Cost Control Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cost Control skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cost Control over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 432 479
Rank change year-on-year +72 +47 -66
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 28 21 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.089% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.100% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 21
10th Percentile £275 £391 £200
25th Percentile £400 £420 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +6.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £506
90th Percentile £625 £615 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £40.38 -
25th Percentile - £40.94 £28.50
Median hourly rate £13.99 £49.81 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.91% +71.77% -49.57%
75th Percentile - £62.05 £29.50
90th Percentile - £63.82 -
UK median hourly rate £13.99 £49.81 £49.50
% change year-on-year -71.91% +0.63% -13.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cost Control 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Control as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Control in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cost Control in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Control in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Control in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Control in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Control in the UK excluding London

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Control within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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 +30 8 £450 +12.50% 20
Scotland +45 7 £550 +33.33% 8
Midlands +32 5 £475 - 16
West Midlands +19 5 £475 - 13
South West +13 5 £491 +22.75% 16
North West - 5 £450 - 14
South East +17 3 £318 -42.79% 26
North East - 3 - - 1
Cost Control
UK

Cost Control
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.57%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (21.43%) AWS
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 5 (17.86%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (10.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.14%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Power BI
2 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Electronics
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.71%) Administrator
2 3 (10.71%) Lead
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Project Leader
3 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) Construction Project Manager
4 1 (3.57%) IT Project Leader
4 1 (3.57%) Project Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Project Office Support
4 1 (3.57%) Report Manager
4 1 (3.57%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Project Controller
4 1 (3.57%) Site Controller
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.57%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Project Management
2 10 (35.71%) Project Planning
3 9 (32.14%) Risk Management
4 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (17.86%) Cloud Operations
5 5 (17.86%) Resource Management
6 4 (14.29%) Budget Management
6 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.71%) Change Control
7 3 (10.71%) Change Management
7 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.71%) Document Management
7 3 (10.71%) Planning and Forecasting
7 3 (10.71%) PRINCE2
7 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
7 3 (10.71%) Supplier Management
8 2 (7.14%) Migration
8 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 5 (17.86%) PMI Certification
2 5 (17.86%) PMP
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) APMP
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
1 6 (21.43%) SAP
2 3 (10.71%) IFS
3 2 (7.14%) CA
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Computacenter