Cost Management Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Cost Management
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Cost Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 0.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 - -
North West median daily rate £519 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +29.79% -27.27% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 236 95 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 71.73% 76.00% 83.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 43 87
10th Percentile £318 £318 £276
25th Percentile £400 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% +2.88%
75th Percentile £547 £546 £623
90th Percentile £700 £638 £670
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 21
10th Percentile £13.28 £25.17 £45.22
25th Percentile £35.55 £26.70 £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.43 £36.53 £62.32
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -41.37% +18.70%
75th Percentile £67.47 £53.94 £70.90
90th Percentile £73.25 £58.55 £80.59
North West median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +88.90% -40.84% +21.43%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Cost Management job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Workington - 1 £644 -
Cost Management
North West

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft