Budgeting Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Budgeting
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 266 283 337
Rank change year-on-year +17 +54 +91
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 38 62 141
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.40% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.46% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 104
10th Percentile £363 £450 £350
25th Percentile £447 £488 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.19% +13.00%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £716
90th Percentile £715 £712 £788
UK median daily rate £489 £538 £570
% change year-on-year -9.02% -5.70% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £14.13 £37.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £14.27 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +197.93% -71.47% +12.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £14.40 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £14.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +148.28% -66.86% +24.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Budgeting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Budgeting trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Budgeting
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Budgeting daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Budgeting
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Budgeting daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Budgeting
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Budgeting.

Budgeting hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Budgeting
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon EventBridge
2 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (10.53%) AWS CodePipeline
2 4 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
2 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
2 4 (10.53%) GitHub
2 4 (10.53%) PaaS
2 4 (10.53%) SaaS
2 4 (10.53%) Serverless
3 2 (5.26%) Azure
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) OCI
3 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.63%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) LAN
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
1 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Power Query
2 1 (2.63%) Essbase
2 1 (2.63%) Metadata
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) GitLab
1 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 26 (68.42%) Finance
2 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Retail
5 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.26%) Law
7 2 (5.26%) Legal
7 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.63%) Banking
8 1 (2.63%) Billing
8 1 (2.63%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Consultant
2 8 (21.05%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Architect
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Solution Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Commercial Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) PMO Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Portfolio Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (2.63%) Essbase Consultant
6 1 (2.63%) Management Accountant
6 1 (2.63%) Network Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) REST
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.63%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) PMI
3 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.63%) Life Science
4 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 11 (28.95%) Project Management
2 11 (28.95%) Roadmaps
3 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (21.05%) Agile
5 7 (18.42%) Change Management
5 7 (18.42%) Cost Management
5 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.42%) Risk Management
6 6 (15.79%) Analytics
6 6 (15.79%) Budget Management
6 6 (15.79%) Financial Analysis
7 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
8 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.53%) Event-Driven
8 4 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.53%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (10.53%) Observability
8 4 (10.53%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) VBA
2 1 (2.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) PMI Certification
1 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) Degree
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.53%) CIMA
3 4 (10.53%) OCP
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (10.53%) PMP
4 2 (5.26%) ACCA
4 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.63%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) PMO
2 2 (5.26%) GAAP
3 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) COBIT
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) IFRS
3 1 (2.63%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Ansible
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) IFS
3 2 (5.26%) Workday
4 1 (2.63%) Ariba
4 1 (2.63%) Cognos
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce