Budget Control Job Trends

Budget Control
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 605 692 686
Rank change year-on-year +87 -6 +307
Permanent jobs citing Budget Control 44 19 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.035% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.039% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 23
10th Percentile - £46,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,803 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £104,375 £73,125
90th Percentile £72,000 £122,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,902 £55,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.30% +0.45% +7.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

Budget Control
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Budget Control job vacancy trend in the UK

Budget Control
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Budget Control

Budget Control
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Budget Control in the UK

Budget Control
Top 13 Job Locations

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 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
England +89 43 £50,803 -13.16% 14
UK excluding London +55 30 £47,902 -13.30% 11
Work from Home +82 25 £55,000 -0.45% 9
South East +34 16 £45,000 -9.55% 3
London +73 12 £85,000 -5.56% 2
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
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 (6.82%) HCL Domino
1 3 (6.82%) HCL Notes
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) AWS
2 13 (29.55%) Pulumi
3 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) Azure
4 1 (2.27%) IaaS
4 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (29.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) NoSQL
1 13 (29.55%) RDBMS
1 13 (29.55%) Relational Database
2 8 (18.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 26 (59.09%) Finance
2 21 (47.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 11 (25.00%) Marketing
5 10 (22.73%) Electronics
5 10 (22.73%) Games
5 10 (22.73%) Retail
6 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (18.18%) Telecoms
7 3 (6.82%) Advertising
7 3 (6.82%) Billing
8 2 (4.55%) Banking
9 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.27%) Law
9 1 (2.27%) Legal
9 1 (2.27%) Police
9 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Lead
2 10 (22.73%) Marketing Manager
3 9 (20.45%) Senior
4 8 (18.18%) Project Officer
4 8 (18.18%) Project Support Officer
4 8 (18.18%) Senior Project Officer
4 8 (18.18%) Senior Project Support Officer
4 8 (18.18%) Support Officer
5 7 (15.91%) Channel Marketing Manager
6 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (13.64%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Team Leader
8 4 (9.09%) IT Manager
8 4 (9.09%) IT Services Manager
8 4 (9.09%) Project Manager
8 4 (9.09%) Service Manager
9 3 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (6.82%) Operations Manager
9 3 (6.82%) Service Delivery Manager
9 3 (6.82%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (29.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (6.82%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.27%) Robotics
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Linux
1 13 (29.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Agile
2 17 (38.64%) Resource Management
3 14 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (31.82%) DevOps
3 14 (31.82%) Roadmaps
4 13 (29.55%) Containerisation
4 13 (29.55%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (29.55%) Cost Optimisation
4 13 (29.55%) GitOps
4 13 (29.55%) High Availability
4 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (29.55%) Mentoring
4 13 (29.55%) Performance Optimisation
4 13 (29.55%) Product Management
4 13 (29.55%) Task Automation
5 12 (27.27%) Budget Management
6 11 (25.00%) Business Strategy
7 10 (22.73%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 10 (22.73%) Cost Control
7 10 (22.73%) Demand Generation
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Bash
1 13 (29.55%) Go
1 13 (29.55%) Java
1 13 (29.55%) JavaScript
1 13 (29.55%) Python
2 1 (2.27%) C
2 1 (2.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) PMO
2 3 (6.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.82%) ISO 9001
2 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Ansible
1 13 (29.55%) Argo
1 13 (29.55%) Kubernetes
1 13 (29.55%) Kustomize
1 13 (29.55%) Prometheus
1 13 (29.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Google
2 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) IBM
3 3 (6.82%) Lotus
3 3 (6.82%) Openreach
4 1 (2.27%) Planview