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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 342 376
Rank change year-on-year +38 +34 +37
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 304 143 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.59% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.64% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 79 104
10th Percentile £315 £250 £413
25th Percentile £419 £398 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -10.91% -6.38%
75th Percentile £645 £600 £650
90th Percentile £775 £708 £742
UK median daily rate £517 £489 £550
% change year-on-year +5.65% -11.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile £35.25 - -
25th Percentile £38.25 £31.25 £14.13
Median hourly rate £82.00 £32.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +152.31% +124.14% -66.86%
75th Percentile £84.00 £33.75 £16.41
90th Percentile £96.15 - £16.90
UK median hourly rate £82.00 £36.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +127.78% +148.28% -66.86%

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 34,330 22,247 32,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.17% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,953 14,553 21,080
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,133 913 2,254
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.67 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.97 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -2.53%

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

Budgeting
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budgeting in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Budgeting in England

Budgeting
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

Budgeting
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Budgeting in England over the 6 months to 2 May 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 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +10 145 £517 -6.92% 112
South East -27 57 £525 +21.39% 60
Midlands -54 35 £630 +48.24% 24
South West -1 32 £503 +111.58% 7
West Midlands -44 31 £630 +68.22% 17
North of England -52 21 £475 +5.56% 32
East of England -24 12 £606 -20.49% 16
North West -37 9 £525 -3.67% 16
Yorkshire -44 9 £475 +28.38% 12
East Midlands -36 5 £519 +19.54% 7
North East - 3 £313 - 5
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 18 (5.92%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.62%) Confluence
3 3 (0.99%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.66%) CMS
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (14.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (8.88%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (2.63%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.99%) Trello
7 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.64%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.64%) Shopify
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.66%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.33%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.33%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.33%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 24 (7.89%) Azure
2 13 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
2 13 (4.28%) Power Platform
2 13 (4.28%) SaaS
3 11 (3.62%) AWS
4 7 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.97%) GCP
5 6 (1.97%) Power Automate
6 5 (1.64%) BigCommerce
6 5 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.32%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.32%) PaaS
7 4 (1.32%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (0.99%) Asana
8 3 (0.99%) IaaS
8 3 (0.99%) OCI
9 2 (0.66%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.66%) Google Ads
9 2 (0.66%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) Broadband
1 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.92%) Oracle Reports
2 11 (3.62%) Power BI
3 6 (1.97%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.33%) Ataccama
5 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.33%) Essbase
5 1 (0.33%) Metadata
5 1 (0.33%) OLAP
5 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.33%) Redis
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.33%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.33%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 22 (7.24%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Git
2 1 (0.33%) Hudson
2 1 (0.33%) LSMW
2 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 258 (84.87%) Finance
2 120 (39.47%) Social Skills
3 69 (22.70%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.17%) Public Sector
5 30 (9.87%) Organisational Skills
6 21 (6.91%) Banking
7 19 (6.25%) Legal
8 17 (5.59%) General Ledger
9 13 (4.28%) Local Government
10 12 (3.95%) Billing
10 12 (3.95%) Marketing
10 12 (3.95%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (3.29%) Aerospace
13 7 (2.30%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.64%) Retail
15 4 (1.32%) Advertising
16 3 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (15.79%) Project Manager
2 43 (14.14%) Senior
3 36 (11.84%) Lead
4 27 (8.88%) Analyst
5 25 (8.22%) Accountant
6 22 (7.24%) Senior Manager
7 21 (6.91%) Senior Project Manager
8 17 (5.59%) Consultant
9 13 (4.28%) Management Accountant
10 12 (3.95%) IT Manager
11 11 (3.62%) Finance Manager
11 11 (3.62%) Senior Accountant
11 11 (3.62%) Senior Systems Accountant
11 11 (3.62%) Systems Accountant
12 10 (3.29%) Architect
12 10 (3.29%) Financial Analyst
12 10 (3.29%) PMO Analyst
13 8 (2.63%) Business Analyst
13 8 (2.63%) Programme Manager
14 7 (2.30%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (2.30%) Middleware
3 5 (1.64%) VML
4 3 (0.99%) Web Services
5 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.66%) HTML
5 2 (0.66%) Kafka
6 1 (0.33%) .NET
6 1 (0.33%) JSON
6 1 (0.33%) JWT
6 1 (0.33%) Node.js
6 1 (0.33%) OAuth
6 1 (0.33%) OpenID
6 1 (0.33%) REST
6 1 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.20%) Onboarding
2 26 (8.55%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.61%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.64%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.32%) PMI
8 3 (0.99%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.66%) CMDB
9 2 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.66%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.66%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Windows
2 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (46.71%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 81 (26.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 80 (26.32%) Agile
4 71 (23.36%) Project Management
5 68 (22.37%) Decision-Making
6 59 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (17.11%) Project Delivery
8 45 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (13.82%) Change Management
10 41 (13.49%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (13.16%) Process Improvement
12 39 (12.83%) Roadmaps
13 38 (12.50%) ERP
14 36 (11.84%) Financial Modelling
15 30 (9.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 29 (9.54%) Risk Management
17 28 (9.21%) Budget Management
17 28 (9.21%) SDLC
18 27 (8.88%) PRINCE2
18 27 (8.88%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.62%) SQL
2 6 (1.97%) Python
3 3 (0.99%) C#
3 3 (0.99%) TypeScript
4 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
4 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.66%) VBA
4 2 (0.66%) X++
5 1 (0.33%) Bicep
5 1 (0.33%) Groovy
5 1 (0.33%) Korn
5 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 49 (16.12%) ACCA
2 48 (15.79%) CIMA
3 41 (13.49%) Degree
4 31 (10.20%) Security Cleared
5 26 (8.55%) PMP
6 21 (6.91%) PMI Certification
7 13 (4.28%) SC Cleared
8 10 (3.29%) CISM
8 10 (3.29%) CISSP
8 10 (3.29%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.99%) CCAB
11 3 (0.99%) CRISC
12 2 (0.66%) CIPFA
12 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.66%) MAPM
12 2 (0.66%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.16%) PMO
2 17 (5.59%) QA
3 15 (4.93%) GDPR
4 14 (4.61%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.63%) NIST
6 5 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.32%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.99%) IFRS
9 2 (0.66%) PSD2
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.33%) GAAP
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.33%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.33%) NCSC
10 1 (0.33%) P3O
10 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.33%) logstash
1 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.50%) SAP
3 30 (9.87%) Oracle
4 13 (4.28%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.29%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.63%) Planview
7 7 (2.30%) Workday
8 6 (1.97%) Adobe
9 5 (1.64%) Anaplan
9 5 (1.64%) Google
9 5 (1.64%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.64%) Tagetik
10 3 (0.99%) Adaptive Insights
10 3 (0.99%) Databricks
10 3 (0.99%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.99%) Xero
11 2 (0.66%) Cisco
11 2 (0.66%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.66%) iManage
11 2 (0.66%) Sage