Budget Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Budget Management
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 93 84
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +32
Contract jobs citing Budget Management 14 20 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.03% 1.04% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.24% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 26
10th Percentile £524 £447 £344
25th Percentile £541 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £588 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +18.69% +7.03%
75th Percentile £624 £850 £584
90th Percentile £751 £888 £606
England median daily rate £545 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +3.81% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.15
25th Percentile - - £22.15
Median hourly rate - - £24.05
75th Percentile - - £25.71
90th Percentile - - £26.56
England median hourly rate £26.12 £26.73 £28.57
% change year-on-year -2.30% -6.42% -13.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Budget 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,200 1,619 2,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.37% 84.06% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 1,076 1,429
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £382 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 114 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.40
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +21.62% +9.39%
75th Percentile £24.22 £40.38 £27.13
90th Percentile £37.25 £58.00 £48.75
England median hourly rate £29.80 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -17.97% -0.18% +49.47%

Budget Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Budget Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Budget Management in the West Midlands

Budget Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budget Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Budget Management in the West Midlands

Budget Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Management in the West Midlands

Budget Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budget Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Budget Management in the West Midlands

Budget Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budget Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Shropshire - 6 £541 - 6
Birmingham +9 4 £725 +31.82% 13
Staffordshire +2 1 £574 - 9
Worcestershire - 1 - - 4
Budget Management
England

Budget Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) SAP HCM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
2 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Engagement Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Finance Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Finance Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) NHS Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Financial Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Manager
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Support
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Transformation Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Workstream Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
1 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 7 (50.00%) Project Planning
3 6 (42.86%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 6 (42.86%) Waterfall
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Data Architecture
6 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
6 1 (7.14%) High Availability
6 1 (7.14%) Investment Management
6 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) SAP
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba
3 1 (7.14%) Concur