Cost Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cost Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cost Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 65 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +26
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% 0.13% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.16% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £888 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £520 £588 £650
% change year-on-year -11.49% -9.62% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 655 633 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.29% 82.31% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 411 543
10th Percentile £225 £267 £213
25th Percentile £340 £361 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% -9.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £630 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 33 47
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.65 £17.19
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -38.18% +43.17%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.57 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in the East Midlands

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Cost Management
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 Management within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Nottinghamshire - 2 £825 - 1
Derbyshire - 1 - - 1
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (66.67%) SAP ERP
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Manager
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Manager
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Implementation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Escalation Management
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow