Cost Management Contracts in Berkshire

Cost Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Cost Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 109 113
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 15 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.24% 0.23% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.26% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £313 £496 -
25th Percentile £503 £530 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £599 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -4.20% +34.07%
75th Percentile £700 £655 £638
90th Percentile £775 £682 -
South East median daily rate £624 £575 £573
% change year-on-year +8.48% +0.44% -2.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Cost Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,120 1,511 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.49% 86.10% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 795 1,008
10th Percentile £350 £317 £314
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £691 £708
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 77 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.40 £17.17
25th Percentile £18.09 £41.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -39.48% +8.29% +118.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.39 £70.90
90th Percentile £87.45 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in Berkshire

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in Berkshire

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in Berkshire

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 2025. 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
Reading +31 8 £674 +35.43% 5
Windsor - 4 £688 - 1
Wokingham - 2 £570 -
Bracknell - 1 £295 - 1
Cost Management
South East

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (26.67%) SAP CO
2 4 (26.67%) SAP FI
2 4 (26.67%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (26.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (13.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 13 (86.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Billing
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) ERP Manager
1 4 (26.67%) Programme Manager
1 4 (26.67%) SAP Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Programme Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Project Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Principal Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (13.33%) ERP Project Manager
3 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
3 2 (13.33%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Budget Controller
4 1 (6.67%) Business Systems Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Financials Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) ERP
1 7 (46.67%) Waterfall
2 6 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Accounts Receivable
4 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Business Activity Monitoring
4 4 (26.67%) Cash Management
4 4 (26.67%) Cost Centre Accounting
4 4 (26.67%) Cost Control
4 4 (26.67%) Generative AI
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Profit Centre Accounting
4 4 (26.67%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Enablement
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bicep
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) SAP
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft