Cost Management Contracts in Central London

Cost Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 130 167
Rank change year-on-year +12 +37 +21
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 12 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.60% 0.041% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.045% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £529 £711 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £722 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.46% +80.38% -33.33%
75th Percentile £713 £732 £425
90th Percentile £751 - -
London median daily rate £523 £650 £711
% change year-on-year -19.62% -8.52% +32.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,849 2,207 3,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.01% 90.64% 91.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,572 2,371
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 30
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.23
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £57.50
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.75 £39.00
% change year-on-year +18.26% -26.28% +6.12%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in Central London

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in Central London

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in Central London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in Central London

Cost Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in Central London

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
City of London +17 11 £598 -17.19% 5
Cost Management
London

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) IaaS
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Billing
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Project Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) CMDB
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps
1 4 (33.33%) High Availability
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Security Management
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bicep
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) SAP