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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 340 376
Rank change year-on-year +31 +36 +26
Contract jobs citing Budgeting 301 139 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.57% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.62% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 75 109
10th Percentile £306 £283 £413
25th Percentile £400 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.14%
75th Percentile £645 £600 £645
90th Percentile £750 £695 £739
UK median daily rate £515 £489 £525
% change year-on-year +5.32% -6.86% -7.49%
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 33,609 22,244 32,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 91.01% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,526 14,625 21,310
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 884 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £67.19 £63.94 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
% change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +11 147 £515 -6.36% 85
South East -25 56 £535 +22.64% 62
Midlands -61 31 £630 +48.24% 23
South West -3 29 £525 +121.05% 7
West Midlands -44 28 £630 +68.22% 16
North of England -60 23 £475 +5.56% 27
East of England -20 12 £606 -20.49% 7
North West -31 11 £500 -8.26% 11
Yorkshire -49 9 £475 +28.38% 13
East Midlands -34 4 £425 -2.02% 7
North East - 3 £313 - 4
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 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.32%) Confluence
3 3 (1.00%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.66%) CMS
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 50 (16.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (10.30%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (6.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (5.98%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (2.66%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.00%) Trello
7 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.66%) Shopify
3 4 (1.33%) Cloudability
3 4 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.00%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.66%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
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 MDG
6 1 (0.33%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.33%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.33%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.31%) Azure
2 13 (4.32%) SaaS
3 11 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (3.32%) AWS
4 10 (3.32%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.66%) BigCommerce
6 5 (1.66%) GCP
6 5 (1.66%) OpenShift
6 5 (1.66%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.33%) PaaS
7 4 (1.33%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.00%) Asana
8 3 (1.00%) IaaS
8 3 (1.00%) OCI
9 2 (0.66%) Google Ads
9 2 (0.66%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.66%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.33%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) Broadband
1 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.98%) Oracle Reports
2 10 (3.32%) Power BI
3 6 (1.99%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 5 (1.66%) 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%) Power Query
5 1 (0.33%) Redis
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.33%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (6.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Git
2 1 (0.33%) Hudson
2 1 (0.33%) LSMW
General
1 257 (85.38%) Finance
2 124 (41.20%) Social Skills
3 69 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (13.29%) Public Sector
5 32 (10.63%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (6.31%) Banking
6 19 (6.31%) Legal
7 16 (5.32%) General Ledger
8 14 (4.65%) Marketing
8 14 (4.65%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.32%) Local Government
10 12 (3.99%) Billing
11 10 (3.32%) Aerospace
11 10 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.99%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.99%) Retail
14 4 (1.33%) Advertising
14 4 (1.33%) Electronics
14 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 46 (15.28%) Project Manager
2 42 (13.95%) Senior
3 34 (11.30%) Lead
4 25 (8.31%) Analyst
5 24 (7.97%) Accountant
6 22 (7.31%) Senior Manager
7 20 (6.64%) Senior Project Manager
8 18 (5.98%) Consultant
9 12 (3.99%) IT Manager
9 12 (3.99%) Management Accountant
10 11 (3.65%) Finance Manager
10 11 (3.65%) Senior Accountant
10 11 (3.65%) Senior Systems Accountant
10 11 (3.65%) Systems Accountant
11 10 (3.32%) Architect
11 10 (3.32%) Programme Manager
12 9 (2.99%) Financial Analyst
12 9 (2.99%) PMO Analyst
13 7 (2.33%) PMO Lead
13 7 (2.33%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (2.33%) Middleware
3 5 (1.66%) VML
4 3 (1.00%) Web Services
5 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.66%) HTML
5 2 (0.66%) Kafka
6 1 (0.33%) JSON
6 1 (0.33%) Node.js
6 1 (0.33%) REST
6 1 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.30%) Onboarding
2 27 (8.97%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.98%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.66%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.33%) PMI
9 3 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.66%) CMDB
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.66%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.66%) NHS
10 2 (0.66%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.33%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.00%) Windows
2 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (46.51%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 84 (27.91%) Agile
3 81 (26.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 74 (24.58%) Project Management
5 64 (21.26%) Decision-Making
6 55 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (15.61%) Project Delivery
8 46 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (14.95%) Change Management
10 42 (13.95%) Process Improvement
11 41 (13.62%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (11.96%) Financial Modelling
13 35 (11.63%) ERP
13 35 (11.63%) Roadmaps
14 31 (10.30%) Risk Management
14 31 (10.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 30 (9.97%) Time Management
16 29 (9.63%) Budget Management
17 28 (9.30%) SDLC
18 27 (8.97%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.32%) SQL
2 5 (1.66%) Python
3 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
3 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
3 2 (0.66%) VBA
4 1 (0.33%) C#
4 1 (0.33%) Groovy
4 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.33%) Korn
4 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 47 (15.61%) ACCA
2 46 (15.28%) CIMA
3 40 (13.29%) Degree
4 28 (9.30%) Security Cleared
5 26 (8.64%) PMP
6 21 (6.98%) PMI Certification
7 13 (4.32%) SC Cleared
8 10 (3.32%) CISM
8 10 (3.32%) CISSP
8 10 (3.32%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.00%) CCAB
11 3 (1.00%) 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%) PgMP
13 1 (0.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (14.95%) PMO
2 16 (5.32%) QA
3 14 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.65%) GDPR
4 8 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.66%) NIST
5 5 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.33%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.00%) IFRS
8 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.33%) GAAP
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.33%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
8 1 (0.33%) P3O
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) PSD2
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.33%) logstash
1 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.29%) SAP
3 30 (9.97%) Oracle
4 13 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.32%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.66%) Planview
7 7 (2.33%) Tagetik
8 6 (1.99%) Adobe
8 6 (1.99%) Workday
9 5 (1.66%) Adaptive Insights
9 5 (1.66%) Anaplan
9 5 (1.66%) Google
9 5 (1.66%) Sitecore
10 4 (1.33%) Cisco
11 3 (1.00%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.00%) Xero
12 2 (0.66%) Databricks
12 2 (0.66%) iManage
12 2 (0.66%) Instagram
12 2 (0.66%) Intapp