Budget Responsibility Job Trends

Budgetary Responsibility
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Budget Responsibility skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 694 659 796
Rank change year-on-year -35 +137 +97
Permanent jobs citing Budget Responsibility 14 5 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.012% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.012% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 19
10th Percentile £41,250 £76,625 -
25th Percentile £57,303 £84,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £98,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.05% +31.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £112,188 £97,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £119,875 £102,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,152 £98,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -33.01% +64.58% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Budget Responsibility 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,484 40,549 82,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.46% 93.37% 85.36%
Number of salaries quoted 42,329 22,500 59,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Budget Responsibility
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Budget Responsibility relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Budget Responsibility job vacancy trend in the UK

Budget Responsibility
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Budget Responsibility.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Budget Responsibility

Budget Responsibility
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Budget Responsibility over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Budget Responsibility in the UK

Budget Responsibility
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Budget Responsibility within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 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
England -35 13 £75,000 -24.05% 8
UK excluding London -59 10 £66,152 -33.01% 6
Work from Home +14 7 £57,303 -41.97% 1
Midlands -19 7 £75,000 +3.45% 1
East Midlands - 7 £75,000 -
South East -31 3 £57,303 -54.16% 3
London - 3 £87,500 - 2

Budget Responsibility
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Extranet
1 2 (14.29%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Front Office
3 4 (28.57%) Military
4 3 (21.43%) Games
4 3 (21.43%) Marketing
5 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (14.29%) Law
5 2 (14.29%) Legal
6 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Service Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Operations Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Head of IT
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Services Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Business Development Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Business Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Head of IT Operations
4 1 (7.14%) Head of Operations
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) CMDB
1 4 (28.57%) Culture of Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Licensing
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (42.86%) Change Management
2 6 (42.86%) Incident Management
2 6 (42.86%) ITIL
3 5 (35.71%) Software Licensing
4 4 (28.57%) Asset Management
4 4 (28.57%) IT Asset Management
4 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (28.57%) SIAM
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
5 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (21.43%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Management
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) Service Management
6 2 (14.29%) People Management
6 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) IFS
2 1 (7.14%) Tenable
2 1 (7.14%) YouTube