Cost Management Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cost Management
England > East of England

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 81 100
Rank change year-on-year -20 +19 +41
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.22% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £282 £536
25th Percentile - £327 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £403 £688
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% -41.45% +52.78%
75th Percentile - £477 £791
90th Percentile - £521 £849
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,343 917 1,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.52% 84.75% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 404 758
10th Percentile £195 £241 £232
25th Percentile £350 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £676 £695 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 168 364
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.44
Median hourly rate £20.09 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +70.45% -5.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Cost Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cost Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Cost Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Cost Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 £600 - 3
Cost Management
England

Cost Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Sumo Logic
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CloudEndure