Expense Management Contract Job Trends

Expense Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Expense Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 533 586
Rank change year-on-year -38 +53 +212
Contract jobs citing Expense Management 13 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.021% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.024% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £473 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +23.81% +7.97%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £553
90th Percentile £769 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% +47.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Expense Management 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 32,524 29,621 38,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.04% 88.28% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,487 18,059 25,534
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 961 1,540
10th Percentile £14.69 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.14% +24.04%
75th Percentile £51.65 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.41% -31.60% +50.00%

Expense Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Expense Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Expense Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Expense Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Expense Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Expense Management

Expense Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Expense Management over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Expense Management in the UK

Expense Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Expense Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Expense Management

Expense Management
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Expense Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 December 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 -28 13 £613 -5.77% 38
London +2 11 £625 - 4
UK excluding London -54 2 £600 -7.69% 38
Work from Home -1 1 £600 - 40
South East -17 1 - - 10
North of England -40 1 £600 -7.69% 6
Yorkshire - 1 £600 - 4

Expense Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) OCI
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (30.77%) MongoDB
2 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
1 4 (30.77%) JUnit
1 4 (30.77%) Mockito
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Japanese Language
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Angular Developer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Developer
2 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Coordinator
2 2 (15.38%) Integration Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) HR Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) HR Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) IT Governance Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Project Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
1 4 (30.77%) CSS
1 4 (30.77%) HTML
1 4 (30.77%) Kafka
1 4 (30.77%) React
1 4 (30.77%) REST
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
1 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
1 4 (30.77%) Vue
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) API Integration
2 4 (30.77%) Logistics
2 4 (30.77%) Microservices
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) API Development
4 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
4 2 (15.38%) Business Case
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
4 2 (15.38%) OOP
4 2 (15.38%) Test-First Development
4 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (7.69%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) ACCA
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Basel III
1 1 (7.69%) GAAP
1 1 (7.69%) IFRS
1 1 (7.69%) IFRS 17
1 1 (7.69%) IFRS 9
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Concur
1 3 (23.08%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Workday