Budget Control Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Budget Control
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Budget Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budget Control 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 296 326 462
Rank change year-on-year +30 +136 +149
Contract jobs citing Budget Control 8 19 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.12% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.14% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 10
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £369 £459 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £525 £616
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% -14.77% +29.68%
75th Percentile £537 £925 £759
90th Percentile £541 - £820
UK median daily rate £391 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -25.52% -12.50% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.48 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +333.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Budget Control falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Budget Control
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Budget Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Budget Control trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Budget Control
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Budget Control.

Budget Control daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Budget Control
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Budget Control over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Budget Control daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Budget Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Implementation Project Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Java Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Java Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Project Implementation Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Client Services Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Onboarding Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Onboarding Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Payroll Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Professional Services Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Professional Services Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Professional Services Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Project Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Project Planning
3 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (62.50%) SDLC
5 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
5 4 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
5 4 (50.00%) Microservices
5 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
7 2 (25.00%) Business Case
7 2 (25.00%) Change Control
7 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
7 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (25.00%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (25.00%) PMP
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker