Cost Control Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cost Control
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Cost Control skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Control 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Scotland median daily rate £300 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -55.56% +22.73% +33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 685 619 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.16% 95.23% 84.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 320 411
10th Percentile £350 £211 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £463 £465
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -0.48% -2.11%
75th Percentile £550 £532 £554
90th Percentile £643 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £459 £463 £453
% change year-on-year -0.81% +2.10% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 19 33
10th Percentile £17.86 £17.15 £13.22
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £22.00 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year +144.32% +14.76% -40.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £31.34 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £61.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £19.55
% change year-on-year -7.50% +2.33% +22.23%

Cost Control
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Cost Control job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Cost Control
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cost Control.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cost Control

Cost Control
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) FinOps
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform