Budget Management Contracts

Budget Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Budget Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Budget Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 248 248
Rank change year-on-year -40 0 +78
Contract jobs citing Budget Management 355 603 994
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.09% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.21% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 447 709
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £440 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £741 £753 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £525 £481
% change year-on-year -6.10% +9.26% +6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 11
10th Percentile £18.35 £20.49 £12.05
25th Percentile £22.16 £22.19 £17.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +11.19% -1.89%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £64.00 £82.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £27.13 £20.24
% change year-on-year -0.48% +34.04% -26.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Budget Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Budget Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Budget Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Budget Management in the UK

Budget Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Budget Management.

Daily rate trend for Budget Management in the UK

Budget Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Budget Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Budget Management in the UK

Budget Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Budget Management.

Hourly rate trend for Budget Management in the UK

Budget Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Budget Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Budget Management in the UK

Budget Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Budget Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
England -29 320 £525 -6.75% 414
UK excluding London -47 166 £493 -6.10% 280
London -1 161 £550 -8.33% 142
Work from Home +7 129 £525 -4.55% 157
South East +14 63 £475 -2.56% 56
North of England -6 34 £493 -10.36% 86
Midlands -21 24 £525 -4.55% 67
North West +2 23 £506 +1.20% 46
South West +10 21 £525 +10.53% 26
West Midlands -18 15 £538 +2.38% 42
East of England -15 11 £331 -42.89% 36
Scotland +13 9 £450 -8.63% 17
East Midlands -2 9 £525 -10.64% 25
Yorkshire -7 9 £475 -17.39% 30
Wales +17 5 £1,000 +145.40% 5
North East +10 2 £575 -23.33% 12

Budget Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.41%) Confluence
3 3 (0.85%) CMS
4 1 (0.28%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.28%) Drupal
4 1 (0.28%) Kentico
Applications
1 42 (11.83%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (5.35%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (5.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.85%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.85%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.56%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.56%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.56%) Workfront
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.28%) Primavera
4 1 (0.28%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 29 (8.17%) Azure
2 11 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (2.54%) AWS
3 9 (2.54%) SaaS
4 7 (1.97%) Smartsheet
5 6 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.13%) Asana
7 4 (1.13%) IaaS
7 4 (1.13%) PaaS
8 3 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.85%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.56%) GCP
9 2 (0.56%) Google Docs
9 2 (0.56%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.56%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.56%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.25%) Network Security
2 6 (1.69%) Intranet
3 5 (1.41%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.13%) Extranet
4 4 (1.13%) Firewall
5 3 (0.85%) VPN
6 2 (0.56%) ISDN
6 2 (0.56%) PSTN
6 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.28%) 4G
7 1 (0.28%) 5G
7 1 (0.28%) Broadband
7 1 (0.28%) GSM
7 1 (0.28%) Internet
7 1 (0.28%) LAN
7 1 (0.28%) SAN
7 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.54%) GIS
2 4 (1.13%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.13%) Power BI
3 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.28%) Big Data
4 1 (0.28%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.28%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (3.38%) JIRA
2 4 (1.13%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (0.28%) GitLab
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 163 (45.92%) Finance
2 136 (38.31%) Social Skills
3 47 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.58%) Telecoms
5 33 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 31 (8.73%) Local Government
6 31 (8.73%) Marketing
7 30 (8.45%) Legal
8 25 (7.04%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (3.38%) Manufacturing
12 11 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.82%) Retail
14 6 (1.69%) Advertising
15 5 (1.41%) Banking
16 4 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.13%) Law
17 3 (0.85%) Automotive
17 3 (0.85%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 164 (46.20%) Project Manager
2 35 (9.86%) Senior
3 27 (7.61%) IT Manager
4 25 (7.04%) Lead
5 23 (6.48%) IT Project Manager
6 22 (6.20%) Programme Manager
7 20 (5.63%) Senior Manager
8 17 (4.79%) Analyst
9 16 (4.51%) Senior Project Manager
10 11 (3.10%) Consultant
11 10 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
11 10 (2.82%) Technical Manager
12 9 (2.54%) Communications Manager
12 9 (2.54%) Head of IT
12 9 (2.54%) Infrastructure Manager
12 9 (2.54%) Technical Project Manager
12 9 (2.54%) Telecoms Manager
13 8 (2.25%) Internal Communications Manager
14 7 (1.97%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 7 (1.97%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.85%) .NET
2 2 (0.56%) ADO
2 2 (0.56%) Flash
2 2 (0.56%) HTML
3 1 (0.28%) ATL
3 1 (0.28%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.51%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.94%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 7 (1.97%) Photography
5 6 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (1.41%) Life Science
6 5 (1.41%) NHS
6 5 (1.41%) Social Media
7 4 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.56%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.56%) IVR
9 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.56%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.56%) PMI
9 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.56%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.28%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.28%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) AIX
2 1 (0.28%) Android
2 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (46.76%) Project Management
2 105 (29.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (24.23%) Project Delivery
4 77 (21.69%) Agile
5 65 (18.31%) PRINCE2
6 56 (15.77%) Risk Management
7 52 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (14.37%) Change Management
9 42 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (9.86%) Business Case
11 33 (9.30%) Project Planning
11 33 (9.30%) Resource Allocation
12 31 (8.73%) Decision-Making
13 30 (8.45%) Resource Management
14 27 (7.61%) Analytics
14 27 (7.61%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (7.61%) Programme Management
15 25 (7.04%) Waterfall
16 24 (6.76%) People Management
16 24 (6.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
1 2 (0.56%) Python
1 2 (0.56%) SQL
2 1 (0.28%) Bash
2 1 (0.28%) Julia
2 1 (0.28%) Perl
2 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.28%) R
2 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
2 1 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 60 (16.90%) Degree
2 30 (8.45%) PMI Certification
3 29 (8.17%) PMP
4 27 (7.61%) Security Cleared
5 23 (6.48%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.10%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 10 (2.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 8 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.69%) ISACA
10 4 (1.13%) APMP
10 4 (1.13%) ISEB
10 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.85%) NVQ Level 4
12 2 (0.56%) ACCA
12 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.56%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.55%) PMO
2 18 (5.07%) QA
3 8 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.25%) COBIT
3 8 (2.25%) NIST
4 7 (1.97%) GDPR
4 7 (1.97%) SLA
5 5 (1.41%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.85%) P3O
7 2 (0.56%) Basel III
7 2 (0.56%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.56%) IFRS
8 1 (0.28%) COREP
8 1 (0.28%) EMIR
8 1 (0.28%) GMP
8 1 (0.28%) GxP
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.28%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.13%) Terraform
2 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.79%) SAP
3 8 (2.25%) Cisco
4 6 (1.69%) BT
5 4 (1.13%) Adobe
5 4 (1.13%) Ariba
5 4 (1.13%) Cadence
5 4 (1.13%) Oracle
5 4 (1.13%) Palo Alto
6 3 (0.85%) Databricks
6 3 (0.85%) Facebook
6 3 (0.85%) Google
6 3 (0.85%) NetCracker
6 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.85%) webMethods
7 2 (0.56%) IFS
7 2 (0.56%) Instagram
7 2 (0.56%) Remedy
7 2 (0.56%) VMware
7 2 (0.56%) YouTube