Cost Control Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cost Control
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cost Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 - -
75th Percentile £537 - -
90th Percentile £537 - -
England median daily rate £529 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -11.79% +26.32% -13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 847 465 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.61% 86.92% 79.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 303 422
10th Percentile £199 £200 £189
25th Percentile £360 £319 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +1.43% -6.89%
75th Percentile £548 £519 £550
90th Percentile £625 £598 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 21 65
10th Percentile £14.06 £13.81 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.11 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +27.05% +5.23%
75th Percentile £24.73 £24.66 £26.50
90th Percentile £25.74 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cost Control job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cost Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cost Control.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £536 - 1
Cost Control
England

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Target Operating Model
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS