Budgeting and Resource Allocation Contracts

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Budgeting and Resource Allocation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budgeting and Resource Allocation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 554 692
Rank change year-on-year +65 +138 +127
Contract jobs citing Budgeting and Resource Allocation 31 28 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.064% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.074% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 23
10th Percentile - £328 £450
25th Percentile £425 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £769 £559 £675
90th Percentile £813 £713 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +15.33% -18.18% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.50 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Budgeting and Resource Allocation 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Budgeting and Resource Allocation in the UK

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Budgeting and Resource Allocation in the UK

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting and Resource Allocation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting and Resource Allocation in the UK

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Budgeting and Resource Allocation in the UK

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Top 9 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 Resource Allocation within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +53 19 £525 - 53
London +43 16 £538 -2.27% 24
UK excluding London +58 9 £519 +15.33% 28
Work from Home +38 8 £445 -17.14% 24
Scotland +18 6 £563 +18.42% 1
South East +40 1 £372 +3.26% 8
North of England +18 1 £769 +57.74% 8
North West +16 1 £769 +57.74% 6
East of England - 1 £519 - 2

Budgeting and Resource Allocation
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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) FLEXCUBE
1 2 (6.45%) Misys Midas
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.23%) SAP ERP
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) GCP
2 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) LAN
1 2 (6.45%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) ADSL
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) PSTN
2 1 (3.23%) SDH
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.23%) Looker
1 1 (3.23%) Power BI
1 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
General
1 23 (74.19%) Social Skills
2 16 (51.61%) Finance
3 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Legal
6 2 (6.45%) Law
6 2 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.23%) Electronics
7 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.23%) French Language
7 1 (3.23%) German Language
7 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Project Manager
2 7 (22.58%) IT Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Business Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Business Operations Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (9.68%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (9.68%) IT Risk Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Operations Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Risk Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Senior Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Delivery Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Programme Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Risk Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Derivative
3 2 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.45%) Life Science
4 1 (3.23%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
2 20 (64.52%) Project Management
3 18 (58.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (45.16%) Risk Management
6 12 (38.71%) Agile
7 11 (35.48%) Project Delivery
8 10 (32.26%) Budget Management
9 9 (29.03%) Programme Management
10 7 (22.58%) Change Management
10 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (22.58%) Waterfall
11 6 (19.35%) Budgeting
11 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Culture
12 5 (16.13%) Regulatory Compliance
12 5 (16.13%) Strategic Planning
13 4 (12.90%) ITIL
13 4 (12.90%) PRINCE2
13 4 (12.90%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 8 (25.81%) PMI Certification
2 8 (25.81%) PMP
3 3 (9.68%) CISA
4 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) CISM
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) HNC
5 1 (3.23%) SAP Certification
5 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
1 4 (12.90%) NIST
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) COBIT
2 3 (9.68%) COSO
2 3 (9.68%) PMO
2 3 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (6.45%) GxP
3 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.23%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Ariba
1 3 (9.68%) SAP
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) Planview
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) Nokia
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow