Budgeting Contract Job Trends in England

Budgeting
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Budgeting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 319 406
Rank change year-on-year -8 +87 -19
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 327 199 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.72% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.79% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 120 68
10th Percentile £363 £230 £372
25th Percentile £475 £343 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £493 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -8.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £628 £631
90th Percentile £775 £776 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £482 £550
% change year-on-year +14.11% -12.36% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £19.69 £45.38 £57.14
25th Percentile £20.08 £49.69 £57.83
Median hourly rate £36.25 £58.75 £60.44
Median % change year-on-year -38.30% -2.79% -13.31%
75th Percentile £59.31 £67.19 £62.83
90th Percentile £73.00 £71.13 £63.38
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £58.75 £60.44
% change year-on-year -14.89% -2.79% -13.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

Budgeting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Budgeting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Budgeting job vacancy trend in England

Budgeting
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Budgeting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Budgeting

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting in England over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Budgeting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Budgeting

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Budgeting in England over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Budgeting in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budgeting within the England region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -14 182 £600 +14.29% 374
South East -39 50 £500 - 139
South West -10 29 £600 +7.05% 44
North of England -81 26 £425 +26.21% 77
Midlands -57 17 £537 +19.33% 58
North West -39 14 £507 +79.47% 42
West Midlands -44 11 £600 +43.71% 39
East of England -25 9 £420 -30.00% 38
Yorkshire -61 9 £425 +20.82% 26
East Midlands -23 6 £537 +11.30% 19
North East - 3 £375 - 10
Budgeting
UK

Budgeting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 11 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.31%) Apache
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 55 (16.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (7.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (4.28%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.92%) Trello
5 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (6.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.75%) NetSuite
2 9 (2.75%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (2.45%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (2.14%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (2.14%) SAP CO
4 7 (2.14%) SAP FI
4 7 (2.14%) SAP GRC
5 6 (1.83%) SAP SD
6 5 (1.53%) Cloudability
6 5 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (1.53%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (1.53%) SAP MM
6 5 (1.53%) SAP PM
6 5 (1.53%) SAP PS
7 4 (1.22%) Magento
7 4 (1.22%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.92%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 35 (10.70%) Azure
2 31 (9.48%) Power Platform
3 21 (6.42%) SaaS
4 17 (5.20%) AWS
5 14 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.36%) OCI
8 8 (2.45%) GCP
8 8 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.14%) Tricentis Tosca
10 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.83%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.83%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.22%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (1.22%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.92%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.61%) IaaS
13 2 (0.61%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.61%) PaaS
13 2 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.92%) Network Security
2 2 (0.61%) Firewall
3 1 (0.31%) Intranet
3 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.31%) LAN
3 1 (0.31%) Mobile Backhaul
3 1 (0.31%) Modbus
3 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) VSAN
3 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.65%) Power BI
2 12 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.53%) Tableau
4 3 (0.92%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.61%) Essbase
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.61%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.31%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.31%) Power Query
6 1 (0.31%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (4.89%) JIRA
2 4 (1.22%) Git
2 4 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.22%) Subversion
2 4 (1.22%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 279 (85.32%) Finance
2 135 (41.28%) Social Skills
3 99 (30.28%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.48%) Organisational Skills
5 29 (8.87%) Banking
6 28 (8.56%) Public Sector
7 27 (8.26%) General Ledger
8 23 (7.03%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (5.20%) Legal
11 13 (3.98%) Retail
12 10 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 9 (2.75%) Marketing
14 8 (2.45%) Billing
14 8 (2.45%) Investment Banking
15 7 (2.14%) Aerospace
15 7 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.83%) Local Government
17 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (16.82%) Project Manager
2 42 (12.84%) Lead
3 41 (12.54%) Consultant
4 30 (9.17%) Analyst
5 27 (8.26%) Senior
6 17 (5.20%) Architect
7 16 (4.89%) Financial Analyst
8 15 (4.59%) Functional Consultant
9 13 (3.98%) Developer
10 12 (3.67%) Accountant
11 11 (3.36%) IT Manager
11 11 (3.36%) Senior Manager
12 10 (3.06%) Programme Manager
13 9 (2.75%) Business Analyst
13 9 (2.75%) SAP Consultant
14 8 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.45%) Lead Consultant
14 8 (2.45%) Management Accountant
14 8 (2.45%) Senior Project Manager
14 8 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.83%) Middleware
3 4 (1.22%) VML
4 3 (0.92%) Terraform
5 2 (0.61%) .NET
5 2 (0.61%) REST
5 2 (0.61%) RESTful
6 1 (0.31%) JWT
6 1 (0.31%) OAuth
6 1 (0.31%) OpenID
6 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.98%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.06%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.14%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.14%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.83%) CMDB
8 5 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.22%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.22%) Life Science
10 3 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.92%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.92%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.92%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (51.99%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 148 (45.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (29.36%) Agile
4 90 (27.52%) Decision-Making
5 71 (21.71%) Project Delivery
6 69 (21.10%) Project Management
7 66 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (18.65%) Roadmaps
9 60 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (17.43%) Risk Management
11 56 (17.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 51 (15.60%) ERP
13 48 (14.68%) Change Management
13 48 (14.68%) Planning and Forecasting
14 47 (14.37%) Migration
15 45 (13.76%) Analytics
16 41 (12.54%) PRINCE2
17 39 (11.93%) Budget Management
17 39 (11.93%) Financial Modelling
18 38 (11.62%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.73%) SQL
2 10 (3.06%) Python
3 5 (1.53%) C#
4 4 (1.22%) X++
5 2 (0.61%) Groovy
5 2 (0.61%) Korn
5 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.31%) Bicep
6 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.31%) Java
6 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 49 (14.98%) ACCA
2 49 (14.98%) Degree
3 48 (14.68%) CIMA
4 38 (11.62%) PMP
5 33 (10.09%) SC Cleared
6 25 (7.65%) PMI Certification
7 13 (3.98%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.14%) CISM
9 7 (2.14%) CISSP
10 5 (1.53%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.92%) CIPFA
11 3 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.92%) PgMP
12 2 (0.61%) AAT
12 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.62%) PMO
2 28 (8.56%) QA
3 16 (4.89%) IFRS
4 13 (3.98%) GDPR
5 11 (3.36%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.45%) GAAP
6 8 (2.45%) GRC
7 5 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.22%) NIST
8 4 (1.22%) P3O
8 4 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.92%) PSD2
9 3 (0.92%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.31%) GxP
11 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.61%) Ansible
1 2 (0.61%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.31%) Grafana
2 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.54%) Oracle
3 39 (11.93%) SAP
4 16 (4.89%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.06%) Workday
6 9 (2.75%) Tagetik
7 6 (1.83%) Anaplan
7 6 (1.83%) Hyperion
8 5 (1.53%) Adaptive Insights
8 5 (1.53%) Xero
9 4 (1.22%) Google
10 3 (0.92%) BMC
10 3 (0.92%) Databricks
10 3 (0.92%) Sage
10 3 (0.92%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.61%) Adobe
11 2 (0.61%) Ariba
11 2 (0.61%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.31%) Planview
12 1 (0.31%) VMware