Cost Management Contracts in the North West

Cost Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 146 180
Rank change year-on-year +14 +34 -51
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 5 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.22% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.24% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £513 £463 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -2.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
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 the North West

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in the North West

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the North West

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in the North West

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +14 5 £550 -2.22% 7
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Inventory Management
1 2 (40.00%) Logistics
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Supply Chain Management
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) FinOps
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Facebook
2 1 (20.00%) Instagram
2 1 (20.00%) VMware