Budget Control Contracts

Budget Control
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Budget Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budget Control over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 553 647
Rank change year-on-year +65 +94 +163
Contract jobs citing Budget Control 34 23 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.054% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.063% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 27
10th Percentile £357 £350 £338
25th Percentile £358 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% -12.50% +28.21%
75th Percentile £519 £634 £750
90th Percentile £574 £925 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 - £605
% change year-on-year - - +44.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £23.48 - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.48 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +333.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Budget Control 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Budget Control
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Budget Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Budget Control in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budget Control.

Daily rate trend for Budget Control in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Control over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Control in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budget Control.

Hourly rate trend for Budget Control in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budget Control within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +69 30 £384 -26.86% 29
UK excluding London +62 19 £384 - 28
London +30 13 £474 -9.81% 5
North West - 12 £391 - 6
North of England - 12 £391 - 7
Work from Home +35 8 £448 -14.76% 14
Midlands - 5 £448 - 5
East Midlands - 4 £448 - 1
South East +45 2 £288 - 10
Scotland - 2 £438 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 4

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (20.59%) JBoss
1 7 (20.59%) Tomcat
1 7 (20.59%) WebLogic
1 7 (20.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.94%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.94%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.94%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.94%) SAP PS
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (20.59%) Amazon Glacier
2 7 (20.59%) Amazon Kinesis
2 7 (20.59%) Amazon S3
2 7 (20.59%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (20.59%) Serverless
3 1 (2.94%) OCI
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) DB2
1 7 (20.59%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Bitbucket
1 7 (20.59%) Git
1 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 24 (70.59%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Banking
4 7 (20.59%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Legal
7 1 (2.94%) Billing
7 1 (2.94%) Local Government
7 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Scrum Master
2 9 (26.47%) Project Manager
3 7 (20.59%) Architect
4 6 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (8.82%) Agile Scrum Master
7 3 (8.82%) IT Analyst
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Architect
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Consultant
8 2 (5.88%) Implementation Manager
8 2 (5.88%) Implementation Project Manager
8 2 (5.88%) Java Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Java Scrum Master
8 2 (5.88%) Java Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Project Consultant
8 2 (5.88%) Project Implementation Manager
9 1 (2.94%) Client Services Manager
9 1 (2.94%) Payroll Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) ActiveMQ
1 7 (20.59%) Kafka
1 7 (20.59%) RAML
1 7 (20.59%) REST
1 7 (20.59%) RESTful
1 7 (20.59%) SOAP
1 7 (20.59%) Web Services
1 7 (20.59%) WSDL
2 4 (11.76%) EJB
2 4 (11.76%) J2EE
2 4 (11.76%) JSP
2 4 (11.76%) Servlets
2 4 (11.76%) Spring
2 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 7 (20.59%) Private Cloud
2 7 (20.59%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Digital Signage
3 2 (5.88%) NHS
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) SDLC
2 21 (61.76%) Agile
3 11 (32.35%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 11 (32.35%) Project Planning
4 10 (29.41%) Backlog Management
4 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (29.41%) Scrum
5 9 (26.47%) Conflict Resolution
5 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (26.47%) Servant Leadership
5 9 (26.47%) Situational Awareness
6 8 (23.53%) Cost Optimisation
6 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
7 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
7 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
7 7 (20.59%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven
7 7 (20.59%) Fintech
7 7 (20.59%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Degree
2 7 (20.59%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) IFRS
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Pega
3 1 (2.94%) SAP