Budgeting Contracts

Budgeting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 422 411
Rank change year-on-year +82 -11 +58
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 178 165 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.38% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.44% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 101 208
10th Percentile £306 £413 £363
25th Percentile £397 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% -1.12% +6.71%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £688 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £436 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -16.90% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £31.63 - £27.41
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.13 £33.90
Median hourly rate £34.25 £14.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +136.21% -66.86% +24.21%
75th Percentile £36.19 £16.41 £52.19
90th Percentile £36.68 £16.90 £58.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.25 £14.27 £40.00
% change year-on-year +140.10% -64.34% +13.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,416 37,097 52,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 86.26% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,973 23,888 36,212
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 2,438 1,719
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%

Budgeting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Budgeting in the UK

Budgeting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Budgeting in the UK

Budgeting
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting in the UK

Budgeting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Budgeting in the UK

Budgeting
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +56 146 £495 -10.00% 604
UK excluding London +47 86 £436 -16.90% 398
London +29 68 £550 -10.20% 296
Work from Home +32 40 £500 -16.67% 361
South East +42 28 £433 -17.62% 135
Midlands +20 19 £425 -19.05% 50
North of England +20 16 £419 -35.58% 104
Scotland +21 14 £470 -1.16% 27
West Midlands +15 14 £375 -28.67% 35
Yorkshire +20 8 £370 -26.00% 31
North West +14 8 £545 -17.74% 67
East Midlands +13 5 £443 -42.90% 13
East of England +26 4 £763 +32.61% 37
Northern Ireland - 3 £313 - 8
South West +37 2 £238 -53.66% 41

Budgeting
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 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
Applications
1 29 (16.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (9.55%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (8.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (2.81%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.69%) SAP BPC
2 3 (1.69%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.69%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.12%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.12%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.12%) SAP PS
3 2 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.56%) HFM
4 1 (0.56%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.56%) iTrent
4 1 (0.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.56%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.55%) Power Platform
2 10 (5.62%) AWS
3 9 (5.06%) Azure
4 8 (4.49%) OCI
4 8 (4.49%) SaaS
5 7 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (3.93%) Azure AKS
6 6 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (3.37%) Amazon EventBridge
6 6 (3.37%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (3.37%) AWS Fargate
6 6 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.37%) GitHub
6 6 (3.37%) Serverless
7 5 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.81%) PaaS
7 5 (2.81%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.49%) Network Security
2 4 (2.25%) Firewall
3 3 (1.69%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.12%) LAN
4 2 (1.12%) NGFW
4 2 (1.12%) VPN
4 2 (1.12%) WAN
4 2 (1.12%) Wireless
5 1 (0.56%) ADSL
5 1 (0.56%) Intranet
5 1 (0.56%) PSTN
5 1 (0.56%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.99%) Power BI
2 8 (4.49%) Power Query
3 7 (3.93%) Essbase
4 4 (2.25%) Metadata
5 3 (1.69%) Big Data
5 3 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.69%) Tableau
6 2 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.12%) OLAP
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.56%) QlikView
7 1 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (4.49%) JIRA
2 7 (3.93%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.37%) GitLab
General
1 124 (69.66%) Finance
2 71 (39.89%) Social Skills
3 25 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.24%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (7.30%) Banking
6 11 (6.18%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.06%) Legal
7 9 (5.06%) Retail
8 8 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.37%) Marketing
11 4 (2.25%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.69%) Billing
12 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.12%) Italian Language
13 2 (1.12%) Law
13 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (22.47%) Project Manager
2 23 (12.92%) Analyst
3 20 (11.24%) Consultant
4 16 (8.99%) IT Manager
5 11 (6.18%) Senior
6 10 (5.62%) Lead
7 9 (5.06%) Architect
7 9 (5.06%) IT Project Manager
8 7 (3.93%) Infrastructure Manager
8 7 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.37%) Accountant
9 6 (3.37%) AWS Architect
9 6 (3.37%) AWS Solution Architect
9 6 (3.37%) Oracle Consultant
9 6 (3.37%) Programme Manager
10 5 (2.81%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (2.81%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 5 (2.81%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (2.81%) SAP Manager
10 5 (2.81%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.93%) REST
2 5 (2.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.25%) MDX
4 1 (0.56%) ADO
4 1 (0.56%) JSON
4 1 (0.56%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.56%) VML
4 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.43%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.18%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.93%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.69%) PMI
6 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.56%) CMDB
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Life Science
8 1 (0.56%) LIMS
8 1 (0.56%) NHS
8 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (39.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 52 (29.21%) Project Management
3 51 (28.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (19.66%) Project Delivery
5 33 (18.54%) Agile
6 32 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (17.42%) Budget Management
8 30 (16.85%) Risk Management
9 25 (14.04%) Change Management
9 25 (14.04%) Roadmaps
10 23 (12.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (12.36%) Decision-Making
12 19 (10.67%) Cost Management
12 19 (10.67%) Resource Allocation
13 18 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (10.11%) ERP
14 17 (9.55%) Analytics
14 17 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (8.43%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.93%) Python
2 6 (3.37%) SQL
3 4 (2.25%) VBA
4 2 (1.12%) Bicep
4 2 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (0.56%) Bash
5 1 (0.56%) Go
5 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (14.04%) Degree
2 22 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.80%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.87%) PMI Certification
5 12 (6.74%) PMP
6 11 (6.18%) CIMA
7 8 (4.49%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.93%) ACCA
8 7 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.81%) OCP
9 5 (2.81%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.56%) AAT
13 1 (0.56%) CCAB
13 1 (0.56%) HNC
13 1 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.92%) PMO
2 6 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.81%) COBIT
3 5 (2.81%) GDPR
3 5 (2.81%) NIST
4 4 (2.25%) GxP
4 4 (2.25%) IFRS
4 4 (2.25%) QA
5 2 (1.12%) Basel III
5 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.12%) GAAP
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.12%) P3O
6 1 (0.56%) GRC
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) MiFID
6 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (5.62%) Kubernetes
1 10 (5.62%) Terraform
2 9 (5.06%) Ansible
3 2 (1.12%) CASB
Vendors
1 27 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.61%) Oracle
2 26 (14.61%) SAP
3 9 (5.06%) Ariba
4 6 (3.37%) Workday
5 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.81%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.69%) IFS
6 3 (1.69%) Siemens
7 2 (1.12%) Adobe
7 2 (1.12%) Cognos
7 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.12%) Splunk
7 2 (1.12%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco
8 1 (0.56%) Citrix
8 1 (0.56%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.56%) IBM
8 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.56%) Nokia