Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Cost Management
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 79
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.11% - 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £88
25th Percentile £463 - £157
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £273
Median % change year-on-year - - -58.71%
75th Percentile £488 - £387
90th Percentile - - £455
South West median daily rate £575 - £544
% change year-on-year - - +9.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
South West median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 787 535 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 83.99% 89.77% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 294 521
10th Percentile £325 £210 £300
25th Percentile £401 £352 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -6.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £640
90th Percentile £745 £701 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 64 137
10th Percentile £17.69 £32.20 £33.00
25th Percentile £33.50 £57.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £68.75 £72.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.31 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £51.21 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.22% +18.18% -10.57%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Bristol

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Cost Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Cost Management

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft