Budgeting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Budgeting
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Budgeting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budgeting over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 309 306
Rank change year-on-year +30 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 81 89 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.42% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.51% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 52 94
10th Percentile £206 £392 £329
25th Percentile £283 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £513 £519
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -1.20% +15.28%
75th Percentile £482 £588 £600
90th Percentile £538 £731 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £31.63 - -
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £34.25 £14.27 £89.44
Median % change year-on-year +140.10% -84.05% +244.00%
75th Percentile £36.19 £15.41 -
90th Percentile £36.68 £16.01 -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £14.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +148.28% -71.00% +92.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Budgeting 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 12,469 17,440 20,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.16% 82.79% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,608 10,249 13,875
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.30%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,055 2,166 1,285
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £12.72
25th Percentile £16.94 £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 £53.75 £61.60 £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%

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 30 June 2025.

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 30 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
Midlands +14 21 £371 -12.71% 105
South East +31 20 £413 -21.43% 181
North of England +6 17 £370 -29.52% 179
West Midlands +12 16 £289 -32.00% 67
Scotland +12 13 £449 +2.51% 56
Yorkshire +12 12 £379 -52.66% 55
North West +3 5 £306 -29.66% 116
East Midlands +1 5 £450 +12.50% 37
Northern Ireland - 4 £313 - 18
South West +36 3 £250 -52.38% 67
East of England +27 2 £688 +19.57% 71
Wales +9 1 £501 - 13
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 16 (19.75%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.70%) IIS
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (29.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (16.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (6.17%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (1.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.23%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.17%) Azure
2 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.47%) Asana
3 2 (2.47%) Azure AKS
3 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (2.47%) Power Automate
3 2 (2.47%) Smartsheet
4 1 (1.23%) AWS
4 1 (1.23%) GCP
4 1 (1.23%) GitHub
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.23%) OCI
4 1 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) ADSL
1 1 (1.23%) Intranet
1 1 (1.23%) LAN
1 1 (1.23%) Network Security
1 1 (1.23%) PSTN
1 1 (1.23%) SDH
1 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) Power Query
2 4 (4.94%) Power BI
3 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.70%) Tableau
4 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.23%) Essbase
4 1 (1.23%) QlikView
4 1 (1.23%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
General
1 58 (71.60%) Finance
2 40 (49.38%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.88%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (9.88%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (8.64%) Banking
5 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.17%) Retail
7 4 (4.94%) Legal
8 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.23%) Billing
10 1 (1.23%) Electronics
10 1 (1.23%) Games
10 1 (1.23%) Law
10 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.23%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 20 (24.69%) Project Manager
2 13 (16.05%) Analyst
3 5 (6.17%) Accountant
3 5 (6.17%) Consultant
3 5 (6.17%) Financial Analyst
3 5 (6.17%) IT Manager
4 4 (4.94%) Data Analyst
4 4 (4.94%) IT Project Manager
4 4 (4.94%) Senior
5 3 (3.70%) Commercial Analyst
5 3 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 3 (3.70%) Programme Manager
5 3 (3.70%) Senior Manager
5 3 (3.70%) Software Engineering Manager
5 3 (3.70%) Software Manager
5 3 (3.70%) Systems Accountant
6 2 (2.47%) PMO Analyst
6 2 (2.47%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.70%) .NET
2 3 (3.70%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET
2 3 (3.70%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Data Centre
1 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.70%) N-Tier
3 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.23%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) PMI
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.68%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 30 (37.04%) Project Management
3 27 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.99%) Agile
5 17 (20.99%) Budget Management
5 17 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (19.75%) Decision-Making
7 15 (18.52%) Change Management
7 15 (18.52%) Financial Analysis
8 13 (16.05%) PRINCE2
8 13 (16.05%) Project Delivery
8 13 (16.05%) Project Planning
9 11 (13.58%) Risk Management
9 11 (13.58%) Roadmaps
9 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (12.35%) Process Improvement
11 9 (11.11%) Project Governance
12 8 (9.88%) Planning and Forecasting
12 8 (9.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.94%) VBA
2 3 (3.70%) Python
2 3 (3.70%) VB.NET
3 2 (2.47%) Bicep
3 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.23%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) CIMA
2 9 (11.11%) Degree
3 7 (8.64%) ACCA
4 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.17%) PMP
6 4 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.70%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.47%) CIPFA
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.23%) HNC
9 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.81%) PMO
2 2 (2.47%) GAAP
2 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.47%) NIST
2 2 (2.47%) P3O
3 1 (1.23%) Basel III
3 1 (1.23%) COBIT
3 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) GRC
3 1 (1.23%) IFRS
3 1 (1.23%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.23%) MiFID
3 1 (1.23%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Ansible
2 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.47%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.23%) SCOM
3 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) Oracle
2 7 (8.64%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.17%) SAP
4 3 (3.70%) IFS
5 2 (2.47%) Cisco
5 2 (2.47%) Workday
6 1 (1.23%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.23%) Citrix
6 1 (1.23%) Cognos
6 1 (1.23%) Dell
6 1 (1.23%) HP
6 1 (1.23%) IBM
6 1 (1.23%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.23%) Nokia
6 1 (1.23%) Tagetik
6 1 (1.23%) Veeam