Cost Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cost Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 402 525
Rank change year-on-year +90 +123 -107
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 29 66 90
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.29% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 38 68
10th Percentile £43 £459 £351
25th Percentile £389 £586 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £732 £513
Median % change year-on-year -41.22% +42.73% -14.58%
75th Percentile £538 £743 £645
90th Percentile £555 - £691
UK median daily rate £500 £638 £521
% change year-on-year -21.57% +22.26% -9.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.75 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Cost Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cost Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Management.

Cost Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cost Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Cost Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cost Management.

Cost Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Azure
1 4 (13.79%) GitHub
2 3 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) IP Telephony
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
2 5 (17.24%) Marketing
3 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics
4 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Consultant
2 5 (17.24%) Storage Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Functional Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Development Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Development Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Software Development Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Software Development Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Software Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Software Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) VMware Architect
5 1 (3.45%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) YAML
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
1 6 (20.69%) zOS
2 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Project Management
2 8 (27.59%) Change Management
2 8 (27.59%) Earned Value Management
2 8 (27.59%) ERP
2 8 (27.59%) Performance Management
2 8 (27.59%) Performance Measurement
2 8 (27.59%) Risk Management
2 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Migration
4 6 (20.69%) Problem Management
4 6 (20.69%) Project Planning
4 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Storage Management
5 5 (17.24%) Inventory Management
5 5 (17.24%) Supply Chain Management
6 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) Service Management
7 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
7 3 (10.34%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) JCL
2 4 (13.79%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) REXX
3 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (24.14%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) NFS
1 6 (20.69%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) SAP
2 6 (20.69%) Broadcom
2 6 (20.69%) Brocade
2 6 (20.69%) CA
2 6 (20.69%) Dell
2 6 (20.69%) IBM
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle
5 2 (6.90%) VMware
6 1 (3.45%) Facebook
6 1 (3.45%) Genesys
6 1 (3.45%) Instagram
6 1 (3.45%) Zscaler