Cost Control Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Cost Control
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Cost Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £600 £55 £318
% change year-on-year +990.91% -82.68% -47.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Cost Control 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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 599 255 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.61% 93.41% 84.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 187 301
10th Percentile £308 £210 £275
25th Percentile £412 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +0.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £593 £590 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £513 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +2.40% +0.05% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 37
10th Percentile £15.19 - £15.94
25th Percentile £15.91 £14.20 £19.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.85 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% -40.60% +150.00%
75th Percentile £20.78 £31.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £58.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £45.59 £28.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +59.95% -36.67% -5.26%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Cost Control job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Cost Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Cost Control.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 1 £600 -
Cost Control
South East

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 AKS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) vLLM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher