Budget Responsibility Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Budgetary Responsibility
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Budget Responsibility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Budget Responsibility over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 345 457
Rank change year-on-year +45 +112 +155
Contract jobs citing Budget Responsibility 2 4 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.026% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.030% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile £570 £613 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £625 £586
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +6.66% +1.91%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £616
90th Percentile - - £626
UK median daily rate £570 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.98% -2.08% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Budget Responsibility 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 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
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 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Budget Responsibility
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Budget Responsibility
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 Responsibility.

Budget Responsibility daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Budget Responsibility
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Primavera
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle