Cost Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Cost Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Cost Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cost Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Cost Management 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £331 - £334
25th Percentile £359 - £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £638 - £516
90th Percentile - - £551
Scotland median daily rate £375 £300 £438
% change year-on-year +25.00% -31.43% +52.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Cost Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Cost Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Management in Edinburgh

Cost Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cost Management in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Cost Management in Edinburgh

Cost Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cost Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cost Management in Edinburgh

Cost Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) P3O
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle