Cost Management Contracts in the City of London

Cost Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 126 161
Rank change year-on-year +20 +35 +14
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 10 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.046% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.051% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £538 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £751 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £543 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,635 1,957 3,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.59% 90.39% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,377 2,170
10th Percentile £353 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £564 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in the City of London

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Cost Management in the City of London

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) IaaS
4 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Project Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (20.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) CMDB
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) High Availability
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bicep
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) SAP