Budgeting and Forecasting Contracts

Budgeting and Forecasting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 493 589
Rank change year-on-year +91 +96 +103
Contract jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting 120 86 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 43 66
10th Percentile £306 - £375
25th Percentile £375 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -10.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £653
90th Percentile £785 £648 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £35.53 £29.77 -
25th Percentile £36.31 £33.65 -
Median hourly rate £38.75 £36.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% - -
75th Percentile £41.31 £40.00 -
90th Percentile £42.18 £42.91 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £53.03 -
% change year-on-year -32.11% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,547 36,622 51,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.04% 86.09% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,007 23,613 35,611
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -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% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,109 2,439 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £15.77
Median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £59.90 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%

Budgeting and Forecasting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Budgeting and Forecasting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK

Budgeting and Forecasting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting.

Daily rate trend for Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK

Budgeting and Forecasting
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK

Budgeting and Forecasting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budgeting and Forecasting.

Hourly rate trend for Budgeting and Forecasting in the UK

Budgeting and Forecasting
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 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 +73 108 £475 -4.33% 334
UK excluding London +72 62 £475 - 174
London +54 50 £450 -21.74% 203
Work from Home +42 24 £489 -0.81% 148
Midlands +29 23 £400 -5.88% 23
West Midlands +21 21 £400 -5.88% 18
South East +34 13 £700 +55.56% 60
North of England +24 10 £545 +5.01% 44
South West +43 7 £363 -34.09% 15
North West +9 7 £545 +5.01% 31
Scotland +4 4 £489 +2.95% 9
Northern Ireland -3 3 £313 -21.88% 3
Yorkshire - 3 - - 8
East of England +28 2 £713 - 20
East Midlands - 2 £488 - 4

Budgeting and Forecasting
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 9 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 25 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (11.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.17%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.67%) SAP PS
3 2 (1.67%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.83%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.83%) HFM
4 1 (0.83%) iTrent
4 1 (0.83%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.83%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.83%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.83%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.50%) Azure
2 8 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.83%) OCI
4 5 (4.17%) AWS
5 3 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.67%) GCP
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.67%) Smartsheet
6 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.83%) GitHub
7 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.67%) Power BI
2 6 (5.00%) Essbase
2 6 (5.00%) Power Query
3 5 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.33%) Metadata
5 3 (2.50%) Big Data
6 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) IDMS
7 1 (0.83%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 113 (94.17%) Finance
2 46 (38.33%) Social Skills
3 23 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.67%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.83%) Banking
6 7 (5.83%) Legal
7 6 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.17%) Retail
9 4 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.50%) Billing
10 3 (2.50%) Electronics
10 3 (2.50%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.50%) Marketing
11 2 (1.67%) Games
11 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.67%) Italian Language
11 2 (1.67%) Law
11 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (18.33%) Senior
2 18 (15.00%) Analyst
3 15 (12.50%) Consultant
4 10 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
5 7 (5.83%) Project Manager
5 7 (5.83%) Senior Manager
6 6 (5.00%) Accountant
6 6 (5.00%) Engagement Manager
6 6 (5.00%) Finance Manager
6 6 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
6 6 (5.00%) PMO Analyst
7 5 (4.17%) Business Manager
7 5 (4.17%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.17%) Programme Controller
7 5 (4.17%) Report Manager
7 5 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (3.33%) Commercial Analyst
8 4 (3.33%) Essbase Consultant
8 4 (3.33%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (3.33%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.33%) MDX
3 2 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.83%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.17%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) CMDB
5 1 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.83%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (63.33%) Budgeting
2 31 (25.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (25.00%) Project Management
4 27 (22.50%) Budget Management
5 23 (19.17%) Agile
5 23 (19.17%) Decision-Making
6 21 (17.50%) Planning and Forecasting
6 21 (17.50%) Project Delivery
7 19 (15.83%) Financial Analysis
8 18 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (14.17%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (14.17%) ERP
10 15 (12.50%) Analytics
10 15 (12.50%) Data Management
10 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (12.50%) Waterfall
11 14 (11.67%) Business Case
11 14 (11.67%) Process Improvement
12 13 (10.83%) Data Integration
12 13 (10.83%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.33%) VBA
2 2 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (1.67%) Python
2 2 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.50%) CIMA
2 13 (10.83%) ACCA
2 13 (10.83%) Degree
3 8 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 8 (6.67%) PMP
4 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.17%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.83%) PMO
2 6 (5.00%) IFRS
3 5 (4.17%) QA
4 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.50%) SLA
5 2 (1.67%) GAAP
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Ansible
1 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.83%) SCOM
1 1 (0.83%) Terraform
1 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (20.83%) Oracle
3 17 (14.17%) SAP
4 3 (2.50%) IFS
4 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.50%) Workday
5 2 (1.67%) Ariba
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco
5 2 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (0.83%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (0.83%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.83%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.83%) Citrix
6 1 (0.83%) Databricks
6 1 (0.83%) Dell
6 1 (0.83%) HP
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) Tagetik
6 1 (0.83%) VMware