Cost Management Contracts in London

Cost Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 373 418 514
Rank change year-on-year +45 +96 -112
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 21 83 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.34% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 44 56
10th Percentile £415 £510 £381
25th Percentile £500 £600 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £711 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.52% +26.31% -2.17%
75th Percentile £738 £743 £650
90th Percentile £762 - £725
England median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £47.58 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £55.25 - -
75th Percentile £62.06 - -
90th Percentile £64.73 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £18.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Cost Management in London

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +31 1 £722 +80.38% 6
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 3 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (4.76%) dbt
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) IP Telephony
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (33.33%) Billing
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
1 6 (28.57%) Technical Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Leader
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) PMO Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Storage Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Node.js
1 3 (14.29%) React
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (4.76%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.76%) CMDB
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
1 1 (4.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) Capacity Management
2 6 (28.57%) Security Management
2 6 (28.57%) Service Migration
3 5 (23.81%) FinOps
4 4 (19.05%) Data Management
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Network Management
4 4 (19.05%) Observability
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) MVC
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) RBAC
5 3 (14.29%) Service Management
6 2 (9.52%) Budgeting
6 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Java
1 1 (4.76%) Python
1 1 (4.76%) R
1 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) PMO
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
1 1 (4.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Genesys
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Ariba
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Facebook
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Instagram
4 1 (4.76%) VMware