Cost Management Contracts in England

Cost Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cost Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 512 635
Rank change year-on-year +54 +123 -96
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 80 143 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.28% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.31% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 79 88
10th Percentile £375 £311 £400
25th Percentile £407 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -1.35%
75th Percentile £594 £743 £650
90th Percentile £692 £755 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £650 £542
% change year-on-year -23.08% +19.87% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £46.00 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - £16.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £18.50
75th Percentile £61.25 - £20.25
90th Percentile £65.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -75.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cost 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cost Management in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Management in England

Cost Management
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 Cost Management within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
North of England +44 29 £415 -20.95% 22
Yorkshire +37 24 £414 -21.19% 10
London +45 21 £650 -8.52% 44
South West +29 19 £500 -24.24% 12
Midlands +27 5 £550 -15.38% 15
North West +21 5 £550 -2.22% 10
West Midlands - 3 £600 - 9
South East -3 2 £600 +13.21% 17
East Midlands +15 1 £550 -15.38% 6
Cost Management
UK

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.25%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.00%) Azure
2 11 (13.75%) GitHub
3 6 (7.50%) AWS
4 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.25%) IaaS
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Functions
5 4 (5.00%) PaaS
5 4 (5.00%) Serverless
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.25%) dbt
7 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) IP Telephony
2 3 (3.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.25%) Redis
2 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Hudson
3 1 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Finance
3 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.75%) Billing
5 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Marketing
6 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Back Office
8 2 (2.50%) Electronics
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) German Language
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Storage Manager
2 10 (12.50%) Architect
2 10 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 10 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 7 (8.75%) Lead
3 7 (8.75%) Senior
4 5 (6.25%) Consultant
4 5 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Analyst
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Development Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Development Project Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Finance Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Finance Project Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (3.75%) Software Development Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Software Development Project Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Software Project Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) YAML
2 3 (3.75%) Node.js
2 3 (3.75%) React
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.25%) EDI
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) CMDB
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.75%) zOS
2 14 (17.50%) Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.00%) Project Management
2 30 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (26.25%) Agile
4 20 (25.00%) Storage Management
5 19 (23.75%) Software Testing
6 16 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 14 (17.50%) Problem Management
8 13 (16.25%) Change Management
9 12 (15.00%) Earned Value Management
9 12 (15.00%) Performance Measurement
10 11 (13.75%) Decision-Making
11 10 (12.50%) Migration
11 10 (12.50%) Performance Management
12 9 (11.25%) ERP
13 7 (8.75%) Budgeting
13 7 (8.75%) CI/CD
13 7 (8.75%) Risk Analysis
14 6 (7.50%) Project Planning
14 6 (7.50%) Service Migration
14 6 (7.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) JCL
1 13 (16.25%) Python
2 10 (12.50%) REXX
3 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.50%) Bash
4 2 (2.50%) Julia
4 2 (2.50%) Perl
4 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.25%) Bicep
5 1 (1.25%) Java
5 1 (1.25%) R
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Degree
1 13 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) PMO
1 4 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) NFS
1 13 (16.25%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.25%) Docker
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 10 (12.50%) Ansible
3 3 (3.75%) Terraform
4 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (25.00%) IBM
2 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
3 16 (20.00%) SAP
4 14 (17.50%) Broadcom
4 14 (17.50%) Dell
5 13 (16.25%) Brocade
5 13 (16.25%) CA
6 6 (7.50%) Genesys
7 3 (3.75%) Oracle
8 2 (2.50%) Facebook
8 2 (2.50%) Instagram
8 2 (2.50%) VMware
9 1 (1.25%) Ariba
9 1 (1.25%) Databricks
9 1 (1.25%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.25%) Splunk