Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cost Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 65 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 7 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.96% 0.44% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.50% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £386 £375 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £409 £556 £525
90th Percentile - £635 -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -12.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 650 600 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.29% 87.46% 83.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 405 400
10th Percentile £224 £198 £275
25th Percentile £370 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.50 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +254.30%
75th Percentile £20.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -7.95% -4.35% +29.94%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cost Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Facilities Management
2 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Data Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
2 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft