.49%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) ADO
2 1 (1.12%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.25%) Cyberattack
3 2 (2.25%) Graphic Design
3 2 (2.25%) IoT
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.12%) CMDB
4 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.12%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.61%) Unix
2 12 (13.48%) Windows
3 6 (6.74%) Linux
4 2 (2.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 26 (29.21%) Risk Management
3 20 (22.47%) Budget Management
4 19 (21.35%) ITIL
5 17 (19.10%) Project Management
6 16 (17.98%) Agile
7 15 (16.85%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 13 (14.61%) Decision-Making
9 12 (13.48%) Customer Engagement
9 12 (13.48%) Information Security
10 11 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (12.36%) Migration
10 11 (12.36%) Process Improvement
10 11 (12.36%) Systems Engineering
11 10 (11.24%) Change Management
11 10 (11.24%) ERP
11 10 (11.24%) Project Delivery
11 10 (11.24%) Project Planning
12 9 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.49%) Perl
1 4 (4.49%) Shell Script
2 2 (2.25%) AWK
2 2 (2.25%) Bash
2 2 (2.25%) Bourne shell
2 2 (2.25%) Java
2 2 (2.25%) Julia
2 2 (2.25%) Korn
2 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.25%) Python
3 1 (1.12%) SQL
3 1 (1.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.61%) Degree
3 9 (10.11%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (8.99%) Master's Degree
5 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.74%) ISACA
7 4 (4.49%) ACCA
7 4 (4.49%) CIMA
8 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.25%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.25%) PMP
9 2 (2.25%) RHCE
9 2 (2.25%) RHCSA
10 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) PCI DSS
2 7 (7.87%) COBIT
2 7 (7.87%) GDPR
2 7 (7.87%) NIST
2 7 (7.87%) PMO
3 5 (5.62%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) IBM BigFix
1 3 (3.37%) Tivoli
2 2 (2.25%) Ansible
2 2 (2.25%) NetBackup
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (2.25%) Terraform
2 2 (2.25%) yum
Vendors
1 21 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) Oracle
3 4 (4.49%) SAP
4 3 (3.37%) Remedy
4 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.37%) Workday
5 2 (2.25%) Adobe
5 2 (2.25%) EMC
5 2 (2.25%) Facebook
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.25%) Veritas
6 1 (1.12%) Fujitsu
6 1 (1.12%) Mitel
6 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft