Budget Control Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Budget Control skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 547 550
Rank change year-on-year +55 +3 +180
Permanent jobs citing Budget Control 30 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.031% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.034% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 20 6 16
10th Percentile - £46,000 £45,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,902 £55,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +0.45% +7.84%
75th Percentile £56,875 £61,313 £69,063
90th Percentile £67,950 £85,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,803 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.26% +25.00% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Budget Control falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,410 32,047 30,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.40% 89.07% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 19,288 14,407 22,672
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Budget Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Budget Control relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Budget Control job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Budget Control.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Budget Control

Budget Control
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Budget Control in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Budget Control in the UK excluding London

Budget Control
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Budget Control within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +34 16 £45,000 -9.55% 3
North of England - 7 - - 2
South West +3 4 £72,000 -31.43% 1
North West - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
Midlands +22 2 - - 2
East Midlands -12 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £65,000 - 3
Budget Control
UK

Budget Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (10.00%) HCL Domino
1 3 (10.00%) HCL Notes
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Pulumi
4 1 (3.33%) Azure
4 1 (3.33%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Jaeger
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 23 (76.67%) Finance
2 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (33.33%) Electronics
3 10 (33.33%) Games
3 10 (33.33%) Marketing
3 10 (33.33%) Retail
4 9 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (23.33%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (10.00%) Advertising
6 3 (10.00%) Billing
7 1 (3.33%) Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Law
7 1 (3.33%) Police
7 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Marketing Manager
2 8 (26.67%) Senior
3 7 (23.33%) Channel Marketing Manager
3 7 (23.33%) Project Officer
3 7 (23.33%) Project Support Officer
3 7 (23.33%) Senior Project Officer
3 7 (23.33%) Senior Project Support Officer
3 7 (23.33%) Support Officer
4 3 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 3 (10.00%) IT Operations Manager
4 3 (10.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
4 3 (10.00%) IT Services Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Operations Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Service Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Software Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) EDI
2 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Robotics
2 1 (3.33%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (40.00%) Agile
3 11 (36.67%) Budget Management
4 10 (33.33%) B2B
4 10 (33.33%) B2C
4 10 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 10 (33.33%) Demand Generation
4 10 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
4 10 (33.33%) Pay per click
4 10 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
5 9 (30.00%) Change Management
5 9 (30.00%) PRINCE2
5 9 (30.00%) Project Governance
6 8 (26.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 8 (26.67%) Cost Control
7 7 (23.33%) Creative Marketing
7 7 (23.33%) Document Management
7 7 (23.33%) E-Commerce
7 7 (23.33%) Financial Analysis
7 7 (23.33%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Bash
1 2 (6.67%) Go
1 2 (6.67%) Java
1 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) C
2 1 (3.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) PMO
2 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (10.00%) ISO 9001
2 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
1 2 (6.67%) Argo
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Kustomize
1 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) IBM
3 3 (10.00%) Lotus
3 3 (10.00%) Openreach
4 1 (3.33%) Planview